The Best 80s Cartoons of All Time: Our Top 10 Countdown

Your childhood favourites are about to be put on trial. We sit down with one rule and a huge dose of nostalgia: cartoons must have been shown on UK television during the 1980s, and then we rank our top ten. It sounds simple until you realise how many classics sit just outside our window, how much a theme tune can sway a vote, and how fast two grown adults can start arguing over a talking cat, a bionic detective, and a muscle-bound hero in a suspicious amount of pink. 

Tell us where we’ve got it wrong and what we’ve missed, then subscribe, share the episode with a fellow 80s kid, and leave us a review so more people can join the argument.

Transcript

Welcome And The Ranking Rules

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Hello, and welcome to Who Remembers the UK Nostalgia Podcast? And in this week's episode, we are ranking the top ten eightist cartoons. The uh the criteria is that these are UK children's TV car I mean they don't have to be children's, but they are by definition. But the children's TV cartoons shown in the UK in the 80s. I think that's what we settled on, didn't we? They can't pass the 80s. Yeah, yeah. They can be made anywhere in the world, but they were shown in the UK during the 80s. That's the that's the criteria we've set ourselves. That's the the benchmark we've aimed for. Yeah, that's what we've done. And uh thank you to uh Paul Glacier and Anders for uh suggesting this. I think it were always something that we had to get round to doing, but it it's been a bit of a mammoth task. I think this is gonna be our most controversial episode ever, Liam. Because everyone's top ten will be different. Yeah, and I mean we're gonna get into the the honourable mentions very quickly, but yeah, even even as I look at the list of things that that didn't make our top ten, I'll tell you what, I I could redo it and then it'd be a different top ten in in an hour's time, maybe. I'm not sure. It's I I we'll get into it. I mean, there's gonna be some big

The Big Names We Missed

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debate, isn't there? But I think we're gonna start with the ones, or you're you're gonna start with the ones that we didn't have purely because probably a little bit early for us. So the big three, and I've seen a lot of people talk about these because we we we sort of teased it uh that we were gonna do this, and uh we know people who are a little bit older than us who mentioned these. Three that are not gonna get into it that I've probably are really good, but we it's just a bit too early for us. We're Ulysses 31, the Mysterious Cities of Gold, and the big one probably is Dungeons and Dragons. Because these all finish, as I'm looking now. The 85 to 86 for Ulysses 31, 86 to 87 for Mysterious Cities of Gold, and 83 to 85 for Dungeons and Dragons. We just weren't old enough, were we Liam to attention? We didn't get it, man. We weren't old enough, we weren't grown up enough, and it's not that we don't rate well, it is that we don't rate them purely because we didn't really watch them. It's not that we don't necessarily think they're good enough to hit the list, it's just that that they were a bit early and we don't you know. I've seen clips of Dungeons and Dragons and people. But I think you probably had to be there, and we weren't. Well we were, but we weren't old enough. Yeah, we weren't uh I our mate Russell Paul Jones, uh who we who we sometimes mention on this podcast. He I think he bought all three of those on DVD, uh like the series of all three of those. Um but yeah, unfortunately just a little bit before our time, I think there, Liam. And then we have if you've gutted to hear that that they're not in the top ten and that's it, then unfortunately this top ten's not for you, but yeah, they don't make ours. They don't yeah, they don't make ours, like I say, there's gonna be something here. We we don't agree with our top ten to us in the sense that we had two separate top tens and we got together and and and nailed it down, didn't we? Like we d we'll we'll get into that because it's interesting because we both got one that we personally ranked quite high that's ended up being in the top ten purely because one of us had it very high and the other one didn't really have it. So yeah, I mean other other mentions, so Brave Star, um Brave Star. What's the next bit? Uh Fizz of a woo, ears of wolf. Brave Star. Is it eyes of a wall? Is it eyes of a hawk? I wouldn't say eyes of a hawk, ears of a wolf. Uh yeah, talking horse that I can't remember if it's a robot or it was by the Wild West, weren't it? But in um like but in space, yeah. There were robots and things, and uh his horse had a shotgun and were like a sort of badass horse, wasn't it? Brilliant, yeah. Stand up. Um stop it and tidy up. Obviously, uh we we we would like to have included that as a tribute to uh the late great Terry Wogan. Yeah. The best thing about that, by the way, is just that guy because one of them, I don't know if it's tidy up or stop it, who just goes, ooh, that's all he does, that's the only thing he can say. Yeah, I love Terry Wogan, but it it it couldn't make the top ten, I'm afraid. I mean, I'm I'm surprised because I mentioned this to you and you've included it as an honourable mention. I I'm not even sure I would put this as an honourable mention. Just had a good theme tune. Denver the last dinosaur. Yeah, the theme tune thing is gonna be massive on this, I reckon, because it does make a big difference having a great theme tune. Did you ever sing at school? Denver, the last

Honourable Mentions And Theme Tunes

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dinosaur. He picks his ass and he makes it so with that just our school. No, I don't remember that one. Um I remember that's probably for a bit for a different in fact. Let's save that, like playground songs for a different episode. Okay, yeah, I think it's kind of quite funny. Yeah, we'll keep we'll keep them keep them on ice without one of the listeners. Yeah, yeah. Uh another one, I I wanted to have this. I mean, we we're actually, but I I think it's you might hear it before this episode, or you might hear it after this episode. I'm not sure how the secret's just gonna work. But yeah, we did a TV themes epitude uh episode back on the Living with Maidly feed that we used to do, and the Family Nest made my my theme tunes, and that was definitely one I would like to include in there. Um Super Ted. So we uh recently had an evening with the the Beadens, um always a pleasure, and they were absolutely disgusted that Super Ted didn't make the cut. Yeah, I think you had it in your top ten. I mean I did what I said, I absolutely loved it. Um Texas Pete, I think was a bad guy. Texas Pete, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then with that uh Bones character, I don't what we recalled you on the skeleton, yeah. Really camp like, oh I can't believe what you're doing here, Supertech. Remember him, like brilliant. Um yeah, and and I as I said to uh to Dave and Kate the other night, as a kid I I was so desperate to know what Super Ted's secret word was. He whispered a secret word that turned him into Super Ted, do you know? And I really want to know that. But do you remember the beginning of it? When he said uh it was discarded like a piece of rubbish, and he says it like that, like the voiceover guy. Yeah, it wasn't a Teddy that was thrown away or something, weren't it? It was yeah, it were thrown into like the the reject room or whatever, and then Spotty came from space and basically gave him superpowers, which I don't think Super Ted ever sort of because I'm pretty I'm pretty sure Super did Super Ted ever even I don't think Super Ted gave his secret to even Spot I could be wrong. No, no. I don't think anybody was alive. Of course, he's just like basically. Do you know what? I've just thought of I'm gonna I'm gonna drop it on the end of the the list as we're talking the live list as we're talking, actually. This should have been in my top ten, and just talking about Super Ted's made me think of it. Um DuckTales was also on the honourable mentions, another incredible theme tune. Um DuckTales. Woo! It reminds me of Brad. You're a tough guy again. You ride into DuckTales. Woo! Woo! Yeah, unbelievable that, yeah. Uh Transformers, I never really got Transformers. I did get this, so I I thought you'd have this, being a more of a man's man than me. I thought this was like a proper lad's thing. I never got into it, but I would I was never into cars and stuff like that. So I don't know if it was something to do with that. I know a transform cars. I had a couple of toys, I had a kind of Optimus Prime thing. Some of my mates were into Transformers, but now it passed me by a little bit of the Transformers thing. Um Dog Tanyon. I mean, I'm I'm gutted this hasn't made the top ten, actually. I I think it should be a top ten for me. Um I think we talked we talked about this at some point on the Maidly one where we debated whether the music is actually completely made up of like dog barks, or there is any music. Yeah. Uh I still I still don't know. I should probably look into that. Um I found the bad guy in that really scary, uh the cardinal. Yeah, the cardinal. Yeah. Um another another one for a great theme tune. Well, the next two, actually, so Tailspin and Chippendale. I don't remember Tailspin. So Tailspin was a weird one. It was uh I don't know if there's some connection to DuckTales. I don't know if like occasionally sort of Scrooge or his nephews would turn up, but it was like to me they seem to reuse a lot of the Disney animation characters. Like that like the pilot was almost looked like Baloo the Bear. They had they had sort of characters in it that looked very sort of like some of the Robin Hood stuff that they'd done in Disney. It seemed a lot of sort of reused animation. I I did like it. Chip and Dale I thought was just an incredible thing. Chip and Dale, Rescue. Rescue Rangers, Chippendale and Adventures, yeah, really good. And the one I've just added in that I I should have put in my top ten somewhere near the top because I absolutely loved it as a kid and I'd forgotten about it until we talked about Super Ted was Jimbo. Do you remember Jimbo? I don't remember Jimbo. Oh Jim Jimbo and the Jets. Oh, I do think it's I do remember it. Sorry, that oh fucking hell, I've not heard about that. I've not thought about that. Yeah, I was so young that I'd but I absolutely loved that, and and I'm I'm kind of going to apologise to anyone our age that I've not putting them in the top ten, actually. So just before we get on to the top ten, a couple of others, because you missed out raggidolls there, which were it was in the initial top 10. I love what about ragged dolls is it's obviously all about being inclusive and stuff. So all the ragged dolls are the dolls that have been discarded. So I don't know, one of them might be losing arm or something. Back to front's got his head on backwards, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, Dottie's got a rip or something. Yeah, I've watched it fairly ripped. We bought a DVD to watch for the kids because I I love it that much. But am I right in thinking one of them gets discarded simply for being French, Claude? Or is that a m is that a myth? No, because he's he's like a French doll, isn't he? I'm not sure what his problem is, Claude. I think they've got rid of him. I think they've got rid of him for being French. I think he's intentional in French. I I I think he's and I can't tell you what his problem is, but I don't think it's in his French. And one that uh Mowan Emika mentioned, and he said this better be in it, and it's not. I you've got a reason for this, which I do agree. Is uh Count Duncula. Yeah, it's weird, it it sits really sort of strangely in my mind, Count Duncula. I always used to watch it, and I found it really depressing. Like it's so sort of grim and dark, and it's set in like, to my memory, three rooms, maybe even four. It everything's always going wrong for him. Like his his sort of butler's like a really depressing character, his nanny's kind of really chaotic. I remember finding it like it is quite doomed, yeah. It feels quite claustrophobic to watch. Like if you feel like the the walls are closing in when you watch it. So no, um it didn't make it certainly was in a debate, but it did not make the top ten. Well, I'll tell you what, Liam, let's get into the top ten and let's play the Rankers theme tune.

Number Ten To Nine Revealed

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Fucking Rankers. So I think number ten, I'll start with number ten. I think No, I'll I'll start with ten, then you do nine, then but because this this one is Mo Mart, and then you come in. Number ten is a bit of a controversial pick. I don't think this will shock a lot of people, this one. I love it. Penny crayon, 1989. So only ran uh till 1990, eh? Uh only 12 episodes were made. That blows my mind by the way, though. I can't believe there were only 12 of them. Yeah. So if it I'll do a little bit of thing, what it what it was about is uh a girl with a magic crayon who brings to life everything, everything that she draws, it becomes okay. Because um I was wondering this, does she have the power? Does she draw with anything, or is it the specific set of crayons that she's got? I can't remember. No, I don't I don't know if she's got power because I can't think it's her, isn't it? Because I'm thinking of Penny Crayon can draw anything she wishes. Incredible theme tune. There's a chord change in it when it goes dun dun dun dun, like it goes like down, you don't see it coming. Then it goes back to that scribble, scribble, scribble, down. It's like uh unbelievable pot it and peas we didn't have in this because it's quite shaped, but that is a an incredible theme tune, by the way. Down at the bottom of the garden. Yeah, I'd prefer the penny crayon theme. I mean, this we we talked about like I don't know if it's just a northern thing. The fact she was voiced by Sue Pollard sounded nothing like the sort of young girl that's supposed to be like, Oh, bloody hell, I'm gonna have to get my crayons out to draw something, aren't I? That's the best thing about it, because she sat she looks like if you were voicing and if you'd never seen this and you saw just an image of it, you'd expect this girl to go like uh like in a normal 80s cartoon. Come on, let's go, let's do this. And she's proper like, Hey Nanan, what's that doing here, Dennis? This is getting really scary now. We're gonna have to draw something here, mate. So, Dennis, uh Penny Crane's obviously the main one, she's really confident, but Dennis is like the the anxious sidekick, and he sounds like Janet Street Porter. Oh no, what's going on here, Penny? There's no escape from here. Stop. Will I stop with our morning, Dennis? When you talk about Sue Pollard uh from IDI fame, obviously. She was expli Penny Crane was explicitly designed to physically resemble Sue Pollard. Um, yeah. So every everything about this character was written or drawn with Sue Pollard in mind. And it was created by the same team as Raggadolls and Rosie and Jim. Yeah, I can kind of see Ragadolls. Rosie and Jim less so that that was sort of puppets, wasn't it, on a barge? But yeah, I mean, good stuff. Like I said, it the shock to me when I was looking through the notes, 12 episodes. I thought it ran for a lot longer than that. 12 episodes. Do you know what a big weakness was, Liam? I don't know if you've got this on the notes in front of you, but you know what a big weakness was? Because every good like superhero, she's not really a superhero, is she? But you know, the everyday. For those who kind of don't know, like so she's sort of I'm trying to think of an example where she'd draw like um she'd once drew a magic genie. I'm sure she drew a genie once. Hey, do you know what we need? Three wishes. She means she could draw anything, so there's no point. I'm thinking more like and maybe it's even on the credits, like if somebody were chasing them, she'd draw a crocodile and it'd like come out and chase them away and stuff. Like yeah, yeah, yeah. And draw like a if they needed to escape like a hang glider or something, and they'd just fly away. Like I'll tell you what, I'm gonna draw an hand glider. Yeah, but I mean it were nothing never sort of too nasty, was it? Like I think it's great. I think it's so English as well. A lot of these I like because they're so English, if you know what I mean. They're all British, I'd say. She didn't sort of draw weapons though, like to get people, did she? Like she'd let like an animal chase him, like there were no like uh drawing an AK-47. Imagine her now, if she could still get away with that, like as an adult. That'd be I mean, she literally would be running world thinking about it, wouldn't she? Because she could do anything. She literally, as the song goes, can draw anything she likes. She looks she were a bloody good artist as well. Penny couldn't. Yeah, very cartoony, but yeah, she could I mean she could draw, give her that. But yeah, her weakness was water. Um if you had water you could instantly wash away or erase any objects that she brought to life. Alright, so these they were still kind of like a they didn't become a real thing, were they still like a piece of art then? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you get water and you rub it off. So that that was the weakness of Penny Crane. I'd like to know actually, we should do a follow-up. This is a good idea for an episode, is what are they up to now? Where where are they now? These people. Yeah, well, I wonder what she's doing now, if she were real, obviously. Because she'd be real. Started drawing herself like heroin and stuff like that. It just all went wrong, you know. Bloody hell. Right, on that now, then let's go to number nine. Number nine, do Lurlo, Inspector Gadget, doing it. Woo-doo! Yeah, it's another weird one for me. I did enjoy watching it. I don't know, like I I found it quite hard work at times. He's I mean, he's just effectively he's kind of a bumbling idiot, isn't he? Like Specter Gadget. He's a cyborg detective. Yeah, which is that actually the case then? Like I never really questioned it. Well, yeah, why does he have like robot arms and helicopter head and stuff like that? Why is is he actually a robot then? Yeah, he's a robot. I'm sure he's a robot. I think I kind of thought he was like a I think I purely made this up in my own head. Do you know like uh Robocop was like a policeman who was shot to bits and he sort of built a robot? I kind of thought there was a man in there somewhere, but is he not then? Is he just a robot? I think he's a cyborg detective. Let us know in the comments if you don't. I I'll have that. Do you think there's any human element to him though? Maybe. I don't know. He's not just I mean, he is Inspector Gadget, he's a cyborg right. We need I should have looked into it. Cyborg, cyborg, does that imply like sort of part human part robot? So or is he or is he just pure robot? But Inspector Gadget, is he human? Uh he's the first bionic policeman, apparently. Are we human? Oh, what are we, gadget? Oh yeah, so apparently he's um yeah. Have you moved away from your mic? You seem quieter. Oh, sorry, yeah. Are you on my back? Yeah. Yeah, sorry about that. Um go go robo mic. Yeah, go go robot mic. Uh yeah, I think um I I I yeah, he is he is uh the first bionic policeman. But again, though, is that implying there is some human part of him? So I don't know why I'm so keen to nail this down, I don't know. Yeah, uh let us know. Like let I always thought there was some part of him that's human, but if you thought he was pure robot. Ah, right. So he is a human, but he's been rebuilt a bit like RoboCop with bionic mechanical parts. Sorry, yeah, you're right all right all along, Liam. I I I apologise. Right, okay, yeah, and obviously he had a he had a niece, which again kind of implies he was a he was a real person at some stage. Penny, I think that was his niece. Penny, she was like the brains behind the operation, wouldn't she? Yeah, so he he was kind of the I mean the well-meaning sort of fool, but she'd actually sort of piece it together. I can't remember the dogs. What were the dogs? Brianess. He was he were like the he were like uh he would penny his dog, and he were like more heroic. I think he was like quite a brave character. Sort of save the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it might be more famous for Dr. Claw, because obviously you never saw his face. Yeah, which was I I kind of is it Blofelt, uh Bond villain who was always stroking a cat. Was it was it sort of something like that? I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll get you next time, Gadget. Oh yeah, good, I've not yeah, I don't remember that until you said it. Hold on. Um I mean I I didn't know this. Obviously, this this is in the notes that you've uh you've dug out for us, but the the voice of Gadget is uh I mean you put Chief Quimby. Is it Mayor Quimby or Chief Wigan? Oh, is it both? Is it the same voice you both? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's both, both, both, both, yeah. But you put Chief Quimby in the way. I don't know why I've done that. That's Paul, yeah. Uh take him away, ties. But yeah, no, I I had no idea that that was uh gadget. And uh and again I'm not quite sure what this means. One of the first cartoons used digital ink and paint. Do you know what that means? No, just got an IBD, mate. Yeah, I mean I I enjoyed it when it was on. It certainly I'm I'm comfortable with it sitting in the top ten, but I'm glad it's kind of n not higher up the list. I think it's it's sat about right for me personally. Fair enough. On to number eight, Liam, and this is a massive one in the UK.

Danger Mouse And The Raccoons

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Danger Mouse. Another great theme shoe, 1981 to 92. Well, I didn't realise it'd been going for eleven years. Yeah, I I really like this. Um find it really funny. Um really like the character of Penfold, like his sort of little bold little mole of it. I don't even know what he was, was he a little molecule? Yeah, he were a hamster. Oh, was he a hamster, yeah. Uh do you know David Jason did it now, he was a hamster apparently all the way through recording it. He had no idea until he finished. Obviously, David Jason did the voice of uh Danger Mouse. Yeah. Yeah, and it was I mean, it was one of them that I think I can only I can only speak from a the the chat through the eyes of a child at the time, but uh I think it was one that the grown-ups quite liked as well because it was quite quite funny, it was quite a sort of dry humour behind a lot of it. Yeah. Um they sort of did a sort of mid-interval bit where they'd summarise what was happening and kind of what our heroes doing, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, which uh I don't know if that was taken from Batman, was it? I'm not sure. Yeah, Batman was fantastic. That coming up on Batman, uh will our hero be yeah, in very good. It's a piss take of all the superhero things, isn't it the same way Batman was, to be fair. Um but Dangerman's obviously he was the most expensive British cartoon ever made at the time. Wow. Um yeah, uh I think I'm right in saying in our post box, I think. I think that's right. Yeah, is that right? Yeah. He's come out in a little car, I think. Yeah. Um Count Dukula, as we spoke about, he was actually a character in this before he got his own speed series. I didn't know that, but yeah, that's interesting. So was he A bad guy or somebody who helped him, do you know? Yeah, we're a bad guy in it. Yeah, we're a bad guy in it. Obviously, once again, voiced by uh David Jason. Um as was um do you remember Baron Greenbach, obviously the main baddy, his pet Nero. Um the sounds were made by uh Jay uh David Jason just talking gibberish and then speeding up the soundtrack. I can't remember what his pet was. What was his pet? Yeah, I can't remember what it was now, but yeah, but yeah, uh the pet the pet um Nero was just yeah, thingy by I mean it was a little what were it? Like a like a fluffy thing, weren't it? I think I'm mixing up the claw and Baron because you did see Baron Green Greenback with the colour. Yeah, you did see him, yeah, you did see him. I don't know what it was, it's like oh I'm just looking now. It doesn't look anything like a caterpillar, but it were a caterpillar. Right, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, no, I remember that. Um yeah, I uh again not a top sort of five contender for me, but I really enjoyed Danger Mouse. Glad he's glad he made it, glad he got here. Glad he made it. And they were a reboot in 2015 with Mr. Alexander Armstrong. I'm guessing it flopped because I've never heard of it. I don't know, I think they're alright. I don't know. I was way terrible by then. I'll I'd moved on by then to to um to hardcore pornography. Exclusively. Yeah. Go over to you, Liam. Right, number seven. Uh I mean I suppose I'm saying the same thing multiple times here, but you you cannot mention this without talking about the theme tune. This is the both of them. Yeah. Both of them. What do you mean? Because the intro is different to the ending. So the di the intro is the this is evergreen forest, which I actually think is better than the little loo, don't down, don't down. And then the ending is run with us, isn't it? Yeah, run with us. I actually think the start's better. Yeah, I'd say the start theme is the iconic one, yeah. But but yeah, two great pieces of music. I'd forgotten they were different, actually, yeah. Um this was Saturday morning TV. Uh I mean, I don't that to me that's what it was. I don't know if it's shown at any other time, but it was it was part of the sort of going live and live and kicking, I think. Yeah, BBC, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Should say, by the way, it's all for Paddy Crane BBC, Inspector Gadget ITV, Danger Mouse ITV, and Raccoons BBC. So the the two each at the moment. Yeah, they're going head to head. And and I think there is a kind of whether conscious or unconscious bias for me. I I was more of a BBC guy, so they tend to rank higher for me personally. Um but yeah, the raccoons was about I I mean it used to introduce it as it was about Bert Raccoon. He's this kind of star of the show, but I I don't know if if it was all about him, really. Like it there was a I I should I should know this better. There was the one or two human people who used to go and meet the They were in the in the first series and then they left after the first series. Oh right. And there was like Bert was obviously a bit of a madcap character, like he's sort of flying things and jumping off things. Yeah. He had quite a boring brother or cousin and Ralph. Ralph and and Susan was quite boring as well, another raccoon, I think. They were quite dull. Like was uh you needed Bert to keep things moving, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then obviously, kind of the the sort of unsung hero slash villain was probably Cyril Sneer, and his nephew uh oh what was his name, the little sort of weasley one. Uh S I want to say Regis, but I don't think that's a name. Um Cyril What was his cousin called? He used to be friends with the raccoons and sort of apologised for Cyril a lot. Cedric. Cedric, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um yeah, uh just a really good I mean it's one of those that kind of takes me back to a place where I I don't know, Danger Mouse and Inspector Gadget. I can't really remember where I was when I watched those. I just remember enjoying them. This was Saturday morning, no school for a couple of days, in a really good mood, watching raccoons, and I absolutely loved it, I thought it was brilliant. Yeah, um and in 1990 the main characters, Bert and Lisa Raccoon were appointed as the official mascots of the Canadian Olympic team, Liam. Lisa Raccoon, yeah. Yeah, Lisa Raccoon. Yeah, brilliant, yeah. Yeah, I mean it was kind of a Cyril Sneer was the bad guy who was trying to get rich. Um he had used to deal with like a Texan alligator man and a and a sort of chicken woman called Lady Bardon Barden, I think. Um but things always used to go wrong for Cyril Sneer, like he'd sort of try and sell the forest and then it it'd sort of go wrong and he'd be able to do it. Yeah, he was like I think it was like a bar or something, wasn't it? He were about environmentalism, really, weren't it? He was like a business tycoon, uh Cyril Sneer, and he were like into you know doing like stuff that would create pollution and the raccoons tried to stop it all. Yeah, they wanted to save the the natural nature. Um yeah, really good. I think I I'd be very surprised if if you were a sort of of our age and you wouldn't have the raccoons in your top ten. That that'd be the first one for me so far that I think pretty universal. Well, I'd have said number sixes, Liam, but I don't think you

Ghosts And Cosy Cats

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had it in your top ten. 1987 it started off the back of the film The Real Ghostbusters. Yeah, I I mean I I think this is my BBC bias. I I watched a lot more BBC than ITV. I don't I don't mind the Ghostbusters. I had a couple of toys, I had the car, I had Slimer, I don't know if I I can't remember which toys I had, but I wasn't like anti-Ghostbusters. It it just didn't it just didn't do it for me. I thought it it was fine, I just didn't love it. So yeah, I'm sure plenty of people will be sort of thinking, what are you talking about? I I've brought this one higher up the list, or like higher as in I've dropped this down the top ten purely because I I don't think I even had it in my top ten, did I? No, but are you a fan of the film? Yeah, I mean again I I am, but I I don't I don't love it. Uh to say it's kind of one of the classics of our sort of era, I don't love it. I I it's alright. I I I liked it, I didn't love it. Well obviously it's the main characters of Vinkman, Stan, Spengler, Zedmore, and Slimer is it uh it becomes like a real because in the the film Slimer's just got a real small bit part, hasn't he, at the start? And he's he's massive in this. Do you know why it's called the real Ghostbusters, Leo? Um no. I I mean I can I presume you put it in your notes. I'm guessing somebody else did a Ghostbusters or didn't. Can you remember this? Because I remember the theme tune, but not much about the the there were another there were a Film Nation cartoon which came out before called Ghostbusters. Go go go go go go Ghostbusters, go go, don't go. No, and was it about the main the same characters? No, no, no, it was like they had a monkey in it and two other were just completely different, completely different things. You get to call the real Ghostbusters uh on the top of that. Um this is what I hate with I mean ABC Executive meddled in the show a lot. They changed Janine, she was like a really sassy New York, like you know, no nonsense sort of woman. And they changed it to a stereotypical motherly figure. Um they made them do this or the the executives, then they made Slime the main character, and at one point they wanted Ray to be removed. Imagine that. They apparently just weren't adding anything. Um and this is quite funny as well. Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zedemore in the Ghostbusters film, he actually auditioned for the character of Winston and this and lost lost out, which I find marked. Right. Yeah, lost out in his own role, yeah. Um Peter Vinkman in the first couple of series was um voiced by a brilliant named man called Lorenzo Music. What did you mean called Lorenzo Music? Winkeman is the one of the Murrays, isn't he? Bill is it Bill Murray? One of the Murrays, yeah. Bill Murray, yeah. I can't think of another Murray, even as I said it. Are there any other Murrays? The Bill the Bill Murray. Uh no, I can't figure any more Murray's, to be fair. I like this a lot. I think some of the ghosts on this were unbelievably designed. They were really quite dark for kids' TV as well. There were a guy called the uh the Boogeyman. Genuinely scary. I remember like I might try to try and share a clip of um because I don't think you get away with it these days, to be completely honest. But yeah, some of really, really creepy ghosts. I remember once when Egon died and became a ghost, and that really scared me as a kid. And he was like, he was just in, but as a hollow well, whatever. I mean, I don't know if one of the reasons I didn't like it is because I never I never liked Egon. Well that was up with Egon. What's he ever done to you? Which one that do you like him in the film? Because he's a completely different man in the I don't really like him in the film, older cartoon. I he's got a bit of a chip on his shoulder, Egon. It was your favourite Pete. Um Yeah, or Winston or or Pete, but yeah. Probably in the cartoon Pete, maybe in the film Winston. I I don't know, yeah, that they're certainly in the top two. I mean I I wouldn't want to get rid of Ray, but I I can see if you were gonna lose a character, why he's probably the one you'd lose, I suppose. Do you know who reminds me of uh as I'm saying it, Ray Stubbs? It does look like he does actually, yeah. Imagine that if Ray Stubbs came in. I can imagine I can imagine him in it somehow, Ray Stubbs. Do you think it based it on Ray Stubb, Ray stands? Which one came first? No, well, Ray Stubbs would have been born before, but I don't think. No way, they've the ghost. If we've unearthed that it's based on Ray Stubbs. That'd be amazing, wouldn't it? Yeah. And maybe that would be all based on like British TV sports presenters, like I don't know, Winston, as like I don't know, Garth Crooks, maybe. Uh and like Egon. I don't know who Egon could have been. Who who wears who wears classes? Um, what was the uh the Frenchman? Um I think he was an Arsenal fan. The Frenchman I think I'm mixing him up with English. I tell you we could be Egon, Barry Venison. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to think of, I think. He's not French, Barry Venison. No, that's not what I'm trying to think of. Yeah, anyway, right. So on to number five, which I think is a really controversial choice, Liam. I mean, you you say it's controversial. I uh let's see what the people listening think. For me, this was a a really easy choice. Like this, I I had this really high on my list. Of all the cartoons that remind me of being a a little sort of a little kid with no worries in the world, it's probably this one. I I I used to absolutely love sitting down to watch Henry's Cat. Um, I thought the theme tune was great, but it was just like a really easy watch. There's no sort of stress or hassle to it, there's no real sort of threat of danger, it was just a really easy, nice watch. Um obviously Henry's Cat was the main character. Um you must have seen the movie. It basically is like a bit of a sort of clueless. I can't think of the lyrics exactly to the theme tune, but if you know someone who knows what he knows, like it basically sort of said he doesn't really know much about anything or something like that. Uh Chris Rabbit was his mate, uh, is a little bit chaotic. Um yeah, I mean I I can't tell you anything about I'm amazed it ran for 10 years, by the way. I I sort of picture it much more in my early childhood. So it was the first one on, weren't it? It were like when Andy Peters comes on and he says, Yeah, uh coming up soon, we've got Green Chill and Biker Grove, but first it's Henry's cart or whatever. Yeah, like whenever it sort of came on at like four o'clock or whatever, this would this was kind of the first thing, or I don't know if sometimes it was shown earlier in the day as well, I'm not sure, but yeah, I I think it's probably going to be divisive in a sense that if if you kind of were around the right time as I was, and this you loved it, or you might think that there's no way that can be top ten. I I don't know. I think I had it as number three on myself. Yeah, I didn't have it in mind, I didn't have it in mind to be fair, but uh I'll look I've look I've looked back at it and I can see it's it's very very charming, is what I'd say. Yeah, it's good and it's quite like um it's not overly polished, is it? Like a lot of the sort of things, particularly the sort of Disney ones that we've mentioned, uh you know, there's there's thousands, well, hundreds of hours have probably gone into the animation, it's really well polished, a lot of people worked on it. This was really sort of rustic, and I I don't know, yeah, it just takes me back to a time when I I just loved it. Like I I I get it, I get it, I do get it. I like I said, when I watched back, I thought Henry's cat, I it sort of rings a bell familiar, and then I watched it and it reminds me of my childhood, even though I can't remember it because of those sort of it's like a it's almost like a still drawing, isn't it? And then yeah, it's quite basic animation. I mean sort of some some trivia on it. So we never actually know the cat's name other than that he's Henry's cat. Um there is apparently it was written down somewhere but but it was lost and and nobody actually for the purpose of this cartoon is just referred to as Henry's cat. Um something that that I never knew watching it, but that actually for when you look at the the drawing of Henry's cat, um meow is spelt out in his features, apparently. Which I I don't know if I sort of knew that and forgot it, or if if I never knew that I don't know. And we never actually see Henry either. So Yeah, we never see his owner, never see his owner, yeah. I think that's uh the the the word that sums it up for me is cosy. Yeah, I I I would kind of go, I mean, the whole this whole list is nostalgia, but to me, this is probably the one that if I close my eyes and listen to that theme music, I'm I'm back as a sort of six-year-old sat watching a cartoon cross-legged on a carpet and and nothing else mattered in the world. So yeah, for for me, this one is is uh uh right up there at the top of the list. I I get it if you don't really remember it. I I know we said it's it ran for ten years. I don't know how many episodes there were. I was guessing not tons in each series, I don't know. Uh so it's obviously the the people created it as well, uh Stan Award and Bob Bob got I'm gonna say Ben Godfrey. Bob Godfrey, uh, made Rhubarb and Custard, which were a bit too young. Yeah, I think that was 70s, weren't it? But do you remember the theme tune? Yeah, yeah, a bit mad that, yeah. I mean, yeah, that but that was still shown when we were younger, and I I sort of considered that, but again, I found that a little bit more chaotic. I found Henry's cat a kind of nicer watch. Like I don't I don't know what to say. I wasn't the the world around me hadn't hadn't corrupted me back then. I was quite quite at peace with the world, I think. Yeah,

Banana Man And Thundercats Mania

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fair play. Number four, we're back in the BBC, and it's a it's another one that used to be the first on when Andy Peters or Phil Schofield or Crane or Forrester. Uh can't think of anymore at that at that stage. Uh, it'd be presenting BBC and it's Banana Man. Um, Eric Wimp, the schoolboy who transforms into the superhero banana man whenever he eats a banana. I can't put into words how much nostalgia that beginning sequence gives me. It's brilliant. This is Eric. 21 Acacia Avenue. Acacia, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's absolutely just like duh. Again, it's another piss take of a superhero thing. Voice by the goodies, Bill Auddy and Co. as well. Um Bill Oddy does his um his mate Crow. You know. What are you doing? Uh these were obviously originally a comic strip in Nutty magazine, but Banana Man's one of the very few characters to appear in uh at the same time in both the dandy and the beaner. That's how popular uh Banana Man was. Yeah. And each episode's only five minutes. I've watched a couple bike, they're genuinely funny. It's it's proper again, almost like like I say it's the goodies who've done it, you know, proper British legends of of comedy, and it's really, really British. Um I mean apparently I I loved this by the way, just just like kind of thinking back about it. I and maybe I don't want to overthink it, I don't know, but I I suppose it done make a lot of sense to me that this this sort of this boy, this wimpy boy, he turns into like a sort of muscle man, doesn't he? Like a grown man. Like it's not just that he gets powers, he becomes someone else almost. The funniest thing about Is it supposed to be like the grown-up version of him with powers, or does he just become a different person? That's a good point. I'm not entirely sure, actually. What's funny about it is Eric's quite smart, but the the the the line is when once he eats a banana, he gets the muscles of 20 men and the brains of 20 muscles. Yeah, it becomes a bit of a moron, yeah. He's a complete moron, yeah. He's a top that's why he needs Crow to help him out. Whereas Eric's not a moron, so he must become a complete. I mean it actually sort of reminds me a little bit of uh and again I'm I'm not sure which one comes first, but you know, like the Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun, like the sort of Yeah, yeah, he thinks he's quite shrewd, but he's he's a he's a kind of complete fool, really. He's a completely bumbling fool who's just incredibly strong. Another weird thing is I don't know if you remember the the titles, as he flies, he swims as he flies. Like he does like a like a not a breast crawl, it's called the the front crawl. Yeah, as he lights going through. Yeah, but yeah, I love this. I think the animation of this is really good as well. I think it's proper, nostalgic, sort of I don't know, really bright colors, um unbelievable villains as well. General Blight, Apple Man. Remember Apple Man? Apple Man, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but head of an apple, did it? Yeah, the head of it were basically the same. I think you were an idiot who was just an apple instead of like banana man. Uh his weakness was uh mouldy bananas. Um so if you had a moldy banana, I don't know, I don't know why why why happened, but yeah, but yeah, banana man, I think this is possibly the most British thing on the entire thing, as I said, coming from uh Bino and Danday. And again, only out for three years, only three years of banana man, but we'll have to big improvement. I mean, they must have reshown it because I would think in '86 we were only sort of four or potentially five. So I'm guessing they they reshowed it, but yeah, absolutely proper childhood icon, really. Banana man, I I loved it, absolutely loved it. I think one of the reasons I liked it so much is because I used to read the Beano and Dandy every single week. So to see your sort of uh you know, someone in a in a magazine brought to life were really exciting. If you had to lean one way or another, which way would you go? Beano. Yeah, I'll definitely I'd sometimes get dandy, but I would I would always get I think I had a Bino subscription, but I would sometimes get the Dandy as well. But no, Beano was uh was mine. We should do it, we should do another rankers, the top ten Dino Dino and Dandy uh characters, that may be another one. But for now, Leon, we're on to number three. Yeah, we're getting it right onto the the podium positions now. So number three and and what I will say by the way, I don't know if it's the era or us. You know, we we can't help us. Well, we can't help the era either, but it does feel a bit laddish, this one. Like I don't know if you think particularly, I think. But but we've not got care bears in there, spoiler alert, have we? No, I mean I don't like I said, I'm not actually sure at this time what cartoons were aimed at, girls. I'm not I'm not really sure. That's showing my showing my ignorance to Yeah, yeah, yeah. But obviously at that age you're not bothered. You you literally like what you like, don't you? And that's what we're doing. You're not you're not bothered about the other sex at that age, we weren't modern woke men back then, were we? So no, no. Another brilliant thing, Tune this fly. Yeah, I mean that this is I'm I think this is probably right that this is three of the top three, but the top three I I could kind of reorganise. Uh probably probably right now I could re-re rank them. I could become a ranker all over again. But number three is the Thundercats. Thundercats are round the move, Thundercats are voos. Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats, oh this was one that I probably had the most toys to out of the top three. I think I certainly the toys were bigger, the toys were bigger than the other toys, if you remember, like the of the day, the other action hero toys. They were they were a lot bigger. I I had a Lionel toy, and I must be misremembering this because there's no way it could do what I can think it can do, but it it could like move and fight and like shine a light out of its body and like sort of uh it can't have done those things, but in my mind, just the sword. Yeah, it had a sword. Yeah, but you have to do it. Oh no, no, I didn't I didn't have it for myself, no, but I had a I had a Lino figure. I I think if I'm being completely honest, you could push a button in his bite that made his arm go up and down. I think there's a button you could press that made his eyes glow, maybe, and then there was something on his sword that you could project a light out of the water. They were amazing figures, yeah. They were great figures. I had the sword, which it were brilliant. It's so crap, really. But obviously, if you turn the lights off and you press the button, it'd like f uh shine onto the wall, you know, the Thundercat's logo. Yeah, because what did he do a bit like Batman, was it? He sort of shone like an icon up into the sky, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. Um his uh his mates, his his pals, um Tigra. I mean, obviously they're all sort of based on the the big cats, weren't they? So Lion O is Lion. Tigra uh was his I don't know what he did, a bit of an all-rounder tiger. He was based on a tiger. Uh Chitara was based on a cheetah, she was really fast, she had like a sort of bow staff or something like that. Yeah, yeah. Uh Panthro was the sort of muscle man, uh the mechanic. He was based on a panther. Although he was great. Yeah, yeah, he was, yeah. I wonder if Panchero came from Panthro subconsciously. My Twitter handle, if people don't know what I'm talking about. I wonder if that came from Panthro. I wonder if it was just in there. I don't know. What you saw yourself as a a a muscle bound mechanic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not in the notes, but there was uh do you remember the name of the twins? Oh no, go on, I knew what you mean though Wiley Kit and Wiley Cat. Oh, Wiley Kit and Wiley Cat, yeah, they were like the um the I don't know the the rascals weren't they if you know what I mean always getting to bother and they'd have to be sort of I think like they'd be reprimanded at the end of the episode wouldn't they like hey guys it's okay having fun but if you want to go out in a dangerous zone you must tell us where you're going. I will share some outtakes of this by the way I don't know if you've ever heard the outtakes of Thundercats that got leaked years ago. I had them as a file about I'm not joking it must be 20 years ago and it's like Lionel going it's when Wiley cared and he's like what the fuck am I saying? Yeah it can't be an outtake can it that's that's like a deliberate not an outtake what do you call it a deleted scene not a deleted no it's an outtake it's not an outtake they they they animated it no it's just the voice of it's not the the I think I'm seeing them where like the character says like no no no no they're they retrospectively animated it maybe some like an outtake or something I don't know maybe that's what I'm saying. Yeah just online though by the way we should probably say he he was a child weren't he um he had the brain of a child because he came from whatever I mean it's a country whatever uh planet they were from and he was just that he he aged in terms of his like physical appearance but and he was for some reason he was really muscle like but he had the brain of like a teenager yeah it's like uh Tom Hanks and big wasn't it like he was yeah he grew up too soon but yeah yeah he was a child and the the bad guy was Mumra never got never quite got like it seemed like every sort of episode was trying to wake up from this sort of sleep and become this sort of powerful version of himself but never didn't happen did it but then sometimes you did see him as like the sort of the other version of himself I I don't know I'm not I'm not gonna overthink it. Great stuff. I I thought it was American it was actually animated in Japan. It wasn't kind of really sort of manga style but you can kind of see that now if you look at it. Yeah that again it's an it's another one I'm not quite sure like what what was the sort of setting then is it is it sort of space because they flew like spaceships sometimes and they had hoverboards and stuff didn't they so like yeah yeah it's it's all the things that I mean it's weird with all these things sort of um when you're kids and stuff it's like you're all that you overthink everything. But I imagine when you were a kid you don't who cares? Do you know just exciting is it is it another planet out there? Is it another dimension? Like why what why can't I I think I is it like a sort of do you know like Planet of the apes where did these evolve like the humans died out and these cats sort of evolved into my right I'm gonna I'm not gonna do any research into this because I'm genuinely I I want to do this as a pure nostalgia thing. I've got a feeling that they had to move planets because their planet were going to blow up or something I don't know and they would from the same planet then the kid yeah yeah yeah but and I think Mumra is a bit like a bit like Farage he were like what are you doing on my planet get out of my planet coming over here on you on your small boats yeah I think that's what happened and I think Mumra's entire thing is trying to get these Thundercats off the off his planet right interesting metaphor yeah yeah possibly yeah um yeah it's weird that they they'd stopped they they had a deal where they had to sell toys for six years for this um but it stopped recording by like the fifth year so they were trying to sell these toys when it had like already finished so I think the actual symbol for the Thundercats was was brilliant marketing like that that was a really iconic as we move on to the next two I can't sort of think of the symbol but I think that Thundercats logo was was brilliant.

Turtles Then A He Man Crown

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Yeah yeah yeah yeah I think this is a worthy number three Thundercats I think it's uh the there's two left I think this was probably my number two in at the time as a kid the one that I loved the most interesting I think so on to number two do you want to do the theme tune Liam Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Turtles in a half shell turtle power incredible 1987 to 1996 Liam nine years of teenage mutant hero Donatello does machines Michelangelo is a party dude dude yeah we do dude dude so the main characters Leonardo Michelangelo Donatello Raphael um what are they named after Liam it's a bit of trivia fear I well I was gonna do the same joke to you so you caught me off guard there. Ah yeah they were obviously they are um pizza places in Bournemouth yeah they they are all pizza places that Mike Parray as was the first person in there weren't I for all of them obviously so this is four mutated turtles trained um in in ninjutsu to fight Shredder and the Foot Clamp. I I had by the way so the first ever released in the UK um comic of the Teenage Mutant Tales I had one yeah no I mean not necessarily there might have been like a kind of pure for the for the real comic book fans but the first one that was kind of general released in in the news agents I bought that I I damaged it and got it managed to get it again at some point and I've I've lost that now so I haven't but I had twice the origin story of the the it was like a thicker than a normal comic and it told the story of how they became the Turtles. Ah did they all because obviously in the f in the comics they had red they all had red uh what do you call it over their eyes like a bandana sort of thing. Bandana thing it was over their eyes like a yeah yeah but so so some somebody put some I don't know if it's like radioactive or some sort of waste down into the sewers and someone had released some four turtles down into there as well and they they took this thing along with the the rat that was down there Splinter. Splinter yeah um and yeah they became these sort of mutated sort of giant martial arts I don't know why Splinter though was kind of like the the sense like why could he teach the martial arts? He was just a rat I don't know yeah it I didn't like Splinter I'm gonna say like I know that's massively controversial. I think when Shredder and Marster Splinter used to go against each other I think a lot of me I like Shredder I don't I love people can rockstead uh Master Splinter it reminded me a bit of Mr Miyagi like he just calm sort of like he didn't sort of fight beware with violence did he like it was sort of just a calm touch but yeah he he taught the turtles kind of their he taught them to to be sort of dignified but also to embrace their own unique talents like so they they all had sort of their own characteristics that he taught them to embrace which was then reflected in their weapons like they say I I think there's a thing Raphael is essentially the the hothead the most violent of the group so he was given the the psi like the sort of forks which are a effectively a defensive weapon they're not supposed to be used offensively and and so he was taught restraint like I mean the mad thing for me is that the one of them had a sword one of them had a bowstaff which is just like a big stick yeah uh one of them had the sigh which are these like three pronged forks and Michelangelo had the nunchucks but everyone had a massive problem with his nunchucks they had to yeah so the nunchucks were edited out in Britain in um edited out of every episode and by people like the sword's okay he's got a sword yeah no worries what yeah together no difference no I don't know I really really don't know why um I mean as we've we spoke about on Living with Maidley you used to regularly carry nunchucks around with you didn't you around the stre the the mean streets of uh you've certainly sort of characterised means like I used I I don't think I've ever owned any nunchucks but I think you've I'm sure you've had some nunchucks I'm sure you had nunchucks in your car um but yeah and and even though it got renamed obviously in the UK it was the the original titles obviously Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which it's still known as now like more commonly and it got changed in the uh the UK to hero turtles because they thought ninja was too sort of aggressive for kids what I know I mean it's just madness in it like these days these days you can kind of kind of carry a sword around if you want can't you but but yeah but in those days you couldn't refer to a turtle as a ninja one of the biggest toy lines of the decade I think I had them all I used to love the Bebop and Rocksteady toy I know they were I like the names are amazing Bebop and Rocksteady Rocksteady is a brilliant name for a villain Rhino weren't it but yeah yeah I think I've told this story before but yeah I felt I mean I think I kind of handled it really well but I remember being about let's say eight and my grandma phoned up really excitedly that she's managed to get us these turtle toys and she'd gone onto the market and paid like quite a lot of money for them. And uh yeah we went down to see her and they were the worst fakes you've ever seen like the heads were all the wrong sizes legs didn't fit and uh I had to pretend to sort of be really sort of delighted with them even though I was absolutely gutted because I thought she's got all these turtles toys so yeah that's a sad sad tale that to be fair oh that I I'm disappointed by I've not heard that story before actually um in the comic books as we said like they all wore red bandanas but for this obviously they changed it so kids could you know uh and they did the same with the real ghostbusters actually so obviously in this you know you've got blue orange purple and red bandanas to tell them apart obviously in the Ghostbusters film they all wear the same uniform don't they but to tell them apart um in the world Ray Doug's got like a BBC mic in it yeah Ray Dudd's got a BBC mic uh yeah well Winston's been poor decision uh but yeah when it ended in 1987 it held the record for the longest running cartoon in American television history um before it was beaten by something that I would have had as number one yeah it wasn't aired until 1990 so I actually just uh cards on the table I would probably switch two and one so I would have this number one pu purely because I remember this better this was I was a little bit older I remember episodes now I remember sort of as you as we're talking about things like Beebup and Rocksteady remember them really well some of what we're gonna get to in our number one I loved it at the time but I don't remember it so well now and in hindsight don't think it's aged all that well some of it I think turtles is cooler I think turtles is cooler we'll do 10 to 10 to 2 now Liam and then we'll get to number one yeah okay do you want to go through him or do you want me to I'll go through and then you you reveal the number one number 10 Penny Crayon uh BBC number nine Inspector Gadget ITV number eight danger mouse ITV number seven the raccoons BBC number six the real ghostbusters ITV number five Henry's cat BBC number four banana man BBC number three Thundercats BBC number two teenage mutant hero or ninja turtles BBC but the number one is an ITV one Liam and do you want to reveal it is He Man and the Masters of the Universe I think this is an obvious choice hi I'm Adam Prince of Atonium it was a bit of a bit of a pond really wasn't it I didn't wear it when he literally wore pink ties this these guys think they're great for saying this you must not act like that in public yeah yeah yeah yeah again I I loved it at the time I this was my favourite thing when it was on yeah so so I'm happy with it being at number one I think it's the first thing I remember loving as a kid I think it's the first show and it was more like like I said I used to sit down and watch Henry's cart which was great but this was the first thing that I thought oh my god like what is there that I can have can I have a He-Man like pillow and bed sheets can I have a toy as a sword I can like I got battle cart with the you could strap on his saddle and you could sit He-Man on it like this this was the thing that I thought oh my god I want as much of this thing as I can have just so we we were between houses once when I were real about this age so this came out 1983 uh finished in 1988 uh and we live with my auntie uncle he's sadly no longer with his die really young actually in a uh bike accident but he painted on my wall uh in my bedroom wall what we had at the uh their house like a a a huge he were a really good artist uh like a he-man uh on his battle cat thing and that's a massive memory from my youth that just that massive picture being on you know every time I woke up and like looked round this was the biggest thing in my in my early childhood yeah and and obviously the reason why it's featured at number one is because we both had it so high so I I can't remember if I did it at two or three and you had it I think I did one I had it one yeah I'm I'm absolutely happy with it being at number one um like I say it's a bit clunky and a bit sort of it's a bit cheesy now watching it back. Yeah that there's kind of they always finished on a kind of moral where it would be like I I hope you've learned today that it's not okay to be rude to strangers. Like there was always kind of some but it it's all aged quite badly I think there's one episode called oh the power or or come the title is and it's basically it's a brilliant episode and it's where he man throws his sword away because he don't think he's worthy anymore he because he does something that he's not happy with and it's it's just a really really properly like almost adult style episode. Straighten his hair after his hand prince all it's so good that he changes it's just same it's exactly the same hair and face he's just musclier in fact in fact that's Roman Prince Adam's muslier just yeah he just shows his muscles off doesn't he just sort of strips down and who's this I am he man ridiculous I think this though is the Skeletor show do you agree? Yeah and I know you love Skeletor as a character yeah I mean I I certainly remember him very fondly as a quite scary but kind of quite likable bad guy like it often sort of stole the scenes he was in just laughing at everybody around him. To me what's brilliant about Skeletor is to look at him he's the he's the scariest character probably possibly he's like a muscle man with out a head who's just got a skull hasn't he yeah he's one of the scariest characters to look at in in possibly in kids TV history. Yeah yeah yeah that's what I mean but he's also the funniest I think the way he speaks and stuff makes him not I think he's genius almost uh he looks he could have easily got banned bloody Michelangelo has his gun trucks talk off him this is before and he's got a skeleton as a face but because he speaks like you blambering fool do you know what I mean it's like it's brilliant there's there's so many good lines he always calls E man muscle boy back off muscle boy here to try and beat me muscle boy it won't happen today clough young man you won't get away with that my uh muscles but the brain's not there with it I'm afraid young man you won't get in my uh what's his snake mountain with an attitude like that you won't head uh but yeah it's absolutely fantastic but uh what I love about this and it it was the first cartoon ever created specifically just to sell toys so they made all these new actual fight though kind of makes it feel a bit manipulative but it works because I wanted all the toys yeah but it works because there's that many characters in it that were genuinely good so like people you know there might only be in a couple episodes remember triclops where his eyes would pop out no I don't remember this is what I mean like I I remember the sort of main characters yeah with sort of Thundercats and Turtles if if you sort of I I you know I couldn't hand on heart said know all the episodes but if you sort of talk me through certain bits I think oh yeah I remember that I remember far less of E man like I I remember the main characters but yeah oh I think I remember them all Whitlash uh skunk skunk man Moss Man I used to love that figure Moss Man you were covered in moss Jitsu just had a big hand brilliant er but yeah I like I say I think that this was massive to the point where it it got a feature the only one I think out of a lot oh no Turtles obviously as well got a feature film made out of it which flopped massively which I think I thought was decent to be fair I think it's good I think it's yeah you love it again you're a skeletor in it don't you um it's a different skeleton that that is a scary skeleton I saw it at the cinema and really enjoyed it um the the key master is uh the key master yeah yeah no really good I I'm I'm more than happy with this sitting at number one I think it's I mean actually as well like obviously didn't make our list but off the back of this I actually watched She-Raw which was a kind of an attempt I think to grab the theme the theme tune She-Rah She-Ra da bah she Rah She-Ra She-Rah I I don't think it's exactly as you did it but yeah Newcastle fans should have sung it to be out yeah they should have definitely shouldn't they yeah um but yeah so I I think this is where they're number one and there's a new film coming out um I don't know do you know what as well by the way like I I don't who knows these days are whether films are going to be liked or loved or hated by critics loved by fans or vice versa I the trailer for me gave me goosebumps I just thought wow like I I know it's not quite the same story as as this sort of old comic I don't think but I I just thought wow I cannot wait for it I want to watch it in the cinema. So I think that's a fair number one like I say this is going to be controversial because everyone's gonna have their own we're not even sure ourselves if we've got this in the right order but whichever order we put it in we're changing it around I think this is the I think he man being number one Masters of the universe because it was the first thing that we both truly loved is a is a is a worthy as I say my my sort of biggest regret in doing this uh I've made a mistake uh that that'll tie you into the big brother episode when we get back to that um yeah yeah uh Jimbo should have been in it for me uh yeah pure and again I I kind of have to refresh my memory but I I loved Jimbo but that that's the one now even even as we're doing it live but they're the ones I'd be more interested in if if you think we've got our order slightly wrong we'd love to hear that. But actually speak of like a gem that we've completely looked over let us know think the only sort of things that we'll say is so things like Postman Part, Fireman Sam, Thomas and Sank Engine what's the other one that we wanted to do uh in the castle uh trapdoor trapdoor that they're not cartoons they're animations trapdoor because there's something down here yeah we've not done them because they're not cartoons but if you can think of cartoons that we've missed and again 80s they have to have been shown in the 80s because I'm I'm sure somebody's gonna say like to us I can't believe you had the Simpsons like I and people won't listen to this they'll just say the Simpsons yeah yeah it don't count I'm afraid you more on no no it because it wasn't shown in the in the the UK until 1990.

Your Top Tens And How To Reach Us

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Leon that were great that were proper nostalgic vibes um please do like the list I'm happy if we get enough if we get enough lists back or whatever if people want to send us the top tens or whatever wherever it is Spotify or Twitter or Blue Sky wherever you are then do send us your top tens and we might if we get enough in then we might do we might try and like get uh for the listeners' feedback the are our our listeners top ten overall yeah that'd be a good shot actually yeah if if we we'll score if you send us your top tens and we'll score them we'll put them all into we'll probably just get co-pilot to tell us which one wins won't we? Yeah yeah yeah yeah we might do it. Show us your top show us show us if you sh we've shown your ours you show us yours that's how we play in it Liam Yeah that's that's still we we live and die by those rules don't we? We'll live and die by the the sword of He Man. Thank you Liam um nostalgia will never die well certainly not until we do no no thank you thanks everyone thank you for listening to Who Remembers if you want to get in touch with us you can find us at who rememberspod at outlook.com if you are a right wing fascist you can find us on Twitter at Who RemembersPod or if you're a wokener you can find us on BlueSky at Whorememberspod. Once again thank you for listening and we'll see you next time for more remembering