Post by: smurfboy on February 01, 2006, 11:24:47 pm
Post by: goldencup on February 01, 2006, 11:27:46 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 01, 2006, 11:30:14 pm
Post by: goldencup on February 01, 2006, 11:33:03 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 02, 2006, 09:26:10 am
I used to love Neighbours back then. I still like to watch it now if i am home in time. I remember crying when helen died
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 10:18:41 am
I gave up on it about five years ago because they moved Shortland Street opposite it. I do like to watch it occasionally now though because Paul is back in it, and Gail is coming back too (yay!)
I was gutted when Daphne died. Me and my sister used to act out her death scene in the garden. She would be Daphne and I would be Des, and then Beverly trying to shock her back.
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 02, 2006, 10:34:23 am
she never coming back sh ended up on croos roads
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 10:35:50 am
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 02, 2006, 10:39:54 am
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 10:43:54 am
It could happen on Neighbours...
Yay, I now have 6000 posts!
Post by: chocolate chick on February 02, 2006, 11:00:51 am
Post by: loulou on February 02, 2006, 11:06:58 am
Post by: chocolate chick on February 02, 2006, 11:18:07 am
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 02, 2006, 12:37:15 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 01:15:41 pm
She had big shoulder pads, big sleeves and a huge, gravity-defying quiff hairdo. She was fabulous.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 02, 2006, 01:25:18 pm
She had big shoulder pads, big sleeves and a huge, gravity-defying quiff hairdo.
She used to be an air hostess, Smurfy.
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 01:36:03 pm
She did indeed. I'll always remember when she left, dragging a suitcase out at eight months pregnant...
Post by: chocolate chick on February 02, 2006, 02:10:32 pm
Post by: loulou on February 02, 2006, 02:22:28 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 02, 2006, 03:58:23 pm
I sued to have the Neighbours sticker album and we used to swop stickers in the playground!
Post by: oldspice on February 02, 2006, 04:07:51 pm
Does anyone remember that Paul was once married to a plumber called Terry? That is absolutely true.
I stopped being fond of the programme when Daphne gave birth without taking her jeans off. At the time i was a new mum who had just endured a 48 hour labour!
I never watch it now but if they're bringing back some old faces I might look in. I used to lie Joe Mangle
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 04:22:32 pm
Joe Mangel has just come back Spicy!
I've just realised why you don't remember Gail, Choccy Chick - you're too young! You'd have only been six when she left which is why you remember Paul being with the twins. I remember Terry; she turned out to be a murderess, shot Paul when she was trying to go on the run and then committed suicide in prison! Neighbours was more adult then because it was being made for a 7pm slot in Oz, not a 5.30 on the BBC. That's why for years in the nineties the most dramatic thing that ever happened was Helen dropping a cake.
Post by: oldspice on February 02, 2006, 04:44:59 pm
What about when the doc Saved Lucy from anaphalactic shock using a biro? And they didn't even know he was a doctor!
And what about Lucy? She nearly died from a bee sting, had a brain tumour, got kidnapped and God knows what else!
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 04:50:45 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 02, 2006, 04:59:46 pm
Whatever happend to little Toby Mangle?
And what about Harold. his first wife died from cancer. He married an old school sweetheart. His daughter dies because she is mistaken for a duck and he then falls off a rock and drowns for I don't know how many years before re-appearing only to lose his second wife to cancer.
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 05:08:06 pm
As you haven't been watching lately you probably won't know his son, daughter-in-law and grandaughter all died in a plane crash last week!
Post by: loulou on February 02, 2006, 05:31:28 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 05:33:22 pm
Post by: loulou on February 02, 2006, 05:35:02 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 05:37:19 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 02, 2006, 08:10:54 pm
I hated Jim Robinson! i couldn't help remembering him in The Young Doctors with a terrible bubble perm.
Helen Daniels had so many strokes she could kiss her knees without bending down.
She also fell over in the garage and landed unconscious with the exhaust pipe of a running motor car up her left nostril. She was there for hours but she still survived. Anyone else would have been dead in thirty seconds.
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 08:45:39 pm
At least she didn't slip on spilt milk and lose 30 years of her memory like Susan!
Post by: StrollingMinstrel on February 02, 2006, 09:30:55 pm
I gave up on it about five years ago because they moved Shortland Street opposite it
So you were the other viewer for Shortland street Smurfy! I used to love that. It was on around the time my boys were very young and I used to get to watch it around their nap time!
Have you noticed how it crops up on a lot of those out take types of shows?
I was really peeved when they stopped showing it on Meridian... right in the middle of some gripping story line about possums or something!
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 09:46:03 pm
I was gutted. It got dropped in loads of regions when they brought back Crossroads, but they kept it in Central. It's best days were gone when they eventually did drop it but I was still upset. I was in pieces when Tiffany died - I kept willing her to have a miracle recovery!
Post by: kermie on February 02, 2006, 10:17:57 pm
Neighbours the go old days!
Post by: StrollingMinstrel on February 02, 2006, 10:33:46 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 02, 2006, 10:46:25 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 03, 2006, 06:50:46 am
Did anyone ever watch A Country Practice? Again, when I was at home with my kiddies that was on in the afternoons. It was nice and gentle.
I can't believe how I spent my time before I went back to work! Watch TV in the afternoons now? It just can't be done!!
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 09:45:29 am
WHo are they?
Post by: oldspice on February 03, 2006, 02:10:30 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 02:38:38 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 02:47:40 pm
Did anyone ever watch A Country Practice? Again, when I was at home with my kiddies that was on in the afternoons. It was nice and gentle.
I can't believe how I spent my time before I went back to work! Watch TV in the afternoons now? It just can't be done!!
I loved ACP too! I miss those days. I'm off work today and am shocked at how poor daytime telly is these days.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 03, 2006, 02:53:08 pm
I'm off work today
A liaison with your boss, is it???
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 02:55:10 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:20:04 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 03:22:19 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:25:14 pm
No you need to be watching ITV for the messed up kids shows. Bring back tots tv and the riddlers!
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 03:31:25 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:35:53 pm
Wizardara!
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:36:12 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 03:37:29 pm
Spatz - wicked! And Mike and Angelo! But the best kids programme ever... drumoroll...
Knightmare!
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:41:24 pm
Mike and Angelo! Loved it
What about T-Bag?
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 03:45:48 pm
How could I forget T-Bag? I loved it soooo much!!! It went a bit crap when Diane from Emmerdale left and was replaced by Georgina Hale though.
You big soppy girl, hating Knightmare. 
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:45:56 pm
Spatz, T-Bag and Mike and Angelo were all written by the same people!
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:46:18 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 03, 2006, 03:47:09 pm
Does anyone remember a children's programme called Grotbag?
My son's primary school teacher looked just like her!
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:48:03 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 03:48:11 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:48:51 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:49:07 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 03:53:29 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 03, 2006, 03:53:59 pm
No....I will search that one as wellPost by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 04:00:46 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 03, 2006, 06:17:19 pm
Post by: goldencup on February 03, 2006, 07:00:25 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 03, 2006, 08:26:40 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 08:34:44 pm
Post by: goldencup on February 03, 2006, 09:14:50 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 03, 2006, 09:19:27 pm
It's like a prep school for Eastenders!
Lynne Slater, Billy Mitchell, Juley Smith...
Post by: goldencup on February 03, 2006, 09:20:53 pm
Post by: StrollingMinstrel on February 04, 2006, 12:54:21 am
My kids used to love Tots TV. Although slightly odd set up... two guys, a french girl and a donkey living together!?!
Post by: oldspice on February 04, 2006, 08:35:47 am
That's no so unusual around here.
When my children were small I became very concerned about the lack of strong female characters in tiny tots TV. We had Thomas the Tank Engine, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder....I could go on.
Even where females were represented, their characters were passive rather than active; serving in the shop, making lunch and even worse, in the case of Thomas the Tank Engine, the female engines were lazy, over-made-up floozies (Daisy and Clarabelle) who never ran on time.
How can a modern mum bringing up a daughter cope with such negative stereotyping?
Post by: smurfboy on February 04, 2006, 03:56:39 pm
Post by: goldencup on February 04, 2006, 04:03:46 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 04, 2006, 04:42:41 pm
I hope nobody took my post serously. It was supposed to be tongue in cheek.
Post by: smurfboy on February 04, 2006, 04:49:47 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 04, 2006, 05:01:47 pm
Yea, those kids on Scooby Do have been wearing the same clothes for at least thirty years.
And they haven't aged at all!
Post by: smurfboy on February 04, 2006, 05:05:30 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 05, 2006, 09:49:56 am
Post by: loulou on February 05, 2006, 04:40:13 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 05, 2006, 06:34:43 pm
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 06, 2006, 11:20:45 am
With my pink scarf and coat in the car I look like Penelope Pitstop when I am driving.
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 11:24:11 am
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 06, 2006, 11:27:25 am
Does anyone remember a children's programme called Grotbag?
My son's primary school teacher looked just like her!
Grotbags was a spin-off from Rod Hulland Emu's Pink Windmill programme. She was the witch who wanted to kidnap Emu.
Post by: smurfboy on February 06, 2006, 11:29:41 am
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 11:37:02 am
Post by: smurfboy on February 06, 2006, 11:42:32 am
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 06, 2006, 11:51:46 am
I didn't watch Press Gang avidly but I do remember it. I think you can get it on DVD now.
Why did the powers that be never release Supergran on DVD
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 11:52:40 am
There was a lot of stars in Press Gang, just like Grange Hill.
Post by: loulou on February 06, 2006, 11:55:25 am
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 06, 2006, 11:56:19 am
Supergran was a superhero from the books by Forrest Wilson. It was a mid-80s TV series with a theme tune sung by Billy Connoly.
I remember Lucy Benjamin being in Press Gang.
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 11:59:55 am
Go to www.thebubbleburst.com
Very good website I have just discovered
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 06, 2006, 12:08:19 pm
Did you get the address right cc? I went there and the site is for sale!
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 12:11:29 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 06, 2006, 12:11:36 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 12:12:07 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 06, 2006, 12:18:08 pm
I found an essay on the internet once, written completely without irony, suggesting that Smurfette had set the women's movement back twenty years. It complained about her always wearing a dress as it made her a stereotype, and that it was always the same dress - 'which suggests her personal hygiene is poor. How can we respect her in light of this?' Someone should tell the poor deluded woman that most cartoon characters always wear the same clothes!
Here is the link for the 'Smurfy Sexism' essay - it's hilarious!
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 06, 2006, 12:27:22 pm
Julia Sawalha, Dexter Fletcher, Lee Ross, Gabrielle Anwar... they've all done very well. You can get the first series on DVD I think.
There are 5 seasons released on DVD Smurfy, I think that's all of them?
Post by: smurfboy on February 06, 2006, 12:30:27 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 12:32:51 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 06, 2006, 12:40:28 pm
It was on Fridays, but they used to have CITV Sunday mornings, so perhaps they repeated it then.
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 12:52:33 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 06, 2006, 12:58:35 pm
That's right, I remember now, they did a repeat run on 4 on Sunday evenings in the days before ITV and Channel 4 became independent of each other.
Post by: chocolate chick on February 06, 2006, 01:09:29 pm
Post by: kermie on February 06, 2006, 06:10:07 pm
He is still as lovely nowas he was all those years ago!!! hardly aged at all!
Post by: loulou on February 06, 2006, 07:33:59 pm
Post by: smurfboy on February 06, 2006, 07:59:46 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on February 07, 2006, 11:11:07 am
Post by: oldspice on February 07, 2006, 11:44:59 am
Post by: smurfboy on February 07, 2006, 11:46:26 am