Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

odyssey06 · 10-01-2019 9:37pm

Reilly Ace of Spies.
An early 80s ITV miniseries starring Sam Neill as a spy in pre-World War 1 Europe, the story continues into the purges of the early days of the USSR.
Based on the real like story of a Russian emigre who worked for British intelligence and pretended to be of Irish ancestry.
Supporting roles filled by the likes of David Suchet, Leo McKern, Bill Nighy, Joanna Whalley, Ian Charleson, John Rhys-Davies, Alfred Molina.

odyssey06 · 10-01-2019 9:48pm

Mentioning Leo McKern in previous post, I'm not sure how many people still remember Rumpole of the Bailey?
I don't see it repeated on digital channels unlike say Minder.

A delightful show, the court cases were just a 'McGuffin' for Rumpole's observations of human nature.

Speedsie · 10-01-2019 10:07pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Mentioning Leo McKern in previous post, I'm not sure how many people still remember Rumpole of the Bailey?
I don't see it repeated on digital channels unlike say Minder.

A delightful show, the court cases were just a 'McGuffin' for Rumpole's observations of human nature.

Ah yes, and 'she who must be obeyed', must see if there's anything Rumpole on YouTube! Not seen it since the 80s.

Spon Farmer · 10-01-2019 10:30pm

bubblypop wrote: »

I used to love 'monkey ' or 'monkey magic'
Can't even remember the name!!
No one remembers it, I think it was Japanese. I loved it so much when I was a kid! Late 70s or early 80s!

Was that Sky in the company’s very early days?

Or was it the Super Channel with Captain Power?

Spon Farmer · 10-01-2019 10:33pm

The Crowman wrote: »

I can't say I liked it, in fact I found those glassy eyed puppets kind of unsettling, but no one else of my own age seems to remember Bailebeag. There's no footage online just some stills.

I have a vague recollection of this but no idea what the stories used to be.

Speedsie · 10-01-2019 10:41pm

Spon Farmer wrote: »

Was that Sky in the company’s very early days?

Or was it the Super Channel with Captain Power?

Pretty sure Monkey was on TV in the pre sky (or BSkyB!) days!

Think it was the late 70s early 80s.

Never had Super channel, but I remember Monkey when I was in primary school.

DBB · 10-01-2019 10:42pm

washiskin wrote: »

The Phoenix &The Carpet

Holy moly

I loved that show. I'd forgotten about it til now!

Also loved the Gemini Man with his oh-so-cool beepy digital watch

Blake's 7 was another favourite.

foxy farmer · 10-01-2019 11:14pm

RTE had a short series back in the 80s RTE1 Monday night 8.00 called High Performance. I only remember it for Lisa Hartman starred in it. Only ran for a few episodes.
Stunt driver and family (i think)gets hired by government to tackle difficult situations . Here's the theme tune.

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

NewbridgeIR · 10-01-2019 11:54pm

Speedsie wrote: »

Ah yes, and 'she who must be obeyed', must see if there's anything Rumpole on YouTube! Not seen it since the 80s.

The DVD set is generally found in sales although the original Play For Today, Confession Of Guilt has to be purchased separately. Great insight into the legal profession.
Phyllida (Trant) Erskine-Brown was brilliant.

NewbridgeIR · 10-01-2019 11:58pm

storker wrote: »

"A stage and a wagon a-headin' west, part of a wagon train lost from the rest."

That brings back memories.

Others that stick in my head are "Children of the Stones" which was pretty scary for a kids' programme, and "The Feathered Serpent" which I think was about plotting and skulduggery in the Aztec Empire before Europeans arrived - also a kids programme.

Also, "Quiet as a Nun" a very frightening part of a series called "Armchair Thriller", the opening credits of which were scary enough in themselves, if I remember correctly.

1970s children's television (particularly the ITV stuff) was much deeper and scarier than now. I saw Children Of The Stones on HTV. Teatime at my friend's house. Very powerful. The Feathered Serpent was enjoyable too.

Armchair Thriller was very effective; RTE showed it in the early 80s. Patsy Kensit was in Quiet As A Nun while my favourite stories were The Limbo Connection [convalescent home, sinister] and the downright nasty A Dog's Ransom.

NewbridgeIR · 11-01-2019 12:01am

washiskin wrote: »

The Clifton House Mystery

The Phoenix &The Carpet

Scary!

Saw Clifton House Mystery again with my kids. They loved it.
The Phoenix & The Carpet is sadly BBC so no DVD yet. They're slow to get their finger out. Gary Russell (Dick in the Famous Five) is in it.

J Mysterio · 11-01-2019 12:03am

I used to love 'Switched', which was about American kids swapping families for a period to experience other peoples lives. It was always super interesting and very heartwarming.

I'd buy the boxset if it could be got.

Technocentral · 11-01-2019 12:07am

Saphire and Steele, UTV 5ish pm in the early 80s. Scary and brilliant.

https://youtu.be/_gjHmEUiaxo

Zaph · 11-01-2019 12:12am

Spon Farmer wrote: »

Was that Sky in the company’s very early days?

Or was it the Super Channel with Captain Power?

Monkey was on BBC (BBC2 specifically iirc) around 1978/79.

Wheety · 11-01-2019 12:13am

Spent many a night watching crap on tv when everyone else went to bed.

Night Stand With Dick Dietrick - Spoof of Jerry Springer et al

Herman's Head - Like the numbskulls in The Beano and Inside Out (Pixar movie)

Dream On - Guy who imagined his daily interactions as parts from tv shows

Also, Round the Twist - Australian comedy with some strange goings on

jbt123 · 11-01-2019 12:15am

Man in a suitcase

Randall & Hopkirk (deceased)

Cannon

The Prisoner

Gen.Zhukov · 11-01-2019 12:18am

UFO

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

Carlos Orange · 11-01-2019 12:20am

rubadub wrote: »

I would think plenty would remember it, and judging by your thanks plenty did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SUoHmpRdM

I very vaguely remember it but at this stage I might be just remembering remembering it. The video doesn't ring any bells so I must have be very young when I watched it. So young that I'm surprised I was watching something with hour long episodes.

mistersifter · 11-01-2019 1:01am

Manimal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugb_TIpPoWA

and the even lesser known GEMINI MAN.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWLDa5DnpQ

Also Land of the Giants and Time tunnel.

madmaggie · 11-01-2019 1:32am

I'm trying to remember a children's programme, the intro showed a clock showing 13 o'clock. The intro song said "midnight is not a moment, midnight is a place". Very dark indeed!

Phibsboro · 11-01-2019 1:43am

Showing my age, but I loved the original The Tomorrow People, I ate up anything sci fi as a kid (also another +1 for Children of The Stones, just hearing that creepy voice music again gave me the shivers!)

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

nlrkjos · 11-01-2019 1:51am

The railway Children!

Ursus Horribilis · 11-01-2019 1:51am

They made some seriously creepy kids TV programmes in the 70s and 80s.

The Nargun and the Stars (Aussie show) scared the bejesus out of me

as did Into the Labyrinth starring Ron Moody.

Spon Farmer · 11-01-2019 5:20am

Zaph wrote: »

Monkey was on BBC (BBC2 specifically iirc) around 1978/79.

I know it was a show fro the 70's but I saw it much later and it definitely wasn't on the BBC because there were ad breaks. I can remember that for other reasons

Spon Farmer · 11-01-2019 5:26am

Speedsie wrote: »

Pretty sure Monkey was on TV in the pre sky (or BSkyB!) days!

Think it was the late 70s early 80s.

Never had Super channel, but I remember Monkey when I was in primary school.

I saw it on a later run.

Sky started out as a lone channel I recall. I thought it was a rebranding of the super channel.

igCorcaigh · 11-01-2019 5:28am

321 Contact, and How.

I was a sciencey kind of kid.

Spon Farmer · 11-01-2019 5:32am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

321 Contact, and How.

I was a sciencey kind of kid.

Now that part of the song will be my head for yonks. :P

No one on the thread is doing very well in regards the "no now else remembers" bit.

Spon Farmer · 11-01-2019 5:51am

bobbyss wrote: »

Daktari Daktari Daktira !!!

I remember that one. Born Free type of show - American family running a wildlife reserve in Africa, they had a lion who was cross-eyed or something.

Gemini Man and Manimal have been mentioned. I loved those.

Around the same time David McCallum was doing The Invisible Man. His character was invisible and couldn't return to normal. He wore synthetic skin so he could be seen and used to pull off his arms and face when in danger or on a mission.

Mystery Island. The heroes are trapped on the island of villain plotting world conquest. The robot from Lost in Space was in it - but slightly modified. I think it was a part of Scratch Saturday

The Crowman · 11-01-2019 9:12am

This was kind of a program within a program but anyone remember a short cartoon called Egghead? I think he might have been part of Scratch Saturday, the whole premise of it was he was bald, and that's about all I can remember although I'm sure there was more to it than that.

odyssey06 · 11-01-2019 9:25am

mistersifter wrote: »

Manimal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugb_TIpPoWA

Manimal... that reminds me of show from similar era The Misfits of Science.

I think neither show lasted long after bring starts.
Probably so expensive would have been better to do occasional once off TV movies.

storker · 11-01-2019 10:02am

Roobarb & Custard

Possibly the best theme tune of any kids' TV programme.

mistersifter · 11-01-2019 11:46am

Spon Farmer wrote: »

Around the same time David McCallum was doing The Invisible Man.

The Invisible Man is a good shout. I used to watch repeats of it in the 80s as a kid :cool:

around this time I also used to watch repeats of the short-lived series THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN. Absolutely loved this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrwMyQ3_7P8

the heathen · 11-01-2019 12:00pm

mistersifter wrote: »

around this time I also used to watch repeats of the short-lived series THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN. Absolutely loved this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrwMyQ3_7P8

Watched a little of one of these episodes on youtube recently. The only thing amazing is how bad it looks today and just how much our fertile little minds used to fill in the blanks for ourselves.

ShaneOC · 11-01-2019 12:01pm

Bring em Back Alive

https://youtu.be/KzGc-w0Pqag

TheBoyConor · 11-01-2019 12:28pm

Penpal was some show where people would write in letters or something. But now maybe i think I'm confusing the name of it with some other thing. I think it was actually called Mailbag. The guy doing it was Arthur Murphy.

But I kinda think Penpal was a thing too. Maybe it was a slot on that show. Can anyone remember it better than me??

Also another one that I used really like when I small was Rimini Riddle. It used be on Saturday mornings. I loved it. It had weird foam puppets and it was these kids whose parents had died in a drowning accident and they went to live with their aunt Vera. There was these mystical things going on and then the aunt shacked up with this Mr Comiskey guy who was suave but was really just a player out to get his hands or her money.
I thought it was great but some people say they were creeped out by the puppets. One person said before that the way they were made made them all look like they had fetal alcohol syndrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj83EfAuAos

Taxedalot · 11-01-2019 1:28pm

The Ghosts of Motley Hall was a favourite of mine.

And Rentaghost.

Technocentral · 11-01-2019 1:43pm

Space 1999 was my number 1 favourite TV show as a Sci Fi loving kid, even more so than Star Trek OS.
Especialy loved the Eagle ships.

The Crowman · 11-01-2019 6:16pm

TheBoyConor wrote: »

Penpal was some show where people would write in letters or something. But now maybe i think I'm confusing the name of it with some other thing. I think it was actually called Mailbag. The guy doing it was Arthur Murphy.

But I kinda think Penpal was a thing too. Maybe it was a slot on that show. Can anyone remember it better than me??

Also another one that I used really like when I small was Rimini Riddle. It used be on Saturday mornings. I loved it. It had weird foam puppets and it was these kids whose parents had died in a drowning accident and they went to live with their aunt Vera. There was these mystical things going on and then the aunt shacked up with this Mr Comiskey guy who was suave but was really just a player out to get his hands or her money.
I thought it was great but some people say they were creeped out by the puppets. One person said before that the way they were made made them all look like they had fetal alcohol syndrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj83EfAuAos

Mailbag was the show with Arthur Murphy all right, it was for people to write in about RTE programmes, mainly to complain. You always had some oul biddy giving out about too much flesh being shown on the cover of the RTE Guide. Think it ran from 83 or 84 to early 90's.

rubadub · 11-01-2019 6:25pm

Taxedalot wrote: »

And Rentaghost.

Audrey (Sue Nicholls) from coronation street is still "yer one from rentaghost" in my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8vHj0t2cjE

Amalgam · 12-01-2019 10:21am

Gen.Zhukov wrote: »

UFO

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

Just as an aside, that's Nick Drake (Wikipedia)'s sister, Gabrielle Drake (Wikipedia).

I had, 'troubling thoughts', about her, as a kid, I'd have bought her sweets..

morphman · 12-01-2019 10:52am

H r puff n stuff

its_steve116 · 12-01-2019 2:02pm

storker wrote: »

Roobarb & Custard

Possibly the best theme tune of any kids' TV programme.

A lot of people think the show was called "Roobarb & Custard" but it was just "Roobarb".

branie2 · 12-01-2019 2:10pm

Castaway, a 1970s series about a group of people in the 19th century stranded on an island after a hurricane

whomitconcerns · 12-01-2019 2:14pm

gipi wrote: »

My other half remembers Torchy the battery boy....now this is going way back! Nobody else has ever remembered it when he mentions it.

You don't mean Jamie and his magic torch?

Edit: nope you didn't I see the other one now.

Round the bend was a fav of mine.

Hated Dilín Ó Deamhas.. On rte.. To much like school

branie2 · 12-01-2019 2:30pm

A.D. A religious drama series based on the Acts of the Apostles, made in 1985.

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 5:38pm

Our Friends in the North was a very good drama series with Daniel Craig and Christopher Eccleston. No one ever seems to remember it when i mention it.

And Id like to watch it again but I remember Jake's Progress was good.

Skid X · 12-01-2019 10:47pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

Our Friends in the North was a very good drama series with Daniel Craig and Christopher Eccleston. No one ever seems to remember it when i mention it.

And Id like to watch it again but I remember Jake's Progress was good.

Two excellent shows

Our Friends In The North seems to be better remembered by critics than than the public for some reason (even though it has Doctor Who and James Bond in it together)

12-01-2019 10:56pm

kjbsrah1 wrote: »

Dusty’s Trail. It used to be on RTÉ on Saturday mornings. Used to love it.

Yes great show. Was shown on one of the TV stations in the last year.

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Apple's Way.

Holmes and Yoyo.

Me and the chimp ( I always wanted a pet monkey after watching it.)

The Electric Company -like Sesame Street but less animation.

Electric company was good.

Anyone remember The Swiss Family Robinson shown on TV late 70s.

salmocab · 12-01-2019 11:00pm

Technocentral wrote: »

Space 1999 was my number 1 favourite TV show as a Sci Fi loving kid, even more so than Star Trek OS.
Especialy loved the Eagle ships.

I was in college in 1999 and one of the lads got the class hooked on that, presumably it was shown again purely because of the year it was.

NewbridgeIR · 13-01-2019 12:10am

Lorelli! wrote: »

Our Friends in the North was a very good drama series with Daniel Craig and Christopher Eccleston. No one ever seems to remember it when i mention it.

And Id like to watch it again but I remember Jake's Progress was good.

Our Friends In The North is top class. Great use of Don't Look Back In Anger.

Jake's Progress is decent, although not watched it in about 12/13 days.

Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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