Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Cork Boy 53

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

There are actually some clips of it on Youtube but it has never been put on DVD, on this side of the Atlantic anyway.

Acorn Media released it on DVD in the USA, 2008. Normally retails for around $40 - $50. Quality drama - really well done.

Washington Behind Closed Doors is another great presidential drama. Made in 1977 and set in the present day. Paranoia, anti-war sentiment, CIA etc.

Star Cops.
Best sci-fi I ever saw. Monday nights on BBC2 during July and August 1987.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8YiXdTP-5E

Skid X

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

Ed was good comedy from the mid 2000s. JD's brother from Scrubs was in it. I think the actor was Tom Cavanagh. Nobody seems to remember it!

Ed was a show I really enjoyed. Bounced around the schedules and stations a lot.

Best comedy series about a bowling alley owning lawyer ever !

Nigel Fairservice

Skid X wrote: »

Ed was a show I really enjoyed. Bounced around the schedules and stations a lot.

Best comedy series about a bowling alley owning lawyer ever !

I really enjoyed it. Reminds me of leaving cert/college days. I still miss the show. I think all the messing around with schedule eventually killed it. I only ever saw the episodes once. Network 2 used to show it. I don't remember any of the UK channels showing it and I don't think the show ever got a DVD release here or in the US. I'd love if it ended up on Netflix or some other streaming service. I'd be there!

Great opening credits music too. Think Next Year by Foo fighters was used too at some point.

Speedsie

Grandeeod wrote: »

Triangle. Who remembers that. I do!

Ah, yes, sun bathing & drama on a North Sea ferry....

What about Howard's Way?

Howard’s Way was brilliant.
Some great characters, Jack Rolfe, Ken Masters, Lynn Howard...and Kate O’Mara as the deadly Laura Wilde.

The English Dallas. Or Glenroe as it aired around the same time on a Sunday evening and always ran from September to December.

The Crowman

The Fatheads. Paul Tylak and Joe Rooney in a comedy that was shown on RTE i think Saturday mornings early 90s. They had these kind of exaggerated teddy boy hairstyles. It had a cult following at the time but there's nothing whatsoever about it online let alone clips.

Lord Glentoran

Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man on BBC2 in the early eighties.

Lots of gratuitous nudity and shagging.

https://www.memorabletv.com/tv/history-man-bbc-2-1981-antony-sher-isla-blair/

sweetie

some late nineties sci-fi shows I loved that Network 2 used to show together late at night;
Millenium (Lance Henriksen)
Profiler (Ally Walker)

branie2

The Critic

RMAOK

Thou shalt not kill - I can't remember the guy's name who presented it (might be Kieran Shannon?).

my3cents

RMAOK wrote: »

Thou shalt not kill - I can't remember the guy's name who presented it (might be Kieran Shannon?).

You don't know how to use google :eek:

https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2065/058.html

Broadcaster and journalist Cathal O'Shannon, during the filming of RTÉ Television's 'Thou Shalt Not Kill: Murder in the Park', in Dublin's Phoenix Park in July 1995.
'Murder in the Park' focused on the MacArthur murder case. Malcolm MacArthur was convicted of the murder of Bridie Gargan in 1983; he had committed the murder in July 1982. He had been found by gardaí in the Dalkey apartment of the then Attorney-General.

RTÉ Television's 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' was a drama-documentary series which examined famous Irish murder cases. It was presented by Cathal O'Shannon - he also wrote 'Murder in the Park'. It was first broadcast by RTÉ on 9 November 1995.

branie2

I remember one episode looked at a murder in Kerry in the 1950s, which inspired the play the Field, written by John B Keane

Ger Roe

This one probably takes the thread to a whole new geek level.

Anyone remember the UTV sign on procedure when it came on air (opt out from the ITA network) in the mid mornings? It used a sig tune called 'The Antrim Road with a static caption of the station logo at the time, followed by a voiced announcement saying that UTV was now on air 'from the black mountain transmitter.'

I also remember a weekly 'TV trade announcements' programme where TV shops would be updated on what transmitters would be off air for for maintenance, or were being tested etc. RTE also had a similar TV Trade Announcements slot.

Fascinating stuff..... if you were of a certain mindset.

branie2

Robin of Sherwood

rubadub

Ger Roe wrote: »

It used a sig tune called 'The Antrim Road with a static caption of the station logo at the time, followed by a voiced announcement saying that UTV was now on air 'from the black mountain transmitter.'

That tune is brilliant, never heard it before. I read about the "test card girl" with the doll a while back.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hersee

Because of the card's prolonged exposure on the BBC, Hersee received fan mail during her teenage years and was regularly contacted by media outlets for interviews, but she quickly tired of the publicity.[3] According to a November 2006 article featuring test card enthusiast Keith Hamer, Hersee is in Guinness World Records for the longest television appearance in history — an estimated total of 70,000 hours, equivalent to nearly eight continuous years.[4] However, she denied this in a May 2007 interview with The Daily Telegraph, saying, "[It] can't be put in the Guinness Book of Records because it isn't a record that somebody else can achieve, apparently". Hersee still owns the Bubbles doll, which she today keeps stored inside a box.

branie2

Round the Bend, basically Spitting Image for kids, with cartoons

onform

Voyagers!, a US children's show aired briefly on RTE in the early to mid 80s. Involved time travel to teach about history. I loved it as a kid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyagers!

Starred an actor called Jon-Erik Hexum who not much later died tragically in on-set accident while messing with a prop gun.

smilerf

Everyone remembers Gamesmaster but I loved Bad Influence too

branie2

The original TV series Batman

Nigel Fairservice

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I was talking sci fi with a few guys from work and none of them had ever heard of V from 1984. I was too young at the time but it was shown on Network 2 again in 1999/2000. I was in 4th year at the time and always stayed up late to watch it.

it!

Watched it in the 80s when first released. Most memorable moment? Woman gives birth to baby. All looks normal for a moment. Palpable relief all round as she was impregnated by an alien. Then baby opens mouth and serpent tongue gives a nice flick-absolutely brilliant TV. All talking about that scene the following day in school.

Nigel Fairservice

branie2 wrote: »

The Critic

Jay Sherman's appearance in The Simpsons was fantastic. Pukahontas

branie2

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

Jay Sherman's appearance in The Simpsons was fantastic. Pukahontas

And his cameo in Hurricane Neddy

It stinks!
It stinks!

sonofenoch

Seem someone mention Monkey .....the Water Margin was a similar show, Friday evening they were both on


hadn't a clue what it was about but never missed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVVRMBWGBqw&list=PLiM66AdUquSNmBUjsj8_m_86S6_diXifH

ARNOLD J RIMMER

Anyone remember Street Halk

Nigel Fairservice

Deleted User wrote: »

Watched it in the 80s when first released. Most memorable moment? Woman gives birth to baby. All looks normal for a moment. Palpable relief all round as she was impregnated by an alien. Then baby opens mouth and serpent tongue gives a nice flick-absolutely brilliant TV. All talking about that scene the following day in school.

I can only imagine what the teenagers of today would make of it. It's probably tame stuff to them today. Great show, I have it on DVD and I still dig it out every once in a while. Just remembered as well..the scenes when they ate hamsters and stuff were daft as well.

madmaggie

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

branie2

Hoyt and Andy - a cartoon comedy show about two men who were sports programme presenters

Arthur Daley

rubadub wrote: »

That tune is brilliant, never heard it before. I read about the "test card girl" with the doll a while back.

That pic was used because it was so colourful, and that is what they wanted to test in the early days. But there was something very creepy about that doll also, it frightened quite a few children at the time.

branie2

This was our test screen