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All the talk of nostaligia this morning got me to thinking, what was the most significant Saturday morning kids show for me? Remember when all cartoons were linked by a show that would go on from approximately 9.25am until well after noon? I was looking for this to add to the collection earlier, but with no success. Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you ‘Round The Bend‘

Ok, so this is the cover of the ZX Spectrum video cassette, but have you any idea how difficult it is to find anything to do with Round The Bend? I can’t express just how much of an influence this show was on me during my formative years, with its toilet based shennanigans leaving me doubled up in knots every saturday morning as a carefree 8 year old.

In what was essentially Spitting Image for kids, this was a peurile, disgusting, foul show, which I couldn’t have loved more. Very few people in my class watched it, but I remember how excited I would be when it was on. The parodies of popular cartoons such as ‘Wee Man & The Masters of the Loo-niverse’ were not too far removed from Viz material.

With pretty much everything that was ever filmed in the world ever now available on the internet, I have never been able to find more than a few minor clips of this. If ANYONE has video recordings of this, please get in contact with me! I’m sure that we can sort something out.

Round the Bend was a real one off, it never underestimated kids and hit our screens just before all kids TV became banal, ‘extreme’ shite with lots of squealing and shiny paedophiles. It was filthy, rotten and a terrible influence, which was exactly what kids want.

It was replaced in 1989 by the hugely inferior Ghost Train, which whilst trying pretty hard (and we liked Nobby The Sheep), could never live up to the legacy that Doc Croc and companions left behind.

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