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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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  • #332
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Cyclone Tracy mini series. Shown on RTE August 1988. About the 1974 cyclone which hit Darwin on Christmas Day.

    Starring a young Kate Richie :)


  • #333
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    yuridwyer wrote: »
    Remember it, scared the shot out of 10 year old me

    I was 14 and the same! It was lovely weather. Remember coming in from covering silage pits with sand bags and tyres to watch it both nights. Knackered and then the sh*t frightened out of me!


  • #334
    yuridwyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭yuridwyer


    Anyone remember Into the Labyrinth? Creepiest music for a kids show....


  • #335
    Marengo
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    Saphire and Steel.

    Found it creepy.


  • #336
    Marengo
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    Walter E GO wrote: »
    Anybody remember Head Of The Class with Billy Connolly? It was a short lived sitcom with Billy as a teacher in America.

    Was Robin Givens in it? Who married Tyson.


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  • #337
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    yuridwyer wrote: »
    Anyone remember Into the Labyrinth? Creepiest music for a kids show....

    I do. Ron Moody was in it


  • #338
    Marengo
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    The Greatest American Hero

    Early 1980s action type show :)


  • #339
    Grandeeod
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    yuridwyer wrote: »
    Anyone remember Into the Labyrinth? Creepiest music for a kids show....

    Sure do. A HTV series starring the great Ron Moody. But always comes second to Children of the Stones from the same company way back when. Both have been mentioned.


  • #340
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    I loved the Superstars. Brilliant sports show combining disciplines.

    Gerry Loftus, Kildare army gymnast, doing chinups.. a sight to behold :)


  • #341
    Amalgam
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Only caught one or two episodes. Maggie's dad was played by the guy who became Mr Bronson on Grange Hill. I remember reading the books in our library. The author was Joan Lingard who also wrote the Kevin & Sadie series (two teenagers from Belfast, one Catholic, the other Protestant).

    Now I know why I noticed it, the actress Dee Hepburn (IMDB) was in it.. :D

    Her hair was so, flouncy.. Hah. I had a crush I think.. :o


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  • #342
    bobbyss
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    Thursday nights in one channel land RTE had a sports programme called Sports Centre (?). The only English soccer available for twenty minutes. Mick Dunne I think presented.

    Sports Stadium on Sat afternoon Brendan o Reilly.

    Bat Masterson. Cowboy with a cane.

    The High Chaperall 'Blue Boy!"

    Get Smart the shoe telephone!

    Some stupid handball programme
    Pat Kirby World Champion.

    Paper Chase a law student in America.

    ODuill An Irish language kojak police drama.

    Skippy! Skippy! The Bush kangaroo.

    The Sullivan's Australia WW2 saga. Programme lasted longer than the war . Or was it N Zealand?

    The memories!


  • #343
    Grandeeod
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Only caught one or two episodes. Maggie's dad was played by the guy who became Mr Bronson on Grange Hill. I remember reading the books in our library. The author was Joan Lingard who also wrote the Kevin & Sadie series (two teenagers from Belfast, one Catholic, the other Protestant).

    And the guy who played Maggies Dad and Mr Bronsan played Adolf Hitler in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (Book burning scene in Berlin)


  • #344
    [Deleted User]
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    bobbyss wrote: »

    The Sullivans Australia WW2 saga. Programme lasted longer than the war . Or was it N Zealand?


    Australia.
    See https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=108398827&postcount=1314


  • #345
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,376 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    NickNickleby wrote: »
    Never saw the show, but well done on the words. I had that single, it was by The Marmalade and was called, if memory serves, "Oh Bla di oh bla da. Pretty sure there was a Beatles connection.

    Yep, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da was on the Beatles' White Album. It was never released as a single in the UK or States, but did well in other countries. Like almost all their songs it was officially a Lennon/McCartney song, but Paul McCartney wrote it by himself and John Lennon absolutely hated the song. Presumably because the Beatles didn't release it in the UK Marmalade saw an opportunity for a hit and got to number one with their version.


  • #346
    Walter E GO
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    Marengo wrote: »
    Was Robin Givens in it? Who married Tyson.
    That was the very one.


  • #347
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Hands.

    Kind of like "How its made" on the Discovery Channel, but old crafts and trades.

    Just found lots of episodes on you tube.

    Love this stuff.





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  • #348
    [Deleted User]
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    The Winds of War- American mini-series from early 1980s' - very popular in its day. Starred Robert Mitchum

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjEq6NcZOw


  • #349
    my3cents
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    Anyone remember or even ever see Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves? It later became Old Country



    Same guy was in How.


  • #350
    my3cents
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The Winds of War- American mini-series from early 1980s' - very popular in its day. Starred Robert Mitchum

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjEq6NcZOw

    Can't remember which channel but I noticed it was on last weekend suspect there are still a few more episodes to run.

    Edit> Looks like True Movies are showing it they will probably flog it to death for a couple of months so every chance of watching the full series if anyone is interested.


  • #351
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    my3cents wrote: »
    Can't remember which channel but I noticed it was on last weekend suspect there are still a few more episodes to run.

    It might have been a trilogy from memory - each about 2 hours duration- from the looks of it, Youtube are showing all of them. Episode 1 is what I posted but i saw other episodes also.


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  • #352
    my3cents
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It might have been a trilogy from memory - each about 2 hours duration- from the looks of it, Youtube are showing all of them. Episode 1 is what I posted but i saw other episodes also.

    True Movies schedule for it https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/sh6dj/the-winds-of-war/


  • #353
    madmaggie
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    Jackanory. When I came to live here in one channel land I really missed it.

    The theme music of Grandstand always made me think of my father checking the pools to see if he was a millionaire that week.


  • #354
    branie2
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The Winds of War- American mini-series from early 1980s' - very popular in its day. Starred Robert Mitchum

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjEq6NcZOw

    What I saw of the sequel, War and Remembrance was good as well.


  • #355
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    my3cents wrote: »
    True Movies schedule for it https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/sh6dj/the-winds-of-war/

    I saw it- back in 1983- but thanks! :p


  • #356
    rubadub
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    Amalgam wrote: »
    You never forget the music.. or the woman dancing in the opening credits, quite racy.. and a bit dodgy today..
    had looked this up before. I loved the program, I got a few episodes mixed up with similar series though. The most disturbing of those twilight zone type series episodes I ever saw involved a coffin, would not even want to give spoilers away. I later saw a variant of the same episode in another series, possible "tales from the crypt"

    https://www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/tv-shows/tales-of-the-unexpected/press-release-from-anglia-television/
    UNEXPECTED FAME

    Star-studded and lavish Tales of the Unexpected may have been, but it also gave some “unknowns” a taste of fame. Best remembered of them was the dancer who performed for the opening title sequence dubbed by one newspaper as “the sexiest dance on television”.

    Karen Standley was a 27-year-old secretary and housewife from Berkshire, and took a day off to record the sequence.

    “The moves were my very own,” recalled Karen, who never danced professionally but got the job because her boyfriend at the time worked for Top of the Pops and was contracted to make the titles for Tales of the Unexpected.

    She was seen only in silhouette on screen and for the recording had to wear a white body stocking and white tights, with white greasepaint on her arms and legs to achieve the necessary effect.

    “The greasepaint kept melting under the hot studio lights,” she said. “It was horrible and uncomfortable and it took three baths to wash it all off. But it gave me some money – nothing staggering, but I got a new outfit out of it.”

    “I was just told to look as sexy as I could and I made it up as I went along. I got a fair amount of fan-mail – mostly adolescents who wanted a picture of me. I suppose I was their fantasy woman.”

    Karen is now a mother of two and works as a receptionist in a hospital accident and emergency department.


  • #357
    odyssey06
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    North & South, 1980s epic mini-series starring Patrick Swayze, set around the American Civil War.

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



  • #358
    [Deleted User]
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    Daddah is Death


  • #359
    Recliner
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    Anyway remember an American series '70s/'80s about forest/mountain rangers? Might have been called Sierra or had Sierra in the title or theme music.
    Can't believe how many shows mentioned that I remember. Brilliant!!

    Edit: was it Armchair Thrillers that had a story about a nun with no face? Still freaks me out to this day.


  • #360
    odyssey06
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    Northern Exposure, about a New York doctor who has to pay back his scholarship working in a quirky small town in Alaska. Joel Fleischmann... he had a will they wont they thing with local spitfire Maggie.

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



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  • #361
    The Enbalmer
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    Recliner wrote: »
    Edit: was it Armchair Thrillers that had a story about a nun with no face? Still freaks me out to this day.
    "Quiet as a nun"..its on YouTube


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