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Its no wonder kids today are the way they are!

All they need is a fine animated 30 min show of action and adventure with a kick ass theme tune!

Here are some I remember as a kid

I've never seen that King Arthur show before (really, King Arthur is a time travelling American Footballer player, what the heck?)

However, it did remind me of something else I remember from my childhood. I never saw too much of the show, but I remember it being pretty darned brutal for a 7-8 year old.

This was something I saw half an episode of in a hotel when my family was on vacation. Didn't get to see the title or the intro and had no idea what the plot was, but dang did I love that show. It bugged me for years what it was until I finally got the opportunity to do a google search for it. Own the entire DVD set. Amazing show.

It's way more modern than most in this thread, but it was when I was the right age to watch kids tv shows dang it.

He was captain of 'The Knights' football team, and their bus crashed into a time warp. Pretty standard, really.

edit- Man I need to read these threads before I reply. I remember SWAT kats!

And my contribution-
Obscure, though not as obscure as its live action counterpart. Still, full of glorious punnery and bravery!


And then there are those that are just gloriously and unapologetically insane.



And possibly the finest cartoon I ever saw growing up-

Yeah, Roughnecks was incredibly awesome, but I discounted it as being far too recent. A fun fact is that the guys behind Roughnecks were actually doing a Warhammer 40k film called Bloodquest. Unfortunately, the company ended up going bankrupt. - You sometimes see the guys who worked on it post on Dakka occasionally.

Of course, nearly a decade later, GW finally does release a film and it's the abominable 'Ultramarines The Movie.'


However, the 'spirit' of Roughnecks did, sort of, live on, with the release of Starship Troopers: Invasion. A CGI sequel to the actual film and is, in all honesty, the best CGI based film I've ever seen. It lacks the humour of the original film a bit, but it makes up for it in bucketloads of action.

Can't believe no one has posted this gem!

i just wanna state, for the record, all of you who actually had the guys for centurions and not just the suits.....my inner child hates you so much.
never could find those guys, so the suits i somehow had got used on other guys despite only kinda sorta fitting

This start to a cartoon still gets me excited hearing it.

I present: BANANA MAN
when eric eats a banana...



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except I cannot figure out how to embed the video

 Gitzbitah wrote:


And possibly the finest cartoon I ever saw growing up-

Exosquad! I loved that show! While the animation was hit-or-miss sometimes, the writing was phenomenal! I still haven't seen the last two episodes, even after all these years.

Good to know that people had such a worldly view at 8 with no internet (it took me ages to find out that heidi was Japanese)
some stuff i liked;

Blake's 7 was absolutely awesome.
I've just spent a couple of hours watching that youtube clip, and it was time well spent.

Inspector Gadget wasn't available in French when I grew up, so I would be glued to a tv whenever we would go to the USA for vacation.

Captain Future was known as "Capitaine Flam" in French, and that theme song had lyrics.



A lot of those shows were promptly dropped from the schedule because the francophone audience couldn't fully appreciate them. Goldorak though... made a killing. Grendizer in Japanese, I think?



Ulysses 31 was a favourite of mine, though again only played for a few episodes, I vivdly remember the Sysiphus episode. They actually had the gall to introduce us to Greek poetry and religions.



This one struck our imagination as well. Yes, Captain Herlock was Albator in French... which in Quebecer can also be loosely translated "Oh the bastard."



Sorry if those were already mentionned. And I guess most of them are from the seventies?

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Good to know that people had such a worldly view at 8 with no internet (it took me ages to find out that heidi was Japanese)
some stuff i liked;

Blake's 7! Being a fan of that show is the mark of a person with truly refined taste in television. It's a pity that clip cuts out so much of the first episode...

My very first exposure to the show was as a child visiting Ireland during season 4 (the episode was "Traitor"). It was years before I saw any more, since our local PBS stations didn't get any episodes until the mid-90s. I now have the whole set on DVD (bootlegs, since they don't sell them in the U.S.) and I watch it semi-regularly.

A particular favourite of mine.
Monkey!




and

The Water Margin.

 Andrew1975 wrote:

nareik wrote:
What was the cartoon where they are on a space base and have their own fighter ships... the intro credits they all panic and someone shouts 'scramble'!

I've been trying to remember the name of this show for years!

Here you go

Many thanks! Starcom! You win this years internets!

 marv335 wrote:


The Water Margin.

ah suikouden Loved that show as a kid watched it on German television

who remembers this?