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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. |