Mike & Angelo

This programme is way before my time and that the fact that CITV didn't air anymore repeats after the programme had finished it's original run (apart from repeating two episodes in part of celebrating CITV 's 30th anniversary) doesn't help in fact that this is a programme I couldn't really care less about.

The programme itself isn't a masterpiece however I'm sure this programme entertained the children and even teenagers of it's time over the course of three decades after all CITV mostly back then had about two hours of airtime (I'm not an expert and maybe CITV had differing airtimes sporadically?) however one things clear is the fact that a programming block is obviously going to have less airtime than a channel (Which what CITV is now days - and has been since 2006 - but it is expected to shut down later this year) so children or even teenagers would watch whatever they would get.

The programme itself had about 12 series running for 10/11 years and I'm surprised on the fact that CITV kept on renewing the damn thing for 12 series.

The main characters are (Or what the name of the show would suggest) - an alien taking the form of a grown man past the age of 29 and a young child or eventual teenager. The main premise of the programme is simply about the hijinks and escapades this particularly young child or teenager and this alien do together.

Given the fact that the alien resembles a grown man which spends time with a child or teenager - shouldn't have the alien been a more of paternal figure to them? I'm not against age-gap friendships but then again things would have been different if the alien had resembled a child boy of similar age to the human child character or of simply a teenager but then again this alien is far too childish and simpleminded even in the form of a grown man to be a paternal figure and I doubt the programme itself was working on making a 'paternal bond' between the two characters.

The child/teenager main character's role of the programme had 4 people permanently taking on the mantle whilst also having one (or two, as some fans may count it) temporary holder/s until a main replacement was found during the programme's lifetime. However there were only two people which donned the role of the quirky childish alien during the programmes lifetime.

The 'story' of the programme are mostly bottled and stand-alone episodes meaning that there really is no overarching storyline and many of the characters have no actual development being the exact same from their very first appearance to their last and for a programme running for twelve series - this makes for a very boring watch indeed - compared to if the programme had a narrative and an overarching storyline somewhere and (not forgetting) the development of characters too.

The programme funnily billed itself as a 'comedy-drama' during it's first two series but this was pointless when funnily enough there was far more comedy then there was of drama anyway and soon the producers of this contraption realised that and decided to make the programme more zanier and funny with each further series as time went by from then on out.

For a programme of it's time - it really didn't age well and that's coming from someone who flicked through episodes on YouTube rather then watching it in it's original run but I wouldn't be surprised if the people who did watch the programme in it's original run think the same way too.

A good amount of episodes of the programme (not all episodes of the programme have been uploaded yet) are found on YouTube - so watch some of them (maybe even all of them - if you have the time)