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Following on from an Editorial written before I took my medicine,the first “Uncle Terry’s Shop Of Memories”,looks at two TV programmes any kid in the UK watched in the 1960s and wowed at!

Although I never knew it,Kaitei Shounen Marine [”Seabottom Boy Marine”],was one of my favourite TV cartoons when a kid. Even my friends were hooked on it. Of course,we called it Marine Boy!

Odd theme but a great series and for years I could never find anyone who remembered it past “a boy underwater with a dolphin”!

Thank goodness for the internet but even more so for Absolute Anime! You can find out more about Marine Boy on this great site!

http://www.absoluteanime.com/marine_boy/

Marine Boy theme -hey,YouTube has it’s uses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqSkY4vtVY

Tetsujin 28 Go was another of our favourites. A giant robot with a pointy nose,action and adventure and superior villains. Yep,we knew it as Gigantor! Once again,Absolute Anime has saved my crazed mind as people said I was imagining the series! As if!

For info on Gigantor go to

http://www.absoluteanime.com/gigantor/index.htm

And for an absolutely fandabby-dosey theme:

http://www.gigantor.org/sounds/gigantor.wav

The next big “Anime” series [hey,we only knew them as “cartoons”!] on British TV would be The Battle Of The Planets -before it was sanitised and ruined! But I am not going into that here!

Oxi-gum and boomerangs [why were boomerangs so important to Japanese anime??],giant robots….The Impossibles,Shazam The Geni and The Arabian Knights on Saturday morning TV….

“Size Of a comic genius!!” Never works. Do you remember Marine Boy or Gigantor?  Are you too young to remember them?  Do you care?  Who cares?  I care!!

For plenty of other links try:

http://www.sff.net/people/terry_mcgarry/blasts.htp#mb