sledgehammer was pure gold, man was he funny.
the last episode he blew up the city trying to defuse a nuke as i recall...
'trust me i know what i'm doing'
there was a zany show on BCTV called 'zig zag', with the 'biff and bart show'. bart went on to become a famous comedian and tv/movie producer (art from 'the burbs' and dozens of little cameos), biff i swear i hear in bad commercials now and again on the radio.
i used to love robotech, and this wasn't on often but captain harlock was pretty choice too. call it early set-in bias but i cannot stand anything calling itself anime released in a long time, maybe everything people try to show me just happens to suck. why do robots have to have stupid childish voices? maybe most anime (used to be called japanimation) is pretty juvenile and i just got too old.
'the highwayman' had that ridiculous australian sterotype guy, with a huge rig that a helicopter came out of rarely. he beat people up and drove around. it was kind of a dumb show but great when i was 10. he went on to fame as a duracell guy for awhile i think...
'prisoners of gravity' is an AWESOME show, sci-fi book discussions, many golden author interviews with reclusive and dark dudes like joe haldeman, guys that got huge more recently like robert j. sawyer, and total cards like harlan ellison (of 'a boy and his dog' fame) and spider robinson. it still shows up on late-night cable now and again for insomniacs, and it used to rerun on booktv. i guess it wasn't aboot flower arrangement books so it had to go.
hmmm... we used to get CBC north and some strange stuff drifted through that network, i used to watch the odd retelling of old antive folk tales - interesting that things like 'brother bear' are from these ancient parables - i enjoy recognizing things like that.
man i watched too much tv as a child.
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