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Chapi-Chapo (1974)
Anybody else in the States remember this on "Pinwheel"?
I did a search a couple of years ago on this pair of clay-mated characters and was immediately transported back to my childhood, watching "Pinwheel" on Nickelodeon. I found an mp3 of the Chapi Chapo theme song and was in heaven. There were a lot of good "shorts" on Pinwheel and this was certainly one of them.
I truly wish Nickelodeon (or one of its offspring channels) would start showing some of these programs. A lot of what inspires me now as an adult stems from some of the programming I used to watch back then. I'm afraid there's nothing out there as peculiar as some of the shows that used to appear on TV 20 years ago or so.
In addition to Chapi Chapo, Pinwheel had "Bagpuss" another stop-motion animated thing as well as "Emily" about a girl who always wore red and her adventures with her brother and sister. I really miss those shows and wish I could find them again.
Midnight Madness (1980)
Before the "Amazing Race" there was the Great All-Nighter
I'm not going to knock the technical aspects or acting in this movie. I just simply want to say I enjoyed it when I was a kid watching it almost daily on cable TV. I thought it was a cool concept to have this sort of game and I suppose I thought it had a "zany" comic touch.
I was delighted to find it on DVD one day as I wondered the aisles of a local video store. I picked it up and subjected my closest friends to a personal viewing. Their response was less than lukewarm. I guess you had to see it before becoming an adult to give it an unbiased viewing; before seeing many other b-grade movies.
I found I had a far greater appreciation for it. My favorite things about this movie: 1. The blue team's high-tech on-board clue-solving computer 2. Paul Ruebens's brief appearance in the arcade scene 3. The visit to the Pabst brewery
It's an innocent and harmless way to blow an afternoon!