Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

artvanderlay · 23-01-2019 07:34PM

branie2 wrote: »

Around the World with Willy Fogg, an animated animal version of Jules Verne's classic novel.

Another 80s theme tune burned into my memory for all eternity :pac: Brilliant intro. Nearly as catchy as the Muskahounds!

briany · 23-01-2019 07:49PM

Gonzo on MTV2. Zane Lowe + brown couch + interesting musical guest. Good times.

Sardonicat · 23-01-2019 07:54PM

Speaking of incredibly catchy intro tunes to kids' shows, does anyone remember a science fiction animation called Ulyses? Late 80s this would have been. I used to watch it for the theme tune, that and Willy Fogg and the Muskahounds ( I was doing the Leaving at the time so I stuck to that excuse, as did my friends. )

Sardonicat · 23-01-2019 07:55PM

Double post

New Home · 23-01-2019 07:57PM

Ulysses 31, by chance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31

twirlagig · 23-01-2019 08:02PM

Does anyone remember Green Acres???
I watched the intro on YouTube earlier and couldn’t believe how much of the theme tune words I remembered!

https://youtu.be/umS3XM3xAPk

Sardonicat · 23-01-2019 08:04PM

New Home wrote: »

Ulysses 31, by chance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31

Yup, that's the one. Just had a look and the intro is up on YouTube. I can't link as on phone but worth a listen if you like a bit of synthpop, especially the kind that features robotic voices!

Synthtastic!

Nigel Fairservice · 23-01-2019 08:10PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Speaking of incredibly catchy intro tunes to kids' shows, does anyone remember a science fiction animation called Ulyses? Late 80s this would have been. I used to watch it for the theme tune, that and Willy Fogg and the Muskahounds ( I was doing the Leaving at the time so I stuck to that excuse, as did my friends. )

I remember it. Catchy in fairness. As a child I found the cartoon in a bit spooky though. I think everyone on board the ship were in some kind of deep sleep bar Ulysses and his two kids.

DoozerT6 · 23-01-2019 08:19PM

The opening theme to Storybook International - I keep getting an error when I try to embed the youtube link

Anybody else remember it? Early 80's.

New Home · 23-01-2019 08:21PM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Storybook International

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfHJgZptH-w

You mean this?

Sardonicat · 23-01-2019 08:21PM

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

Sardonicat wrote: »

Speaking of incredibly catchy intro tunes to kids' shows, does anyone remember a science fiction animation called Ulyses? Late 80s this would have been. I used to watch it for the theme tune, that and Willy Fogg and the Muskahounds ( I was doing the Leaving at the time so I stuck to that excuse, as did my friends. )

I remember it. Catchy in fairness. As a child I found the cartoon in a bit spooky though. I think everyone on board the ship were in some kind of deep sleep bar Ulysses and this two kids.

Oh I can't comment on that as I never actually watched the show itself. l was much too old (cough cough ).

It was Japanese, and their animations were far less cuddly than European or North American ones. An earlier animation and a firm favourite of mine growing up was 'Battle of the Planets' and that had to be edited for European audiences. The original Japanese version was considered too brutal for our delicate psyches.

And speaking of cuddly European animations, who remembers 'Wisdom of the Gnomes'? I worked as a nanny for a while after I left school and that was a firm favourite and not just with the little ones. It was German or from one of the Scandinavian countries ( long before they discovered their niche for dark and depressing cop shows with complicated female leads)

DoozerT6 · 23-01-2019 08:25PM

New Home wrote: »

You mean this?

Thanks NH, that's the one - no matter what I tried I kept getting 'an error has occurred'

artvanderlay · 23-01-2019 08:26PM

Paris, a 90s Channel 4 comedy series that Graham Linehan and Artur Matthews wrote before Father Ted. I thought it was great: it was very funny, and I loved the setting, plus it had a great cast, full of famous comedy faces. It's not on DVD, as I think it has been disowned by the writers, but it's well worth a look.

odyssey06 · 23-01-2019 08:43PM

Alien Nation.
A short lived follow-up series to the 1988 scifi movie.
Alien refugees are being re-settled in Los Angeles, and we follow the story through a police procedural genre, as a human is paired with the first 'Newcomer' police officer.

Total Recall 2070.
Titled as a follow-up to Total Recall, the plots actually had more similarities with Bladerunner. Both films are based on Philip K Dick stories. It similarly uses the concept of pairing a human cop, this time with an android partner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_2070

Nigel Fairservice · 23-01-2019 09:00PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Alien Nation.
A short lived follow-up series to the 1988 scifi movie.
Alien refugees are being re-settled in Los Angeles, and we follow the story through a police procedural genre, as a human is paired with the first 'Newcomer' police officer.

Total Recall 2070.
Titled as a follow-up to Total Recall, the plots actually had more similarities with Bladerunner. Both films are based on Philip K Dick stories. It similarly uses the concept of pairing a human cop, this time with an android partner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_2070

I remember Sky had Alien Nation in the early 1990s. I was a bit young at the time but I remember the bald red spotty heads.

23-01-2019 09:23PM

bobbyss wrote: »

The High Chaparall 'Blue Boy'!
The Virginian

So, on the theme of TV westerns:

OK, so, without the olde google machine (if at all possible considering this thread is about memories as opposed to facts) that we can all use, can someone tell me off the top of their head what was the order of these shows in terms of appearance- they all featured in my childhood, but obviously they were all "repeats" from the 60s considering I watched them in the 70's- so in what order were they produced?

Obviously if we don't get anywhere with this query, feel free to post the obvious from the google machine but more interested in peoples stories of watching these programmes as they appeared on TV than someone going straight to wiki like we can all do

High Chaperall

The Virginian

The Big Country (starred yer one- blondie one, very assertive)

(again I could do the google machine but in the spirit of the thread I won't and will let someone else remind me of her name)

Bonanza (wasn't that with "Big Jake" and appearances from Mr Ingles himself or was that one of the above western TV shows?)

All of the above shown mid-late 70's TV - BBC or RTE or combination of the two- but I never researched when they were originally produced- so looking for combination of memories and facts on the above
Thanks.

The Crowman wrote: »

I remember that! The rat swallowing scene was another memorable moment.

Yes, equally horrific to my scene and earlier than that if memory serves- it was one of the first ways the TV people told us audience watchers that these eh, "people" were different to, er, us.

23-01-2019 09:41PM

A few from the 1990s that I loved (and I still do)

How Do You Want Me?
Comedy about dealing with your in-laws starring Dylan Moran and the late Charlotte Coleman (she died in 2001 of an asthma attack). Underrated.

Cardiac Arrest
Fast moving medical series. 25 minute episodes. Helen Baxendale!
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London Bridge
Late night soap style. Very enjoyable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgvQpRqJDs0

Revelations
Early effort from the Queer Is Folk writer Russell Davies. Centres around a flawed bishop and his messed-up family. Really compelling stuff.
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The Cops
Brilliant police procedural series. Seems to be lost in time. No DVD release. Hard-hitting scripts.

branie2 · 23-01-2019 09:49PM

One Foot in the Grave

AndrewJRenko · 23-01-2019 11:32PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Chicago Hope, early 90s medical series. Launched at same time as ER and blown away in the ratings. Pity really, it was a totally different kind of show though, more philosophical and less high octane and I think it would have gotten more 'respect' otherwise.
Great cast including Mandy Patinkin (Princess Bride) in the original line-up, but churned through a lot of cast members over its run which didn't help to sustain fan base.

I remember two of the characters, a husband and wife pair of doctors IIRC arguing about not wanting to go to a social event because "Thursday night is ER night"

AndrewJRenko · 23-01-2019 11:36PM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

A few from the 1990s that I loved (and I still do)

How Do You Want Me?
Comedy about dealing with your in-laws starring Dylan Moran and the late Charlotte Coleman (she died in 2001 of an asthma attack). Underrated.

Charlotte was great in Watching, with her nerdy bird-watching boyfriend, who went on to be Mr Bean's sidekick.

branie2 · 23-01-2019 11:38PM

Charlotte was also famous as Sue, one of the two kids in Worzel Gummidge

AndrewJRenko · 23-01-2019 11:38PM

branie2 wrote: »

Boston Public, a drama set in a Boston high school with Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine in Star Trek:Voyager) as one of the teachers.

Wasn't it from the same family as Ally McBeal and The Practice, with characters crossing over regularly.

branie2 · 23-01-2019 11:54PM

I don't think so

Nigel Fairservice · 23-01-2019 11:55PM

Anyone remember Early Edition? It aired on TV3 in the late 90s. It was about a guy that got tomorrow's newspaper today and he went around preventing bad things he read about that were going to happen. It was harmless stuff, I was glued to it as a teenager. I distinctly remember watching an episode the night before my Junior Cert started back in 1999. Kyle Chandler was in it. He went on to Friday Night Lights and pops up in movies every now and then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSITAClE1CU

24-01-2019 12:01AM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Charlotte was great in Watching, with her nerdy bird-watching boyfriend, who went on to be Mr Bean's sidekick.

Watching was class; loved it. Charlotte wasn't in it though - it was Emma Wray and Paul Bown who played the leads. Lovely Liza (Tarbuck) was in it too.

clappyhappy · 24-01-2019 12:17AM

Flicking through the channels tonight I came across magnum pi (remake), it was terrible. I loved the original with Tom selleck and my ring tone is the theme as my mum loved the show.

It got me thinking about the great series in the 80's/90's, the fall guy, Simon & Simon, scarecrow & Mrs King, the a team, mcgyver, Dr quinn medicine woman, the fugitive, kung fu, chips....

We only had 2 channels back then and at times I wish I still had 2 that showed such classics.

24-01-2019 12:41AM

clappyhappy wrote: »

It got me thinking about the great series in the 80's/90's, the fall guy, Simon & Simon, scarecrow & Mrs King, the a team, mcgyver, Dr quinn medicine woman, the fugitive, kung fu, chips....

.

Kung fu you say. Is that related to Hong Kung Phooey?

MAYBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_Rmpd3PZI

The Fugitive was a 1960's series, repeated on BBC in the 80's and maybe on RTE after that, not sure.

Scarecrow and Mrs King was an 80's show.

CHiPs was 1970's

Dr Quinn was I thought a 1990's tv series but stand corrected.

24-01-2019 12:55AM

and the above cartoon reminds me of this-

Grape Ape- also shown on RTE but originally on the Beeb if memory serves/ again, a 70's cartoon but only introduced to Ireland later.