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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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  • #902
    [Deleted User]
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    The 1970s and early 1980s were great for the auld dystopia. A totalitarian future.

    The Guardians (1971)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxyW433ReiU



    1990 (1977)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-7z6QF4Mi4



    An Englishman's Castle (1978)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx4D-hQt8kM



    Noah's Castle (1980)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRcyHgL0tgA


  • #903
    pawdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 563 ✭✭✭pawdee


    Manimal.


  • #904
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    kjbsrah1 wrote: »
    Dusty’s Trail. It used to be on RTÉ on Saturday mornings. Used to love it.

    Dusty’s trail heading for the west part of a wagon train lost from the rest. When I saw it it was back in the 70’s and on one evening a week.


  • #905
    spurious
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    Dystopian reminds me...that scary thing called 'Threads' that had us all terrified
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_s8CrRN76M


  • #906
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Anyone remember the English series in the mid 70's, children of the stones? Some creepy sh1t especially when you are 8 or nine years old even though it was made for children.




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  • #907
    Jimbob1977
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    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Anyone remember the English series in the mid 70's, children of the stones? Some creepy sh1t especially when you are 8 or nine years old even though it was made for children.



    It was brilliant. Definitely should have been aimed at > 12s.

    Eerie. Full of witchcraft and pagan stuff


  • #908
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,421 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    +1 on the earlier mention of The Sandbaggers. Kinda like "The Sweeney" of espionage series.

    Bird of Prey. BBC conspiracy thriller mini-series starring Richard Griffiths as a bureaucrat who follows a computer trail where he shouldn't.

    Hypnotic 1980s era computer theme tune...

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



  • #909
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    It was brilliant. Definitely should have been aimed at > 12s.

    Eerie. Full of witchcraft and pagan stuff

    I only barely remember it did the children turn into stones?


  • #910
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,421 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    Eerie. Full of witchcraft and pagan stuff

    1970s Britain was a scary time for kids. This sort of show. Doctor Who monsters. Jim'll Fix It.

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



  • #911
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    +1 on the earlier mention of The Sandbaggers. Kinda like "The Sweeney" of espionage series.

    Bird of Prey. BBC conspiracy thriller mini-series starring Richard Griffiths as a bureaucrat who follows a computer trail where he shouldn't.

    Hypnotic 1980s era computer theme tune...


    Just about to watch an episode of The Sandbaggers now!


    Bird Of Prey is an odd one. Compelling though.


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  • #912
    branie2
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    The Odd Couple, which was a spin-off from the 1968 film


  • #913
    Wegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭Wegian


    Thou shalt not kill from RTÉ


  • #914
    sweetie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    spurious wrote:
    Dystopian reminds me...that scary thing called 'Threads' that had us all terrified

    British tv show Survivors from late 70s is still worth a watch, like Walking dead crossed with The Good Life.


  • #915
    New Home
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    sweetie wrote: »
    British tv show Survivors from late 70s is still worth a watch, like Walking dead crossed with The Good Life.

    I still have nightmares about that one.


  • #916
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Codename Icarus.
    A kids tv show from the early 80s about child geniuses a private foundation nuclear missiles and the military.

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


  • #917
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    The Streets of San Francisco, Hill Street Blues.


  • #918
    Nigel Fairservice
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,577 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The Streets of San Francisco, Hill Street Blues.

    Every time I hear the Hill Street Blues music it takes me back to being a young child in the 80s. Same for the Murder She Wrote music. I was off work sick last year for a week and I was watching Murder She Wrote in the mornings. It felt more like I was off school than work :D


  • #919
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭smilerf


    The Brittass Empire


  • #920
    Taxedalot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭Taxedalot


    Obscure one just came back to me:

    Raffles, the gentleman thief.


  • #921
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    The new avengers more scary sh1t from the UK, I remember watching it one night and the episode was about rats in the sewers and whatever they were eating they were growing to the size of large dogs.


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  • #922
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,421 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    The new avengers more scary sh1t from the UK, I remember watching it one night and the episode was about rats in the sewers and whatever they were eating they were growing to the size of large dogs.

    Sounds like Rodents of Unusual Size!

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



  • #923
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Silver Spoons


  • #924
    fxotoole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    Alias

    An early JJ Abrams effort starring a young Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Whatsherface

    Also from the 80s

    Fortycoats & Co

    Fortycoats used to remind me of my uncle. A larger than life character with a thick Dublin accent, which fascinated me as a young child growing up in the wesht


  • #925
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,421 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I really liked the pilot of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and had such high hopes given Aaron Sorkin's success with the West Wing.

    What a cast... led by Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford.

    But I guess the concept was not sustainable over a season :(

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



  • #926
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,851 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    The new avengers more scary sh1t from the UK, I remember watching it one night and the episode was about rats in the sewers and whatever they were eating they were growing to the size of large dogs.
    That one was on ITV4 a few years back. Laughable special effects though, so you needed to be very young to find it any way believable.


  • #927
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    A Bit of a Do


  • #928
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Edge Of Darkness, mid 80's political thriller that went down some weird avenues. Very bleak ending.

    Day Of The Triffids. Superior early 80's version.

    The Mad Death. Kind of like Threads only with a rabies outbreak instead of nuclear holocaust.


  • #929
    sweetie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    Men of the World and The Lakes, two 90s shows starring a young John Simm.


  • #930
    New Home
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    I remember The Lakes very well. ;):p


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  • #931
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Codename Icarus.
    A kids tv show from the early 80s about child geniuses a private foundation nuclear missiles and the military.

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

    Missing backslash in your link..

    I remember this, quite sinister in tone, height of the Cold War stuff. Polaris (Wikipedia) and associated McGuffins. I seem to remember the music for it too.

    Didn't it get some tabloid attention at the time also?


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