Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

odyssey06

salmocab wrote: »

Just on Aussie TV I recently rewatched anzacs it’s on YouTube. Very enjoyable world war 1 drama following men from when they enlist to getting home through Gallipoli, France and Belgium. Also shows some of the political carry on both in Australia and England. 5 episodes each over an hour long so well fleshed out. Paul hogan plays one of the main characters.

The Aussies did some epic mini-series in the 80s.
I have hazy flashes of...
Return To Eden
A Town Like Alice
The Heroes
Under Capricorn
Bodyline

Purgative

Anyone remember Twizzle. It was pretty meh as 60s TV went but the idea has stuck with me. So much so that if something was too high to reach or a ball was just too far to catch, I'd say "Who dya think I am Twizzle?", which would invariably produce the response "Who the F is Twizzle?"

NewbridgeIR

odyssey06 wrote: »

The Aussies did some epic mini-series in the 80s.
I have hazy flashes of...
Return To Eden
A Town Like Alice
The Heroes
Under Capricorn
Bodyline

Return To Eden was great fun. A three part mini series and then a full 22 episode series the year after.

Hangdogroad

odyssey06 wrote: »

The Aussies did some epic mini-series in the 80s.
I have hazy flashes of...
Return To Eden
A Town Like Alice
The Heroes
Under Capricorn
Bodyline

A few more.
The Dirtwater Dynasty.
Vietnam.
Fields Of Fire.
The Cowra Breakout.
Brides Of Christ (starred Brenda Fricker)

Purgative

These were two of my favs which both used to creep me out a bit.

AndrewJRenko

odyssey06 wrote: »

The Aussies did some epic mini-series in the 80s.
I have hazy flashes of...
Return To Eden
A Town Like Alice
The Heroes
Under Capricorn
Bodyline

They're still at it and RTE have been picking them up again. 'The Secrets She Keeps' was fairly good, and they've something on now about bridesmaids.

Tarrant on TV, a show where Chris Tarrant would show funny and hard hitting adverts from around the world

the purple tin

Deleted User wrote: »

Tarrant on TV, a show where Chris Tarrant would show funny and hard hitting adverts from around the world

Remember every week he would show clips from this Japanese endurance contest? It was considered quite extreme at the time but looking back now I'm A Celebrity makes it look tame in comparison.

Nigel Fairservice

the purple tin wrote: »

Remember every week he would show clips from this Japanese endurance contest? It was considered quite extreme at the time but looking back now I'm A Celebrity makes it look tame in comparison.

Were they clips from Takeshi’s Castle?

the purple tin

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

Were they clips from Takeshi’s Castle?

No I think it was like an early version of I'm A Celeb. The contestants would have to do challenges with insects and snakes and things. I don't think they did bushtucker trials like actually eating things though.

They might have shown clips of Takeshi too. I can't be sure.

Skid X

Deleted User wrote: »

Tarrant on TV, a show where Chris Tarrant would show funny and hard hitting adverts from around the world

Yeah, that was a good one. Before the internet was a thing, it showed adverts and clips from Television shows you would never see anywhere else

Cilve James presented the show before Tarrant

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

smilerf

As a horny teen I remember watching Eurotrash and some other adult programme which involved a court ala judge judy

cml387

Good story I heard on BBC Radio 2 this weekend.

Alison Grade was a pupil at a boarding school in the UK during the early eighties.
They had a computer lab, and one of the girls discovered that one of the PC's was also a TV.
They gathered to watch a new Australian soap then shown at lunchtime on BBC 1, which grew to a large midday viewership in the school as word got round.

Alison told her dad about the popularity of the programme. He happened to be Michael Grade, then head of BBC 1 and realised that repeating the programme in the early evening would bring in more young viewers.

So "Neighbours" was repeated in the early evening.. which gained a viwership larger than the population of Australia, and led to Jason Donovan and of course Kylie Minogue.

Purgative

Always enjoyed some the old cop shows

and the earlier ones of

One of actors from the Bill used to drink in wife's uncle's pub - he was like a leach trying to talk to people " Hello I'm PC XXXXX in the Bill" - never saw him do anything else.

NewbridgeIR

Purgative wrote: »

Always enjoyed some the old cop shows

There were three volumes of 1970s Dixon of Dock Green released on DVD over the last few years. All the surviving colour episodes ending with the 1976 series. Pretty grim stuff, downbeat, unhappy endings and miles away from the cosy image it sometimes seems to have. Great footage of long-gone London docklands too.

Z-Cars very entertaining too

Love The Bill. Started as a 50 minute programme for three series, then went to 25 minutes episodes in late 80s (loads of them) and back to 50 minutes later in the 90s. Seriously good in the early years.

It BeeMee

Purgative wrote: »

Always enjoyed some the old cop shows

Vague memories of this Car 54 Where are You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MkCAwupe0

ShyMets

At the weekend I finished watching The Devils Crown. Late 70's BBC mini series charting the lives of Henry II and his two sons Richard the Lionheart and John.

Just to note it was made during a time of economic turmoil in the UK and the BBC was effectively broke, so the production values are at times a little patchy.

But overall very enjoyable. Stars a young Brian Cox as Henry II

cml387

ShyMets wrote: »

At the weekend I finished watching The Devils Crown. Late 70's BBC mini series charting the lives of Henry II and his two sons Richard the Lionheart and John.

Just to note it was made during a time of economic turmoil in the UK and the BBC was effectively broke, so the production values are at times a little patchy.

But overall very enjoyable. Stars a young Brian Cox as Henry II

Remember that it was still the norm to have studio-bound drama in the 1970's.
Nowadays the audience woudn't stand for it but it's rather a pity that they are not made any more. There was great skill involved in directing up to five cameras, all of which had each track and shot planned and executed faultlessly.
Think of I, Claudius as an example.

Purgative

I'd forgotten I Clavdivs. Great story, great acting.

cml387

If you are a nerd for old television, watch this affectionate send up of the techniques of TV drama in the old days from Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfiled in their spoof documentary "The Story Of The Twos"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw6i8Q-WgIo

ShyMets

Dempsey and Makepeace. I'm just going to throw it out there but Glynis Barber was very easy on the eye

Purgative

Always watched this in the year oh dot

Little while back, met someone I used to work with ages ago, she said "All the girls thought you looked like Like Collins."


I said "Now you tell me, now - although I probably do now (RIP)"

bottlebrush

Purgative wrote: »

Always watched this in the year oh dot

Little while back, met someone I used to work with ages ago, she said "All the girls thought you looked like Like Collins."


I said "Now you tell me, now - although I probably do now (RIP)"

Lewis collins was absolutely gorgeous.

Purgative

bottlebrush wrote: »

Lewis collins was absolutely gorgeous.

Sadly not anymore.

donegal_man

ShyMets wrote: »

Dempsey and Makepeace... Glynis Barber was very easy on the eye

Still is. In my humble yet accurate opinion

spurious

ShyMets wrote: »

Dempsey and Makepeace. I'm just going to throw it out there but Glynis Barber was very easy on the eye

I saw that on some station recently while channel-hopping, so someone is still showing it.

Hangdogroad

RTE showed a drama (not sure if it was a mini series or one off) called Raic in 1985. It was mostly in Irish and set in the West of Ireland during the Emergency. Anyway the only bit about it that really sticks in my mind was the opening scene where a German mine is washed up on the shore and the locals, who dont seem to know what it is, all gather around and start rolling it up the beach. You see a close up of one of those spike things on the mine as it touches the ground and theres a massive explosion. Next you see body parts all strewn all over the beach and an old woman who's still alive screaming.

Purgative

Hangdogroad that does intrigue me.


Sadly couldn't find it on RTE player and IMDB has rather scant details.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1890514/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Gorteen

All seen on our one channel black and white TV

US cowboy programmes were a big hit in the 1970's in our house
The High Chaparral
Bonanza
Alias Smith and Jones

Irish programmes
The Riordans
Halls Pictorial Weekly
The Spike (until it was taken off the air amidst nude scene controversy)

flazio

Mid to late 90s "High tech, spy tech" drama Bugs on the BBC on Saturday nights.

NewbridgeIR

Hangdogroad wrote: »

RTE showed a drama (not sure if it was a mini series or one off) called Raic in 1985. It was mostly in Irish and set in the West of Ireland during the Emergency. Anyway the only bit about it that really sticks in my mind was the opening scene where a German mine is washed up on the shore and the locals, who dont seem to know what it is, all gather around and start rolling it up the beach. You see a close up of one of those spike things on the mine as it touches the ground and theres a massive explosion. Next you see body parts all strewn all over the beach and an old woman who's still alive screaming.

I remember Raic. It was shown on Stephen's Day 1984 - maybe repeated the following year?

Hangdogroad

Purgative wrote: »

Hangdogroad that does intrigue me.


Sadly couldn't find it on RTE player and IMDB has rather scant details.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1890514/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

RTEs neglect of their drama archive has been well documented here on ATR. I wouldnt hold my breath on that turning up unless someone videotaped it off the telly and it gets loaded to youtube.

Hangdogroad

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

I remember Raic. It was shown on Stephen's Day 1984 - maybe repeated the following year?

Nice one, that must have been when I saw it.

NewbridgeIR

Hangdogroad wrote: »

RTEs neglect of their drama archive has been well documented here on ATR. I wouldnt hold my breath on that turning up unless someone videotaped it off the telly and it gets loaded to youtube.

The Brits do it so much better.
I am nearly finished watching Play For Today Volume 1 BD which is seriously enjoyable - especially the one set in Ireland, Your Man From Six Counties (Brenda Fricker & Donal McCann). The second volume will be out later this year. There is nothing to stop RTE putting out an equivalent of their 70s and 80s drama but they won't bother or will hide behind "the actors' contracts don't allow for home video releases" which has got to be the worst cop-out excuse ever.

Skid X

Not a lot of kids programmes on RTE on that Stephen's Day, compared to what you would get now

Having said that, they did have the first episode of The Box Of Delights which was a proper high budget fantasy BBC series

NewbridgeIR

I love the disclaimer on Leave It To Mrs O'Brien
"By kind permission of the Abbey Theatre"

I think Isobel Mahon appeared in the next couple of episodes. Seriously fit at the time; lots of lads in school talking about her.

Hangdogroad

Theres actually a promo for Raic on here beginning at the 13:20 mark, I had a funny feeling it was on this upload as I've watched it before. Unfortunately the picture quality is shocking. Theres a mine in this scene but it's not the opening I mentioned, this bit occurs later on. I mainly remember it for the line in English about hens ****ting.

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

bobdcow

I remember watching The Pony Express as a kid - I loved it. I just looked it up there - it seems to have been called The Young Riders, a group of riders who worked for the Pony Express.

cml387

Brogeen Follows the Magic Tune.

A puppet series from the Lamberts, shown on RTE in the summer of 1969.

All wiped by RTE but this remnant exists courtesy of NRK Norwegian TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5gNjqR04so

Hangdogroad

cml387 wrote: »

Brogeen Follows the Magic Tune.

A puppet series from the Lamberts, shown on RTE in the summer of 1969.

All wiped by RTE but this remnant exists courtesy of NRK Norwegian TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5gNjqR04so

NRK have the whole series in their archives though the original audio was dubbed over into Norwegian. RTE could show this, new audio could be re recorded but they wont bother their hole. Contrast this with the BBC who've shown lost episodes of Morecame And Wise that were found in Nigeria.

AndrewJRenko

spurious wrote: »

I saw that on some station recently while channel-hopping, so someone is still showing it.

It's on ITV4 every day, before the Sweeney.

bobdcow

I used to love watching Pajo's Junkbok - once Pajo went off air never heard of him again. I'd love to know what happened to him. Is he in a box somewhere in the basement of RTE?

Skid X

bobdcow wrote: »

I used to love watching Pajo's Junkbok - once Pajo went off air never heard of him again. I'd love to know what happened to him. Is he in a box somewhere in the basement of RTE?

The last time I saw him was in 2014 on this

madmaggie

What happened to Zuppy?

ShyMets

madmaggie wrote: »

What happened to Zuppy?

Died in a freak yachting accident. It was very sad

bobdcow

Has "Monkey" been mentioned? It was on sky in the early 90's. It was about a ninja monkey trying to save the world. It was dubbed to English.

Speedsie

bobdcow wrote: »

Has "Monkey" been mentioned? It was on sky in the early 90's. It was about a ninja monkey trying to save the world. It was dubbed to English.

Loved Monkey... My brother & I watched it in the late 70s on BBC (could have been early 80s)

Hangdogroad

A Mothers Loves A Blessing, one off tv play written by Pat McCabe and shown by RTE in 1998. Very dark and funny as you might expect from the author of the Butcher Boy. Dont think its ever been repeated and it hasn't so far shown up online.
Edit: it was 1994.

Worztron

Hangdogroad

Anyone who had Sky in the early 90s might remember they used to show this on a regular basis, it was already about ten years old at this point and boy did it look it. The main one on it was a tidy bit of gear dodgy perm aside.

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