Obscure TV shows you remember

[Wallaby]

People still think Pertwee played Catweazel

To be fair, he played Worzel Gummidge - a magical scarecrow who looked almost exactly like Catweazle - and both shows were on around the same time on the ABC.

(I may have done some inter-web research for this post).

 

[Madas]

Worzel Gunmidge

Jeez they are coming out of the woodwork now

 

[emuboy]

To be fair, he played Worzel Gummidge - a magical scarecrow who looked almost exactly like Catweazle - and both shows were on around the same time on the ABC.

(I may have done some inter-web research for this post).

Worzel Gummidge's boss in this show - The Crow Man - was played by Geoffrey Bayldon.

 

[carloss]

 

[Plugger35]

I used to love Worzel Gummidge as a kid.

The BBC did a good remake of it recently with Mackenzie Crook playing Worzel but it wasn't as good as the old Jon Pertwee one.

 

[Plugger35]

The Wombles went alright too and they had a great theme song that was worthy of The Beatles.

 

[Madas]

The Wombles went alright too and they had a great theme song that was worthy of The Beatles.

Love the Wombles

 

[Engimal v3]

Comedy Inc

 

[Plugger35]

Comedy Inc

Underrated comedy sketch show from the noughties back when you could be politically incorrect.

 

[Freomaniac]

Lara Bingle had her own show in channel 10. She tried to be Australias version of Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian lol

 

[Freomaniac]

Athletico Partick - scottish show based on a pub soccer team.

It was on SBS for a very short time in the mid 90's but was a good laugh

Another obsure SBS tv show was Nerds FC.

 

[Freomaniac]

Wonder World with a young Catriona Rowntree and Pascall Fox.

Time Masters, Blockbusters: more cool 90s game shows.

A*mazing was on channel 7

 

[Freomaniac]

Captain Simian and the space Monkeys.

I was a fan of random cartoons in the 1990s.

Skeleton Warriors, Mighty Max, Mummies Alive. Conan the Adventurer.

Widgit the world watcher. Animals of Farthing Hood.

 

[Freomaniac]

Freaky Stories.. a short random as segment on ABC always started with: This is a true story.... It happened to a friend of a friend of mine.

I loved that show on ABC.

ABC had some classic cartoons in that 1990s era

 

[Freomaniac]

Agros cartoon connection was my childhood.

2 cartoon series stood out.

One was Sailor moon. That wasnt as Obscure...

Its this other cartoon. Bob in a bottle.

 

[Freomaniac]

Not without your toothbrush

Bush patrol

Secret life of Alex Mack.

I remember this show It was on ABC.

 

[emuboy]

Agros cartoon connection was my childhood.

2 cartoon series stood out.

One was Sailor moon. That wasnt as Obscure...

Its this other cartoon. Bob in a bottle.

One of the guys from Agro's Cartoon Connection - Michael 'Gibbo' Gibson (the painter) - recently passed away at age 69 from complications from early onset dementia. I remember back in the mid 1990s Holly Brisley used to balance being the roving reporter on Agro's Cartoon Connection with attending high school on the Gold Coast. Now that's what I call an interesting part time job, sure beats working in a supermarket or waiting tables. Although Holly Brisley isn't the first or last person in Australia to have a presenting role on a national TV show while still in high school; both Shae Brewster and the late Jennine Mapp commenced on Saturday Disney aged 16 and 15 respectively.

Talking of Agro's Cartoon Connection, its cancellation at the end of 1997 led to two replacement kids' shows in the timeslot that would be classed as obscure and forgotten. There was the apparently bland 'Cartoon Connection' in 1998 and 1999 where from what I heard nothing remotely interesting or funny happened, and this was followed by 'The Big Breakfast' in 2000, which after not getting the ratings for a few months was moved to an after-school timeslot and re-packaged as 'The Big Arvo', with Sunrise taking the morning spot where it remains to this day.

 

[Plugger35]

Agro was at his best when he was on Wombat, he jumped the shark with Agro's Cartoon Connection, the success went to his head

 

[emuboy]

Does anyone remember Channel 7's ultimately short-lived answers to Channel 9's successful 'The Footy Show' and 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' that were around in the late 1990s and into the early 2000s?

The Footy Show Equivalent on 7 was 'Live and Kicking' which aired in 1998 and 1999; and the 'Millionaire' equivalent was 'The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime', first hosted by the late Frank Warrick and then by Sandy Roberts.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Does anyone remember Channel 7's ultimately short-lived answers to Channel 9's successful 'The Footy Show' and 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' that were around in the late 1990s and into the early 2000s?

The Footy Show Equivalent on 7 was 'Live and Kicking' which aired in 1998 and 1999; and the 'Millionaire' equivalent was 'The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime', first hosted by the late Frank Warrick and then by Sandy Roberts.

I remember Frank hosting it but not Sandy.

Also, didn't know Frank had died.

Live and Kicking was a show I couldn't watch as it was, at the time, past my bed time.

 

[emuboy]

I wonder if reruns of Mulligrubs would terrorize kids these days

I wonder if many parents who themselves greatly feared 'Mulligrubs' in the late 1980s and early 1990s wish they could get episodes on DVD as a means of keeping their own kids in line? 'If you kids don't behave, I'm going to make you watch Mulligrubs again!'

 

[dumb]

this one had its day and finished long before i was even born. but i remember seeing re-runs of it as a kid. the people who actually have seen it have fond memories but it's aged terribly.

 

[GreyCrow]

The Footy Show Equivalent on 7 was 'Live and Kicking' which aired in 1998 and 1999; and the 'Millionaire' equivalent was 'The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime', first hosted by the late Frank Warrick and then by Sandy Roberts.

The best thing about Live and Kicking was the 2 belters sung before and after the GF

This bloke made millions in SA

 

[torq]

Match Mates, a lame kids gameshow from the early 80’s with a theme tune I’ve never been able to get out of my head.

The host, David Waters, played a fruit loop homicidal prison officer in Prisoner who was beheaded by Cass Parker with a shovel (!).

 

[MJG14]

Cops L.A.C.

Channel Nine police show with Kate Richie that didn't last long at all.