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Post by Bungle on Jul 16, 2006 11:52:08 GMT
I'm too young for it, but there's loads on it in this here book I have to my left, so yes, I can confirm its existence.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 16, 2006 17:55:45 GMT
There are 3 things I remember about it:
a) It was on ITV, so I didn't watch it. b) The theme tune was someone singing "Drama-a-rama" in a Mystic Meg type voice. c) If someone in our school was being melodramatic, it was considered normal to sing said theme tune at them to put them in their place.
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Post by Golden Meg on Jul 17, 2006 7:47:41 GMT
Tell me more Bungle, because I'm struggling to remember any more about Dramarama than jetsetwilly has listed. I think the stories themselves were just too scary for my poor little mind to retain.
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Post by Golden Meg on Jul 21, 2006 10:29:23 GMT
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Post by Bungle on Jul 21, 2006 12:07:59 GMT
Tell me more Bungle, because I'm struggling to remember any more about Dramarama than jetsetwilly has listed. I think the stories themselves were just too scary for my poor little mind to retain. Oh there's loads on it here, arranged in encyclopaedic fashion by series - what do you want to know? Started 1983. Finished 1989. Bloody loads of dramas in between! It had 'left field credentials' apparently.
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Post by David on Oct 1, 2006 22:35:22 GMT
Chocky!! Chocky!!
And after Day of the Triffids, I could never eat celery again.
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Post by thelovelykate on Oct 2, 2006 15:54:14 GMT
I'm so glad someone other than me remembers Century Falls. None of my friends remember it and when I try to explain it they don't believe me as it sounds far too scary to be a kids TV programme (it bloody was as well!).
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Post by Bungle on Oct 2, 2006 17:59:04 GMT
It's on DVD.
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Post by thelovelykate on Oct 3, 2006 11:03:06 GMT
I wouldn't buy it as I think it would probably still be too scary. However I can at least drag my friends into Smiths and wave it about smugly.
Also, everyone I know can remember a series that I think was on ITV but no one can remember the name. I think it was on in the early 90s. It was set in a school and one of the teachers was a bit evil and had built this supercomputer thing under the school which was called Behemoth. I think the evil teacher may have been Jenny Agutter. Can anyone remember this and if so what was it called? It was scary!
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Post by klee on Oct 3, 2006 11:10:52 GMT
You speak of Dark Season. It was written by Russell T Davies and the girl with pink hair was played by none other than Kate Winslet. It was jolly good. As was his next series, Century Falls, in which a fat girl saves the world from a supernatural conspiracy.
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Post by thelovelykate on Oct 3, 2006 11:20:08 GMT
Aha - thank you for that. I shall go and look up Dark Season at once! I didn't realise that Russell T wrote Century Falls. That explains a lot.
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Post by booers on Oct 9, 2006 11:31:17 GMT
The thing that I remember from childhood tha freaked me out was a CBBC drama thriller called Running Scared. It had Burnside from The Bill in it as a baddie and he terrorised some family and there was a schoolgirl who had an Asian best friend whose dad owned a corner shop. The theme tune was Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill.
Please someone else tell me this existed and was real.
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Post by booers on Oct 9, 2006 11:33:37 GMT
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Post by melody on Oct 12, 2006 16:19:48 GMT
I'm glad I didn;t just imagine dramarama, I was scared for ages after one episode where a guy was hosting a late night radio phone in and wound up alone in the studio and then I think a spooky ghost terrorised him. I didn't like it.
I was also quite upset by the adventure game and I could never understand why people went on it when the chances of being sent off into outer space forever were so high, I used to worry about them out there.
Marmalade Atkins used to scare me too, whenever they threatened to turn her brains to sawdust, having a big brother and sister I had to pretend not to be scared or I would have been mocked/banned from the telly. Its a wonder I made it through those difficult years when I think of what the telly put me through.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Oct 13, 2006 12:48:58 GMT
Chorlton and the Wheelies also scared eighteen colours of shit out of me. This is a very personal insanity, but I absolutely hate anything which is very smooth but ends in a sharp edge (like formica table tops that don't have rounded edges - yes, I do need therapy). And they all looked like they would feel like that if you touched them, just too smooth.
Plus Fenella the Witch was just hideous. Truly repulsive. She just looked evil, and she did that teleportation thing where she sank into the floor and then slid back up through it, and she had those weird toadstools as well. It was all just so creepy. In fact just the memory of it has made me feel a little bit ill and I really think I need to go home and curl up under the covers. It was too horrible for words.
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Post by polyannapolyfilla on Oct 13, 2006 13:26:09 GMT
I watched an episode of Chorlton and the Wheelies recently. It had a group of stones that were a male voice choir, and melted the hardy witch's heart. It made me cry. In retrospect, I think I was a bit tired and emotional.
It was ace - I love a bit of Cosgrove Hall. I always find them suitably cheery. Just obviously not on that occasion.
However, I was always terrified of Max Headroom when I was a nipper - though was that even kids TV?
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Post by charliepops on Oct 19, 2006 1:20:21 GMT
One of the most lasting memories for me as a kid was watching Grange Hill - one episode ended with them finding the dead body of Danny Kendall in a car, they opened the door and his head fell bakwards and his eyes were all yellow and scary. I couldn't sleep for weeks...
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Post by melody on Oct 19, 2006 8:30:57 GMT
How did Danny Kendall die? I seem to remember not really understanding at the time and Mrs McC being very upset. Was it something to do with the mural getting painted over?
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Post by jem on Oct 20, 2006 12:23:47 GMT
It wasn't so much kids tv but anything with nuclear war particularly public info films scared the shit out of me.
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Post by Bungle on Oct 21, 2006 0:59:15 GMT
It's fair enough not to understand the death of Danny, it was confusing portrayed. Basically, Danny and Mr Bronson were at war and Danny thought that the ultimate way of getting back at him would be to steal his car. He's then found dead in it by Bronson at the end of the episode - it's shot as if he'd killed himself. He hadn't, he had a heart condition which was exacerbated by the thrill of stealing the car.
I have a suspicion that this was not the original plan, and that they played it safe with the heart condition at the last minute.
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Post by thelovelykate on Oct 21, 2006 15:02:41 GMT
I remember seeing an episode of Grange Hill where they went on a school trip to the beach. Teggs (a big fat Ginger kid) had brought a big rubber ring with him. He led on it on the beach and promptly went to sleep. At the end they all went home but on the bus they realised that they had left Teggs behind. Cut to a final scene of him, awake and scared, floating in the middle of the sea.
This traumatised me as a child. I never saw the follow up episode so I have no idea how they got him back either.
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Post by thelovelykate on Mar 27, 2007 10:08:42 GMT
Bumped for jerriblank
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Post by MoondialSlater on Mar 31, 2007 11:54:00 GMT
You speak of Dark Season. It was written by Russell T Davies and the girl with pink hair was played by none other than Kate Winslet. The thing I remember about Dark Season was reading the novelisation and thinking it can't do much for Kate's self-esteem when her character gets described as fat.
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