Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Sleepy · 25-01-2019 01:19PM

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I just remembered another sci-fi from the mid 1990s. Space Above and Beyond. It lasted 1 season and ended on a cliff hanger.

Came into the thread to post this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBaQFafK3ZU

Cancelled early because it was badly scheduled and was rumoured to be the most expensive TV series ever made at the time (a million or two an episode)

Strumms · 25-01-2019 01:24PM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P2-nWd3Zx4w

Choc a bloc ... looking back now it was weird as hell but had a load of gadgets and mad characters and goings on that somehow appealed to the 5 year old me.

Nigel Fairservice · 25-01-2019 01:52PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Came into the thread to post this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBaQFafK3ZU

Cancelled early because it was badly scheduled and was rumoured to be the most expensive TV series ever made at the time (a million or two an episode)

I would have loved some closure for this show in the form of a tv movie or something along those lines. Looked like Earth was winning the war but some of the main characters were in some jams on the last episode. I suppose we'll have to use our imaginations!

briany · 25-01-2019 09:09PM

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I remember a guy in my primary school class won a trip to California to meet the cast of California Dreams. Everyone was jealous. The cast came back together and performed the California Dreams song on Jimmy Kimmel a while back...talked briefly about what they're up to.

Did you ever win a boyhood trip to Surrey to romp in the fens and spinneys?

Nigel Fairservice · 25-01-2019 10:08PM

briany wrote: »

Did you ever win a boyhood trip to Surrey to romp in the fens and spinneys?

Ah the halcyon days of my boyhood in Surrey... when the twilight bathed the hedgerows like a lambent flame. It's my favourite episode of Frasier

Thargor · 26-01-2019 10:11AM

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I would have loved some closure for this show in the form of a tv movie or something along those lines. Looked like Earth was winning the war but some of the main characters were in some jams on the last episode. I suppose we'll have to use our imaginations!

They had it won didn't they? Suicide strike on the Chig homeworld with the whole fleet, I remember a Chig came to surrender and took its helmet off for the first time.

briany · 26-01-2019 11:41AM

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

Ah the halcyon days of my boyhood in Surrey... when the twilight bathed the hedgerows like a lambent flame. It's my favourite episode of Frasier

Ham Radio is right up there. It's so hard for me to pick a favourite episode of the show because there are so many classics.

Nigel Fairservice · 26-01-2019 01:36PM

Thargor wrote: »

They had it won didn't they? Suicide strike on the Chig homeworld with the whole fleet, I remember a Chig came to surrender and took its helmet off for the first time.

Ya I suppose we can take an implied victory from the show but we never knew for sure. Hawkes and West were ok but we never knew the fates of some of the other characters eg. McQueen who was badly injured but we never found out if he lived or died. The show had loose ends that needed to to be tidied up.

briany wrote: »

Ham Radio is right up there. It's so hard for me to pick a favourite episode of the show because there are so many classics.

So many great episode to pick from. The Doctor is Out episode with Patrick Stewart is another favourite.

clappyhappy · 27-01-2019 12:16AM

Mike hammer, used to be on a sat night around 11pm. Stacy keech used play the role (ithink,!!).

27-01-2019 02:27AM

Minstrels Daughter-a mini series about a famous painter in France before and during WW2 and his history with 3 generations of women from the same family. Nana miskouri sang the theme tune "only love"

27-01-2019 02:30AM

Remember the spoof "sledge hammer"- trust me, I know what I'm doin

AndrewJRenko · 27-01-2019 09:06PM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

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.

Apologies, you're right of course, and Emma's scouse credentials were an essential part of her character.

Must have been mixing up my crushes...

madmaggie · 27-01-2019 11:58PM

All Creatures Great and Small, based on the James Herriot books. My Granny bought me the complete set of those books, I still have them.

odyssey06 · 28-01-2019 08:24AM

Some 1990s UK dramas...

Between the Lines. BBC Cop show with Neil Pearson (Drop the Dead Donkey, Bridget Jones) in an internal affairs unit. I remember the first season as being great, but then they seemed to run out of plots. Supporting roles for Tony Doyle and Siobhan Redmond.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103362/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_46

Coasting. ITV show about two brothers running a Blackpool theme park. Starred Peter Howitt (Bread) and an early role for James Purefoy (Rome).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466602/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_73

Taking over the Asylum. BBC Scotland show with Ken Stott running a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs. David Tennant as one of the patients put in some scene stealing turns.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209813/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_114

rubadub · 28-01-2019 09:16AM

I used to love this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Scoundrels

Perfect Scoundrels is an early-1990s British television comedy-drama following two con-men's travels while conning various people.

The show's main stars were Peter Bowles and Bryan Murray,

"Hustle" may also be forgotten, which as about con artists too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series)

sweetie · 28-01-2019 09:35AM

Buried (2003) with Lennie James. Unflinching portrait of doing time and what you have to do to get by inside, Loved it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356239/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_44

smilerf · 28-01-2019 09:37AM

Father Dowling Investigates

Rubberlegs · 28-01-2019 10:12AM

Great thread! I can remember some of the programmes mentioned. The Nargun and the Stars was freaky. The man without a face Sapphire and Steele episode has stayed with me since I was about 7, scared the hell out of me:)
Haven't read the whole thread yet so don't know if these have been mentioned. The Witches and the Grinnygog was on in the early 80s. A stone ornament falls off the back of a lorry, someone takes it and strange things start to happen in the village. The Enchanted Castle or garden, 3 kids stumble upon a stately house where the statues come alive at night. This one would be early 80s again I think.

my3cents · 28-01-2019 10:37AM

I was looking up a series I thought existed but was in fact a film Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow which then reminded me of Danger Man. All from the same period and both same lead actor Patrick McGoohan probably best know for the already mentioned Prisoner.

While looking up Patrick McGoohan I found a much later series he stared in Raffety which I only have very vague recollections of.

odyssey06 · 28-01-2019 10:47AM

my3cents wrote: »

I was looking up a series I thought existed but was in fact a film Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow which then reminded me of Danger Man. All from the same period and both same lead actor Patrick McGoohan probably best know for the already mentioned Prisoner.

While looking up Patrick McGoohan I found a much later series he stared in Raffety which I only have very vague recollections of.

I remember the others, but don't remember Raffety, seems like it was a US series, so maybe that's why.

McGoohan put in a few memorable guest appearances in Colombo - think he was the killer three times in that show, which is a record.
And he was in a Murder She Wrote where he started accusing Jessica of being the killer, and we all know he was onto the truth there!

branie2 · 28-01-2019 02:50PM

Dick Turpin

branie2 · 28-01-2019 05:39PM

Knight Rider

my3cents · 28-01-2019 06:04PM

Does anyone remember Crown Court it went on for years, I can remember it as being daytime TV in the UK.

Skid X · 28-01-2019 06:28PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Some 1990s UK dramas...

Between the Lines. BBC Cop show with Neil Pearson (Drop the Dead Donkey, Bridget Jones) in an internal affairs unit. I remember the first season as being great, but then they seemed to run out of plots. Supporting roles for Tony Doyle and Siobhan Redmond.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103362/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_46

Coasting. ITV show about two brothers running a Blackpool theme park. Starred Peter Howitt (Bread) and an early role for James Purefoy (Rome).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466602/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_73

Taking over the Asylum. BBC Scotland show with Ken Stott running a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs. David Tennant as one of the patients put in some scene stealing turns.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209813/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_114

I don't remember Coasting, but I enjoyed the other two a lot.

Agree about Between The Lines, the first series was terrific then the quality dipped a lot.

28-01-2019 08:48PM

my3cents wrote: »

Does anyone remember Crown Court it went on for years, I can remember it as being daytime TV in the UK.

Lunchtime!

Network have released eight volumes on DVD - it's great to see again.

branie2 · 28-01-2019 09:11PM

Matlock

katiek102010 · 28-01-2019 09:16PM

Tazzimus wrote: »

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

Quantum Leap is being re run on one of the sky channels

spurious · 28-01-2019 09:21PM

'Crown Court' reminds me...'Within these walls' with the splendidly named Googie Withers!
Pre-cursor to 'Prisoner Cell Block H'/'Bad Girls' and similar ladies locked up shows.

Hoboo · 28-01-2019 09:30PM

Silas

Skid X · 28-01-2019 09:35PM

spurious wrote: »

'Crown Court' reminds me...'Within these walls' with the splendidly named Googie Withers!
Pre-cursor to 'Prisoner Cell Block H'/'Bad Girls' and similar ladies locked up shows.

Denis Norden had this epic trailer for Within These Walls on Alright On The Night

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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