The Equalizer!
Dempsey and Makepeace!
Awesomeness.
I'm aure the rest of their output is dire, but still!
Buck Rogers.
Buck Rogers
CHiPs
And Knightrider!!
I watched an episode of Buck Rogers funnily enough the other day - it made absolutely no sense!
Erin Grey - makes perfect sense.
I don't get it tbh
Is it not enough that we send our brave lads & lasses off to face danger across the globe
But we make them watch the most dire 80s TV there is, surely most of them weren't born when this stuff was made
(I was a huge buck Rogers & Battlestar Galactica -they also show that- fan)
If they’ve got Ultimate Force I’m in! I mean, who doesn’t want to watch a show about a fat SF soldier...
And tales of the unexpected on sky arts! What a time to be alive!
I don’t get it tbh
I'd imagine the target audience is ex serviceman, there's far more of them than serving, and the ones I know pine for the good old days. Makes perfect sense.
I don’t get it tbh
Is it not enough that we send our brave lads & lasses off to face danger across the globe
But we make them watch the most dire 80s TV there is, surely most of them weren’t born when this stuff was made
(I was a huge buck Rogers & Battlestar Galactica -they also show that- fan)
I’m sure their intended audience is made up of those fat middle aged blokes who suddenly become incredibly keen on the military right about the time they’re safely too old to be involved.
Forces TV started in the mid 70s in Celle, Germany to provide Forces personnel and perhaps more importantly their families with some English language TV. The only English language programmes were on a few subtitled ones on Dutch TV. We lived elsewhere in Germany and were very jealous. A radio station was available though.
Forces TV started in the mid 70s in Celle, Germany to provide Forces personnel and perhaps more importantly their families with some English language TV. The only English language programmes were on a few subtitled ones on Dutch TV. We lived elsewhere in Germany and were very jealous. A radio station was available though.
It was called BFBS when I served from 1981 to 2004. British Forces Broadcasting Service. A single TV channel and radio station, which were always referred to as "BFBS" not "forces TV". They were aligned I think with SSVC, Services Sound and Vision Corporation who produced all the training films, on scratchy 16mm film (and later on equally scratchy VHS tape). Every unit had someone who had done the SSVC unit projectionist course, so we could learn how to take a dump in an NBC environment, recognise a Soviet BMP or be told it was naughty to shoot at enemy ambulances or abuse prisoners of war etc.
We're on series six of Robin's Nest at the moment and loving it.
It was called BFBS when I served from 1981 to 2004. British Forces Broadcasting Service.
It still is. Forces TV is just their TV channel.
so we could learn how to take a dump in an NBC environment, recognise a Soviet BMP or be told it was naughty to shoot at enemy ambulances or abuse prisoners of war etc.
It would be interesting to see some of those Cold War training films. Any in the public domain?
It would be interesting to see some of those Cold War training films. Any in the public domain?
There are a few on YouTube, try this for starters
Thanks for that.
I've been trying to find the SSVC Law of Armed Conflict video for a long time but have failed. SSVC then BFBS was one channel in the 90's based on the most watched TV in the UK. Basically every UK soap condensed into one channel filled the schedule pretty much...
There are a few on YouTube, try this for starters
Soviet encounter
Watched that video. Fascinating stuff. I wonder where they got all that Soviet Kit from in the Cold War? Captured by the Israelis?
Serious question, if it had kicked off and the USSR had invaded, do you think they could of been stopped? There were thousands of them!
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I’m sure their intended audience is made up of those fat middle aged blokes who suddenly become incredibly keen on the military right about the time they’re safely too old to be involved.
Similar to the Tory MP who suggested we invade Spain over Gibraltar during Brexit negotiations....
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Mission creep
Dukes of Hazard was on it a few months back - ACE.
Is this channel on Freeview? Can't find it but quite up for some 70s/80s action TV!
Is this channel on Freeview?
Freeview 96
Ta
When my dad was stationed in Cyprus in the early '80's we got 4 hours of UK TV every evening via cable. After 11pm it was supposed to be switched off (something to do with a licence agreement with the Cypriots) but they only turned off the feed to the off-base married quarters. Occasionally the operator would forget and we'd get several hours of porn... 😀
They are showing Goodnight Sweetheart today. Absolutely terrible.
Ah BFBS, brings back memories, was in Germany for 3 years in the late 70's/early 80's as my dad was stationed there. I remember it being pretty rubbish tbh - a visit to the base Naafi on the other hand...
Serious question, if it had kicked off and the USSR had invaded, do you think they could of been stopped? There were thousands of them!
Not conventionally, USSR would have overrun Germany & the Nordics pretty quickly (they had vastly stronger ground forces and neither side would have achieved air supremacy). It's the reason why tactical nukes were deployed, ICBMs were the deterrent and tactical nukes the more 'practical' weapon.
You could always have sat them down in front of the telly and showed them hours of western culture to overturn their damned commie preconceptions of the capitalist nations😀!
Everything I’ve read suggests that the forces stationed in west Germany were really only there to give their lives in slowing down the red hordes while the western nations mobilised their full forces over the course of a few days. So life expectancy was not great, but the idea was to lose the battle slowly so as to give a better chance of winning the war 😳. In such circumstances who wouldn’t want a steady diet of light entertainment!!
They are showing Goodnight Sweetheart today. Absolutely terrible.
Well me and Mrs. S are loving this. We're onto series 5.
It's a great concept and quite bawdy and funny.
There were 5 series of it? Blimey!