Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Rob Brydon did a series on ITV in 2004 called 'Directors Commentary' which I thought was very funny but it seemed to be forgotten as soon as it was broadcast

It was a pisstake of DVD Directors Commentaries, he does made up Commmentaries on old TV shows in the voice of Peter De Lane

DVDs are pretty much gone now so it was a pisstake of a genre that disappeared soon afterwards. The DVD of Directors Commentary has a Directors Commentary on the show, naturally !


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Commentary

Here's one I liked but I'd imagine a lot wouldn't remember
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer. Early 80s.

I named a cat after one of the characters.

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Making The Cut, RTE crime series with Sean McGinley that was shown in 1998 or 99. The setting was a bit vague, it was an Irish city that wasn't Dublin or Cork but not sure if it was specified where exactly it was. Could have been Galway or Waterford. It came back for a second series under the name DDU

RTE Guide feature on MTC, it was first shown October 97

Tony EH wrote: »

I don't think that I'll ever be able to see Sean McGinley as anyone but Charlo. :pac:

In my case, the priest from The Field

There was a Canadian mini series which RTE showed at a kind of odd slot circa 1990/91. Maybe early on a Sunday morning? Odd because I remember it had liberal use of the F bomb and some adult themes. I can't remember what it was called but it wasn't Degrassi Junior High. All I can recall was that it was set in a small town and focused on a group of Inuit or Red Indian teenagers, a group of them drowned when they drunkenly drove a car on a frozen lake and it went through the ice.

It wasn't Conspiracy Of Silence either (TV movie from 1991) .

Hangdogroad wrote: »

There was a Canadian mini series which RTE showed at a kind of odd slot circa 1990/91. Maybe early on a Sunday morning? Odd because I remember it had liberal use of the F bomb and some adult themes. I can't remember what it was called but it wasn't Degrassi Junior High. All I can recall was that it was set in a small town and focused on a group of Inuit or Red Indian teenagers, a group of them drowned when they drunkenly drove a car on a frozen lake and it went through the ice.

It wasn't Conspiracy Of Silence either (TV movie from 1991) .

North of 60?
Spirit Bay?
FOUR Directions?

The BBC Genome project is a great resource for tracking down old BBC programmes you might remember.

One that I can recall vividly is a documentary series called "The British Empire"
which ran on BBC1 in the early 70's.

Lest you think it was a series that commemorated the glories of empire,it was actually quite the opposite. One scene recreated involved a punishment carried out by the army in India (possibly, my memory of the location is vague) where a miscreant was tied to the front of a field gun and dispatched.

To say it didn't go down well with certain sections of British society is an understatement, questions in parliament, etc.

This isn't a series I remember but a couple of years ago I was half watching an interview on the telly with Colm Meany and a black and white clip was shown of him in some RTE drama that looked like it dated from the early 70's. In it he was breaking into a car and had a kind of teddy boy image, I missed the name of it. does it ring a bell with anyone?

The Burke Enigma also explored the association of political parties and organised crime.

It was shot on film with high production values and must still exist in the archives.

It's never been shown since.

cml387 wrote: »

The Burke Enigma also explored the association of political parties and organised crime.

It was shot on film with high production values and must still exist in the archives.

It's never been shown since.

There's a very short clip from it on this 2002 RTE documentary so it exists all right.

The Fatheads, a comedy Paul Tylak and Joe Rooney did on Network 2 in the early 90's (91 or 92). I only caught a bit of one episode. They had these kind of exaggerated teddy boy type quiffs. I can't remember much about it but I think they were living together in a house or flat.

Does anyone remember Sexton Blake And The Demon God? BBC series shown on RTE in 1979. No footage online alas.

B.J. And The Bear, about a truckdriver with a chimp for a buddy. RTE also reran Me And The Chimp which was an earlier show about a guy with a chimp co star. I had the two mixed up in my head for years.

madmaggie wrote: »

An awful programme called Play The Game. It was based on charades.

It was hugely popular and must have ran for over a decade. Surprised to find that all there is of it online is one short clip of under a minute, and that just seems to be because some obscure comedian who was on it put it up (not David Kelly, the guy who comes on at the end).They had an awful lot of panto/variety types for guests, I remember not having a clue who half of them were.

Talkabout wasn't original either

branie2 wrote: »

Talkabout wasn't original either

They had an even more less impressive pool of contestants that Play The Game. The people who appeared on it were not random punters from what I recall but dull as dishwater small town business people, local "pillar of the community" folk and minor regional showbiz types. At least Play The Game had Derek Davis and the occasional entertaining guest.

fryup wrote: »

what was that pop video show on rte that replaced mt usa?...it featured vox pops from the public before each video?

late 80's me thinks

Video Gaga?

fryup wrote: »

no, you're thinking of TV gaga



no that was sunday mornings.....the programme i'm thinking of was broadcast on rte2 midweek late at night

Electric Orange

Foxtrotter wrote: »

Little before my time, but I really like some of the old episodes of What's My Line. some really funny ones on Youtube.

the US one has some good celebs, people you would not expect to be on like salvador dali



Sean Connery puts on a voice to stop being recognized