Ever re-discovered a movie or TV series you loved as a kid?

[linuxforartists]

There was a thing on Facebook a little while back where people changed their profile pictures to their favorite cartoon show as a kid.

My choice was SWAT Kats (watch intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_AdxJWFUh4)). I still think of it as such a badass show. Two cats fly an awesome jet and use high-tech weapons to destroy a giant monster every week. Like a cross between Top Gun and Godzilla.

Then I started thinking of movies. Back when I was a kid, I saw a comedy about people attend a driving school to get their driver's licenses. I thought that movie was hilarious. There was a scene where an old lady says, "Why is my back wet?" that had me rolling! Years later, I still think of that as one of the funniest moments I've ever seen.

But I can't for the life of me remember the name of that movie! It was on cable TV late one night, and I never saw it again. If anyone knows what it's called, I'd appreciate it.

[Cuddles McKitten]

DINOSAUCERS! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhJSD8RU4k)

[3Miro]

StarCom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwwhZHERlG4

[Spice Weasel]

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines ;)

[beercz]

Colditz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_%28TV_series%29)

[dmizer]

If anyone knows what it's called, I'd appreciate it.
Moving Violations? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089629/

Yup -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089629/quotes?qt0256323

[kkaldroma]

space: above and beyond (http://www.tv.com/space-above-and-beyond/show/427/summary.html?q=space%20above%20and%20beyond&tag=search_results;title;1)

[forrestcupp]

The Last Starfighter

[1roxtar]

I recently introduced my kids to two movie series that I grew up with and they LOVED them!!!

Gremlins I & II
Short Circuit I & II

[LowSky]

i ran into a few of them and thought, "wow i actually liked this?"

[Cuddles McKitten]

i ran into a few of them and thought, "wow i actually liked this?"

The best example of that: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/You_Can't_Do_That_On_Television.

[mips]

Ravioli (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravioli_(Fernsehserie))
Varano Azul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verano_azul)
Heidi, Girl of the Alps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi,_Girl_of_the_Alps)
Maya the Honey Bee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_the_Bee_(TV_series))
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Adventures_of_Nils_(anime))
Once Upon a Time... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time...)
Piccolino no Bōken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Piccolino)
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtanian)
The World of David the Gnome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_David_the_Gnome)
The Raccoons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raccoons)
Fables of the Green Forest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables_of_the_Green_Forest)
The Mysterious Cities of Gold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold)
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_Lord_of_the_Jungle)

Would love to have all theses.

[forrestcupp]

The best example of that: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/You_Can't_Do_That_On_Television.

That was a great show. Alanis Morissette was on that show as a child. Wasn't the cook's name Barth?

[samalex]

Most of these are shows I've either picked-up on DVD in the last few years or I'm still looking for...

Automan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automan)
Manimal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal)
Original V Series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%281983_miniseries%29)
Great Space Coaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Space_Coaster)
Greatest American Hero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_American_Hero)
Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benji,_Zax_%26_the_Alien_Prince)
Earth 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_2_%28TV_series%29)

[samalex]

For some reason Ubuntu Forums duplicated my post -- so disregard this one.

Also while trying to scrub this duplicate entry I got this error:


Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request POST /editpost.php.

Reason: Error reading from remote server

Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) Server at ubuntuforums.org Port 80

I wonder if UF is having problems.

[mips]

I wonder if UF is having problems.

I think it is, there seems to be a lot of double posts today.

[forrestcupp]

Most of these are shows I've either picked-up on DVD in the last few years or I'm still looking for...

Automan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automan)
Manimal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal)
Original V Series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%281983_miniseries%29)
Great Space Coaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Space_Coaster)
Greatest American Hero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_American_Hero)
Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benji,_Zax_%26_the_Alien_Prince)
Earth 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_2_%28TV_series%29)

+1 for Manimal, original V, and Greatest American Hero.

I thought Manimal was awesome in the day, but it definitely didn't age well. Have you seen it recently? It's very bad.

Airwolf was awesome, too. The Rockford Files was a great show that will always be great.

Does anyone remember The Equalizer, and The Master?

[Little Bones]

I rediscovered Pingu when I was studying for exams and procrastinating.

[linuxforartists]

Moving Violations? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089629/

Yup -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089629/quotes?qt0256323

THAT'S IT! Many thanks, dmizer. I just checked by watching the trailer on YouTube (Moving Violations Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKU85IV0_Bw)). From the looks of things, the movie only had a limited run on DVD. The prices on Amazon.com and Ebay are insanely expensive. Must be a real collector's item now.

Luckily, a user named TrafficCriminal (http://www.youtube.com/user/TrafficCriminal) uploaded the whole Moving Violations movie to Youtube.


i ran into a few of them and thought, "wow i actually liked this?"

Ha ha! I felt like that when I watched The Flash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eea2wUO4z28) TV series on DVD a few years back. Totally appalled at how cheesy it was, but still fun. I used to stay up late for that show as a kid.

MacGyver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQvBbzslJE), on the other hand, will always be cool.

Glad so many of you included YouTube links to the intro sequences of those shows. Good idea!

[MisterGaribaldi]

Mighty Man and Yukk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RayeVA675TQ&feature=related)

[stuart.reinke]

I remember watching.
Airwolf
The A Team
The Dukes of Hazzard

My 8 year old son has recently discovered reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard.
He is as in to it now as I was way back then when I was 8.

A lot of those old programs are available to watch on Hulu.com

[nothingspecial]

There was a thing on Facebook a little while back where people changed their profile pictures to their favorite cartoon show as a kid.



That is your fault for using facebook.


However, I watched "Battle of the Planets" a while a go. I was upset that it was garbage.


For that reason, I refuse to watch Tom Sawyer/Hucklberry Finn

I loved those.

[sn0m]

yea shameless.

[cammin]

i ran into a few of them and thought, "wow i actually liked this?"

Voltron
That poor, poor, robot having to deal with those 5 annoying guys all the time.
If ever a robot needed to be fueled by alcohol, that would have been it.

[m4tic]

remember watching the smurfs at breakfast before going to school, i was 5-7

[Evil-Ernie]

Starfleet (English dubbed version of X-Bomber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Bomber))

Ulysses 31 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31)

Jamie and the magic torch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_and_his_Magic_Torch)

[bikodog]

Star Blazers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers

[linuxforartists]

Voltron
That poor, poor, robot having to deal with those 5 annoying guys all the time.
If ever a robot needed to be fueled by alcohol, that would have been it.

Ha ha! So funny. That quote totally made my day.

[Frogs Hair]

Excalibur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOqlV4Le9Tk

[The Real Dave]

Danger Mouse :) (http://www.google.ie/url?q=http://www.spike.com/video/2795599&sa=X&ei=_-IfTYK8HYuwhQew6cy3Dg&ved=0CE4QuAIwCw&usg=AFQjCNFwAM02XQOGKCx1tUMnZjobdaOz7A)