Favourite really old tv shows

Bloody Drunkard

Is it just me or where all the tv shows that used be on tv years ago so much better than the drivel on nowadays

I say Quantum Leap, A-team, McGuiver, Knightrider, and countless others beat todays crap hands down

Anyone wanting to join me in a petition to force RTE to have a whole day of Quantum Leap???????

mike65

My idea of really old tv is much older esp. if you take re-runs into account. I'd sooner watch Green Acres than Friends for example.

Mike.

Winters

Originally posted by Bloody Drunkard
Anyone wanting to join me in a petition to force RTE to have a whole day of Quantum Leap???????

Yes... i will join you!

Quantum Leap, A-team, McGuiver and Knightrider are some of the best TV shows ever made....i wish they were on TV more

BKtje

The above shows rock and i kinda miss em.
They ahd A-team on on saturday afternoons for a while, dont know if it was RTE tho.

I miss M*A*S*H too tho

sceptre

MASH is on Paramount every evening at 7 if that's any good to you. TBH it's not as good now as I remember it (for me at any rate)

All shows listed are classic telly. Someone has to repeat McGyver sometime.

I'll add in
Battlestar Galactica (the good ones, not Galactica 1980)
Yes Minister and Prime Minister
Mission: Impossible (including the ozzie 80s series)
Remington Steele
Six Million Dollar Man
Moonlighting (not sure about some of the more, er "odd" eps)

OLDYELLAR

knight rider was so the best , that and the dukes of hazzard , well class stuff!

Cork

I think "Murphy Brown" was a great show. I also would enjoy "Barnaby Jones", "A Team" & "McGyver"

All Class

BuffyBot

Bionic woman!


LOL I watched Murder She Wrote this week on RTE (holidays from work are dangerous!). Classic in a cheesy crap sort of way.

Pigman

Originally posted by Bloody Drunkard
Is it just me ....

It's just you.

Apart from Quantum Leap there isn't a show on your list that I could actually watch from start to finish now that I'm no longer watching them as a child.

Karl Hungus

Dr. Who!

Quantum Leap pwnd also.

Makaveli

Alf of course. Who could forget it.
Eh Family Ties was kind of ok too, from what I remember which isnt really very much.
V, because it's weird and the fact that they could peel off their skin and eat mice and spiders kind of scared the **** out of me a little bit when I was young.
Different Strokes aswell. "What you talkin about Willis!?!"
And then the others already mentioned.
Oh, forgot about Worsel Gummidge. Remember him? That stupid scarecrow with the annoying accent and his girlfriend was a manuquine(sp?), cant remember her name though.
What was the helicopter one? Airwolf or something? That was kind of good too.
Ah yes, The Incredible Hulk.
That's all I can remember.

Winters

Originally posted by BuffyBot
LOL I watched Murder She Wrote this week on RTE (holidays from work are dangerous!). Classic in a cheesy crap sort of way.

Diagnosis Murder was far better then Murder She Wrote, the story lines were amazing....you could never tell who the killer is...

I believe that JB. Fletcher is behind all the muders in Murder She Wrote. Come on .... where ever she goes there is a murder and "some how" she can discover tha little clue that nobody else finds ..... i blame her for all thoese years of muders!

Bionic woman is repeated (Usually) on RTE1 after "The A-Team" on Saturday mornings..... for some reason RTE had the great idea of getting me up at 11am on Saturday morning to watch A-Team re-runs ..... i do get up though. a-Team rocks

Bloody Drunkard

i forgot to mention

M*A*S*H
Diagnosis Murder
Porridge
Six Million dollar man
V

and

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister which was probably the only show that could rival Quantum Leaps greatness

sceptre

Originally posted by Winters
I believe that JB. Fletcher is behind all the muders in Murder She Wrote. Come on .... where ever she goes there is a murder and "some how" she can discover tha little clue that nobody else finds ..... i blame her for all thoese years of muders!

Too right. They could have done a nice Poirot-style ending to the whole thing. If I ever find myself on a plane with Angela Lansbury (or George Kennedy) I'm getting out straight away

Diagnosis Murder is well better.

Originally posted by Makaveli
Oh, forgot about Worsel Gummidge. Remember him? That stupid scarecrow with the annoying accent and his girlfriend was a manuquine(sp?), cant remember her name though.

Aunt Sally I think. Bitch.

No-ones mentioned Catweasle (or "weasel", dunno). Great show.

pauldeehan

Quantum Leap and A-Team. As for Diagnosis Murder, I preffered Quincy.;)

Cork

Bionic woman!

I think that the story lines were bad - but She was class actress.

She is in many "true life dramas". She is a pretty good actress.

I have not seen "Alf" in years. I liked "Murphy Brown" as well.

BuffyBot

Originally posted by Winters
Diagnosis Murder was far better then Murder She Wrote, the story lines were amazing....you could never tell who the killer is...

I believe that JB. Fletcher is behind all the muders in Murder She Wrote. Come on .... where ever she goes there is a murder and "some how" she can discover tha little clue that nobody else finds ..... i blame her for all thoese years of muders!

Yes, that women had a higher fatality rate then World War 2.

Maybe I'm simple but I can never guess who did it!

What I'd like to know is how come none of her friends ever figured out that everywhere she goes there is a murder? You would think with 1 every week for god knows how many years, the news would get around

Caesar_Bojangle

de de de du du The A team, Starsky and Hutch and Taxi.

xern

Alf and mcguyver!

but deffinatly alf, it should be brought back!

what do ya think?

Winters

Originally posted by Caesar_Bojangle
Taxi.

Damn i havent seen that for a long long time....... i wish they would repeat that ...

/me looks around for some rte employee

Kolodny

Blake's 7
Doctor Who
Sapphire & Steel
The Avengers
and ok, I admit it.... Knightrider.

Cork

Alf was cool. He was wise cracking. There was Simon & Simon, Magnum PI & The Streets of San Francisco.

The Streets of San Francisco was the coolest programme on TV


Does any body remember - The Famous Teddy Z?
Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon crest are really dated.

Clintons Cat

saphire and steel has dated worse than doctor who,avoid it.
I remember being absolutely terified of it as a kid but i watched that episode with the faceless man in the photograph recently and it was a real let down.Try UltraViolet instead

Some classic Stuff that is still as good as you remember
Hill Street Blues,
Taxi,
Faulty Towers,
The good life,
the fugitive,
phil silvers

mike65

God there are some really sad choices in this thread, in an effort
to push the envelope I'll mention Boys From The Blackstuff, A Very Peculiar Practice, Colombo (the early ones), Rockford Files (again the earlier ones), er Basil Brush and Blakeys 7. I'd watch that again just for the blond one!

Those in digital telly-land can watch Taxi everyday on the Paramont comedy channel they also show MASH but unfortunatly its the US version with all the canned laughter.

Mike.

BuffyBot

The Avengers - absolutely A1 class TV

Manach

Blakes 7, The Waltons, Little house on the Priare and McGuiver- all I needed to know in life.

bonkey

Sapphire & Steel. (Which has just been released on DVD incidentally - first 3 "series", cleaned up n all. Unlike Clintons Cat, I think its still the bomb, although Ultraviolet is an example of modern "good" tv)
Blakes 7
Dr.Who (but only when up to and including Tom Baker as the Doctor)
McGuyver
Wiseguy
V (but only the 2 miniseries)

and in cartoons...
Battle of the Planets !!!!!

jc

byte

Can anyone remember a US programme about some bearded guy living in the middle of nowhere in his wooden house? It used to be on about 15 years ago. IIRC it was called Grizzly Adams or something. I would like to see that, tho it was probably rubbish (i just cant remember)!

Knight Rider is a classic definitely. And I did like McGyver tho it was wierd how whenever he got into a sticky situation, there was always something lying around to aid him getting out of the situation! :rolleyes:

Cake Fiend

Quantum Leap's on UK Gold every day, Fawlty Towers and Blackadder are shown every once in a while as well. I'd love to see McGuyver shown again though - every time I watch Stargate SG1 I expect your man to whip together a weapon out of a bit of string, some chewing gum and a spiderweb or something.

Pigman

Originally posted by irishbyte
Can anyone remember a US programme about some bearded guy living in the middle of nowhere in his wooden house

The Ted Kaczynski story?

fester

oh the memories.
Some of them though, i dont think i'd like to see again... 'cuz i remember them being deadly, but they're probablyu not (i.e. Worsel Gummidge.

As for Diagnosis Murder, plz. I couldn't watch that. They're still running it aren't they. Columbo rules over all those shows.
Dont even mention Murder She Wrote again or i'll hit you.

I spend many nights downloading Thundercats... I wonder are some of the oshows mentioned here available anywhere online?

m1ke

In no particular order they need to bring back

McGuyver
The A-Team
Quantum Leap
Law & Order (not that new SVU ****)
Three's company
8 is enuff
Party of five
Married with children
Mash
The facts of life
Family ties
Alf
Hogans Heros
Different Strokes
Nightrider
Taxi Driver
Who's the Boss (that new rip off Who's the boss show can kiss my ****ing ass)

Damn what was the name of that show where william shatner played a cop it was like early 80s late 70s ? They should bring that back too.

Bard

Here's some to get you going, from the 1980's and 1990's.

Clearly, Quantum Leap is close to the top of the pile ....

but... lest we forget...

hahahahahahahaha!!!

Makaveli

Originally posted by m1ke

Damn what was the name of that show where william shatner played a cop it was like early 80s late 70s ? They should bring that back too.

T.J. Hooker
Party of 5 isnt really that old.

fester

Originally posted by Makaveli


Party of 5 isnt really that old.

and it's sh!t, how could it be anyones favourite?

sceptre

Originally posted by Sico
every time I watch Stargate SG1 I expect your man to whip together a weapon out of a bit of string, some chewing gum and a spiderweb or something.

I've noticed them make a few references to McGyver (and I don't watch the show that often so they must do it a lot) - always something to do with McGyvering something together - once in the first episode and when they travelled back in time for some convoluted reason.

Chaos-Engine

"Blake 7"

The ultamite sci-fi series that was too short

"Flash Gordon"
"Mission Impossible"

thedrowner

i cant believe im the first one to mention the young ones, i bloody love that program!!!! *sad admission* me and my cousins used to act it out when we were kids. i was always rick. hmmmm....

yeha paramount is great, i love caroline in the city and ellen, even though theyre not that old.

i thought diagnosis murder was new, i tend to get sucked in on occasion as its on after er. i love fawlty towers and am sure if id seen blackadder i'd have loved it, i only saw a few episodes.