Writing about Ian Turpie yesterday got me reminiscing about other game shows… specifically, older childrens’ game shows.
It cannot be denied that James Sherry of A*mazing fame was ahead of his time. In 1994, there was a sense of inevitability that the future would involve fucking gigantic keyboards we’d need to navigate around at high speed – and only one man could commandeer such a tool, Mr James Sherry! C’mon, don’t deny that this particular program felt like it had been catapulted from 2030 for your gaping wonderment after school.
Yet where is Mr Sherry now? Considering the last we saw of him squawking at a TV camera was when his career was at an all-time high, I can only assume that he has created some elaborate blanket of reality around him where A*mazing has not only been cancelled, but that he’s immersed himself in an intricate living environment based around the show itself.
Is it so unlikely to think that Mr Sherry rises from bed nowadays, then glumly gallops around his house searching for hidden keys he’d scattered around the place the prior evening? Wistfully mashing his iMac’s tiny keyboard with his feet in an attempt to solve a simple word puzzle? Disenchantedly tapping away at the shitty fly-swatting game from Mario Paint? Angrily awarding himself a 60-pack of Textas while his undeserving school wins a fucking computer without putting any elbow grease in? All this in the continued unaccepting anger that his ahead-of-its-time childrens’ game show was cancelled over a decade ago?
James Sherry, please show your face and let us know you’re safe. Free yourself from your, er, maze of imprisonment!
Actually, you know what would REALLY be awesome: Ian Turpie, with a brandy in one hand, hosting a children’s gameshow. HOW CAN THAT POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
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Man I loved A*mazing…