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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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    #362
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    beachcombers, I remember all the logs, and little else!
    The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990. At 387 episodes, it is the third longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television.


    this was mentioned, intro song is great


    some good lists here
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1970s_British_television_series
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1980s_British_television_series




    ANSWERS!:
    1) Fawlty Towers
    2) Doctor Who
    3) Dads Army
    4) Blackadder - The Third
    5) Absolutely Fabulous
    6) Who Wants to be a Millionaire
    7) Coronation Street
    8) Only Fools and Horses
    9) Torchwood
    10) Emmerdale
    11) Men Behaving Badly
    12) My Family
    13) Gimme Gimme Gimme
    14) One Foot in the Grave
    15) Keeping up Appearances
    16) Touch of Frost
    17) Are You Being Served?
    18) Art Attack
    19) Top Gear
    20) Red Dwarf
    21) My Hero
    22) Last of the Summer Wine
    23) Open all Hours
    24) Sherlock
    25) XFactor


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    #363
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    El Dorado

    A BBC soap opera series about British ex-pats living on the Costa del Sol.

    The series flopped. Some episodes were never screened because the acting was appalling. Canned in a few months.


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    #364
    eagle eye
    Registered Users Posts: 37,860 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Anyone mention the life and times of grizzly Adams?


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    #365
    branie2
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    Highway to Heaven - An angel helping people on earth


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    #366
    RMAOK
    Registered Users Posts: 11,210 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    branie2 wrote: »
    Highway to Heaven - An angel helping people on earth

    One of the stars of that, Michael Landon, was also in little house on the prairie and Bonanza iirc


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    #367
    Subacio
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Subacio


    The reason the war seemed to last forever on The Sullivans was because RTE showed only one episode per week. Aussie tv showed 5 per week.


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    #368
    sweetie
    Registered Users Posts: 9,791 ✭✭✭sweetie


    American cult shows larry sanders and my so called life were great.
    Sean's show with the late departed Sean Hughes was another favourite.


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    #369
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Subacio wrote: »
    The reason the war seemed to last forever on The Sullivans was because RTE showed only one episode per week. Aussie tv showed 5 per week.

    Exactly, see my point above


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    #370
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    sweetie wrote: »
    American cult shows larry sanders and my so called life were great.
    Sean's show with the late departed Sean Hughes was another favourite.


    I loved Larry Sanders and Seans Show, but absolutely hated My So Called Life. To this day, I still despise Claire Danes :P And Jared Leto!


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    #371
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Canadian show The Kids of Degrassi Street and it's spinoff Degrassi Junior High


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    #372
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The original Fireman Sam


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    #373
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    If not already mentioned. Fields of Fire.. Australian Mini Series 1987. On RTE in 1988.


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    #374
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Anno Domini around 1985. Ian McShane and a good few English actors and actresses.


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    #375
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    If a child of the 80s Fortycoats and my favourite character from it 'The Pickarooney' just ahead of 'Sofar Sogood' and 'Slightly Bonkers'. :)


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    #376
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    I'm sure Ballymagash has been mentioned. The Minister for Hardship.. Eamonn Morrissey and Jack Finch!


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    #377
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Number 1. A music show quiz. Des Fitzgerald hosting. Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot of Def Leppard team captains. 1980s.


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    #378
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Marengo wrote: »
    Number 1. A music show quiz. Des Fitzgerald hosting. Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot of Def Leppard team captains. 1980s.

    Dave, not Des. And Gerry Ryan was captain before Joe Elliot


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    #379
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Insurrection 1966, 50th Centenary of 1916, repeated in 2016.


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    #380
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    branie2 wrote: »
    Dave, not Des. And Gerry Ryan was captain before Joe Elliot

    That's right, yes Des was a rugby prop, father of Luke Fitzgerald:D


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    #381
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Know Your Sport

    Probably finished up in the mid 90s after an 8-10 year run.


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    #382
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Mailbag (if not mentioned already) with Arthur Murphy. In the early and mid 1980s he was very serious and sincere, then turned into a messer towards the end of the series iirc.


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    #383
    RMAOK
    Registered Users Posts: 11,210 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    Marengo wrote: »
    Know Your Sport

    Probably finished up in the mid 90s after an 8-10 year run.

    The first time on TV I got to see the memory man, Jimmy McGee, in action


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    #384
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Marengo wrote: »
    Mailbag (if not mentioned already) with Arthur Murphy. In the early and mid 1980s he was very serious and sincere, then turned into a messer towards the end of the series iirc.

    You could see the readers of the viewers' letters


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    #385
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    branie2 wrote: »
    Dave, not Des. And Gerry Ryan was captain before Joe Elliot

    Was Ian Dempsey on that too?


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    #386
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Some great traditional music programmes like The Pure Drop and The Mountain Lark.


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    #387
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    branie2 wrote: »
    You could see the readers of the viewers' letters

    The, relatively, elderly gent with the glasses.


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    #388
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Was Ian Dempsey on that too?

    He was, he succeeded Dave Fitzgerald as the quiz master.


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    #389
    RMAOK
    Registered Users Posts: 11,210 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    I vaguely remember a music type show on rte - it had a cgi (or what would have been called graphics back then).

    Think it might have called Nighthawks :confused:


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    #390
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Rapid Roulette Quiz show with Maurie Taylor originally and then Maxi.


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    #391
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,385 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    RMAOK wrote: »
    I vaguely remember a music type show on rte - it had a cgi (or what would have been called graphics back then).

    Think it might have called Nighthawks :confused:
    Nighthawks was brilliant. It want a music show though, it was sort of a chat show with satirical sketches and a musical act.

    "You Bathtard, Charlie!"


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