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Banana Splits
Posted by marsonator on 8 July 2009 - 9:26am.
Banana Splits finally out on DVD in September....yay
Still working through the Kung Fu boxset.....
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Kicking up a mess of fun
They always gave me the fear...
especially the one with the big teeth.
Me too.
Not sure why. And I found the moose-head on the wall with the lightbulb antlers rather sinister as well. Was there such a thing or was I suffering Anglo Bubbly-induced hallucinations?
Oh Oh
It's The Sour Grapes Bunch
"Size of an
Elephant"
Great!
Relive those wonderful saturday mornings when life was simple, Robinson Crusoe, Casey Jones, Arabian Knights and White Horses with that wonderful theme song.
I always dreamed that I would own one of those Banana Splits buggys when I grew up.
I've got one :-)
It's great for getting round wet fields (that's MY excuse for getting one and I'm sticking to it - the fact that 'ver kidz' love it is a bonus)
Excellent you're living the dream!
if you are going to cornbury I should take it with you, you'll make a fortune ferrying people around.
You don't look at all like
how I thought you would.
Neither of them was me...
I took the photo :-)
Word Massive get together and piss up round yours then...
you can charge us all a couple of quid to have a go on the buggy!
looks ideal for when you
are sorting out the drainage in the bottom field..
That *is* the sort of thing it's used for :-)
(when not being used for hooning around)
I did suggest that I needed two (in different colours, with numbers on the side) but the FPO saw exactly where THAT idea was heading.
They're amphibious as well, although I learned a valuable lesson about reading manuals when I took 3 passengers into the pond.
"Max loading 4 on land, 2 on water"
D'oh...
Maybe Dave/Mark can get this lot to sponsor
some backstage transport for Cornbury?
http://www.argocat.com/
My white horses
White Horses
I had a proto-crush on the blonde girl, wasn't it Czech?
Singing Ringing Tree time
It were
Serbian (!)
Tra la la
La La La La..............
Hope 'HR Puff'n'stuff' is in there too!!
Double
Deckers
Aswad - connection
Didn't Brindsley Ford from Aswd used to be 'Sticks' in the D'Deckers?
Yup and...
Harry from Spooks was in it too
Rosan
Kobar!
Dammit
I wanted to be the first one to say that!
was I the only person
who thought that when he grew up we'd all be driving one of those 6 wheeled off road buggy things, life hasn't matched up to Banana split world :(
who remembers...
the bird thing on the wall saying...
Uh Oh Jungo, It's Danger Island next...
No one else I know seems to, but I'm convinced it happened
Me too.
Loved Banana Splits. Oh-oh, chungo!
Likewise
and also a dim recollection of having seen Zokko. Was a great short essay on web about this that has disappeared, but picture at the bottom of here confirms I am not hallucinating
http://tv.cream.org/a-z/uvwxyz/u3.htm
i did
i can assure of that
Absolutely!
We used to say it as kids when the car went over a bump in the road.
One with the teeth looks like Alan Carr
I used to be scared of Danger Island, but I loved the Arabian Knights. Didn't it alternate with the Three Musketeers and one where a scientist and his family were shrunk down and were attacked by giant beetles, etc?
I liked it when they'd open a window and three girls would be singing out of tune.
The Adventures of the Seaspray.
Anyone remember that? I seem to recall loving it when I was little. And 'The Forest Rangers'. No hint of these on DVD though....
Them wor days
Keith Richards on the left
http://www.bananasplitsdvd.co.uk/
Oh God yes...
I'm having a royally crap day at work (the sort that I would wish on my worst enemy) and that photo and the Keith connection has brightened it up no end. My thanks, Retro.
I should probabaly spend more time on the Word site...
Speed Buggy
For years I've been raving about Speed Buggy being the best ever Hanna Barbara cartoon and I seem to recall it was on during Banana Splits. No one ever seems to have heard of it and its never shown on TV unlike the rest of the HB stuff. Maybe it was crap after all, but I remember loving it.....
It was after my time but have this one on me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Buggy
And surely a Marine Boy DVD is long overdue?
That opening sequence & tune has stayed with me all these decades ...
Pass me some
Oxy Gum!!
Failing that
I remember...
...going into my infant school classroom and consciously standing like Marine Boy - legs apart, hands on hips, elbows forming a triangle...
...I was told off...Thanks, Mrs Shergold.
While I certainly remember these credits
I don't remember the theme tune at all. I recall something instrumental and faster.
This is the one I remember ...
(A sign of age - it often doesn't occur to me to look up YouTube).
Cloppa Castle
Anyone remember that?
It was on ITV at lunchtime and seeing as I lived round the corner from school I would race home to watch it.
That and Chorlton and the Wheelies. Even now anyone who can say 'Eeeeh, little old lay-day' in the same way as Chortlton did can send me into ridiculously undignified giggles.
Dr Snuggles. Which I think was some kind of re-dubbed French-Canadian import so was just sufficiently skewed to be watchable.
These are the specialists I think
http://www.networkdvd.net/index.php?cPath=29
The do or die aeronauts fly
Can anybody find me the UK credits for these guys (Tanguy and Laverdure-les Chevaliers du Ciel or the Aeronauts in the UK)
we use to have an annual for this show
it seemed involve them blowing oil storage tanks and then landing on tropical islands.
it doesn't look very
character led!
La Gloire
Dunno-I tend to see Mirage IIIs as characters in themselves ...
Enjoyed the Mirage ground display in Paris a while ago (here
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/)
I think it's a IV there which I think turned up once in a story.
A good reference for old TV shows is
tv.cream.org. They have the following to say
"THE AERONAUTS (EARLY 1970s)FRANCE
25-MINUTE GUNG-HO adventures of Ernest Laverdure and Michel Tanguy, young strapping pilots in the French air force. Black and white derring-do which came on before HECTOR'S HOUSE and badly dubbed into English.
THEME TUNE: Some winsome English pop group singing about "THE HIGH FLYIN' AERONAUTS" who were "FASTER THAN FAST""
Les Chevaliers
Sure, thanks, but it was the video clip I was really looking for-my suspicion is the UK version is long gone-a bit too niche even for Network. However, series was so huge in France that this got made many years later:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Fighters
Sort of Top Gun meets Top Gear in French with added explosions
...and more style than Tom Cruise
I'd watch it :-)
Are all french tv execs
7 year old boys high on sugary drinks trapped in the airfix section of Beaties?
You say that like it's a BAD thing...
Heller surely, not Airfix ...
Actually have one of these on my desk:
http://www.ninfinger.org/models/boxtops/hell0071.jpg
nice one!
I had an Airfix Saturn V rocket on my desk
when I was a student - it must have been about 4 feet tall.
I remember it 'teetered' a lot if it was knocked.
Saturns ... and Mat Irvine
The 1/96 scale Revell one:
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/REVELL%20SATURN%20V%20PAGE.htm
was about 4 feet. I remember making the Airfix one which was only a bit smaller, and the 1B and the Vostok. Happy days.
(edit: You've made me dig this
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Creating-Space/Mat-Irvine/e/97818965228...
out, glorious box cover art and kit pictures throughout)
As is so often the way
I've had to rummage around the Interwebs to see if the kit is still available. No dice but a mob called Apogee Rockets make a 1/70 scale Saturn V (5ft tall) that can actually be fitted with miniature rocket motors and lauched!
http://www.apogeerockets.com/Saturn5.asp
I can feel the credit card twitching - anyone got any experience of these miniature rockets? Are they as fun as I hope they might be? :-)
Comet Miniatures
Wouldn't want to put you off exploring the flying ones-about which I know little, but do have a chat to these people about Saturn Vs, the Monogram kit they are selling is a nice one:
http://www.comet-miniatures.com/
and they used to be a great shop twenty odd years ago.
At the top end of the market was also struck by this ;-)
http://www.simonatkinsoncreativearts.com/simonatkinsonmodelmaking.htm
stimpy we've had some fun
you need a big field though!! ELP aren't included as standard!
Oooooo!!!
That looks like F-U-N. I might need to investigate this rocketry business a little further :-)
Here's the Apogee Saturn V mentioned earlier - it looks big and scary! *NINE* rocket motors!!
http://rocketdungeon.blogspot.com/2009/04/steve-eves-saturn-v-rocked-mar...
If this works, this is the
If this works, this is the best theme tiune ever
It worked but..
proved that I can't type the word tune.
I just got the DVD of that for my birthday last week...
.
surely a contender also
Yes, we have a winner
A beautiful tune - surprised it hasn't been sampled. (Cue stampede showing that it has...)
Robinson Crusoe
Don't know if it has been samples but the sampler master 'Art of noise' did a cover on one of their albums.
Danny Baker
Uses it as incidental music and another piece of music from the show too.
But the plan backfired
only one more, I promise
what about this?
Whirlybirds
by StevensGroup
Remember the one where they had to fly
bottles of Nitroglycerine to drop on a log-jam? Close up shots of jiggling bottles of nasty blow-up stuff! Sudden air turbulence! Enormous rivers full of millions of logs all stuck in the current! Phew! My palms were sweating. Ace stuff.
Man it was a lifetime ago
I'm sure it was in color [sic]
How about the forerunner of The Simpsons and Family Guy?
An underrated but obviously influential cartoon sitcom that was ahead of it's time, and with a great theme tune too.
.
what was the mad commie hating guy next door's name?
Frank or something...loved him
yeah....
...that guy next door always reminded me of an American equivalent of Geoffery Palmer's equally deranged and paranoid character Jimmy in The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin.
Ralph
a work of comic genius
Square Pegs
Like Totally Different Head! Like, Tubular!
Only on for about a minute in the 80s - but an important minute though.
what
the hell
was that?
Buggered my myth up
Sorry This is officially the coolest kids theme tune
and opening sequence:
God, and I certainly fancied Lillian Palmer who played his assistant
Barry White the Banana Splits years
One tune featured in the BSS was an uptemp thumper called Doing The Banana Split...written by The Walrus Of Love
You can see the vid here.......
And the evidence here.....
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/f16c-meets-il-2-the-banan...
My strongest memory of the Banana Splits
The Dilly Sisters coming to the door. Loved the tune, I must've been same age as them.
Square Pegs
Loved it at the time but seeing that clip,well I'm having my doubts about the reliability of memory.Distinctly remember Devo featuring in one episode though.
yes I remember that too
It was just very different from anything around then. Everyone talks like a Californian teenager now - no-one did then. Not round my way anyway.
On C4 just when it had only just launched as a channel - if I recall correctly - time slot just ahead of Jools and Paula (Muriel Gray too?) on The Tube
Hey - I loved the clip ..
and laughed like a drain. It's BETTER than I remembered.
According to Wikipedia, Al Kooper worte/performed songs for the Splits - he kept that quiet in his interview, then.
that's because they paid him
in bubble gum, chocolate money and soap bubbles!