I remember Dave Allen At Large. He was great.
*MrKnowItAll: On PBS (originally BBC, I guess): Dave Allen at Large. Scottish comic Dave Allen would tell jokes between short prerecorded sketches. Very funny stuff. *
I loved his show. A little more urbane than Benny Hill.
What I thought was funny was this: between skits he sat drinking and smoking on a barstool. He also had part of his index finger amputated. So as he introed the skits he held his cigarette between his index and middle fingers, and it looked like he was flipping off the camera the whole time.
*voguevixen: There was this cool anime-type cartoon I used to watch when I was a kid that I think was called “Battle of the Planets” about these 5 teen and pre-teen brothers and sisters who lived under the sea on some planet and had a spaceship and they all had groovy bellbottoms and long hair and rilly big eyes (of course) and they all turned into their superhero personas by thrusting their hands skyward and shouting “G-FORCE!” (in the manner of “Shazam!” Anyone? Everytime I try to describe this to people they just stare at me blankly. *
I’ve seen two versions of this show. The only difference is the voice of Keyop. The first version I saw, he talked in his own gibberish that only his G-Force buddies understood. The second version, he had an English voice.
The show was originally “Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman” in Japan. I’m wondering if the original voice was so accented that they couldn’t translate and must left it in.
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The Battle of the Planets was one of my fav. shows when I was a kid.
Now when I think back it was kind of a strange show. Five people dressed in birdlike costumes fighting a guy whose face they would never show you.
When I was a kid I actually had a BOTP record player.
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A few of my roommates only recently found out that there was such a thing as the Ben Stiller Show. I watched practically every episode (all, like, six of them) when it was out.
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Yes, it was about a guy who lost his memory, and I have no idea who the actor was. I was quite young at the time, so the show really made an impression. I recall a scene where he’s climbing a ladder, up from a boat or something - but I don’t know why! It would be fun to find out, but so far most sites about classic TV seem to focus on comedy or cartoons.
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By the way…Misfits of Science also starred Courtney Cox. Long before friends!
There was a sketch comedy show on HBO a few years ago… I think they only made like four episodes and I can’t remember the name. But it was hilarious. anyone help?
Glad to see all those Dave Allen fans out there. I was afraid I was the only one who missed this show.
Tengu, you’re right. It was “Frightenstein”, not “Frankenstein”. Gory, gory, Hallelujah!
Yes, I remember a few of those.
Another I liked when I was a kid was a stop-motion (badly-)animated science-fiction show with a line in the theme “And my heart will be a fire-streak …”. Could it have been called “Fireball 5000” or something like that? Please help me here!
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I remember a show from about 11 years ago or so, called Probe. It was about some genius guy in Phoenix who lived in a warehouse with a gorilla or something. I don’t remember very well, but I loved it for the short time it was on.
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rjk - Sounds a lot like Fireball XL5, which was marionettes, rather than stop motion.
From the same people: The wonderful Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Damn, but I miss that show…
(Hmm…Should I be worried about how many of these shows I know?)
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Space Giants… Goldar, Silvar & Gam under the guidance of Methusela, summoning their respective long-haired precious-metal robots with special whistles, to fight the bad alien guy (whose name escapes me… anyone?). Used to be aired on the old channel 44 in Chicago, back in early 70s (before it was used for On-TV, a precursor of cable programming).
Image Union… independent short subjects aired Saturday nights on PBS. Occasionally they’d have excellent films.
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Thanks, Markxxx! The Mighty Heroes. I had forgotten about Rope Man.
I was also a Dave Allen fan. Around the same time there were two other British comedies I watched - Two Ronnies, which was okay, and Alas Smith and Jones, which was much funnier. I taped a few episodes off the telly, I’ll have to go back and watch them.
I had forgotten all about the two Ronnies I loved them.
Also there was a show, really funny in the late 70’s (well that’s at least when it was shown in Chicago on PBS God knows when it was made) about a Candian Comic living in England. Quite funny.
Anyone recall??
does any one remember a show on fox called oops? It was about 4 people who are the only surviors after a nuclur war… the main guy was in a Yougo(sp?) when the blast hit and since Yougo is the safest car around he lived. It was on right before Hermans head.
**Misfits of Science** was a movie first it had Courtney Cox, and Ed Baggle JR. in it a realy cool movie.
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