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

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124005137#Comment_124005137

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)

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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