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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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    #542
    my3cents
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    rubadub wrote: »
    wok with yan -got me into chinese cooking.

    71UAn7kkCxL._SL1113_.jpg

    So what where you "an extremely typical business man" or "a not so typical and extremely curvaceous batchlorette"

    :D


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    #543
    Spon Farmer
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    Strange Luck

    Brimstone

    Reaper


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    #544
    [Deleted User]
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    eagle eye wrote: »
    Man from Atlantis, Patrick Duffy and his webbed hands.
    Used to be on Saturday mornings on RTE.
    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    Since we're on a "Man" theme here, Man about the house:- probably totally sexist if show today but a popular sitcom in its day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysvQ3BKBOO4


    Starred richard O' sullivan - I was wondering what happened him. Apparently he suffered a stroke in 2003 and has been in an actors retirement home ever since- he was recently pictured in the background of a photo when Megan Markle went a visiting the place a few months ago.


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    #545
    NewbridgeIR
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    Man About The House was brilliant. The two ladies were crackers. Loved the spin-offs Robin's Nest and George & Mildred.

    Brian Murphy who played George Roper is still acting.


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    #546
    New Home
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Since we're on a "Man" theme here, Man about the house:- probably totally sexist if show today but a popular sitcom in its day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysvQ3BKBOO4


    Starred richard O' sullivan - I was wondering what happened him. Apparently he suffered a stroke in 2003 and has been in an actors retirement home ever since- he was recently pictured in the background of a photo when Megan Markle went a visiting the place a few months ago.

    And Three's a company (which was the American version of it) starred John Ritter who died of a dissection of the aorta while filming "8 simple rules".

    IIRC, Man About The House was a spin off of George and Mildred - EDIT: Or the other way around. :p


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    #547
    rubadub
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    threes company was a US version of man about the house. Used to love it, was on sky one.

    ^^beaten to it!

    Also it has spinoffs,
    The show also spawned similar spin-offs that Man About the House had: The Ropers and Three's a Crowd, based upon George and Mildred and Robin's Nest, respectively.

    I only remember seeing the ropers.


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    #548
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    New Home wrote: »
    And Three's a company (which was the American version of it) starred John Ritter who died of a dissection of the aorta while filming "8 simple rules".

    :eek:

    Considering he's still alive, I think Richard O' Sullivan got the better deal :P


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    #549
    New Home
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    Apparently at first they thought it was a "simple" heart attack, the dissection wasn't noticed until it was too late. Had they spotted it on time, he probably would've made it.


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    #550
    monkeynuz
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    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 magic or magic monkey I loved it too, Chinese I think and driving clouds around!


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    #551
    [Deleted User]
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    This has reminded me another show centred around people living together- about two girls who lived together throughout the 70s' - The Liver Birds - a sort of female equivalent of The Likely Lads. I only vaguely remember watching it but watch it I did- intro music very annoying :p

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BawWcO1Ub7k


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    #552
    Skid X
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    Obscure MTV Reality Show called 'Totally Boyband' which featured five ex boy/pop band singers trying to form a supergroup and fail miserably. (Dane Bowers, Jimmy from 911, Lee from Steps, Bradley SClub7 and Danny NKOTB. The others booted out Lee from Steps out, his departure was by no means a Tragedy)


    MTV were all over this with spin off shows and everything but their song failed and they split up. It was car crash with the guys trying their best but being let down by a rubbish record company who couldn't get their song on ITunes or into the Record Shops


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally_Boyband




    This is old TV programme I liked but no one else remembers


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    #553
    Grandeeod
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    The last few posts are UK comedy gold and not the bloody channel either. David Kelly in Robins Nest with one arm. Loved it!


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    #554
    [Deleted User]
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    Give my head peace


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    #555
    Etc
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    Battle of the Planets
    Space 1999
    Pitkins
    The Machine Gunners
    Gods wonderful Railway


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    #556
    odyssey06
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    MASK... late 80s cartoon with an associated toy range.

    The USP was that the heroes and villains had vehicles that could switch modes e.g. car into a helicopter or boat or into a tank.

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



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    #557
    madmaggie
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    The Good Old Days, a music hall show with everyone in Edwardian costume, including the audience.


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    #558
    Amalgam
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    Star Fleet (X-Bomber) (Wikipedia)

    Here's the intro.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD-9NZsYCQw


    I had this stored away in my brain, muddled up with memories of Terrahawks (Wikipedia) and/or a Gerry Anderson (Wikipedia) production of some sort.

    A bit more exotic than the usual, a dubbed Japanese import.

    I watched this Saturday mid-morning, usually before the weekend sport coverage on ITV kicked off.

    Umm.. I have vague memories of the band Sigue Sigue Sputnik (Wikipedia) using footage in one or two promo videos, years later.

    I was obsessed with robots at the time, 'Goldorak' and Battle of the Planets meant that if you wandered along to the likes of The Hobby Horse toy shop, in the Killiney Shopping Center, the window was just wall to wall robots and Japanese Mecha of various sorts at the time.

    Mostly 'Shogun' Robots. (Google Search)


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    #559
    branie2
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    Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; it was my first introduction to science fiction


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    Amalgam
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    Once upon a time... Space (Wikipedia)

    BBC2 had this strangely, umm, RTE2 had it also, it was a long saga.. Great ships, great audio, very European.

    I was buying 2000AD and I grew up on the likes of Valerian (Wikipedia) at home, so, this was right up my street. I loved it.

    Great intro. (English)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Hy96i_MTE


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    #561
    Arthur Daley
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    madmaggie wrote: »
    The Good Old Days, a music hall show with everyone in Edwardian costume, including the audience.

    Had a run on BBC4 last year, Friday nights at 8pm to 9. Had to find something else to watch once TOTP finished at 8 and normal service resumed at 9pm:pac:


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    evolving_doors
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4XowTrYWZM


    Catchy tune though


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    #563
    branie2
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    evolving_doors wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4XowTrYWZM


    Catchy tune though

    If I remember correctly, it was shown on Anything Goes


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    #564
    RMAOK
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    Biker mice from Mars


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    #565
    gormdubhgorm
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    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!

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    gormdubhgorm
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    Wanderley wagon



    Crackajack

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #567
    Booms
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    Dick Spanner

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164252/videoplayer/vi1547829273?ref_=vp_pl_0http://

    Gerry Anderson stop motion series divided into five/ten minute (?) sections.
    Was shown on Channel 4's "yoof" programme on Sundays at midday.Can't remember it's actual name - Network (something)

    DS was just a relentless series of puns, spoofing the hard boiled PI genre.


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    #568
    evolving_doors
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    branie2 wrote: »
    If I remember correctly, it was shown on Anything Goes

    Yup .... for us plebs with poverty 1 & 2 .


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    #569
    The Crowman
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    No mention of Worzel Gummidge yet?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-CLEsNR08


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    #570
    New Home
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    I loooved him, but I guess lots of people would remember him too, just like they'd remember Bagpuss.


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    #571
    my3cents
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    I finally found one I was looking for The Water Margin. Couldn't remember the name only some of the Characters and even then couldn't spell the Chinese names.

    Chinese martial arts series a bit like a chinese version of a cowboy BBC ran in 1976/7. Think it was on quite late as I can remember staying up to watch it.


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