Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Children's ward

My two dad's

Blossom

The kids in the hall

NewbridgeIR

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Children's Ward

Good scripts. The kid who'd never play football again - hard to watch.

NewbridgeIR

And in a similar vein - Press Gang.

Ran for five series between 1989 and 1993.

No let up in quality - genuinely brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZZg_-yrZHI

Westernyelp

What was the one with the 3 lads in hospital? I'm H. A. P. P. Y.....

Mam of 4

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Used to watch Midnight Caller with my Dad.
Gary Cole was excellent.
Great intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT34D94JNUU

I loved Midnight Caller !

And The Equalizer , with Edward Woodword , I think , could be wrong on his name .
We had no cable tv , rural area , the mean feckers wouldn't bring the line out that far

For years our tv itself was from RTV Rentals , paid every week , if you lost your RTE1 or 2 , they'd have to come out to retune it

Oh , and Kizzy , I know you remember that one Newbridge IR , loved that as a child .

Last one , Heidi , up the mountains with her grandad . Not too sure of the year tbh , 70-80's ..

its_steve116

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

And in a similar vein - Press Gang.

Ran for five series between 1989 and 1993.

No let up in quality - genuinely brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZZg_-yrZHI

ITV filmed, but ultimately pulled, a show called "Press GangED" in the mid 00s.

realitykeeper

The was kids a show called Nobody`s House in the 1970s which was quite good.

In the late eighties, when Hill Street Blues started, that was when TV began to go down hill. Producers started saying people wanted to watch gritty TV shows which to me meant cheap. There were a lot of good TV shows back in the eighties. They were slick, not gritty.

killanena

I don't know if they are movie series or a normal series but I love Sharpe. Haven't met many people my age who have even heard of it. (I'm 25)

I've watched them all countless times sense I was small.

mobby

Who remembers this with the creepy intro.:eek:
Journey into the unknown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecwd_Ww8tHQ&feature=youtu.be

madmaggie

Westernyelp wrote: »

What was the one with the 3 lads in hospital? I'm H. A. P. P. Y.....

Only When I Laugh.

my3cents

killanena wrote: »

I don't know if they are movie series or a normal series but I love Sharpe. Haven't met many people my age who have even heard of it. (I'm 25)

I've watched them all countless times sense I was small.

You might like Sean Bean on Waterloo then, think it was on the History Channel but its getting a repeat 26th Jan on PBS America https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/dnnk59/sean-bean-on-waterloo--series-1-episode-1/

Or youtube

briany

Roadies - A documentary series that aired on the now long-defunct SKY channel UK TV Horizons. As you'd probably guess, it was about bands' roadies. Had episodes on The Darkness, The Wildhearts, Bowling for Soup, Ocean Colour Scene, Lostprophets etc. Used to really like it.

Does anyone remember a reality show that aired on (I think) Trouble TV in the early to mid 2000s about a group of British teenagers who spend a term at an American highschool? Think it was called something like Project High School USA, but Google turns up nothing. This could be one of those series so forgotten, not even the Internet remembers it.

NewbridgeIR

Mam of 4 wrote: »

I loved Midnight Caller !

And The Equalizer , with Edward Woodword , I think , could be wrong on his name .
We had no cable tv , rural area , the mean feckers wouldn't bring the line out that far

For years our tv itself was from RTV Rentals , paid every week , if you lost your RTE1 or 2 , they'd have to come out to retune it

Oh , and Kizzy , I know you remember that one Newbridge IR , loved that as a child .

Last one , Heidi , up the mountains with her grandad . Not too sure of the year tbh , 70-80's ..

That's The Equalizer! Great show. Retuning RTE! - I used to rent TVs when I moved to Dublin first. Campbell TV - amazingly still going.....


Heidi was made in the late 1970s but the broadcast everyone remembers was on RTE during 1981.

NewbridgeIR

bobbyss wrote: »

Catherine NcGuiness' husband Prionsaus McAonghasa presented or was that Feach?

Ah Féach, remember that one.


And Folio with Patrick Gallagher.....

NewbridgeIR

Anyone for Huckleberry Finn & His Friends?

I enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCRiLyL0koc

scotchy

Robinson Crusoe.

.

Cork Boy 53

An early 80s American series that spoofed Superman and other comic book superheroes called The Greatest American Hero. The series itself was corny but the theme song was great.

https://youtu.be/B4JCehDOy54

branie2

Spiderman and His Amazing Friends

EdgeCase

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!

That ran on Sky in the early days of Sky One.

Monkey, I Dream of Jeannie, the Time Tunnel and Lost In Space and a lot of other very old 60s US stuff was the mainstay of Sky at the turn of the 90s.

spurious

scotchy wrote: »

Robinson Crusoe.

That was another one with a lovely theme tune.

odyssey06

killanena wrote: »

I don't know if they are movie series or a normal series but I love Sharpe. Haven't met many people my age who have even heard of it. (I'm 25)
I've watched them all countless times sense I was small.

I'll see your Sharpe and raise you Hornblower... it's basically similar plots to Sharpe but at sea, same Napoleonic War era as Master & Commander.

I loved Sharpe, early entries in the series especially, think they should have called it a day after Waterloo as the later entries weren't same quality.
http://epguides.com/Sharpe/

They should show the pilot episode Sharpe's Rifles as a stand alone movie on TV, it's that good.

Over the hills and far away...

smilerf

Spatz. I loved it
Gone too soon

odyssey06

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

An early 80s American series that spoofed Superman and other comic book superheroes called The Greatest American Hero. The series itself was corny but the theme song was great.

https://youtu.be/B4JCehDOy54

George Costanza in Seinfeld used this tune as his answering machine message...
"Believe it or not George isn't at home..."

AndyBoBandy

The Borrowers
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Tomorrow’s World

smilerf

Sharkey and George
Ramona
The Secret World Of Alex Mack
The Biskitts
Eerie indiana

odyssey06

smilerf wrote: »

Sharkey and George
Ramona
The Secret World Of Alex Mack
The Biskitts
Eerie indiana

Good shout on Eerie Indiana... loved that show.

sweetie

American Gothic , a '95 one season series with Gary Cole; twin peaks influenced about a corrupt sheriff in South Carolina.
Picket Fences, a '92 series which predated X files and probably didnt get the kudos it deserved.

smilerf

odyssey06 wrote: »

Good shout on Eerie Indiana... loved that show.

Think it only ran for 1 season. Such a shame

Sugarlumps

Ooh Shannen Doherty.

eagle eye

Anyone mention Hall's pictorial weekly?