Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

trashcan · 28-07-2019 04:32PM

madmaggie wrote: »

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

I remember a show called the Blizzard of Odd, with Colin Murphy, from round the same time, a sort of a forerunner of what Charlie Brooker went on to do on the BBC. Was quite good.

Hangdogroad · 28-07-2019 05:47PM

trashcan wrote: »

I remember a show called the Blizzard of Odd, with Colin Murphy, from round the same time, a sort of a forerunner of what Charlie Brooker went on to do on the BBC. Was quite good.

The best section of that was every week he'd do a feature on trashy Irish movies. Taffin, Fatal Deviation etc.

branie2 · 28-07-2019 05:54PM

I really liked that show

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-07-2019 05:57PM

fmpisces wrote: »

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

Salem's Lot
V
North and South
The Thorn Birds

The original V was excellent - and somewhat chilling, with the current political state of the US and UK.

cml387 · 28-07-2019 06:06PM

There is one series from the BBC in the seventies that I vividly remember and that was called "Menace".
Each was a self-contained drama,the connecting theme being that the central character(s) were facing a dangerous situation which generally came out of a hitherto banal existence.

Two come to mind that made a deep impression, "Deliver Us From Evil" was a story about a young curate moving to a remote parish, and starred John Gielgud.
Think of "A warning to the curious" and you'll have an idea of how the remote location and the sense of entrapment generated an increasing sense of dread.

The other was "Boys and girls come out to play" about a psychotic child whose parents gradually come to realise is capable of terrible evil.

Sadly both are lost, but I believe are on the Most Wanted list of the BBC's hunt for old archive.

28-07-2019 09:08PM

cml387 wrote: »

There is one series from the BBC in the seventies that I vividly remember and that was called "Menace".
Each was a self-contained drama,the connecting theme being that the central character(s) were facing a dangerous situation which generally came out of a hitherto banal existence.

Two come to mind that made a deep impression, "Deliver Us From Evil" was a story about a young curate moving to a remote parish, and starred John Gielgud.
Think of "A warning to the curious" and you'll have an idea of how the remote location and the sense of entrapment generated an increasing sense of dread.

The other was "Boys and girls come out to play" about a psychotic child whose parents gradually come to realise is capable of terrible evil.

Sadly both are lost, but I believe are on the Most Wanted list of the BBC's hunt for old archive.

By the sounds of it, a great series. My cousin saw most of the original run and still talks about it. I have only seen the two surviving episodes - Killing Time and Man With A Mission - on third or fourth generation VHS c.1995.

The only hope would be if it was sold overseas and the foreign broadcaster retained the telerecordings. Sadly doesn't look like it.

fmpisces · 28-07-2019 09:19PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

The original V was excellent - and somewhat chilling, with the current political state of the US and UK.

I managed to find a link to the 3 series online, have to say I enjoyed it better when I was younger. It looked scarier then. Have to agree with you though, still better than the remake which I couldn't get into at all.

branie2 · 28-07-2019 09:23PM

The Munsters Today

smilerf · 29-07-2019 04:19AM

branie2 wrote: »

The Munsters Today

the grandpa was gas

Hangdogroad · 29-07-2019 08:26AM

When Reason Sleeps. An RTE / Channel 4 anthology of supernatural stories that was shown in early 87. As you might expect from RTE it's never been repeated or releasd on home media.

Hangdogroad · 29-07-2019 03:55PM

The Ghosts Of Motley Hall. I remember it from RTE late 70's, one of those particular British childrens series from that period that were both funny and unsettling along the lines of Worzel Gummidge.

29-07-2019 08:55PM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

When Reason Sleeps. An RTE / Channel 4 anthology of supernatural stories that was shown in early 87. As you might expect from RTE it's never been repeated or releasd on home media.

Good call, was around Easter IIRC.

There was an RTE Guide piece before the first one.

branie2 · 29-07-2019 09:03PM

A.D. Anno Domini. A TV miniseries from the 1980s about the rise of early Christianity in Israel and Rome.

howardmarks · 29-07-2019 09:06PM

Sliders

branie2 · 29-07-2019 09:10PM

Relic Hunter

Hangdogroad · 30-07-2019 09:09AM

branie2 wrote: »

A.D. Anno Domini. A TV miniseries from the 1980s about the rise of early Christianity in Israel and Rome.

I forgot about that one. Another was Greatest Heroes Of The Bible, it looked like it was shot on a very low budget and had lousy special effects.

Hangdogroad · 30-07-2019 10:20AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

When Reason Sleeps. An RTE / Channel 4 anthology of supernatural stories that was shown in early 87. As you might expect from RTE it's never been repeated or releasd on home media.

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Good call, was around Easter IIRC.

There was an RTE Guide piece before the first one.

Well here's a coincidence, just came across a promo for it in this 87 Channel 4 junction. I don't remember this particular episode, looks like Susan Lynch playing the female lead? The two episodes I remember seeing were one about a Dublin guy having flashbacks to his abusive childhood (his young self was played by Hugh O Conor from Lamb) and one about a middle class Irish family holidaying in Spain, this was set in the 50's or 60's.

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

Hangdogroad · 05-08-2019 11:10AM

Making The Cut, RTE crime series with Sean McGinley that was shown in 1998 or 99. The setting was a bit vague, it was an Irish city that wasn't Dublin or Cork but not sure if it was specified where exactly it was. Could have been Galway or Waterford. It came back for a second series under the name DDU

The Mulk · 05-08-2019 11:22AM

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-41740176
Not sure if this link works. It was a fake ghostwatch BBC programme, filmed on Halloween in the early 90s.
Scared the hell out of me, but no-one else seems to remember it

Hangdogroad · 05-08-2019 11:28AM

The Mulk wrote: »

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-41740176
Not sure if this link works. It was a fake ghostwatch BBC programme, filmed on Halloween in the early 90s.
Scared the hell out of me, but no-one else seems to remember it

I didn't see it at the time as we didn't have BBC but I remember the controversy in its aftermath particularly the lad who committed suicide, supposedly as a result of watching it.

The Mulk · 05-08-2019 11:30AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

I didn't see it at the time as we didn't have BBC but I remember the controversy in its aftermath particularly the lad who committed suicide, supposedly as a result of watching it.

I think it was on early enough on Halloween night, so a lot of kids seen it.
There was one scene with the girl being thrown around the room and then appearing with cuts on her face. I was terrified

Hangdogroad · 05-08-2019 12:27PM

Stig Of The Dump is one that seems to be forgotten. Shown on RTE mid 80's though dates from earlier.

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

Skid X · 10-08-2019 06:56PM

Motorbike Trials Show Kickstart and Junior Kickstart on BBC1 in the School holidays in the 80s

Loved that show, nearly broke my arm falling off my BMX trying to recreate some of the obstacles.

Well, Santa wouldn't get me a Motorbike so I had to improvise.

Cracking theme tune too ...

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1158637580444930048

Hangdogroad · 11-08-2019 12:32PM

Nothing To It! a series produced by Gerry Stembridge in 1987 which was sort of half comedy series, half job seekers guide. There were comedy sketches about a group of people sharing a flat, one of whom was Pauline McGlynn, interspersed with interviews with unemployed young people.

mikeymouse · 11-08-2019 01:01PM

Twilight Zone,
Tales of the unexpected.

Cork Boy 53 · 11-08-2019 01:11PM

A series going all the way back to the late 1960s/early 1970s called Night Gallery. It was hosted by Twilight Zone presenter Rod Serling and had a similar type of content as that series, each episode`s story based on an eerie painting in an art gallery.

Tony EH · 11-08-2019 02:21PM

mikeymouse wrote: »

Twilight Zone,
Tales of the unexpected.

Nearly everyone on the planet remembers these? Especially the Twilight Zone.

olestoepoke · 11-08-2019 02:23PM

bubblypop wrote: »

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic'
Can't even remember the name!!
No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

I loved that guy, flying around on his cloud and beating up the pig character. I'd completely forgotten about that. Buck Rodgers was also a fav of mine and later Blakes 7

mikeymouse · 11-08-2019 08:16PM

mikeymouse wrote: »

Twilight Zone,
Tales of the unexpected.

Tony EH wrote: »

Nearly everyone on the planet remembers these? Especially the Twilight Zone.

Only those of us of a certain age ,Eh Tony?

11-08-2019 08:54PM

Gortnaclune on RTE in 1994

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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