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BS: forgotten TV series.

Ebbie 24 Apr 02 - 10:59 AM
SINSULL 24 Apr 02 - 11:05 AM
Metchosin 24 Apr 02 - 12:42 PM
madwaff 24 Apr 02 - 12:46 PM
Jeanie 24 Apr 02 - 01:35 PM
Sooz 24 Apr 02 - 01:51 PM
Jerry Rasmussen 24 Apr 02 - 01:56 PM
Gareth 24 Apr 02 - 02:22 PM
Llanfair 24 Apr 02 - 03:05 PM
Clinton Hammond 24 Apr 02 - 03:13 PM
Don Firth 24 Apr 02 - 03:34 PM
swirlygirl 24 Apr 02 - 03:44 PM
John MacKenzie 24 Apr 02 - 04:08 PM
Jeanie 24 Apr 02 - 04:10 PM
CarolC 24 Apr 02 - 04:14 PM
Jacob B 24 Apr 02 - 04:26 PM
Bobert 24 Apr 02 - 04:26 PM
GUEST,Peter from Essex 24 Apr 02 - 04:29 PM
CarolC 24 Apr 02 - 04:31 PM
RangerSteve 24 Apr 02 - 04:34 PM
GUEST,Dagenham Doc 24 Apr 02 - 04:48 PM
SINSULL 24 Apr 02 - 04:56 PM
The Walrus 24 Apr 02 - 05:50 PM
Nancy King 24 Apr 02 - 06:15 PM
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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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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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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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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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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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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
Jeff MacKay.... Corky
Caitlin O'Heaney.... Sarah Stickney White
Roddy McDowall.... Bon Chance Louis
John Calvin.... Reverend Willie Tenboom
Marta DuBois.... Princess Koji
John Fujioka.... Todo
Les Jankey.... Gushie the Waiter
Ahmed Kalane.... The Bartender

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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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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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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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.
Mr Squiggle

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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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!
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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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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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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?
Smoocho prockus?
Hellobalooza bub
Thats the secret password
That we use down at the club
And zero dachus
Smoocho prockus
Hellobalooza ban
Means now you are a member of
King's TV Club with Staaannnn!

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
Ray


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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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