Oh...oh dear...
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What wonderful lyrics...
But the Urpney's song was better! I need to go dig out my Dreamstone videos now...
Speaking of CITV classics, anyone remember Bad Influence? I loved that show. is a gamer whore Did anyone else tape the Datablasts so they could watch them in slow-motion later?
ETA: "gamer sleeper" would be the censor's version of "gamer wh*re". Is anyone else wanting to "test" the censor to see what it comes out with?
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Oh the pain! The insanity!
I've never seen Fun House for a long, long time.. What happened to it...
Lots of great lyrics/themes on http://www.jvsplace.co.uk
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Dreamstone was eye-poppingly good.
Fun House was...'zany', but not as good as Knightmare (fairly obviously, otherwise I'd be on a Fun house forum now )
I even liked Bad Influence! However, even as a 10 year old boy, I knew 'Virtually impossible' was poor. The Tetris game in that was so horribly jerky and the flight sim was just confusing.
Having said that, I was a kid who wondered why in Knightmare they interrupted the last quest to do something odd like the red dragon thing at the end of series 8. I never understood the concept of 'the series ending' part...
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Yes, Pat Sharp's mullet was scary... but he did get rid of it during the course of Funhouse! I remember a quite funny CITV trailer where they computer-generated potential new hairstyles onto a photo of him! He presented What's Up Doc on Saturday mornings for a while too - a surreal and entertaining show.
I fondly remember Dreamstone - it was charmingly animated and 'well-drawn' in the sense of characters as well. The Dreamstone album (does anyone else own a copy?) was excellent - Billy Connolly, Frank Bruno and Ozzy Osbourne trio-ing on 'The War Song Of The Urpneys' must be one of the milestones of musical history! Oh, and Gary Glitter is on the album as well...
I also remember Bad Influence (Nam Rood). And many other CITV programmes... Spatz was a favourite of mine. The cartoon Victor and Hugo (a Duckula spin-off series) was often shown before Knightmare so I ended up taping a few of those, including a crossover episode with Dangermouse!
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There was what?!
A CROSSOVER EPISODE?!
Gimme details!
And for the Gary Glitter bit..well, you can't have everything.
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Victor And Hugo also had a few crossover episodes with Duckula, apparently, as well as with Dangermouse. They were all produced by the same animation studio, Cosgrove Hall. The excellent website 'Cosgrove Hall Ate My Brain', run by the person who runs the Dreamstone website, has details. I would post a link but at the time of writing the website doesn't seem to be working.
You asked for details: the episode I saw was called 'French Exchange'. The short French criminal Hugo goes to London and poses as Penfold's locum, Blancmange, in order to capture DM's car, whilst the tall criminal Victor becomes the new pilot of Baron Greenback's ship.
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Good grief!
I only have a small library of these shows, as in a video containing 3 eps of Victor + Hugo, a DVD with 6 eps of Count Duckula, 40 of Dangermouse (so not that small, after all), but only 3 of Dreamstone (counting the first one as two)
But 48 eps of Knightmare! And growing (one hopes)
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They're only the first episode and the one with a balloon in (sorry I can't be more specific, it's been ages since I saw it).
I've also got a tape of 'Where's wally?', which isn't bad.
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Dreamstone!
Better than a Dream
Stranger than my wild imagination
If it is real sensation
It's better than a dream...
Higher than the moon,
Hazy, like a beautiful illusion,
Crazy and in confusion:
It's better than a Dreeeeeeam!
What wonderful lyrics...
As many of you probably know, Mike Batt, who wrote 'Better Than A Dream', also composed some less wonderful but better-known lyrics: 'Underground, overground, wombling free..'
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It may be comparing a teapot to a fence post, but Dreamstone was wayyyy better than the wombles. Dreamstone didn't attack the pop charts with novelty songs, for one thing.
"Remember you're a womble!"
Actually I'm not. Sorry to waste your time, but I don't live in Wimbledon and I don't make the most of the things that I find.
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Come on, there's 400 of us here. Chances are there must be at least ONE...
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They could be shamefully hiding it as a dark secret never to be told...
But anyway.
I always liked 'Reboot' myself.
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I must confess, I travel both underground and overground, and I tend to make good use of the things that I find; but I'm told that doesn't necessarily make me a Womble. I'll took into taking a DNA test, just to be sure.
Enya's 'Orinoco Flow' is surely one of most refined Womble tribute songs ever.
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