Shows You Wish Were Replayed/Available To Stream

squonk

What’s a show you really liked that you have never been able to see since it aired? I think shows like this are usually one season shows or even shows that didn’t make it through one season so they were used as schedule fillers at the time but are consigned to the dustbin of history now, never to air again.

My pick is The Highwayman from tge 87-88 US season but I think RTE showed it here around 89 or 90 over the summer in a slot around 10:30/11PM. It’s a sci-fi show about lawmen patrolling highways and stopping bad guys with futuristic tech. The main character drove round in a truck with an integrated helicopter that got him out of trouble at varied times. Pushing for 50 now I can see why this just lasted 10 episodes before cancellation but 15 year old me loved it. Your average 15 year old isn’t the best arbiter of taste obviously but it was a show of its time

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094479/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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There is a good supporting cast too. Jimmy Smitts, Claudia Christian of Babylon 5 face and Jabe Bader from V.

NIMAN

Northern Exposure

Charlo30

Full episodes of Columbo. Can't seem to find them anywhere.

cml387

Alf.

End of thread.

edited to say apparently it's on MUbi.

So not end of thread

AndyBoBandy

is The Wire streamable anywhere?

loyatemu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122611256#Comment_122611256

it's on Sky/NowTV.

Rows Grower

Scrap Iron O Toole.

ILikeBoats

Stargate SG1

All the old cartoons - MASK, Ulysses 31, Visionaries, Thundercats….

_Kaiser_

This is why I maintain my own library of stuff, especially some of the older stuff mentioned here already.

z80CPU

NYPD Blue.

JAG A good few episodes. A die hard fan actually wrote his own script just as a labour of love which he entitled " Pyhric Victory" and published on the Internet 25 years ago. Very downbeat episode probably too downbeat to actually do!

The X Files

KOJAK

ILikeBoats

The X Files are on Disney+

waywill1966

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122611207#Comment_122611207

If you have satellite tv you can watch Columbo eps on 5SELECT!

Nigel Fairservice

I'd love if Ed from the early 2000s was available to stream. It never got a DVD release either so I don't think it'll be streaming any time soon.

I wish The Drew Carey Show and The King of Queens were available somewhere too.

I'd love if ER was on one of the big streamers. I know it's on 4OD to stream but you have to put up with ads. First world problems!

loyatemu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122612169#Comment_122612169

you can pay for 4OD to get rid of ads. Alternatively if you have SkyQ, all the 4OD content is on there and In my experience there's generally only 1 ad per break (which you can FF through anyway).

The Black Oil

Due South and Early Edition…haven't checked if they're around.

Nigel Fairservice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122612211#Comment_122612211

Thanks, have Sky Q, will give it a go later.

Nigel Fairservice

Early Edition doesn't seem to be, I looked recently. Someone on Reddit said it's available on CTV in Canada but you'd need a VPN and I think that comment on Reddit wasn't recent either.

alfa_aficionado

Perfect World starring Paul Kaye - was on BBC in the early 2000s but unfortunately was never released on video / DVD so I think nearly impossible to find anywhere now. I'd love to see it again.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238796/

Notmything

From RTE "year of the french"

Space: Above and Beyond. Only lasted one season tho.

adaminho

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122611279#Comment_122611279

Cities of Gold is up there with MASK and and Ulysses as the ultimate 80's cartoon soundtracks! Anyone know if Once upon a time of Life is available?

CastorTroy

Have the first 2 seasons of Cities of Gold on DVD (first) and Blu-ray (second) and managed to find the 3rd online. Think the fourth was only released in French and hard to find.

With the popularity and constant reboots/continuations and movies I'm surprised the old Transformers gen 1 series isn't available.

Quantum Leap and The Equalizer should be made available. Think the problem is probably no one wants to do the work of figuring out any rights issues and making then look good on modern TVs.

Others I would like to be available due to having missed them or seeing a couple episodes include My So-Called Life, Sledge Hammer and Son of the Beach.

_Kaiser_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122613620#Comment_122613620

Most if not all of those can be found if you know where to look though. Certainly Transformers G1 (which is also on the Hasbro Pulse Youtube channel btw), The Equalizer, Sledge Hammer and Quantum Leap.

If the distributors/streaming services don't want to make the effort then at least others will!

65535

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122611207#Comment_122611207

You'll get some of them on https://archive.org

CastorTroy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122613806#Comment_122613806

Oh, I have them all. But since the best quality available for some is dvdrip, I wouldn't say no to them getting a fresh release.

Even have this nice tin

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/transformers/images/6/64/Metrodome_G1Season1_DVD.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20071222065802

McLoughlin

Happy Days (rights issues I think) The Fitz (not so good but guilty pleasure 1 season comedy)

AhrSkidar

Nathan Barley and The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Maybe they are out there somewhere.

Atlantic Dawn

Stay Lucky, can't see why ITV are not showing it over their channels.

Doctors room ghost

crazy like a fox.
highway to heaven.
The Irish rm.
The king of queens.

Charlo30

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122616940#Comment_122616940

In terms on The Irish RM. Keep an eye on TG4's schedule. They've shown it from time to time over last few years.

Shakyfan

Quantum Leap was being shown on one of the UK freeview stations not so long ago but not sure which or if it's still running there. They are on DVD / Blu Ray anyway.

Would love if Early Edition was even given a proper DVD release (I believe the first couple of season got a US release). I was fortunate enough a few years ago to find someone selling the complete series through a site similar to eBay although these were recorded off the TV so the picture wasn't perfect (but adequate). Unfortunately one disc had the episodes from the previous one duplicated so I have 3 episodes twice and 3 missing. By the time I realised i had lost the seller's details and couldn't do anything about it.

squonk

I’d love to see Now And Again replayed. A great show from arid the 99-2000 era that only got one season but deserved to live on.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212395/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Updating as it seems someone has uploaded all the episodes to YouTube. Worth a watch. I loved the show at the time as it was a solid SciFi show but handled the human side of everything very well though that’s a bit nite commonplace now.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJPG3vYhBtY_MaK-_VEVrRasLG9qOLfU&si=lT8bBEo6JqVYoPPX

Doctors room ghost

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617295#Comment_122617295

episode one of season one is on you tube. The Irish rm was brilliant I thought. Very funny.
the books are great aswell

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122612462#Comment_122612462

Oh yes to Early Edition, love Kyle Chandler so also Homefront

icdg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617341#Comment_122617341

Quantum Leap (1989) was on Sky Sci-Fi (which isn’t FTA) up till recently but appears to be gone now. (The reboot is on Paramount+).

For me it’s Arrow, whose early seasons haven’t been able to be streamed here since they aired on Sky about a decade ago. The last two seasons were available on Sky/Now but even those are gone now.

DoctorEdgeWild

Season 1 of Dream Team. All of the other are available, plus I have DVDs of them, but the Season 1 episodes that are available are only the recap omnibus ones that used to be on Sky on Sundays.

Full_Circle_81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122611799#Comment_122611799

I'm nearly sure all of NYPD Blue is steaming on Disney right now 👍

icdg

The X Files is on Disney+. I don’t think JAG is on anything at the moment though its sister series NCIS is on Disney+ too.

I would be surprised to see Dream Team anywhere again, even on Sky/Now. Some things are just better left in the past!

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122616940#Comment_122616940

Great TV or Great TV movies air or aired Crazy like a Fox and Highway to Heaven with Sky

TG4 show The Irish RM

Comedy Central and E4 or More 4 aired The King of Queens

I would love Eli Stone to be aired again also as a soap fan, Glenroe, Fair City and Sunset Beach, right from the beginning

gidget

I'd love if one of the streaming sites showed Saturday Night Live from the beginning right up to current episodes. You can get the odd clip off YouTube, but a full episode is hard to come by. One channel has been showing the up the date episodes after they're aired in US, but if they to go back to where it all began with all the up and coming Comedians through the years, particularly with those that are no longer with us, to watch them back in their heyday.

I wonder with the upcoming release of the movie Saturday Night, which is based around Lorne Michaels fight to get it off the ground may spark something in getting it showed properly.

Hallaz

Dream On , American show from the early 90s, can't remember if it was on Channel 4 or BBC 2 but was on late enough , adult sit-com. It had cut scenes from old movies/tv shows during the show which was quite quirky for me at the time. Must go searching..!

The Black Oil

Heard Rocky Carroll on the NCIS podcast. Didn't realise he was on Chicago Hope. Maybe it's around somewhere.

batistuta9

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122616629#Comment_122616629

nathan barley is on all4

Rosahane

Mackenzie's Raiders

twignme

Harry’s Game and the original Tinker Tailor with Alec Guinness.

batistuta9

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122650633#Comment_122650633

tt was aired on bbc4 not that long ago, probably on iPlayer at the same time. easy enough found anyway...

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122624857#Comment_122624857

I think Channel 4 was airing this late nights

ollaetta

Would love to see RTE repeat Fergus's Wedding from about 20 years ago just see if it's as off the wall as I remember it.

nearby_cheetah

Would love a complete set of Modern Marvels.

Declan A Walsh

I would love to see repeats of full episodes of Channel 4's The Tube, as opposed to snippets of it on Guy Garvey's From the Vaults on Sky Arts.

Others: 24, Hill Street Blues, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Goodies and The Dave Gorman Collection.

fman

Hill street blues is on the channel 4 app (although the order is screwy, series 5-7 are listed first followed by series 1 and so on).

24 is still up on Disney.

loyatemu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122675825#Comment_122675825

I was watching Reggie Perrin the other night - it was the first episode. This was in the UK so it was some Freeview channel.

It's on YouTube as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25qtWz3DlSI&ab_channel=AlanFordyce