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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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    #1952
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,903 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    salmocab wrote: »
    Just on Aussie TV I recently rewatched anzacs it’s on YouTube. Very enjoyable world war 1 drama following men from when they enlist to getting home through Gallipoli, France and Belgium. Also shows some of the political carry on both in Australia and England. 5 episodes each over an hour long so well fleshed out. Paul hogan plays one of the main characters.

    The Aussies did some epic mini-series in the 80s.
    I have hazy flashes of...
    Return To Eden
    A Town Like Alice
    The Heroes
    Under Capricorn
    Bodyline

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



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    #1953
    Purgative
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    Anyone remember Twizzle. It was pretty meh as 60s TV went but the idea has stuck with me. So much so that if something was too high to reach or a ball was just too far to catch, I'd say "Who dya think I am Twizzle?", which would invariably produce the response "Who the F is Twizzle?"




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    #1954
    NewbridgeIR
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The Aussies did some epic mini-series in the 80s.
    I have hazy flashes of...
    Return To Eden
    A Town Like Alice
    The Heroes
    Under Capricorn
    Bodyline

    Return To Eden was great fun. A three part mini series and then a full 22 episode series the year after.


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    #1955
    Hangdogroad
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The Aussies did some epic mini-series in the 80s.
    I have hazy flashes of...
    Return To Eden
    A Town Like Alice
    The Heroes
    Under Capricorn
    Bodyline

    A few more.
    The Dirtwater Dynasty.
    Vietnam.
    Fields Of Fire.
    The Cowra Breakout.
    Brides Of Christ (starred Brenda Fricker)


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    #1956
    Purgative
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    These were two of my favs which both used to creep me out a bit.







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    #1957
    AndrewJRenko
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The Aussies did some epic mini-series in the 80s.
    I have hazy flashes of...
    Return To Eden
    A Town Like Alice
    The Heroes
    Under Capricorn
    Bodyline

    They're still at it and RTE have been picking them up again. 'The Secrets She Keeps' was fairly good, and they've something on now about bridesmaids.


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    #1958
    [Deleted User]
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    Tarrant on TV, a show where Chris Tarrant would show funny and hard hitting adverts from around the world


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    #1959
    the purple tin
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Tarrant on TV, a show where Chris Tarrant would show funny and hard hitting adverts from around the world
    Remember every week he would show clips from this Japanese endurance contest? It was considered quite extreme at the time but looking back now I'm A Celebrity makes it look tame in comparison.


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    #1960
    Nigel Fairservice
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Remember every week he would show clips from this Japanese endurance contest? It was considered quite extreme at the time but looking back now I'm A Celebrity makes it look tame in comparison.

    Were they clips from Takeshi’s Castle?


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    #1961
    the purple tin
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    Nigel Fairservice wrote: »
    Were they clips from Takeshi’s Castle?
    No I think it was like an early version of I'm A Celeb. The contestants would have to do challenges with insects and snakes and things. I don't think they did bushtucker trials like actually eating things though.

    They might have shown clips of Takeshi too. I can't be sure.


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    #1962
    Skid X
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Tarrant on TV, a show where Chris Tarrant would show funny and hard hitting adverts from around the world

    Yeah, that was a good one. Before the internet was a thing, it showed adverts and clips from Television shows you would never see anywhere else

    Cilve James presented the show before Tarrant

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...on_Television


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    #1963
    smilerf
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    As a horny teen I remember watching Eurotrash and some other adult programme which involved a court ala judge judy


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    #1964
    cml387
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    Good story I heard on BBC Radio 2 this weekend.

    Alison Grade was a pupil at a boarding school in the UK during the early eighties.
    They had a computer lab, and one of the girls discovered that one of the PC's was also a TV.
    They gathered to watch a new Australian soap then shown at lunchtime on BBC 1, which grew to a large midday viewership in the school as word got round.

    Alison told her dad about the popularity of the programme. He happened to be Michael Grade, then head of BBC 1 and realised that repeating the programme in the early evening would bring in more young viewers.

    So "Neighbours" was repeated in the early evening.. which gained a viwership larger than the population of Australia, and led to Jason Donovan and of course Kylie Minogue.


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    #1965
    Purgative
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    Always enjoyed some the old cop shows








    and the earlier ones of






    One of actors from the Bill used to drink in wife's uncle's pub - he was like a leach trying to talk to people " Hello I'm PC XXXXX in the Bill" - never saw him do anything else.


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    #1966
    NewbridgeIR
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    Purgative wrote: »
    Always enjoyed some the old cop shows


    There were three volumes of 1970s Dixon of Dock Green released on DVD over the last few years. All the surviving colour episodes ending with the 1976 series. Pretty grim stuff, downbeat, unhappy endings and miles away from the cosy image it sometimes seems to have. Great footage of long-gone London docklands too.

    Z-Cars very entertaining too

    Love The Bill. Started as a 50 minute programme for three series, then went to 25 minutes episodes in late 80s (loads of them) and back to 50 minutes later in the 90s. Seriously good in the early years.


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    #1967
    It BeeMee
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    Purgative wrote: »
    Always enjoyed some the old cop shows

    Vague memories of this Car 54 Where are You

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MkCAwupe0


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    #1968
    ShyMets
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    At the weekend I finished watching The Devils Crown. Late 70's BBC mini series charting the lives of Henry II and his two sons Richard the Lionheart and John.

    Just to note it was made during a time of economic turmoil in the UK and the BBC was effectively broke, so the production values are at times a little patchy.

    But overall very enjoyable. Stars a young Brian Cox as Henry II


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    #1969
    cml387
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    ShyMets wrote: »
    At the weekend I finished watching The Devils Crown. Late 70's BBC mini series charting the lives of Henry II and his two sons Richard the Lionheart and John.

    Just to note it was made during a time of economic turmoil in the UK and the BBC was effectively broke, so the production values are at times a little patchy.

    But overall very enjoyable. Stars a young Brian Cox as Henry II

    Remember that it was still the norm to have studio-bound drama in the 1970's.
    Nowadays the audience woudn't stand for it but it's rather a pity that they are not made any more. There was great skill involved in directing up to five cameras, all of which had each track and shot planned and executed faultlessly.
    Think of I, Claudius as an example.


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    #1970
    Purgative
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    I'd forgotten I Clavdivs. Great story, great acting.


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    #1971
    cml387
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    If you are a nerd for old television, watch this affectionate send up of the techniques of TV drama in the old days from Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfiled in their spoof documentary "The Story Of The Twos"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw6i8Q-WgIo


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    #1972
    ShyMets
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    Dempsey and Makepeace. I'm just going to throw it out there but Glynis Barber was very easy on the eye


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    #1973
    Purgative
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    Always watched this in the year oh dot







    Little while back, met someone I used to work with ages ago, she said "All the girls thought you looked like Like Collins."


    I said "Now you tell me, now - although I probably do now (RIP)"


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    #1974
    bottlebrush
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    Purgative wrote: »
    Always watched this in the year oh dot







    Little while back, met someone I used to work with ages ago, she said "All the girls thought you looked like Like Collins."


    I said "Now you tell me, now - although I probably do now (RIP)"

    Lewis collins was absolutely gorgeous.


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    #1975
    Purgative
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    bottlebrush wrote: »
    Lewis collins was absolutely gorgeous.


    Sadly not anymore.


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    #1976
    donegal_man
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    ShyMets wrote: »
    Dempsey and Makepeace... Glynis Barber was very easy on the eye

    Still is. In my humble yet accurate opinion

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    #1977
    spurious
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    ShyMets wrote: »
    Dempsey and Makepeace. I'm just going to throw it out there but Glynis Barber was very easy on the eye

    I saw that on some station recently while channel-hopping, so someone is still showing it.


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    #1978
    Hangdogroad
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    RTE showed a drama (not sure if it was a mini series or one off) called Raic in 1985. It was mostly in Irish and set in the West of Ireland during the Emergency. Anyway the only bit about it that really sticks in my mind was the opening scene where a German mine is washed up on the shore and the locals, who dont seem to know what it is, all gather around and start rolling it up the beach. You see a close up of one of those spike things on the mine as it touches the ground and theres a massive explosion. Next you see body parts all strewn all over the beach and an old woman who's still alive screaming.


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    #1979
    Purgative
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    Hangdogroad that does intrigue me.


    Sadly couldn't find it on RTE player and IMDB has rather scant details.


    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1890514/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1


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    #1980
    Gorteen
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    All seen on our one channel black and white TV

    US cowboy programmes were a big hit in the 1970's in our house
    The High Chaparral
    Bonanza
    Alias Smith and Jones

    Irish programmes
    The Riordans
    Halls Pictorial Weekly
    The Spike (until it was taken off the air amidst nude scene controversy)


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    #1981
    flazio
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    Mid to late 90s "High tech, spy tech" drama Bugs on the BBC on Saturday nights.


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