Another brilliant episode. The first series and a bit of What's Up Doc? is the best Sat AM show on any channel since Imperial Phase TISWAS (come at me). I was in uni when it started, with the whole thing sold off the back of the new Batman cartoon. By around the 4th episode, BBC1 may as well not have existed on a Saturday morning. Everyone, and I mean everyone, watched WUD. We were gobsmacked by the filthy innuendo, the various presenters blatantly taking the piss out of their own personas and the incredible regular characters (shout out to Tortie Man, who wore a Leatherface mask, dressed in frilly Regency gear and squirted silly string at kids out of a plastic tortoise's arsehole. Glorious). Add Frank Sidebottom to that, and as far as we were concerned, BBC1 didn't stand a chance.
Totally right What's up Doc was not aimed at the kids. I was around 18 and thought ot was a blast unlike L and K was totally rubbish and watched ITV until turning to Channel 4 and James Richardson and Italian footy
This series is as good as The Kids Are Alright mini-series on Vimeo only because I watched and loved the first 4 episodes, I really love both The Kids Are Alright and Watch and Smile because they are the best way to study the history of children's TV. Maybe in Episode 6, we might see two Saturday Morning programmes from my childhood which are BBC's Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow and ITV's Ministry of Mayhem.
My God, the Little Green Man. I _hated_ that character. Not the LGM himself, but the entire premise of a character that was bullied by the heroes (and thus the show encouraging bullying and finding a target to bully) I ended up feeling sorry for the character, hating the main cast and ultimately, not watching the show.
Seeing Neighbours alumni like Lucinda Cowden and Sarah Vandenbergh presenting "Sat AM" shows reminds me of a time when in the late 80s to 90s, Neighbours as well as Home and Away were huge (all thanks to Mr Donovan and Miss Minogue of course) and whenever someone left Ramsay Street or Summer Bay they fled up to Blighty looking for a TV career or a Music career.
home and away was big in the 90s till itv gave up on it in 1998 and put it in a tea tine slot was not happy cheered when it went to c5 was hyped read it in the dally mirror under bay again there was a press l too had a big hug with a ill Sally in a wheel c ooh hugs
cue sally live made by lwt and co pend by the cheese shop on itv2 in a late night solo show fun pop big hugs and cameos from reg and tricky noby the sheep and np sallys story so far aotn 12 was td too maggie wheres alex knock knock hey sally s tired i don't care my kneee hurts dann you alex sue cant find you on yellow pages spenncr missies you and i have no one to talk to e the lwt flag is in tears we heard about sally why her oh sue girl pover cue a sad m about time and space on an broken vt m later nibbles tine and a carly cameo oh alex thank you i have a get well card for Sally the card reads to my bff best mate and pal get well soon angel and alex i wll miss you so bad Sally aww you angel wll look after you c she loves her bikes xxxxx
The What's Up Doc titles here appear to be those used for other Kids WB strands around the world at that time, with a different final part, natch. That the people willing to walk rather than compromise became the brains behind Scrambled shows what age does to us all, I guess.
Definitely that, we had the What's Up Doc titles pretty much lock-stock-and-barrel in Australia, inclusive of name even (on the Nine network which had all the Kids WB stuff at the time). Yet ours was basically a half hour that could have been done in a proverbial Broom Cupboard (😊... though we never had the IVC tradition, hence the show to wrap around it), so looking what children's ITV got up to under the same premise obviously looks like a parallel dimension to me! 😂 The common titles obviously extended to the updated Kids WB titles that were modified and white-branded for Telegantic Megavision (per next episode), which probably shows the cold feet the home of Bugs might've got after all this for a while.
Have I misremembered or straight up imagined it but wasn't there an episode of L&K on mother's day where they showed the mother's day episode of Rugrats (in which you find out what happened to Chucky's mum) and at the end it cut back to Zoe Ball who's basically in tears?
It would be great to get a Big Breakfast retrospective similar to the TV-am episode. Though that would have a lot of Paula Yates blatantly seducing her guests on a big bed...
I absolutely loved Parralel 9 and looked forward to to it every week...and gimme 5 was absolute boredom on a stick...and then series 2 they changed it for the worse...and then third series was even worse than watching Andi Peters....and that's teeth gridingly awful
Loved the first series of Parallel 9, that "oh bumbles" line was quoted endlessly when I was at school for years :D
That theme song... the lyrics are so ominous!
The original P9 theme was sung by Eddie Mooney of the Dakotas (She's not there). Great voice.
“Black Alan Partridge” is so on the nose
What's Up Doc was the best Saturday morning kids show since Tizwas.
Another brilliant episode.
The first series and a bit of What's Up Doc? is the best Sat AM show on any channel since Imperial Phase TISWAS (come at me).
I was in uni when it started, with the whole thing sold off the back of the new Batman cartoon.
By around the 4th episode, BBC1 may as well not have existed on a Saturday morning. Everyone, and I mean everyone, watched WUD.
We were gobsmacked by the filthy innuendo, the various presenters blatantly taking the piss out of their own personas and the incredible regular characters (shout out to Tortie Man, who wore a Leatherface mask, dressed in frilly Regency gear and squirted silly string at kids out of a plastic tortoise's arsehole. Glorious).
Add Frank Sidebottom to that, and as far as we were concerned, BBC1 didn't stand a chance.
Totally right What's up Doc was not aimed at the kids. I was around 18 and thought ot was a blast unlike L and K was totally rubbish and watched ITV until turning to Channel 4 and James Richardson and Italian footy
This series is so good
This series is as good as The Kids Are Alright mini-series on Vimeo only because I watched and loved the first 4 episodes, I really love both The Kids Are Alright and Watch and Smile because they are the best way to study the history of children's TV.
Maybe in Episode 6, we might see two Saturday Morning programmes from my childhood which are BBC's Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow and ITV's Ministry of Mayhem.
I’m really enjoying watching these bring back memories of my childhood. I missed Going Live when that finished in April 1993.
My God, the Little Green Man. I _hated_ that character. Not the LGM himself, but the entire premise of a character that was bullied by the heroes (and thus the show encouraging bullying and finding a target to bully)
I ended up feeling sorry for the character, hating the main cast and ultimately, not watching the show.
Seeing Neighbours alumni like Lucinda Cowden and Sarah Vandenbergh presenting "Sat AM" shows reminds me of a time when in the late 80s to 90s, Neighbours as well as Home and Away were huge (all thanks to Mr Donovan and Miss Minogue of course) and whenever someone left Ramsay Street or Summer Bay they fled up to Blighty looking for a TV career or a Music career.
home and away was big in the 90s till itv gave up on it in 1998 and put it in a tea tine slot was not happy cheered when it went to c5
was hyped read it in the dally mirror under bay again there was a press l too had a big hug with a ill Sally in a wheel c
ooh hugs
she had oc cue a news flash on smty by cat d aug 2000 and a charier plane in the uk np was not happy
dann you Alex
cue sally live made by lwt and co pend by the cheese shop on itv2 in a late night solo show fun pop big hugs
and cameos from reg and tricky noby the sheep and np sallys story so far aotn 12 was td too maggie wheres alex knock knock hey sally s tired
i don't care my kneee hurts dann you alex sue cant find you on yellow pages spenncr missies you and i have no one to talk to
e the lwt flag is in tears we heard about sally why her oh sue girl pover
cue a sad m about time and space on an broken vt m
later nibbles tine and a carly cameo oh alex thank you i have a get well card for Sally
the card reads to my bff best mate and pal get well soon angel and alex i wll miss you so bad Sally aww you
angel wll look after you c she loves her bikes xxxxx
the finale of s3 of smitv a nod to a era of kids tv i grew up with won a bafta in 2001 np left in p of his own a and sr took over tll 2003
Did Gaston le Gaston just say the word "piss"?
3:45 *[shakes fist] **_BARROWMAN!_*
Are there any good book to read about this topic?
This was my era. Live and Kicking in it's second phase, albeit also when SMTV-Live popped up (Which I'm guessing is part of the next episode)
Mine too
SM:TV was very good at first . It is CLEARLY the best thing that Ant and Dec have ever done.
@@evonne_okafor what about slap bang loved it
The What's Up Doc titles here appear to be those used for other Kids WB strands around the world at that time, with a different final part, natch. That the people willing to walk rather than compromise became the brains behind Scrambled shows what age does to us all, I guess.
Definitely that, we had the What's Up Doc titles pretty much lock-stock-and-barrel in Australia, inclusive of name even (on the Nine network which had all the Kids WB stuff at the time). Yet ours was basically a half hour that could have been done in a proverbial Broom Cupboard (😊... though we never had the IVC tradition, hence the show to wrap around it), so looking what children's ITV got up to under the same premise obviously looks like a parallel dimension to me! 😂
The common titles obviously extended to the updated Kids WB titles that were modified and white-branded for Telegantic Megavision (per next episode), which probably shows the cold feet the home of Bugs might've got after all this for a while.
2:47 Hey, I'm only 18!
Have I misremembered or straight up imagined it but wasn't there an episode of L&K on mother's day where they showed the mother's day episode of Rugrats (in which you find out what happened to Chucky's mum) and at the end it cut back to Zoe Ball who's basically in tears?
Found the date of the episode where this may have happened - 13th March 1999.
loved it loved zoe ball i hated that day loved series 7 for eary simpsons my 1st tine seeing it
Worth mentioning that Zoe Ball went to L&K via The Big Breakfast rather than straight from Fully Booked.
It would be great to get a Big Breakfast retrospective similar to the TV-am episode. Though that would have a lot of Paula Yates blatantly seducing her guests on a big bed...
2:46 Actually, that was 14 year old me.
Andi Peters "Put the Telly on"? Turn the damn TV off and throw it out of the window more like!
14:01 “It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind. Ten years after the Earth-Mimbari War...”
I absolutely loved Parralel 9 and looked forward to to it every week...and gimme 5 was absolute boredom on a stick...and then series 2 they changed it for the worse...and then third series was even worse than watching Andi Peters....and that's teeth gridingly awful
Poor old Pat Sharp got the radio 1 slot then went to ITV loosing radio 1