Regarding the British market version. It sounds to me that someone very illegally released a video, just dropping the much more familiar name on the cover and seeing what would happen. Maybe one of the special's original producers had read The Beano at some point and thought that "Bash Street Kids" was a good name.
Either way, they date back to the 50s are familiar to anyone who ever read The Beano comic from that day forward (The Beano is still going strong today - http://www.beano.com/characters/bash-street-kids. Dennis the Menace is the more famous Beano character. But shouldn't be confused with the US Dennis the Menace which seemingly began in the *same month *in both the US and UK!) One way or another, the characters in that special look nothing like those of the UK comic, so I can imagine parents angrily returning tapes to video stores if they were ever foolish enough to rent or buy them. It seems highly unlikely that such an obvious copyright infringing title would ever have been broadcast on a UK TV channel. Adam On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:34 AM, djconner <[email protected]> wrote: > I found a site where your local station can apparently obtain "The > Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa" for broadcast... assuming your > local station is still in the year 2002: > http://promarktv.com/Family.html > http://promarktv.com/believe.htm > > From the looks of it, they never even got their "Opening Trailer" up on > the Interwebs, and it will be "Coming Soon" forever. > > I also discovered that the special apparently had an alternate title for > the British market(?): "Bash Street Kids Believe in Santa." And/or "The > Bash Street Kids" is what the kids actually called themselves in-universe. > This is also apparently the name of a long-running British comic book > feature appearing in* The Beano*, though it seems like it was probably an > adaptation in name only (and perhaps an inadvertent one, as the American > "Rapsittie" people may not have ever heard of the British feature.) > > > http://ukanimation.blogspot.com/2010/03/general-nitt-and-thoughts-on-british.html > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
