Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

my3cents

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It might have been a trilogy from memory - each about 2 hours duration- from the looks of it, Youtube are showing all of them. Episode 1 is what I posted but i saw other episodes also.

True Movies schedule for it https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/sh6dj/the-winds-of-war/

madmaggie

Jackanory. When I came to live here in one channel land I really missed it.

The theme music of Grandstand always made me think of my father checking the pools to see if he was a millionaire that week.

branie2

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The Winds of War- American mini-series from early 1980s' - very popular in its day. Starred Robert Mitchum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjEq6NcZOw

What I saw of the sequel, War and Remembrance was good as well.

my3cents

my3cents wrote: »

True Movies schedule for it https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/sh6dj/the-winds-of-war/

I saw it- back in 1983- but thanks!

rubadub

Amalgam wrote: »

You never forget the music.. or the woman dancing in the opening credits, quite racy.. and a bit dodgy today..

had looked this up before. I loved the program, I got a few episodes mixed up with similar series though. The most disturbing of those twilight zone type series episodes I ever saw involved a coffin, would not even want to give spoilers away. I later saw a variant of the same episode in another series, possible "tales from the crypt"

https://www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/tv-shows/tales-of-the-unexpected/press-release-from-anglia-television/

UNEXPECTED FAME

Star-studded and lavish Tales of the Unexpected may have been, but it also gave some “unknowns” a taste of fame. Best remembered of them was the dancer who performed for the opening title sequence dubbed by one newspaper as “the sexiest dance on television”.

Karen Standley was a 27-year-old secretary and housewife from Berkshire, and took a day off to record the sequence.

“The moves were my very own,” recalled Karen, who never danced professionally but got the job because her boyfriend at the time worked for Top of the Pops and was contracted to make the titles for Tales of the Unexpected.

She was seen only in silhouette on screen and for the recording had to wear a white body stocking and white tights, with white greasepaint on her arms and legs to achieve the necessary effect.

“The greasepaint kept melting under the hot studio lights,” she said. “It was horrible and uncomfortable and it took three baths to wash it all off. But it gave me some money – nothing staggering, but I got a new outfit out of it.”

“I was just told to look as sexy as I could and I made it up as I went along. I got a fair amount of fan-mail – mostly adolescents who wanted a picture of me. I suppose I was their fantasy woman.”

Karen is now a mother of two and works as a receptionist in a hospital accident and emergency department.

odyssey06

North & South, 1980s epic mini-series starring Patrick Swayze, set around the American Civil War.

Daddah is Death

Recliner

Anyway remember an American series '70s/'80s about forest/mountain rangers? Might have been called Sierra or had Sierra in the title or theme music.
Can't believe how many shows mentioned that I remember. Brilliant!!

Edit: was it Armchair Thrillers that had a story about a nun with no face? Still freaks me out to this day.

odyssey06

Northern Exposure, about a New York doctor who has to pay back his scholarship working in a quirky small town in Alaska. Joel Fleischmann... he had a will they wont they thing with local spitfire Maggie.

The Enbalmer

Recliner wrote: »

Edit: was it Armchair Thrillers that had a story about a nun with no face? Still freaks me out to this day.

"Quiet as a nun"..its on YouTube

rubadub

beachcombers, I remember all the logs, and little else!

The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990. At 387 episodes, it is the third longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television.

this was mentioned, intro song is great

some good lists here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1970s_British_television_series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1980s_British_television_series

ANSWERS!:

1) Fawlty Towers
2) Doctor Who
3) Dads Army
4) Blackadder - The Third
5) Absolutely Fabulous
6) Who Wants to be a Millionaire
7) Coronation Street
8) Only Fools and Horses
9) Torchwood
10) Emmerdale
11) Men Behaving Badly
12) My Family
13) Gimme Gimme Gimme
14) One Foot in the Grave
15) Keeping up Appearances
16) Touch of Frost
17) Are You Being Served?
18) Art Attack
19) Top Gear
20) Red Dwarf
21) My Hero
22) Last of the Summer Wine
23) Open all Hours
24) Sherlock
25) XFactor

Jimbob1977

El Dorado

A BBC soap opera series about British ex-pats living on the Costa del Sol.

The series flopped. Some episodes were never screened because the acting was appalling. Canned in a few months.

eagle eye

Anyone mention the life and times of grizzly Adams?

branie2

Highway to Heaven - An angel helping people on earth

RMAOK

branie2 wrote: »

Highway to Heaven - An angel helping people on earth

One of the stars of that, Michael Landon, was also in little house on the prairie and Bonanza iirc

Subacio

The reason the war seemed to last forever on The Sullivans was because RTE showed only one episode per week. Aussie tv showed 5 per week.

sweetie

American cult shows larry sanders and my so called life were great.
Sean's show with the late departed Sean Hughes was another favourite.

NewbridgeIR

Subacio wrote: »

The reason the war seemed to last forever on The Sullivans was because RTE showed only one episode per week. Aussie tv showed 5 per week.

Exactly, see my point above

artvanderlay

sweetie wrote: »

American cult shows larry sanders and my so called life were great.
Sean's show with the late departed Sean Hughes was another favourite.

I loved Larry Sanders and Seans Show, but absolutely hated My So Called Life. To this day, I still despise Claire Danes :P And Jared Leto!

branie2

The Canadian show The Kids of Degrassi Street and it's spinoff Degrassi Junior High

branie2

The original Fireman Sam

Marengo

If not already mentioned. Fields of Fire.. Australian Mini Series 1987. On RTE in 1988.

Marengo

Anno Domini around 1985. Ian McShane and a good few English actors and actresses.

Marengo

If a child of the 80s Fortycoats and my favourite character from it 'The Pickarooney' just ahead of 'Sofar Sogood' and 'Slightly Bonkers'.

Marengo

I'm sure Ballymagash has been mentioned. The Minister for Hardship.. Eamonn Morrissey and Jack Finch!

Marengo

Number 1. A music show quiz. Des Fitzgerald hosting. Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot of Def Leppard team captains. 1980s.

branie2

Marengo wrote: »

Number 1. A music show quiz. Des Fitzgerald hosting. Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot of Def Leppard team captains. 1980s.

Dave, not Des. And Gerry Ryan was captain before Joe Elliot

Marengo

Insurrection 1966, 50th Centenary of 1916, repeated in 2016.

Marengo

branie2 wrote: »

Dave, not Des. And Gerry Ryan was captain before Joe Elliot

That's right, yes Des was a rugby prop, father of Luke Fitzgerald:D

Marengo

Know Your Sport

Probably finished up in the mid 90s after an 8-10 year run.

Marengo

Mailbag (if not mentioned already) with Arthur Murphy. In the early and mid 1980s he was very serious and sincere, then turned into a messer towards the end of the series iirc.

RMAOK

Marengo wrote: »

Know Your Sport

Probably finished up in the mid 90s after an 8-10 year run.

The first time on TV I got to see the memory man, Jimmy McGee, in action

branie2

Marengo wrote: »

Mailbag (if not mentioned already) with Arthur Murphy. In the early and mid 1980s he was very serious and sincere, then turned into a messer towards the end of the series iirc.

You could see the readers of the viewers' letters

Dtp1979

branie2 wrote: »

Dave, not Des. And Gerry Ryan was captain before Joe Elliot

Was Ian Dempsey on that too?

Marengo

Some great traditional music programmes like The Pure Drop and The Mountain Lark.

Marengo

branie2 wrote: »

You could see the readers of the viewers' letters

The, relatively, elderly gent with the glasses.

branie2

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Was Ian Dempsey on that too?

He was, he succeeded Dave Fitzgerald as the quiz master.

RMAOK

I vaguely remember a music type show on rte - it had a cgi (or what would have been called graphics back then).

Think it might have called Nighthawks

Marengo

Rapid Roulette Quiz show with Maurie Taylor originally and then Maxi.

Sardonicat

RMAOK wrote: »

I vaguely remember a music type show on rte - it had a cgi (or what would have been called graphics back then).

Think it might have called Nighthawks

Nighthawks was brilliant. It want a music show though, it was sort of a chat show with satirical sketches and a musical act.

"You Bathtard, Charlie!"

branie2

Murphy's Micro Quiz-m, presented by Mike Murphy on Sunday night before Glenroe. It was succeeded by Where in the World? and was presented by Marty Whelan and then Theresa Lowe

Marengo

Hanly's People

I can only remember seeing Sean Boylan on it in 1990. Biographical type show.

Marengo

In the early 1990s Friday evening included a show from a circus tent (Fossetts?) called 'Bibi's Big Top'.

Given Bibi's 'buxom' nature many thought RTE were taking the pi*s!!

branie2

Coach, with Craig T Nelson as a college coach for an American Football team

Marengo

Rapid late 1990s early 200s with Kathryn Thomas and Jason Sherlock. Varied sports show.

A clip from 1999 with a 19/20 year old Kathryn Thomas.

branie2

Head 2 Toe, a fashion programme, mainly for certain sections ;-)

sitkaspruce

Live at 3 Thelma was beautiful

Marengo

branie2 wrote: »

Head 2 Toe, a fashion programme, mainly for certain sections ;-)

Bairbre McMahon and Pat O'Mahony(?)

Is Bairbre still with usi wonder.. she'd be in her 80s you'd imagine.. Seemed to be 50ish 30 years ago.

branie2

Yes. I think she's still around

Marengo

Room Outside- Gardening programme with Gerry Daly in the 80s and 90s.