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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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  • #1202
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Is Pat Ingoldsby still alive?

    I think so.

    Loved Pat's Hat from my early childhood.
    Do you remember the big spider coming down.


  • #1203
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    He is, and I do remember the Spider, whose name was Spindles.


  • #1204
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Then it became Pat's Chat


  • #1205
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,088 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    I can vaguely remember Pats Hat, think it must have ran up to circa 1980. Was the title card a picture of a hat?

    I remember Pats Chat well. The Savage Cabbage et all. Great craic.


  • #1206
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I liked Pat's Pals as well


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  • #1207
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    The End, presented by Shay Healy. Forever memorable for the Sean Doherty interview and his comments about Charles Haughey.


  • #1208
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The End, presented by Shay Healy. Forever memorable for the Sean Doherty interview and his comments about Charles Haughey.

    Nighthawks


  • #1209
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Thank you, I always got those two mixed up!


  • #1210
    Tammy!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Tammy!


    Mr. Magoo


  • #1211
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    the pink panther was a good programme for the kids


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  • #1212
    Anto Lynch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭Anto Lynch


    The Equalizer.


  • #1213
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Anto Lynch wrote: »
    The Equalizer.

    Its on Forces TV atm.


  • #1214
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,293 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Everybody remembers The Equalizer.


  • #1215
    The Late Late Show
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Everybody remembers The Equalizer.

    Yes, this is a wellknown and very good TV series and was made into a film as well.


  • #1216
    The Late Late Show
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    What about Highwayman?


  • #1217
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    I remember the BBC adaptation of War and Peace, Anthony Hopkins was in it. It was very good.


  • #1218
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,087 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    madmaggie wrote: »
    I remember the BBC adaptation of War and Peace, Anthony Hopkins was in it. It was very good.

    I had that on my 'to watch list' and then the BBC aired the recent Andrew Davies version so I watched that instead...

    The BBC and ITV have an amazing back catalogue, although modern viewers may find some of the adaptations tick over slowly. At the same time, they allow the characters time to breathe. They only seem to repeat the most famous such as I Claudius or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

    The series get repeated on digital but very hard to track down some of the mini-series and TV movies.

    The American mini-series such as North & South, Roots pop up on Digital also but rarely the British.

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



  • #1219
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I had that on my 'to watch list' and then the BBC aired the recent Andrew Davies version so I watched that instead...

    The BBC and ITV have an amazing back catalogue, although modern viewers may find some of the adaptations tick over slowly. At the same time, they allow the characters time to breathe. They only seem to repeat the most famous such as I Claudius or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

    The series get repeated on digital but very hard to track down some of the mini-series and TV movies.

    The American mini-series such as North & South, Roots pop up on Digital also but rarely the British.


    Agreed, for me the golden age of television is 1960-1989.

    A lot of people don't like the pacing of archive drama but as you say, the characters really develop.
    DVD is the best way to watch these.
    Network are best for the ITV back catalogue (although they have released some BBC stuff) while Simply have put out some brilliant BBC titles.


  • #1220
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    I got a box set of McGyver (the original, not the new version) from the library. Going to enjoy that.


  • #1221
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Don't get any ideas though :D


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  • #1222
    The Late Late Show
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    I remember a Japanese set series with Richard Chamberlain. Samurai or something like that?


  • #1223
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Dick Turpin


  • #1224
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    The Late Late Show wrote: »
    I remember a Japanese set series with Richard Chamberlain. Samurai or something like that?

    Shogun. It was on a Sunday night after the news on RTE1. Remember one episode where a swordsman lopped some poor devils head off.


  • #1225
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,088 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Shogun. It was on a Sunday night after the news on RTE1. Remember one episode where a swordsman lopped some poor devils head off.

    Yes I remember that, and one guy is boiled in alive in a cauldron.


  • #1226
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    i liked Adam Adamant Lives



  • #1227
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Yes I remember that, and one guy is boiled in alive in a cauldron.

    If I remember rightly, there were crucifixions in it as well


  • #1228
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Castaway, a tv drama about a group of people stranded on an island after the ship they were traveling on was wrecked and sank in a storm.


  • #1229
    fmpisces
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭fmpisces


    Here's a few from the 80's, perhaps they've already been mentioned.....

    Salem's Lot
    V
    North and South
    The Thorn Birds


  • #1230
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Eerie Indiana
    Nowhere Man


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  • #1231
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,088 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Shaking All Over and its follow-up Shaking The 70s.Proto Reeling In The Years type clips show that RTE screened circa 92/93. John Keogh presented and did sort of sarcastic commentary on the clips."look at those flares!" Sort of thing.


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