To feel sad that our children don't have Saturday morning programmes

[DonaldStott]

Going Live was my fave. Trevor and Simon were my heroes. Swing ya pants. Pork Winchester. Ninja day off etc. Ahh. I used to wake up for these programmes. So sad there is no Saturday crazy progs anymore. I even used to watch smtv in my 20's.

What? Born in 1995??

Bloody hell, I've eaten yogurts with earlier best before dates.

Does anyone else remember the Flashing Blade? (Circa 1988)

It was originally one of those European 1970s kids action serials, but had been re-dubbed to comic effect. I'd be helpless with laughter.

1995? I've eaten yogurts with earlier best before dates! Does that mean you can't remember a world before the internet?

Does anyone else remember The Flashing Blade? (The comedy dubbed version circa 1988, not the original 1960s French series) it used to have me howling with laughter every week.

Oops posted that twice.

When I was a teen and Timmy Mallett was still on top form on ITV wide awake club / morning telly I was travelling in the car with my parents when two kids in another car did the Wackaday Wave at me and I did it back to them. They were so happy and so was I!

I saw all the Saturday morning TV, from Tizwaz to SMTV/CDUK, from my tiny childhood days up to my 30's. It was happy TV, uniting TV, a shared cultural experience and ever so British.

I think Dick and Dom were the very last of this type of show and I flipping miss it.

Why don't you? The kids who presented it were a right bunch of prissy middle-class arseaches.

Yes! the the Flashing Blade! Wonderful stuff. What a strange idea though, a 60's french tv show and redub it for laughs?

Anyone remember Matt Bianco getting sworn at by a kid on the phone during the phone in?

Hey!
Wikipedia says The Flashing Blade comedy dubbing was scripted by Russell T Davies.

Glad to find a fellow Flashing Blade fan. And the voices we done by a young John Culshaw apparently.

They're on YouTube so guess how I'll be spending my Saturday afternoon!

OP if you haven't seen it already you NEED to look up Trevor and Simon 'pants tag' on YouTube! It makes me cry with laughter!

Used to have to get out of bed at 8:50am on Saturday morning to get cereal and prime seat for Going Live!

Also remember being hungover with DH on Saturday mornings playing Wonky Donkey.

I bet everyone sang the live and kicking phone number when the saw it written!

I sang it!

My great-aunt thought ITV was so common that she removed the channel button from the TV (this was before remote controls) and sellotape it up

I'm only 21 and I agree with IMissGrannyW, there and tons of channels just for kids.

think chocvy is right. It was 081, as it was before the '01' prefix wasn't it?

Absolutely 100% right - I'm even singing it instead of reading it!
081 811 81, 81!

I loved Going Live.
"WE DON'T DO DUVETS!"
"Froggy went a'courtin, he did ride, ahum, ahhummm" - swing your pants now!"

Then Live and Kicking and Wacaday with Timmy mallet.
"Look at each other and say BLEURGH!"

I remember a programme called something like parallel 9?? I'm sure it was that. It was in a caravan or something and had the woman with the annoying laugh from neighbours

Anyway they would show a music video at the end each week. My 12 year old self never played attention till one week and I fell in love with the lead singer of a band, I was obsessed from that moment. Watched it every week religiously after that in case they were shown again.....

Paid not played bloody phone changing stuff again !

DD watches Scrambled on CITV, which is on Sat and Sun mornings --doesn't look live to me but it is not quite the same as Swap Shop, or Tiswas/Trevor and Simon (both of which I watched in my late teens or adulthood)

CBBC has a programme on Friday nights titled 'the CBBC official chart show' but there is less and less music on it every week

However I am evidently a 1,000 years older than you as I may possibly have watched it with a hangover

Ah yes, the Get Along Gang got me through a nasty hangover...

I bloody loved SMTV live. Challenge Ant and Wonky Donkey.

I once had a letter read out on Tizwas - my proudest moment

I agree with you OP - it's too much these days - we loved every show when it was only on 2 hours a day and 3 on Sat

I loved the Flashing Blades as well and is anyone old enough to remember The Sunday Gang?

I remember Parrallel 9, waitingimpatiently! I think it used to be on when Live and Kicking was taking a break? I remember it being properly shit but I used to watch it because there was nothing else on. It had Melanie from Neighbour and an Alien(!) The Little Green Man.

I loved Going Live and then Live and Kicking when Going Live finished (although it felt like pretty much the same show but with different presenters). I remember my sister spending ages on the phone trying to get through to aske a celebrity a question 😂 (Probably Bros or Jason Donovan).

I was "Boo'd" on Ghost Train in about 1990 and am a Mafiette

Live and Kicking was my favourite and SMTV became compulsory student viewing when you had a hangover, like the Hollyoaks Omnibus on a Sunday