Mindless nostalgia Posted Sun Nov 26 14:08:10 GMT 2000 by 'Squidy'

Anyone remember top eighties Children's ITV show Round The Bend? It was a Hattrick production set in the sewers and starring a huge latex alligator and some yuppie rats. They were making a magazine or a comic or something with cartoon spoofs such as 'OAP - Man', 'Rupert Bare', and 'Thunderpants'.

And what about Jackson Pace, that adventure series with Keith Allen and Josie Lawrence?

Well?


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Posted By 'devotchka' on Sun Nov 26 14:57:38 GMT 2000:

Round the Bend, didn't they do a pisstake of Grange Hill, called 'Palace Hill'?


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Posted By '`Mole`' on Sun Nov 26 15:07:19 GMT 2000:

Who remembers Toyah Willcoxs first signs of mutating into Katie Boyle for the 21st Century in BBC2s Dear Heart? It was a take on teen problem pages and was very dull.
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Posted By 'Ben' on Sun Nov 26 15:34:53 GMT 2000:

I remember Round the Bend - my Mum banned it from the house cos it mentioned a toilet


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Posted By 'paul twist' on Sun Nov 26 16:09:39 GMT 2000:

Round the Bend was brilliant, basically a TV version of the Viz-for-kids comic "Oink", which featured the cartoons of a certain Charlie Brooker...

Palace Hill was actually a spin-off from Your Mother Wouldn't Like It. I loved these shows at the time but I don't know whether they'd stand up to my bitter, cynical 22-year-old tastes.


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Posted By 'Jake' on Sun Nov 26 16:36:48 GMT 2000:

Round the Bend - I just remember it as being fantastically toilet-humour based, ie fantastic.


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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Sun Nov 26 16:40:21 GMT 2000:

Round the bend- Paul Jennings
BBC1!!!!!!!!!


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Posted By TJ on Sun Nov 26 19:29:16 GMT 2000:

Jackson Paice was fantastic - on ITV around 1990, I think...


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Posted By subbes on Sun Nov 26 20:02:12 GMT 2000:

Paul Jennings is Australian. Round The Twist was complete piss. Much preferred repeats of Round The Bend.


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