Through the Dragon's Eye is... Certainly Something

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

AMANDAAAA

[@rcLdrcH]

" Amaaandaa " (Distant Echo)

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

Somehow managed to predict both *THAT* he'd say it a second time, and *_HOW_* he'd say it a second time! 😂 Totally predictable. P.s. loved the "Up Where We Belong" song transition at the start of the video. Great observation.

[@Autumnblueskies1]

Jeeeenaaaaaayyyyy

[@andyspruce7817]

Wow this missed me by and I grew up in the 80s. This was trippy like classic Dr who made the costumes. To think the BBC also made the excellent 'Box of Delights' (that scared me as a kid, and their Narnia adaptions and moon dial. Yet this had the budget of a episode of playschool, I do however recall the flying foam robot.

[@Rogers1000]

This scared me as a kid the way the monster melted the guys onto coloured puddles. I loved the song, also I used to think Colin baker sang the song because it sounds like him. Still one of my favourite look and read stories

[@steviethemusical]

When the telly got wheeled in

[@StarStarbreez]

oh when the dragon got marched in

[@marlonthomas8042]

Hell yeah

[@bushybeardedbear]

Core memory. 😂

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Unless you showed up to first school that day, only to find out someone had broke in during the night and stolen the tv and video player. It only happened once. The place has huge metal fencing round it now, took em 30 years to to figure it out.

[@buffclary]

Don't forget the BBC countdown screen, we'd sit and call out the seconds😂😂😂

[@Meritania]

I remember watching the purple women being melted and then having four weeks off school because of medical problems and just assumed they all died up until about 10 minutes ago.

[@highheeledfagin]

I was sick for ages but didn't miss a episode 😊🖤💜

[@MrSquark]

Certainly a core memory for me 😂

[@norweep]

I must have seen that episode 3 or 4 times over the course of my childhood but never any of the others. I'm glad I can now tell the child psychologist that I wasn't hallucinating.

[@simonn2045]

I missed the last episode in 1994 finally I can get closure!

[@CptCaptainClockwork]

You had a better experience than the rest of us

[@TheMagicianBee]

Thought this was absolutely amazing as a child. Imagine a remake with a LotR level budget 😅

[@RHizzlee]

i don't think the world is ready for that madness

[@Macallion]

I loved it too. It's aged terribly, but the nostalgia ❤

[@PigeonPlucker]

Guy Richie directing? Nawth or sarf eastor west the maffa fakkin quest!!!!

[@SirTraleen]

So THAT’S where the recurring nightmare of the cricketer drowning in mud came from. Closure at last

[@Weegee246]

I remember having to watch this in primary school sometime in the 90's. I never did get to see then ending of the story and for years I wondered if this was going to be one of those weird things that I saw as a kid that I would never ever see again but would always have a vague memory of it. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet and through sheer chance I just so happened to find a video of it and finally got some answers as to what I watched as a kid and got some closure as to what happened at the end of the story. Through the Dragons Eye was as odd curiosity to say the least.

[@JivecattheMagnificent]

Exactly how I felt hahah.

[@axelworfles]

WHEEL IN THE TV! Party time in the classroom. We used to love this, looking back at this I can see why.

[@Arkhan_The_Black]

Mate you've inadvertently invented a new genre with the remixes on this... "VEETA-CORE"

[@vylbird8014]

Long long after watching, as I learned of etymology, I realised that the "Veetacore" was subject to the drift of spelling over time. Surely it was once properly known as the Vitacore?

[@CatsnCoasters]

I still sing the theme song to myself now and again....nostalgia is a strong drug!

[@Philigan87]

Love that Jenny just continues to acessorise with the "HELP! CHARN!" scarf long after it's served its purpose.

[@bushybeardedbear]

I dunno, maybe my child mind was too innocent, but I think I'll always remember this as an epic fantasy tale with occasional spelling lessons. Yes, even the memory of Char and Doris being melted. Which you haven't got to yet. Fascinating video so far, I'll probably show this to my partner who never saw this fantasy epic.

[@bushybeardedbear]

Oh, and subbed. Easy sub.

[@Jacob-2796]

I doubt this will hit an adult the same way it hit you as a child

[@bushybeardedbear]

@@Jacob-2796 Ummm, where did I imply it would? Like, even in my post I make the distinction between my child mind and now. I say I'll _remember_ it as a fantasy epic... Implying I recognise the reality and the memory are distinct. What I'm saying is, yeah dude, of course my adult partner isn't going to react the same way I did as a literal child. I never even dreamed of implying otherwise. As it happens, they described it as _"muppet nightmare fuel"_ which is about what I expected. 😅

[@chrislawrence5971]

This is something that I had convinced myself was a dream/nightmare. No-one I have explained the bits I remembered to has had any idea what I was on about. Don't remember finishing the story either.

[@chrislawrence5971]

Weird though I remember the veetons being white light, not yellow.

[@TonySpike]

Oh i remember all of it

[@hannahfrazerkaye]

Chris, same and everytime I talked about it, people looked at me like I was insane 😂😂

[@rhysthomas1699]

I remember watching this in primary school & seeing Charn making his appearance was terrifying and seeing that purple woman melting was pure evil.

[@siobhanomalley1968]

Bruh, you did NOT just diss the dragon 😤 best thing in my entire school life at the time

[@minicle426]

Gorwen was voiced by Seán Barrett. Who amusingly would play another mentor like dragon many years later in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

[@rootyrootyson2175]

No way, I literally started playing that last week and hadn't made the connection until I read this. I will never be able to unhear the Amandas now 😂

[@ShikiKiryu]

Holy...so THATS what this show was, I remember this! I was forced to binge this as a kid whilst at home sick with an intense cold and it might as well have been a fever dream...All I could remember for decades was the theme tune and the multi-coloured people, but I had completely forgotten the name of it. Was not expecting to ever find it again or that anyone else even KNEW about this absolute madness.

[@SipodshowTv]

prior to watching this vid, I had vague memories of this as a kid having to watch it in school. mainly the melting genocide was the main trauma / memory. but I just remembered the rest as a cloud of learning how to read. but re watching it now. it's an acid trip! how was this commissioned as being educational for kids?! I've seen more educational episodes of bodger and badger.

[@LivingroomTV-me9oz]

I loved it! I still sing ‘magic e’ in the shower!😂

[@grimbaz774]

😂you have quickly become 1 of my fav youtubers .love watching the games master stuff an your editing :) keep at it :)

[@bzell85]

Seconded

[@savagehadoken6828]

Thirded

[@speedincooper]

Forthded

[@ArkanianVR]

Err... what comes next? I've forgotten how to count

[@HallelujahHotdog]

I find it immeasurably comforting that every land has creepy old kids shows.

[@LowKeyTired-q7d]

The theme tune to Geordie racer was so glum and hopeless ... The antithesis of what I wanted from my post-school television theme music

[@amyroseward9058]

This has unlocked long forgotten (or maybe repressed) memories.

[@looneybergonzi]

@@amyroseward9058 Wait till you watch Murun Butchstansangur. That was my 'I didn't know I knew this' moment.

[@rabidstavros77]

I remembered Charn being an absolute nightmare. I didn't remember this being the root of my fear of bogs or cricket bats or being melted.

[@amyroseward9058]

@@rabidstavros77 I always knew there was a reason I heard a weird voice whenever I read the name Amanda! Now I know why!

[@michaelplatt1959]

Relatively new subscriber to the channel so only just watching this, but bloody hell it’s funny! The dry observations, sarcasm and those remixes had me laughing my arse off. Keep up the great work!

[@blahmcblahface3965]

I used to go home for lunch and watched the episodes a week before we did in school as it was on at lunch times...I was so cool knowing what was coming...

[@Adam-sd2ow]

My Mam was a teacher so she got the VHS from school and brought it home, everyone was asking me what happens next 😂

[@OhBooD]

The Charlie Brooker-esque humour/delivery is great!

[@scousebadger0077]

Please do Geordie Racer and Kes you’re commentary is comedy gold.

[@Doggy-B]

Yes. Please.

[@tommcewan7936]

01:12 I know the whole point of the series was literacy but man, the *incredibly* precise enunciation of every last consonant in those lyrics really is incredible.

[@iwasinnamuknow]

I was absolutely terrified of Charn when I was young. Utter nightmare fuel.

[@Mkbshg8]

Are those stunt biscuits? I mean, why have the prop department make biscuits when they could just buy some for 25p?

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Geordie Racer had Kevin Whateley in it. Also one of the racers was really attractive, and the cameraman noticed.

[@smash461986]

So did you apparently.

[@pb5531]

I’m rewatching that now

[@SingledOutPodcast]

This has brought up a lot of repressed memories. The remixes are amazing. More remixes of dodgy 80s children’s tv please. Superb work.

[@veejay_hypo]

It's the horrific neck-flaring whenever Gorwen talks that makes my skin crawl. Thanks for the Vietnam-style flashbacks.

[@SutraRein-xy4qr]

Oh Christ I worked on this! I made the ‘ewok ‘ masks and costumes. My god lm old! Lol

[@Mkbshg8]

@26:50 Are those stunt biscuits? I mean, why have the prop department make biscuits when they could just buy some for 25p?

[@boocollective6638]

Oh yes I remember this, scared the living you know whatout of me and gave me nightmares. I think i was about 7 or 8 years old. I remember the teacher taking the class to the tv room and us all watching it in the dark. About 1989 I think.

[@iamthebubb]

This is awesome you've done a video on this, I spent about 15 years of my life looking for this show, and trying to remember what it was called. Everyone I knew from school had no idea what I was talking about, and I thought I was going crazy for years, it wasn't until I was in my thirties where I met my partner and she told me what it was called on our first date. No idea how it came up

[@MrYossarianuk]

Please do Jigsaw (Mr Noseybonk) next - the most terrifying kids TV ever made.

[@vinnycochrane5139]

I agree - Charlie Brooker did a funny bit about Mr Noseybonk’s nightmarish execution, and Mr Spectrum’s style is nothing if not Brookeresque! (I cannot pay a higher compliment btw)

[@RamblesBrambles]

Ive spent thousands on therapy unpicking my childhood trauma..trying to get to the bottom of it..absent parents, addiction, aboandonment lack of self worth. ive finally discovered its root cause...it was being made to watch look and read as a 6 year old...Im cured!!

[@Docktavion]

Loved watching this in primary school. Funny-thing with the opening mural painting, we did a similar painting on several different walls. It was still up for around 15 years, I watched it getting wiped out, such an end of an era.

[@JamesCorp]

I 100% watched this at school however I never remember finishing it. Also the dragon sounds like Bill Nighy I know it can’t be.

[@kerbal666]

That would be Seán Barrett. You might remember him as the preast with the incredibly boring voice in Father Ted

[@timchristensen2522]

@@kerbal666 Fuck me sideways - every day is a school day

[@Dino83]

Oh I am SO happy to see this beauty make an appearance!!!

[@solidflyer286]

It was awesome. I will die on this hill Not only did we finish it we also put a play version of it on in the 80s. I must have been year 2 or so of junior school

[@JoeZUGOOLA]

This is my favourite type of KZbin video. A new take on beloved childhood memories proving I was stupid

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I thank you and I apologise

[@kerbal666]

Look I'm 42 now and I may just be speaking for my class year at time. I remember my class loving it and we would all draw what we saw afterwards. I can still sort of remember the pictures. But I don't remember anyone saying at the time it freaked them out we were enthralled as best I could tell at time and we couldn't wait to next week. Fingernail Darth Vater was the bad guy and the Dragon voiced by Seán Barrett (ask me what other stuff he's been might surprise you) was the good guy! Simple as. Mate this was a massive treat to watch this than do work.

[@JavertRA]

We weren't scared I think we used to play dragon vs Charn fights in the playground.

[@Adam-sd2ow]

I was terrified of Charn, as a kid 😂

[@mogwaay]

My daughter's Yr1 teacher was very proudly making her class watch this just last year! To be fair though my daughter LOVED it, maybe i should be worried? 😅 I think this is her Lord of the Rings and we also played through the BBC Micro companion game, which im surprised didnt make an appearance here. AMANDAAAAAAA!

[@JivecattheMagnificent]

So glad you made this video. I always had memories from this show but never knew what it was called.

[@monkeymox2544]

Oh my god! The theme song for this just randomly runs through my head occasionally, I had no idea it was something many other children watched. I thought it was some random as hell thing out teacher put on, I don't think I've ever heard anyone else talk about it

[@nappkins9346]

I had a terrible time at school so this was respite for me, i loved it. X

[@buffclary]

So I go shopping this morning, sales assistant has "Hi I'm Amanda" on her badge😂😂😂 I lose it!!!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I shouted "Amandaaaaaaa" as you left the shop

[@lozD83]

I recall being rather traumatised at one point as the story unfolded

[@outlandishusername]

I loved this as a primary school kid. We'd walk single-file down to the community room, then scramble to sit on giant blocks used for PE lessons while the teacher wheeled in the TV and drew the curtains. It's so ropey but I couldn't wait for the next episode. Our school also had the game for the BBC Micro (or an Acorn machine, I forget), which I also loved. Good memories, but also a stark reminder that I'm getting old.

[@tommcewan7936]

The BBC Micro was made by Acorn Computers, so you're actually right on both.

[@thekameru6058]

Oh god I'd almost completely forgot that weird, grim oop north pigeon story. Sweet Jesus. We getting all the weird flashbacks today. Gives me ink thief vibes.

[@billybollockhead5628]

We never had this out our school, first i ever saw it. We had the magic E show though. But talking of scary.. When I was in junior school, we were forced around tv to watch "When the wind blows", that fucking terrified me.

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

Buit the politicians think it's only a dark graphic novel

[@looneybergonzi]

I remember the episode where the orange lad dipped a strawberry in salt because he was illiterate. What a show. This and Badger Girl.

[@ianmurphy9955]

Through the Dragon's Eye is amazing to watch as an adult, it's shit but it's still on KZbin.

[@scrambled5948]

Why would there be books and words everywhere in a universe where no one can read?

[@GenerationPixel]

A bit after my time, but Wordie and his magic E, that was part of my formative years.

[@Mordarke]

Whenever the TV was wheeled I always hoped it was Through the Dragons Eye. There's just something about it that blew my tiny little mind.

[@gragvar]

Oh God yeah the villain really fragged me up as a kid.

[@gnu_andrew]

I remember watching this as a kid, though Geordie Racer had the more memorable theme tune. It's lived rent free in my head ever since.

[@shibumi8]

Wow! And I thought our PBS shows were wild. Yours take the cake and drive it off a cliff. 😊 I think the closest thing we had to this in the 90s was a show called Ghost Writer, and it wasn’t even close to this.

[@vermis8344]

We got to see Ghost Writer in the UK too. Even after all these years I still wonder who the ghost was and what the deal with his first message: "Help! Where are the children? Are they all right?" Sounded like a properly traumatic backstory.

[@Trance4mason]

OMG - Great call on deciding to cover this! Keep up the awesome work!

[@msstarshine84]

Gonna need you to drop the remix album on spotify thanks. Incredible work.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

The entire album would be about 2 minutes, haha

[@scousebadger0077]

0:24 wordy! Magic E where something different on Merseyside in 80s and 90s 😂

[@arostwocents]

I was about to make a reply about Ebeneezer Goode when it cut to rave stuff in the actual video ❤

[@greenhowie]

Genuinely thought "Boris" was a joke name for the grown man pretending to be a schoolboy. Then the kid says it. We were warned. This was very edumational thank

[@ZoahLord]

Ah, late 80s infant school terror TV. Don't ask me how, but we watched all the episodes out of sequence as one of the teachers taped them randomly

[@retrospex7759]

I simultaneously loved this programme and feared it. Charn was the scariest thing I had ever seen at that point in my life, whoever designed his look should have worked in horror movies. Our school also had a BBC Micro in most classrooms and I remember playing both the Geordie Racer and Through the Dragon's Eye games, which were dogshit edutainment games. All anyone ever really wanted to play was Crystal Maze on the Acorn Archimedes.

[@Bodcut]

I am 40 years old and bar 1 year my primary education was in Scotland, I have mentioned this to lots of people in England(Cambridgeshire) it was getting to the point I thought it was some ketamine hallucinations I somehow got. I love this

[@chrisball3778]

I genuinely adored this as a kid. Badger Girl and Geordie Racer were good too, but Through the Dragon's Eye was next level. Normally when I look back on shows from this era I'm surprised by how creaky they look, because at the time you were just used to most shows having low production values. But even at the time I remember thinking some of the costumes in TtDE were a bit shonky. Still loved it, though.

[@Autumnblueskies1]

Your videos just get better and better! I bloody loved through the dragons eye. It was so beautifully weird! And it meant we didn’t have to do any work in school! Double winning!

[@EvanBThompson]

I don't recall this one thank God but I remember Wordy. The only story that I remember was the boy from space and some plot point about the boy learnt English backwards, which could have involved an inside out bag. Would love to see more of these.

[@SimonNeilScott]

I don't have many memories of school, but I can recall sitting in a classroom and watching this in primary school, quite well. Along with singing Beatles songs in assembly!

[@BenTheMotionist]

The joy of listening to you man, has sparked a funny bone that I had forgotten. The narrative comedy is a thing I have missed and you have nailed it. Comments have mentioned Charlie Brooker but I really think, albeit similar, you are enjoyably coarse and rougher, but with a quicker wit, and more of it. Fucking good stuff!

[@joewalker643]

I have strong nostalgia for this show. It was probably the context of it being a break from normal school work, the excitement of the episodes being left on cliffhangers and it was usually put on in the weeks leading up to Christmas when the teachers couldn't be arsed to do anything.

[@adamcraig9059]

This was more mental than i remembered. Magic E has a lot to answer for

[@fattomandeibu]

Those bottles they use for the party at the end look suspiciously like the bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 in the cupboard in me mam's dining room that I used to nick sneaky drinks thinking I was all cool when I was 12.

[@dangilmore8511]

Can’t believe this actually existed. This has triggered a long dormant memory cascade. Not sure I’m too chuffed about it.

[@YouTubeMrP]

I remember this but the Look and Read series I best remember was Dark Towers. Any chance you could do that one too? Pretty please?

[@mark-louisanderson-fisher9924]

This was hilarious! Please do Spywatch next!

[@SailorYen89]

i LOVED this as a kid. I remember being so excited when we got to watch the next episode each week, like, i can't tell you how invested I was lol.

[@adamlee7025]

Watched this as a kid had the work sheets to do after every episode then there was spy watch and peregrine falcon 1 as well

[@pb5531]

MAGIC MAGIC EEEEEEE We loved that at our primary school….and got it

[@UnmuffledRyan]

Watching this as a child in the early 90's put me off doing psychedelics in my teens.

[@andyjohnson4907]

Looks like the BBC stopped the ads from appearing. It was like watching an episode of He-man, where it would just fade to black twice an episode because American kids need to be force-fed consumerism.

[@QuinnEvans-m2s]

Your channel is the only one that makes me compulsively try to subscribe again every time I start watching a video. Thanks for the content, man

[@Zikar]

I don't remember this series but the whole thing is still incredibly nostalgic. There were a lot of shows that had similar aesthetics and production values.

[@WakoDoodle]

Oh I remember this in my primary school. Only got to see 2 episodes and somehow missed the rest. It was bad even as a kid, but it was better than a lesson... until they tried to teach us based on the episode. Which I just wanted to see a fantasy story... I wondered what it was called, thanks for reviving a long gone memory. Then again I saw years later a D&D animated movie about dragons that was far better so it kinda replaced it. :D

[@MantisEnergy]

This was truly magical to me! All I really remember is the theme and the dragon, but I remember how I used to feel watching it

[@richardlyth]

Thankfully I was too old when this was broadcast. I do remember Dark Towers and The Boy From Space though, that was classic TV! Probably won't stand up to modern eyes though!

[@ChrisCooper312]

Even after all these years, i still laugh out loud at scott's uncontrollable flatulance whilst trying to get the final piece from the overhanging branch.

[@fistfulofgamepad]

Used to love watching this in school, this Geordie Racer, Badger Girl etc, well once the teacher worked out how to use the vcr.

[@AmberSocks]

Superior drugs added to school meals back in the day. The painting comes alive and knows your name...kids didn't even flinch!

[@Razaprime]

Amazing! The amount of times I saw the odd episode of this but never saw the whole thing. Geordie Racer had a great theme tune.

[@elbiggus]

I think I was too old for this one specifically, but seeing Wordy has unlocked a load of hidden memories.

[@shadeofentropy]

The cut to love lift us up where we belong killed me.

[@arostwocents]

The green screen effects somehow still look better than modern Hollywood 😮 the flying was actually more convincing than in "WENDY (....&peter pan)"😂

[@Ksim3000]

Oh man I so remember the infamous TV getting wheeled in every Thursday to watch this! Was my favourite day of the week.

[@JustAnotherGamer1985]

Boris, Morris and Doris. Legends! 😁👌

[@Scrinwaipwr]

Those remixes slap.

[@jakdagger1076]

I had completely forgotten this.. My tiny little mind is blown. Awesome channel!