Knightmare - how I loved fridays...
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Beamrider Quote: "And Reboot was good but I never totally understood it - and then in the later series it got really strange, didn't it; when "mainframe" was destroyed or something. I think the writers forgot that it was just a children's program; I'd like to see it again though."
Yeah something happened to Bob, he was kidnapped or something, and then Reboot changed to the kids being all grown up travelling through the games looking for Bob! Reboot, Knightmare, Astro Farm- examples of what the next generations are missing out on!
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Reboot, Knightmare, Astro Farm- examples of what the next generations are missing out on!
Well, have you checked the line-up for CITV now? I haven't; maybe children these days are getting better than what we had - I doubt it though.
I've thought of a couple more shows that you might remember from the early 90s...
Remember "it'll never work" over on BBC, where they talked about all kinds of future inventions, and they also constructed "useless inventions" - like the inflatable dartboard (they actually made one) and interestingly the bagless vacuum cleaner, a "useless" invention where all the dust came out back onto the carpet (obviously before the duel cyclone)! They were also the first people to show "robot wars".
Remember How 2? Thats still on, I tuned in the other day just to see what it was like and amazingly its still in the same format with the same presenters.
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Kids of nowdays have Digimon, Pokemon and other words ending in -mon, etc
We had Transformers, Thundercats, Ghostbusters, He-Man, Bravestar, the list is endless of quality shows! Not forgetting Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles!
These are true classics and should not be forgotten! Long live 80s childrens shows!
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Remember "it'll never work" over on BBC, where they talked about all kinds of future inventions, and they also constructed "useless inventions" - like the inflatable dartboard (they actually made one) and interestingly the bagless vacuum cleaner, a "useless" invention where all the dust came out back onto the carpet (obviously before the duel cyclone)! They were also the first people to show "robot wars".
Remember How 2? Thats still on, I tuned in the other day just to see what it was like and amazingly its still in the same format with the same presenters.
I remember It'll Never Work. I didn't think it was very old. I thought it was from the period when I should probably have given up watching Children's TV, but still caught the occasional program.
Was Carol Vorderman once on How 2? Or have my images of Richard Whiteley and Fred Dineage gotten all scrambled together causing me to get confused?
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Kids of nowdays have Digimon, Pokemon and other words ending in -mon, etc
We had Transformers, Thundercats, Ghostbusters, He-Man, Bravestar, the list is endless of quality shows! Not forgetting Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles!
These are true classics and should not be forgotten! Long live 80s childrens shows!
I loved Thundercats and He-Man, although the latter looks very dated to me in retrospect and I dare anyone to try to watch the Thundercats' opening titles without laughing when Mumm-Ra undergoes his transformation. Transformers has been redone fairly recently, I think. (Well, Sky One seem to be showing something by that name.)
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Yup. How 2 was hosted by Carol Vorderman, Fred Dineage and Gareth 'Gaz Top' Jones
I suppose it was a TV show, and thus by logical necessity either Carol, Carol Smillie or Davina McCall had to be involved somewhere along the line.
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I shudder at the thought of all of them in one program!
I think that program would be called "Hell".
Thundercats really did rock, and there is a brand new comic book series out now.
He-man has also been redone in US into a brand new series, and the same with Turtles. They may come over here soon.
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I shudder at the thought of all of them in one program!
I think that program would be called "Hell".
Well, I guess they'd all try to outdo each other and eliminate the competition. Carol S. would try to blind with others with the supreme whiteness of her smile, Carol V. would throw velcro pieces of card with letters and numbers on to cause injury to the others, and Davina would surely attempt to shout so loudly and appear so overly enthusiastic that it deafened the Carols. My money goes on Davina to survive- if she also waved her arms around enthusiastically as she tends to, I don't think the others would last five minutes.
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This is how i would remember fridays with Knightmare.
I'd run home from school at full speed(nearly got knocked over on the roads a few times) arrived home at 3:15 and had to struggle through over an hour of other cartoons untill KM came on, god how i loved it!
For some reason Astro Farm, Victor and hugo and then Knightmare is the line up i remember (i think zzaap! was in there somewhere too) All great shows but BORING when Knightmare was to come after them.
And Reboot, another of my favourites, second only to KM! Y did they stop that show, and in the middle of the new series too!
I understood it all though(only at the last episode shown though)
Bob is a guardian who protects "Mainframe" from the "baddies"(hexadecimal and megabyte) who also live there and try to take over, he also wins games to stop the city being full of nullifies sectors and ppl.
There are only 3 sprites in the the town - bob, dot and enzo - cus dots dad did something which wiped all the other sprites and him out.
Bob manages to protect the city in a series of episodes (one of which introduces the game sprite who hitches a lift outta the game on enzos tag thing and becomes his friend) untill some incident where a creature from the web manages to use a tear to make a 2 way portal to the web.
Then a war starts between the 2 worlds in which enzo becomes a level1 cadet guardian(which he always wanted)
The war ends with the baddies initally workin with the good guys to make a BIG gun to close the portal except at the end megabyte removes and crushes glitch(bobs guardian multitool)and pushes bob into a pod to be sent to the web just before the rift is closed. They then use the gun to try and enslave the ppl of mainframe.
Enzo then assumes the role of guardian of mainframe, noone trusts in him for a while but then he wins a few games and they like him, he also concocts a plan (which works!) to trap the baddies in a section of the city with a firewall border. the city is then made safe.
The enzo and his game sprite friend with their dog then lose a game BUT are able to change their tags and travel with it to save being nullified- they are assumed dead by dot and the rest of them.
Next we see enzo and co looking much older going by the class of "Renegade" travelling with games trying to reach a system with portals to the net so they can get home.
After a few episodes they reach a possible system but meet up with some assassins who try to kill them, untill they change their tags to avoid detection, and another guardian(think hes the head of all guardians)
From a convo between him and enzo we learn that a virus has infected all the guardians except enzo and bob (Yes hes still alive!) and as enzo admits to only being a cadet with a busted glitch he vows to go to the web and not the net to find bob and makes things right. we also learn the not much time has passed and enzo etc have just "compiled faster in the games"
This episode ends with them hitching a ride in some boat with a guy who flirts with enzo's chick and makes him real jealous. IT NEVER CONTINUED FROM THIS POINT
There were a few subplots but this was the main way storyline
See its not hard to understand
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See its not hard to understand
Well... for children - that is very hard to understand; thats why it was taken off I think.
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I watched it as a child and understood it as well as i do now, but i see what u mean. There was a hint of sarcasm in my "see its not hard to understand ;D"
Reckon Reboot would fit in well now tho - good time for its comeback, does any1 know who made it originally and if they have a website?
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Reboot; I think its made by a canadian company called YTV.
Searching Reboot on Google...
I found this website but its really out of date.
http://www.inwap.com/mf/reboot/index.shtml
You can sign the "bring back reboot" petition here.
http://www.petitiononline.com/qw5m/petition.html
"ReBoot is a classic CGI cartoon and began before Toy Story was even on the storyboard.
It has been running since 1994, unfortunately CITV stopped it when they only had about 4 more episodes left to air. They stopped it because of two reasons:
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Poor ratings
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Violence
This show was aimed at teenagers and shown on YTV. Mainframe told me that there is very little violence (nothing graphic).
The Americans/Canadians are seeing the new movies later this year. We British citizens don't get any TV shows like Reboot, only the crap Butt Ugly Martians.
The Americans also get the DVD release of ReBoot as well as War Planets (which was shown on Sky1 last year). They also get Werid Ohs on DVD. What do we get.............? Nothing, Some people are lucky enough to have a Multi Regional DVD player and can play Region1 and 2 films BUT that is only 2% of the Bristih population. "
It seams like the last 4 episodes were made and shown in america but not here.
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Well, they cut KM series 8 short, didn't they? Damn ITV!
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Hi,
I have been visiting Knightmare.com for quite a while now (since 2000, I think), but I have never actually taken part much in the chat or in this forum (I read other people's posts a lot, but I have only posted once before)! However, the posts in this thread brought back so many memories that I just had to say something!
I remember too how I used to wait for Friday afternoons, after a long week of school, so that I could see the latest installment of the never-ending adventures of the daring teams in the treacherous halls of the dungeon! I always used to play the text game on TeleText after it ended (does anyone remember that?) and I even played the game on the Amiga (which I still have... in good working order! Does anyone else have/had one?) ;D
Reading some of the other posts in this thread also brought back a lot of memories from programs such as Reboot, Thundercats, He-Man, Transformers, Woof! and The Tomorrow People. Another program that I watched a lot when I was young (and still do!) was Doctor Who, which is probably my favourite Sci-fi program (as opposed to Knightmare as my favourite Fantasy program)!
In case you are interested, I noticed that on the Knews section of Knightmare.com that there was a mention of Hygo Myatt starring in one of Big Finish's audio dramas for Doctor Who (this one: http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/drwho/bf047_omega.htm ). I collect these audios and I recommend them to anyone who may be interested!
Since there is also a mention of The Tomorrow People in this thread, some of you may also be interested in the fact that Big Finish also produce new audio dramas for The Tomorrow People (more information at: http://www.bigfinish.com/tpeople/index.htm ). I do not collect these, so I don't know if they are any good or not!
The future seems promising now with the repeats on Challenge and the development of a new series. I also tuned into CITV recently, just out of interest to see what was on... and the quality of programs that are replacing Knightmare today are almost like an insult to it!
Anyway, thanks for reading my ramblings-on, I hope to talk to you all again soon!
Davius.
PS. Does anyone recall Spellbinder? I am not sure if it was on CITV, but I remember thinking that it was a good program when I first saw it!
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YES spellbinder! That was a good show,
Dunno about citv having the rights but i do remember Network 2 getting bot the first and second series of the show.
The second series involved ashka(the baddie from the first) going to another dimension and trying to take over while the "dragon king" (a small boy) was left in our world.
An amazing show which should also be continued
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Yeah, Spellbinder was good! I can't recall much of it, but I think I only saw the first series when it was on terrestrial television (but I still can't remember what channel it was on)! I don't think I saw the second series.
There were also two novelisations of the TV series (one for each series I think), and I bought them ages ago... I should still have them somewhere!
Davius.
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