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Subject: forgotten TV series. From: Bert Date: 24 Apr 02 - 02:45 AM That you'd like to see again. AND Private Schultz |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Apr 02 - 02:47 AM The Day of the Triffids by the BBC. That Robinson Crusoe series made in ?Switzerland and was on TV every summer holiday during the 1970's.... 'White Horses' ditto - I just want to see it again to see if it really is as dire as I remember..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Hille hunting her cookie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 02:54 AM I see 'The Singing Ringing Tree' is just available now on DVD - which has cleared up a 30 year mystery for of vague memories of black and white pictures of bears and dwarves. Big write up on this in a national paper on how the BBC used to (during the Cold War!) buy up Eastern Bloc children's programmes which were educationally/culturally challenging for children to watch. Some difference today, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Chip2447 Date: 24 Apr 02 - 02:57 AM ONE WORD...."QUARK" HAHAHAHA |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: sledge Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:05 AM That other summer regular series, the flashing blade. Nostalgia attack Sledge |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Hille again Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:13 AM LTS We must be from the same era! I want to see 'White Horses' again (Come, white horses, come and play away, dum, dum, dum, der dum di dum...' and that Robinson Crusoe version! I always found the actor in that vaguely alluring .. although baffling as to how a Swiss production could be made in an obviously tropical setting *G* And there's another one - do you remember that Black Forest based series? And the 'the Owl Service' based on an Alan Garner book ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Trevor Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:27 AM Does anybody remember 'Forest Rangers', set in Canada I think? Can't remember much about it except the they lived/played in a fort or something, and had a friendly native to look after them. The number one kid always looked underfed. And, and, and what about 'Tales of Rubovia'? And I could never work out when I was a kid, why the actors faces didn't look quite right when they were saying their lines in all those 60's kids programmes - it was ages before I twigged they were all speaking Bulgarian or something. And wasn't the theme tune to Robinson Crusoe great - I can hear it now! |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Bert Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:30 AM And Dad's Army, which was so unreal, but was really funny. (The home guard in those days were the meanest bastards under the sun and were nothing like the buffoons on Dad's Army) |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:34 AM Noggin the Nog! Lolek & Bolek (Just so we can deliberately mis-pronounce it again). But seriously, are the Beeb ever going to repeat "Chelmsford 123"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Hille Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:37 AM Does the new series of Captain Pugwash still have Master Bates and Seaman Staines? Or was it only the original? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Sarah the flute Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:41 AM There was a brilliant spoof chat show on Channel 4 set in ficticious Newton Barnes called "Four for Tonight". They had some really wacky real? guests including the fishmonger who performed shakespeare with dead fish. The best was an act by a duo where one opened the top of his head like a boiled egg by bashing it on the top and then spooning the lid off (it was a false head - I hope). He then proceeded to spoon junket like stuff out of the top and ate it and as he did so he gave a running commentry of the major nerves of the brain and as he hit each one the appropriate function of his body would cease. Sounds sick but it was incredibly well done and very funny. Anyone else see it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Lanfranc Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:45 AM "Rock Follies" The series of the Dorothy Sayers novels with Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter (not the later Ian Carmichael version) "Mapp & Lucia" "Cheyenne" Anything starring the pubescent Annette Funicello(sp?) "Like every red-blooded ... fellow, I remember the boobs of Annette Funicello!" Chris Rohman Alan |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Skipjack K8 Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:28 AM Belle & Sebastian, anyone? Banana Splits (Na na na, nanana na) Tom Baker's Dr Who Forsyte Saga Poldark (Still waiting for Demelza) Onedin Line This is the strange one ............. Howard's Way!! Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:35 AM Llanfranc, "Mapp and Lucia" (with The divine Nigel Hawthorne) are available ( Both Series!!!) on Video, as is the First of the Walter /Petherbridge Dorothy L Sayers progs, " Strong Poison" I hope they do the others, they are the Definitive "Harriet Vane/ Peter Wimsey" for me!! I know this, because I have them! |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Mark Cohen Date: 24 Apr 02 - 05:15 AM Hmmm...guess I'll have to wait for the Mainland to wake up in order to start seeing names on this thread that I recognize! Wasn't "The Prisoner" an English show, or did they all just have that accent? And I was a real "Man From U.N.C.L.E." fan in 1966. And how about "That Was the Week that Was"? Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Fossil Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:10 AM You lot are truly sad! Most of the mentioned programmes would be available on video, I bet. But that isn't really the point, is it? Mind you, "Howards Way".... Hmmm! And "Rock Follies" - right on! Help! It's catching! It's got me by the throat! AAARGH! |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,greg stephens Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:19 AM Compact? i used to watch it avidly, but I really can't remember why. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: HuwG Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:22 AM One that I remember from BBC more than thirty years ago, and which I have never been able to find since: Captain Zeppos. Has anyone any information on this ? By the way, Hille (GUEST), you forgot Roger the Cabin Boy ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nigel Parsons Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:29 AM Mark Cohen: Yes. The Prisoner was an "English" show, but most of the action was in "The Village" set in Portmeirion, in Wales. Hille, & HuwG: as I understand it, the maker of Pugwash has denied all claims about these three names, and threatened court action about their appearing in print, as a personal slur. I know that for the repeats, it is quite clear that the one character is referred to throughout as "Master Mate". It was easy for these claims to arise in the days when video recording was not available, and claims about the previous day's TV shows could not be confimed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:54 AM UK catters... anyone remember a TV program that had a sitar for intro music? It was a quiz show if memory (rapidly failing) serves me well... Can anyone name the piece of music for me. I have always wanted a copy of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Skipjack K8 Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:03 AM Ask the family, with Robert Robinson. Someone told me that the theme music was the national anthem of one of the Indian Subcontinent countries. Any truth in this? Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Dave Bryant Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:11 AM My choices would be: The two Dominick Hyde plays. BRASS - that lovely spoof on Northern Costume Melodramas. SINK OR SWIM - started off with three young people living on a narrowboat near Bristol and then moved to university life. A MOST UNUSUAL PRACTICE - about a university health centre. THE MISSING POSTMAN - the wondeful two-parter starring James Bolam. They could also repeat "The Hitch-Hikers's Guide" as often as they like. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:13 AM Think Chelmsford 123 was a Channel 4 series actually. There were some crackingly bad TV shows in Scotland when I was growing up. There was a really crap soap opera set in a block of flats called 'High Living' and any of the Grampian TV 'Hogmanay' shows were embarrasingly piss poor |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:17 AM Nowhere Man. A chilling series about a man whose identity is taken away from him while he goes to the bathroom in a restaurant. Honest. When he comes back, another man is sitting at the table with his wife, and she claims that she has never seen him before. As it turns out, he is a photographer and has some photographs from the Vietnam War that the government is after, which incriminate some higher-ups, and he has to go on the run, with no identity. Great premise, and every episode, he discovers that things aren't as they seem and people he is starting to trust are part of the consipracy to capture him to get the negatives to the photos. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: InOBU Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:19 AM To show my age folks... Crusader and Rags... the black and white for-runner of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ragland T Tiger rules. Cheers Larry |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:27 AM Thank you skipjack. I hope somebody can name the piece for me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Jeanie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:53 AM Twizzle, Sarah and Hoppity, The Three Scampies (one of whom, I think, was Basil Brush before he was famous), Willum's Tea Party (with Wally Whyton and Muriel Young).The episode of "Rag, Tag and Bobtail" where they met the baby rabbits. "Captain Fantastic" (with David Jason, before he was famous). Thora Hird as the Nurse in BBC production of "Romeo & Juliet" ca. 1969. "Sapphire and Steel" - remember that ?? Totally ludicrous, but great fun. BBC play (or possibly 2-parter) ca. 1970s "Malice Aforethought" starring Hywel Bennett as a doctor got away with murdering his wife, but then sentenced for killing a patient who had died of natural causes. Great story and superb acting. Does anyone remember the first TV adaptation of "The Railway Children", with Jean Anderson as the mother. Better than any later versions/films of it, I think. And how about the adaptations of "Children of the New Forest" and "Lorna Doone" (early sixties,Sunday tea-time)? I could go on... but better not. "Compact", Greg Stephens ? Yes ! me too! And I know a lady called Beth Ellis, who admits to having been *in* it !!
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: sledge Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:57 AM And the Gerry Anderson series UFO. Sledge |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Steve Latimer Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:06 AM I'd love to see Don Kirschner's Rock Concert and In Concert again. I've been looking for them both on video with no luck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Wincing Devil Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:06 AM Aaron's Way, a "duck out of water" series about an Amish Family in California. And who can forget (or, more likely, who can remember) Cop Rock a Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) short lived cop show, where, in the middle of an arrest, the cops and ther perps would break out into a choreographed number... |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Skipjack K8 Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:06 AM Ask the family theme music http://tv.cream.org/themes/themes.htm#a |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nigel Parsons Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:16 AM Great Site, Skippy, sorry! Skipjack. I was looking for a music round for next week's quiz at the club. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Trevor Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:25 AM Nice one Skipjack - it has the Robinson Crusoe theme as well. Another vote for 'Rock Follies' here! |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: The Walrus at work Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:28 AM This series has made me feel absolutely bloody ancient, I remember (if onlt vaguely) most of the UK based shows mentioned AAARRRRGGGHHH!!!! Does anyone remember a TV show from around 1963 called something like "Sentimental Agent"? I can't remember anything about it at all except the theme music and a few images of the opening credit footage (a white sports car and Tower Bridge seem to feature quite heavily) but then, when it was on, I was only six or seven. W |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:28 AM Camberwick Green (and Trumpton and Chigley) of course.
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: HuwG Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:43 AM Lanfranc, agree with your taste concerning the Edward Petherbridge / Harriet Walter "Lord Peter Wimsey" series, but, the "later" Ian Carmichael versions ? The Petherbridge / Walters series were made in 1987 / 1988, the Carmichael ones in 1974 / 1975.
Try this The site (imdb) doesn't have much information on Strong Poison, oddly. Perhaps you would care to update them ?
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: HuwG Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:46 AM Sorry Lanfranc. The word I am looking for is "oops!" Try these:
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: sophocleese Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:48 AM I didn't watch much TV as a kid, only when I babysat at someone else's house. There's two I remember that I would like to see again. One was based on Nicolas Freeling novels and I can't remember the name of it, but I still hum the theme tune at odd times. The other was a shortlived series that spoofed all the hard talking detectives called Sledgehammer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:08 AM Any one else remember 'The Gemini Man'? Radiation accident turned Ben Murphy (hell's teeth, where did that dredge up from) invisible when he pressed his watch.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Jeanie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:20 AM It's me again ! Anyone remember "Inspector Lockhart" (opening credits: old-fashioned police car with a bell, driving into the gates of Old Scotland Yard on the embankment) ? And the series of Francis Durbridge mysteries ? There were lots of white sports cars in those (usually with dead bodies in the back),Walrus-at-work, and often chasing over Tower Bridge and the like - might it have been one of those ? I usually hid behind a cushion, so my memory is as hazy as yours. I wonder if anyone else remembers "Boyd QC" ? I think it was someone like Michael Denison as the lead. All these late 50s/early 60s TV dramas had really good, established stage actors in them. OOOh - and mustn't forget one of the best actors of the lot: Peter Barkworth - "The Power Game". |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nigel Parsons Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:24 AM Jeanie: Was the title "Inspector Lockhart", or was that "No Hiding Place" ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Amos Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:39 AM 'Course on this side of the water we really miss Art Baker (sponsored by Skippy Peanut Butter) intoning "You ARE There!!", Captain Video and the Ranger, Rooty-Kazootie, Bud Collier inviting people to Beat the Clock at Sylvania's expense, my first love Princess Summer Spring Winter Fall, Wild Bill Hickock being followed around by Andy "Jingles" Divine, and Pat Brady yelling "Whoaaaaa, Nellybelle" to his Jeep. AND Annette Funicello's boobs. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Micca Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:49 AM Sophoclees , was it the series "Van Der Valk" set in Amsterdam, with Barry Foster as the eponymous hero? if so the theme is called "eye level" |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:53 AM |Freeling wrote the Van Der Valk series. What about Torchy the Battery Boy??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Miken Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:03 AM Seems that there are no 'forgotten' series so far, Bert, (*G*) InOBU - I remember Crusader,too!!! You aren't alone. Mark C.- Here's one - do you remember "Beachcombers" ? About a guy named Nick with a work boat named "Persephone" who made a living hauling drift logs off the beach north of Vancouver. One of my favorites! |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Trevor Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:15 AM 'No Hiding Place' had Johnny Briggs (Corry) as a young Detective Sergeant |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Dave Bryant Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:18 AM If we really want to go back to those days when the television sets were 2 feet wide, but the (b/w) screen was only 9 inches (diagnally), then who can remember UK children's programs like:- RENFREW OF THE MOUNTIES WHIRLYGIG - with Humphey Lestoq and Mr Turnip. SATURDAY SPECIAL - with Peter Butterworth. THE SILVER SWORD - a serial set in Europe at the end of WW2, with quite a few child actors (Melvyn Hayes and Frazer Hines) who went on to adult TV careers. THE GORDON HONOUR - a serial about a family candlestick which had a branch added for each generation of the family. THE SILVER SWAN - Similiar to the above, but this time about a violin which is handed down to each generation. Of course for the really young, Annette Mills (sometimes assisted by Ann Hogarth who "pulled the strings") had a monopoly with MUFFIN THE MULE (not a sexual offense in those days), PRUDENCE KITTEN, and of course ANDY PANDY. Can anyone alse think of any '50s BBC childen's programmes ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:22 AM Z cars |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:32 AM Sophoclese: Sledgehammer was on UK TV about six years ago, & I loved it. "Trust me, I know what I'm doing" Anyone for "Get Smart?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Steve Latimer Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:47 AM Guest, I used to race home from school to see what Max, 99, The Chief etc. were up to. I wonder if I'd find it as funny now as I did. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Ebbie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:59 AM I'm curious. Wincing Devil, I tried to find 'Aaron's Way' through Google and I don't find anything about Amish. I found two sites with that name: one was about an autistic child and the other a series about Seattle mail order brides. Any more information? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: SINSULL Date: 24 Apr 02 - 11:05 AM "Johnny Tremaine", a Disney series and my first crush. Good Neighbors Waiting for God - no one else seems to remember this one, a British comedy about some cantankerous elders in a nursing home. Hilarious! From the fifties: The Andy Divine Show with Midnight the cat who rode a bicycle and played a fiddle and Froggy, a rude frog who disappeared in a cloud of smoke. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Metchosin Date: 24 Apr 02 - 12:42 PM Max Headroom. A little too close to the truth for some perhaps. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: madwaff Date: 24 Apr 02 - 12:46 PM I remember 'Waiting for God', Sinsull - brilliant, ascerbic wit! I decided I'm going to get old like that! 'Edge of Darkness' There was also a wartime one with Alfred Lynch that I can't remember the name of - any clues? Why don't they ever repeat the decent stuff!
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Jeanie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:35 PM Dave Bryant : How could I have forgotten PRUDENCE KITTEN ! Thanks for reminding me. When I was two I used to spend the entire day *being* Prudence Kitten. You asked about other 50s children's programmes: well, how about "All Your Own" hosted by Huw Weldon. Children used to talk about their hobbies, perform magic tricks and so on. Then there was "Land of Song" from Wales. Don't know which children's programme it was, but a girl called Shirley Abacair used to be on it, singing and playing the zither. She sang "Little boy fishing off a wooden pier". If I ever got tired of being Prudence Kitten, I would pretend to be Shirley Abacair. Anyone else remember her ? Even in those days, there was a bit of "daytime TV" - it hasn't got any better ! I remember watching "Quick and Easy Dressmaking" and "Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler". Oooh, and what about "Lunch Box" hosted by Noel Gordon. Can't remember the name of the resident band (one of them was Gary Wilmott's father, I think) who sang "I am a mole and I live in a hole". There were lots of good music programmes - 6.5 Special with all the skiffle groups and I wonder if anyone remembers "Cool For Cats" ? This was a jazz/dance programme - lots of ladies in black leotards crawling all over the floor to jazz music. I remember my dad used to like watching that one ! Oh, how we used to hate it when our mums and dads reminisced. Now look what's happened ! - Jeanie (fast approaching becoming a SAGA lout)
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Sooz Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:51 PM Many of the above - by the way Dave I think it was A Very Peculiar Pracice (brilliant but never repeated). What about the Peter Tinniswood Classics "I didn't know you cared" and "Tales from the Long Room". |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:56 PM I can't believe this thread has gotten this far without anyone mentioning Dr. Who. My kids were nuts about it. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Gareth Date: 24 Apr 02 - 02:22 PM Ahhh "Z" Cars. Alas Stratford Johns ( Charly Barlow) has recently passed on. I have visions of him standing by St. Peter interogating potential entrants to heaven. Or that early 50's series "King of the River" starring the Thames sailing barge "Cambria" - Did the BBC keep any tapes I wonder ? Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Llanfair Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:05 PM Oh God!!!! I remember them all!!!! I must have spent all my formative years in front of the telly. Thank goodness I discovered folk music and boys when I did!!! What about "A for Andromeda" "Quatermass and the Pit" "Blake's 7" and "Jason King" Cheers, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Clinton Hammond Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:13 PM 2 questions... anybody else remember "Bottom"?? Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmonson (sp?) And... If seen in the order they were aired, does the series "The Prisoner" make any more sense? I've debated picking up the series in it's entirety, in hopes that maybe I'll -get- it a little more... |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Don Firth Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:34 PM Several offhand. But there's one I would have liked to have seen more of. It was called Nothing Sacred and it was about a young priest with a parish in the middle of New York City. It wasn't at all sticky and soupy like Touched by an Angel, thank God (!?). The stories were realistic and the characters (including the priest--especially the priest) were human beings. It did depict the church in a positive light, but not without struggle. There it was, warts and all, but trying to do the best it could by the people in the parish. Example: a teenage wants to get an abortion, and the priest tells her, "Why ask me? You know as well as I do what the Church says about it. But whatever you decide to do, just remember that you'll have to live with that decision for the rest of your life." Since the priest didn't absolutely forbid it and lock her in the basement, a bunch of people had a hemmorage and the network pulled the show. (Gutless chickens!) Damned shame. Even if you didn't give diddly-squat about churches in general, the stories were well-written, gritty, and dealt with real life situations. One of the better dramas they've had in a long time. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: swirlygirl Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:44 PM There was a program called something like Tales of the Golden Monkey that had a guy called Jake and a dog i think, which I remember being fabulous... Oh yes Day of the Triffids definitely, was petrified of them and wouldn't go into a neighbour's house as she had a cheeseplant... :) xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:08 PM Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in, where I first fell in love with Goldie Hawn, and I'm still madly in love with her. Poor sad old Scotsman....Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Jeanie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:10 PM For the ultimate in reminiscing, I've just discovered this site: www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/siteindex.htm Prudence is there, Dave ! And you can listen to Shirley Abacair singing "Click go the shears, boys" with Frank Ifield, if you are so inclined. Loads more "forgotten" names: Barry Bucknell (the first TV "Handy Andy"); Hans and Lotte Haas; Fury; Criss Cross Quiz; Sketch Club with Adrian Hill; Lenny the Lion.. Enough already... |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: CarolC Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:14 PM "Buffalo Bill" with Dabney Coleman and Jeena Davis. They pulled it so they could replace it with "Alf" (!! *gag*)
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Jacob B Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:26 PM Fifties TV series that I watched as a kid: Circus Boy (starring a little blond kid named Mickey Dolenz) Casey Jones Cannonball (about two truckers) Jet Jackson (which I'm told was actually Captain Midnight reruns) Anybody remember any of those? I would have included Robin Hood in the list, but a few years ago, late at night, I saw a movie that someone cobbled together out of a few episodes of that show. It was fun, but the plots were too thin for anyone over the age of ten. It's interesting to hear that there was a movie made of The Silver Sword. I read the book as a kid. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Bobert Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:26 PM Mark Cohen and Nigel Parson: A big YES to "The Villiage". Great show though it only lasted one year, if my memory serves me right. And just who was NUMBER ONE? Nevermind. Now I don't want to get anything started here but I grew up on and loved "Amos and Andy". Yeah, I know that some Black folk thought it portrayed black folk in a bad light but Archie Bunker and Al Bundy didn't do alot to promote whits folk. "Hmmmmmmm there, Andy (rubs chin and rolls eyes toward the lodge house ceiling). I think the Bobert has gone off and an' got hisself in the soup again..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Peter from Essex Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:29 PM I agree with Crazy Eddie - Chelmsford 123 must come back. The first episode was best, in Latin with bowlderised sub titles. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: CarolC Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:31 PM I remember Circus Boy. From the same period, I think, does anyone remember Gerald McBoingBoing? (sp?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: RangerSteve Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:34 PM SINSULL - it was "Andy's Gang", not the Andy Divine Show. (All together now-"Stupida frog, always make-a me say da wrong ting". Swirleygirl - yeah, Tales of the Golden Monkey was great. Great comic book villains and Caitlan O'Heaney as the love interest. She was the most beautiful woman on TV at the time. How about The Flash? It was a faithful adaptation of the comic book. The writers were faithful to the comic book spirit, without going overboard like the Batman TV series. Also, "Quantum Leap". Did they ever get Scott Bakula back to where he belonged? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Dagenham Doc Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:48 PM Here's adventure here's romance here's O'Henrys famous Robin Hood of the old west .. The Cisco Kid. With Pancho of course, his stupid fat side kick, [they always had one didn't they.] Dixon of Dock Green with Jack Warner[could never remember his lines] Andy Pandy .... he spent most of his week in a basket !! Who looked after that kid, and just what was going on with him and Loopy Loo??! Doc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: SINSULL Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:56 PM My Friend Flicka Fury Sky King Sgt. Preston of the Yukon Ding Dong School (Miss Frances dies recently) Pinkie Lee Tom Terrific with Manfred the Wonder Dog Rinky Dink Howdy Doody (hated it!)Kukla, Fran, and Ollie (Loved Beulah Witch) |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: The Walrus Date: 24 Apr 02 - 05:50 PM Just reading this thread has sent me on waves of nostalgia to places I really didn't want to go. Jeanie, I well remember "No Hiding Place" if for no other reasomn than the actor playing "Inspector Lockheart" resembled my Primary School Headmaster (Who was the actor? Gordon something or smeone Gordon?). If you remember NHP, what about "Gideon's Law"? (or "Gideon's Way" - one of the two), that was on about the same period. All these mentions of old "adventure" series and the earlier mention of Robin Hood (presumably the Richard Greene version) reminded me of two others, "William Tell" and "Richard the Lionheart" (does anyone have the lyrics to the theme song for this latter? The tune is running through my head and I can't get rid of it). Walrus |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nancy King Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:15 PM Am I the only one who remembers "Mr. Peepers" with Wally Cox? That was one of my faves, along with "Our Miss Brooks" and a few other sitcoms in the 50s. Cheers, Nancy |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nancy King Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:18 PM Ooh, and Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows," and the fabulous Ernie Kovaks specials. Nancy |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: DonMeixner Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:22 PM Its facinating hearing from both sides of the pond. I was a fan of Casey Jones- Alan Hale jr. And Riverboat, Darren McGavin and a young Burt Reynolds. Disney had several limited run series on Sundays with the Wonderful World of Color, Texas John Slaughter, Elfaygo Bacca, The Cat (Robert Loggia who later had a series called T.H.E. Cat) Andy Burnett, who carried Dan'l Boones rifle. Zorro, Boys of the Western Sea. There was a bunch or Warner Bros. series, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco Lane, and a few I'm not sure who did. Tombstone, Yancey Derringer, Jim Bowie. Maverick, Ringo, Tales of the Texas Rangers, The Westerner, I loved all the space operas. Jet Jackson, Cammando Cody, Buzz Corey, Men Into Space, The Bailey's of Balboa, Paul Ford and I think, Judy Carne. The Rogues, David Niven, Robert Coote, Charles Boyer, Gig Young. The British shows I loved and miss, The Good Neighbors (The Good Life), Dr. Who, doesn't matter which Doctor, saw them all up to Peter Davison. To The Manner Born, Yes Minister, Doctor in the House. And then there are the detective shows...... Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Clinton Hammond Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:24 PM 2 questions... anybody else remember "Bottom"?? Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmonson (sp?) And... If seen in the order they were aired, does the series "The Prisoner" make any more sense? I've debated picking up the series in it's entirety, in hopes that maybe I'll -get- it a little more... oh ya... and the series was called "Tales From The Gold Monkey"... it ran one season... Cast
Stephen Collins.... Jake Cutter regardless of what it says on the IMDB, this was an attempt to cash in on the success of Indy... and a poor attempt at that... |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Peter T. Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:35 PM Anyone on the British side of the water know if there has ever been a video release of the Kenneth More 4 parter called (I think) "A Man's Castle"? About what would happen if the Germans had won the war and let the British run things locally within limits. It was quite stunning, and I have never seen it except when I was in England for a bit. I would like to get a copy and see it again. The BBC finally released to video their incredible production of War and Peace (with Anthony Hopkins and Alan Dobie) after I wrote them 3 begging letters!! (Thank me). Cost me $100 dollars Canadian, and worth every penny. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: sponge Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:51 PM wot about the "double deckers" then? did no one watch tv or go to the cinema? what an uncultured lot.....
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: vectis Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:08 PM The Barnstormers. What was the name of the daytime chat show round a coffee table?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Menita Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:39 PM Bert: I've never come across anyone who remembers Private Schults! Wasn't it brilliant. Do you remember the line "Have you got your cyanide capsule? Don't forget, only use it if you have to!" Or something like that!! I remember asking the BBC years ago if they intended to repeat it, and the only answer I got was maybe one day. I recon they've lost it. The humour was dry but so incredibly funny. LA |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Menita Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:42 PM Me again : What about Pinky and Perky - who were the real singing voices behind those pigs? (Perhaps not a very nice place to be!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Rufus Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:25 PM Golden Hind (Francis Drake & co) Rin Tin Tin Clutch Cargo Diver Dan (well - no one said it had to be good!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Hrothgar Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:32 PM Onya, Dave Bryant, for remembering "Brass." Back in the eighties, when the Australian cricket team couldn't beat time with a stick, the only reason for sitting up and watching it was that "Brass" was used to fill in the gap at lunch. Not only a parody of the North of England shows, but it had a shot at "Dallas" and a few others as well. Jerr R: You shouldn't had listed "Dr Who" in a thread on forgotten TV series. Dr Who will live forever! |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Troll Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:22 PM Anyone remember "The Bucaneers" or "Beany and Cecil"? "Dr.Who" for sure, along with "Your Hit Parade" with Gieselle McKenzie and (I'm not making this up) Snooky Lanson. But of them all, there is one thing for sure. CRUSADER RABBIT RULES!!! troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Helen Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:22 PM The Lotus Eaters, and any series written by Michael J. Bird. Unfortunately I missed the last episode of The Lotus Eaters and never, ever did find out what happened. MJ Bird wrote dramas with a twist - supernatural (Dark Side of the Sun, & Maelstrom) or mythological (Who Pays the Ferryman?) or mysterious as in the Lotus Eaters, where a very ordinary-seeming housewife turns out to be a sleeper agent. I second the nominations for Waiting for God, Max Headroom, and Jet Jackson Yes, Jerry R, someone mentioned Doctor Who, near the top of the thread ClintonH, The Prisoner never made sense. It was just like a nightmare on an endless loop.
Basil Brush (UK) and Mr Squiggle (Oz) who has only recently been forcibly retired from Oz tv, after a very long innings of 40 years. http://www.ozramp.net.au/~fiawol/squiggle.htm Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: thosp Date: 25 Apr 02 - 01:10 AM i loved so many of the above mentioned i just want to add East Side / West Side The Defenders and the not so old The Waltons ppeace (Y) thosp |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Mark Cohen Date: 25 Apr 02 - 02:31 AM To make this a musical thread, here's a link to my TV Theme Song Quiz from last summer. And yes, I do remember Beany & Cecil (with Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent!). And who can forget the great Soupy Sales? (Remember the line that supposedly got him kicked off the air: "White Fang, how come whenever I write "F", you see "K"?) In Philadelphia, we had "Popeye Theater" with Sally Starr, "Cartoon Corners General Store" with Gene London, and my first love, "Pixanne": I'll see you in the forest I'll meet you in the forest Come to the forest with me Where things are always happening And there's plenty of things to see So don't go far away Come back next Saturday Back into the forest with me Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Bert Date: 25 Apr 02 - 03:04 AM Dave, How could I have forgotten Muffin The Mule? We were heartbroken when Annette Mills died. And Don, Thanks for reminding me of The Rogues, are any of those episodes available on video? Every one was a winner, kinda like Maverick on steroids. Yeah Jacob, I remember Cannonball it was a piyty that it didn't last too long. They could have done a lot more with that concept. And you're righ LA, Private Schultz was absolutely brilliant. The whole concept of his conning the SS into forging British Fivers, just so that he could grab some for himself and buy a night with this hooker that he'd fallen for. And how he turns from a bad guy, petty crook into a good guy who saved all his Jewish friends, who were also crooks and forgers. And Oh my gawd I've just thought of another one "Dr. Findlay's Casebook". Sheesh I still answer the phone with "Arrrrden Houooos" |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Steve Parkes Date: 25 Apr 02 - 03:31 AM Muffin the Mule--who or what was Peregrine? Prudence Kitten--who was Nelson?br> The prog with Shirley Abicair was Busy Lizzie, wasn't it? She had a dress with a magic flower on it, which granted her four wishes every day (not the usual three; for the convenience of trhe script, I think). She appeared in Picture Book on ... Tuesdays(?) She was a very pretty sweet child of about four, but she could never remeber to count her wishes, and would eventually try nuber five, which canceled all the others and left her where she started. Ah well, at least she'd never have ended up with a sausage on her nose! < OK: what about Billy Bean and his Funny Machine? (Sounds like a short-lived acid rock band, doesn't it?) I was banned from watching Quatermass and the Pit after going into near-hysterics in the first episode: for a week I wouldn't go to bed, I wouldn't be left alone in a room ... I was seven, I think. Dr Who was small beer by comparison! I think I'm probably ready for QATP now, though. Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Trevor Date: 25 Apr 02 - 03:52 AM I remember being scared and crying at The Silver Sword because I thought that the devastation of Warsaw was actually Walsall! I was only seventeen at the time though! Does anybody remember a drama set in occupied France with Robert Hardy playing the part of a German sergeant called Gratz, who fell in love with a jewish girl who was a member of the French resistance. It may have been called 'Manhunt'. Who was the girl -was it Francesca Annis? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Jeanie Date: 25 Apr 02 - 04:17 AM I am very pleased to be turning into a sad old codger; old age is going to be such a joy ! Steve - Nelson was Prudence Kitten's sailor brother, and she also had a sister called Primrose.If you remember them, you may also remember "Billy Boots and Priscilla" - they sat on a wall, and all you ever saw of them were their feet and legs. Walrus: - You can see a picture of your headmaster lookalike on www.whirligig-tv.co.uk. The actor was Raymond Francis, and I did Lockhart out of a promotion: he was a Detective Chief Superintendant - I thought he was a mere Inspector. I remember "Gideon's Way" - looked that up, too. John Gregson was the lead, and all sorts of wonderful people appeared in it: Alfie Bass, George Cole, John Hurt, Donald Sutherland. No wonder these old TV series were so good. Bert and Lucy Ann : Yay ! Private Schultz was superb. Can't remember the man's name for the minute, but he went on to play "Boon". I loved the very first episode, when Schultz arrives in England, goes into a pub and tries desperately to appear "British". I vowed I wouldn't look on this thread today, and get on with work. Some hopes. - Jeanie |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Bert Date: 25 Apr 02 - 04:22 AM Anyone remember "'Allo, 'Allo" |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nigel Parsons Date: 25 Apr 02 - 04:37 AM Jeanie: Private Schultz/ Boon was played by Michael Elphick. The thing to remember is that this story was based on a serious, historic, attempt during WW II by the Germans to destabilise the British pound. Helen (and others): Yes, the Prisoner does make sense (after a fashion) but I haven't got time to go into it now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Steve Parkes Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:22 AM Nigel, I think The Prisoner was going to make sense, but by the time they got to the last few (according to Patrick McGoohan) they realised it wasn't going to after all; "never mind, eh?" ...who said that? Steve P.S. Trevor, have you seen Walsall recently? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:25 AM Chorlton & the Wheelies... 'nuff said.... Best Programme EVER.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Metchosin Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:44 AM CarolC, I remember Gerald McBoingboing on the radio before we had TV. That was the poor little boy "who didn't say words, he made noises instead". Something about "and Gerald went off like the breaking of sticks." A happy ending though, as he eventually got a job as the sound effects person for a radio station. Seems to me the narration was done by someone named the Great Gildersleeves or something like that.
To add to Sinsull's list, Caaaaptain Midnight! and of course Wunda Wunda, Brakeman Bill and Stan Boreson and Nomo.
Zero dachus? please forgive me, I got carried away and I was never sure of the words, even way back then.
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Dave Bryant Date: 25 Apr 02 - 06:07 AM Gareth - Thanks, with your mention of "King of the River", you've answered a question which I'd asked in a previous thread. I'll have to send the info back to the "Cambria" website - coz they knew nothing about the series. After looking at the "Whirlygig" website, I realised that we'd all forgotten on important programme - the Beeb's first television "Soap" - THE GROVE FAMILY. Was it "Puzzle Corner" where they always had a "Deliberate Mistake" and the next week people would send in models and things to illustrate it ? Finally, I'd also like to see Chelmsford 123 back. I liked the history group trying to identify the significance of relics they'd dug up - the episode would then show how badly they'd got it wrong ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: BanjoRay Date: 25 Apr 02 - 07:29 AM What about all the old music programs that had some incredible stuff we'd all want to see now if they'd bothered to keep the tapes/film? Such as: The 6:5 special, which had guest appearances by Big Bill Broonzy, Sidney Bechet, loads of old British skiffle groups etc The series of Grand Ole Opry they showed in the UK in the fifties, with Stanley Bros, Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, Grandpa Jones etc The early 60s play that Bob Dylan appeared in: He would sit on the stairs singing, playing guitar & blowing harmonica. What was it called? Sunday Night at The London Palladium, with Buddy Holly & The Crickets. The series with the white sports car and London Bridge - wasn't that Danger Man, with Patrick McGoohan, the series that preceded The Prisoner? Cheers |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nigel Parsons Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:11 AM "Gerald McBoingBoing" Surely a Dr Seuss poem. Does anyone remember the cartoon version of Dr Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who" ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: MMario Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:18 AM Watching 'The West Wing' last night - and realized a mini-series I would *really* like to see again - but don't remember the name of it - it was all behind the scenes at the White House - several generations of staff members if I recall correctly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:33 AM The Army Game Bill and Ben Rag, Tag and Bobtail You can date when we got a TV can't you? |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Metchosin Date: 25 Apr 02 - 10:34 AM Nigel, unfortunately he was long before Dr. Seuss. The Horton Hears a Who cartoon used to make me cry when I watched it with my kids.
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Trevor Date: 25 Apr 02 - 10:56 AM Boomerang boomerang this is our song Merrily merrily we stroll along Boomerang boomerang look over there It's Tingha and Tucker the two little bears. Gerald McBoingboing - he must be a Baggies fan! |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Wesley S Date: 25 Apr 02 - 11:21 AM Sinsull - ah yes "Plunk your magic twanger froggie! " How I remember. I miss -
The Defenders The last two are westerns. I hope some of these show up on Nick at Night or TV Land someday. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: SharonA Date: 25 Apr 02 - 11:21 AM SINSULL (re your post of 24-Apr-02, 04:56 PM): I think the name of that one show was "Winky Dink", not "Rinky Dink". And my #1 favorite stuffed animal as a kid was the tie-in toy of the "Tom Terrific" show, Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog. Larry (InOBU): I remember seeing "Crusader Rabbit" in color! It was washed-out color, but it was definitely color. Maybe you were watching on a black-and-white TV set? --------------- I'd like to see "Kimba the White Lion" again. I remember "My Friend Flicka" fondly, and "Rin Tin Tin", too. As a kid, I often play-acted scenes from "Ripcord" and "Time Tunnel". I was too young to remember the Ernie Kovacs program but I wish he'd kept himself alive longer; I wonder where his career would've taken him? Last December I saw a broadcast of scenes from the old Andy Williams Christmas specials, and I remembered not only how much I'd enjoyed the music back then, but how I'd observe the kids in the family each year to see how much they'd grown, and how much better they sang and danced! I watched the same local TV kids' shows in the Philadelphia PA area that Mark Cohen mentions: Gene London's show, "Pixanne" and Sally Starr's "Popeye Theater". I always thought London was kind of creepy, and I could take or leave Pixanne. But Sally Starr was my idol. My mother was always annoyed with her for advertising products by saying, "Tell your mommy and daddy to get such-and-such." But she could do no wrong in my eyes. To me, she was a liberated woman before women's lib was cool: dressed in a sparkling cowgirl outfit, she was always upbeat and enthusiastic on the air, but at the same time exuded a no-nonsense self-confidence that let you know she'd kick your butt if she ever found out you'd let her down by not eating all your vegetables or not minding your parents. For fans of Sally Starr, "Your Gal Sal", here's a link to some info, memories and anecdotes: http://www.tvparty.com/lostsal.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Amergin Date: 25 Apr 02 - 11:33 AM brisco county junior..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: SharonA Date: 25 Apr 02 - 11:43 AM Metchosin: According to this site, Gerald McBoing Boing was created by Dr. Seuss: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/titles/mcboing/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Metchosin Date: 25 Apr 02 - 11:59 AM How about that? Thanks SharonA, I listened to Gerald sometime in the early 50's on the radio and had never connected him with Dr. Suess, the things you learn on Mudcat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nigel Parsons Date: 25 Apr 02 - 12:03 PM Metchosin: Gerald McBong Boing Here I remember the association 'cos I have a book on Dr Seuss and the war effort, including a lot of his propaganda cartoons. Nigel. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nigel Parsons Date: 25 Apr 02 - 12:05 PM Sorry! we crossed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Metchosin Date: 25 Apr 02 - 12:45 PM Thanks Nigel, I just found that it was Jim Bachus (of Mr. McGoo fame) that narrated for the cartoon. Although I can't seem to find who the voice was, on the record version (I never saw the cartoon, we didn't have a TV until about 1956/7), but maybe it wasn't Harold Peary (The Great Gildersleeves) from Fibber McGee and Molly radio show.
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Wyrd Sister Date: 25 Apr 02 - 02:07 PM A Very Peculiar Practice SECOND SERIES - with the (soz) awful American vice-chancellor and his wife. "Another day dawns in the piss-ant swamp" intones Jock to his dictaphone. And the most wonderful answer to the chap stumbling in, thinking he had blood poisoning, "Red marks! Red marks!" "No, I'm more of a Freud man myself." Oh yes - and The Beiderbecke Tapes. Wasn't Robinson Crusoe French? Brian Cant's children's series, set in a junk shop, with a different sound featured each programme. They were little masterpieces of scripting and delivery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: swirlygirl Date: 25 Apr 02 - 02:35 PM Degrassi Junior High...would be good for a laugh... :) xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Don Firth Date: 25 Apr 02 - 02:42 PM Britcoms.
Waiting for God (I identify with both Tom and Diana) Don Firth
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Apr 02 - 03:15 PM H R Puff-n-Stuff, Taxi, Monkey. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Lanfranc Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:15 PM Hang on - these aren't forgotten series, they're fondly remembered! What we seem to have created is a catalogue of programmes that entertained or informed our youth, many of which predated video tape or have been lost. I'm heartened by the British content, but wonder what the kids of today will remember twenty, thirty or forty years on. On the subject of the Dorothy L Sayers adaptations, I could have sworn that the Petherbridge series predated the Carmichael one, but stand corrected. I have the LPs from "Rock Follies" and "Rock Follies of 1977" which are still worth a listen - wonder what happened to the programmes themselves? I also have the sheet music of "Robin Hood" framed on the wall of my office, with Richard Greene in full fig (and tights!) I've just remembered another - "The Buccaneer" which starred Robert Shaw. One episode featured treasure buried on Cat Island, the clue to which was a song sung to the tune of "Liverpool Judies". Nostalgia is all very well, but...... Alan |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: DonMeixner Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:48 PM Has no one mentioned Fawlty Towers, Ripping Yarns, or the venerated MP'sFC? Certainly classics and missed by me. I only saw a few episodes of The Goodies but I liked what I saw. Billy Oddie is certainly.......odd. Was the Goon Show just on radio or did it make it to TV. Lets don't forget The Great American Dream Machine. Was Secret Agent called Dangerman in GB? I also miss Lovejoy Mysteries and PBS ran a series about Sid Haley, detective ages back. Now that I'm a Dick Francis fan I'd love to see that one again. We got Quatermass and The Pit as a movie called Seveveral Million Years to Earth with James Donald as a secondary. Was it a TV series in GB? We also had two other Quartermass films, one with Brian Donlevy as Quartermass. Don't know about the other. I recall The Bucaneers with Robert Shaw, was Nick Cravat in that one? Playing his role from The Crimson Pirate? Don
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Dagenham Doc Date: 25 Apr 02 - 06:03 PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Mark Cohen Date: 25 Apr 02 - 06:05 PM Sharon, what a fantastic site! All those names I'd forgotten until now: Chief Halftown, Wee Willie Webber...they didn't mention Happy the Clown--I was on that one twice! Of course, nobody but you and I (and maybe Max? or is he too young?) will appreciate this. There were also the ones that weren't based in Philly: Captain Kangaroo and Bozo the Clown I think came from New York. OK, here's a musical TV question: I remember the Captain Kangaroo theme song very well -- it was an instrumental (and would stop when the Captain hung his keys on the hook). But I also seem to remember visiting New York with my family once in the early 60s, and watching the show in our hotel, and the theme song had WORDS! Can anyone shed light on that? Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,Dagenham Doc Date: 25 Apr 02 - 06:12 PM sorry...it's all too much. The Goons of course did have a tv show but nothing like the impact it made on radio. Each Friday night I would go to bed and listen to Bing Crosby followed by the Goons.... bliss. I just thought of Juke Box Jury with David jacobs and the girl from up north who had the catch phrase 'I'll give it five'. Now and then they had a performer hidden behind a curtain and they would come out after hearing the jury verdict. " This week guys and gals it's four young lads from Liverpool" Doc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: SharonA Date: 25 Apr 02 - 06:25 PM Mark: The "Bertie the Bunyip" page on that site mentions Happy the Clown as part of the Channel 6 "All-Star List". The other readers of this thread should click here just to see what one American's idea of a Bunyip looked like: http://www.tvparty.com/lostbertie.html The pop-up menu at the bottom of that page (and the other page I linked) has a message board and a "Contact Us!" page. Maybe they could shed some light on the question of the lyrics to the Captain Kangaroo theme. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: SharonA Date: 25 Apr 02 - 07:01 PM Here's a link to some info about the Captain Kangaroo theme songs over the years: http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/captainKangaroo.html It seems the original theme music was actually a British light-classical piece by Edward G. White entitled "Puffin' Billy." According to this page – http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/railways_in_music2.htm – "Puffin' Billy by Edward White [was] inspired not by the old Northumbrian locomotive but by a small engine seen on the Isle of Wight, a movement once used as a signature tune for BBC Radio's 'Uncle Mac's Children's Favourites.' " Here's a site that offers lyrics to a couple of songs that were featured on the Captain Kangaroo show, but no lyrics for the opening theme: http://www.streetcarmike.com/kangaroo.html So is this officially a music thread now? *G* |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: RangerSteve Date: 25 Apr 02 - 08:08 PM Nancy King - Yes, I remember Mr. Peepers. I managed to find a video of one episode. I can't get over how Wally Cox could be so hilarious without actually saying or doing anything funny. And the cast - Marion Lorne, Tony Randall - an inspired show if ever there was one. DonM - I was thinking of adding the Disney shows you mentioned, although I'd forgotten about Men of the Western Sea. I doubt the Theme for Texas John Slaughter could get past the wimps who run things now - "Texas John Slaughter made 'em do what they oughta, cause if they didn't they died".
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: CyberLord Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:38 PM Yo Mark & Sharon ! Thanks for the memories, I can't believe I'm actually reading about Sally Starr, Wee Willie Webber, Gene London and the like! Maybe you folks remember the cartoon "Couragious Cat & Motor Mouse". At the first sign of crime (perpetrated by a Edward G. Robinson like character), they would fly (drive) out of their mountaintop hideout with the long plumes of smoke behind their long finned car. Or "Roger Ramjet" on channel 48(?), when UHF was in it's infancy. Howsabout "Lorenzo" the bittersweet clown (hobo) who never said a word but we all knew what he meant. He was one of my favorites. He reminded me of Red Skelton's "Clem Cadiddlehopper". Now That was real entertainment! Does anyone remember Christopher George in "The Immortal"?(he was also in "The Desert Rats") How'bout James Franciscus in "Longstreet" - the blind P.I. with his trusty dog named Pax who was taught how to fight by none other than Bruce Lee, over several episodes. Most of us remember Bill Bixby in "The Courtship Of Eddies Father" but how about when he was "The Magician". Flying around in his private jet and that white corvette, flicking cards from a poker deck at the bad guys? Thanx Again! CL |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Peter Kasin Date: 25 Apr 02 - 10:56 PM "Police Squad!" Only on for six episodes, around 1982. One of the funniest TV comedies I've ever seen. Starred Leslie Neilson in the role that was later produced for the big screen as The Naked Gun films. The English comedy from the 60's, "Doctor In The House." It came to the USA in the early 70's. I'll never forget the scene where the interns are singing "Green grow the patients-o." "The Great Adventure." A US history dramatic show from the 60s. Fine acting and scriptwriting. Different cast and subject for each episode. Ruby Dee as Harriet Tubman, for example. As fun to watch as it was educational. chanteyranger
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST,mg Date: 26 Apr 02 - 12:11 AM Part II has been created..not very sophiticatedly but here is the url. I don't know how to make it click. http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46999&messages=1 |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Mark Cohen Date: 26 Apr 02 - 12:41 AM Part Deux. Mary, you make a "blue clicky" by typing the following: [left angle bracket]a href=[URL of link][right angle bracket][text to be highlighted in blue][left angle bracket]/a[right angle bracket] Hope that makes sense! Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Ian Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:07 AM What about GHOST SQUAD I loved the theame tune |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: Nigel Parsons Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:10 AM ******This Thread Has Split****** Please see the "Blue Clicky" two messages up from here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: GUEST Date: 26 Apr 02 - 03:09 PM [a href=ww.mudcat.org/thread.cfm/threadid=46912&messages=129#697738]]part two][/a] testing |
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Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series. From: SharonA Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:23 PM GUEST: You're getting there, but those are the wrong brackets. For the correct symbols, go to the Mudcat FAQ – Newcomer's Guide, scroll down to the Table of Contents and click on "Basic Mudcat HTML". Here's a link to that section of the FAQ: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=19340#htmlguide Now, please, no more posting to this thread! If anyone else wants to test his or her HTML skills, please start a new thread. Thanks. |