Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Tammy! · 18-09-2019 07:01PM

Does anyone remember Roswell in the late 90s? I vaguely remember watching a season or maybe only a few episodes. Can't remember if it was any good or not.

odyssey06 · 18-09-2019 07:04PM

Tammy! wrote: »

Does anyone remember Roswell in the late 90s? I vaguely remember watching a season or maybe only a few episodes. Can't remember if it was any good or not.

Yes I really liked it. Great cast... Colin Hanks, Katherine Heigl and am sure many a teenage crush on the two leads. I think the writer also did Friday Night Lights.

Went off the rails a bit mid Season 2, but some very good episodes in the mix. Have heard there was a recent remake but it hasnt made much impact.

18-09-2019 08:41PM

ShimSlady wrote: »

Press Gang (about a children's newspaper room)

Absolutely brilliant
Remember it starting in 1989 when I was doing my LC.

branie2 · 18-09-2019 08:49PM

ShimSlady wrote: »

Wombat (Aussie kids educational show)

The California Raisins (animated adventures of a pop group of raisins?!)

Rounds The Twist (great theme tune)

Gamesmaster (Channel 4 video game battle)

Press Gang (about a children's newspaper room)

Ghostwriter (American kids TV show)

Press Gang featured a young Gabrielle Anwar

Pawwed Rig · 18-09-2019 09:15PM

branie2 wrote: »

Press Gang featured a young Gabrielle Anwar

Was she the one in Ab Fab?

Dexter Fletcher was the love interest. A MileyByrnesque ability to look like a middle aged man.

branie2 · 18-09-2019 09:33PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Was she the one in Ab Fab?

Dexter Fletcher was the love interest. A MileyByrnesque ability to look like a middle aged man.

I don't think she was in Ab Fab

18-09-2019 10:02PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Was she the one in Ab Fab?

Julia Sawalha was in Ab Fab
Lynda Day in Press Gang

TheIrishGrover · 19-09-2019 10:38AM

ShimSlady wrote: »

Press Gang (about a children's newspaper room)

Man, I had such a crush on Gabrielle Anwar in that...... And Claire Forlani

Just looking on IMDb on this. I thought they were in a lot more episodes.

The Mulk · 19-09-2019 11:42AM

Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest.

I only remembered it looking at the pics of Lee Ross from Press Gang.
Used to love the theme tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efzxol0D_zc

Pawwed Rig · 20-09-2019 05:57AM

Speaking of gangs - does anyone remember the bloodhound gang from the early or mid eighties?

Whenever there's trouble
We're on the double
We're the bloodhound gang

If you got the crime
We got the time
We're the bloodhound gang

I ways remember the theme songs but actually little about the programme. This was similar to famous 5 with kids going around solving minor mysteries.

smilerf · 20-09-2019 09:41AM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Speaking of gangs - does anyone remember the bloodhound gang from the early or mid eighties?

Whenever there's trouble
We're on the double
We're the bloodhound gang

If you got the crime
We got the time
We're the bloodhound gang

I ways remember the theme songs but actually little about the programme. This was similar to famous 5 with kids going around solving minor mysteries.

I seem to remember a show like that only it was set in hot country
Spain I think

Pawwed Rig · 20-09-2019 11:33AM

It was either US or Canadian. The leader of the gang was a black girl who was much taller than the rest of them.

Hangdogroad · 20-09-2019 01:08PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Speaking of gangs - does anyone remember the bloodhound gang from the early or mid eighties?

Whenever there's trouble
We're on the double
We're the bloodhound gang

If you got the crime
We got the time
We're the bloodhound gang

I ways remember the theme songs but actually little about the programme. This was similar to famous 5 with kids going around solving minor mysteries.

I remember that, it was part of 3-2-1-Contact, a show within a show sort of.

Pawwed Rig · 20-09-2019 01:13PM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

I remember that, it was part of 3-2-1-Contact, a show within a show sort of.

Hmmm that definitely rings a bell.

Again I have the tune but no recollection of the programme

3-2-1 Contact
is the answer
Every day is contact....

Words are probably wrong but the amount of syllables is tight

branie2 · 20-09-2019 01:33PM

Some of the presenters of 3 2 1 Contact were kids

Hangdogroad · 20-09-2019 02:39PM

The hispanic guy was the same actor who played Raphel in the Warriors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IiBYJCd-Rw

Sardonicat · 20-09-2019 03:24PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Hmmm that definitely rings a bell.

Again I have the tune but no recollection of the programme

3-2-1 Contact
is the answer
Every day is contact....

Words are probably wrong but the amount of syllables is tight

Contact
It's the answer
To the secret
Of how everything happens. ...

3 2 1! CONTACT!

And that is the only thing I remember about that show.

TheIrishGrover · 20-09-2019 08:07PM

There was a load of those Canadian educational shows around then: Kids have an adventure and solve the problems with science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFwF3Shnd0

I used to love Voyagers when I was a kid. Pure tosh of course but hey, dumb kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjoIYv1-zM

Pawwed Rig · 20-09-2019 09:32PM

Voyagers was class. So was the Time Tunnel and Quantum Leap.

Hangdogroad · 20-09-2019 10:04PM

Technically these were educational short films but I remember a lot of these (Canadian?) childrens shorts were shown on RTE. This is one I remember well, the little tearaway boll0x of a young lad learns the errors of his ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxIq_Yw0vbo

madmaggie · 20-09-2019 11:07PM

There was an Eastern European (Czech?) cartoon, two character, I think Bolek and Molek, though I could have the names wrong.

onform · 21-09-2019 03:03PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Voyagers was class. So was the Time Tunnel and Quantum Leap.

Attaching a 1983 RTE Guide jpg showing when Voyagers! was aired. Took it from the rte guide Facebook page, well worth checking out for old TV shows.

21-09-2019 05:20PM

onform wrote: »

Attaching a 1983 RTE Guide jpg showing when Voyagers! was aired. Took it from the rte guide Facebook page, well worth checking out for old TV shows.

Hill Street Blues at 10.40pm - always on around then on Monday nights. Used to watch with my Dad.

When I got the series on DVD, I watched one episode a week. Around 10.45 / 11.00pm every Monday night.

New Home · 21-09-2019 08:43PM

madmaggie wrote: »

There was an Eastern European (Czech?) cartoon, two character, I think Bolek and Molek, though I could have the names wrong.

Bolek and Lolek - Polish, according to Mr Google.

Hangdogroad · 30-09-2019 12:10PM

Anyone remember Dominic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5itPLnDmoEU

Tony EH · 30-09-2019 01:17PM

^

No. A bit before my time. But it looks like something I'd watch now.

Sardonicat · 30-09-2019 04:55PM

Anyone remember 'Woof!'? English, early 90s kids show broadcast on The Den about a kid who'd periodically turn into a dog. I used to watch it with the 2 kids I minded at the time. We all loved it!

Edit: Found it

https://youtu.be/JRzznXX9cNA

its_steve116 · 30-09-2019 05:02PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Anyone remember 'Woof!'? English, early 90s kids show broadcast on The Den about a kid who'd periodically turn into a dog. I used to watch it with the 2 kids I minded at the time. We all loved it!

Edit: Found it
https://youtu.be/JRzznXX9cNA

Similar show called "Barking" on CITV in the early 00s, except I think he was a dog the whole way through.

madmaggie · 30-09-2019 10:45PM

I kind of remember a series called Midnight is a Place. There are clips of it on YouTube. I don't remember if it was shown here, or if I saw it in the UK. The theme song has stuck in my head for years.

vektarman · 03-10-2019 08:19PM

I heard this choo choo tune recently and it reminded me of one of my favourite programmes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hps6L5vS0sc

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Comments