Tangent 21 - Saturday Morning Classic Cartoons

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Milky

Posted on
15:42
Aug 28 2002

Saturday Morning Classic Cartoons

I remember the days of waking up at 6am on a Saturday morning to watch some of the best television ever....Transformers, M.A.S.K, Centurions, Samuri Pizza Cats, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Thundercats, Another one that was set in a forest with some beavers and a guy called Cyril Sneer??, Trap Door, Bucky O'Hare and so many others.

I know that a lot of people say that Trumpton and Bill & Ben are the original classic childrens programmes but to me these are the classics. What classic cartoons (80's

) can you think of and what do you think of the ones I've mentioned?

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Dangermouse One more word from you , and i'll bitch slap you so hard, your children will be born well-behaved.

I used to love saturday mornings - the Monkees followed by Banana Splits - especially The Arabian Knights cartoon - with the donkey that turned into a tornado when you pulled it tail - and the magician - 'Size of an elephant!'

Posted: 15:50 Aug 29 2002

Stoo There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

I've been downloading Thundercats eps

I managed to get *all* the Transformers eps too

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Posted: 18:17 Sep 02 2002

JtB If someone gives you freedom it is not freedom, freedom is something you take for yourself.

Dogtanian was a classic too

Posted: 21:34 Sep 02 2002

misskittyfantastic

I used to watch Thundercats, and Batman, but one that sticks in my mind, was one my dad used to get for me on video, called "Choppy and The Princess". No one else remembers it, but it was my fave programme on earth as a kiddie.

Posted: 13:44 Sep 08 2002

Whistler "I wonder wonder why the wonder falls. I wonder why the wonder falls on me. I wonder wonder why the wonder falls, with everything I touch and hear and see."

Dungeons & Dragons rocked! My CB handle used to be Shadow Demon

Posted: 13:52 Sep 08 2002

maisie19 Order is the Chaos we make familiar

I loooved Thundercats! Liono! Shnarf! Yay! Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats!

Bet it would be very odd if I saw it now.

by Milky
Another one that was set in a forest with some beavers and a guy called Cyril Sneer??,

That was the Raccoons, if I remember rightly. I wasn't quite as impressed with that one.

Trap Door was wonderful - I've got a video of that lurking about somewhere. Big blue plasticine blob who was the flunky for some wierdo that you never saw, in a big spooky castle. What was the name of the narrator again?

Dungeons and Dragons was ace - I never knew at the time that it was based on a huge gaming industry!

And of course there were the infamous He-man and She-ra!

Posted: 16:29 Sep 09 2002

Milky "Busted - Now that you're gone, I'm sleeping with the light on..." Pof, 2005

I just saw a Transformers DVD...6 episodes for Â£13.99...how tempted was I..but alas I couldn't afford it

Posted: 16:54 Sep 09 2002

Stoo There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

Milky: Tell me about it, I found the entire 1st season on dvd for about Â£30 the other day..

Neeeeeeeeed money

Posted: 16:21 Sep 10 2002

head2head 'Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, I drink, therefore I am. '

by maisie19
Trap Door was wonderful - I've got a video of that lurking about somewhere. Big blue plasticine blob who was the flunky for some wierdo that you never saw, in a big spooky castle. What was the name of the narrator again?

#Stay away from that trap doooooooooor (stupidly deep voice) 'cos there's something down there!#

I love thundercats too...and the Racoons, Bert was cool

Anyone rememebr Bertha??? Set in some kind of factory....someone help me out here!

(Edited by head2head 25/09/2002 18:01)

Posted: 18:00 Sep 25 2002

Persephone The past doesn't get any better. The past is not the present or the future.

used to watch cartoons on saturday afternoons too. I remember the Smurfs best, and the Care Bears ooooh i had several Care Bears. i think Wish Bear was my favorite. I remember i once had a dream about Smurfs too, about getting the last Smurf in the store

aahhh those were the days

Not aware of any of the titles mentioned, different here i guess, except for Teenage Mutant *Ninja* Turtles, slight difference, same turtles I imagine

I'm sure I watched more cartoons than that but I haven't seen cartoons in ages *shrug* oh well

Posted: 18:19 Sep 25 2002

Milky "Busted - Now that you're gone, I'm sleeping with the light on..." Pof, 2005

by head2head
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Anyone rememebr Bertha??? Set in some kind of factory....someone help me out here!

I remember Bertha....can't remember what the show was called though...had a cool theme tune...

"Bertha, lovely Bertha..look what you're doing for me NAH NAH NAAA NAH NAH NA NAHH NAH NAH"

Posted: 20:43 Sep 25 2002

maisie19 Order is the Chaos we make familiar

by Milky
(quotes)can't remember what the show was called though...

I think it was the very original 'Bertha' actually!

Posted: 12:39 Sep 26 2002

PictureOfFlowers "When things are at their darkest, it's a brave man that can kick back and party." - Lt. Tuck Pendleton, Innerspace

by maisie19
Trap Door was wonderful - I've got a video of that lurking about somewhere. Big blue plasticine blob who was the flunky for some wierdo that you never saw, in a big spooky castle. What was the name of the narrator again?

Trap Door is well cool! I've got a couple of videos of it. The narrator was the late, great Willie Rushton!

My absolute favourite show as a kid was He-Man, I had soooooo many of the toys too!

Posted: 23:54 Oct 13 2002

Hoppy_Toad "Can you think of anything more infuriating than someone coming back from the dead demanding to see you, and then not turning up?"

www.angelfire.com/film/jonnyspage/

this website has got the theme tunes for most of the programmes mentioned if any one wants to listen.
it's definitely got M.A.S.K, Centurions, Samuri Pizza Cats,
Racoons, Bucky O'Hare. as well as stuff like Poddington Peas, Pugwall and Dungeons and Dragons.

Posted: 23:50 Oct 25 2002

maisie19 Order is the Chaos we make familiar

by PictureOfFlowers
My absolute favourite show as a kid was He-Man, I had soooooo many of the toys too!

I read in SFX that they are remaking this!

Posted: 13:30 Nov 07 2002

Stoo There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

by maisie19
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I read in SFX that they are remaking this!

Yep, they are, the comic is already out along with promos for the new toys

80's childhood revival! Woohoo!

Posted: 15:16 Nov 07 2002

maisie19 Order is the Chaos we make familiar

By the Power of Greyskull! I have the Power!!

Posted: 16:05 Nov 07 2002

Milky "Busted - Now that you're gone, I'm sleeping with the light on..." Pof, 2005

Have you seen the new Transformers toys?? They look rubbish compared to the old ones

Posted: 23:01 Nov 07 2002

PictureOfFlowers "When things are at their darkest, it's a brave man that can kick back and party." - Lt. Tuck Pendleton, Innerspace

I'm sure they made an all-new funked-up series of He-Man sometime in the 90's. I seem to remember it was terrible. They'll never recapture the magic of the original so they should leave it alone. It's *my* He-Man, all mine, leave it alone, you can't have none!! /me has a tantrum

Posted: 15:40 Nov 19 2002

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