I'd like a version of the West Wing but based on the Trump administration
Knightmare
I met Hugo Myatt not so long ago. Lovely guy.
In a Q&A after an interview I got up and asked if Treguard would DISMISS me from the room, he obliged with full on eye-rolling and overacting. Made my inner 14 year old very happy indeed.
Cheers
You're welcome. (-:
3-2-1 – because the clues were just sooooo obscure.
Even as a kid, I always wondered about this - whether the clues were deliberately obtuse so that they could manipulate the outcome.
Week 1: "well, it says use your mettle, and what else is made out of metal? That's right, it's the car!"
Week 2: "well, it says use your mettle, and what else is made out of metal? That's right, it's Dusty Bin!"
I suspected there was a bit of Hobson's Choice going on. Even when the clues led you somewhere logical, it seemed fairly arbitrary as to whether ol' Ted would tell them that's what the prize was or that they'd just ruled out that prize. Didn't help that he looked like someone you wouldn't buy a used car from.
As has been said, Blakes 7 & American Gothic.
Blakes 7 must be ripe for a remake with all the latest TV wizardry available these days. and American Gothic just needs to be redone.
Time Team or Scrapheap Challenge.
lol @ scrapheap challenge. It was a good show but always a bit strange when they rounded a corner to find a fully operational internal combustion engine with exactly the right gear ratio they needed to hoist the weight of 3 men from the water and put them down on a canal barge.
Tomorrows World.
In fact they should put all the old episodes on the iPlayer.
Spitting Image.
Play for Today.
Fingerbobs
Yoffy was a qualified proctologist. True fact.
Airwolf, blue thunder, streethawk, knight rider – anything futuristic involving vehicles really.
They did remake Knightrider. It wasn't great.
MacGyver too - there's a reboot which is currently on Season 3. That's not the same either. 🙁
I'd like to see Tomorrow's World again. Used to love that as a kid, all these futuristic things like CDs and supermarket scanners.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience. And Adam and Joe show. Classics of the era.
lol @ scrapheap challenge. It was a good show but always a bit strange when they rounded a corner to find a fully operational internal combustion engine with exactly the right gear ratio they needed to hoist the weight of 3 men from the water and put them down on a canal barge.
It wasn't always like that. I remember one team spending an hour or two with a hammer and block of wood trying to get the pistons to move in one block they found. I'm sure someone showed them to the right engine later though.
A Town Called Eureka
Space 1999
UFO
Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons.
The Persuaders, the opening montage was awesome.
Firefly or Look Around You. Either of those would be great.
Due South
Definitely Maple Syrup bloke good cop bad cop for the win
New Yankee Workshop. Nae drama, spats, staged rubbish. Just good wholesome big tools and craftsmanship with a Bawston brogue. Superbly relaxing too.
"Ain't Half Hot Mum" - complete with Rangi Ram in blackface and the Sgt Major making homophobic insults.
That would rattle a few cages 🙂
Quantum Leap- another goodun!
Columbo I like too!
Some great suggestions, Green wing had another series in it.
Gladiators.
Think they done gladiators and it flopped, on sky iirc.
Spitting Image was supposedly dropped because the government became too much a parody of itself. It's way more that now.
Love Thy Neighbour
Perfect for the Brexit generation.
Anyway, +1 Blake's 7. It would need a decent reboot. No point trying to continue it as very few would know what it was and the old cast are dying off. Needs to capture the dystopian future and battle with the Federation, and ditch all the silly alien of the week nonsense. Though in concept it's just Robin Hood in space. Not sure if has a place these days.
Love Thy Neighbour
Perfect from the Brexit generation.
My thoughts exactly.
I'd love for there to be a decent weekly sci-fi show again worth watching, nothing comes close to Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Files from the early 1990s.
And Frasier, unusually funny to me at least for a mostly American show.
I’d loved to have seen where Dollhouse would have ended up.
Really pissed off that they cancelled Alcatrazm. The last episode of season 1 when they did a little tribute to Bullitt delighted me.
Oh and we need Punisher S3.
All day I've been thinking there's one TV show I've forgotten about that could be ace again and I've just remembered what it is. It's The Word, bring back The Word.
Airwolf
Blakes Seven
Spitting Image
Manimal.
Killing Eve.
I need more now!
It’s The Word, bring back The Word.
I’d love to see so old ones again, it all seemed so edgy back in the day, bet it’s pretty mild by today’s standards.
Yes Minister - a good satirical complement to Spitting Image.
70s style OU - complete with kipper ties, brown shirts and serious amounts of theory to get your teeth into.
Not sure about Blake's seven. I don't think they could capture that proper 1970s English bleakness. The re-make of Survivors wasn't a patch on the original.
70s style OU – complete with kipper ties, brown shirts and serious amounts of theory to get your teeth into.
Wouldn't be the same if you didn't have to get up at 5am to watch it!
Sapphire and steel.
“Ain’t Half Hot Mum” – complete with Rangi Ram in blackface and the Sgt Major making homophobic insults.
That would rattle a few cages 🙂
In the same vein; In Sickness and in Health
Spitting Image would just be a current affairs program these days.
Firefly would be ace.
“Live in Concert”. The BBC used to have a regular late night programme in the mid 1980s where they showed about 50 mins of a band live. These days the BBC appears to squander it’s entire music tv budget on extensive and frequently repeated Glastonbury coverage and the unbearably smug Jools Holland’s programme.
Tales of the gold monkey
Eurotrash
Starfleet
Since vondally has already posted my first thought, and most of my other favourites have been suggested, I’ll go for Minder.
Superstars.
I’d love for there to be a decent weekly sci-fi show again worth watching
Really? It's never been a better time for sci-fi.
Starfleet
Ooh, yes! This.
Space 1999
The Tube
The answer is always The Trap Door, but done proper - no CGI.
But also...
Ultraviolet. Never understood why it never got beyond just one series.
All the Quatermass stuff. Potential to be a British X-Files.
Robin Of Sherwood. With a GoT budget.
