Wacaday - Timmy Mallet and Michaela Strachan (1989)
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- I can't tell you how excited I was to find this at the end of a VHS tape! The evidence suggests it's from the summer of 1989 (possibly Thursday 3rd August), and the icing on the cake is that as well as the inimitable Timmy Mallet, this episode of Wacaday is co-presented by Michaela Strachan. Utterly, utterly brilliant.
Sadly, the first half has been recorded over, so no Mallet's Mallet, but you get a good taste of what the show was like at this point in its history. There are features such as Wactors and Wactresses, the Won Ton Soup phone-in, and of course Wac Snaps (set to Bros's latest masterpiece, no less) at the end. I've left in the adverts as broadcast for the full retro flavour.
The theme of these particular hols seems to have been Thailand (hence all the ties: TIE-land... Geddit?) It's actually a lot more educational than I remembered, and to my surprise, Timmy treats the Buddhist temples with suitable solemnity in his report.
At the very beginning, you get a brief glimpse of a US cartoon called Galaxy High. I have absolutely no memory of this whatsoever, but there was about a minute's worth on this tape (which I snipped because it's available on DVD), and one of the characters clearly had the voice of Bart Simpson. Made me chuckle, anyway.
(Please remember that this is an off-air VHS recording, so don't go expecting 1080p HD quality. I'm fairly certain that this video isn't commercially available, and I've uploaded it for its historic interest only. That said, if you are a copyright holder and object, please don't hesitate to contact me.)
Has there ever been a lovelier, more wholesome female presenter than Michaela?
Amazing yeah, I also liked the one who did scrap heap challenge
Wacaday was awesome. Childrens British TV is crap and dull nowadays!!
Can't be the only one here who used to think Elton John and Timmy Mallett were the same people...
I'm still going through my old tapes, so if I find anything like that, I'll upload it. :-)
I could never watch this when my dad was around, he hated Timmy Mallet but I think he’ll agree that it’s better than the crap kids watch today.
And like all the best kids' TV shows, when in its prime loads of "concerned parents" tried to ban Wacaday. Looking at it today through adult eyes, I can barely believe just how, well, *wholesome* the show was. Plenty of silliness, of course, but it's nowhere near as randomly redundant as much of what gets shown these days.
Ha - I was the girl on this show!! Wish you had the mallets mallet!!
Oh, fantastic! Was it a nice fun day out for you? I'm sure it must have been a memorable experience. :-)
(It's a real pity that the recording only cut in halfway through - sorry about that. Here's hoping the full episode will show up one day!)
VideotapeFTW be awesome if it does show up - or if the boy has a copy!! :(
@@georgesgirlies2010 would love to hear your wacaday story !
Good ear, Nancy (Bart Simpson) Cartwight was indeed one of the cast on Galaxy High. :)
Thanks for posting! I'm about to go through my VHS and am praying to find some WAC somewhere :-)
After ten years, did you find any?? 😂
great stuff, but original Wake Awake Club footage with the original theme tune would be priceless
even the adverts! i guess all this stuff is archived somewhere, it should be put on line linked with catagolues and mags etc the page could be called time machine.
ps 20:15 henry cavil- i just found your pants!
I hated Timmy Mallet but Michaela Strachan was beautiful, i had such a huge crush on her when i was just a boy. BTW, great pic quaility for a VHS! was is SVHS?
Will the shoes still be there when you come out?
pretty good quality for vhs!
no mallet's mallet on this one
Yeah, only the second half was on the tape, unfortunately.
George
the Third!
Absolute bollocks....how can you "hop" from Asia to Australia without crossing an ocean ?