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..
