Bizarre children's shows
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Bizarre children's shows
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Take a look back at the past 50 years of bizarre children's programming and tell us which trippy, surreal shows were your favorite! VOTE: When was TV at its weirdest?
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Bizarre children's shows
posted at 6/5/2009 12:30 PM EDT
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Take a look back at the past 50 years of bizarre children's programming and tell us which trippy, surreal shows were your favorite! VOTE: When was TV at its weirdest? |
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posted at 6/5/2009 1:37 PM EDT
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First: 1/20/2009 Last: 10/22/2009 |
Captain Kangaroo was pretty weird when I think about it. Isis, Shazaam, Ark II, Space Academy, Bigfoot and Wildboy, Wonderbug Then again, Lazytown is pretty trippy... Do they make live actions shows anymore? |
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posted at 6/5/2009 2:04 PM EDT
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First: 10/20/2008 Last: 11/25/2009 |
I used to watch Zoobilee Zoo. People dressed as animals...dressed as people. Very strange. The Wuzzles(animated) was another. It was not too weird but did revolve around the happenings of hybrid animals. e.i. Kangaro/Elefant BumbleBee/Lion |
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posted at 6/5/2009 2:08 PM EDT
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First: 6/29/2006 Last: 10/9/2009 |
Sigmund and most of the Kroft shows were on my list- The Kroft productions are THE list of bizzare children's fare, and I watched them all- think Electra Woman and Dyna Girl were my favs (Deidre Hall in bodysuit cape and tights- need I say more?). Besides Kroft: Davey and Goliath, The Magic Garden, Tennessee Tuxedo (maybe just the shorts within the show count?), Underdog, The Hot Fudge Show. In Durham, NC in the late 70's there was also Barney's Army - It was a show of shows (Popeye, Bullwinkle, World of adventure, etc.) but hosted live by this sort of animated drawing of a middle aged guy in a leisure suit that talked to viewers. You could even send in a postacrd for him to call you and play a video game live on TV, called TV Pow. The kid would yell 'POW' at the screen and try shoot things- it always cracked me up when some kid with a southern drawl would talk so slowly theyd never hit anything!
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posted at 6/5/2009 2:46 PM EDT
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Oh man some of these were great, including Galatic Adventure. I totally forgot that one... just like Speed Racer. Who was the little kid's dad? One that I cannot find any trace of anywhere online is a show they would have on really early in the morning on Saturdays, like 6 am.. called "Barba Poppas." No idea if that's the right spelling. It was a family of shape shifting gelatinous blobs... so trippy... very obscure apparently. Anyone else remember those guys? They got most of the big ones here, but the original Japanimation shows were so weird/good. Force 5, Starblazers... bad dubbing and strange imagery abounded. Lots of weird old Hannah Barbara stuff... Space Ghost of course... even Josie and the Pussycats. Some more mainstream stuff like He-Man and Thundercats were even pretty strange... and a whole lot of shows I can't remember the names of. The 70s were great times for kids shows. Lots of weed toking, acid popping cartoonists and writers cooking up truly imaginative stuff. I will say my kids love some of the Teletubbies and I think Yo Gabba Gabba is great. Training the future club kids of America. ;) And when is some conservative going to come on and start whining about how "weird" these shows were? Aren't we 15 mins overdue already? :) |
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posted at 6/5/2009 2:48 PM EDT
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First: 8/8/2008 Last: 6/5/2009 |
One of the strangest was Barbapapa. "They can change their shapes and sizes very easily." http://www.barbapapa.fr/gb/barbapapa-family.html I lived for each day's episodes of Star Blazers and Force Five (especially Grandizer.) Forget Transformers, let's have a big screen version of Johny Bryant a.k.a. Orion Quest and his stolen ultimate battle robot, Grandizer! Give me old school anime every day of the week. http://web.mit.edu/sseligma/www/grand.html |
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posted at 6/5/2009 3:10 PM EDT
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First: 10/28/2008 Last: 6/5/2009 |
I grew up on "Land of the Lost" in the 70's... I still have nightmares about Sleestacks. And Chalka. Good times, good times... |
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posted at 6/5/2009 3:32 PM EDT
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I grew up on "Land of the Lost" in the 70's... "Marshall, Will and Holly -- on a routine expedition..." I still have nightmares about Sleestacks. And Chalka. Great "effects" too - with them standing on a raft, trying to simulate a trip down a river (when in reality it was a bathroom sink)... I can still taste the Captain Crunchberrys and hear the theme song... Good times, good times... Posted by TeechaGuy SciFi Channel (soon to be SyFy) runs the original Land of the Lost. I have about 12 episodes on my Tivo at home! And my 5 year old son commented to me how bad the special effects were |
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posted at 6/5/2009 3:53 PM EDT
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First: 5/27/2009 Last: 6/5/2009 |
Pinwheel anyone?? Nickelodeon's first show that aired from 1979 to 1989. It remains the longest running Nickelodeon show in episodes, and was the longest running in years until You Can't Do That On Television broke the record. It is now #3, behind You Can't Do That On Television and Rugrats, with All That about to also pass it. Jake and Kim, the "normal" ones and only two humans of the whole show Puppets--- Aunt Orellia, the landlady of the Pinwheel house. Ebeneezer T. Squint, did truly rotten things and didn't care about consequences. Admiral Bird, supposedly, the rarest bird in the world, and the reporters of the Daily Noodle desperately wanted to get a picture of him for the paper. Sam the Photographer, would never realize that the Admiral Bird was RIGHT BEHIND HIM the whole time. Sal and Smitty, an elderly couple who ran the "The Daily Noodle" Silas the Snail; shell was, in fact, a massive mansion, and anything he needed was inside. Always on the way to the Snail Convention, but never got there. Plus and Minus were PINWHEEL'S answer to Bert and Ernie. Plus was the positive one of the two and Minus was the jerk. They had a constant game of "Got you last" Luigi ,guy who ran a fruit & veggie stand Molly Mole; a mole who lived in a tree in the backyard Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around. Look at my Pinwheel and see what I've found.Pinwheel, pinwheel, where have you been? Hello, how are you, and may I come in?Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around. Look at my pinwheel and see what I found.Pinwheel, pinwheel, breezy and bright. Spin me good morning, spin me good night. |
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posted at 6/5/2009 5:10 PM EDT
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First: 6/5/2009 Last: 6/7/2009 |
Local faves: Boomtown (featuring Rex Trailer and "Pablo," his Mexican sidekick), Major Mudd (remember the "automatic" sliding door on the spaceship?), Willie Whistle (could anyone understand what he was saying?), Gentle Giant ("look up, waaay up ... and I'll call Rusty. Rusty?") |
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posted at 6/5/2009 6:12 PM EDT
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First: 11/2/2005 Last: 7/19/2009 |
"Tales of the Riverbank" was pretty weird. Live hamsters with Canadian accents would "act" out a story. And "Clutch Cargo" was unique (with his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot). The animation was enhanced by having human lips superimposed on the cartoon. |