Sci-fi comedy that time forgot

[hummingbird]

I was browsing in HMV today and came across a show that I’d completely forgotten about… anybody remember Kinvig? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinvig

I seem to remember it being quite unfunny and full of rubber suited monsters. A poor man’s Hitchhikers’ Guide, of sorts. But was only a kid at the time so I could be wrong.
Anyone remember it?

Interestingly it was written by Nigel Kneale who, among a whole host of other things, wrote Quatermass.

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[si]

Worse than Hyperdrive?

Will I get less stick now?

[hummingbird]

It’s not even on youtube, that’s how bad it is. I can’t seem to find any clips of it at all.

[ori-STUDFARM]

I’ve been searching the internets for articles on forgotten UK comedies. Loads of articles on the subject and even they’ve forgotten about this!

I like the way we can judge how terrible something was by whether it has you tube clips or not!

“How bad is it?”

>”It?s not even on youtube, that?s how bad it is. I can?t seem to find any clips of it at all.”

[hummingbird]

I’ve tried to rent it, but it’s not available on lovefilm.com.
I really don’t want to buy this just to confirm how awful it is, but it would be fun to watch once.

[Ben Paddon]

My first girlfriend absolutely loved this shit sitcom about a family who move into a house to find it haunted by the ghost of an old Jewish woman. I forget what it’s called but she recorded all six episodes and once she made me watch the whole thing.

[Danny Stephenson]

Rentaghost

[Pete Part Three]

[Dave]

>My first girlfriend absolutely loved this shit sitcom about a family who move into a house to find it haunted by the ghost of an old Jewish woman

So Haunt Me

[Carlito]

I liked So Haunt Me.

[Tarka Dal]

So did I!

[Carlito]

Not exactly sci-fi though was it?

If So Haunt Me was sci-fi, so was Mike & Angelo.

[Andrew]

> So did I!

Ditto.

[si]

And me. It’d probably be shit though if we went back and watched it now.

[Pete Part Three]

“probably” = “definitely”

[Jonathan Capps]

PETE HAS SPOKEN.

[Pete Part Three]

Actually, I typed. Although, I did mouth the words as I struck the buttons (as I’m prone to do when I know I’m right).

[Dave]

>Actually, I typed. Although, I did mouth the words as I struck the buttons (as I?m prone to do when I know I?m right).

Now you sound like a character in a tense psychological drama about computers. Are you Sandra Bullock?

[Pete Part Three]

Well, I was. But then they erased my identity, goddammit!

[John Hoare]

You know, even I remember not being that keen on So Haunt Me when I was younger.

But I feel an irresistible urge to find out whether I was right…

[Ben Paddon]

Maybe I can get in touch with my ex, who thoroughly hates my guts, and ask her to mail you the video.

[Pete Part Three]

I rest my case.

[The PerformingMonkey]

God it’s so so bad. In fact, that whole clip with the Waiting For God trail and oh so straight BBC announcer just makes me feel ill. No-one has any right to complain about current TV. This is without getting into the whole BBC sitcom debate, of course. Or the children’s TV debacle. But other than that things are far better than early ’90s.

[Tarka Dal]

> Not exactly sci-fi though was it? If So Haunt Me was sci-fi, so was Mike & Angelo.

Mike and Angelo is sci-fi isn’t it? So Haunt Me… well it’s fantasy so it’s genre.

[Carlito]

Well surely science fiction should by its very nature be fiction with science at the heart of it? Questions of science, inventions of science, commentary on science. I know the definition has kind of warped and broadened over the years, but still…

Mike & Angelo was a show about an alien living with a human family. How is that science fiction?

[Ben Paddon]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is technically a scifi movie as the story revolves in no small part around a piece of fictional science.

[Tarka Dal]

> Mike & Angelo was a show about an alien living with a human family. How is that science fiction?

I’d answer that, but I think you allready did in your post. Also I don’t think either of us want to be drawn into a debate about Mike n’ fucking Angelo.

There was a BBC show with a similar premise. The Alien had back to front ears and looked a bit like teenage John Maloney. Anyone?

[ori-STUDFARM]

ALF!! He ate cats too!

[Carlito]

> I?d answer that, but I think you allready did in your post. Also I don?t think either of us want to be drawn into a debate about Mike n? fucking Angelo.

Hey, I loved early Mike & Angelo. Remember watching series 1 with a different actor playing Angelo.

Also aliens don’t = science.

[hummingbird]

> technically a scifi movie as the story revolves in no small part around a piece of fictional science

I’d agree that if a fictional scientific idea is central to the story then it is classed as science fiction.

But you also have to include shows where the fictional science is incidental, rather than central to the plot.
For example, Firefly, where the individual story arcs are not centred around, and not dependent on, sci-fi concepts.

[Pete Part Three]

>There was a BBC show with a similar premise. The Alien had back to front ears and looked a bit like teenage John Maloney. Anyone?

Watt on Earth?

[ori-STUDFARM]

^ Peep Peep- The Boy From Space?
No wait, he had backwards writing, not ears!

[Tarka Dal]

> Watt on Earth?

I said there was a BBC SHow with a similar prem-

[Danny Stephenson]

Watt on Earth?

JESUS CHRIST! I’d forgotten about that show. i remember they either recast or changed the idea that he had backwards ears to having just green ears.

That is weird that i remember that!!!!!

[Jo]

I also remember this!!

Just found the opening sequence on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsC7bP9KtUw
Isn’t it weird how you can have totally forgotten about something and then one little thing sends memories flooding back?
I had a similar experience recently with Simon and the Witch :o)

[John Hoare]

PIP AND JANE BAKER MY GOD.

[ChrisM]

>I had a similar experience recently with Simon and the Witch :o)

I remember the books of that long before the series. Just shows how old I am…

[Michael Warren]

Oh no, now I’m going to spend an hour clicking “related video” links on YouTube looking at old title sequences…

[Carlito]

I finally found the original Mike & Angelo intro on Youtube with the first theme tune… I had this random theme tune stuck in my head for years whenever anyone mentioned Mike & Angelo and it wasn’t the well-known theme as heard here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1JdQTKgiWQ

Considering the original Tyler Butterworth series was aired in 1989, when I was 6 years old, I wanted to see if my memory was amazing or if I was just confused. But I was right; the theme tune was exactly what I kept hearing in my head!

The intro I found wasn’t Butterworth though, so I’m guessing it was the first Tim Whitnall series.

Here it is @ 5:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEjGnci3HP8&feature=related

Also happened upon Mac McDonald in a Wotsits advert @ 4:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S_DTc0vdmA

[Carlito]

There’s something quite Rimmer-esque about Angelo’s attire, methinks.

[Danny Stephenson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1JdQTKgiWQ

The idea of the shifting set with the locked camera was quite a bold idea for the time. Look at the set shaking, bless them.

[Tarka Dal]

> There?s something quite Rimmer-esque about Angelo?s attire, methinks.

This.

Speaking of Rimmer, I was watching Inbetweeners with a mate of mine when he pointed out that the guy who plays Will has a bit of a Rimmer-esque feel about him.

[Tarka Dal]

In terms of kids shows/themes:

FTW

I’d have that as my ringtone, if I had a phone.

[Carlito]

> I was watching Inbetweeners with a mate of mine when he pointed out that the guy who plays Will has a bit of a Rimmer-esque feel about him.

I think he’s more of a David Mitchell-lite.

[Carlito]

Did anyone else find the banter in The Inbetweeners became a lot more pompous and annoying by the end of series 2, or is it just me?

[Pete Part Three]

>I think he?s more of a David Mitchell-lite.

Yeah, I get a “Mark Corrigan: the early years” vibe.

[Tarka Dal]

> I think he?s more of a David Mitchell-lite.

Given. However the first half of the the last episode (mostly about revision) is very Rimmer / Dwarf in his scenes.

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