the greatest t.v programme of all time?

The ones they did of the Olivia Manning WW2 novels ( 2 trios) were excellent. Oddly I remember reading some of the books going to the Cheltenham Festival, some time ago. They had the married couple Branagh and Thompson - and were still great. They must have loved each other at the time.

Do you remember The Rock & Roll years Bodil? It was news footage through the sixties with a musical soundtrack. Commentary in words on the screen. A great history lesson and a brilliant docu.

It seems like yesterday. I'm sure they haven't wiped that dobbo. Somebody somewhere will have recorded and preserved it. I'm sure I've seen it on one of the interminably-repeating channels. Many times.


Admit it, you appeared on it.

c0ck p1ss partridge

No it is never shown anywhere and yes I'm a dot in Hyde Park and a smudge in Grovesnor square

You're more than that my friend. You're also a lingering memory on here.

Brasseye or I'm Alan Partridge, the first series, for me.

A lovely epitaph:

"He used to be a memory"

brasseye was genius.

thankyou for reminding me of the 'rock n roll years'!

I can think of 5 pieces of perfect genius tv they are:

Brasseye
I'm Alan Partridge (the first series)
Blackadder goes forth
Fawlty Towers (both series)
Peter Cook with Clive Anderson pretending to be footy manager/rockstar/old judge/metaldetecting nerd

All of the above are as good as faultless imo.

Love Dad's Army and Only Fool's and Horses too, but they resorted
to cheap laughs and slapstick too often imo. Which is a shame because
in terms of characters, actors and writers they had everything. But
they obviously made too many episodes which is why they had to go
for th cheap laughs that let them down in the end. Still cracking programmes
though imo. Am I the only one taking this seriously

Oddly reg, I loved the introductory music to the Rockford Files. It was great for its time.

Minder.

minder was good arthur daley a great character imo

What was that BBC one with Victorian costumes and carriages? That was great that was

Question Time ^^^

Extremely difficult to select just one but my vote goes to Jeeves and Wooster.

Written by a comedy genius and acted superbly by everyone involved.

When I was living with 3 women in 3 different places simultaneously, 2 TV progs gave me some solace - Minder and Hill Street Blues. Drinking vodka watching them was comfort indeed. Both have survived well. Almost as well as me. It's close.

Bodil I sense in your recent posts an urge to reveal yourself.

Don't

The League Of Gentlemen

best thing ive ever seen, no contest

My ex-BP colleagues (and the pubsters) on here shared that info years ago. You must have been napping. Wake up man!

Between The Lines

That was good panglima. Loved the lesbian redhead. Who wouldn't have been so attractive if she wasn't lesbian. Actually they were all good.

The first Prime Suspect was good as was Cracker but for me it would be the dramas the beeb made under the Play For Today /Wednesday Play banner. And series like Boys From The Blackstuff

You're showing your belt and braces, dobbo.

I always hide the braces under the Kaftan

Although he was a sexual unusual and local (maybe sold things at your car boot sales?) Dennis Potter was the best TV playwright. Even when he was insane with the pain (called his cancer Rupert, after Murdoch) he still did better stuff than today.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

British TV at its most excellent

Good call.House of Cards was brilliant.Ian Richardson was compelling. recently State of Play (the TV version) was pretty good.

Yes (Prime) Minister also a class act.

Confusion dobbo?

BTW, The Le Carre series were excellent.

House of Cards was ALSO brilliant.Smiley reminded me of it.

On The Buses

Van Basten. You're a complete idiot.

explain?

On the buses. Though I may have missed more of your idiocy through indolence.

I'm very drunk now and may rip your throat out because you deserve it. Beware the idiot speller.

how has the wonder years not been mentioned


a film out now called' the wonder years grown up' where we see what happened to them would be brilliant.

nostalgia .mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Alan Partridge has got to be up there , before that foreign b1tch he was dating turned up and spoiled it somewhat :(

calm down on the lemonade m8 you will be ok in the morning.

Actually its match of the day thats the best t.v programme.

Match Of The Day isn't bad. Though some presenters should be spiked.

the sopranos..

end of thread.

The Office

The Day Today
The Office
This Life
Rising Damp
Prime Suspect
Fast Show
Blackadder
The Young Ones

not much recent??

Life?

quite sad got to wait this long to see sgt bilko ( phil silvers show ) mentioned .

Teachers

Good call on rock n roll years dobbo.ive got 1980 on tape.Superstars in its heyday for me,dont do theme tunes like that anymore

The History of Britain, learnt more in a few hours than at school.

57 posts and no mention of The wire.

no guardian readers here then.

Sopranos is the only thing I have found totally unmissable..

except may The Young Ones when I was 14

bbc porridge, world in action, Mr & mrs lol

Cracker

Any Reality TV

hill street blues
some mothers do ave em
mr bean
rebus
and if you could pick the best bits of mork and mindy - robin williams GENIUS na nu na nu

this life
murder one
rich man poor man
man at the top

geordiemidland 20 Nov 12:00


this life
murder one
rich man poor man
man at the top

blimey never heard of any of them

supergran B-)

wit-ham your prb very young the fore were 70/s and 80/s

no 45 maybe regional

wife has a go cause i've either got sport on or reruns of saint,champions,randell & hopkirk etc

the greatest story ever told...


....DALLAS :)

The Sweeney.
Local Heroes (I think it was called) with Adam Hart Davis pootling about various towns telling you what various local worthies had invented or discovered.
Thunderbirds.
The sky at night.

this life and murder one were both 90s

The World at War
Hill St. Blues
Fawlty Towers
Cheers
are 4 very good examples

the inbetweeners!

The Wire
Roots
The Shield
Colditz
Monty Python

All unmissable ;)

Oh yeah and

Morse
Cracker
Z Cars
Taggart
Dixon of Dock Green


I could go on ;)

" Old grey whistle test"
I can't remember the 'whispering 'presenter's name.

Bob Harris

i claudius
the simpsons
roots
fawlty towers
red dwarf

The World at War
I Claudius
Secret Army
Fawlty Towers
Rising Damp

Sopranos...Sherlock Holmes...The Wire...Reilly, Ace of Spies...The Sweeney...Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella...A Passion for Angling...Out of Town and Old Country with Jack Hargreaves...White Horses...Fawlty Towers...Porridge...

Troy Kennedy Martin - there's yer TV writer, folks.

Cribb and Raffles deserve a mention...and Callan.

The Epilogue.

Roots easily the best.

arrested development

Hill St Blues and World at War, are 2 good calls.
I'd add Star Trek, Dead Like Me, Cracker, Futurama and Father Ted, as other examples of brilliantly made TV.

The wire
24
The sopranos
The shield
Dexter
Prison Break
Friends
Only fools and horses

There's loads

Hole In The Wall.

Blackadder
The Big Pull
Get Smart
Star Trek (the original)

Boys from The Blackstuff with Yosser

Roots

simon and the witch

DAAAN! DAAAAN! DAAAAN!....

Depressing that TV peaked so long ago - but Fawlty by a distance.

The John Pilger documenatry about Cambodia.

NAP

what was the one where 8 year old girls wore make up & sang chart songs?

(OK -I'll report myself)

No mention of
Big Deal ?

Big Deal - Robbie Box - Betfair all star
Young Ones
One Summer

Homicide : Life on the Street - first few series before it started getting silly with the cops running a bar
X-Files - first few series before it started getting silly with aliens
Twin Peaks - first half of the first series before it started getting silly with the backward talking dwarf

I tried to watch Roots recently and it was dire.

Epilogue

Of the older ones - Sergeant Bilko/The Phil Silvers Show is the only one that has managed to retain its original brilliance. Spooky.

Callan (the recently late Edward Woodwood) is still nastily sinister.

Hill Street Blues and Minder still hack it. Homicide - Life On The Streets is - maybe - the best cop series ever made.

Deadwood was brilliant (so anti-theamericandream/mythology). The Shield, The Wire, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Dexter, House - why are the best series coming from the US now? We have so many highly paid people in the BBC - surely they must be doing something worthwhile? Apparently not. Kill 4 in 10 to encourage the others.

Blackadder

End this thread immediatley

Blackadder

Swiss Tony

best american comedy show of all time was

the larry sanders show...

but as i said and someone else said..

the sopranos was the only drama seies that i found unmissable (didnt even like watching a recording in case ppl told me whathappened) and used to really look forward to the start of each new series..

sad end point.... i have still yet never watched the very last episode..

Minder
OFAH
Blakes 7
Red Dwarf
Twilight Zone

More serious stuff then the house of cards trilogy was great.

Hill Street Blues
Minder
World at War
Sopranos
NYPD Blue
The Phil Silvers Show
Rome
I Claudius
Wire in the blood
The Waltons

They could re-run these endlessly and I would always watch them.

Been watching the wonder years on umm i dunno one of the freeview channels. that was a good prog.

the original star trek was great but for some reason had a large amount of completely crap episodes.