Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

01-02-2019 06:37PM

Rubberlegs wrote: »

I remember this, Yosser Hughes, "gissa job"
The scene where Snowy White falls out the window horrified me as a child.

Billy Liar was a sitcom based in a funeral home run by Mr Shadrach. Billy was a Walter Mitty type character, it was quite funny

The pub scene in final Blackstuff episode is intense. SHAKE HANDS

Billy Liar was good fun; prefer it to the film. A LWT production from 1973/74, it was shown on RTE2 on Saturday nights c 1984/85. George A Cooper as his Dad- brilliant

cml387 · 01-02-2019 07:33PM

my3cents wrote: »

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

Same guy was in How.

Ah yes, Sunday afternoon before dinner.

Memorably lampooned by the Fast Show, the genius of which was you knew exactly what they were on about and it seemed to be a kind of private joke shared with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKyWIie3Oc

doolox · 01-02-2019 07:40PM

It has to be Hands. An RTE programme about hand crafts and skills including boatbuilding, saddle and leatherwork etc. which aired on RTE about 1980.

odyssey06 · 01-02-2019 07:45PM

Dublin ... A Personal View.
RTE series from 70s presented by Eamonn mac Thomais.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0626/626496-a-personal-view-of-the-liberties-in-dublin-1979/

doolox · 01-02-2019 07:54PM

I did not realise that such a place existed until I took the 39 towards An Lár and then a 67 towards Lucan.... there it was after Prussia St..... Stoneybatter.

03-02-2019 09:04AM

Alias the Jester

Aska · 03-02-2019 03:04PM

Rab C. Nesbitt was another favourite of mine.

Also the series spin off of the Mike Bassett England Manager movie was quite funny also

Lorelli! · 03-02-2019 06:04PM

Aska wrote: »

Rab C. Nesbitt was another favourite of mine.

It was so funny but it use to make me feel sick

Other ones I remember vaguely are Drop The Dead Donkey and The Day Today.

Probably more memorable but I loved The Young Ones and Bottom. They use to make me feel a bit sick too though

smilerf · 03-02-2019 06:12PM

I used to find The Thin Blue Line quite funny

branie2 · 03-02-2019 07:23PM

smilerf wrote: »

I used to find The Thin Blue Line quite funny

Constable Kevin Goody was very camp

Rubberlegs · 03-02-2019 08:22PM

Rentaghost

my3cents · 03-02-2019 09:21PM

Has anyone mentioned Hogan's Heros? I remember thinking it was hilarious as a kid and I keep on seeing that it is on ForcesTV when I'm channel hopping. There was a really good film about the main star Robert Crane in 2002 Auto Focus. The film explained why I'd not seen the star of Hogan's Heros after that show was on TV. From the film one of the stand out lines was A day without sex ...... is a day wasted.

branie2 · 03-02-2019 11:37PM

the Prince Valiant cartoon

The Crowman · 04-02-2019 12:59AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Alias the Jester

I'd forgotten about that till now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jABRi_N960A

darlett · 04-02-2019 01:17AM

Lorelli! wrote: »

It was so funny but it use to make me feel sick

Other ones I remember vaguely are Drop The Dead Donkey and The Day Today.

Probably more memorable but I loved The Young Ones and Bottom. They use to make me feel a bit sick too though

You are pressing all my buttons with Rab C. Nesbitt, Bottom and Drop the Dead Donkey! The black and white credits to Bottom, I could watch on repeat. As for DtDD it had me near tears when I was about 10, I think it was in relation to Albert Reynolds losing a vote of confidence...The credits were rolling and their bird brain reporter was utterly confused as to why the Irish people were so concerned by a tea shop losing power. Stuck with me that one.

branie2 · 04-02-2019 11:14AM

The Haunted School - an Australian TV series about a female school teacher who starts a school in a haunted building and doesn't endear herself to the locals in the process

cml387 · 04-02-2019 06:38PM

Anyone remember "Chicago Teddy Bears"?

A comedy series set in gangster-time Chicago in the 1920's.

If it doesn't sound familiar, you'd be forgiven as although RTE obviously thought it had some potential since they bought it, CBS did not and it was cancelled after three months.

Skid X · 06-02-2019 08:51PM

Space Cadets, Ambitious 2005 Channel 4 Reality Show where they tricked contestants into believing they were on a Russian Space Ship. In Space.

Must have cost a fortune, and there was no way there could have been a second series.

I liked it. No one else remembers it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/19/realitytv.channel4

odyssey06 · 06-02-2019 08:57PM

Franks Place... similar setup to Cheers but with African American leads set in a bar / restaurant in New Orleans.

branie2 · 06-02-2019 09:03PM

Becker, Ted Danson as a grumpy doctor

Amalgam · 06-02-2019 09:05PM

I only ever saw repeats of Dublin - A Personal View, back in the late 80s, early 90s. The episodes would also turn up as filler, for any downtime etc..

Presented by Eamonn MacThomais (Wikipedia)

The salt of the earth talk he does with locals is a bit ear curling, it doesn't sit well, but the history is rock solid. Very enjoyable.

YouTube search is your friend.. I'm wary of linking anything in case they get snuffed/removed.

Gorging on 'Hands' at the moment too, the Dublin book binders episode in particular, narrated by Maurice Craig. (Wikipedia)

branie2 · 06-02-2019 09:17PM

Baghdad Cafe, with Whoopi Goldberg; it was based on a German film of the same name.

New Home · 06-02-2019 09:35PM

branie2 wrote: »

Baghdad Cafe, with Whoopi Goldberg; it was based on a German film of the same name.

The film itself was brilliant (available on YouTube, I think), the soundtrack was hauntingly beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtkZBZG6yJg

Rubberlegs · 07-02-2019 08:05PM

Hex, a supernatural story set in an English boarding school. Michael Fassbender was the fallen angel Azazeal. It started around 2004 iirc.

odyssey06 · 07-02-2019 08:20PM

Common As Muck - Mid 90s BBC comedy drama about a group of bin men, starring Edward Woodward (The Equalizer) and Neil Dudgeon (Midsomer Murders).

odyssey06 · 07-02-2019 08:30PM

Ian Richardson played Sherlock Holmes in two 1980s BBC TV movies: "The Sign of Four" and "Hound of the Baskervilles".
Overshadowed by the brilliant Jeremy Brett version which followed soon after on ITV once the copyright expired on the Holmes canon, but I still enjoyed them.

Interesting back story here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1983_film)

Ian Richardson also popped up as Dr Joseph Bell, playing the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle in the Murder Rooms series for BBC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Rooms:_Mysteries_of_the_Real_Sherlock_Holmes

smilerf · 07-02-2019 08:35PM

Reaper

Thargor · 07-02-2019 11:08PM

Skid X wrote: »

Space Cadets, Ambitious 2005 Channel 4 Reality Show where they tricked contestants into believing they were on a Russian Space Ship. In Space.

Must have cost a fortune, and there was no way there could have been a second series.

I liked it. No one else remembers it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/19/realitytv.channel4

Oh wow Id totally forgotten about that, the contestants were some of the stupidest people Id ever seen in action.

Reminds me of My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss, ripoff of the Apprentice except the boss was an actor messing with the contestants, some hilarious scenes.

Nigel Fairservice · 08-02-2019 12:04AM

I loved the Drew Carey show. I think it finished up in 2004. It was on Network 2 at odd times.

Thargor · 08-02-2019 12:06AM

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I loved the Drew Carey show I think it finished up in 2004. It was on Network 2 at odd times.

Saturday nights on Network 2, along with Night Stand with Dick Detrick.

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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