The 90s

Bubbatom · Post by **Bubbatom** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:31

Rorie wrote:and there was also a clay motion fill in on ABC TV Australia called The Trap Door, I absolutely loved it.

I'm no nineties kid, but The Trap Door would have to be the best kids show ever! I have the whole two series on DVD. Children's television these days is complete garg, well at least in Australia.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:48

Willie Rushton (Trap Door, which I believe is actually from the 80s) is awesome, but why is there no love here for Plasmo?

The Big Knights too! Admittedly that started on the very edge of the 90s (and only made it to Aus in the 00s, so I can't claim it as a 90s thing but others here can) but how is that not making it to anyone's list?
Charge!

I remember the discovery of some asteroid in the mid-late 90s making it to the news - was it supposed to have a trajectory near earth or something?

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:03

Nearly my only experience with Australian children's TV is this exact episode of this show, which unfortunately won't play on any of my browsers and thus deprives me of a potentially surreal nostalgic experience.

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:09

Since there are quite a few Aussies here, and since I recently went on a nostalgia trip (now I have The Trap Door theme in my playlist, that's got to be one of the best theme songs ever) does anyone remember the name of that filler show on the ABC where the two plasticine balls would roll around on a white background, changing into different shapes and objects? I don't ever remember there being any talking, but there was lots of silly sound effects. I seem to remember them being presented as cavemen, but perhaps that was just one episode.

Does anyone remember that show?

Post by **tulip** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 12:56

StupidBunny wrote:I remember hearing about the Bosnian War on the news. I had no idea who NATO or Kosovo were though. Just that bad stuff was happing to people somewhere far away.

Ditto. Except for me it was people somewhere near.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 13:54

StupidBunny: must be geolocked as it works fine in FF on Ubuntu for me. The ABC does a fair bit of geolocking. Try an Australian proxy or one of the other area workarounds, my FLV downloader can't figure out how to get the file.

Malvineous wrote:Since there are quite a few Aussies here, and since I recently went on a nostalgia trip (now I have The Trap Door theme in my playlist, that's got to be one of the best theme songs ever) does anyone remember the name of that filler show on the ABC where the two plasticine balls would roll around on a white background, changing into different shapes and objects? I don't ever remember there being any talking, but there was lots of silly sound effects. I seem to remember them being presented as cavemen, but perhaps that was just one episode.

Does anyone remember that show?

It rings bells. The description also reminded me of Soup Opera. That show was rad.

It wasn't a part of Lift-off was it? I hardly remember the show but it had a lot of different bits, including animations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJJ1h_eRjUc

I never watched Gumby, but it was in my suggested videos after watching that Lift-off clip and sorta matches your description, Malv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcoKEsaoa6I

Also, Lil' Elvis and the Truckstoppers was super rad. Whenever I see Clive Palmer I think of the mining magnate on that show. The image below doesn't do that memory justice, this clip gets a little closer though: http://youtu.be/2XIgdjVpbgY?t=4m52s

Oh, and ofc, 'Round the Twist.

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 21:32

It's a similar type of claymation to Gumby but it wasn't part of another show - it was put on in the five minute gap between other shows. IIRC it was only on in the early 90s because I don't remember seeing it when I was older.

I loved Round The Twist too. I also just finished re-watching Spellbinder, which surprised me because it was still quite good to watch even now as an adult.

Bubbatom · Post by **Bubbatom** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 23:44

Malvineous wrote: Does anyone remember that show?

Sounds like "plonsters" to me. The show featured three plasticine guys that would transform into various objects and animals depending on the setting of the episode.

Also soup opera. These are the shows I miss. They make little sense, but mean so much compared to today's tv.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 0:12

What're you talking about? Soup Opera made perfect sense!

MoffD · Post by **MoffD** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 1:06

Not sure how accurate this is buuut....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtduaQUIl4

So am I supposed to feel old from this?

Post by **Levellass** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:29

We got the original MLP in the 90s, a bit late but it was ok. Preferred the second series though.

Paramultart · Post by **Paramultart** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:16

You mean the 1992 series "My Little Pony Tales", right?

szemi · Post by **szemi** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:01

I was born in '90.

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:17

Paramultart wrote:You mean the 1992 series "My Little Pony Tales", right?

Oh, yes. I only remember one episode of that show, one with "lava demons" and "ice orcs" who had a feud of some kind. Don't remember much else besides that and a bit of the theme song, it was a very long time ago.

Post by **Levellass** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 13:08

Paramultart wrote:You mean the 1992 series "My Little Pony Tales", right?

That's he one alright. It was the one that stripped out all magic (Except for the UFO episode, they couldn't resist) and had interesting plots such as the time a happily adopted orphan pony was faced with the prospect of having to leave her home for her real parents.

It had actual male characters with different personalities.