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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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    #1802
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,411 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    About Worzel Gummidge, how could you be scared of someone who had a nest of robins for a heart, I ask you?! Plus, his unrequited love for that awful b*itch Aunt Sally... Una Stubbs was great in that role.


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    #1803
    salmocab
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    New Home wrote: »
    About Worzel Gummidge, how could you be scared of someone who had a nest of robins for a heart, I ask you?! Plus, his unrequited love for that awful b*itch Aunt Sally... Una Stubbs was great in that role.

    Worzel Gummidge is the most sinister character ever to be on tv.


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    #1804
    Hangdogroad
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    salmocab wrote: »
    Worzel Gummidge is the most sinister character ever to be on tv.

    No, that would be his nemesis Dafthead. Only appeared in two episodes but the cause of many a nightmare.

    EKi3R4TXsAQnuU2.jpg


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    #1805
    salmocab
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    No, that would be his nemesis Dafthead. Only appeared in two episodes but the cause of many a nightmare.

    EKi3R4TXsAQnuU2.jpg

    Great now I’m not sleeping tonight.
    Think there was a recent remake with Mackenzie Crook playing the title.


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    #1806
    neris
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Robin of Sherwood, theme music by Clannad

    On ITV 4 now


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    #1807
    NewbridgeIR
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    madmaggie wrote: »
    Oh No, it's Selwyn Frogitt. I remember my grandmother watching it.

    MAGIC!

    Loved the way he would come into the pub and punch his friends' sides causing them to spill their drinks.


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    #1808
    Worztron
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    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Anyone mention Worzel Gummidge yet? Such a lovely show.

    Hi MM. Yes, I mentioned a while back. Loved that show. The different heads for various occasions, his Worzelese language, etc. Great memories.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #1809
    MetzgerMeister
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    Worztron wrote: »
    Hi MM. Yes, I mentioned a while back. Loved that show. The different heads for various occasions, his Worzelese language, etc. Great memories.

    Great memories indeed! I even had two Worzel books back in the day.

    I still watch it every so often. Have it downloaded but on some episodes the sound is off sync with the picture. Haven't watched any of Worzel Down Under. Can't understand why they had to move it to Oz. Scatterbrook Farm and 10 Acre Field for the win!!


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    #1810
    madmaggie
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    Only When I laugh. "I'm h-a- pp-y, I know I am, I'm sure I am, I'm h-a-pp-y". It was dreadful.


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    #1811
    Pawwed Rig
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    madmaggie wrote: »
    Only When I laugh. "I'm h-a- pp-y, I know I am, I'm sure I am, I'm h-a-pp-y". It was dreadful.

    That was the one set in the hospital ward right?


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    #1812
    madmaggie
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    Correct, Pawed Rig. It was dire.


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    #1813
    cml387
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    madmaggie wrote: »
    Correct, Pawed Rig. It was dire.

    Pretty poor and yet starred two superb comedy/straight actors, Peter Bowles and James Bolam.


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    #1814
    Username exists
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    It is on the bbc iplayer and it has 2 episodes.

    It's very enjoyable, he wrote, directed and starred as Worzel.


    He also done The Detectorists which is very funny and a lot haven't seen it.


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    #1815
    salmocab
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    Username exists wrote: »
    It is on the bbc iplayer and it has 2 episodes.

    It's very enjoyable, he wrote, directed and starred as Worzel.


    He also done The Detectorists which is very funny and a lot haven't seen it.

    I presume you meant to quote me there about Mackenzie Crook?
    Yeah the detectorists is a great show and flew under the radar for many.


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    #1816
    corks finest
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    salmocab wrote: »
    I presume you meant to quote me there about Mackenzie Crook?
    Yeah the detectorists is a great show and flew under the radar for many.

    Detectorists is fab,one of my favourite s


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    #1817
    salmocab
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    corks finest wrote: »
    Detectorists is fab,one of my favourite s

    It’s an odd show but the friendship between the two lads is brilliant and the Simon and Garfunkel bits are played very well. Not sure many shows could have got away with being so slow.


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    #1818
    the purple tin
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    salmocab wrote: »
    It’s an odd show but the friendship between the two lads is brilliant and the Simon and Garfunkel bits are played very well. Not sure many shows could have got away with being so slow.
    The relaxed pacing and great soundtrack is the thing that really got me into it, no audience laughing too which would spoil it. Lovely scenery too.

    The mayor looking for help to find his lost chain was one of the funniest bits I've seen in a sitcom in ages. :D


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    the purple tin
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    Garth Marenghi's Darkplace


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    #1820
    trashcan
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    thebronze14 wrote: »
    I'm sure it was mentioned but someone showed me the genius of Soupy Norman recently!

    Ah yeah, I love Soupy Norman. Genius. Probably the funniest thing RTÉ have ever done (yeah, low bar, I know.) Bonkers, but hilarious. Barry Murphy from Apres Match was involved I think.


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    #1821
    Hangdogroad
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    Barry Murphy was also involved in Couched. Shown late at night on Network 2 in 1998. Virtually no one I mention it to remembers it. Some of the sketches were proto Soupy Norman, obscure 70s and 80s TV clips with funny voices dubbed over them.


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    #1822
    trashcan
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Barry Murphy was also involved in Couched. Shown late at night on Network 2 in 1998. Virtually no one I mention it to remembers it. Some of the sketches were proto Soupy Norman, obscure 70s and 80s TV clips with funny voices dubbed over them.

    Yeah, I think I saw couched a couple of times. I also Used to like Blizzard of Odd, with Colin Murphy, kind of like Charlie Brooker, but pre dates him.


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    #1823
    It BeeMee
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Barry Murphy was also involved in Couched. Shown late at night on Network 2 in 1998. Virtually no one I mention it to remembers it. Some of the sketches were proto Soupy Norman, obscure 70s and 80s TV clips with funny voices dubbed over them.


    The last episode showed the same clips but with their original soundtrack


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    #1824
    NewbridgeIR
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    @last tv was another good show in 1997. Ian O’Doherty presented TV Heaven section.

    Here is my upload of Nothing To It from @last tv - another show which many people won’t remember

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


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    #1825
    Hangdogroad
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    @last tv was another good show in 1997. Ian O’Doherty presented TV Heaven section.

    Here is my upload of Nothing To It from @last tv - another show which many people won’t remember

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

    I remember Nothing To It. Not a lot about the show itself mainly the opening sequence with the guy running into a lamppost.


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    #1826
    Hangdogroad
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    @last tv was another good show in 1997. Ian O’Doherty presented TV Heaven section.

    Here is my upload of Nothing To It from @last tv - another show which many people won’t remember

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

    Just out of interest that 2000AD issue or"prog" came out in December 87 so the show must been shown in Summer of 88.


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    #1827
    thebronze14
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Barry Murphy was also involved in Couched. Shown late at night on Network 2 in 1998. Virtually no one I mention it to remembers it. Some of the sketches were proto Soupy Norman, obscure 70s and 80s TV clips with funny voices dubbed over them.
    Never heard of it but if you find footage please share


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    #1828
    Hangdogroad
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    thebronze14 wrote: »
    Never heard of it but if you find footage please share

    There are a few episodes on this channel. The episodes are (annoyingly) split up into three part uploads .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlyUTV5eJt0


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    #1829
    Sephiroth_dude
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    There was a show back in the mid 90's about a couple who win the lotto and move to a posh part of Dublin (can't remember what part, Clontarf maybe? , does anyone remember the name of it ?


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    #1830
    odyssey06
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    There was a show back in the mid 90's about a couple who win the lotto and move to a posh part of Dublin (can't remember what part, Clontarf maybe? , does anyone remember the name of it ?

    Upwardly Mobile, starring Niall Buggy:
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297664/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_28

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #1831
    Sephiroth_dude
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Upwardly Mobile, starring Niall Buggy:
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297664/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_28

    That was it cheers! and I see it was Belvedere not Clontarf.


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