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Danger Mouse set to return with new episodes !
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The much-loved animated TV hero Danger Mouse is to make a comeback.
The cartoon series, which ran for more than a decade until it ended in 1992, will make his return next year when it is screened by CBBC
Whilst it won't be the same without Terry Scott, I am looking forward to this, providing they don't make him all CGI.
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-06-17/new-danger-mouse-episodes-to-air-on-british-tv/
The cartoon series, which ran for more than a decade until it ended in 1992, will make his return next year when it is screened by CBBC
Whilst it won't be the same without Terry Scott, I am looking forward to this, providing they don't make him all CGI.
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-06-17/new-danger-mouse-episodes-to-air-on-british-tv/
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They will be CGI ing Captain Pugwash soon
That would be just wrong, they ruined Scooby Doo with that, he was the wrong colour and just not right.
Are they just going to use impressions of the previous cast or have new voices for the new generation?
So there wouldn't be much point in older people tuning in for nostalgia sake.
Yeah great way to ruin yet another childhood classic of mine.
So kids TV needs Dangermouse to cater for a new audience ok then air the damn classic episodes!
As usual, any talk of a remake/reboot/re-imagining is met with the same Daily Mail'esque righteous indignation that old things must STAY IN THE PAST!! It's bloody lucky people never felt that way a few hundred years ago, cos Shakespeare's legacy would have been a lot shorter. And classical music... Nope, you can't re-record that or perform it again, it won't be as good as the original!!
As for airing the 'classic episodes' again, that wouldn't work. As good as we remember the show being, it's of its time. In the same way that kids of our/my generation wouldn't have watched a lot of cartoons/children's telly from the 1950's if they had aired them during the 80's.
Is the style and tone not acceptable? Was there topical or un PC content in them that today's youngsters should not see?
Oh I don't know. Many of my generation (1990s/2000s) used to watch repeats of Scooby Doo, Wacky Races, Mr Benn, Dangermouse, Rentaghost, Funky Phantom and even old Looney Tunes shows and they were quite successful. They repeated Dangermouse about 6/7 years ago on CBBC, so I see no reason why they can't do that again. Why go to all the expense of making new shows when repeating old ones - which haven't dated that much if how popular this is with my nephews and neices at my grandma's is anything to go by - is much cheaper and just as effective?
There's a difference between updating an old show to a modern audience (see Doctor Who) and ruining it (see Postman Pat modern version), because ruining it doesn';t mean updating, it means losing the appeal that the shows had.
Yes but as a late 30 something I watch the old scooby doo fine, the old looney tunes fine, the new scooby doo with a romance between Velma and Shaggy NO, the new looney tunes with modern jokes NO.
We have a different generational outlook to the current youngsters, so no the tone and style are no right, it's nothing to do with PC as someone else said when I was 6 or 7 I didn't want to watch Andy Pandy or Flowerpot Men it wasn't my generation.
Childhood ruined >:(
Use to love that and Inspector Gadget.
Because they should leave well enough alone. Make your own ideas up dont ruin the legacy of a show by ruining it with a remake like they did with the a-team film.
Thankfully the DVDs of the classic series are avaliable in the shops & ill be buying 10 copies of the dvds to send to friends who have kids who can enjoy the real version.
BIB Yes, I'm sure you will (insert rolleyes here), then you woke up and fell out of bed.
You seem to be taking over Billy Value's job on here of posting, for the sake of it.
They were trying to bring the program back then, starting up Cosgrove Hall again, but with Hall Jr as Hall has died IIRC.
The creators can do what they like with the characters, including updating/reviving them after a lay off, they want.
Doesn't mean old giffers have to watch it, nor like it.
Too late they already did a CGI Captain Pugwash about five years ago.
If I have to I will provide a recipt of it aswell.
I think part of the problem with Postman Pat (and Thomas) is that they tried to invent a million new characters, so that there were a million new product marketing opportunities. I'm sure that's what killed off Brum....
I'm pretty sure Penfold's catchphrase was 'Crumbs Chief' rather than 'Crumbs DM' as quoted in the ITV article (IMMIC)