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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Apr 12, 2018 19:11:56 GMT
Anyone remember a few of the overseas English language series that have been forgotten from USA, Canada or Australia?
Some used to get shown during the day in the school holidays, here's a few:
Solo One - Australian series, about a Motorcycle copper solving local non violent problems, rescuing people from disasters, finding runaway kids, sorting out feuds etc - Was a spin off series of a much grittier Aussie police series called Matlock Police (which I don't remember). Starred the bloke who later went on to be in long running period drama "The Sullivans".
Then there was The Beachcombers; Canadian series (which I found a bit boring actually....) I believe it was a family business drama, ran for 18 years apparently!! 1972-91 - I remember it about early 80's when it had a couple of runs on UK telly.
Then there was a US series (shown daytime but a bit creepy for kids I would have thought) about a teenage American lad Lucan, which was "about a baby boy lost in the wilderness of Minnesota, USA. This child was found and raised to age ten by a she wolf as her own. The child grew up in the wild learning his own unique form of socialization. At age ten the wild child discovered by hunters was subsequently captured and taken to a university research center. At the research center this Wolf Boy was experimented upon while being taught basics of coping in so called human civilization". (A bit like a "Tarzan brought up by Wolfs instead of Apes"!)
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 12, 2018 19:41:11 GMT
Never heard of 'Lucan', the intro narrative is very similar to The Incredible Hulk with shades of The A Team. One Crawford show I remember is 'Special Squad' which has been compared to The Professionals, I think it was repeated on ITV in the late 80s. Other overseas schools holiday shows I remember were The Red Hand Gang, Huckleberry Finn And Friends, The Flashing Blade, The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Champion The Wonder Horse & various Flash Gordon & Rocket Man serials. Brit shows included Swim & Play Chess. Imagine kids watching a teach yourself chess show during the school holidays today. I don't even like chess but I watched it Two Aussie shows I was required to record on a daily basis for my mum whilst she was at work were 'The Young Doctors' & 'Sons And Daughters' 'A Country Practice' was another. Funny how you can watch a show virtually every day for years & then never think about it or see it again. Bit sad really.
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Post by Steve Austin on Apr 12, 2018 20:32:50 GMT
Other overseas schools holiday shows I remember were The Red Hand Gang, Huckleberry Finn And Friends, The Flashing Blade, The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Champion The Wonder Horse & various Flash Gordon & Rocket Man serials. Brit shows included Swim & Play Chess. Imagine kids watching a teach yourself chess show during the school holidays today. I don't even like chess but I watched it Remember all of these Arthur, takes me back to summer holidays. I didn't mind Huck Finn, thought Tom Sawyer was a bit of an arse though.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 12, 2018 23:00:08 GMT
I didn't like Tom Sawyer's little brother either, he was something of a grass if I remember rightly. Pretty sure I fancied Becky Thatcher, the love interest in the show. I saw the first episode recently, Aunt Polly is played by a German actress as the show was a Canadian/German co-production, her voice was dubbed.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Apr 15, 2018 18:40:09 GMT
Arthur, yep I remember some of those but don't remember watching The Flashing blade or Robinson Crusoe. The woman who played Aunt Polly in Huck Finn was in another German made (English dubbed) kids series - Heidi.
Following all the episodes of Huck Finn got quite interesting in the end after the early episodes (mainly Tom Sawyers exploits) got off to a slow start. I think I missed the very final episode and still haven't seen it - just remember the penultimate one, when Tom was shot in the leg after he and Huck and others were escaping from villains.
Also remember a Greek series which was narrated by a voice in English who was supposedly the adult version of the boy in the story of the series, called "Nicko" set in Green or maybe Cyprus about the early 20th century. (Not to be confused with the Steven Segal film of the same name!!). But I can't seem to find anything on the net about it.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 25, 2018 14:49:31 GMT
Here's Murphy's Mob from the early '80's featuring the late Gary Holton.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Apr 25, 2018 18:34:18 GMT
Does anyone remember a pretty weird 80's kids series which was silent in the style of Charlie Chaplin called "The Kid"?? It starred the late Steve Fairnie who was like an 80's version of Chaplin in appearance and he just got up to various silly adventures in very episode. The same 3 support actors were also in it - playing different characters in every ep - one of them was Mike Savage who was in The Sweeney episode Cover Story as one of "Miles and Davis" ("Someone let a dog in here??!).
Steve Fairnie sadly died in 1993 just one day after his 42nd birthday from an asthma attack while on a field trip to Brixham, Devon, with a group of students from Weston-super-Mare College, where he was a lecturer.
In his earlier days he fronted the post-punk band Writz, and as one half, with his wife Bev Sage, of the 1980s pop outfit Techno Twins (later just The Technos).
Also a clip of Writz below: Anyone remember them??
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 25, 2018 23:42:35 GMT
Obscure stuff Gerry. Can't be sure whether I saw 'The Kid' or not, if it was on Children's BBC in 1986 I probably would've seen it but as it was only 5 mins long it may not have stayed in the memory bank. It has a Laurel & Hardy aspect to it, coming home late to the wives & Mike Savage looks a bit like Oliver Hardy. Do not know of Writz at all. Steve Fairnie seems like a Chris Sievey ( the guy who played Frank Sidebottom ) type figure.
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Post by Cartman on Apr 26, 2018 7:48:42 GMT
Pass on those two I'm afraid. On kids stuff, there are only two time periods I have any recollection of, firstly, ones from when I was a kid, approx. 1963 to about 71. When I started at secondary school in 71, I didn't get home until about half four, just as the tea time kids programmes had finished, so anything from then on I never saw.
The second batch were what my lad watched and watches, ie from about 2007 to date. Anything between 1971 and 2007 is, therefore completely unknown to me!
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 26, 2018 9:16:05 GMT
Pass on those two I'm afraid. On kids stuff, there are only two time periods I have any recollection of, firstly, ones from when I was a kid, approx. 1963 to about 71. When I started at secondary school in 71, I didn't get home until about half four, just as the tea time kids programmes had finished, so anything from then on I never saw.
The second batch were what my lad watched and watches, ie from about 2007 to date. Anything between 1971 and 2007 is, therefore completely unknown to me! What no Grange Hill Cartman? Suppose you just 'had to say No!'
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