Where did all the crazy & messed up kid’s TV go?
Kid’s TV just isn’t as weird, messed up and scary as it used to be, is it?
Here are five of my favourite shows as a kid, before my parents got Sky TV and my brother and I became brainwashed by Nickelodeon.
After watching them all back on YouTube I’ve realised that it’s no surprise I’m such an odd little human being.
A boy called Marshall Teller moves to the strange town of Eerie in Indiana where all kinds of weird and wonderful things start happening.
Memory that stuck with me: A guy feeds something (maybe himself) into a cash machine.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9UJJb7tMyY&w=480&h=360]
A TV series created by Jim Henson, with John Hurt as the storyteller. There were only nine episodes and each was a weird interpretation of an old folk tale.
Memory that stuck with me: Strange creatures that live in a pond and drown people with music and when the soldier plays cards with lots of little devils.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAyNkZ-ZQ0k&w=480&h=360]
A family live in a haunted lighthouse and again, all kinds of weird and wonderful things start happening (yes, a pattern is beginning to emerge).
Memory that stuck with me: One (or lots) of the characters starting growing what they thought were fingernails all over their body and then they turned out to be scales as they were becoming mermaids/mermen. Oh, and the ridiculously catchy theme tune.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdwK_66VClg&w=480&h=360]
A boy called Jay has an accident and falls into a deep coma. Inside his coma he finds himself in some mental apocalyptic world run by children.
Memory that stuck with me: Some really scary scene in a corn field.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hmzFqC2nrs&w=480&h=360]
Arguably the most normal out of the lot, the Goosebumps TV shows were based on the popular books by R. L. Stine. All were scary stories written for kids but many were nowhere near as tame as some of the rubbish “scary films” of the modern day.
Memory that stuck with me: The episode with the shrunken heads.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB-SOpGl8Go&w=480&h=360]
