HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
He-Man – the self-anointed “most powerful man in the universe” is an icon of popular culture. The rousing theme tune is ingrained into the minds of a generation of children who enjoyed one of the...
View Article‘GOOD LUCK’ TROLLS
Bright hair, fancy dress and a happy go lucky attitude; no we’re not talking about Katy Perry’s latest video, but the wild and wonderful world of ‘Good luck’ Trolls. With their constant smiling faces...
View ArticleMR MEN AND LITTLE MISS
With today being the 76th birthday of the late children’s author Roger Hargreaves, what better way to celebrate than with an ode to the original Mr Men and Little Miss books, of which he was the...
View ArticleMY LITTLE PONY
My Little Pony, the cartoon, was American ‘trippi-ness’ at its best. Set in ‘Dream Valley’ (I’m not even kidding you), it was a TV series about flying ponies who always got themselves into trouble with...
View ArticleBUTTON MOON
In research for this article I managed to find a whole episode of button moon on Youtube and, I have to say it’s a lot different watching it back now. The catchy yet brief theme tune goes, ‘We’re off...
View ArticleSCOOBY-DOO
Everyone remembers Scooby-Doo, right? And do you recall the three most classic series in the franchise: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Scooby-Doo Show and Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo? Based on a comedy...
View ArticleTHE RACOONS
“This is the Evergreen Forest: quiet, peaceful, serene. That is, until Bert Raccoon wakes up….” It was these lines which brought me a giddy thrill over countless Saturday mornings during the 1990s....
View ArticleINSPECTOR GADGET
What I could never work out as a kid was – was Inspector Gadget a robot? Or some sort of cyborg? Or was he just a human with a load of, well, gadgets? Some of them – like the propeller in the hat –...
View ArticleDANGERMOUSE
These days there’s something quite laughable about a small white mouse fighting crime, with an eye patch and a hamster side kick in a creased suit. But back in the early 80s, this secret agent duo...
View ArticleTHE MYSTERIOUS CITIES OF GOLD
Here are my memories of The Mysterious Cities of Gold: · It seemed to run for about 629 episodes. · It had an excellent theme tune. · There was two boys and a girl who were trying to locate...
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