Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

04-05-2020 10:14AM

The Adventure Game is on DVD now - Simply Media released it. Worth a purchase IMHO https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Adventure-Game-DVD/dp/B06XFHTCVB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+adventure+game&qid=1588587233&sr=8-1

smilerf · 04-05-2020 10:39AM

Hanging with Mr cooper

salmocab · 04-05-2020 10:52AM

Baseball72 wrote: »

This is a great thread - must look back on previous postings when Boards returns to normal speeds...

The Trials of O'Brien - mid 60's. Starred Peter Falk as a lawyer.......played a very similar type character to Colombo which followed a few years later...some clips on YouTube - watched a clip a few weeks back (8 mins or so) of a young Alan Alda guest starring.....

I cleared my browser history completely on my phone and the speeds went back to normal. Theres a thread about it somewhere.

Maxx355 · 05-05-2020 10:43PM

Switch (Robert Wagner & Eddie Albert)
Blake Seven

cml387 · 06-05-2020 07:16AM

"The Long Hot Summer"

RTE on Saturday evenings in 1960's. Now I see from Wikipedia that one of the stars was Roy Thinnes (of "The Invaders").
I remember the theme music more than anything else , and thinking that a Long Hot Summer would be nice. Come to think of it 1966 was a nice summer . OK I'm rambling now.

s7ryf3925pivug · 06-05-2020 09:17AM

Maxx355 wrote: »

Switch (Robert Wagner & Eddie Albert)
Blake Seven

I liked Blake's 7. I was just recently reading a synopsis of it on Wikipedia. Might still be a good watch today.

smilerf · 06-05-2020 09:58AM

The Detectives
Jasper Carrott and Robert Powell

cml387 · 06-05-2020 10:19AM

Annabella Screeching Courthouse wrote: »

I liked Blake's 7. I was just recently reading a synopsis of it on Wikipedia. Might still be a good watch today.

Emmmm no.

I was huge fan at the time, but it's aged badly, tinfoil suits running around Television Centre and some outside filmed inserts shot in a quarry near Reading.
You know what they say...never go back.

branie2 · 06-05-2020 04:55PM

Mr. T, the cartoon series

foxy farmer · 06-05-2020 05:08PM

There was a natural history programme on RTE 1 back in the 80s. Broadcast on a Sunday night sometime before 9.00. Presented by a Irish college professor. Had a beard, in his 50s. Went around the country looking at natural features of the landscape explaining how they came about. All about the ice age stone age caves river features etc. Can't remember the name of the series but used to love watching it.

branie2 · 06-05-2020 10:14PM

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Hangdogroad · 07-05-2020 05:27AM

branie2 wrote: »

Mr. T, the cartoon series

Mr T appearing as his live action self at the end saying things like "don't be a fool, go to school".

Worztron · 07-05-2020 07:11AM

eagle eye · 07-05-2020 07:54AM

I used to like Top Cat when I was very young.

branie2 · 07-05-2020 08:09AM

eagle eye wrote: »

I used to like Top Cat when I was very young.

Top Cat was based on Sgt. Bilko

Worztron · 07-05-2020 08:26AM

eagle eye wrote: »

I used to like Top Cat when I was very young.

Loved that too. I'd watch it after coming home from primary school.

Baseball72 · 08-05-2020 11:00PM

"The Mystery Movie". 90 minute programme. it consisted of 3 separate series if memory serves, on a rotation basis. "The Name of the Game" with Gene Barry - set in a newspaper, was one of the programmes in the series. I think MacMillan & Wife (Rock Hudson) was also in the loop....

cml387 · 11-05-2020 07:23AM

Baseball72 wrote: »

"The Mystery Movie". 90 minute programme. it consisted of 3 separate series if memory serves, on a rotation basis. "The Name of the Game" with Gene Barry - set in a newspaper, was one of the programmes in the series. I think MacMillan & Wife (Rock Hudson) was also in the loop....

I had a crush on Susan St James in that series. Wikipedia says that it rotated with Columbo and McCloud as well.

odyssey06 · 11-05-2020 08:42PM

Voltron: Defender of the Universe.

80s era Japanese-American cartoon series, about a squadron of pilots who command 5 robot lions which combine to form mighty robot Voltron.

Pawwed Rig · 11-05-2020 10:09PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Voltron: Defender of the Universe.

80s era Japanese-American cartoon series, about a squadron of pilots who command 5 robot lions which combine to form mighty robot Voltron.

Sounds like power rangers

Baseball72 · 12-05-2020 12:04AM

Arrest and Trial - with Ben Gazara. I think it may have been the first 90 minute series. Aired on TE Saturday nights in the mid '60's. First part of the programme was about the cops and the crime, the second part of the programme was the prosecution.

Hangdogroad · 12-05-2020 11:27AM

The Grimleys, late 90s sitcom set in the 70s (in Birmingham I think). Noddy Holder from Slade played a music teacher and Nigel Planer was the father of the main family featured . Found it entertaining enough at the time but not sure how it would hold up now. Most of the jokes were about 70s fashions/attitudes which have been done to death since. Don't think it's been repeated.

Skid X · 12-05-2020 12:50PM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

The Grimleys, late 90s sitcom set in the 70s (in Birmingham I think). Noddy Holder from Slade played a music teacher and Nigel Planer was the father of the main family featured . Found it entertaining enough at the time but not sure how it would hold up now. Most of the jokes were about 70s fashions/attitudes which have been done to death since. Don't think it's been repeated.

Yeah, I remember that one. Written by Jed Mercurio who later changed direction to write Line Of Duty and Bodyguard

As you said it was good back then but I've never felt the urge to track it down for another viewing.

odyssey06 · 12-05-2020 03:36PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Sounds like power rangers

In the joining up concept yes but actually the Voltron animation reminded me more of similar era Transformers.

Hangdogroad · 12-05-2020 04:30PM

Psychos, Channel 4 series from 1999 set in a Glasgow mental hospital. From what I remember of it involved a lot of scenes of doctors getting off their faces on drugs, going to raves and screwing each other and their patients.Think it was riding on that post Trainspotting wave where Scottishness was hip. It only lasted one series, would be curious too see it again.

12-05-2020 10:58PM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Psychos, Channel 4 series from 1999 set in a Glasgow mental hospital. From what I remember of it involved a lot of scenes of doctors getting off their faces on drugs, going to raves and screwing each other and their patients.Think it was riding on that post Trainspotting wave where Scottishness was hip. It only lasted one series, would be curious too see it again.

All episodes of Psycho are on YouTube - here.

The Cops (BBC 1998-2001) is another underrated show that lots of people don't remember. All 24 episodes from the three series on YouTube as well but in 15 minute parts so a lot of searching needed - sometimes it'll line up the next part, other times it won't.

Maxx355 · 15-05-2020 12:48PM

The Old Grey Whistle Test

its_steve116 · 03-06-2020 07:23PM

Maxx355 wrote: »

The Old Grey Whistle Test

Top of the Pops' "cooler" little brother.

branie2 · 03-06-2020 07:38PM

Robin of Sherwood, theme music by Clannad

Amberjack · 03-06-2020 08:03PM

Eerie Indiana 1991-1992 only ran for one series.
I quite enjoyed it

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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