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All posts tagged "Awkwardly overdubbed Euro business that goes on for bloody ages"
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6.1K11Cream over Britain“It gets a little hairy up at the old scoreboard…”
Now look, the Eurovision Song Contest is a TV programme, not a music competition. A TV programme, right? And that's why TV...
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3.6K1TV: L is for...Love at First Sight
In the brave new enterprising world of 1990s British telly, deregulation-happy ITV companies gallop dizzily down the gangplank into a Europe that's...
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8.7K6TV: W is for...
Wattoo Wattoo: Superbird
FRENCH-DERIVED CARTOON about a bunch of greedy, untidy, irritable geese the Zwas
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7.6K8TV: P is for...
Pole Position
TYRE-SOME IMPORT (do you see?) drawn in that crappy style of the time whereby everyone had massive eyeballs, triangular mouths and "moved"...
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9.1K12TV: M is for...
Mysterious Cities of Gold
YET ANOTHER Spanish speciality served up over here in something like one thousands parts
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10.3K7TV: O is for...
Once Upon A Time… Man
WELL-REMEMBERED if pretentiously-titled Gallic historicals.
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5.4K7TV: I is for...
Inspector Gadget
EXECREABLE ECCENTRIC with show-off retractable limb assortment and punchable face.
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7.1K6TV: A is for...
Around the World with Willy Fog
"Hey, I've got a great idea for a cartoon! Why not take some old classic book, one that's out of copyright, and...
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7.4K6TV: D is for...
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
WILLY FOG might have been testing the limits of literary credibility somewhat
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7.3K6TV: S is for...
Secret of Steel City, The
CZECH/BULGARIAN DRAMA defects to the west and gets dubbed for its troubles.
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4.0KTV: R is for...
Robostory
ENDLESS FRENCH cartoon, often found filling in summer weekday mornings
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3.3K2TV: B is for...
Belle and Sebastian
ORIGINAL LIVE ACTION version of this Alpen-yawn business saw eight-year-old Seb tame mysterious beast of the mountains
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4.4K3TV: C is for...
Chateauvallon
DISEMBARK, IF you will, upon the verdant shores of Gaul
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3.1KTV: C is for...
Captain Zeppos
BUMPTIOUS BELGIUM PRODUCTION
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3.2K2TV: C is for...
Captain Nemo’s Undersea Adventures
EARLY ENTRY in the endless foreign import animation stable
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2.8KTV: M is for...
Mika
ONE-HIT WONDER Freddie Mercury rip-off merchant who Steve Wright played to death in early 2007.
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3.8K2TV: F is for...
Flashing Blade, The
FORGET YOUR WILLY FOGG and DOGTANIAN: this was most definitely the right kind of poorly-dubbed European export.
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5.0K5TV: H is for...
Heidi
Infamous school holiday-spanning serial of War And Peace proportions
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3.8KTV: O is for...
Once Upon A Time…Life
ENDLESSLY REPEATED French animation epic purporting to make plain the workings of the human body through cheery-faced cartoonery.
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12.0K13TV: O is for...
Oskar, Kina and the Laser
NOW THIS is what we call obscure.
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3.8K2TV: L is for...
Legend of Tim Tyler, The
MITTEL-EUROPEAN PROFUNDITY
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2.2KTV: S is for...
Shadoks
BONKERS FRENCH space cartoon seen briefly on holiday weekdays
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4.9KTV: U is for...
Ulysses 31
NOT A James Joyce in sight for this dubbed Mediterranean wonder.
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