Fans of bad Eighties television will be overjoyed at the news that Netflix is rebooting cult action series Monkey, which entertained a generation of kids who mimicked high-kicks in their living room and pretended to summon a cloud with a easily-imitable warrior call.

For the uninitiated, Monkey was a Japanese fantasy series famed for its wacky plotting, dodgy special effects and bad dubbing, which saw English actors including Andrew Sachs and Miriam Margolyes imitate vaguely offensive 'Oriental accents'.