Great Forgotten TV Programmes

[footychick]

Does anyone remember that kids programme set in Blackpool? I seem to remember the Kate Bush song - We're running up that road being in it, or maybe I imagined it.
Can't remember the name of it though.

 

[footychick]

Bread
Johnny Briggs
Spatz
Press Gang

 

[Pevenseagull]

Brond - Sotratford Johns as a right wrong 'un
Severed Head - Denis Lawson in an invidious-a-thon
Our Friends In The North - the best TV drama ever


stick yer Boys from the blackstuff

 

[footychick]

My first ever momory was of a show called 'Land of the Giants' which was about a spaceship that landed on a planet of giants although said planet seemed a lot like Earth!

I remember that, it was seriously weird.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Going For Gold, with Henry Kelly

Treasure Hunt, featuring Anneka Rice, Kenneth Kendall and (of course) Wincey Willis

 

[Pevenseagull]

erratum


for severed read 'DEAD'

 

[Lady Whistledown]

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/

This site is quality for old TV stuff

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

More to the point, can't they just give old Jim Bergerac a call and get him back over from Midsomer? They'd have the case nailed in no time.

OK but only after 3 people have been murdered.

 

[Wilko]

Chocky was one of my all-time faves as a kid. Absolutely loved it. Man, that clip you just posted sent shivers down my spine all over again. Superb stuff, really chilling.

I don't remember it being on ITV, though. I thought it was a Beeb show.

Chocky's Children was good, too, but never as good as Chocky itself.

Good call, Carrot Cruncher

Ive got all 3 series on DVD from play.com

Series one and two are brillio, series 3 is SHITHOUSE. Watch them all in one go one rainy Sunday.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

If you're roughly in the 30-35 age catagory, prepare to literally shit yourself...

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I am not in the 30-35 category, but I remember this vividly. I had only recently got over the trauma of it. You have set me back years of therapy CC.

 

[sod1]

fantasy island / tales of the unexpected : are two i can remember

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

One Summer
Prospects.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

the twilight zone.

the early days of Coronation street - Alf Roberts, Ena Sharples, Minnie Coldwell

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Going For Gold, with Henry Kelly

Treasure Hunt, featuring Anneka Rice, Kenneth Kendall and (of course) Wincey Willis

Going for Gold was class!! I, along with many others, used to watch the intro and only the intro in our TV room.

'Sven from Sweden!'
'Jan from Denmark!'
'Jacques from France!'
'Bob from England'

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The much missed Ulysses 31 is up there with the best of them.

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[DJ Leon]

Having seen Neil Pearson in a play recently I was reminded of his excellent police drama 'Between the Lines'. Brilliant series.

 

[Left Footer]

PROSPECTS (1985-86)
EUSTON FILMS/CHANNEL 4

EAST-END DESOLATION, Thatcher-style. The money-making schemes of two doleite friends, Pincy (GARY "2.4" OLSEN) and Billy (BRIAN BOVELL). Demolition ball opening titles set the scene for Isle Of Dogs Enterprise Zone shenanigans, with the duo establishing a variety of businesses (pest control, home-made booze, etc.) and getting into scrapes as a result. Typical "typical Channel 4" Channel 4.

I thought this was excellent when it came out, though couldn`t remember too much about it.The late Gary Olsen was superb.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Murder One

Two series in the mid-90's. Starred Steven Bochco (recently the new Head of ER on ER) and the great baldie actor Michael Hayden.

Not sure it was ever shown again or repeated. Might get the DVD myself though - it was a really good law series.

 

[Screaming J]

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.

Wow, that's well old, 1960s Based on books by AP Herbert; but I must admit I found them a bit dry after the TV series - I was probably too young.

Just found this:-

MISLEADING CASES | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Does anyone remember that kids programme set in Blackpool? I seem to remember the Kate Bush song - We're running up that road being in it, or maybe I imagined it.
Can't remember the name of it though.

I know exactly what you mean and I believe it was called 'Running Scared'

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

I am not in the 30-35 category, but I remember this vividly. I had only recently got over the trauma of it. You have set me back years of therapy CC.

Sorry

If it's any consolation at all, hearing the 'scream' bit at the beginning again made EVERY hair on my body (and there are a few ) stand on end for a good couple of minutes