With all the talks about closing the broadcasting corporation, I started to remember my childhood and all the nightmares that the “educational” television caused me. I think that we, the children of the 90s, deserve some kind of compensation or at least an apology for the deep psychological damages that have been caused to us, regardless of Ayala Hasson. At that time there were no resources, i.e. money, for local creation and as helpless little ones we were forced to watch every flickering thing that appeared on the ground and gave our parents peace. Yes, it was a beautiful and innocent time, but have you ever thought about what crazy things went into our subconscious? What demons are running around in our dreams?
Bizarre procurement plans: Japanese, Russian, Spanish and French, populated by hybrid fortifications made of plasticine, paper cuttings and scraps of human flesh from which dark warehouses they were scraped. We children of the eighties and nineties are the initial victims of the experiments of the Israeli network.
So here is a list of all the series that gave us nightmares, not according to the size of the trauma.
Candy Can Do It
An English learning program from the 1980s with the participation of Kennedy – a female computer with artificial intelligence capable of speaking, singing and feeling human emotions. So it turns out that the AI was already invented in the 80’s and even then it was scary to God.
“Chappy Chappo”
A French stop-motion series that debuted in 1974, each episode was between 60 seconds and five minutes. The series was also broadcast for the first time on American television as part of the broadcast on the Nickelodeon channel in 1980. The meaning of the name is a pun on the French word hat.
There are no words to describe the fear and terror that gripped me when the creepy sound at the beginning of this sick segment was heard, it must be the devil’s tune. Scary, dirty twin dolls that move supernaturally, run around like a possessed man on a white marble surface and mumble twisted gibberish “what the flying pack”?
If you put together the faucet hanging in the Ayalon Mall, a painting by Dali, a film by David Lynch and a dream by Tim Burton, you will not get such a horror show.
“Tafodi and Nikki”
Apples and Nicky is a British animated children’s television series based on a series of books by Paul Groves and Edward McLachlan. The series follows two chimpanzee brothers whose way to have fun is to cause others grief, or in other words a normal day in the Knesset plenum.
“Pingo”
Pingo is a Swiss-British comedy television series for children in plasticine animation created by Ottmar Gutmann and produced for Swiss television between 1990 and 2000, and for British television between 2003 and 2006. This is another unnecessary stop made of plasticine. As a child I never connected to this animated style, something about the unnatural movement of the plasticine “give me de prix”.
Pingo the penguin lives his life in an igloo in Antarctica with his family and for some reason he is always helpless, poor and suffering. What did this program give us? Why was it created? And why did they decide to broadcast it? So many questions.
“Shaltiel Kwak”
Sheltiel Quack, is an animated series “for children” based on a play by the Dutch playwright Herman van Veen. The 52 episodes of the series were originally produced for television in 1989 as part of a Japanese-Dutch-German collaboration.
Shortly after hatching from the egg, Sheltiel Kwak lost his parents, brothers and sisters in a car accident. Hafi the mole, a good friend of his family, raises him. Is there a series that is no longer suitable for children?
If Holocaust Day wasn’t enough for you here, you’ll get a glimpse of the Hitler youth in the form of crows and other farm animals. Who asked for the Holocaust to be accessible to toddlers and didn’t get it?
“Pinocchio”
Pinocchio is a Japanese anime series based on the children’s book “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by the Italian writer Carlo Collodi. The 52-episode series was produced for television in 1976 in a Japanese-German collaboration. In Israel, the series was initially broadcast on educational television on Channel One, dubbing into Hebrew between 1981-1982 and in repeat broadcasts over the years.
Pinocchio from the beginning is a creepy and sickening story, a kind of Frankenstein for children. A wooden doll that comes to life and tries to get a body of flesh and blood? creepy. So not only that now it’s also a cartoon version made by the Japanese, you can understand where this is going.
“yard cats”
Yard Cats is a Canadian television series that was broadcast in Israel with Hebrew dubbing for the first time in 1996. I personally really liked “yard cats”, what’s wrong with older people dressed up as cats? For some reason a lot of people weren’t that connected to the concept, at least that’s what I heard.
Because she was dubbed into Hebrew, I was always sure that Cat is really C. Hyman, but no, you can understand that the level of production is much higher than what we could produce at the time.
“The Believers”
The Moomin is a television anime series based on the plot of the original “Moomin” book series by the Finnish-Swedish writer Tova Jansson. The 104-episode series was produced for television in a Japanese-Dutch collaboration between 1991-1992. The series increased the popularity of the Moomin around the world and turned them into a coveted media franchise. And yes, the book series is not called “Valley of Strange Animals” for nothing.
To this day there are rumors that the whole story was a dream of Snupkin while he fell asleep in the Dachau camp. So no, the last episode is called “The City of Gold” and you can find it on YouTube, along with the shamans, the grok, the wizard with emerald stones, Serah and friends.
“The Waste Dolls”
In the Basket of Dolls or the Waste Dolls is a series that was produced in the 80’s and was broadcast in educational in 1998. A box of damaged toys that were not good enough to be sold at Toys R Us is thrown in a neglected yard in the 7th housing estate in Jesse Cohen. A doll without a leg, a bear without an eye, this show gave me shivers.
In retrospect, I understand that the intention was good, to accept the different, yes yes. In practice, as a six-year-old girl, I was less connected to PC culture and probably did not appreciate the essence behind the poet’s intention. Just saying it was not pleasant for me and I preferred to watch Teddy Bears I care there were teddy bears with all their limbs attached.
“The Apple Man”
This is already a completely different period and also on the children’s channel, but this series had to be included in the list of traumas. It’s still not clear what the hell the creators were thinking? A man exposed to a radioactive substance turns into a vengeful and crazy apple and tries to murder two innocent children? Who is the genius at the board meeting who decided to put his money on it?
The children’s channel admitted that they did not notice what they were buying, even though the show is called “wicked”. Anyway, it took them a few episodes to realize the mistake before they shelved this disturbed animated piece. Channel Six took it so hard that there is not even a trace of the Hebrew dubbing throughout the network. Okay, so you traumatized some kids who since then don’t dare to eat Smith apples, it’s just an apple.