bring back 80's channel 4

I'm been waiting for them to bring back kabadi... but I won't hold my breath.

Network 7
R krays jail 'friend '... on a desert island with Damon from Brookside,Annabel Croft and a couple of others on a real tropical island that was tv gold

P'tang Yang Kipperbang ... never seen it for years but a good lttle film of its time to watch as I remember

A little later, the 90's, but Tour de France coverage after school, Gazetta Football Italia and American Football coverage are particular highlights.

I think I only watched it for gratuitous female nudity.

The Tour De France coverage was second to none , and the NFL was much better in an hours highlights instead of 4 hours per game.

They had a lot of concerts on when the channel first started.

I remember wobbling home from the pub on a Saturday night to watch the excellent Who Dares Wins , with Rory McGrath , baldrick et al.

They also showed Cheers .

Comic Strip was great.

adolescent teenagers dream in the 80s,saved buying porno mags

I used to read your Razzle Chavman, inside your Telegraph every Thursday wasnt it?
11 Park Avenue

Back in the 70s and early 80s webb offset in Carlisle used to print anything up 26 pornographic publications most of which could be found next door strewn around Carr's field rugby pitch every kid in the Raffles had an fully comprehensive knowledge of tghe birds and bees

One Summer ......


just watched it again recently on youtube

The Tube
Julian Clary's Sticky Moments
Pete Shelley's Tour de France theme music
Girl-on-girl action with Anna Friel

Where did it all go wrong?

Yes there were a lot of Lezzy programs on Channel 4 in the 80's.
Really quite strong some of them
My eyesight has barely recovered

Eurotrash

Channel 4 used to have a bush alert symbol in the corner of the screen - a red triangle.  Usually during some japanese film with subtitles.  The triangle was the wrong way round and black would have been better than red but you knew that at least 5 seconds of foreign nudity was guaranteed

If only all warnings could be so  good

Oh... I thought that was a shandy bass advert

After Dark

Possibly an unnecessary format these days, with Twitter providing the means for personalities to string themselves up without the need for an intermediary. But hypnotic live television nonetheless.

Mid to late 90s.

Eurotrash on a Friday night.  Finger in position on remote ready to change to BBC1 incase anyone walked in.  Joy that it was a Friday night and so the weekend was here.  Quite often disappointment when the only nudity was some fat Austrian's swinging díck.

Also, Gazzetta.  Not just the football; I have strong memories of James Richardson sitting outside a cafe, pointing out headlines in Italian newspapers.  Partly responsible for my interest in languages.

Mustn't forget The Crystal Maze with the bald bloke.

There was a gambling tv series on it to in late 80's cant remember what it was called,set in London I think.

The After Dark with Olly Reed was a classic!

Nicholas van Hoogstraten telling Henry Kelly that he might have once attacked a rabbi with a hand grenade, but he'd never get involved with anything as distasteful as gambling. Although he did make an exception for Premium Bonds.