Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Salvage-1, shown on ITV on Saturday mornings in the 1980s. Starring Andy Griffith as a junkyard owner who dreamed of building his own rocket to salvage the abandoned space junk on the moon. I think they actually reached the moon once in the whole two series.

I think that's fondly remembered… the theme song I can recall more than anything!

And the book covers I think re-used stills from the series, the height of 1980s fashion :)

There have been some somewhat sanitised more recent versions on the CBBC I think.

Also Knights Of God (1987), thought I didn't see it at the time, only way to see it now is via off air recordings on YouTube.

The actress who played George popped on one of those forgettable miniseries dramas on VM recently.

As a kid, Jossy's Giants, Murphy's Mob, Mork & Mindy, The Goodies & Swap Shop.

As a teenager, Thirtysomething was a more serious version of Friends. Blind Date on a Saturday evening "What's your name and where do you come from?"

And MT USA on a Sunday afternoon after "The Big Match" hoping that they might play a video by The Smiths or Lloyd Cole instead of just Cindy Lauper or Whitney Houston!

There's another British actress called Michelle Gallagher who's often confused with the actress who played George. The latter apparently didn't do any more acting after the Famous Five. She died in 2000 or 2001, online details are sketchy.

Edit: just spotted odyssey06s post. I'm talking about the late 70s series.

Yes, and they had plans to make this as well, but balked at the costs.

3 series i remember was "Children of the Stones" Against the Wind and Blakes 7

Our friend Eoghan got a serious hump with RTE when they ditched it after one series. I vaguely recall him complaining about the malign influence of Sinn Fein within RTE that got the series canned. Nothing to do with the God awful script, waffle thin plot and horrendous acting.

Was the beach one called Times The Tide?

Then there was Bosco The Animated Series. Thats almost completely forgotten. It was shown separately to the main Bosco show, the animation was by Aidan Hickey who also did the MacSpuds and possibly some of the other inserts. Think there was just one series, 85 or 86

It was kind of strange because it seemed to exist in a totally different universe to the regular Bosco show. Think he was living in a castle or big house.

One thing I notice is that RTE would not necessarily show TV series (especially American ones) in the sequence of their showing in the US.

One example I find is that "The Paper Chase" restarted on RTE in June 1984 with an episode called "Plague of Locusts". Next week the 03 July they showed "Outline Fever" which actually was the first of the seasons and set up some plot changes that would run through the new season. It must have been confusing for Irish viewers. Was this just carelessness on RTE's part?