Old obscure T.V programmes.

finchy

Anyone remember an Australian show from the late 1980s/early 1990s, featuring a girl who had come back from the future and she was being chased by some bloke who was trying to catch or kill her?

Can't remember for the life of me what it was called, but they used to have some really creepy stuff on Children's BBC. There was one about a plot to create an Aryan master race at a secondary school in England, using computers to transform pupils into evil Nazis killing machines. I can't imagine them doing that today.

crispybug2

cooldad wrote:

The Banana Splits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMl6HnhFFIA

The greatest theme tune ever!

crispybug2

The Tomorrow People

Nonsensical plots, teleportation belts and a master computer that looked like a half melted pile of ice cubes!!

apreading

Battlestar Galactica - the proper original not the drab recent version... And Buck Rogers - much better eye candy there than in Blakes 7...

Anyone seen the new Trumpton parody? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudSCU1-U9g

mrfpb

briantrumpet wrote:

SME wrote:

The Clangers... with the soup dragon. They had their own language and I understand every word, just like I did Bill and Ben the flowerpot men!

Well, the script was written out in full, in English. Then the actors 'said' the script through swannee whistles. However, the script still had to be passed by the BBC censors, who put a blue line through the line "Oh sod it, the bloody door's stuck again!". So when the BBC licensed a Clangers toy, the line they used for the pull-the-string voice was that one.

Anything from Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin aka Small Films (Bagpuss, Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog) stands the test of time. Made with the same spirit that fueled the British music video industry in the 80's - miniscule budget, big imagination.

To add to the "lets terrify the kids " category - Children of the Stones. What was that about - the occult or alien invasion? I only remember being freaked put by it.

smoggysteve

Capt Slog wrote:

First Aspect wrote:

Chortle and the Wheelies.

Be quiet.

Chorlton, named after Chorlton-cum-Hardy, where his egg came from (?)

one of my favourites, I used to watch it in the day time when I was on shifts in my first job.

I remember the Geordie witch used to Sound like one of my teachers at school

laurentian

Capt Slog wrote:

Really old stuff....

When I was a nipper, we used to get these weird (east?) European things, I think they might have been folktales that had been made into TV. The one I recall was the "Singing Ringing Tree", which was parodied by The Fast Show (or similar) many years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAF3fWo8aoM

It might be that I saw the same one quite a few times, or could there have been more of them?

Yep, that was the over dubbed weird stuff of which there were a few programmes if I remember correctly . . . evil dwarves . . .

briantrumpet

Ha. Bloody White Horses. Every summer holiday, it seemed like.https://youtu.be/iR6z8GUywyc

seanoconn

apreading wrote:

Battlestar Galactica - the proper original not the drab recent version... And Buck Rogers - much better eye candy there than in Blakes 7...

Anyone seen the new Trumpton parody? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudSCU1-U9g

Wilma Deering bidi bidi bidi.

crescent

Nothing says "summer holidays" like this tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M

apreading

seanoconn wrote:

apreading wrote:

Battlestar Galactica - the proper original not the drab recent version... And Buck Rogers - much better eye candy there than in Blakes 7...

Anyone seen the new Trumpton parody? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudSCU1-U9g

Wilma Deering bidi bidi bidi.

And Princess Ardala...

or both together:



Much better than flippin Servalan!

secretsam

Crescent wrote:

There was a kids TV programme in the 70s called "The Changes" - no idea what it was about despite watching all the episodes - some kind of post apocalyptic world where nothing was how it used to be, very strange and unnerving. It was on just after Blue Peter, usually.

"The Flashing Blade" was another classic - again, not sure about the plot but lots of people on horses running at 100mph everywhere.......err, that seemed to be about it - great theme though.

Remember both of those - The Changes was well weird, IIRC.

The Flashing Blade, on the other hand, was some bizarre French-Spanish hybrid dubbed into English about a war no-one understood, with acting that was so wildly over the top it simply defied description. And an epic title song.

"It Takes a Worried Man", anyone? Early Channel 4, I remember watching it with my mum on a Thursday evening, we both thought it was hilarious.

"Robinson Crusoe" in black 'n' white on Saturday mornings, lovely theme tune

Oh, and "Absolutely", which was totally nuts. The Welsh family on there used to have my mate from Cross Keys in convulsions of laughter.

pblakeney

briantrumpet wrote:

Ha. Bloody White Horses. Every summer holiday, it seemed like.https://youtu.be/iR6z8GUywyc

And Robinson Crusoe, and the Three Musketeers, in black and white.
Back in the day with a choice of 3 channels.

part time waster

The singing ringing tree is a pretty big one to drop on us.
Barun Muchdansangar , or however you spell it was obscure stuff , lets face it Mr Ben went into the " costume " shop to drop acid and enjoy many a mad trip. When it was time to chill , the owner came and reeled him in , until he came down. Only then was he able to walk home grinning.

crescent

SecretSam wrote:

"It Takes a Worried Man", anyone? Early Channel 4, I remember watching it with my mum on a Thursday evening, we both thought it was hilarious

Yep, Marlene out of Only Fools and Horses was the girlfriend in it.

Absolutely was insane. A bit more recent though, 90s maybe? I remember Denzil and Gwynedd well. And of course, the Stoney bridge local council.

Garry H

Remember all those tv programmes that had Liverpool winning stuff in them? What happened to them?

SME

seanoconn wrote:

Murun Buchstansangur.

https://youtu.be/eJHGg9c86fs

Haven't seen or heard of this for 30 years. F@ck I'm old

Don't remember that.

But some of us at work were taking about Gerry Anderson programs. Most remembered Thunderbirds, Stingray, and Joe90. But memories started pailing at Fireball XL5, Supercar, and Torchy The Battery Boy. That's going back a few years too.

seanoconn

Garry H wrote:

Remember all those tv programmes that had Liverpool winning stuff in them? What happened to them?

I know it's not what you meant but speaking of which.

Scully. About an a young lad desperate to play for Liverpool.

https://youtu.be/dT3ACkwoYD0

Garry H

seanoconn wrote:

Garry H wrote:

Remember all those tv programmes that had Liverpool winning stuff in them? What happened to them?

I know it's not what you meant but speaking of which.

Scully. About an a young lad desperate to play for Liverpool.

https://youtu.be/dT3ACkwoYD0

On a similar topic "One Summer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ax5pi3MQEA

Anonymous

There was that american program (Six Million Dollar Man kind of era) where the guy had a scrap yard but wanted to go into space.

I thought I had imagined it but found it a while back.
Forgotten what it was called again now though.

EDIT: Found it. 'Salvage1'
Cannot remember what actually happened in an episode.
Remember the badge quite vividly though.

Garry H

Carbonator wrote:

There was that american program (Six Million Dollar Man kind of era) where the guy had a scrap yard but wanted to go into space.

I thought I had imagined it but found it a while back.
Forgotten what it was called again now though.

Great post

There was also a programme about a crime fighting duo, except one of them had a metal hand that he could put stuff like a drill on. It made me want to have a metal hand.

crescent

Anyone remember "The Boy Who Won the Pools". A teenager whose Granny put his coupon on for him - hence he was basically an underage millionaire. Bought a Ferrari and various other boyhood dream items. Was on at Sunday tea time and not as good as it originally sounded.

johngti

Crescent wrote:

Nothing says "summer holidays" like this tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M

For some reason I knew that's what it was going to be before I clicked the link!

capt_slog

SME wrote:

But some of us at work were taking about Gerry Anderson programs. Most remembered Thunderbirds, Stingray, and Joe90. But memories started pailing at Fireball XL5, Supercar, and Torchy The Battery Boy. That's going back a few years too.

I remember that, just. I also had a model/toy Fireball XL5, which I always recall as being very beat up, I must have played with it a lot when i was very small.

crumbschief

willo the wisp and jamie and the magic torch i used to like as well,i remember lots posted here and i agree about The Tomorrow People,that music was haunting as a kid,which i liked of course.

Princess Ardala and Wilma,my my memories

apreading

What about Sapphire and Steel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gjHmEUiaxo

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR8dUaT9VKc

seanoconn

Richard Hatch aka Captain Apollo from Battlestar Galactica has died aged 71.

bbrap

Anyone remember Space Patrol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1UDaPtA9tU

The robot that walks back and forth used scare the shit out of me.

pinno

The Tube, C4

pblakeney

Pinno wrote:

The Tube, C4

I had thought of that, but thought it too obvious.
We could do with more live and unscripted TV today.