Classic TV Shows

Patty O Furniture

I came across these 3 by accident recently:

A-Team - Tues/Wed/Thurs@10pm Forces TV (ch 264)

Airwolf - Daily@2/6pm - Forces TV

Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Daily@ 2/11pm - Yesterday (ch 537)

Bizarrely it was the day after Richard Hatch died, 'Apollo' from BSG,
I caught an ad for The A-Team for Forces TV, it was 'Face' in the GMC Van, he kinda looks well, must be the macro eating i heard him say once on TodayFM.

The A-Team ep i caught was S02E13, in where they help a friend that owns a chinese restaurant being runover & Face finds some Waterford Crystal broken, :P

Gabba Gabba Hey

How Colonol Decker wasn't reprimanded for for being terrible at his job is beyond me.

I think watching these now would ruin some of the memories I have of them. I wouldn't say they've aged well...

Patty O Furniture

Gabba Gabba Hey wrote: »

How Colonol Decker wasn't reprimanded for for being terrible at his job is beyond me.

I think watching these now would ruin some of the memories I have of them. I wouldn't say they've aged well...

That reminds me, McGyver is on CBS Action M-F@7pm, it's the VHS quality on that channel that hasn't aged well!

Them shows were around '83, a long time ago!

But Face isn't looking too bad, like Brendan O Connor- My Frown is my Crown :Dconsidering he hasn't done much on tv afaik. Apart from raising his boys in Montana, lol.

Once i read that A-Team/BSG/ creator Glen A. Larson had thought of Dirk Benedict as 3rd choice, same with BSG as with the in-joke of seeing a Cylon in the opening credits in The A-Team

He really had to fight for them jobs then.

Gabba Gabba Hey

Actually that reminds me - I did watch a good few seasons of MacGyver a few years ago. Some of the episodes were very hard to watch. Really enjoyed some of my favourite episodes from my childhood though.

Patty O Furniture

Gabba Gabba Hey wrote: »

Actually that reminds me - I did watch a good few seasons of MacGyver a few years ago. Some of the episodes were very hard to watch. Really enjoyed some of my favourite episodes from my childhood though.

I hadn't realised they had made 7 seasons, until i watched them on CBS as they have it on constant repeat.

I forgot that Teri Hatcher was on the show, or that he had a son too on it!

Tokyo

Gabba Gabba Hey wrote: »

Actually that reminds me - I did watch a good few seasons of MacGyver a few years ago. Some of the episodes were very hard to watch. Really enjoyed some of my favourite episodes from my childhood though.

It's still not half as bad as the 2016 reboot of the show though. The promo image says it all really...

Gabba Gabba Hey

Yeah I watched the first episode when it aired in the States - just terrible.

MacGyver is a great character to work with and they've just went with a by-the-numbers show with the handler who has his back and the IT person for the background stuff. Weak.

The poster really is taking the p1ss.

Skid X

ITV4 show some old classics like The Professionals, Minder and Quincy ME. Nice comfy viewing if you have nothing else to do.

I was watching Quincy at the weekend where he had to find a deadly bacteria in the World Cup Final Stadium. It could have killed thousands but luckily our man caught it just in time.

They never bothered mentioning who was in this World Cup Final, any they didn't show any Football at all, but they did say that the Final was won "in the last seconds of overtime, 4 to 3 - what a game!!". Quite funny to see how the writers didn't bother inventing any details about the teams involved.

cml387

Skid X wrote: »

ITV4 show some old classics like The Professionals, Minder and Quincy ME. Nice comfy viewing if you have nothing else to do.

I was watching Quincy at the weekend where he had to find a deadly bacteria in the World Cup Final Stadium. It could have killed thousands but luckily our man caught it just in time.

They never bothered mentioning who was in this World Cup Final, any they didn't show any Football at all, but they did say that the Final was won "in the last seconds of overtime, 4 to 3 - what a game!!". Quite funny to see how the writers didn't bother inventing any details about the teams involved.

Tales Of The Unexpected is on Sky Arts, I think.
Saw an episode with Toyah Wilcox who somewhat bizarrely looks better now than she did then.

silverharp

the Professionals I can still watch over xmas I stumbled over a series from the 70's called Survivors, there was a 90's remake. its post apocalypse set in the UK usual low budget bbc production values, its all up on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1SrFGXgA4&t=6s

Married with children still got tons of comedy value.

Taltos

Few other series from around that time I haven't seen in a long time.

Street Hawk - think airwolf on 2 wheels
Misfits of Science - shown briefly on RTE2
Automan - has not aged well at all
Manimal - music was great, but think Dallas meets Crazy Like a Fox meets Ulysses
Sapphire and Steel - bought the DVDs from HMV years ago, crazy for the time, gave me nightmares as a kid
Blakes 7 - again had to buy the DVDs for this one, special effects haven't aged but the story is still great
Greatest American Hero - gotta love that hair...

Tokyo

No kid should have survived the 80's without seeing at least an episode or two of Knight Rider...



A show led by an inanimate object that could speak, AND a talking car....

The Persuaders and The Avengers are on one of those True Entertainment channels on Sky.I think The Saint (Roger Moore) is on ITV4!

silverharp

silverharp wrote: »

the Professionals I can still watch over xmas I stumbled over a series from the 70's called Survivors, there was a 90's remake. its post apocalypse set in the UK usual low budget bbc production values, its all up on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1SrFGXgA4&t=6s

Married with children still got tons of comedy value.

The first series of Survivors scripted by Terry Nation was superb and the episodes never had any incidental music which added to the doomladen atmosphere!

silverharp

zorro2566 wrote: »

The first series of Survivors scripted by Terry Nation was superb and the episodes never had any incidental music which added to the doomladen atmosphere!

it had an air about it alright, its good winter viewing. it got into a fierce amount of detail about noobs taking to farming, I was joking to myself that it was gov information in the event of a nuclear war :pac:


and the lead actress was no wallflower

silverharp

silverharp wrote: »

it had an air about it alright, its good winter viewing. it got into a fierce amount of detail about noobs taking to farming, I was joking to myself that it was gov information in the event of a nuclear war :pac:


and the lead actress was no wallflower

I liked Jenny (Lucy Fleming) better!

cml387

Ah yes, Survivors.

Essential viewing for us (it unusually started in the summer of 1975 as I remember).

The title music was superb, you could be in no doubt that this was a spooky programme.

As is the case with many things, they did an update a few years ago with probably 100 times the budget and with one hundredth the imagination or atmosphere, and it was deservedly cancelled after one series.

Patty O Furniture

Gabba Gabba Hey wrote: »

Yeah I watched the first episode when it aired in the States - just terrible.

MacGyver is a great character to work with and they've just went with a by-the-numbers show with the handler who has his back and the IT person for the background stuff. Weak.



The poster really is taking the p1ss.

The only thing they improved afaik from the pilot, was his image

I think i heard somewhere that RDA ain't too happy, although one Patty likes him, that is Selma & Patty

Taltos wrote: »

Few other series from around that time I haven't seen in a long time.

Street Hawk - think airwolf on 2 wheels
Misfits of Science - shown briefly on RTE2
Automan - has not aged well at all
Manimal - music was great, but think Dallas meets Crazy Like a Fox meets Ulysses
Sapphire and Steel - bought the DVDs from HMV years ago, crazy for the time, gave me nightmares as a kid
Blakes 7 - again had to buy the DVDs for this one, special effects haven't aged but the story is still great
Greatest American Hero - gotta love that hair...

I think one channel afaik Bravo had a w/end long showing of those above
Simon MacCorkindale from Manimal was last seen in Casualty, but sadly died a few years ago.

Sadly I haven't seen those since on a channel, inc Simon & Simon or Hardcastle & McCormick either, i haven't really checked youtube, as some wouldn't age great on dvd either!

Skid X wrote: »

ITV4 show some old classics like The Professionals, Minder and Quincy ME. Nice comfy viewing if you have nothing else to do.

I was watching Quincy at the weekend where he had to find a deadly bacteria in the World Cup Final Stadium. It could have killed thousands but luckily our man caught it just in time.

They never bothered mentioning who was in this World Cup Final, any they didn't show any Football at all, but they did say that the Final was won "in the last seconds of overtime, 4 to 3 - what a game!!". Quite funny to see how the writers didn't bother inventing any details about the teams involved.

I saw The Saint on ITV4 too & afaik The Persuaders were on too,
Never a fan of Hogan's Heroes, once seen on Superchannel many moons ago & one of many shows on ForcesTV, along with tv show Private Benjamin from the ad, some of the cast from film too :rolleyes:

The Fall Guy i remember used to be on in the morning too
aaaH-eather Thomas

I don't think America was entirely clued into the football, even though it sounds like The World Cup that was there in '94,
But i saw on NBC News recently that early morning football is rapidly becoming a fav over homegrown sports being left in the shade!

Since the Oscars is on this w/end, i found out this by accident years ago, that Airwolf's Ernest Borgnine won a Best Actor Oscar for Marty in 1955, & happen to catch it on BBC2 on Oscar night & when you read who he was up against, was some mean feat, whattaguy

dublinman1990

The Yesterday Comedy Zone have a good selection of BBC archive shows like Open All Hours, Porridge, Goodnight Sweetheart, Yes Minister, The Two Ronnies, Jeeves & Wooster & Keeping Up Appearances for nearly every night of the week.

Drama has Last of The Summer Wine & As Time Goes By available there as well.

Duggie2012

Auf wiedersehen pet on Yesterday channel. I like it. Pretty good.

The Black Oil

Columbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TUSsqWCTM

Patty O Furniture

silverharp wrote: »

it had an air about it alright, its good winter viewing. it got into a fierce amount of detail about noobs taking to farming, I was joking to myself that it was gov information in the event of a nuclear war :pac:


and the lead actress was no wallflower

On closer inspection, she's the spit of 'Biddy from Glenroe' she was no wallflower either & married to a tulip:P

dublinman1990 wrote: »

The Yesterday Comedy Zone have a good selection of BBC archive shows like Open All Hours, Porridge, Goodnight Sweetheart, Yes Minister, The Two Ronnies, Jeeves & Wooster & Keeping Up Appearances for nearly every night of the week.

Drama has Last of The Summer Wine & As Time Goes By available there as well.

I saw once it had The First of The Summer Wine, afaik the longest running sitcom on Gold everyday, it was funny seeing the start of how it began with Compo & Co.

Duggie2012 wrote: »

Auf wiedersehen pet on Yesterday channel. I like it. Pretty good.

Wey Aye, Man! canny show that

Lorelli!

I liked Auf wiedersehen pet but I can only remember small bits of it.

Also I remember my parents liked the comedy drama A Bit Of A Do. It was set where every episode was some function like a wedding or a funeral that the same friends/acquaintances would attend and all the drama would continue every time they met at these events, a bit like in real life :pac:

Yamanoto

I've been watching the latest series of The Real Marigold Hotel, featuring the likes of Denis Taylor, Bill Oddie etc. I thought nobody could ever challenge Miriam Margolyes for the most insufferable luvvie gong, but Lionel Blair's giving it hell of a go.

Anyhoo, I suddenly felt quite old on seeing a barely recognisable Paul Nicholas (of Just Good Friends fame) doddering his way about India with all the other old timers. I remember quite liking that show as a kid, though tbh anything would have served as respite after being forced to watch Howard's Way, Hotel & Falcon Crest, by sisters who exerted way too much influence on family viewing in the early to mid 80s.

Patty O Furniture

Lorelli! wrote: »

I liked Auf wiedersehen pet but I can only remember small bits of it.

Also I remember my parents liked the comedy drama A Bit Of A Do. It was set where every episode was some function like a wedding or a funeral that the same friends/acquaintances would attend and all the drama would continue every time they met at these events, a bit like in real life :pac:

A Bit Of A Do, afaik David Jason & Gwen Taylor were married but not to each other & kept meeting up & maybe rekindling an affair?

She was also in Duty Free on ITV

Yamanoto wrote: »

I've been watching the latest series of The Real Marigold Hotel, featuring the likes of Denis Taylor, Bill Oddie etc. I thought nobody could ever challenge Miriam Margolyes for the most insufferable luvvie gong, but Lionel Blair's giving it hell of a go.



Anyhoo, I suddenly felt quite old on seeing a barely recognisable Paul Nicholas (of Just Good Friends fame) doddering his way about India with all the other old timers. I remember quite liking that show as a kid, though tbh anything would have served as respite after being forced to watch Howard's Way, Hotel & Falcon Crest, by sisters who exerted way too much influence on family viewing in the early to mid 80s.

Another thing to make you feel old, i see an ad for a show soon on Gold featuring Russ Abbott, i haven't seen him in yonks since afaik Russ Abbots Madhouse with Les Dennis.

Did Vince & Penny ever get together in the end?

I take it you were saved from Dynasty, Knots Landing etc
afaik Howards Way was after Wogan or was that Sat?

Lorelli!

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

A Bit Of A Do, afaik David Jason & Gwen Taylor were married but not to each other & kept meeting up & maybe rekindling an affair?

Ye Patty, that's it. I think their affair began in the first episode at a wedding and the storyline continued and there were other stories running for different characters.

Time would pass between the "do's" so the viewer would be figuring out what happened in this time at the next "do". I can't remember it all that well tbh but I thought it was a good concept for a show and what I do remember, I thought was good. I must see if I can watch it again.

Patty O Furniture

I see GOLD are continuing with their 1st & last ever ep's of shows, tonite it's
Blackadder on 7.40 & 8.20pm on ch 110 or the +1 on ch 166

The Black Adder: The Foretelling [S01E01]
Blackadder Goes Forth: Plan F Goodbyeee! [S04E06]

Harry Palmr

A Bit of a Do is a genuine classic of social mores (as in mōrēs!), I'd love to see that again.

When I have a look at programmes made in the 80s which were shot on VT I wonder if they really looked that bad at the time, Tenko is on Drama right now and the ghosting is appalling. Ditto Boon, I suspect they have just grabbed the nearest copy from a VHS transfer rather than going to the master tape (assuming it exists, which it may not). I expect Prime Suspect and Morse on ITV3 look much better.

cml387

It's likely now that no one would tolerate a studio bound drama production like "I Claudius" or "Colditz" nowadays since we have become so much more used to film, and the technology is such that digital recording is now far cheaper than the costs associated with film back in the day.

However I do think something is lost, and that a studio production brings more of the theatre to television drama.

Maybe some day someone will do a purely studio 5 camera drama.

Tokyo

Only Fools and Horses



I still watch it from time to time - still holds up as a great comedy, even after all these years.

Lorelli!

Probably not really considered a classic and anyone I ask never seems to remember it but does anyone here remember Planet of the Apes, the tv series?

Not sure which channel it was on but I remember it was definitely shown at one stage around 1993 and early on a Sunday morning because I was 10 and going through a little sort of holy phase and I used to get up early and watch it and then head off to mass

Harry Palmr

Horror and True Entertainment have shown them both - the former as regular episodes and the latter the "tv movie" edits of episodes - basically two put together. Back to the Planet of the Apes, Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes etc they were shown first in 1981.

Skatedude

Lorelli! wrote: »

Probably not really considered a classic and anyone I ask never seems to remember it but does anyone here remember Planet of the Apes, the tv series?

Not sure which channel it was on but I remember it was definitely shown at one stage around 1993 and early on a Sunday morning because I was 10 and going through a little sort of holy phase and I used to get up early and watch it and then head off to mass

Yep, planet of the apes on sat morning, then logans run the tv show after, but had to wait for evening for ufo and space 1999.

I actually have salvage 1 on dvd, where they make a spaceship in a junkyard to salvage the stuff left on the moon. and of course the daily reruns of the incredible hulk in the afternoon.

OU812

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Did Vince & Penny ever get together in the end?

The series followed the wavering relationship between two ex-lovers, Penny Warrender, a secretary for an advertising firm, and Vincent Pinner, an ex-ice cream salesman turned bookmaker who is the son of a wealthy scrap metal merchant. The couple split up following Vincent's decision not to marry Penny on their wedding day, leaving her at the altar. In the pilot episode, five years since their intended wedding day, the pair meet again by chance in a pub while out on individual dates. The pair decides to forget the past and become friends, although the rekindling of their relationship is not welcomed by Penny's snobbish parents, particularly her mother, Daphne, played by Sylvia Kay.

The 1984 90-minute Christmas special was a prequel to the series showing how Penny and Vince first met, loved and how Penny was jilted and married Graham. The last episode of the second series was intended to be the final episode, with Penny leaving for a job in Paris.

The cast reunited in 1986 for a final seven episodes, in which Penny and Vince met up in Paris two years after they split up. Penny was now divorced and Vince was married; the couple renews their relationship and Vince, now a successful businessman gives up everything for a quick divorce to pay off his wife Gina so he can be with Penny. In the final episode, Vince is still recovering from his painful divorce when his father pays a visit. Vince is told that unless calls the wedding off, a lucrative wine export contract cannot be signed - Gina's way of blackmailing the Pinners by hitting where it really hurts. Similarly, Penny is told that unless she calls the wedding off, her dad's new job may not happen and at work, she is offered a permanent basing in Paris, all because Gina Marshall (Vince's ex) is too important a client to turn down.

Eventually, she accepts the new posting but uses it to her advantage by returning to Paris and marrying Vince at the town hall.

Lorelli!

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Horror and True Entertainment have shown them both - the former as regular episodes and the latter the "tv movie" edits of episodes - basically two put together. Back to the Planet of the Apes, Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes etc they were shown first in 1981.

Was it any good? I remember I loved it but it was a good while ago.

I can't remember anything about it though I was googling it just now and didn't know but Roddy Mc Dowall played Cornelius in the original movie, then Caesar in the Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (I don't recall seeing this movie) and then he played Galen in the TV show!

rubadub

mike_ie wrote: »

No kid should have survived the 80's without seeing at least an episode or two of Knight Rider...

I watched the pilots of this and several others recently. I have seen the first episode of loads of other programs several times, e.g. friends or big bang theory seem to have them repeated all the time. I did not see pilots of many 80s shows I watched.

In the pilot for Knight Rider

Michael Knight is played by another actor at the start, I thought it was just for the pilot and the hoff came after the pilot, but he is shot in the face and gets plastic surgery and the bandages come off to reveal the hoff.

that spoiler might be common knowledge as its on wiki as though its known https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_(1982_TV_series)#Premise

Harry Palmr

Lorelli! wrote: »

Was it any good? I remember I loved it but it was a good while ago.

I can't remember anything about it though I was googling it just now and didn't know but Roddy Mc Dowall played Cornelius in the original movie, then Caesar in the Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (I don't recall seeing this movie) and then he played Galen in the TV show!

Never watched them myself - only seen the first three of the films! I imagine they were typical spin-off material of the time, cheap and efficient for the kids.

The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants were childhood favourites of mine!

KingBrian2

Shows made in the 90's have now become classics so not just 60-80's

silverharp

Skatedude wrote: »

Yep, planet of the apes on sat morning, then logans run the tv show after, but had to wait for evening for ufo and space 1999.

I actually have salvage 1 on dvd, where they make a spaceship in a junkyard to salvage the stuff left on the moon. and of course the daily reruns of the incredible hulk in the afternoon.

salvage 1 , i remember that, there was 1 episode where they used the rocket to turn an iceberg....fk physics

Space 1999 was brilliant, Friday evening 5ish on ITV, nice show to kick off the weekend

_Kaiser_

zorro2566 wrote: »

The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants were childhood favourites of mine!

Add to that Mr Ed, Green Acres, The Green Hornet, My Favourite Martian, Lost In Space...

Ah Sky Channel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7-eIV_swok

Harry Palmr

The Prisoner is being reshown from 9pm/10pm (+1) on True Entertainment from Monday. Annoyingly they are screening two episodes back to back as if they were BBC Four or something! Luckily the +1 option allows some room for manoeuvre.

Agent Coulson

Just bought The Prisoner on Blu Ray and it's stunning I always enjoy watching it.


McGoohan really is a guy I would have loved to have a pint with I always enjoy seeing him on Columbo as well him and Falk together on screen are great fun to watch whenever I catch a re run of it.

Love Patrick McGoohan,great actor and I have all the Danger Man eps on DVD and of course the brilliant The Prisoner!

Harry Palmr

I'd love Danger Man to be shown again, only ever caught a few on ITV4 3 or 4 year ago. The problem is the reluctance to show B&W series on most channels. Though True have shown monochrome Avengers of course.

Cortina_MK_IV

At 3:55pm today on 5 USA is "Prescription Murder" from 1968. It was the pilot for Columbo with a cleaner less disheveled lieutenant.

IMDB.com wrote:

A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Harry Palmr

True are showing the Prisoner in a reframed 16:9 copy :mad: The only good news is that it's a decent quality transfer so additional noise is not obvious.

brian_t

True Entertainment are following 'The Prisoner' with 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'

They are starting with season 2 (the first one in colour) on Monday 3rd April at 9pm.

As a teaser they are showing" The Yukon Affair" (season 2 episode 15) this Thursday at 10pm after 'The Prisoner' finale.

Harry Palmr

Black and white is actually okay to watch True!

Harry Palmr

Behold UNCLE is 4:3!:)

brian_t

Secret Army starts on Drama tomorrow Saturday at 7.10am or 1pm.

The inspiration for Allo Allo is been shown in blocks of four episodes.

http://drama.uktv.co.uk/shows/secret-army/episodes/