Popular Nostalgia

One of the things we most remember of our childhood, since the advent of television. Children’s T.V. holds many happy memories for many people. Reminisce with us.

The Toxic Crusaders was a short cartoon that I remember airing on UK TV during my childhood – I can just remember thinking “oh great, another cartoon” while the show started, then the theme tune featured the line “we’re hideously deformed” (or similar) and I was hooked. The toxic crusaders tried to ride the tidal [...]

I remember the cartoon M.A.S.K as one of my childhood favourites – I used to love everything about this cartoon, particularly the fact that they fought crime, all the time. I even got a M.A.S.K paper plate and cup set for my fifth birthday party (postponed because I had chicken pox I believe) so I [...]

I remember watching this thing when I was a child. I am not altogether sure that I enjoyed it, but TV was a pretty straightforward game back in 1991, you had your basic 4 channels in Britain, and only one of them showed children’s TV without adverts, so it was this or art attack. Come [...]

I remember Albert fondly as one of those cartoons in the mid 1990s that were Okay to watch even though I was probably a little bit too old to still be watching cartoons: it had the occassional big word and grown-up reference in it! Albert was a small man, but was crucial to the Napoleonic [...]

Henry’s Cat was frankly one of my favourite cartoons growing up because the story was just like my little life. Enjoy the intro video above – its taken from our all-new YouTube Channel, which you can discover for yourself right here: http://www.youtube.com/PopularNostalgia

Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears to give it its full title (thanks Wikipedia) was one of my favourite cartoons growing up in the 1980s, and the video above doesn’t really show their main secret that well: Gummi-Berry Juice. When the Gummi Bears drank Gummi-Berry Juice, they could utilise their super-power, which was, rather oddly, [...]

Who remembers when children’s TV wasn’t a gateway drug for the next wannabe tv presenter? Who else, along with me, remembers those halcyon days when characters like Phil Schofield or Andi Peters would sit in The Broomcupboard with little for company other than a stuffed puppet? The Broomcupboard is yet another children’s television memory which [...]

Count Duckula was another cartoon that I grew up watching in the late 1980s and early 1990s – enjoy the episode above – I hadn’t remembered the intro was quite so long! This was one of my favourites, probably because it was pretty dark and macabre. Count Duckula was made for four series and there [...]

The Muppets were the biggest sewn people for a decade or so in the 1980s and early 90s – and there isn’t a much more nostalgic show than “A Christmas Carol” when it comes to feeling christmassy, so it isn’t really that amazing that the “Muppet Christmas Carol” evokes in me all kinds of twinkly, [...]

Saturday (or was it Sunday??) mornings never were the same once we lost the Orange Organics front-man Pugwall (Peter Unwin George Wall) and his epic series of the same name. In the UK, we used to watch these glorious moments of Aussie stardom on Channel 4. Pugwall was played by a chap called Jason Torrens. [...]

Airwolf ran from 1984 through 1987. The supersonic military helicopter with hidden weapons and stealth capabilities flew along the thin line of the Cold War standoff. Its test pilot, Stringfellow Hawke, was played by Jan-Michael Vincent. When Airwolf is stolen by its twisted creator, Doctor Charles Henry Moffet, “the FIRM” asks Hawke to go to [...]

The 1982 TV series starred David Hasselhof as a cop who was shot in the face, but then rescued by a self-made billionaire committed to vigilante action. Wilton Knight treats Michael Long and gives him plastic surgery to rebuild his face. Not only that, but the wealthy do-gooder gives the ex-policeman a new identity and [...]

Hands up who remembers the Really Wild show that used to be on BBC TV during (I think) the early 90s and possibly the late 80s too. This show features Michaela Strachan, who was the first woman most young boys fancied, and Terry Nutkins, who certainly was  not her male counterpart in the fanciability respect, [...]

A group of adventurers go on a quest to collect the Thirteen Treasures of Rule, which possess the power to stop  “Dark Water” from consuming the alien world of Mer. The Darkwater is like a sticky oil with a mind of its own – attacking good things and choking them. Because of problems in production, [...]

The Yogi Bear cartoons were on in the early 90′s and whilst I remember them, I don’t remember much. Yogi, and his best friend Boo Boo, lived in Jellystone National Park stealing “pic-a-nic baskets” off holiday makers. The original cartoons were around in the 1950′s and every decade thereafter. Park Ranger Smith would occassionally arrive [...]