TorgosPizza said:
In the UK, did you guys get all those weird Sid and Marty Kroft shows like H.R. Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, ElectroWoman and DynaGirl, Lidsville, Land of the Lost, and Bigfoot and Wild Boy? I was really into Land of the Lost, myself; the live-action Shazam! wasn't too bad, either.
What kind of cartoons did you all get? Any of Filmation's Flash Gordon or Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle kind of stuff?
Ah, HR Pufnstuff. Utter bliss. Witchypoo was so OTT and yet cool. But so far as I recall that was the only Kroft show we got (in the STV Scottish region anyway).
I don't recall the Filmation Flash Gordon, but Tarzan I do recall. Along with the animated 'Trek. And wasn't there some sort of animated version of The Brady Bunch at some point too?
Anyway, I always recall despising the Filmation shows because of the cheap animation: whole scenes where the 'animation' is a single, static cel being inched over a single backdrop, and then, just in case we missed how crap it was the first time, they'd re-use the same sequences over and over again, even when the backgrounds didn't make any sense given the point the narrative had reached!
Speaking of ancient TV crap: any Aussies here? In the STV region we used to get -late 60s I think- an -I've been told- Australian SF show called, IIRC,
Phoenix 5'. My memory may be conflating it with
Fireball XL5, but I seem to recall a lot of face-on shots of the cockpit (just like in
Fireball XL5, or like the plane cabin in
Plan 9 From Outer Space), wobbly sets and what must have been the entire budget blown on some reptilian alien's makeup (although there I might be confusing it with the Draconians in early Pertwee-era
Dr. Who). Does anyone recall the show? I've yet to encounter anyone else who ever saw it.