Retro TV be to seen now or soon

mike65

Holy 60s/70s telly!

DRAMA: Ellery Queen
On: BBC 2 Northern Ireland (Digital) (106)
Date: Sunday 13th August 2006 (starting tomorrow morning)
Time: 10:00 to 10:50 (50 minutes long)

Author and amateur detective Ellery Queen attempts solve another murder
(Repeat, Subtitles)

Starring: Jim Hutton, David Wayne

ANIMATION: Thunderbirds
On: BBC 2 Northern Ireland (Digital) (106)
Date: Tuesday 15th August 2006 (starting in 2 days)
Time: 11:00 to 11:50 (50 minutes long)

End of the Road.
Gerry Anderson's cult series. A friend of Tin Tin's risks his life to save his company's construction project during earth tremors.
(Repeat, Subtitles)


ANIMATION: Top Cat
On: BBC 2 Northern Ireland (Digital) (106)
Date: Tuesday 15th August 2006 (starting in 2 days)
Time: 11:50 to 12:15 (25 minutes long)

Long Hot Winter.
Classic 60s cartoon about a streetwise feline and his gang of alley cats who spend their time outwitting the hapless Officer Dibble. Top Cat tricks Dibble into letting the cats stay with him for the winter.
(Widescreen, Subtitles)

(The greatest cartoon ever?)

SITCOM: Up Pompeii
On: BBC 4 (Freeview)
Date: Saturday 12th August 2006 (starting in 4 hours and 34 minutes)
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long)

Frankie Howerd camps it up in ancient Rome.
(Subtitles, 3 Star)

Starring: Frankie Howerd, Max Adrian, Wallas Eaton, Kerry Gardner, Elizabeth Larner, Jeanne Mockford, Georgina Moon

Oh er missus!

DRAMA: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
On: BBC 4 (Freeview)
Date: Wednesday 30th August 2006 (starting in 18 days)
Time: 22:30 to 23:25 (55 minutes long)

Seven-part dramatisation of John Le Carre's classic thriller. 1: George Smiley returns from a prolonged overseas assignment to find that all is not well at the Circus.

All time classic

Mike

Pigman II

I've been meaning to see that Tinker Tailor show for a while now. Pity I don't have digital

boneless

Pigman II wrote:

I've been meaning to see that Tinker Tailor show for a while now. Pity I don't have digital

Damn it!! I loved that series... do you remember 'A Very British Coup' ? that was great...

mike65

A Very British Coup is deffo deserving of a re-run. Mind you it proberly looks like ancient history now (I mean imagine the security services scheming to bring down a Labour government these days!).

Mike.

boneless

Yeah... that would never happen...

I'd also really like to see that series about the nuclear industry... can't remember the name (little help here guys) but Eric Clapton did the theme and incidental music...

Pigman II

I'd imagine you are refering to Edge of Darkness

mike65

The 80s on UK telly was nothing but paranioa

VBC, Edge of Darkness, Threads, GBH, Bird of Prey.

Mike.

monkeyfudge

I'm sure I came across I, Claudius recently while flicking channels. That was a great series too.

boneless

Pigman II wrote:

I'd imagine you are refering to Edge of Darkness

The very one!! I actually thought of it in the boozer last night...

Pigman II

boneless wrote:

The very one!! I actually thought of it in the boozer last night...

Good stuff. I similarily find that a night on the batter markedly helps to improve my long and short-term memory.

DéiseGirl

mike65 wrote:

A Very British Coup is deffo deserving of a re-run. Mind you it proberly looks like ancient history now (I mean imagine the security services scheming to bring down a Labour government these days!).

Mike.

Is that the one with Ray McAnally in it? That's been on a good few times.

DéiseGirl

mike65 wrote:

The 80s on UK telly was nothing but paranioa

VBC, Edge of Darkness, Threads, GBH, Bird of Prey.

Mike.

GBH was on More4 the other night. I remember my brothers used to watch it but I hadn't a clue what was happening. They used also tape Taggart back in the 80s and watch it over and over again, repeating scenes where Taggart said narky things to his sidekick :rolleyes:

telecinesk

Another classic series Id love to see is Dark Side of the Sun and "the History Man" or any of the bbc2 "Wednesday Play" series. Grimm alright, but well cool.