Old tv shows - that need to be seen again

Daktari
The Water Margin
Monkey
It's A Knockout(European version with loads of teams)

Laurel and Hardy films.

the woodentops

United!

United! was a British television series which was produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and was broadcast twice-weekly on BBC1.
The series followed the fortunes of a fictional second division football team, Brentwich United. The football scenes were filmed on the grounds of Stoke City with Jimmy Hill acting as a technical advisor, and the efforts to achieve authenticity saw the show being criticised by the then management of Wolverhampton Wanderers, who complained that the series was based on their team.
As was common television practice of the time, the series' videotapes were wiped for reuse. As a result, none of its 147 episodes are believed to have survived

A very good series imo, remember it quite well.

The Fugitive TV series in the 60s was brilliant, and stands up well today.

Would go down a storm if repeated.

Going back to the OP mentioning Armchair Thriller, I remember this clip frightening the crap out of me when I was a kid!

https://youtu.be/747SKishQPg?t=57s

Tom & Jerry.

When I was a kid, never ever thought it was violent. Never ever thought seeing a scared women's legs, with Nora Batty type stockings, was anything at all to do with racism.

Bloody political correctness.

YT has the whole episode - quiet as a nun on it?

william hill

sorry william tell

The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin (the proper one not the mediocre remake with Martin Clunes) is well overdue being reshown.

Whodunnit? They showed a murder and the panel had to solve the crime. Jon Pertwee was the presenter. Patrick Mower was very good at it iirc (although in this more cynical age we'd wonder if he'd not been tipped off beforehand).

So long as they only repeat the first two magnificent series ......the third one was terrible.

Reggie Perrin that is

Jim'll Fix It
Rolf's Cartoon Time
Love Thy Neighbour

I can't think of any justifiable reason that these three aren't still on tv.

Jim'll Fix It
...

I can't think of any justifiable reason that these three aren't still on tv.

Not sure why Jim'll Fix It was ever on tv. Forget the sex stuff -- he was a bloody awful broadcaster who could barely string a sentence together.

Sledge Hammer! superb 1980s Dirty Harry spoof...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R03Dtu1r6nk

the newcomers,nobody will remember but it was a kind of early EastEnders,cica 1967

big breadwinner hogg , king and castle  ,was a callow youth in the 60-70s  and these series seemed great at the time  ,,  and those play for today ,playhouse  armchair theartre were the nuts

seen the first episode of Breadwinner Hogg a couple of years ago. quite good.
YT has a few play for todays? I think about six?

Uncle Vanya with Hopkins was there?

they have the story of -  Breaking the Code: Biography of Alan Turing (Derek Jacobi, BBC, 1996)

this is a lot better than the cartoon performance by benedict the over rated?

yeah have watched a few of the playhouse /play for todays on yt a few years back , loved the gritty down to earth  plays ,also watched grown ups.......... funny !

Big Deal - watched series 1 and 2 on youtube, but series 3 had been removed and its not been released on dvd.

Armchair Thriller used to scare the sh1t outta me. The opening credits and that theme tune would give me nightmares
the old Flash Gordon chapters is a great shout. They used to be on over Christmas.

my list of shows to be brought back include

Rocket Man (black n white superhero serial, bit like iron man, but with very basic gadgets - just a backpack with a rocket engine )
The Invisible Man
Gemini Man
Petrocelli
Charlies Angels (Kate Jackson )

Loads of great cartoons as well, my faves include

Hong Kong Phooey
Captain Caveman
Wacky Races

Jan 25, 2017 -- 5:37PM, Ramruma wrote:

Whodunnit? They showed a murder and the panel had to solve the crime. Jon Pertwee was the presenter. Patrick Mower was very good at it iirc (although in this more cynical age we'd wonder if he'd not been tipped off beforehand).

Wasn't it hosted by William Franklin? (Shhhhh You Know Who)?

I'd like to see all the episodes - and there were loads - of Tomorrow's World, just to see how many good ideas were missed out on, what the predictions were and see some really bad ideas.

Agree about Hill Street Blues, dambuster.  But of course it was the actors and personalities that made it and that cannot be replicated if they made a new series, but the old series would be great.  Although I suppose it is out on dvd now?

Mick Belker, Phil Esterhaus, Andy Sipowicz etc etc all brilliant in their own way.

I don't think you could get a show like that today because the actors were really men, unlike today's fairy puffs.  It did not matter that they were not good looking, they oozed sex appeal.

Love to see Big Deal as well

Meet The Huggetts

Sorry annie but Sipowicz was NYPD Blue, same actor was mostly Norman Buntz on the Hill.
Agree about Mick Belker, one of my all time favourite TV characters.

flashing blade

The Saint....Simon Templar..

Kojack....who luves you baby ! ....shocking omission

Dusty Bin...3–2–1

Cauthenmeister, you are right

I knew who I meant but had forgotten his name in hill street blues and when I looked it up on wiki I got muddled up because he played sipowizc in nypd blue which I haven't seen.  AGree about Mick Belker, one of my all time favourite tv characters.

Sorry to harp on about how Buntz and Mick Belker were so attractive but I do so because men make the mistake of thinking that women only care for attractive men, like men mainly only care about looks in women.  Women are far more attracted to men's personalities than to their looks.  Okay looks can get you started but then if men have rubbish personalities then it will end, looks or not.  Obviously this is not the same for men as a woman can be practically a moron but if they are attractive then that is sufficient.

I write these things occasionally because I have been helped a lot from advice on here and I would like to give some back as there are some nice men on here that could do with female partners. Not me I hasten to add.

Buntz and Belker were almost unattractive and buntz was not nice but they were sexy.

Turtles Progress and Big Deal

Let's be careful out there.

Sexpot

Tomorrow's World,
Anyone remember the show where the presenter demonstrated the new fangled CD (compact disc)?
After demonstrating it, he stated that it would never catch on, as everyone had their music on tape!

Biggest shocking omission (unless I've missed it) is Bilko.
Voyage to the bottom of the Sea
UFO
Space 1999

Morpeth Mackem..Flashing blade..what great music

a shockin omission by mself...
It Ain't half hot mum....Brilliant

The Squirrels

''Land of hope and glory''.
''SHUTTTTTUPPPPPPP''....

Top 3 that wouldn't be allowed back on;

1. Love Thy Neighbour
2. Til death Us Do Part
3. Curry and Chips (Spike Milligan blacked up, can watch it on Youtube still)

Skippy.

I'm a ROOSTER BOY

anyone remember "big John little John"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAId5zr25w

the stomach episode in Bilko  - awesome.

did an episode on horse racing in which he gets the elite scientists to pick out his horses too.

Joe mcdoakes did a good episode - called so You Want to Be a Gambler (1948), loved it.

Rocket man - jeff king, was just mental, constant punching... like a twelve rounder.  He should have had a tazer or something. it always came down to a mad fist fight.

growing up you didn't realize how close to the second world war it was? the old movies seem really dated now, but back then they were pretty new. Imagine 1995 films now?
Cagney was Massive. Now a lot of people wouldn't know him at all? that's just bizarre to think about. I know a few people in their thirties no idea who Jimmy Cagney was?

Or Bogart, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart to name a few who most of today's actors couldn't lace their boots.

THE LONE RANGER
FOLLYFOOT

BILLY BUNTER

Catweasel, with the Telling Bone and Electrickery

cuckoo waltz - crown court - raffles - cribb - rumpole - moody and pegg

now and again - was a strange show? sf ch.

Capt F, 'let's be careful out there' was part of the reason that I liked the desk sergeant Phil Esterhaus.  It was a shame he died in the series and of course in real life.

It is really annoying that they won't show 'it ain't half hot' because it is deemed racist.

I despair of the United ( you must be joking ) Kingdom   If I was younger I might campaign or something, but life is too short to go banging you head etc.  But then I despair of almost everything about our country nowadays.

Profit:

Profit is a U.S. television drama series that originally aired in 1996 on the Fox Broadcasting Company (Mondays at 9:00 p.m. EST). The series was created (and occasionally directed) by David Greenwalt and John McNamara, and starred Adrian Pasdar as the eponymous lead character Jim Profit. In February 2008 repeat episodes began airing on Chiller (in the USA),[1] and in October 2010 on CBS Action (in Europe).[2]

Considered by many to have been well ahead of its time, the series was a precursor to the early-21st-century trend of “edgy” TV melodramas (featuring dark themes and multidimensional characters) such as: The Sopranos; Mad Men; Nip/Tuck; Dexter; Breaking Bad and The Shield. Controversial themes (largely stemming from the lead character’s amoral, Richard III-style ways) made the show uncomfortable and unfamiliar viewing for mainstream U.S. audiences and Fox network affiliates at the time, leading to its cancellation after just three episodes (not including the pilot) aired.[3] In 2013 TV Guide ranked the series #4 on its list of 60 shows that were "Canceled Too Soon", calling the series "shockingly memorable".[4]


Summary[edit]
Jim Profit is a newly promoted junior-executive at Gracen & Gracen (G&G), a multinational conglomerate that often engages in unethical business practices while actively cultivating a positive public image. G&G’s dark side does not bother Profit, who is not above using blackmail, bribery, extortion, or worse to get ahead himself. Jim Profit addresses the audience via voiceover narration, and occasionally even “breaks the fourth wall” by speaking directly to the camera/audience with such quotes as: "The line most people say they won't cross... it's usually something they've already done when they thought no one was watching." Through frequent inner monologues, Profit shares his motives, plans, and situational observations with the audience. When home alone at night, Profit continues his ‘work’ in his office (hidden behind a false wall of his living room), searching the Internet and hacking G&G’s servers for information to be used as research and ammunition for his various schemes. Whenever he eliminates or outmaneuvers a G&G target, that person's avatar is exploded and erased from his computer’s virtual-G&G-offices environment. While obviously affluent and living in a well-furnished luxury penthouse, Profit still goes to bed the same way he did as a child: curled up, naked in the corner of the large G&G shipping box he was raised in.

what happened to Hale and Pace - they were funny. Only lasted a few years. Thought they'd go on like the two ronnies into institutional christmas shows?

Hill street blues was spoiled by the captain's ex wife.... oh, she was a drain of energy.

I just waited to see the wee guy bite someone in the episodes. I liked the eccentricities of his character.

but overall spoiled by that woman... the producer's wife?

She was indeed the one dreadful character.....and you are correct as to how she got the gig.

what happened to Hale and Pace - they were funny. Only lasted a few years. Thought they'd go on like the two ronnies into institutional christmas shows?

Didn't they split up and one of them went into acting?

Better Off Ted - loved this show, cancelled way too soon. two seasons - no billionaires out there to sponsor it?

whatever happened to whatever happened to the likely lads ?

could remake it with the versatile  tim healy as a short angry geordie and even more versatile  jimmy nail as a tall angry geordie.

Pogles Wood

https://youtu.be/-NRg8MbQk9A

Lifes Too Short...hilarious , Trainer, bbc1 sunday nights.

The Wonder Years
NYPD Blue
Moonlighting
Tiswas

"the worker" starring Charlie drake circa 1965,also starred henry McGee as mr.poo,sorry mr.pugh

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the newcomers,nobody will remember but it was a kind of early EastEnders,cica 1967

Remember it fondly Judy Geeson () on a date & wearing a flower at the bottom of the v of her top which her boyfriend quickly disposed of - wow! just too much for a 14 year old lad!

Coupling - recently watched them again & still nearly cried with laughter in places

anyone remember' desert crusader' from kiddies telly in the 70s.
probably couldnt be shown now, here's the theme anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22FxOdEYLc

Coupling - Good shout Le Ho

Anyone remember Flashing Blade, on childrens TV, late 60s early70s,
i know it sounds like an Ian Balding 2yo, but the theme tune was great, you will definitely remember it

Just about, I remember the music beat was exactly the same as Johnny Remember Me, by The Great Escape tunnel king, John Leyton.

You've got to fight for what you want, and all that you believe..................

Flashing Blade lyrics. Love the theme. All the words I remember unfortunately.

'The Wonder Years' is a very good shout gibs, I liked that show.
Superstars used to be very good as well, Andy Ripley, Brian Jacks, Keith Fielding, Brian Hooper, Kevin Keegan etc.

Fantasy Island a shocking omission

Keith Fielding beating the NFL flying running back in World Superstars was great TV ......only for the yanks to give their guy the result .
My dad always said he was even faster than Offiah.

Glad I'm not the only dinosaur on here that remembers Kieth Fielding 626, he was lightening quick. Malcolm Macdonald was no slouch either. My favourite Superstar was easily Andy Ripley though, I was lucky enough to have met him through Rosslyn Park rugby club and played cricket with him as well. A true Great British Corinthian.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/7835829/Andy-Ripley.html

Flashing Blade unforgettable theme tune.

But the daddy of all theme tunes is Superstars. Nothing gets near it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCUOB_m8Cs

Superstars Keith Fielding

Prospects - channel 4 1980's
.
https://youtu.be/oz51aMwcB9c

Indoor League
Charlie's Angels
Public Eye

mr.pasty
the white heather club
simon dee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNjEXGBcV-c

better off Ted - you must look.

the only show i can remember from the old days that has never been repeated is  IT ain't half hot mum . Hasn't been shown for 33 years .

would like to just be able to see one episode .

does ytube have one?

Poignant but amusing: SINK OR SWIM, two brothers on a houseboat, with Peter Davison

Absurd but funny and weirdly realistic: NIGHTINGALES, three security guards, with Robert Lindsay

Old-fashioned but funny: SLAP with er .. dunno, ITV comedy aired about 7pm set in a Manchester(?) make-up shop

zorro - good thinking - will look tomorrow for a full episode

nobody here but us chickens.

had a dream about Jenny Hanley from Magpie. (non sexual, someone will go wayhey)

looked her up her mom was Dinah Sheridan, didn't know that.
she had a very proper voice. early BBC presenta voice.


Magpie vs Blue peter ?

tried to watch flashing blade recently - got through one episode and gave up.

used to really like it. now its eh?

still can sing the song, as if you can forget that.

come white horses, snowy white horses.... see, perfect.

Bilko still time-invariant.

Callan - when Edward Woodwood could act.

Hill Street Blues bar the first couple before it got into its stride. And Dennis Franz was first a b$nt cop who was killed and then a good cop in the final episodes and then got a series of his own which sunk like a stone before NYPD (Sipowicz).

Agree, bodil

Before entering Hill Street Blues (1981), as Norm Buntz, appeared as Sal Benedetto for a few episodes (then shot dead).

Later Beverly Hills Buntz with Peter Jurasik, his snitch in HSB.

Then NYPD.

Oh good, James Sikking is still alive.

I really liked norman buntz in hill street blues, he was a first class ar$ehole, but there was something sexy about him, fat and unattractive as he was.  Men are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lucky they can be unattractive, evil, fat and still be sexy, it's not fair

No mention of Champion the Wonder Horse. A sort of early version of Skippy from the USA.

You've just made a lot of people on here very happy. 



Not me of course.

Champion the Wonder Horse may well have made annie happy.

Oh, different topic.  Right.

Look, I can't help it.

I should have been a Hollywood scriptwriter.  Amoral and without hope of salvation.

Champion the Wonder Horse may well have made annie happy.

Oh yeah BODIL, BODIL, BODIL, pot, kettle etc etc

Unfortunately hollywood scriptwriters have a lot to answer for.  They colluded with the producers produce anodyne films that adhered to the 'production code' that was to go on for about thirty years.  Years in which people of our generation did not learn about homosexuality, sex etc etc.  Everything, mostly, was based around 'happy families' sort of. Sorry I am tired.

I probably shouldn't ...

Actually Bodil was sensible - ponies only internally.  Gosh I'm a poet and I didn't know it.

Now I am feeling a bit queasy......

Well, Hollywood and the TV establishment have lost control - anything and everything is possible. Ironically, we no longer have the time for most of it.

We are all drifting apart. Oh god, we may have to look ourselves in the eye?

Sweet dreams all.  It could get better?

Goodnight all