Great Forgotten TV Programmes

[Trufflehound]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fflhbo79fo

Enjoy........didn't they have the Arabian Knights and the Banana Splits on that programme too?

Banana Splits was a completely separate show to Double Deckers. Arabian Knights was a segment within Banana Splits, as was (for a time) a Three Musketeers cartoon.

They also had a crap live action short series in the middle called Danger Island, which if I recall was always introduced by some stuffed bird (feathered) perched in the corner squawking "Uh-oh... Danger Island's next!"

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[NMH]

Adam Adamant

This was about an aristocrat moonlighting as a crime-fighter. Bit of a 'Batman' theme, but not cartoon or cartoonish.

Misleading Cases

A comedy with serious overtones, about an eccentric old geezer who would take issues to court. He took his wife to court, on one program. I believe the cases were based on real-life legal loopholes, and they were always fascinating, wry and amusing.

 

[Frutos]

Hell yes. They had that floating orange character called Wordy, and frequent appearances from kids television LEGEND Derek Griffiths.

Check out this Look & Read song, sung by the aforementioned Griffiths, extolling the virtues of (ahem) "Magic E"



YouTube - Magic E (Look Read)

Not to mention Geordie Racer:

YouTube - BBC Look and Read - Geordie Racer opening titles

And Through The Dragon's Eye:

YouTube - Look Read - Through The Dragon's Eye, Part 1

Cheers Edna

The YouTube user who posted the Through The Dragon's Eye clips has a great selection of other stuff as well, including Rentaghost, The Demon Headmaster and a personal favourite cartoon from my childhood that I'd forgotten, Around The World With Willy Fog.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

And congratulations you are the recipient of my 250th post.

I am honoured! But why does it say 258 beside your name? Where are these extra 8 posts that you don't know about? Has someone been posting in your name? I think we should be told.

I blame Bozza

 

[herman gelmet]

OTT. The adult tiswas spin off. 15 year olds dream, breasts a plenty

 

[BUTTERBALL]

A list of great but forgotten or never to be repeated TV shows. I remember this one in the late 80's , early 90's and I seem to remember it had a certain Mr Jason Orange from Take That in it. It was on Channel 4 I think.

Killer Net.

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I remember that. I think it was mid-late 90's and it was filmed in Brighon which is why I watched it.

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Night Network in the mid-80s. Remember that?

Mick Brown and Tim Westwood

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Get Stuffed, a five minute cookery show that I used to watch when I got from a nightclub, it was on about 3 a.m. and featured students making recepies with cans of beans and stuff and the masked 'surprise chefs' - it was absolutely mental but great when you were pissed!

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Operation Good Guys

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Operation Good Guys

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Oops!

 

[NMH]

Not tv.....but a cartoon, lest we hipsters forget ....erk alors, it's The Lone Groover

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Timeslip

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Here's one I guarantee you won't remember and that will never be shown again:

POV (Point of View).

It was an ITV show produced by Greg Dyke when he was a mere boy. May even have been a TVS show. Dreadful worthy early 80's thing where "the kids" had their say about issues of the day. Was a mishmash of stuff including filming in a club I think. Shockingly patronising and bad. I was employed to do some user research - and it was universally disliked and pulled after a few shows.

 

[bhaexpress]

Softly Softly, best ever Police series.

 

[Beach Hut]

The Justice Game - very good series on BBC

 

[supaseagull]

Anyone remember Tales of the Golden Monkey? It was an Indiana Jones sort of TV show that used to be on Mondays...Also, what about V?

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Maelstrom - BBC TV thriller series set in Norway. I loved it (back in 1985)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelstrom_(TV_series)

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[eastlondonseagull]

Get Stuffed, a five minute cookery show that I used to watch when I got from a nightclub, it was on about 3 a.m. and featured students making recepies with cans of beans and stuff and the masked 'surprise chefs' - it was absolutely mental but great when you were pissed!

Fantastic programme. They loved using Pot Noodles and tins of soup a lot, I seem to remember.

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[Lady Whistledown]

Bergerac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlFM5C2M-Ws