80's Kiwiana TV Shows
I know this is going to make the young whippersnappers roll their eyes a bit, but maybe 'coz I'm in a faraway country I'd like to reminisce about a few items of 80's Kiwiana - I wanna remember Ollie Olsen and "After School" (A-F-T-E-R...S-C-H-double o el AFTER SCHOOOOL! Before that machievellian MJ wannabe Jase and his budget Styrofoam pal Thingy killed him... even "Nice One Stewie", when Ollie was on holidays or summint , The Kids From O.W.L...Count Homogenised...Under The Mountain...SPOT ON on sundays (remeber Philip Schofield anyone?)...SHAZAM...Radio With Pictures...Ready To Roll 6pm Saturday night - when the budget single shots of just the artist, without an accompanying soundclip played for the Top 20......
I've got a tear in my eye dammit....please feel free to reminisce with me... throw me a Winegum or K-Bar while you're at it...
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Been watching alot of Billy T James lately, I real feel this guy holds a special place in the history or race relations in New Zealand.
Billy T :-)))) one of the best .. if not the best ! always rememeber the landrover gearbox waste disposal unit ... classic .. just put it in reverse a ...
he's good but Gerry Brownlee did race relations better.
also who is the cat that was up in arms about National Hoodie Day
the footage with Paul Henry of all people is surreal.
I loved "Te News" with Abe Pakitiwhaino!
I remember when all the kids shows like playschool etc was on channel one, then when the Olympics in LA was on they moved all the kids stuff to channel two . . . where it stayed
Do you remember the Saturday morning Kid's show? Theme song "Get Up ..Get outta your Lazy bed....Before I count to three...Step to it baby...oh that's it - "What Now?" - and the really budget outro prior to that upbeat and funky one...it sounded like a form two music teacher directing a bunch of kids accompanying them on a piano.. "What Now tell your friends...
Hello People,
In response to some of the kiwiana posts I have seen on nzmusic.com I have put together a t-shirt in memory of After School - the 1980s version with Olly Ohlson. 'Keep Cool Till After School' t-shirt is available on redbubble.com at the following link: http://www.redbubble.com/people/zomboy/t-shirts/2164164-2-keep-cool-till...
You can view all my t-shirt designs, many of which are music inspired here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/zomboy
These shirts are designed by kiwis living in Melbourne Australia. Feel free to have a browse.
Regards
zomboy
//"Get Up ..Get outta your Lazy bed....Before I count to three...Step to it baby..
I LOVED that song. It's by Matt Bianco, bit of a late eighties one-hit wonder. He did another song that got in the charts.
ah, yeah - the other hit was "Whose side are you on".
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I was going to post and say the song was by Matt Bianco, a one-hit wonder only remembered for 'Don't Blame It On That Girl'!
Three-hit wonder? :)
(high five)
//Do you remember the Saturday morning Kid's show? Theme song "Get Up ..Get outta your Lazy bed....Before I count to three...Step to it baby...oh that's it - "What Now?" - and the really budget outro prior to that upbe...
I can barely remember the Steve Parr Days of What Now - It was only after Danny whatshisname, Catherine Macpheron, Simon Barnett, and Michelle A'Court came along that my memory can jog back so far.
That's his name! Steve Parr - of course which leads us to SAAAAAAALE of The Century...
Do you remember "Top Town" the obstacle course show thing, i loved that show and
old batman, Mcguyver (spelling?),
duck tales, Thunder cats, original transformers those were brilliant cartoons
saturday morning cartoons, real cartoons not the bollocks ones they have now all dragon ball z and the crappy transformers bring back the real optimus prime - leonard Nimoy
marmite (or vegemite) and chips sandwiches, it felt like my childhood revisited when i had one the other day,
What now was good, and play school ( howd that paly school song go? heres the lock turn the key playschool" or something like that)- a lot better than stupid barney and the teletubbies
most of them werent Kiwi shows(transformers etc) but they were the best cartoons on in the 80s in my opinion (duck tales later on )
Here's a house
Here's a door
Windows
1 2 3 4
Here's a lock
Turn the key
(music that wanders up and then back down again)
Playschool!
thats the bugger,
oh the memories
I cried the day they took Thundercats off What Now because it was too violent (!!!). Cath and Si will never be beaten, come to think of it I cried when Si left and they did a big tribute to him.
Puddle Lane was also magnificent. Clash of the Codes was probably 90's but fuck it was cool, laughing at Aerobics as they lost every single time, poor cunts
How can we talk of What Now in the 80s and forget the legend that is Frank Flash!!!!!!
Ahh..yes. Good ol' Frank....and this week's "Whacky Callenge"..I remember one of them was a kid who had to milk a cow...riveting stuff.
Does anyone remember Simon Barnetts old music show? it was probly early/mid 90's i think "Face the music" I think it was called
Yep, face the music, with Simon and dirty Ol' Dwane Franks
Don't forget Constable Keith and Sniff
ah yes, that freaky fake dog
What about Clive Grumble??
cold porridge!!
Playschool is back!
after its long abscence it once again graces our tv screens around 6:30am i think...i saw it once before i went to work and it had that samoan dude that used to be on 'street legal' as one of the presenters...it is seriously no-where near as good as it was back in the 80's, its spew material now!
i still have some tapes of the old playschool from back in the day...i used to watch them over and over!
ahhh the memories :)
//....dirty Ol' Dwane Franks
Did you about that dirty ol man - now a convicted Kiddie Fiddla, Saw it in the paper the other day, what a dirty lil cunt he is.
// i still have some tapes of the old playschool from
// back in the day...i used to watch them over and over!
bloody hell. do you have the one I was on?
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// bloody hell. do you have the one I was on?
although, probably not - I was a 70s play-school kid, and video recorders were still a sci-fi invention of the future.
// bloody hell. do you have the one I was on?
thats some funny shit !!!
Country Calendar!! Is that still on?
I can play the theme song on the guitar - that cool little country noodle..
True! Is it hard? Don't suppose you have it tabbed?
Yeah it's a bit of a tricky - I could only ever do the first few bars, then my short attention span kicked in when it changes key and goes on the even trickier higher notes - if I get a chance today I'll try and tab it out.
///Country Calendar!! Is that still on?
i think it pops up every now and again on 1 on sunday afternoons or whatever, nothing like the really old show though
jess, you'll be pleased to know country calender is still on saturday nights at about 7pm on channel 1
calendar*
Thanks Dan, I might just check it out this evening
Can we please make a topic about '80s Kiwiana TV Shows instead?
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Do'nt look at rushour promos site, Joanna. Your going to hate it if you do.
some shows i can remember from back in the good ol days of TV.
- Playschool
- Gliding On.
- Worzel Gumage Downunder
- Gloss (starring the late great kevin smith)
- Shark in the Park (all of it shot round wgtn).
oh lets not forget some of the classic kiwi films - Goodbye Pork Pie (got the DVD) and Utu.
//- Shark in the Park (all of it shot round wgtn).
I auditioned for a part in Shark In The Park. The script that I read from was from The Fireraiser.
Fair Go? is that still on anymore?
yeah im pretty sure fair go is still on, either that or is has just finished recently
nah fair go is still going - rumour has it a 29th season will be starting "soon". but again these are just rumours but im 100% fair go will be back in 2005. - That might be like, the longest running NZ TV Show ever (apart from news and current affairs shows - mind you news was all regional based back in the 70s and 80s).
Anyone remember Inside Strait? (Strait? Straight? Dunno what it means...)
It was a cop show of some sort that I remember being allowed to watch with my parents. Don't really remember anything beyond thinking one of the main actors was really cool.
Remember this...
The cows and the sheep and the birds and the horses
were mooing, baaing, whistling and neighing
having lunch in the sun while Hugo and I had none
in the back seat we sat getting thinner
the rumberlings cried "give us Kentucky fried"
time for dinner, so Dad stopped the car
and Hugo said "you go"
and I said "no you go"
soon he aws back with a pack
and then Dad hit the track
and we ate in the back, feeling better inside
a drive isn't funny on an empty tummy
thank goodness for Kentucky fried!
That actually gave me a flashback to Homestead, that Kiwi run fried chicken joint that did roast potatoes. Or did KFC used to?
God almighty - thankyou discgolfer - another television memory floods back to me - that animated Kentucky Fried ad - I seem to remember them being fat little fucks too - well I'm sure if you can remember that far back, you'll remember "The Lost Island" - not a kiwi show, but a seminal part of tv viewing for me, if you were unfamiliar with the show you could just listen to the theme song at the beginning and it would fill you all in on just how 5 aussie kids (with all kinds of faces) ended up on the lost island.
"There once was a wealthy man
Who had a wonderful idea
To bring children from all places
with all kinds of faces
together into a sailing ship
there were 40 boys and girls
they were sailing the ship all around the world so they called it
the United Woooorrrrlld.
Then one night a storm approached....(forget lyrics about here)
(and fucked the ship right up...)
they jumped into the lifeboat
to float away from the wreck
they didn't count them
they hadn't time 5 children were left behiiiiind...
The children fought the storm all night then finally fell asleep
before they had awakened they were blown up onto the reef..(blank in brain here)
of the Loooosst IIIsland....
But hiding in the bushes
was a watchful pair of eyes
and living in the valley were people lost in time
ruled over by a tyrant
whose face was in a mask (scary flute trill)
the children must defeat him
so they can escape at last
from the Loooost IIIIIIIIIsland..
The LOOOOOOSST IIIIIIIISLAAAAAANDD (deh neh neh neh nah)