What TV Shows Should Be Brought Back?
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Old Grey Whistle Test - Jools Holland is far too jolly for me!
MASH - not new ones - just should show the old ones again
Muppet Show
Adam and Joe
Lee and Herring - but without Lee, just Herring0 -
Porgy wrote:MASH - not new ones - just should show the old ones again
If you've got Sky TV, MASH re-runs pop up on the Comedy Central (previously Paramount Comedy) channels now and again.
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
Another favourite of mine that I'd like to see return - Dead Ringers (although at least Jon Culshaw is back on the telly this Saturday). Radio and TV versions both very funny, both bafflingly dropped by the Beeb not so long ago (the cynics might say that they were 'leaned upon' by Alistair Campbell or similar).
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
DavidBelcher wrote:Porgy wrote:MASH - not new ones - just should show the old ones again
If you've got Sky TV, MASH re-runs pop up on the Comedy Central (previously Paramount Comedy) channels now and again.
no - don't have Sky - is it British MASH or American MASH with the canned laughter - it makes a big difference you know.0 -
Or the 70s version presented by Raymond Baxter and with the fantastic big band theme by Johnny Dankworth!Frank the tank wrote:Mettan wrote:That Popular Science one in the late 1990's (around Top of the Pops time on a Friday night, strangely) - great programme. Think it was on BBC1 before or after TOTP.
Tommorows world (I think is the programme you mean)
http://open.spotify.com/track/4Xudht9qm96ENy7jpMbmQJ0 -
Le Commentateur wrote:
Or the 70s version presented by Raymond Baxter and with the fantastic big band theme by Johnny Dankworth!Frank the tank wrote:Mettan wrote:That Popular Science one in the late 1990's (around Top of the Pops time on a Friday night, strangely) - great programme. Think it was on BBC1 before or after TOTP.
Tommorows world (I think is the programme you mean)
http://open.spotify.com/track/4Xudht9qm96ENy7jpMbmQJ
I always thought Baxter was the 60s presenter - he was before my time anyway - which was probably 73/74 to early 80s.0 -
The Larry Sanders Show.
Great parody of TV land. Such a shame it was killed of in favour of Seinfeld.0 -
Le Commentateur wrote:The Larry Sanders Show.
Great parody of TV land. Such a shame it was killed of in favour of Seinfeld.
yeah - i'd love for that to come back - but I love Seinfeld too....though I'm perfectly happy trawling through all the many many DVDs at the moment.
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Originally they were shown in tandem, but then all of a sudden Shandling's show was gone.
I think in the US they both ended at about the same time.0 -
The Life and Times of Adrian Mole was always a favourite too
OK it doesn't need bringing back, but I wish the BBC would actually tell people when a new series of QI was starting!!!! I haven't seen a new one for 3 years!0 -
no - don't have Sky - is it British MASH or American MASH with the canned laughter - it makes a big difference you know.[/quote]
For mash.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQFV5iuJ_6Ybagpuss0 -
The Racoons, awesome Saturday morning telly from my youth.
Also Dream Team, with Carl Fletcher and Jamie and Tash Parker0 -
Robot Wars.0
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Gilbert's Fridge.
"av gat ah iz rekards...."0 -
Crossroads :roll:bagpuss0
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triangle
albion market
murphys mob
jossies giants
super gran
origanal superstars(i will never tire of seeing king kevs wipe out on the bike suprised he didnt pack after one lap though)
the mountain bike show presented by jet from gladiators
house of elliot0 -
The BBC Test Card!
And it's cheesy yet oddly compelling music, the last of the kind of imposed-from-above jolly Light Music:
http://open.spotify.com/user/ricadus/pl ... bRst2m3ebQ0 -
Sometimes, kids programs aren't quite how I remembered them!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=007tojIe ... re=related0 -
Classic number animations on Sesame Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksEo8EDXiE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd8bcl7cdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oWW3GRAYU4
Whatever, everything's on YouTube nowadays...0 -
brucey72 wrote:Sometimes, kids programs aren't quite how I remembered them!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=007tojIe ... re=related
I used to love Michael Bentine's Potty Time so when they came out on DVD I thought I'd give them another go.
The worse thing I've watched. So disappointing! what was I thinking? I must have been some weird kid if I liked that! :oops:0 -
Saw Michael Benntine live in the Brighton theatre, with Mike and Bernie Williams, in 1967.
Was hilarious!!!! Very complicated character...0 -
I'd bring back The Great Egg Race.
From a time when science shows were presented by the eccentrics of academia like Heinz Wolff and Melvyn Pike (?).Wiki wrote:... The programme originally set two teams the task of building machines capable of transporting a chicken's egg safely down a table top race track, but different tasks were introduced later most involving the safe handling of raw eggs.
I couldn't find any of the original series on You Tube, but there was The Great Egg Race: the play, from 1995:
Part 2A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
Ah, The Great Egg Race - a quality slice of childhood telly which fascinated me. Heinz Wolff has a building on the main Brunel University campus named after him, y'know. Quite right too!
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
Crapaud wrote:From a time when science shows were presented by the eccentrics of academia like Heinz Wolff and Melvyn Pike (?).
That'll be Magnus Pyke - lots of hand waving involved as I recall. Pyke controversially suggested, so the story goes (he worked on a Ministry of Food advisory panel) that wartime food shortages could be partially solved by turning hospitals' surplus stocks of donated blood into black pudding!
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
That's the Johnny! The pop Stephen Hawking of his day: Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with ScienceDavidBelcher wrote:Crapaud wrote:From a time when science shows were presented by the eccentrics of academia like Heinz Wolff and Melvyn Pike (?).
That'll be Magnus Pyke - lots of hand waving involved as I recall. ...
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
Rent-a-ghost.
Mental.0 -
dmclite wrote:
Definitely freaky - I saw one not that long ago - I should try an episode next time I smoke a joint.
as for Rentaghost _ i was embarrassed by it even as a young child - in the deep recesses of my mind I knew it was terrible. But you're right - what else could we do? Homework I guess - but it wasn't that bad. :P0 -
Porgy wrote:dmclite wrote:
Definitely freaky - I saw one not that long ago - I should try an episode next time I smoke a joint.
as for Rentaghost _ i was embarrassed by it even as a young child - in the deep recesses of my mind I knew it was terrible. But you're right - what else could we do? Homework I guess - but it wasn't that bad. :P
Bit like fingermouse as well, you watched it because it was on. Or schools programmes if you were off ill. :?0
