Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

Technocentral

Garda Patrol.

sweetie

Westernyelp wrote: »

Missed that sorry. Never seen Chockys children

no worries, I've just checked and there was a third series, Chocky's challenge.
All three available on dvd. I also cam across a bbc show I remember liking called Moondial.

Jimbob1977

Choc a Bloc - Kids programme that involved sticking novelty size cassette tapes into a wall. I can't remember what happened after that. Some kind of activity. I think there were little jeeps and carts too.

Tim Tyler - the boy who couldn't laugh. Badly dubbed German series about a boy who sold his laugh to a Baron for cash.

Westernyelp

Has anyone mentioned the Moomins? Was in Finland a while back and they are everywhere there still. Moomins shops and souvenirs all over the place

Lady Haywire

Westernyelp wrote: »

Has anyone mentioned the Moomins? Was in Finland a while back and they are everywhere there still. Moomins shops and souvenirs all over the place

I thought they were well known though. Used to love them so much I even went to the Moomin museum in Tampere, it's a lovely little spot!

Just thinking last night, The Silver Brumby was another Australian import that I used to love. About this wild horse who had to escape from man all the time, plus fight the Brolga, a rival stallion who killed his father, I think.

sweetie

the littlest hobo! - every stop i make, i make a new friend, cant stay for long, just turn around and i'm gone again

Children of the stones, another eerie bbc childrens series.

Portland Bill
Cockleshell bay
Chish and Fips
Randolly Anna

branie2

Chips - Jon and Ponch of the California Highway Patrol

odyssey06

California Dreams, mid 90s series about a garage band of high school teenagers, who played original songs and got caught up in school and beach high jinks.

Think there was some connection to the much more famous Saved By the Bell - filmed in same high school or something.

Skid X

Beat The Teacher - 80s Children's BBC noughts and crosses kids v teachers studio game show

I loved this, they went through lots of different presenters but the questions were good and the gameplay was class

The Enbalmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSqvG7Jqnc

Runaraaaaahnd!

branie2

Pajo's Junkbox

branie2

The Incredible Hulk

New Home

Most of the ones I remember have been mentioned already, but how can we forget Pippi Longstocking (the original Swedish version with the red-haired girl) and Black Beauty?

One series that I will never forget but that nobody ever remembers seeing is "Sky".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbU-zLqqQHE

I looooved it.

New Home

I also have a vague memory of a cartoon that had a bunny that could fly by using his ears as a propeller, but I can't remember where I saw it, what age I was (I must've been very very young, though), or what cartoon it was.

The Enbalmer

Anybody remember Lord Tramp?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY5Y_9YeX4A

NewbridgeIR

Hazell not Hazel
Shelley not Shelly

Both cracking. Hazell was very entertaining. Nicholas Ball was brilliantly cast.

Shelley very cynical. In the late 80s reboot, Caroline Langrishe (hotter than a Mexican’s lunch) was a welcome addition.

Others in the gritty police procedural style:
Special Branch
New Scotland Yard
Strangers
Softly Softly Taskforce
Hunter’s Walk
Z-Cars
Dixon Of Dock Green (1973 onwards)

Subacio

SledgeHammer

A show about a trigger happy cop. His catchphrase was "trust me, I know what I'm doing".

He once said that the electric chair was "too lenient" as there's always the chance of reincarnation.

NickNickleby

Subacio wrote: »

SledgeHammer

A show about a trigger happy cop. His catchphrase was "trust me, I know what I'm doing".

He once said that the electric chair was "too lenient" as there's always the chance of reincarnation.

ah yeah, hahaha. First time I started watching it, I thought it was a real cop show, and thought it was crap for the first few minutes. Hilarious show.

didn't he say something weird to, or about, his gun??

I actually thought it was funnier than the Leslie Nielson one. Was that called Police Story or something like that?

Amalgam

Joe_ Public wrote: »

I’m sure they taped over a lot of their old programmes, tape was prohibitively expensive back in the day I believe. Bbc did the same, others too I’m sure. I read somewhere where the bbc got a lot of old footage from people who had recorded it at the time and kept it.

Literally, from discarded rubbish too, technicians and in some cases members of the public plucking tape from skips..

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Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Worlds (Wikipedia) ..usually dumped on a Sunday, RTE2, or Saturday, ITV/LWT/Anglo..

Intro for the first series below, only place I could find it was at the start of a Spanish dub of a full episode (these were incredibly popular at the time, hard to get that across nowadays!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_EB0UWsWyU

Westernyelp

Ulyeses 31

Zaph

NickNickleby wrote: »

I actually thought it was funnier than the Leslie Nielson one. Was that called Police Story or something like that?

Police Squad. I love the shootout scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl57k1DOBEg

branie2

Perfect strangers - 2 cousins, one from the Mediterranean island of Mypos, live together in a Chicago apartment.

heldel00

I cannot think of the name but maybe someone can help. It was a family in America and one of the main characters had Down Syndrome.
Really catchy theme tune "oh blah dee oh blah dah life goes on, la la la la life goes on!"
Loved it.

odyssey06

heldel00 wrote: »

I cannot think of the name but maybe someone can help. It was a family in America and one of the main characters had Down Syndrome.
Really catchy theme tune "oh blah dee oh blah dah life goes on, la la la la life goes on!"
Loved it.

It was called... Life Goes On.
The lad was called Corky and Kellie Martin as the sister was v cute.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0096635/

branie2

The show was called Life Goes On

ruahead

I remember this show that had a girl dancing around a may pole in the credits and when she did it she went into a different world or back in time. This would have been the ninties I suppose, I think it was English. Anyone recall ?

NewbridgeIR

Amalgam wrote: »

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Worlds (Wikipedia) ..usually dumped on a Sunday, RTE2, or Saturday, ITV/LWT/Anglo..

£5.95 from Amazon. Well worth the outlay.

appledrop

Fun House- loved all the slime

'Fun House it's a whole lot of fun,prizes to be won'

Marengo

The Irish RM

branie2

ALF

Westernyelp

H.R. Puff n Stuff. we were so innocent!

eagle eye

I don't know if it was mentioned already but I used to love Catweazle as a kid.

jelutong

Maybe it's mentioned already. Run Buddy Run.

Marengo

Dogtanian and the Muskehounds

heldel00

odyssey06 wrote: »

heldel00 wrote: »

I cannot think of the name but maybe someone can help. It was a family in America and one of the main characters had Down Syndrome.
Really catchy theme tune "oh blah dee oh blah dah life goes on, la la la la life goes on!"
Loved it.

It was called... Life Goes On.
The lad was called Corky and Kellie Martin as the sister was v cute.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0096635/

Perfect song so!

NewbridgeIR

Mr Belvedere - like a white Benson. The mother and daughter were smokin'.

Head Of The Class - Mr Moore, everyone's favourite sub-teacher.

The Edison Twins - NERDS

Book Adventures - obscure, the title used here was not the same as in the US. Shown on RTE in the early 1980s; the stories have an ABC After School Special vibe. I remember looking up the Irish Times television listings and it was noted as having yet another different title.

Marengo

The Sullivans.

Australian WW2 soap in the 80s.

branie2

The Fugitive - Dr Richard Kimble, falsely accused of murdering his wife and he goes on the run looking for her killer, a one-armed man

rubadub

Grandeeod wrote: »

Terrahawks.

Zelda went on to star in eastenders!







I think many will remember, but might need to be reminded of wizbit, paul daniels program which has some great puzzles in it.

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

The show was created by Barry Murray, who had formerly been Mungo Jerry's record producer, with assistance from Daniels. Its theme tune is based on a song by Lead Belly, named "Ha-Ha This A Way", sung by Daniels. All rights to characters and designs were retained by Daniels, and the music rights by Murray.

A revival of the series was announced in 2009 with a movie set for Summer 2010, but they were both cancelled.

and found this, Debbie Magee looking well, the black woman looking off her nut at the 44sec mark

few others I had forgotten

Marengo

Roses From Dublin

A 6 part drama series from 1981. Shown on RTE 1983.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0280306/

Bahanaman

Battle of the planets. Another Saturday morning staple!

NewbridgeIR

Going home for lunch?

Pebble Mill At One
Crown Court
Crossroads
Indoor League

NickNickleby

heldel00 wrote: »

I cannot think of the name but maybe someone can help. It was a family in America and one of the main characters had Down Syndrome.
Really catchy theme tune "oh blah dee oh blah dah life goes on, la la la la life goes on!"
Loved it.

Never saw the show, but well done on the words. I had that single, it was by The Marmalade and was called, if memory serves, "Oh Bla di oh bla da. Pretty sure there was a Beatles connection.

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.

Westernyelp

branie2 wrote:

Perfect strangers - 2 cousins, one from the Mediterranean island of Mypos, live together in a Chicago apartment.

Balky Bartacamus and Larry?

branie2

Westernyelp wrote: »

Balky Bartacamus and Larry?

Yep, those cousins

Bahanaman

Salvage 1 starring Andy Griffiths of Matlock fame as a junkyard owner who decides to build a space rocket! Loved it!

The Crowman

Follyfoot, from the early 70's though I remember it from when it was repeated in the late 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgyxhe849k

NewbridgeIR

Matt Houston
starring Lee Horsley

Described as "a poor man's Magnum PI". Entertaining all the same.

NewbridgeIR

The Crowman wrote: »

Follyfoot, from the early 70's though I remember it from when it was repeated in the late 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgyxhe849k

Great. There was a real social justice theme. Fairness and integrity.
RTE repeated it Tuesdays or Thursdays around 1986. Around 5.05pm or so. Reminds me of twilight evenings in winter.