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persiflage_1 May 30 2010, 13:04:15 UTC
I missed D&D, but I totally agree with you about both Mr Ben and Rentaghost!

Also, I note you didn't stick to the "doing the meme out of order" rebellion for long!

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lost_spook May 30 2010, 13:15:11 UTC
Heh. There were a lot of fun TV shows. And D&D was only on for a short time. It was very hard to catch in the UK.

Oh, I'm only doing it out of order when it suits me, and the days I'm on now work well to be posting over the weekend. But I am swapping the last one for one of the others, come what may. Saddest death is no way to end a meme!

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persiflage_1 May 30 2010, 13:16:38 UTC
I almost did Day 30 today, but I chickened out at the last minute and went for Day 1 instead.

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lost_spook May 30 2010, 14:32:21 UTC
So I saw. Cruel TV chiefs and their bad habit of cancelling things...

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pitry May 30 2010, 13:24:14 UTC
D & D! I haven't seen it in literally years.

As for Thundercats, I don't know, I rewatched a couple of episodes several years ago and it was still fun. When WASN'T fun was Captain Planet. You think the moralising in He-Man and She-Ra was bad....

(This is painful for oh so many reasons).

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lost_spook May 30 2010, 14:08:32 UTC
Oh, my goodness! We had a Captain Planet computer game, which was fun, but I never knew until recently there was a show it came from. Either I was too old, or it somehow flew right past me. Erm. Thankfully, by the looks of things. That really is painful.

Oh, I wasn't having a go at Thundercats. If I had the chance to see an ep, I'd be curious. I just remember that it got to a point where it seemed keener on trying to make Liono into a bigger hero than all the good things it had going for it. Plus, D&D got me at a younger age, on so many levels.

And, ahahaha, another of my flist has knows what D&D is!! :-)

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pitry May 30 2010, 14:23:17 UTC
Yes, it is. I'm trying to understand what I saw in it when I was a kid, but nothing comes to mind. You should be thankful you missed it!

Thundercats - I remember they definitely lost the plot somewhere. My memory insists they all moved to a different planet at some point, and adult me goes "HUH?!" And of COURSE I know D&D! It's my childhood, even without being a role-player! :D

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lost_spook May 30 2010, 14:28:20 UTC
Yes, but I have trouble remembering that I need to explain that I'm not talking about the film, or the role-playing game, because it never occurs to me that D&D could refer to anything other than the 1980s cartoon. *ahem*

Well, I really wouldn't like to risk watching most of the cartoons I was addicted to at the time, either. The game was good. I could actually get to other levels on it, which was unheard of for me.

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john_amend_all May 30 2010, 14:19:29 UTC
(So my favourite pre-school show was about an ordinary man who walks into a small changing room and steps out into new worlds, and adventures in space and time. Not that I’m at all consistent, or anything…)

It's one of those things, isn't it? I remember, at the age of 5 or 6, loving Maths-in-a-Box, about a strange man who travels in a magic box and has two human children for companions. And this was long before I'd so much as heard of the Doctor...

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lost_spook May 30 2010, 14:31:15 UTC
Wow, I've never even heard of that one. And those sorts of things usually stayed around for ages, but that rings no bells at all. If it were Words and Pictures and Look and Read, now... Look and Read was brilliant! Badger girl, the fairground one and that freaky Mr Magus is Watching You. I think that prepared me nicely for the McCoy era. I should have added in educational programmes here, clearly. :-)

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jjpor May 31 2010, 00:12:24 UTC
I think that Words and Pictures was, at once point in the 90s when I was much too old to be watching it, presented by Sophie Aldred. Before she opted for the by-all-accounts-much-more-lucrative career path of doing advert voiceovers.

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lost_spook May 31 2010, 07:17:31 UTC
I know she did Corners, and there was something later I never saw, but I don't think she ever did Words & Pictures. I'd have to go check. Did Words and Pictures have a presenter? I vaguely remember Crow and Alice and other things, but not that. It was a looong time ago! :lol:

And she reads audiobooks, too, you know.

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dbskyler May 30 2010, 22:19:51 UTC
OMG, "Once More with Feeling" is brilliant, isn't it? I'm only a moderate Buffy fan -- the violence tends to turn me off, although I appreciate the wit and the characters -- but that's on my list of favorite TV episodes.

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lost_spook May 31 2010, 07:47:14 UTC
Heh, I have to say I rarely find Buffy-violence a bit much, squeamish though I am generally, but it is a really great piece of work. I was going to link to clips, but someone's had a thorough clean-out of actual clips from it on YouTube. I'll just have to watch the video again...

:-)

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jjpor May 31 2010, 00:07:23 UTC
OMG...OMG!!! I, I can't tell you how much this post has reminded me of ( ... )

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lost_spook May 31 2010, 07:49:06 UTC
Wait... the shopkeeper was a magician! Satan???!!!

:lol:

I suppose, to be fair, I was terrified of Windy Miller's windmill, so what can I say? (MILLER GETS HEAD SLICED OFF IN CAMBERWICK GREEN!)

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lost_spook May 31 2010, 07:36:24 UTC
Heh, I know. Some of the YouTube vids led me to clips of other things & I got all excited about the broom cupboard clip, because obviously nobody repeats links anywhere... :lol:

I realise I sounded negative about the other cartoons - but really, I loved so many of them at the time, I worry about myself. I'm not going to make a list. Oh, but I watched Dogtanian a lot, but it wasn't anything like Cities of Gold. I can't think of anything else that went on so long as just one story that was so complex. And there was that guy Mendosa who kept reappearing after being killed. And, yes, I've seen it on DVD in HMV. I wouldn't dare though. I'd caught a couple of D&D eps since being grown up & knew it wouldn't destroy my childhood illusions by purchasing the DVDs ( ... )

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