Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

rubadub

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

Speaking of being home sick from school, I always watched these game shows on Sky whenever I was. I loved Classic Concentration.

I loved the US "price is right", lads winning cars, one always sounded like "the pontiac firebird with californian emmission", big boats and stuff, while on the UK one the crowd would be swooning over a toaster!

Breaking bad fans might like this, it is NOT a spoof but looks like it is, it is from 2000 when he would have been ~21

and long before Janet Jackson it had an infamous "wardrobe malfunction" which was parodied and in loads of "blooper" shows. If I link I might be banned! its on youtube The Price Is Right - Yolanda's Wardrobe Malfunction (1977)

EDIT: found a censored version of it. the host responds brilliantly

Rubberlegs

American Gothic from 1995. It only ran for one series but it was really good. It centres around a child called Caleb Temple and the corrupt Sherrif Buck. Buck is a murderer and rapist and controls people with supernatural powers. Caleb's dead sister Merlyn appears to him throughout the series giving him advice.

Central Park West also 1995 and only ran for one series. It was about the lives of the glamorous staff of a New York magazine.

Cracker with Robbie Coltrane as the criminal psychologist Fitz who helps the Manchester police. It ran for three series 1993 to 1995 and then there were 2 feature length specials. It was excellent

Rubberlegs

New Home wrote: »

It was quite popular at the time, but it seems to have slipped into oblivion: Ned and Stacey.

That reminds me of Wings, the fella that played Ned in Ned and Stacey was in it. It was a sitcom about a little one plane airport ran n Nantucket by two brothers.

New Home

Rubberlegs wrote: »

Cracker with Robbie Coltrane as the criminal psychologist Fitz who helps the Manchester police. It ran for three series 1993 to 1995 and then there were 2 feature length specials. It was excellent

Also written by Jimmy McGovern, IIRC, and that's where John Simm made his debut on TV (again, IIRC).

Lorelli!

Rubberlegs wrote: »

Cracker with Robbie Coltrane as the criminal psychologist Fitz who helps the Manchester police. It ran for three series 1993 to 1995 and then there were 2 feature length specials. It was excellent

And A Touch of Frost was good also.


I loved the show Dinosaurs from the early 90s when I was small. 'Not the momma! Not the momma!'

branie2

I M Weasel, with Michael Dorn as the voice of Weasel

smilerf

Used to love Perfect Strangers
Coosin

branie2

probably not so popular now, because of what the main star did for years, but I liked the Cosby Show

sweetie

odyssey06 wrote: »

I don't remember The Lost Room.
Caroline in the City I would watch but it was mainly for the cast, who were doing their best with thin material.
Veronica's Closest was similar.

Worth a look:
https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/the-lost-room/44537/the-lost-room-looking-back-at-an-overlooked-sci-fi-gem

Bull Island

branie2

I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

my3cents

branie2 wrote: »

I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

That makes me think of "Oh Brother" and"All Gas and Gaiters" but nothing with nuns? Both with Dereck nnnnnnNimmo

branie2

The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s

Dakota Dan

Arthur Daley wrote: »

That one was on ITV4 a few years back. Laughable special effects though, so you needed to be very young to find it any way believable.

Back on the 70’s at 8 or 9 years old everything on tv seemed real.

my3cents

branie2 wrote: »

The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s

Not "The Flying Nun"? Its a bit early though 67-70.

Sorry about that

Boys from the Blackstuff.

branie2

my3cents wrote: »

Not "The Flying Nun"? Its a bit early though 67-70.

It was an English comedy

artvanderlay

Play the game! I love charades and it was a good entertaining Rte show, something that doesn't exist anymore. Derek Davis rip

el_gaucho

Paradise (renamed Guns of Paradise for the third series) a late 80s / early 90s western.

The Young Riders, another western around the early 90s. The title always gave me a laugh.

I liked Duckman but it never seemed to get much recognition here.

my3cents

branie2 wrote: »

It was an English comedy

See if you can remember enough to key it out here.

branie2

A priest was living in the convent with the nuns

artvanderlay

It's probably been mentioned already, The Larry Sanders Show. I used to watch it late on BBC2 in the 90s, usually on a double bill with Seinfeld, and BBC used to always shunt them around in the schedule, so they could be on at any time really. I remember just loving these shows: i was the only person I knew who watched them and they felt like they were made just for me. Garry Shandling(RIP)/Rip Torn/Jeffrey Tambor, and all the Seinfeld guys were amazing comedy actors, and the writing was perfection itself. Smart, edgy, hip but most importantly incredibly funny comedy...what happened to good comedy? Jesus, i despair when i turn on tv now. Peep show was the last great comedy show. Alan Partridge has a new show coming soon, but i am not hopeful: his last series (mid morning matters 2) was not funny at all, and i love Partridge so it breaks my heart to say that.

I listened to many podcast interviews with Garry Shandling over the past few years before he died and he was just such a witty, smart guy. A real comedy legend. Comedian Norm MacDonald was doing a podcast once, and he mentioned Garry coming up to him when Norm was new in town and in his whiny voice asking "Norm, have you heard about this female g-spot thing? Jesus Christ. I couldn't find a guys balls"

my3cents

branie2 wrote: »

A priest was living in the convent with the nuns

OMG I can remember something similar but still can't put a name to it - so annoying :mad:

branie2

Cheers and Frasier

New Home

branie2 wrote: »

I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

branie2 wrote: »

The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s

branie2 wrote: »

It was an English comedy

branie2 wrote: »

A priest was living in the convent with the nuns

my3cents wrote: »

OMG I can remember something similar but still can't put a name to it - so annoying :mad:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055692262

odyssey06

branie2 wrote: »

Cheers and Frasier

Ah now... Anyone watching tv in those decades knows about them!

NewbridgeIR

branie2 wrote: »

I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

Father Charlie

ITV, 1982. Just one series IIRC.

branie2

Defenders of the Earth

Sam Hain

Dream On

my3cents

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Father Charlie

ITV, 1982. Just one series IIRC.

Thats it with Lionel Jeffries I was thinking of someone who looked a bit like Alec Guinness in the lead and he sort of fits. Only 6 episodes that really was a short run.

branie2

I remember one episode, when a nun, could have been the mother superior, accidentally overheard a conversation between the priest and his doctor, and mistakenly thought that Father Charlie was dying

madmaggie

Nighthawks, on RTE 2, or Network 2, or whatever they called it at the time. Shay Healy, and I think Flo McSweeney.

branie2

Oliver Twist, a mini-series from 1985, based on the Dickens' novel

The Princess Bride

Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
I just remembered it there now.
Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.

branie2

Jeeves and Wooster with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry

madmaggie

branie2 wrote: »

Jeeves and Wooster with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry

I recently got the boxset from the library. They were brilliant.

Rubberlegs

Sorry about that wrote: »

Boys from the Blackstuff.

I remember this, Yosser Hughes, "gissa job"
The scene where Snowy White falls out the window horrified me as a child.

Billy Liar was a sitcom based in a funeral home run by Mr Shadrach. Billy was a Walter Mitty type character, it was quite funny

Rubberlegs

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
I just remembered it there now.
Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.

For some reason the TV show Animal Magic comes to mind, though not sure....
Edit to add Animal Magic was originally a BBC show, can't remember if it was shown on RTE?

The Crowman

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
I just remembered it there now.
Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.

I have a vague memory of the Goodies Funky Gibbon being used in a clip of monkeys at Dublin Zoo being shown on RTE, this would be a lot earlier though, late 70's.

Another pretty gruesome memory I have is of RTE showing cows heads being fed to lions, again I think it was Dublin zoo, though I'm certain it was a different programme.

sweetie

The Crow road; really great '96 mini-series based on the excellent book by Iain Banks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_Road_(TV_series)

NewbridgeIR

Rubberlegs wrote: »

I remember this, Yosser Hughes, "gissa job"
The scene where Snowy White falls out the window horrified me as a child.

Billy Liar was a sitcom based in a funeral home run by Mr Shadrach. Billy was a Walter Mitty type character, it was quite funny

The pub scene in final Blackstuff episode is intense. SHAKE HANDS

Billy Liar was good fun; prefer it to the film. A LWT production from 1973/74, it was shown on RTE2 on Saturday nights c 1984/85. George A Cooper as his Dad- brilliant

cml387

my3cents wrote: »

Anyone remember or even ever see Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves? It later became Old Country

Same guy was in How.

Ah yes, Sunday afternoon before dinner.

Memorably lampooned by the Fast Show, the genius of which was you knew exactly what they were on about and it seemed to be a kind of private joke shared with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKyWIie3Oc

doolox

It has to be Hands. An RTE programme about hand crafts and skills including boatbuilding, saddle and leatherwork etc. which aired on RTE about 1980.

odyssey06

Dublin ... A Personal View.
RTE series from 70s presented by Eamonn mac Thomais.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0626/626496-a-personal-view-of-the-liberties-in-dublin-1979/

doolox

I did not realise that such a place existed until I took the 39 towards An Lár and then a 67 towards Lucan.... there it was after Prussia St..... Stoneybatter.

Alias the Jester

Aska

Rab C. Nesbitt was another favourite of mine.

Also the series spin off of the Mike Bassett England Manager movie was quite funny also

Lorelli!

Aska wrote: »

Rab C. Nesbitt was another favourite of mine.

It was so funny but it use to make me feel sick

Other ones I remember vaguely are Drop The Dead Donkey and The Day Today.

Probably more memorable but I loved The Young Ones and Bottom. They use to make me feel a bit sick too though

smilerf

I used to find The Thin Blue Line quite funny

branie2

smilerf wrote: »

I used to find The Thin Blue Line quite funny

Constable Kevin Goody was very camp