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We grew up watching these amazing Retro International kids programs which taught us so many things about life while watching those characters who looked cute with those big innocent eyes wondering how the world is and I seldom felt this could be happening to me too and at times I really did, like as-though I was living that life. The Character was in me, I put myself in their place and kept wondering what was goin' on? Will I be able to understand the problem that was there, Will I be able to find the answers they are lookin' for or what would happen next? the curiosity and building of a suspense in those shows for the little viewers was brilliant according to me. Some of them were so informative, educative and most of the times we learned a lot about emotions which were similar to our real lives and how we got ideas to use 'em or tackle them or even trick with our folks at home ha ha! It was simply a wonderful time. I just can't stop saying that and why should I, precious days those were but the sad part is that we also wanted to grow up pretty fast, just so that nobody has to tell what and when?
Well, today all I could say about such programs for the little ones, is that they developed somewhere an endearing charm that today as an adult we'll always keep haunting for. This is what I personally believe. What do you think? :)
Here are some Retro shows for kids aired on Doordarshan. Have a Good time, Folks!
He Man
Hmm He-man! and the Masters of the universe!! There was no possibility to have missed this awesome show when you were a kid, am I right? The Title credits that introduced the characters firstly He-man who is Prince Adam, talks about himself and his Goal to protect their planet i suppose known as Eternia. By using his Sword powers and before using it he always says those magic words "By the Power of Gray-skull, I HAVE THE POWER" which transforms him from a Prince to a powerful being "HE-MAN" and his cat Cringer into
a tiger. He has a team of 4 members i remember "Sorceress and Orko" there were others which i have forgotten their names, so they are a team who are to protect their planet Eternia and the Universe. The skelton's face in the end laughing from the opening credits of HE-MAN is flashing in mind as I write this post :)
Info from Wiki:
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American animated television series produced by Filmation based on Mattel's successful toy line Masters of the Universe. The show, often referred to as simply He-Man, was one of the most popular animated children's shows of the 1980s, and has retained a heavy cult following to this day.
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Jamie and the Magic Torch
Oh yeh I loved this cartoon series, about a little boy with his cute Dog named Wordsworth followed him and used to sneak out of the bed every single night with Jamie. Everyday at night after his mom tucked him into bed and when she left the room Jamie would get up and shine his magic torch on the floor which made a hole and there's slide beneath which takes them to Cuckoo-land a Fantasy world. There were many other characters and Jamie was the lead boy to solve mysteries of the fantasy world or something like that.
Info from WIKI:
Jamie and the Magic Torch was a British children's animated television series, made by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television and shown on the ITV network, running from 1976 to 1979. It was shown again in the 1980s to a new audience of children. The series was written and narrated by Brian Trueman, who later wrote shows such as Dangermouse and Count Duckula for Cosgrove Hall.
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Jamie and the Magic Torch was a British children's animated television series, made by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television and shown on the ITV network, running from 1976 to 1979. It was shown again in the 1980s to a new audience of children. The series was written and narrated by Brian Trueman, who later wrote shows such as Dangermouse and Count Duckula for Cosgrove Hall.
Talespin
TaleSpin is a half-hour American animated television series based in the fictional city of Cape Suzette, that first aired in 1990 as part of The Disney Afternoon, with characters adapted from Disney's 1967 animated feature The Jungle Book. The name of the show is a play on "tailspin", the rapid, often fatal, descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral. The two words in the show's name, tale and spin are a way to describe telling a story.Source: WIKI
Doctor Snuggles
Doctor Snuggles is an animated television series created by Jeffrey O'Kelly about a friendly and optimistic inventor named Doctor Snuggles who has unusual adventures with his friends in a slightly psychedelic world. The show featured fantastical scenarios which usually involved Doctor Snuggles inventing something outlandish such as a robot helper or diamond-making machine, and had a variety of supporting characters who were mostly anthropomorphic animals.
Source: WIKI
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Donald Duck
Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his explosive temper. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character and is the fifth most published comic book character in the world after Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine.
Source: WIKI
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Fraggle Rock
"Dance your cares away, Worry's for another day. Let the music play, Down at Fraggle Rock".
Fraggle Rock (also known as Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock) is a Canadian children's live action puppet television program series created by Jim Henson. The central characters were a set of "Muppet" creatures called Fraggles. The show ran from January 10, 1983, to March 30, 1987, on CBC Television in Canada, ITV in the UK, HBO in the United States, and TV1 in New Zealand. The show became a worldwide hit, like Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. The "Fraggle Rock Theme" reached number 33 on the British music charts during the phenomenon. Writers included Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, and Jocelyn Stevenson, with songs by Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee.
As described by Henson, "The series is] a high-energy, raucous musical romp. It's a lot of silliness. It's wonderful". While the program was accessible to audiences of all ages, it used the fantasy creatures as an allegory to deal with serious issues such as prejudice, spirituality, personal identity, environment, and social conflict.
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A clear version of FRAGGLE ROCK theme song at YouTube.
Spider - Man
Remember this theme we used to always sing as kids :)
Here's a FUN Lyric video enjoy!
Spider-Man is an animated television series that ran from September 9, 1967 to June 14, 1970. It was jointly produced in Canada (for voice talent) and the United States (for animation) and was the first animated adaptation of the Spider-Man comic book series, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. It first aired on the ABC television network in the United States but went into syndication at the start of the third season. Grantray-Lawrence Animation produced the first season. Seasons 2 and 3 were crafted by producer Ralph Bakshi in New York City. The show has long since gained a cult following, most notably the internet meme 60's Spider-Man.
Source: WIKI
Spider-Man is an animated television series that ran from September 9, 1967 to June 14, 1970. It was jointly produced in Canada (for voice talent) and the United States (for animation) and was the first animated adaptation of the Spider-Man comic book series, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. It first aired on the ABC television network in the United States but went into syndication at the start of the third season. Grantray-Lawrence Animation produced the first season. Seasons 2 and 3 were crafted by producer Ralph Bakshi in New York City. The show has long since gained a cult following, most notably the internet meme 60's Spider-Man.
Source: WIKI
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Alice in Wonderland
Original Title: Fushigi no kuni no Alice released in the year 1983.
Directed by Shigeo Koshi, Taku Sugiyama
A retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic tale of the young girl Alice, who follows a white rabbit into a hole, only to find herself in Wonderland, where she meets many interesting characters, both the mysterious Cheshire Cat and the terrible Queen of Hearts.
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Mickey Mouse, Donald duck and Goofy
Goofy is a cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and is one of Disney's most popular characters. He is normally characterized as extremely clumsy and having little intelligence, yet this interpretation isn't always definitive; occasionally Goofy is shown as intuitive and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way.
Source: WIKI
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Faerie Tale Theatre
Faerie Tale Theatre (also known as Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre) is a live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales. Shelley Duvall serves as narrator, host and executive producer of the program, and occasionally stars in episodes. The series was followed by another, shorter series called Tall Tales & Legends which followed the same format as Faerie Tale Theatre and focused on classic American folk tales. Both series feature well known actors and directors, and were inspired by the children's television series Shirley Temple Theatre (also known as The Shirley Temple Show and Shirley Temple's Storybook).
Source: WIKI
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SCOOBY DOO
Hey guys do you remember!! "Scooby dooby doo, where are you? we got some work to do now, scooby dooby doo, where are you.. we need some help from you, Now..comon! scooby dooby doo ..I see you"... ha ha! awesome show loved it..another show on solving mysteries with teenagers, it is really so nostalgic to watch it now after many years Scooby and his partner were so cute and yet they manage to be brave and help their friends.Wiki Info:
Scooby-Doo is an American cartoon series based around several animated television series and related works produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday morning cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers— and their talking Great Dane dog named "Scooby-Doo" who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.
Scooby Doo Theme
Watch an amazing Episode of Scooby Doo :)
BATMAN intro 1966
Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to March 14, 1968. The show was aired twice weekly for its first two seasons, and 120 episodes were produced in total.
Source: WIKI
The Jungle Book (Hindi)
Janguru Bukku Shōnen Mōguri is an anime adaption of Rudyard Kipling's original collection of stories, The Jungle Book. It aired in 1989, and consists of a total of 52 episodes.
Mowgli: The protagonist of the series. He is still a young boy when he becomes lost in the forest of Seeonee. He lost his biological parents when they went out searching for him and fell to their deaths from a cliff, and into a river, after a panther named Bagheera unintentionally frightens them. Alexander, adopts him as a son and raises him as a wolf. Mowgli appears to be somewhere between the ages of 6 and 10 during the course of the
show, though the first episode shows him as a toddler. He's an adventurous, fun-loving, outgoing boy. But he also goes through a sort of identity crisis, struggling to figure out just what he really is and where he really belongs.
Source: WIKI
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Pingu
Pingu is a British-Swiss stop-motion claymated television series created by Otmar Gutmann. The series was produced by The Pygos Group and Trickfilmstudio for Swiss television, and centres on a family of anthropomorphic penguins living at the South Pole. The main character is the family's son and title character, Pingu. The show originally ran for four seasons from 1986 to 1998 on SF DRS.
Source: WIKI
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STAR TREK
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. The franchise also includes eleven feature films, dozens of games, hundreds of novels as well as a themed attraction in Las Vegas (opened in 1998 and closed in September 2008) and at least two traveling museum exhibits of props. Beginning with the original television series and continuing with the subsequent films and series, the franchise has become a cult phenomenon, initiated the creation of the fully functional constructed language Klingon, and spawned many pop culture references. Source: WIKI
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Ducktales
DuckTales is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Based on Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comic book series, it premiered on September 18, 1987 and ended on November 28, 1990 with a total of four seasons and 100 episodes. An animated theatrical spin-off film based on the series, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, was released widely in the United States on
August 3, 1990. The voice cast from the series played their roles in the film also.
Source: WIKI
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TOM and JERRY
(with Greenday playback song)
Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a never-ending rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence (despite sometimes they become allies to defeat a 'greater enemy' such as a dog). Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry shorts at the MGM cartoon studio in Hollywood between 1940 and 1957, when the animation unit was closed. The original series is notable for having won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film seven times, tying it with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies as the theatrical animated series with the most Oscars. A longtime television staple, Tom and Jerry has a worldwide audience that consists of children, teenagers and adults, and has also been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema. In 2000, TIME named the series one of the greatest television shows of all time.
Beginning in 1960, in addition to the original 114 H-B cartoons, MGM had new shorts produced by Rembrandt Films, led by Gene Deitch in Eastern Europe. Production of Tom and Jerry shorts returned to Hollywood under Chuck Jones's Sib-Tower 12 Productions in 1963; this series lasted until 1967, making it a total of 161 shorts.
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BEING A "KID" IS SUPER DUPER, DUPER SUPER, SUPAH AWESOME!! : )
hey janya,
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing me the post, i feel I am in 80's now. Goodluck
Fraggle rock was my favourite, you know they used to show this before Nukkad those days. Good one.
ReplyDeletehey,u can embed video in all these posts instead of post the links. That way it'll make blog viewers see the video here itself rather than visiting the actual site. :-)
ReplyDeletewho can forget Fairytale theatre. Good job.
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