Anyone on for a campaign to bring back some old classic TV shows ?

Liam Byrne

With all the ad-nauseum repeats of Buffy and Simpsons and The A-Team, and the regular complete lack of anything decent on the TV (e.g. SFA worth watching while waiting for the Spurs and Ireland matches today at 4) good TV is like waiting for a bus; nothing for ages and then 2 at once!

As a result, I've been thinking about a few TV shows that have disappeared and that I'd love to see back on air.

The Greatest American Hero
Shoestring
Hardcastle & McCormick
Dempsey & Makepeace
Blue Thunder
ALF
G-Force
The Famous Five (the 80s version)

And does anyone here know how we'd go about getting these back on TV ? If enough people posted that they wanted them, would it make any difference ?

Stick a few of these on while the crap "celebrity" shows are on and I reckon you'd get a huge audience....

qwertplaywert

i hate all those shows[well the ones ive seen]
firefly,tru calling and angel would top the list for me

SoSueMe

Liam Byrne wrote:

With all the ad-nauseum repeats of Buffy and Simpsons and The A-Team, and the regular complete lack of anything decent on the TV (e.g. SFA worth watching while waiting for the Spurs and Ireland matches today at 4) good TV is like waiting for a bus; nothing for ages and then 2 at once!

As a result, I've been thinking about a few TV shows that have disappeared and that I'd love to see back on air.

The Greatest American Hero
Shoestring
Hardcastle & McCormick
Dempsey & Makepeace
Blue Thunder
ALF
G-Force
The Famous Five (the 80s version)

And does anyone here know how we'd go about getting these back on TV ? If enough people posted that they wanted them, would it make any difference ?

Stick a few of these on while the crap "celebrity" shows are on and I reckon you'd get a huge audience....

If those shows were put on today nobody or remade nobody would watch them. Audiences expect more now especially form US TV like 24, Lost, The Sopranos, Grey's Anatomy, The Wire, Batlestar Gallactica to name a few.

But personally I would love to see last years Night Stalker which I now is not a classic but felt had only started to reach its potential as it was canelled.

sweetie

qwertplaywert wrote:

i hate all those shows[well the ones ive seen]
firefly,tru calling and angel would top the list for me

firefly is on sci fi at the moment as is angel (and it's on sky) and tru calling was just repeated on sky aswell

Ghost Train

There are a few old shows I remember well from 10-15 years back
Something like "threes company", "alf", "the hulk" and similar shows. (what was that show with the helicopter and orange robot)

I think I'd rather remember them as being good, instead of having my memory refreshed and seeing how bad they really were

Rte does show a few classic shows from time to time which is alright, but I'd prefer is they showed more of the newer stuff

DublinWriter

One word for you - uknova.

They torrent track old UK programmes that have not yet been released on DVD, and take them off as soon as they are commercially released.

I was looking for Shoestring myself for ages, and imagine my delight when the DVD box-set came up for pre-order on Amazon.

However, they couldn't put he series out on DVD release because of the large amount of pop background music of the time (Eddie worked at a radio station remember?!) used in scenes for which couldn't get clearance for.

I managed to download both series 1 and 2 of Shoestring from uknova, it normally comes around every 4 months as an active torrent. However the shows are capped from recent showings by UK Gold and are cut by anything from 5-10 mins because of the graphic fight scenes (UK Gold have to do this because they normally show it in a daytime slot).

As for the Famous Five - I think someone put a link to the opening credits up on boards somewhere recently.

Hobbes

Greatest American Hero is out on DVD now. Got the limited box set.

The sad thing with people is memory. I remember watching this when I was younger and thinking it was good, but the truth is a lot of it is kack. The one with the female suit wearer wanted me to club myself to death with a baby seal.

Although I blame youtube as I got it based off this piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVWPcDchZew

Likewise with some of the others. I've seen dempsey and makepeace a while back and it is insanely corney.

TBH if you feel nostalgic I recommend doing the rounds on some of the vid sites (eg. YouTube / dailymotion) you can normally find samples of the show you missed and remember how bad they were.

I mean I watched 10 mins of Street Hawk on YouTube and I Couldn't believe how kack it was (despite so many famous names in it).

Chevano Riley

I agree with SoSueMe. I used to think ALF was great, but then The Sopranos came out.


as for the original poster, its not so much a choice for me between watching Cirque De Celebrite and ironically watching sh1t 80s TV that reminds me of being 10. I just watch neither.

sioda

TV all has its time I saw a few eps of threes company recently and they wre rubbish not up to todays standards at all. But I mean if you trawl the sky channels you will find most old things crop up the whole time. Still not happy bout Sci Fi showing V before the watershed I mean some of those mice might have families that mite see them getting eaten

Yakuza

I agree with Hobbes, memory can be sorely deceptive. I got the entire set of Buck Rogers episodes, in a fit of nostalgia. When I saw it originally in the early 80's (I was 10, 11, 12) I thought it was the dog's boll0x, but watching it now, it is truly cack. Crap acting, crap dialogue, crap fight scenes.

SFX were cack too, but not bad for their day, I guess. I guess with no CGI available, they had to use still backgrounds and infinitely-rehashed stock footage for the win!

However, it *was* worth getting for an infinite supply of Erin Grey screen grabs I wouldn't kick Pamela Hensely out of bed, either. Phooowaarrrr!