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For years and years all I could remember of this show was its theme song "We're the rockets and we're HOT! You gotta see us sing and dance" and nothing more. Well almost nothing, I remember the lockers and the youngest girl on the show had an older brother.

I used to want to be on this show. Why? No clue I was 8 or 9 when I watched this show, I didn't sing and I didn't dance but I think I just wanted to be apart of something and that is what the rockets apparently showed me what I wanted. To be a part of something.

Well this show is proof enough that some kids will watch anything. Because the only reason I watched this show was because it was a time when I would watch TV starting at 8 am to 6 pm on Saturday. So of course I watched this show and other terrible shows that I have long since forgotten. The only reason I remember this show is because of the song and the desire to be apart of something. It was the first bit of fantasy that I remember so maybe it wasn't all bad? Nah it was bad.

UPDATE (May 7 2011): I found that there are some episodes on YouTube, if you're interested check them out. They are terrible but they are interesting all the same.

The Rockets came from the makers of Let's Go, and like that show, was neither particularly educational, nor entertaining. It featured five kids who were part of a group called the Rockets who put on musical shows. It was never made clear who they performed for as they were a bit too advanced for the pre-school set and nowhere near hip enough to win over the adolescent set. The show began with the kids entering the dressing room calling one another by their actual names instead of their character names and disucssing their group, The Rockets, as if they were on a nationwide tour or something. They would then sing the theme song During the theme, the kids would snap their fingers in unison and look directly at the camera, smiling broadly. They theme contained idiotic lyrics like "We're the Rockets and we're HOT!. You gotta see us sing and dance!" The plots were usually all set in the dance studio where the Rockets rehearsed. Usually, there were no other characters on the show except for the five kids and their instructor, Janice Dunning who played pretty much the same role on Let's Go. I think the show lasted about two years but I doubt it had much of an audience. It's another example of a Canadian TV show that stayed on for awhile even though practically nobody was watching it. So why did I (occasionally) watch it? Because it was always good for an unintentional laugh or two.

Produced locally at CKY-TV in Winnipeg (the Entertainment Capital of Southern Manitoba) everyone was paid scale, which would probably be a few dollars an hour more than flogging fries at Mickey Dee's. Now, why would ANYONE produce such fodder? Local and *cheap* Canadian content.

I saw this gem (ahem) on a local Public Access channel, and it was about as exciting as watching the local kid's show from Oklahoma (if I remember right) where a talking chicken would ride around on a model train introducing cartoons...

Well, I think the chicken talked that is...

I don't really remember much about this show except I would sometimes watch a few minutes of it on Saturday mornings when I was waiting for something else to come on. All I remember is that a few kids hanging out on the stage who seemed to eat and sleep on there, and there was a sign hanging in the background that read, "The Rockets". The show I guess was an attempt to be the Canadian Kids Incorporated except it seemed to fall far below the belt. BTW, I hate making a fuss over minor details, but I think the show (if I am referring to the correct show!)came out earlier than 1989 because I remember watching a few episodes in the Fall of '88.