Monkey

I too remember dashing home from school to watch what is still one of my all time favourite programs.

The opening music sets the atmosphere perfectly and as far as the series goes, Monkey was both brilliant, funny, action packed, far fetched and joyous.

Monkey is what it is, a classic, even today it holds significantly more appeal than anything even dreamt up and put on the box.

The dubbing is fantastic, as is the music, the fighting and the comedy (of which there is loads), the extremely loose historical / mythological storylines all add up to make this a tmeless classic.
Consider that even after almost 30 years ( first produced in 1979 ) the programme has billions of fans around the world.

Just watch it !!!!

Monkey first appeared on our screens in the late 70s(according to the I love 70s series it was 1979 but my memory is not that precise). And Monkey was weird, I mean really weird. Let me try (emphasis on the word try) and explain what it was all about. Apparently Monkey is based on the writings of a 16th century Chinese chap who tried to incorporate Buddhist teachings, satire and Chinese legends into a series of stories. These stories were then taken by a very low budget Japanese production company and were totally shaken about and reworked until they produced the final product, Monkey!. I didn’t know all this at the time and it goes no way to explaining ...

Monkey was a programme that used to be shown on BBC2 on a Friday night. It was a Japanese programme dubbed into English, and was horrendously funny, even to a youngster like me. It was a story of a Buddhist priest (Tripitaka, who looked more like a girl than a boy) taking a journey to India to pick up some sacred scrolls. As it was a fairly perilous journey along the way he takes with him 3 travelling companions - Monkey (the King of Monkeys, who got above his station and was kicked out of Heaven by Buddha herself), Pigsy (some sort of Pig King or spirit, all he wants to do is eat, and he's forever chasing girls too), and Sandy (a water spririt who is the ...