Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Skid X

Obscure MTV Reality Show called 'Totally Boyband' which featured five ex boy/pop band singers trying to form a supergroup and fail miserably. (Dane Bowers, Jimmy from 911, Lee from Steps, Bradley SClub7 and Danny NKOTB. The others booted out Lee from Steps out, his departure was by no means a Tragedy)


MTV were all over this with spin off shows and everything but their song failed and they split up. It was car crash with the guys trying their best but being let down by a rubbish record company who couldn't get their song on ITunes or into the Record Shops


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

This is old TV programme I liked but no one else remembers

Grandeeod

The last few posts are UK comedy gold and not the bloody channel either. David Kelly in Robins Nest with one arm. Loved it!

Give my head peace

Etc

Battle of the Planets
Space 1999
Pitkins
The Machine Gunners
Gods wonderful Railway

odyssey06

MASK... late 80s cartoon with an associated toy range.

The USP was that the heroes and villains had vehicles that could switch modes e.g. car into a helicopter or boat or into a tank.

madmaggie

The Good Old Days, a music hall show with everyone in Edwardian costume, including the audience.

Amalgam

Star Fleet (X-Bomber) (Wikipedia)

Here's the intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD-9NZsYCQw

I had this stored away in my brain, muddled up with memories of Terrahawks (Wikipedia) and/or a Gerry Anderson (Wikipedia) production of some sort.

A bit more exotic than the usual, a dubbed Japanese import.

I watched this Saturday mid-morning, usually before the weekend sport coverage on ITV kicked off.

Umm.. I have vague memories of the band Sigue Sigue Sputnik (Wikipedia) using footage in one or two promo videos, years later.

I was obsessed with robots at the time, 'Goldorak' and Battle of the Planets meant that if you wandered along to the likes of The Hobby Horse toy shop, in the Killiney Shopping Center, the window was just wall to wall robots and Japanese Mecha of various sorts at the time.

Mostly 'Shogun' Robots. (Google Search)

branie2

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; it was my first introduction to science fiction

Amalgam

Once upon a time... Space (Wikipedia)

BBC2 had this strangely, umm, RTE2 had it also, it was a long saga.. Great ships, great audio, very European.

I was buying 2000AD and I grew up on the likes of Valerian (Wikipedia) at home, so, this was right up my street. I loved it.

Great intro. (English)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Hy96i_MTE

Arthur Daley

madmaggie wrote: »

The Good Old Days, a music hall show with everyone in Edwardian costume, including the audience.

Had a run on BBC4 last year, Friday nights at 8pm to 9. Had to find something else to watch once TOTP finished at 8 and normal service resumed at 9pm:pac:

evolving_doors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4XowTrYWZM

Catchy tune though

branie2

evolving_doors wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4XowTrYWZM

Catchy tune though

If I remember correctly, it was shown on Anything Goes

RMAOK

Biker mice from Mars

gormdubhgorm

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!

gormdubhgorm

Wanderley wagon

Crackajack

Booms

Dick Spanner

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164252/videoplayer/vi1547829273?ref_=vp_pl_0http://

Gerry Anderson stop motion series divided into five/ten minute (?) sections.
Was shown on Channel 4's "yoof" programme on Sundays at midday.Can't remember it's actual name - Network (something)

DS was just a relentless series of puns, spoofing the hard boiled PI genre.

evolving_doors

branie2 wrote: »

If I remember correctly, it was shown on Anything Goes

Yup .... for us plebs with poverty 1 & 2 .

The Crowman

No mention of Worzel Gummidge yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-CLEsNR08

New Home

I loooved him, but I guess lots of people would remember him too, just like they'd remember Bagpuss.

my3cents

I finally found one I was looking for The Water Margin. Couldn't remember the name only some of the Characters and even then couldn't spell the Chinese names.

Chinese martial arts series a bit like a chinese version of a cowboy BBC ran in 1976/7. Think it was on quite late as I can remember staying up to watch it.

artvanderlay

I occasionally sing the theme tune to The Poddington Pea's to my cats but change the lyrics to be more cat-oriented; when my wife first heard me do it, she thought I was having a breakdown, but then it got into her head and she sings it more than me. Neither of us have ever seen the show, but those 80s themes were so catchy that they just burn into your mind



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

Sardonicat

artvanderlay wrote: »

I occasionally sing the theme tune to The Poddington Pea's to my cats but change the lyrics to be more cat-oriented; when my wife first heard me do it, she thought I was having a breakdown, but then it got into her head and she sings it more than me. Neither of us have ever seen the show, but those 80s themes were so catchy that they just burn into your mind



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

I also sing to my cats. Glad I'm not alone in this. Everyone (cats included) thinks I'm bonkers .

Taxedalot

Anyone remember Logan's Run?

briany

Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned. This was a fairly popular show at the time, but people don't reminisce about it the same way they might with Fantasy Football League. Basically, the show was Baddiel & Skinner with a live studio audience, and they would take questions from the audience , and just riff on the different funny topics that came up.

I always enjoyed it, especially when they appointed a secretary from the audience to take down the minutes of what was talked about on a whiteboard, and the secretary was a bit mad. For example, one time the secretary (chosen by Baddiel) turned out to be a stalker of Frank's.

The Crowman

Can anyone remember a quasi-medieval fantasy series that I think was aimed at kids where the baddie was a knight who had a dragon whom he controlled by pointing his sword and then the dragon would shoot fire at whatever it was, ? I remember a climatic battle where the baddies armies are facing the rival army and he summons the dragon and points his sword at the rival army who are then toast. Anyway this young boy who I think was the hero got the sword off him and pointed it at him so the dragon ended up breathing fire at him and killing him. I saw it on RTE circa early 80's, have a feeling it was a UK series.

my3cents

The Crowman wrote: »

Can anyone remember a quasi-medieval fantasy series that I think was aimed at kids where the baddie was a knight who had a dragon whom he controlled by pointing his sword and then the dragon would shoot fire at whatever it was, ? I remember a climatic battle where the baddies armies are facing the rival army and he summons the dragon and points his sword at the rival army who are then toast. Anyway this young boy who I think was the hero got the sword off him and pointed it at him so the dragon ended up breathing fire at him and killing him. I saw it on RTE circa early 80's, have a feeling it was a UK series.

Cartoon, puppets, real people?

The Crowman

my3cents wrote: »

Cartoon, puppets, real people?

It was live action with real actors. From what I recall of the dragon you could only see his head and neck, he would appear from over the horizon. He looked like maybe a big papier mache head filmed in close up.

Jimbob1977

Bod

With his Aunt Flo, Farmer Barleymow and Frank the Postman.

Taxedalot

Taxedalot wrote: »

Anyone remember Logan's Run?

Was too young to watch it but i remember it being on TV. Like a lot of these TV series, did it end with a finale or did it just peter out (if that's the term) without any conclusion at the end? i.e. did they live happily ever after?

branie2

branie2 wrote: »

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; it was my first introduction to science fiction

god love you- I hope you got therapy since :P

my intro to sci fi was Star Trek repeats in the 70's followed by Star Wars A New Hope:P

The Crowman

The Crowman wrote: »

No mention of Worzel Gummidge yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-CLEsNR08

OK Crowman- stop pushing your own agenda around here!!!:mad::(

Westernyelp

Might have been mentioned but I live that French animated series about the Human body. Explaining different biological functions each week. I was amazed by it. Anyone know it?

sweetie

Westernyelp wrote:

Might have been mentioned but I live that French animated series about the Human body. Explaining different biological functions each week. I was amazed by it. Anyone know it?

Just twice! - once upon a time...life.

Rubecula

Torchy the Battery Boy

branie2

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

evolving_doors

Not quite a program but it had a great storyline to it... kinda reminds me of The Shining.

AKA John, did you put the cat out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hc1JbuR9Ek

branie2

Never the Twain, a comedy about two rival antique dealers. I thought I'd mentioned it as Windsor Davies, who played Oliver Smallbridge in the series, died recently.

RMAOK

Count duckula - think David Jason (del boy from only fools and horses) voiced the main character.

branie2

He did

Westernyelp

The Trapdoor. Kids show with lots of squidgy beasties

madmaggie

It ain't half hot, Mum, also with Windsor Davies. All I remember is him shouting "you 'orrible lot".

Rubberchikken

wishbone. know it was a kids show but loved it:)

spurious

Just remembered Clutch Cargo and the creepy real mouths in the cartoon faces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MHg1-mpcUY

AndrewJRenko

Muckka wrote: »

I think there should be an RTE archive channel.
Year's ago the programme s were more educational, informative and interesting.

Radharc, to the water's and the wild, and many more.

The blackbird and the bell was great too.

If RTE deleted their archive's shame on them.

Something like this, perhaps?
https://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1378-radharc/

AllForIt

branie2 wrote: »

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

I loved that. So bad it was good. Well not that bad. It was creepy. On RTE early Saturday mornings.

Fun fact, Richard Basehart did the voice-over on the intro to Knight Rider. David Hedison who was second in command played the lead role in the original "The Fly" , later played by Jeff Goldblum in the remake.

AndrewJRenko

NickNickleby wrote: »

Branie2 mentioned "The Fugitive". We lived in the UK when this showed, and it was the only night of the week we were allowed to stay up late (till 9 !!!). Anyway, we moved to Ireland and missed the very last episode. Aaargh. What actually happened was that we didn't have BBC over here, but it was shown on RTE - believe it or not, RTE were always one week ahead of UK. At least that's how it was explained to 10 year old me wanting to know if Kimble caught the One-armed-man, before being caught himself.

Kids these days just have no idea of the concept of missing something when it was broadcast.

Stuff wasn't endlessly repeated, or so it seemed at the time. There was no "+ 1" channel, no VHS, no DVD, no DVR, no YouTube, no Netflix, no downloads.

If you missed it, you missed it. I remember crying at being dragged away from Queen's Christmas Eve concert to go to midnight Mass, 1975 I think. A live concert broadcast was very, very rare, and if you didn’t catch it as it happened, you didn't catch it.

AndrewJRenko

Marengo wrote: »

Was Robin Givens in it? Who married Tyson.

Most recently appearing as the quite hot Mayor of Riverdale

AndrewJRenko

Marengo wrote: »

Landmark was one and Mart and Market for cattle prices when i was 4 or 5

Halls Pictorial memorably sampled the bould Michael Dillon of Mart and Market saying "bullocks" and mixed it with political speeches - edgy enough for those days.

Grandeeod

Why Don't You?
Magpie.
Crackerjack.

Well known shows, but lots of my age group don't remember them.

Dtp1979

madmaggie wrote: »

It ain't half hot, Mum, also with Windsor Davies. All I remember is him shouting "you 'orrible lot".

Windsor Davies died very recently at the age of 88.