After last weeks visit to Obscurityburg, I thought we'd take the train a little further down the track, stopping today at Abstruse Junction. (Thank you Thesaurus.com)
I'd be surprised if many of you (is "three" many?) remember Marine Boy, which aired during the mid to late 1960's. I thought I remembered it fondly until watching this. Now it just looks boring. If every peril Marine Boy faced was dispacthed as easily as in the opening credits each episode would only be about four minutes long. Perhaps they were figuring on the low attention span of their audiance.
Yet another delight I've never heard of... From what I remember about kids' stuff, British TV focused less on cartoon-type things, and more on home-made puppet type things (like one of my favourites, Bagpuss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEeTkHk5JxE, or another one, The Clangers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3rWghGSm4Y - this isn't the theme song, but an actual episode. God, it's so wonderfully weird!). One American cartoon I do remember was this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3_XRsDP7eM. And of course, in the puppet style, there was also the inimitable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuRkAyRfz_c. OK, I've finished for today! Your TST posts are consistently one of my favourite posts every week!
Posted by: Kirsty | August 18, 2011 at 11:36 AM
My TST posts are my only CONSISTENT post of the week!
Bagpuss?
Posted by: heyjoe | August 18, 2011 at 02:08 PM
I had to Google this one!
Posted by: Pambasilea | August 18, 2011 at 02:31 PM
Bagpuss - "a saggy old cloth cat, but Emily loved him". *Sniff* So cute.
And The Clangers - the guy who did that clearly consumed waaaay too many illegal substances (but thank God he did!).
Posted by: Kirsty | August 19, 2011 at 06:27 AM
Those crazy Brits!
Posted by: heyjoe | August 19, 2011 at 08:01 AM
Oh, my, I just watched the episode of Clangers - and you are right - so wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful! Thanks, Kirsty!
I also checked out Bagpuss, and as a cat lover, I find him adorable.
Posted by: Pambasilea | August 19, 2011 at 10:11 PM
When I was about 4, I wanted a "real" Bagpuss more than anything in the entire world. That and to be able to change my name to Emily because for sure I would have loved that saggy old cloth cat...
As for the Clangers, well, it's a classic! Just ask any Brit aged 40-ish and down (to about 25 I would think)! There were many of these types of show: Chigley, Trumpton, the Herb Garden (Lord Basil and Lady Rosemary, and their dog Dill!), Issy No-No, Mr Ben... Ah, those were the days! Now my girls watch mindless cartoons *sigh*
Bah, humbug.
Posted by: Kirsty | August 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM