Ridiculous Moments in Television

Monkey!

One of my favorite shows growing up as a kid.

From Wikipedia:

Monkey is the dubbed English language version of the Japanese television series Saiy?ki (????), based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en.[1] It was originally produced by Nippon Television (NTV) and International Television Films in association with NHK.

The series ran for two seasons of 26 episodes each. The first season ran from October 1978 to April 1979. The second season ran from November 1979 to May 1980. Both seasons had footage shot on location in north-west China and Inner Mongolia.

The show is unusual in that it was performed by Japanese actors in China and then dubbed into English. The English language version was produced by the BBC and broadcast in the United Kingdom in November 1979, and in Australia in May 1981. The script for the dubbed dialogue was written by David Weir. It ran for only 39 episodes, because at the discretion of the BBC select episodes were not dubbed for the original run. These remaining episodes were dubbed by Fabulous Films Ltd in early 2004 by the original actors following a successful release of the English dubbed series on VHS and DVD. The missing 13 episodes were shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2004.

More Monkey here.

Some interesting Monkey facts:

Update: I was always a fan of the Monkey Cloud.

No, not that one.

Please share your favorite monkey memories.

3 thoughts on “Ridiculous Moments in Television”

  1. Jim from Iowa

    You watched a lot of this "Monkey Magic" tv show as a kid, huh? This was when you were young and impressionable, right? That might explain quite a lot then, Dave. Here in the States, H.R. Pufnstuf had some of the same production values and (apparently) incoherent story lines. I have heard the producers, brothers Sid and Marty Krofft hated each others' guts. I found this somehow strangely reassuring as an adult.

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