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What decade was Crackerjack
Bagpuss.
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.
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Blake 7 or it could be Space 1999
The Sweeney.
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Have watched it all on DVD in recent years and as well as being great TV it provides a poignant document of a London past in an era that I just about remember.
I loved The Sweeney but I 2nd Kuco - Blakes Seven FTW!
Servalan made me feel funny - down there! 😯
Was only just the 70's!
OMG- Animal Magic! How could I have forgotten the legend that was Jonnie Morris. Humming the theme tune now.
Reggy Perrin, Rising Damp, Porridge, Jackanory, Open University, On the Buses, Dads Army.
Porridge
Who remembers who Barry Newman was?
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Who remembers who Barry Newman was?
Wasn't he a crap builder?
You all obviously missed Fantasy Island.
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For me the start of the 70s was animal magic and cracker jack by the end it was the sweeney and hammer horror .
I'd forgotten Rising Damp and Porridge....
This is a more difficult question than I first thought!
captainsasquatch - Member
Who remembers who Barry Newman was?Wasn't he a crap builder?
Well I don't think he ever got round to finishing that house! 🙂
M*A*S*H and Porridge. Still stand the test of of time.
I'd probably have to go for M*A*S*H.
I'll always have a soft spot for Metal Mickey....
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He was Mr Saturday Night before Ant & Dec came along...
Porridge
End of thread.... For even the best TV programme of all time
Brief, but reasonable case TBH.
Superstars?
The theme tune was ace too.
Monty Python, Top of the Pops, Whistle test
Benny hill
Aint half hot mum
professionals
rising damp
RHUBARB AND CUSTARD !
These two just about scrape in.
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Saphire and Steel gave me nightmares.
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MASH and Porridge- In the Top Ten. And Morecombe and Wise had some unbelievable moments, both funny and agonisingly awful. I loved it as a kid.
Cloudburst with Ram Pandit, because we watched it in schooltime on the big telly
Any of the Gerry Anderson marionette programs,
Departmnet S,
THE SWEENEY,
The Professionals,
Blue Peter with John Noakes,
Puffin Island,
Dukes of Hazard
Mission Impossible,
Steptoe and Son,
Dixon of dock green,
Some mothers do ave em,
Starsky and Hutch,
so many great and some crap ones
The Persuaders
I've just happily giggled through a whole episode of Dad's Army
Don't tell SaxonRider..he'll be in for a shock.
pure comedy gold
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M*A*S*H is a good call. Forgot about it, but it was genuinely superb.
Six Million Dollar Man for me. We have the technology to rebuild him!
The Dukes of Hazard deserves an honourable mention
Ivor the Engine.
Who'd have guessed it, it was brilliant decade, add The New Avengers to the list. Oh and the Rockford Files.
Pigeon Street - or was that 1980s only?
Till death do us apart,
Love thy neighbour,
Madame is reading over my shoulder again: Star Trek she says.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Ahh, Muck With Mindy.
Nanu Nanu.
Kika Markham and other pseudo-intellectusl plays with lots of gratuitous nudity.
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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.
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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 [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipkins ]in the title role died during filming.[/url]...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).