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We salute Terry Brain and Charlie Mills, creators of 1980s children’s stop-motion animated TV series, The Trap Door…
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions where nobody goes stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place lives Berk, overworked servant of The Thing Upstairs. But that’s nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door. For there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out…
What was under the trap door? In 1986, a three inch stack of film reel cans forming a makeshift plinth for whatever Plasticine monster was due to spill out of it in that episode. Over the course of forty mini-episodes in the mid-eighties, a legion of skittering demons and tentacled beasts slithered off those reel cans and into the psychedelic polka-dotted castle dungeons where they caused havoc for servant Berk and his disembodied skull companion Boni.
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We salute Terry Brain and Charlie Mills, creators of 1980s children’s stop-motion animated TV series, The Trap Door…
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions where nobody goes stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place lives Berk, overworked servant of The Thing Upstairs. But that’s nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door. For there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out…
What was under the trap door? In 1986, a three inch stack of film reel cans forming a makeshift plinth for whatever Plasticine monster was due to spill out of it in that episode. Over the course of forty mini-episodes in the mid-eighties, a legion of skittering demons and tentacled beasts slithered off those reel cans and into the psychedelic polka-dotted castle dungeons where they caused havoc for servant Berk and his disembodied skull companion Boni.
- 3/29/2016
- Den of Geek
When we found out last week that Gordon the Gopher and other childhood favourites were being revived for a special, we got so excited we dug out our Edd The Duck lunchbox and started reminiscing about our first loves: Andi Peters, Zoe Ball and Phillip Schofield.
But when we started to talk about some of our favourite kids' TV programmes, there were blank faces in the office. And in fact, when we've brought up these classics in the past, we've been met by general bafflement. So below, we present just 6 of our favourite kids' TV shows that no-one remembers... Do you?
1. Incredible Games (1994-1995) - Tom Eames, senior entertainment reporter
It only aired for two series from 1994 to 1995, but The Incredible Games was one of the cleverest kids' games shows ever, and no-one seems to remember it.
Essentially The Crystal Maze for kids, it was set in a fictional Tron-like skyscraper,...
But when we started to talk about some of our favourite kids' TV programmes, there were blank faces in the office. And in fact, when we've brought up these classics in the past, we've been met by general bafflement. So below, we present just 6 of our favourite kids' TV shows that no-one remembers... Do you?
1. Incredible Games (1994-1995) - Tom Eames, senior entertainment reporter
It only aired for two series from 1994 to 1995, but The Incredible Games was one of the cleverest kids' games shows ever, and no-one seems to remember it.
Essentially The Crystal Maze for kids, it was set in a fictional Tron-like skyscraper,...
- 8/14/2015
- Digital Spy
When we found out last week that Gordon the Gopher and other childhood favourites were being revived for a special, we got so excited we dug out our Edd The Duck lunchbox and started reminiscing about our first loves: Andi Peters, Zoe Ball and Phillip Schofield.
But when we started to talk about some of our favourite kids' TV programmes, there were blank faces in the office. And in fact, when we've brought up these classics in the past, we've been met by general bafflement. So below, we present just 7 of our favourite kids' TV shows that no-one remembers... Do you?
1. Incredible Games (1994-1995)
It only aired for two series from 1994 to 1995, but The Incredible Games was one of the cleverest kids' games shows ever, and no-one seems to remember it.
Essentially The Crystal Maze for kids, it was set in a fictional Tron-like skyscraper, and featured a bunch of...
But when we started to talk about some of our favourite kids' TV programmes, there were blank faces in the office. And in fact, when we've brought up these classics in the past, we've been met by general bafflement. So below, we present just 7 of our favourite kids' TV shows that no-one remembers... Do you?
1. Incredible Games (1994-1995)
It only aired for two series from 1994 to 1995, but The Incredible Games was one of the cleverest kids' games shows ever, and no-one seems to remember it.
Essentially The Crystal Maze for kids, it was set in a fictional Tron-like skyscraper, and featured a bunch of...
- 8/14/2015
- Digital Spy
Introducing our look at the year that defined the modern era, the veteran writer recalls the extraordinary collision of politics, culture and social upheaval that he witnessed as a student
Was it a prefigurative year? I think so. Not that one thought of it as such at the time or even a few years later, when it was totally forgotten in the turbulence that engulfed the world. I am trying to recall that year, to find deep down some memories, even a few impressions on the basis of which I could reconstruct a misted-up past without too many distortions.
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months. The Cuban missile crisis had temporarily boosted...
Was it a prefigurative year? I think so. Not that one thought of it as such at the time or even a few years later, when it was totally forgotten in the turbulence that engulfed the world. I am trying to recall that year, to find deep down some memories, even a few impressions on the basis of which I could reconstruct a misted-up past without too many distortions.
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months. The Cuban missile crisis had temporarily boosted...
- 5/7/2013
- by Tariq Ali
- The Guardian - Film News
Tony Curtis, whose career spans 60 years in Hollywood, has died aged 85. We look back over his career in clips
He was young, he was pretty and he came fired by ambition. As a contracted Hollywood actor, the youthful Tony Curtis found himself shoehorned into all manner of substandard (and at times wildly inappropriate) studio outings. In The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) he plays a hardy swashbuckler in the time of Henry IV. "Yonder stands the castle of my faddah," he is reputed to say at one stage. Except that he never actually did. The line was actually concocted by critics to poke fun at the actor's broad Bronx accent.
Few films better captured the corrupt underside of 1950s Manhattan than The Sweet Smell of Success (1957), with its swooping jazz soundtrack, smoke-filled saloon bars and poisonous inhabitants. Curtis rustled up a tour-de-force as Sidney Falco, the smooth-cheeked press agent who schemes,...
He was young, he was pretty and he came fired by ambition. As a contracted Hollywood actor, the youthful Tony Curtis found himself shoehorned into all manner of substandard (and at times wildly inappropriate) studio outings. In The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) he plays a hardy swashbuckler in the time of Henry IV. "Yonder stands the castle of my faddah," he is reputed to say at one stage. Except that he never actually did. The line was actually concocted by critics to poke fun at the actor's broad Bronx accent.
Few films better captured the corrupt underside of 1950s Manhattan than The Sweet Smell of Success (1957), with its swooping jazz soundtrack, smoke-filled saloon bars and poisonous inhabitants. Curtis rustled up a tour-de-force as Sidney Falco, the smooth-cheeked press agent who schemes,...
- 10/1/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Satire's limits will always be expanding to tackle new subjects – no matter how wicked or tragic
Like Louis XVI's decadent court at Versailles, we live in an age of ridicule. Fifty years ago, comedy of the public or professional kind was almost never fashioned out of real events or real people – past and present, the living and the dead. That other age is now amazing to recollect. Could Britain ever have lived so politely and solemnly, and with such regard for the social order and hurt to others? One night dad and I were listening to the Goons on a radio that needed time to warm up and carried the names Athlone, Home Service and Light Programme on the dial. The team of Sellers, Milligan and Secombe was at the height of its power as the cutting-edge of broadcast humour. Favourite catchphrases became sallies in the school playground. Weedy little voice (Bluebottle): "Oh,...
Like Louis XVI's decadent court at Versailles, we live in an age of ridicule. Fifty years ago, comedy of the public or professional kind was almost never fashioned out of real events or real people – past and present, the living and the dead. That other age is now amazing to recollect. Could Britain ever have lived so politely and solemnly, and with such regard for the social order and hurt to others? One night dad and I were listening to the Goons on a radio that needed time to warm up and carried the names Athlone, Home Service and Light Programme on the dial. The team of Sellers, Milligan and Secombe was at the height of its power as the cutting-edge of broadcast humour. Favourite catchphrases became sallies in the school playground. Weedy little voice (Bluebottle): "Oh,...
- 5/22/2010
- by Ian Jack
- The Guardian - Film News
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