Switch Off Saturdays
After a week's worth of hard work, it's time to switch the brain off by switching on some old children's classics. See what used to pass as entertainment in decades gone by, and give your synapses a little rest. They will thank you for it on Monday.
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T-BAG AND THE *insert series title here* - Switch Off Saturdays
This was more viewing for after school, though I never got to watch them all because it was during my homework time, and I eventually lost interest as I grew older. In any case, the premise of each series was that a young mortal British girl was transported into a magical world, set with the task of retrieving a set of magical objects (one for each episode of the series) before the evil T-Bag could. T-Bag, of course, didn't actually do any of this herself. She had her young minion servant...
Puddle Lane - Switch Off Saturdays
This was definitely a holiday favourite for my brothers and sisters and I. I have vivid memories of us all clambouring onto my uncles bed during the holidays to watch it on his TV while he was out watching the cricket in the lounge room. I wonder if he knew how much of a mess we made in there before cleaning it up? The reason I think of him is because he was the real life equivalent of a wise, kind, intelligent wizard, right down to his eccentric clothing. But I digress...
Spellbinder - Switch Off Saturdays
This is another teen sci-fi that involves dimension swapping instead of time travel. After his prank goes awry on a school camp, Paul is transported to the land of the Spellbinders. In that setting, the industrial revolution never occurred, and the general population is controlled by the said, tyrannical Spellbinders. Luckily Paul is scientifically savvy, and with his new friend Rhiana, he will figure out a way to get back home without royally miffing the short tempered Ashka...
Johnson and Friends - Switch Off Saturdays
Johnson and Friends got a lot of air time in my household. Johnson is a stuffed elephant toy who is the wise leader of all the toys that live in a young boy's bedroom, and they all come to life when that boy is not there, or has fallen asleep. This may seem like a rip off of Toy Story, but the series actually predates the first movie by five years. This is another live action children's series and includes characters such as McDuff the accordion, Diesel the truck...
Lockie Leonard - Switch Off Saturdays
Switch Off Saturday *-- with --* 🏄LOCKIE LEONARD I've never watched this series or read the books from where it was derived. I was never the target audience. All clues point to quality reading and viewing. Firstly, Tim Winton wrote the books. Secondly, my little brother used to talk about Lockie Leonard a-flipping-lot when he was a kid. A LOT. Thirdly, the series has won many awards, so it might be good. Lockie and his family move to a small coastal town...
Switch Off Saturdays - The Adventures of Blinky Bill
🐨 THE ADVENTRURES OF BLINKY BILL 🌿 I didn't grow up with this version. There was an older one from 1984 that was set in a real bush, and involved live puppets who sat around grumbling about current events. They also read motor magazines, fell down old abandoned mine shafts, built time machines, and did other such ubiquitous things like that...
Switch Off Saturdays - Ship to Shore
Join the kids from the fictional Circe (pronounce it just like 'Cercei' Lannister) Island, located just off the coast of Western Australia. It is worth noting that this playlist is presented mostly in reverse order, and that the first three episodes are missing, but that shouldn't matter one bit to young viewers. As a now bumbling fool of an adult, however, I could barely comprehend what was going on...
Switch Off Saturdays - Finders Keepers
⌚️ FINDERS KEEPERS If you're stuck on what actually constitutes 90's style, you'll find the answer just by watching the opening credits of this video. In short: *~//# MoRe iS mOrE #\\~*. Emily Rodda's 'Finders Keepers' was another one of those books that kids threw their pocket money down for, with the school's book club order. I remember the book being great, but the series did suffer a little bit of a hangover from the 80's, not that there is anything wrong with it...
Switch Off Saturdays - The Silver Brumby
For those not in the know, a brumby is a wild untamed horse. This title immediately contradicts the nature of the central steeds as they speak to each other with sophisticated verbal dexterity and conduct themselves with classy social decorum. Again, these skills appear more developed than the average human being as they too can converse with a wide array of animals beyond their own species. In fact, humans here are immediately introduced in an antagonistic role...
Switch Off Saturdays - The Girl From Tomorrow
This time travelling themed science fiction series aired in the same year that Terminator 2 was released. It was a fantastic series to watch after school back then, yet despite ageing thirty years, I was hooked once again in the first few minutes. Having looked at it's IMDB page just now, the one piece of trivia states that The Girl from Tomorrow was a major inspiration for the creation of The Matrix.
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Switch Off Saturdays - Lift Off
This show begins with a bemusing song by three puppet pigs and a wolf, before cutting across to two young girls discovering a dirty faceless animated doll that has fallen out of a garbage truck. When they return to the foyer of their apartment building, the girls are met by what appears to be a megalomaniac floor manager, and they introduce the doll to a one eyed prickly pot plant in the lobby before engaging conversation with the elevator...
Switch Off Saturdays - The Adventures of Skippy
THE ADVENTURES OF SKIPPY Skippy was an environmentally friendly, mystery solving, crime fighting bush kangaroo, and her juristiction was some wildlife park in rural Queensland by the looks of it. Her interpersonal communication skills appear far more advanced than most humans, but credit has to be given to those who could understand her rapid fire speech made up of mouth clicks... maybe it was morse code. I recommend watching this with party pies and various cordial flavoured refreshments.
Switch Off Saturdays - Mr Squiggle
MR SQUIGGLE The man from the moon! He has a pencil for a nose which is most important because it's way better than any pencil that we have here on Earth. He made frequent trips to Earth between 1959 to 1999, and it was all in aid of creating comprehensible drawings out the the random squiggles that viewers sent in to the show from all over Australia.
Round The Twist - Switch Off Saturdays
ROUND THE TWIST Come on a sea change with the Mellops... I mean the Twists. Make a home in a light house on the South Coast of Victoria, be terrorised by some peeping Tom mime ghost while you preform your ablutions on the dunny situated on the cliff, and become intimately acquainted with coastal sewerage system.
Switch Off Saturdays - The Miraculous Mellops
✨THE MIRACULOUS MELLOPS✨ Enjoy 40 episodes of this quality comedy of errors as the Mellop family hang out with a pair of aliens who have popped by from the moon in their Kombi van with the intent of taking one of them back to be the cosmically chosen Grand High Baby, and ruler of the moon people.
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