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jimv1 Great Old One Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Total posts: 2734 Gender: Male |
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| Did Maid Marion wear a cocktail dress in all the episodes? |
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| SameOldVardoger Great Old One Gender: Male |
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| jimv1 Great Old One Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Total posts: 2734 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-09-2013 12:34 Post subject: |
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Nostalgia! Just as good as it used to be.
My favourite series was the underwater puppet drama Stingray. As an adult, I can now see why Troy Tempest preferred Marina to Altlanta who seemed to be a bit of a breakfast boozer and her hairdo always looked like she'd just rolled out of bed. No class.
I loved the way that at the end of an episode, they'd all sit around in the Marineville cocktail bar smoking brightly coloured cigarettes. That's why they can't show it anymore. You couldn't really have them hanging around the outside of the facility sneaking a fag before going on duty could you? |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 21-09-2013 13:32 Post subject: |
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Loved Robin Hood when i was a kid.
Is it possible to get full Stingray episodes including the smoking? |
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| jimv1 Great Old One Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Total posts: 2734 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-09-2013 16:02 Post subject: |
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| ramonmercado wrote: | Loved Robin Hood when i was a kid.
Is it possible to get full Stingray episodes including the smoking? |
I had a box set on vhs (remember that?) which had an episode where Troy was being tortured by Titan. Passage of time cut to Phones, still in the cell putting another cigarette out under his foily futuristic boot.
Maybe now we're in the future, there's some sort of central reserve of knowledge we could go to and find out if it's on DVD and if all episodes from the series are on it. But I guess we may as well wish for a flying car. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 21-09-2013 21:17 Post subject: |
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I can remember when The Clangers seemed absolutely new and cutting edge. I remember when this one started on Watch With Mother, too.
http://youtu.be/sNiimC07_Ac
Great stuff!  |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 21-09-2013 23:13 Post subject: |
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| jimv1 wrote: | | ramonmercado wrote: | Loved Robin Hood when i was a kid.
Is it possible to get full Stingray episodes including the smoking? |
I had a box set on vhs (remember that?) which had an episode where Troy was being tortured by Titan. Passage of time cut to Phones, still in the cell putting another cigarette out under his foily futuristic boot.
Maybe now we're in the future, there's some sort of central reserve of knowledge we could go to and find out if it's on DVD and if all episodes from the series are on it. But I guess we may as well wish for a flying car. |
Episodes online are smoke free. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 21-09-2013 23:16 Post subject: |
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| jimv1 wrote: | | ramonmercado wrote: | Loved Robin Hood when i was a kid.
Is it possible to get full Stingray episodes including the smoking? |
I had a box set on vhs (remember that?) which had an episode where Troy was being tortured by Titan. Passage of time cut to Phones, still in the cell putting another cigarette out under his foily futuristic boot.
Maybe now we're in the future, there's some sort of central reserve of knowledge we could go to and find out if it's on DVD and if all episodes from the series are on it. But I guess we may as well wish for a flying car. |
Episodes online are smoke free. |
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| EnolaGaia Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1305 Location: USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-09-2013 23:46 Post subject: |
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Amazon still lists a 'Stingray - The Complete Series' 5-DVD set with 39 episodes. (NOTE: This is not the only set listed.)
There's no mention of the episodes being edited, and some of the customer reviews mention smoking. |
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| SameOldVardoger Great Old One Gender: Male |
| Posted: 22-09-2013 04:06 Post subject: |
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In Norway we had puppet show for kids on national TV which traumatised a whole generation. It's from the early 70s. I wasn't that traumatised, but I remember I was watching it with bewilderment and amusement.
Pompel & Pilt - The repairers are coming |
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| jimv1 Great Old One Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Total posts: 2734 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 22-09-2013 10:30 Post subject: |
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| SameOldVardoger wrote: | In Norway we had puppet show for kids on national TV which traumatised a whole generation. It's from the early 70s. I wasn't that traumatised, but I remember I was watching it with bewilderment and amusement.
Pompel & Pilt - The repairers are coming |
The Ingmar Bergman Puppet Show!
Meanwhile, children in Britain were being unsettled right from the opening bars of Picture Box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbnNsFil04
I used to love this programme. Is it any wonder I turned out as I did? |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 22-09-2013 13:21 Post subject: |
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More childhood puppet weirdness, this time from the BBC.
http://youtu.be/n2C75mVdqQQ
Brings it all back. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 22-09-2013 16:52 Post subject: |
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Arghhh! Pinky and Perky, the Helium pigs, repulsive then and now.
I had forgotten what a precocious little hater I was but those charmless singing pigs were a good place to embark on a career of futile carping! 
Pommel & Pilt look like they might work in a nocturnal slaughterhouse. They really should have met the other P. & P. for a Special!  |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 22-09-2013 16:59 Post subject: |
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I remember being very young and watching Pinky and Perky, and thinking 'this is weird shit' (or similar but less sweary words). |
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