Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Hotblack Desiato · 21-11-2025 03:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124005043#Comment_124005043

Whoever wrote those mail filters didn't understand it

LambshankRedemption · 21-11-2025 03:18AM

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Oh yes totally!

Sorry I thought you were criticizing my knowledge of base64.

The company was a cheap as chips kind of place. To describe it as the Ryanair or Supermacs of hosting companies would be an insult to Ryanair or Micky D's. I know the guy who wrote the filter. Smug, arrogant and frankly unpleasant to work with.

Anyway, thats off topic and thankfully in the past.

Charlo30 · 22-11-2025 10:45AM

Yesterday on Talking Pictures I came across a British sitcom called For the Love of Ida. Its about 2 eardley people who fall in love with each other. It was made by ITV in the early 70's. It would have been a bit before my time but even so, I'd never heard of it. A show very much of its time but I still found it enjoyable.

cml387 · 25-11-2025 05:50PM

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The original idea was that the franchises would all compete to supply programmes to the network. It never really worked out that way because the big ones Associated Rediffusion, ABC Granada and ATV had the advertising revenue to pay for better programmes.

ATV was interesting in that Lew Grade wanted to sell to the American market so he made a lot of programmes on film and in colour to overcome the conversion problems.

Later on I think TVS specialised in children's programmes.

Now of course the regions have all gone and it's really just ITV (with Granada hanging on)

GoggleBosca · 22-03-2026 08:51PM

I thought more people would both like and remember The Girl From Tomorrow, but not even 100 people have pledged to buy the new sequel book. Maybe it's just lack of awareness?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/idiotboxbooks/the-girl-from-tomorrow/creator

brokenbad · 23-03-2026 03:26PM

Currently rewatching this series - just started Season 2. Still holds up well over 50 years later

Doctors room ghost · 23-03-2026 08:11PM

crazy like a fox

Highway to heaven

The Irish RM

To the manor born

Last of the summer wine

Hangdogroad · 23-03-2026 09:09PM

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I'd have been too young to see it when it was originally aired but I remember it well from when it was rerun on Network 2 in the late 80s.

Grassy Knoll · 23-03-2026 09:17PM

Slightly off topic, but does anyone remember Sports Stadium on RTE ? For the time it had great sports coverage - maybe racing, athletics, gymnastics, motor racing, tennis, golf, rugby when in season, English league matches, results round -up. Perhaps lacked the packaging of modern sports, but IMHO not at the loss for it.

Montage of Feck · 23-03-2026 09:31PM

Sky came along and killed off Saturday sports shows.

Grassy Knoll · 23-03-2026 09:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124335730#Comment_124335730

It sure did, progress they say ….

breezy1985 · 23-03-2026 10:03PM

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Just read this and 20 minutes later saw an ad for it saying its available on BBC Iplayer.

Never saw the show but was aware of it for a good few years now because I used live around the corner from the Island Cafe.

Ozymandius2011 · 23-03-2026 10:23PM

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It ran for a few series. I also remember Delilah, Jack Davenport's character's girlfriend. Andrew Lincoln's character had a British Asian wife or girlfriend, and Warren had a British Asian boyfriend. Anna, Daniella Nardini's character, saw different men but I think eventually may have settled down with Jack Davenport's character, whose name I forget. In the series, Anna also see's a co-worker casually. He feels upset that Anna then ignores him, but she tells him it was only casual.

thesandeman · 24-03-2026 08:58AM

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Yep, and Airs and Races on the radio. Just broadcast the races, play a bit of music and give the soccer results at the end. One man job. None of filler we have now.

Cyclingtourist · 24-03-2026 02:51PM

After Dark on Channel 4 in the 1980s and '90s.

List of After Dark editions - Wikipedia

It was a late-night open-ended TV discussion programme with no set end time. Each episode had a subject (feminism, anti-Semitism, etc) with the participants representing a wide range of opinion. The format as I remember was very relaxed with everyone lounging on couches. The Irish psychiatrist Antony Clare chaired a number of them.

Now we get 'reality tv' like 'I'm a stupid celebrity no one's heard of, get me out of here'.

Hotblack Desiato · 24-03-2026 07:45PM

Not so much relaxed as lubricated 😉

These days they'd be having conniptions that someone would say something defamatory or mention that member of the royal family who did that thing (allegedly)

Capt'n Midnight · 16-05-2026 01:09PM

Space 1999 was British - Italian

The British - German one was https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzIjl-RsZKvB_KT9ermACHW1Oe2MNKEJ

https://archive.org/details/star-maidens-complete-series-1976

its_steve116 · 16-05-2026 01:53PM

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Would be interesting if they brought it back.

Capt'n Midnight · 19-05-2026 10:16PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfhogdNhioo&list=PLiZCl6XIGf-g3cZamxy4mXz-Ca16YeWL5&index=2

Jason of Star Command

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078631/ Trivia James Doohan left the series to star in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

Made by Filmation so you'll recognise the sounds.

Hangdogroad · 12-06-2026 09:24AM

Can't remember if this has already been mentioned. Chances, an Aussie soap from the early 90s, though calling it a soap is probably akin to calling the Prisoner a spy thriller. It was shown on Sky One who heavily hyped it as an "adult soap". It had some mild nudity but I think the main thing about it was that it was absolutely Bath!t insane. It started out about a family winning the lottery then somehow along the way turned into a science fiction, horror thing.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101059/

odyssey06 · 12-06-2026 01:55PM

Rome seems to be fading from memory, doesn't seem to get repeated.
What a cast… Ciaran Hinds, Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson (RIP), James Purefoy, Kerry Condon.

Was just reading an article about dramatizations of Ancient Rome on screen and it wasn't mentioned. It is always "I Claudius" that gets mentioned - which was an excellent series though you have to be forgiving of the staginess and dodgy aging.

head82 · 12-06-2026 04:46PM

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I remember 'ROME'. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago now. It was a very enjoyable episodic show.. no binge watching back then. Haven't seen it since original airing (although I have the series on DVD). I must dig it out as it's definitely worthy of a rewatch.

Despite the respectable budget and noteworthy cast, it felt like it was lacking in scale or just that element of 'spectacular' as most would expect from a Rome based show featuring gladiators, arenas etc.. I seem to remember it focusing more on the drama rather than the 'blood 'n guts' action that's typically associated with the time period.

Considering 'Gladiator' had come out a few years earlier, peoples expectations might have been higher and it just didn't receive the acclaim it deserved.

Time for a reassessment..

Isthisthingon? · 12-06-2026 04:57PM

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I do remember it. Was a late night ' adult ' soap alright, but by todays standards very tame. Yes the plot centred around an average joe winning the lottery and his family dealing with the new found wealth. Seam to recall either a son or a nephew played a rascal/ rogue character - who ( trivia fans) played a similarish roll in Disneys The artful dodger series if anyone is watching that. Anywho - like you say the plots went mental and the main protagonist lottery winner was hastily given a back seat plot wise. Didnt watch it much after the first few episodes. Think it even got the grave yard slot on sky

Hotblack Desiato · 12-06-2026 10:50PM

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Shur them Aussies were up to all sorts on TV in the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_96_%28TV_series%29

Never screened on UK TV, far too racy

Fathom · 13-06-2026 12:29AM

Boston Legal

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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