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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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  • #1892
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Paul Tylak played Ashti (a Kurdish refugee) in Fair City. He was appalling.


  • #1893
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Paul Tylak played Ashti (a Kurdish refugee) in Fair City. He was appalling.
    Wasn't he in the Foil Arms and Hog sketch learning to speak like a Dub as well?


  • #1894
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭cml387


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    It was quite realistic indeed, and didn't include all the usual same oul RTE faces iirc.

    Main newsreaders were asked to take part but declined I believe.


  • #1895
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    cml387 wrote: »
    Main newsreaders were asked to take part but declined I believe.

    I think the Producers said at the time that they deliberately didn't use RTE newsreaders, as the public would have panicked if they saw Anne Doyle or whoever talking about an explosion at Sellafield

    It didn't make much difference, the BBC News 24 journalists were enough to unsettle gullible viewers


  • #1896
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    What was that US cop series TG4 showed around 2001/2 that felt like an update of Miami Vice? Black guy and a white guy who drove around in a sports car . Had an attractive female boss. Also featured a grossly obese comic relief black guy who I think was their informant.


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  • #1897
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    What was that US cop series TG4 showed around 2001/2 that felt like an update of Miami Vice? Black guy and a white guy who drove around in a sports car . Had an attractive female boss. Also featured a grossly obese comic relief black guy who I think was their informant.
    Nash Bridges?
    That was Don Johnson and Cheech Marin in a convertible yellow muscle-car.
    nash-bridges.jpg


  • #1898
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Nash Bridges?
    That was Don Johnson and Cheech Marin in a convertible yellow muscle-car.
    nash-bridges.jpg

    No, the two guys were much younger and one of them was deffo black. TG4 used to run a promo for it that used Radioheads The National Anthem.


  • #1899
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    What was that US cop series TG4 showed around 2001/2 that felt like an update of Miami Vice? Black guy and a white guy who drove around in a sports car . Had an attractive female boss. Also featured a grossly obese comic relief black guy who I think was their informant.

    Fastlane? Was Saved by the Bell star Tiffani-Amber Thiessen the boss?
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320000/

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



  • #1900
    Hangdogroad
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Fastlane? Was Saved by the Bell star Tiffani-Amber Thiessen the boss?
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320000/

    Yes, that's the one!


  • #1901
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Mr Palfrey of Westminster, an ITV series from the 1980s.
    Similar territory to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the 'non action' episodes of Sandbaggers.

    Started out as a pilot in the 'Storyboard' series - of which Woodentop, the pilot for The Bill, was another entry.

    I thought the lead actor (Alec McCowen) was excellent, reminded me a little of Ian Holm in his delivery.
    He was usually pitted against quality character guest actors such as Tim Piggott Smith, Martin Jarvis, Julian Glover, Maurice Denham and our own Jim Norton.
    His boss was perhaps too closely modelled on Margaret Thatcher though.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=pbSah088Yic

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



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  • #1902
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Mr Palfrey of Westminster, an ITV series from the 1980s.
    Similar territory to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the 'non action' episodes of Sandbaggers.

    Started out as a pilot in the 'Storyboard' series - of which Woodentop, the pilot for The Bill, was another entry.

    I thought the lead actor (Alec McCowen) was excellent, reminded me a little of Ian Holm in his delivery.
    He was usually pitted against quality character guest actors such as Tim Piggott Smith, Martin Jarvis, Julian Glover, Maurice Denham and our own Jim Norton.
    His boss was perhaps too closely modelled on Margaret Thatcher though.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=pbSah088Yic

    Co-sign. Very enjoyable. I have the Network DVD set


  • #1903
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Dellaventura, a detective series starring Danny Aiello


  • #1904
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Young Indiana Jones.
    They had an episode where he got caught up in the Easter Rising.


  • #1905
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Young Indiana Jones.
    They had an episode where he got caught up in the Easter Rising.

    Wonderful adventure series.

    This is a great clip - Young Indy in a 'language duel' with guest star Elizabeth Hurley in 1916 London.

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



  • #1906
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭smilerf


    A Sunday morning show I used to like about a dad and his two sons running a diner
    Don't remember the name but there was a deadly blonde in it


  • #1907
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Trying to remember the name of a short lived UK series from circa 1990/91. It was about a female private investigator, she was in her 20s and very cute, used to dress in a kind of indie/alternative style. She had a deadbeat Irish boyfriend with long hair. I remember in particular one scene where shes in the loo in some public building and spots a guy peering over the cubicle, its heavily implied that he was having a w@nk as he runs off fumbling with his trousers.


  • #1908
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Trying to remember the name of a short lived UK series from circa 1990/91. It was about a female private investigator, she was in her 20s and very cute, used to dress in a kind of indie/alternative style. She had a deadbeat Irish boyfriend with long hair. I remember in particular one scene where shes in the loo in some public building and spots a guy peering over the cubicle, its heavily implied that he was having a w@nk as he runs off fumbling with his trousers.



    Was it Anna Lee (Or Anna Lee: Headcase, as the pilot episode was called) ?




  • #1909
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Skid X wrote: »
    Was it Anna Lee (Or Anna Lee: Headcase, as the pilot episode was called) ?



    Yes that's it!

    Imogen Stubbs, I remember now she used to wear some really sexy outfits in this and she subconsciously reminded me of Leslie Dowdal from In Tua Nua whom I fancied the pants off.


  • #1910
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭trashcan


    I have a bit of an obsession with The Fugitive. It's pretty hammy by today's standards, and David Jansen wasn't much of an actor, yet I find it strangely addictive. I've just discovered that it's all on YouTube too. Watched the finale last night. First time I'd ever seen it.

    They tried re-making the series a few years ago after the success of the film, but it didn't work. Great concept for a tv show, a formula they repeated pretty closely for The Incredible Hulk in the 80's.


  • #1911
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Skid X wrote: »
    Was it Anna Lee (Or Anna Lee: Headcase, as the pilot episode was called)

    And bonus points that your clip features Kate Beckinsale in a very early role!

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



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  • #1912
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Inspector Dalgleish ITV series starring Roy Marsden (also great in Sandbaggers) based on the PD James books.

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



  • #1913
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The Inspector Dalgleish ITV series starring Roy Marsden (also great in Sandbaggers) based on the PD James books.

    Some good stories especially The Black Tower and Death In Holy Orders.
    The Sandbaggers was brilliant; best spy series ever. D Ops and D Int and “C”


  • #1914
    Flaccus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Flaccus


    The Fantasic Journey in 1976 was my favorite show
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSGc3PsxfDc

    And Space 1999 of course
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SpX8bVEmJo


  • #1915
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Just rewatched Nowhere Man.
    Great show
    Can't believe it only got 1 season


  • #1916
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Some good stories especially The Black Tower and Death In Holy Orders.
    The Sandbaggers was brilliant; best spy series ever. D Ops and D Int and “C”

    Sandbaggers, there was a show that pulled no punches.

    I read that Channel 5 are planning adaptations of the Dalgleish stories.
    Curiously, ITV did most of the 1980s & 1990s adaptations.
    Then the rights shifted to BBC and Martin Shaw (The Professionals) stepped into the role. The stories were good but I couldn't warm to him at all, I don't know if that was because Marsden 'was the character' for me or if Shaw just wasn't great in the role.

    When my OH saw a clip of Shaw in The Professionals she couldn't believe it was the same guy.

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



  • #1917
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭cml387


    Ok, here's one.

    Forever Green.

    TV series from London Weekend starring that famous TV husband and wife Pauline Collins and John Alderton.
    RTE in the early nineties.
    That was it as far as John Alderton and TV series goes, he's done some small parts since on film and TV.
    Mentioned somehwere else that he was an awkward actor to deal with.


  • #1918
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    cml387 wrote: »
    Ok, here's one.
    Forever Green.
    TV series from London Weekend starring that famous TV husband and wife Pauline Collins and John Alderton.
    RTE in the early nineties.
    That was it as far as John Alderton and TV series goes, he's done some small parts since on film and TV.
    Mentioned somehwere else that he was an awkward actor to deal with.

    I remember that show alright.

    They were both also in Upstairs Downstairs and in the PG Wodehouse Playhouse anthology series playing different characters in each episode.

    Wondered what happened to him.

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



  • #1919
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Thomas & Sarah series too, also very good


  • #1920
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Into the Labyrinth, fantasy adventure series starring Ron Moody


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  • #1921
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I've heard good things about Special Branch, almost like a domestic version of Sandbaggers.
    Any opinions on it?

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



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