Best 1970's TV Program?

Why is it when I mention Pipkins at work no one remembers it.

They probably want to forget, watching hartley hare was like being touched by a catholic priest.

The Sweeney.

Great theme tune and I was only allowed to watch it very very occasionally if my mum and dad forgot I hadn’t gone to bed.

I used to watch it live. They filmed quite a lot around the back of shepherds bush where I grew up.

I watch it occasionally, and it brings back the memories of the corrugated steel fencing, the wasteland we played on, everyone’s second home,(the pub)and all the social housing that was being re-built at the time.

Tis a shame that London has filled up with ar*eholes since.

Survivors.
Just the opening sequence scared the pants off me as a kid.
Rewatching it as an adult had me truly appreciating it. The capital punishment episode after they shot Hubert. The man sabotaging the hydro power stations. Power meant electricity ,that meant factories and oppression of working people.
Sweeney reruns are really lame. Porridge is pure genius though.

Apparently this was largely the basis for those indigo child idiots, I actually met a girl once who honestly told me she was ‘hoping to evolve soon’

Can’t believe no one has said
FARTY TOWELS

Tinker tailor solder spy.

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Fawlty Towers was is fantastic. My first car was an Austin 1300 Super DeLuxe. It rusted to bits faster than I could fix it. Hey Ho.

Mind your Language

Dave Allan Show. Two Ronnies. U.F.O.

Tomorrow People… Scared the bejesus out of me as a kid.

Rowan and Martin laughin

Another vote for SOAP, brilliantly funny and outrageous for its time. Don’t suppose it’s available as a DVD box set?

Ahh, Muck With Mindy.

Nanu Nanu.

Kika Markham and other pseudo-intellectusl plays with lots of gratuitous nudity.

For me it has to be the Sweeney, Morecambe and Wise, and Mash. Mash being one of the very few TV programmes to come out of the USA worth watching.

+1 For Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Miles better than the movie adaptation. Great cast acting their socks off, the pacing is perfect, and it looks fantastically shabby.

Hickory house, Picture box and Vision On.
I second whistle test too.
The Boy From Outer Space, on BBC Schools and finally Words And Pictures.

No body said the Double Deckers???? I wanted to live in a yard in a double decker bus, still do to be honest.

Wurzel gummidge .
Swap shop .
Bought Roots the series a while back { terribly made } allways though it was mint back then though .

Kung Fu and i’ll throw in Wonder Woman for yummyness.

Tinker taylor, Mork and Mindy, Dad’s Army, Survivors, MASH. As an aside to Blake’s 7, I hope you have all watched Blake’s Junction 7?

Logan’s Run.
William
Wombles
Saphire & Steel was scary shit & I never understood the Tomorrow People.
Under the Mountain

No-one going to mention Jim’ll Fix It? 😯

Such a persuasive premise for kids growing up in the ’70s.

There’s this cheery old guy. He sits in a big cushy armchair with gadgets that come out of its arms. He smokes cigars, drives around in a Rolls-Royce and is so rich and well-connected he can make anyone’s dreams come true.

Mind-boggling to recall how huge a public figure he was back then. Never off the telly or the radio.

and of course

Who remembers who Barry Newman was?

Petrocelli

We used to love those American series there were so many: Kojak, Ironside McCloud, Rockford files, McMillan and wife, Cannon, Banacek, Madigan etc.

MASH is still good, loved SOAP, there was a 9 pm slot on BBC where they showed comedies like Taxi and the rest escape me.

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

Not the Nine O’clock News

What was that american cop series “be careful out there” could have been the 80’s actually.

Hill Street Blues. 80’s

Ooooo, the Goodies, Double Deckers and the Water Margin. Takes me back, wonderful stuff.

Just for the it’s a buzz, cock reference; Rock Follies

Swap Shop, pile of carp… Only one programme worth getting up for on Saturday mornings in the 70s and that was TISWAS..
Compost Corner
Custard Pies
Gunge
Phantom Flan Flinger ( and family )
Trevor Mcdonut
Green Nigel
Motorhead
The dying fly
Chris Tarrant
Frank Carson
Sally James 🙂

Alias Smith and Jones, and other westerns.

Why is it when I mention Pipkins at work no one remembers it.

It was ITV so might not have been shown in all the UK regions (for the same reason I think people in the south west didn’t get to see Tiswas). Another reason a lot of people might not have seen it is it was on at lunchtime, so most kids only got to see it if you were off school ill (or in my case because I used to go home at lunchtime)

I can’t remember much about it, apart from it being a bit awkward and stilted and surreal (and Hartley Hare looking like he’d be scraped up off the road then left to dry out) -its probably didn’t help that the actor in the title role died during filming.…The episodes were filmed out of story order. So he was in the first series, filmed the end of the second series then died and the unfilmed episodes in-between had to be quickly re-written to account for him not being there, then they had a to write an episode to acknowledge that he was dead (which turned out the be a children’s TV first).