Swing your pants!

Yeah!! Ohhh they were classic, that was the Singing Corner wasn't it?! The funniest thing I saw them do was a pi$$ take of the video for a song by Erasure called Stop. Wish I could find it somewhere it was great!! And that bizarre thing they did with Pot Fish and Moon Monkey!..... Ahhhh those were the days, I'm going to have a warm feeling all day now !! :D :D :D

Swap Shop is the earliest I remember...I thought it was the dogs bollocks and Noels perm is the stuff of legends :D
I remember my mum fancied him lol

When I was about 12 my Saturday morning consisted of Going Live (anyone else fancy Sarah Greene?) then Football Focus and Saint and Greavsie "hahahahahahahaha marvelous James! hahahaha" then off to watch the football.

Anyone also remember a character called Simon Perry? Don't think it was going live, Andy Crane presented the show If I remember. He was a buck teeth guy in a red anorak who walked around the studio...he had a strange obsession with cheese. Very funny. I remember during the section where the audience asks a question of the guest he said to Jason Preistley "in America you call them chips...but we call them crisps" and preistley was totally bewildered :D

Wasn't that Norman? He did the Twix adverts?

This is the best picture I could find.

The show was What's Up Doc.

You can check out the page I found here.

The show with Itsy and Bitsy on it was called Paperplay (had to do a bit of research to find that, couldn't remember the name myself) From the
TV Cream site:
WE'VE BEEN chastised, and rightly so, for not including this redoubtable ten-minuter. MAGPIE's SUSAN STRANKS was "in command" doing craft stuff with card, paper, tissue, glitter and glue etc., but the real stars were Itsy and Bitsy, two squeaky/growly puppet "spiders" (actually just gloves with a pom-pom stuck on the back) who came down a woolen web at the start and caused the hapless Stranks much hassle in the "helping" department. Also, oft-forgotten Boris the mute ladybird and Cardew The Caterpillar. Earlier show TINGA AND TUCKER did a similar interfering with presenter act, but this was far superior. Four spin-off books available on how to make stuff – cardboard castles, Norman swords and helmets etc.

..."NO, PUT THE GLITTER DOWN, IT'S NOT FOR THAT!"
http://www.toonhound.com/itsybitsy.jpg

Fingermouse was one of my all time favourites. In fact most of my favourites seemed to be on at the lunch time slots, did I ever go to school?

I have a friend called Jeff here in America and I call him picklin' Jeff. I have never explained why I call it him and he has never asked, most people just say "he's English"

Picklin' Jeff - wonderful

Patrick

It starred Simon MacCorkindale, Melody Anderson and Michael D Roberts. As I recall, the Music was composed by Alan Silvestri, the same composer who later did the music for Forrest Gump. The series revolved around Dr. Jonathan Chase, a millionaire playboy with the ability to transform into any animal he wishes. Don't ask how he manages this feat, it was never clearly explained. The series was marred by pre-digital SFX. Chase was supposedly able to turn into any animal at all, but he only ever turned into a black panther. This was probably due to a limited SFX budget, and no computer technology available back then. This series would have been much better if it had been done a decade later with the latest technology to enhance Chase's animal transformations.

I'm sure that at some point in my life I saw a show called "The Red Hand Gang" about a kid getting kidnapped and loads of other kids solving the crime. I really enjoyed it, but everyone I've ever mentioned it to say they've never heard of it... did I dream it?

GJB

Nope, you didn't dream it. I saw it too. My wife also has never heard of it though.

The only thing I remember was the little coloured kid with glasses and bright yellow shorts and the theme tune:

"Lah la lah.... la lar luh...... Luh la, luh, luh, luh, luh."

I know that doesn't help but it's in my head right now and will be for days. Thanks :mad:

:D :D

Cheers for that Jabba1. I did a bit of digging and found this page:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/5146/manimal.html

Apparently he inherited his powers from his father!

You are not alone, we remember the Red Hand Gang and my husband loved it.

Getting away from the Saturday morning shows here, but does anyone else remember some of the old school shows. I used to love the serials on Look & Read, especially The Boy From Space , and Dark Towers .

Oh man I used to love them. :D

There was one I watched before the boy from space I think - something to do with peregrine falcons and their eggs.

We had a TV room in our school and we'd all trail up there to sit on the brown carpet with the curtains closed. Brilliant it was.

Here - got a link to all the Look and Read Stories.



Look and Read