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Heard the TV intro for this before. Nice bit of TV I've not heard of since. Had the late Lesley Nielsen starring in a few later episodes too.
The BBC have just put all of Early Doors on iplayer.
We rewatched them all and it’s just gently-understated, beautifully written comedy gold. Worth a revisit or if you’ve never watched it, give it a go
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001gzqs/early-doors
“Crime won’t crack itself Ken”
Used to watch due south back in the day. You mentioning that also reminded me of Quantum Leap. Another great series.
I really want to rewatch Northern Exposure now you've reminded my about Due South.
Diefenbaker was the coolest dog ever.
+1 for Northern Exposure. Loved that show, until inevitably behind-the-scenes shenanigans resulted in it rapidly declining by the end.
Diefenbaker was the coolest dog ever.
Was he a dog though? 🤔
Monk has made feature length comeback 😕
I’ve been watching The Six Million Dollar Man, which I loved as a kid, on some obscure channel.
What’s surprised me is that’s hardly any violence and almost no guns. He also does a working class job every episode. You don’t see James Bond working as a warehouseman or cola miner.
Funnily enough I found the CD soundtrack to Northern Exposure in a charity shop last week - love that intro music.
A few years ago there was a BBC mini series called Requiem about a cello player and some devil worshippers which was pretty good. I see it’s now on Netflix so probably worth a look if you haven’t seen it.
True fact--> I was once cycling behind a Porshe in London which had it's near side brake light out.
It was a soft top ,so while stopped at traffic lights I (politely) mentioned it to the driver.
He turned around and said "Thank you friend".
It was only that there, Six Million Dollar Man,Lee Majors <--True fact
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Similar to Early Doors humour wise , I Didn't Know You Cared 👍
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - the first 2 series in Germany and Spain. Classics. Still watch the box sets every now and again. My dad was a chippie in Germany around that time so it’s always resonated with me. Launched some big careers. Then they made the shit follow up series years later.
Big Train.
Naked Video.
Absolutely.
The Day Today.
TV Offal.
A Bit of a Do: late 80s, with David Jason, Tracy Brabin, David Thewlis, Stephanie Cole… each episode set at a different gathering (funeral, wedding etc). Tickety-boo!
Watched the Caroline Aherne program (iplayer)the other night.
Some of the old Fast Show and Royle Family clips made me want to do a rewatch.
I was a big fan of Sapphire and Steel although I'm not sure when it ran (70 or 80s). There was The Tomorrow People too although I don't remember much about either.
This took a while to haul out of the back of my brain: Network 7. Sunday lunchtime youth-targeted anarchic sketch show (notably featuring Dick Spanner, P.I.)
He doesn't appear to be credited anywhere for it but I'm certain Victor Lewis-Smith did the voiceover on some segments. It's how I know his name. Turns out he died a year ago, I had no idea.
I was a big fan of Sapphire and Steel although I’m not sure when it ran (70 or 80s).
I looked it up. It started in 1979 and ran for four series (which surprised me, I thought there was like six episodes in total). I was both young enough to be scared shitless by it, and precocious enough to be complaining that "steel" was not an element.
I have it on Plex I think. I reckon it's due a rewatch.
Shameless, re runs on freeview recently, Frank is an absolute legend.
Also loved due south, northern exposure and Monk.
I will add psych, eureka, police squad and best of all "ripping yarns".
oh and who remembers sledge hammer?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090525/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5_tt_7_nm_1_q_hammer
+1 for early doors and ripping yarns, remembered the nick park creature comfort series too,
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sn0Q_ixuRPk?feature=share
oh and who remembers sledge hammer?
Trust me, I know what I'm doing.
Six Million Dollar Man
My dad# really was the six million dollar man. sadly they couldn’t put him together again. To be honest, i took a slightly perverted sense of joy in the faces of those who would try and tease me as a child with that retort. Still watched it every week as a big fan though.
#Stephen Frederick Austin died in a car accident 10/11/1972.
6 million dollar man has about 5 episodes left to run...I've been watching it.
Sapphire and Steele - I watched a couple of episodes and I'm clearly not getting it, but other than a few episodes of Archer to watch I've only got Dr Who (currently on series 14) to work through so I may give McCallum and Lumley a watch again...
Buck Rodgers is needing a rerun, I reckon...
I missed the last series of Ideal and often think it would be good to watch it all again, but it is never on and I don't want to buy the box set...
I used to watch Monkey and The Watermargin as a kid. The remake of Monkey was rubbish.
I was both young enough to be scared shitless by it, and precocious enough to be complaining that “steel” was not an element.
Kiddies sci-fi of the day was hard edged and properly scary (I vaguely remember a Sapphire and Steel episode where they were battling the accumulated fear and anger of slaughtered animals) and I've looked up The Tomorrow People and I can just about remember parts of the re-animation of Hitler episode. Even Dr Who of that era was terrifying.
Today everything seems to be very mild in comparison and pushing a PC message.
I vaguely remember Children of the Stones (TV Mini Series 1977) too.
They've even go the Monkey Magic intro. on YouTube, I used to love that!
pushing a PC message.
If you think that teaching kids to be nice to other kids who are a bit different from themselves is a bad thing, you need to sit down and have a word with yourself.
If you think that teaching kids to be nice to other kids who are a bit different from themselves is a bad thing, you need to sit down and have a word with yourself.
Nope, definitely a good thing, and I wasn't aware that I'd said it wasn't, but sometimes I just like a bit of of complete escapism (not that you can't have escapism and a message if it's done well).
The main thrust of the comment was more around what was deemed acceptable to expose children to in the 70s and 80s compared to today (I can imaging anyone getting away with showing Apaches to youngsters now).
The BBC currently have an empty sitcom sets quiz on their site Archive Quiz: Empty sitcom sets - BBC Archive
that has some gems (although probably not forgotten).
Apologies for the misunderstanding.
Certainly what was acceptable in the 1970s wouldn't necessarily be so today. But this was the decade which gave us Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language, Till Death Us Do Part, etc etc. The Black & White Minstrel Show was still running until the late 70s.
Not really sure if it was actually a gem but i used to laugh my socks off watching Chelmsford 123. Can't remember if i was still in school or had just started college. Was gutted when it finished and then The Nightingales came on in the same slot (10pm Thursday nights ch4?). Watched that as well and eventually got over the disappointment it wasnt Chelmsford 123. Both on YouTube.
The reality show where they convinced a bunch of people that they were going into space, and then filmed them for 48hours in a big flight simulator.
There was a selection process where they said they were seeing how astronauty they where, but were really selecting based on gullibility.
There was some story to explain the lack of zero gravity, which was accepted by all.
The crunch point was where a fly was walking on the earth projection outside the 'capsule'.
Edit: Space Cadets
The reality show where they convinced a bunch of people that they were going into space, and then filmed them for 48hours in a big flight simulator.
The complete series is here on YouTube.
I watched it again a year or so ago
There must be loads, but stuff that springs to mind right now...
The late 70s Quatermass. Don't think it would have aged too well, but watching as a 9 or 10 year old it was weird, complicated and a bit scary. Made an impression.
Ultraviolet. 90s / 2000s vampire thing. Didn't get a second aeries and some of the acting wasn't great, but some neat modern twists on vampire lore and probably the closest we got to a UK X-Files.
Trap Door.
Chorlton And The Wheelies.
House Of Fools.
The Mighty Boosh.
C.A.T.S Eyes
i used to laugh my socks off watching Chelmsford 123.
Wildly coincidentally (Alexa must be reading my brane), I was only thinking about that show like two days ago. Rory McGrath and Jimmy Mulville seemed to have their hands in loads of pies around that time. I was wondering "whatever happened to...?" I don't even know if any of them are still with us. I meant to look it up.
Ultraviolet.
Ultraviolet was ace. Half the cast of This Life IIRC.
Definitely Jack Davenport pre-Hollywood.
Ooh, ooh, I've got one.
The Lost Room. It was a 3- or 6-part TV miniseries (depending on how you count them), with loads of Objects that did Things, and... oh, let me find a trailer.
Here:
One of the greatest little shows that no-one's ever heard of. I strongly suggest you track it down.
[EDIT: seems it's on Amazon Prime, under Amazon's 'pay for something you're already paying for' pricing model.]
I see Catweazle has missed out again, I was child then.
Latterly I think I was the person I know who liked Vexed with Toby Stephens.
I think Yonderland has been unjustly forgotten
'Cuddly dick loves us- and we love Dick'
I recall enjoying 'Turtle's Progress' as a kid, don't remember much about it but I'd like to see it again, just to remind myself.
Used to enjoy S*O*A*P too.
Hill Street Blues was possibly my favourite ever TV series. More recently (and reminded by different thread on here) Roaming in the Wild was great a great “de-stresser” but sadly missing from iplayer at the moment.
Oh, and, let’s be careful out there.
^^^ooh yes, SOAP, with the very young Billy Crystal.
I think Yonderland has been unjustly forgotten
I've been meaning to watch that - it's a product of the same bunch of people as Ghosts / Horrible Histories.
Six Feet Under. Kooky, funny and wildly underrated.
Yeah, it's not exactly unknown, but it usually misses out on being included in with The Wire / Sopranos as 'greatest US series ever', when it really should be.
Rory McGrath and Jimmy Mulville seemed to have their hands in loads of pies around that time. I was wondering “whatever happened to…?
McGrath turned out to be a bit of a wrongun.
McGrath turned out to be a bit of a wrongun.
Yeah, I read that yesterday. He had an affair, she called it off and he wouldn't leave her alone. Suspended sentence.
Jimmy Mulville may be less than wholesome as well. Protracted legal battle with/around Cycling Mikey (see YouTube).
Now get out of that. Teams travelling cross country and solving puzzles. “Eight people including two women”
And of course the Great Egg Race.
a BBC gem from the late 90`s called The Cops set in Bolton
That was brilliant.
Looking after Jojo, miniseries at about the same time with Robert Carlyle.
Not really underappreciated but always worth revisiting: Cracker.
Caught some Dempsey and Makepeace a couple of months ago on itv4 or something. Bloody hell it was good telly. Real chemistry between the title roles as well.
Millennium
American Gothic
Stella Street
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The Adventure Game
gronda gronda...
American Gothic
Funny thing with American Gothic. It was aired wildly out of order (in the UK at least, dunno about elsewhere) so the story arc didn't make a jot of sense. Long-dead characters would suddenly reappear with no explanation. I have the DVD box set and... they didn't fix it, it's buggered on there as well.
This is the order I have:
https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/46270/
Arguably a couple may still be out of order but I don't think it matters, they're standalone.
[A scan of the Notepad file I have with the DVDs, just to show how messed up the disc order is]
The Adventure Game
gronda gronda…
Doog yrev.
I have the box set of that as well. It's widely accepted that the first Escape Rooms were a series of Flash-based PC games named The Crimson Room, The Veridian Room and so forth, not dissimilar to the Rusty Lake mobile games today. The Adventure Game beats that by about 25 years.
Some friends of mine were hugely into Moonlighting. I never watched it, but it suddenly popped into my head reading this thread.
I loved Robin of Sherwood (I think from around the same time).
I loved Robin of Sherwood (I think from around the same time).
It was years later that I discovered that the breathy Clannad vocals in the theme weren't in fact "Robin... the hooded gland."
Doog yrev.
I've only recently learnt that Kenny Baker of R2-D2 fame was driving the aspidistra..