Obscure TV shows you really miss...

BadgerBoy · Post by **BadgerBoy** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:34 am 0

There was something on when I was about 13, 11 or 11.30pm, channel 4 I think. It was a series of cartoon skits, some of which involved a devil - who was the main character. There was one about some Victorian opium addict and his wife. It had Bob Monkhouse as one of the voice actors, an was co-written by the bloke who did Rex the Runt. God that was fucking hilarious.

Whilst typing this post I have remembered it was called "The Mr.Hell show", thanks guys.

[edit]apparently not out on dvd

there are torrents, though they are probably inactive.

leekfiend · Post by **leekfiend** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:51 am 0

"Robin", the weird Scandinavian cartoon that used to be on on Channel 4 (was it after Eurotrash or something?) which Radiohead made one of their videos out of.

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:59 am 0

Ox Tales (cartoon on one summer during the holidays which cracked me up but never seen it since

)

Mr Rossi (ace cartoon with a bloke who has both his eyes on the same side of his head and travels through time with a talking dog trying to find happiness)

TwistedScrote · Post by **TwistedScrote** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:22 am 0

Duckman!

fuggin class!

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:47 am 0

Mr Rossi

Whizz Kids

The Red Hand Gang

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:51 am 0

fdave wrote:
Matrixxx wrote:
techno12 wrote:
Matrixxx wrote:
Automan *sigh* I'd LOVE to see that again... *sigh*
eMule - just searched for them and they're all there (ep 1-13), and quite popular too so won't take long to get...

Diabolocaly slow - 6k - 7hours for 300 megs I hope the host doesn't disconnect

Thanks for the info but I seriously doubt I'm gonna get this down anytime in 2006... wonder if theres a binaries for automan (runs and checks)

Okay - word of warning about Automan, since I went downloading this about a year ago on the same idea... you should download it to see it, but nostalgia is a terrible thing...

...I remember Automan as being ... well brilliant but crap. In actuality it's just... crap, which isn't half as amusing.

I'm guessing my brain is currently playing the same trick on Street Hawk, since currently I remember that as being Fucking Ace but crap. The best bit being that computer which automagically worked out the way through traffic. I want one of those in my car.

Street Hawk was in actuality just crap wasn't it? Come on you can tell me. I know my memory is distorting it.

They were both crap, but it's, well, it's our childhood isn't it... All I wanna know is who thought up the name "Norman Tuttle" ? .. I can't imagine a writer going "SHIT YEAH THATS AN AWESOME NAME" - someone was on crack I think.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:54 am 0

The Caffeine Kid wrote:Ox Tales (cartoon on one summer during the holidays which cracked me up but never seen it since )

I shall have to look out for that

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Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:02 am 0

Spaced.

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:08 am 0

Comedy Central Special Delivery.

30 mins of early 90s late-night filler on ITV, basically a clip show with odd sketches (Exit 57 iirc), stand-up stuff, Politically Incorrect and (It was shite but i loved it) Dr. Katz

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:07 am 0

BadgerBoy wrote:There was something on when I was about 13, 11 or 11.30pm, channel 4 I think. It was a series of cartoon skits, some of which involved a devil - who was the main character. There was one about some Victorian opium addict and his wife. It had Bob Monkhouse as one of the voice actors, an was co-written by the bloke who did Rex the Runt. God that was fucking hilarious.

Whilst typing this post I have remembered it was called "The Mr.Hell show", thanks guys.

[edit]apparently not out on dvd there are torrents, though they are probably inactive.

They used to have that on Canadian TV too, unfortunately I also can't find any episodes of it. Funny shit though.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:09 pm 0

Automan update:

2Meg line

Found 13 episodes as mentioned.

Only one connected.

I got 90% of it.

eMule resource hogged so much that usenet, web & email stopped working.
After many hours of trying to download 350 megs at 5k, the host disconnected.

eMule is now uninstalled and labelled as a massive piece of shit.

techno12 · Post by **techno12** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:08 pm 0

Matrixxx wrote:Automan update:

2Meg line
Found 13 episodes as mentioned.
Only one connected.
I got 90% of it.
eMule resource hogged so much that usenet, web & email stopped working.
After many hours of trying to download 350 megs at 5k, the host disconnected.

eMule is now uninstalled and labelled as a massive piece of shit.

Oh dear! eMule is great - I kicked off the first episode of Automan when I got in last night from the pub and it's nearly done now. You never get great speed with it (I leave it running 24/7 - some things take weeks to get depending on the popularity), but it's the wealth of stuff out there that makes it worthwhile.

One piece of advice, always connect to "Razorback 2.0" before doing a search as that server seems to list 10x more hits than any of the others for some reason...

You should never get disconnected (I haven't once in over 3 years), as it automatically retries a different server, but the server you're connected to makes no difference anyway as you're visible to all once connected (and all the server dictates is how many hits you get on a search I think..)

Best non-Torrent P2P system... now Kazaa/Limewire etc - they're shite!

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:18 am 0

Dweebs! That was funny!

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:57 am 0

Quite miss Liquid Telly on bbc2 from the early nineties. That's where I first saw Aeon Flux

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:05 am 0

Channel 4 used to run a series of experimental video art late-night in a programme called Ghost in the Machine.
Not always easy watching (i.e. some of the stuff was bleedin awful), but absolute top-notch telly.