Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

its_steve116 · 02-01-2019 12:05am #1

I'll start with FurTV which aired on Comedy Central about 10 years ago. It started three puppets (Lapeno, Fat Ed and Mervin) as flatmates. I love the episode where they form a heavy metal band and then at the end of the episode, they are turned into a pop band and Fat Ed isn't happy about it. A lot of sh*t being flung around in that episode too :-)

The Pheasant2 · 05-01-2019 1:04am

its_steve116 wrote: »

I'll start with FurTV which aired on Comedy Central about 10 years ago. It started three puppets (Lapeno, Fat Ed and Mervin) as flatmates. I love the episode where they form a heavy metal band and then at the end of the episode, they are turned into a pop band and Fat Ed isn't happy about it. A lot of sh*t being flung around in that episode too :-)

This is from like '08, is that really considered retro these days?! :eek:

I'll throw my hat into the ring with another puppet related show that nobody seems to remember - Cousin Skeeter, from creators of Kenan and Kel, ran from '98 - '01 on Nickelodeon and was quality

https://youtu.be/AQCDxE7eFfA

kjbsrah1 · 05-01-2019 1:06am

Dusty’s Trail. It used to be on RTÉ on Saturday mornings. Used to love it.

GHOST MGG · 05-01-2019 1:07am

The flashing blade, historical hack and slash on saturday mornings kids tv during the early 70s

05-01-2019 1:08am

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic'
Can't even remember the name!!
No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

05-01-2019 1:14am

Crapston Villas

NewbridgeIR · 05-01-2019 1:19am

kjbsrah1 wrote: »

Dusty’s Trail. It used to be on RTÉ on Saturday mornings. Used to love it.

That was good fun. I remember seeing it in the late 70s and I think it was repeated again around 1983 or so. Betsy and Lulu were nice

The Crowman · 05-01-2019 1:47am

I liked Couched but almost noone seems to remember it.

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

its_steve116 · 05-01-2019 1:49am

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

This is from like '08, is that really considered retro these days?! :eek:

I'll throw my hat into the ring with another puppet related show that nobody seems to remember - Cousin Skeeter, from creators of Kenan and Kel, ran from '98 - '01 on Nickelodeon and was quality

https://youtu.be/AQCDxE7eFfA

I remember Cousin Skeeter
"I'm OK!!!"

irishgrover · 05-01-2019 1:54am

bubblypop wrote:

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic' Can't even remember the name!! No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

Pigsy!!

gipi · 05-01-2019 9:21pm

My other half remembers Torchy the battery boy....now this is going way back! Nobody else has ever remembered it when he mentions it.

gipi · 05-01-2019 9:23pm

bubblypop wrote: »

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic'
Can't even remember the name!!
No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

I remember Monkey - never knew what was going on!

decky1 · 05-01-2019 9:24pm

Mov'in on, + The Time Tunnel.

odyssey06 · 05-01-2019 9:39pm

Some late 1980s \ early 1990s scripted series involving soccer.

The Manageress.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096647/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Playing for Real - a short lived series about a Scottish subbuteo team "Real Falkirk"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397004/

Born Kicking - a once off film about England's first female professional player.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103861/

I can't remember the name, think it was part of the Screen One series about two YTS trainees trying to make it with a first division club. Hazy memory of one of them getting injured, and one of them embracing born again christianity.

its_steve116 · 06-01-2019 12:13am

gipi wrote: »

My other half remembers Torchy the battery boy....now this is going way back! Nobody else has ever remembered it when he mentions it.

It's no Fur TV. :-)

NewbridgeIR · 06-01-2019 1:07am

gipi wrote: »

My other half remembers Torchy the battery boy....now this is going way back! Nobody else has ever remembered it when he mentions it.

Gerry Anderson creation.
Have seen it on DVD.

Zaph · 06-01-2019 1:47am

kjbsrah1 wrote: »

Dusty’s Trail. It used to be on RTon Saturday mornings. Used to love it.

I'd completely forgotten that show had ever existed, but as soon as I saw your post I remembered the theme music. Forrest Tucker was in it, he also played the sergeant in F Troop, which was another Saturday morning staple.

bubblypop wrote: »

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic'
Can't even remember the name!!
No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

Monkey was mad sh*t altogether. It was a Japanese show based on old Chinese legends iirc. It used to be on around 6pm during the week, I remember always watching it after I came home from swimming lessons.

Fann Linn · 06-01-2019 1:54am

bubblypop wrote: »

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic'
Can't even remember the name!!
No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

Tribitaka.

We're showing our age here.

decky1 · 06-01-2019 4:48pm

Daktari,

NewbridgeIR · 06-01-2019 5:46pm

decky1 wrote: »

Daktari,

12:50pm RTE 1, Saturdays. Before Sports Stadium.

Zaph · 06-01-2019 10:07pm

decky1 wrote: »

Daktari,

With Clarence, the cross eyed lion. I always wanted one of the zebra striped Corgi Land Rovers like the ones in the show. Never got one though.

lolokeogh · 06-01-2019 10:08pm

Catweazle...he had a frog called touchwood if i remember correct...

Tazzimus · 06-01-2019 10:13pm

bubblypop wrote: »

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic'
Can't even remember the name!!
No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

I used to love that show.

Quantum leap is one I watched religiously that no one I know seems to remember.
Also, the original V, VR Troopers, Gargoyles and probably more

The Princess Bride · 06-01-2019 10:14pm

Apple's Way.

Holmes and Yoyo.

Me and the chimp ( I always wanted a pet monkey after watching it.)

The Electric Company -like Sesame Street but less animation.

lolokeogh · 06-01-2019 10:14pm

DopeTech · 06-01-2019 10:17pm

The tribe on network 2!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-UEQzH-kj8

Roycropper63 · 06-01-2019 10:18pm

Anyone remember a series called " green acres" ? Early to mid 70s I think

Speedsie · 06-01-2019 10:22pm

Roycropper63 wrote: »

Anyone remember a series called " green acres" ? Early to mid 70s I think

With Zsa Zsa Gabor moving to live in the country? Sure do!

Roycropper63 · 06-01-2019 10:26pm

And Mr heney. And the phone on top of the pole!!!! Jesus we were easily pleased back the lol

gmisk · 06-01-2019 10:29pm

When I was growing up, I loved pugwall and Denver the last dinosaur.

When it comes to oldish shows that I still love, that aren't prob well known
-Wonderfalls
-Sports night

bobbyss · 06-01-2019 10:30pm

decky1 wrote:

Daktari,

Daktari Daktari Daktira !!!

NewbridgeIR · 06-01-2019 10:54pm

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Apple's Way.

I remember that. On RTE 2 in its early days. Saturday afternoons. Men From Shiloh was on around the same time.

odyssey06 · 06-01-2019 11:01pm

Undergrads. An anarchic animation from MTV. Think I caught repeats on TG4 in early 00s.
Similar show Downtown.

Skid X · 07-01-2019 3:41pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Some late 1980s \ early 1990s scripted series involving soccer.

The Manageress.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096647/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Playing for Real - a short lived series about a Scottish subbuteo team "Real Falkirk"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397004/

Born Kicking - a once off film about England's first female professional player.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103861/

Ha, I remember watching all those. Back in the day there wasn't much football on Television so you watched anything vaguely connected to it. Playing For Real was good fun.

I can't remember the name, think it was part of the Screen One series about two YTS trainees trying to make it with a first division club. Hazy memory of one of them getting injured, and one of them embracing born again christianity.

That one doesn't ring a bell, to be honest.

decky1 · 07-01-2019 5:40pm

bobbyss wrote: »

Daktari Daktari Daktira !!!

sorry you lost me there?

rubadub · 07-01-2019 5:57pm

bubblypop wrote: »

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic'
Can't even remember the name!!
No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese.

I would think plenty would remember it, and judging by your thanks plenty did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SUoHmpRdM

The Crowman · 08-01-2019 9:03am

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Apple's Way.

Holmes and Yoyo.

Me and the chimp ( I always wanted a pet monkey after watching it.)

The Electric Company -like Sesame Street but less animation.

Jaysus, I'd forgotten about that.

The Crowman · 08-01-2019 9:10am

I can't say I liked it, in fact I found those glassy eyed puppets kind of unsettling, but no one else of my own age seems to remember Bailebeag. There's no footage online just some stills.

the heathen · 08-01-2019 7:45pm

bubblypop wrote:

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic' Can't even remember the name!! No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

Jeez, everyone in my school loved Monkey!

A personal favourite was Gemini Man. Similar to the Invisible Man except the lead character (Sam something?) could control when he disappeared using his digital watch. But he could only stay invisible for 15 minutes or he'd die. Brilliant stuff!

NewbridgeIR · 08-01-2019 9:57pm

The Crowman wrote: »

I can't say I liked it, in fact I found those glassy eyed puppets kind of unsettling, but no one else of my own age seems to remember Bailebeag. There's no footage online just some stills.

I remember it! Quin with one n. Jim and David. Kings of stop-motion, early Irish animation, tongue-twisters etc.

I used that very image [Jimin and Sergeant Pat] for a mix of mine.

You might like it if you grew up in 70s/80s Ireland.
https://www.mixcloud.com/nlgbbbblth/nil-se-anseo/

sydthebeat · 08-01-2019 10:00pm

Anyone remember saphirre and steel from the early 80's??

NewbridgeIR · 08-01-2019 10:08pm

sydthebeat wrote: »

Anyone remember saphirre and steel from the early 80's??

Brilliant. Assignment Two - set in the railway station with the ghosts of those who died "unfairly" has stayed with me since childhood.

foxy farmer · 08-01-2019 11:20pm

sydthebeat wrote: »

Anyone remember saphirre and steel from the early 80's??

That was some weird s#/+. The man with no face. Woah

Amalgam · 09-01-2019 1:37pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_%26_Steel

They weren't human, I loved that their human form were just avatars of sorts. Once you started watching, the idea that each agent was an 'element'.. some with powers/a presence totally incompatible with being around life/humans..

Just, that series did otherwordly/'HP Lovecraft unease' so well. You could have the sh*t scared out of you without anything graphic being on screen.

Assignment 3 Episode 1 - unsettled me so much as a kid, specially the food/meat making noise, the red thing on the wall, why, I don't know..

YouTube is your friend...

These still hold up very well, in my opinion.

washiskin · 09-01-2019 7:16pm

Bucky O'Hare
Ivanhoe
Danger UXB
The Clifton House Mystery
The Phoenix &The Carpet
Belle & Sebastian (the theme from this still makes me weepy)

Tazzimus · 10-01-2019 12:09pm

washiskin wrote: »

Bucky O'Hare

Captain Bucky O'Hare

I acquired that recently, nostalgia-ness.
Think I still have some of the toys in a box somewhere.

Ted Plain · 10-01-2019 12:37pm

Exploitica Rides Again.

storker · 10-01-2019 12:49pm

kjbsrah1 wrote: »

Dusty’s Trail. It used to be on RTÉ on Saturday mornings. Used to love it.

"A stage and a wagon a-headin' west, part of a wagon train lost from the rest."

That brings back memories.

Others that stick in my head are "Children of the Stones" which was pretty scary for a kids' programme, and "The Feathered Serpent" which I think was about plotting and skulduggery in the Aztec Empire before Europeans arrived - also a kids programme.

Also, "Quiet as a Nun" a very frightening part of a series called "Armchair Thriller", the opening credits of which were scary enough in themselves, if I remember correctly.

TheBoyConor · 10-01-2019 1:03pm

Does anyone remember Penpal on RTE?
Might be from the 80s or early 90s.

The Crowman · 10-01-2019 7:24pm

TheBoyConor wrote: »

Does anyone remember Penpal on RTE?
Might be from the 80s or early 90s.

I don't recall that, what was the story with it?

Lady Haywire · 10-01-2019 7:34pm

Sir Dosser wrote: »

The tribe on network 2!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-UEQzH-kj8

I LOVED that show. I even downloaded it there a few years ago to watch again. It doesn't hold up as well when watching it back :pac:

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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