― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link
How about Hope & Keen's Crazy Bus?
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link
And it isn't The Tomorrow People.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
And humming power cables.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― David Orton (scarlet), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I *think* I remember this one, but I'm not sure. There are a few things I remember watching on telly when I was 2 or 3 - so, 1980-81 - and several were low-budget sci-fi cartoons.
Captain Zep
I'd never heard of this until a couple of weeks ago, when someone at work downloaded the theme tune (from TV Cream, I think). And the theme tune is *great*.
I was going to suggest The Changes to Ned, too. I've never seen the TV series, though. (and it can't be as good as the books, which are great. Especially the first one, which is all about how The Changes come to an end)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
The 70s was the time for bleak post-nuclear shows, of course. (The Changes wasn't post-nuclear, but it did have the similar "return of medievalism" trope)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― jz, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Hector's House?
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link
(although the TV series was rather different to the books. In the books, Everything Is Back To Normal happens at the end of the first book; the three books are in reverse chronological order, but they're not really prequels because the stories are unrelated)
(xpost)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
But what was the mysterious power that turned everyone into Luddites?
― jz, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh.
I remember the first episode, which was very mysterious and scary. But not much else.
― jz, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― jz, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― David Orton (scarlet), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
i find the early-mid 70s very interesting in terms of television. (at a distance) the theme of post-apocalypticism seems to loom large, but its vague, uneasy, doesnt really seem to tie into anything, other than ecological and environmental concerns, a feeling that the white heat of technology, and brash colours of the 60s somehow hadnt yielded us much, a sort of subsumed longing for a return to imagined rural roots.
the empty, devoid landscapes of these post-apocalypses were always unstated, vague, mystical even, the land saying enough! pagan shadows arising from slumbers. and these ends of modernity, weren't terrible, they seemed sort of desired, necessary even, a rebalancing
i liked threads, but the early 80s nuclear/cold war type ones were obviously more prosaic, tangible, dreaded, no improved agrarian future here.
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned T.RIfle II (Ned T.Rifle II), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Children of the Stones was different - it had humming stones! Actually I don't know if they actually hummed or it was just spooky music to accompany shots of standing stones. The stones were at Avebury and when we went there on a school trip we were too scared to touch the stones!
― Ned T.RIfle II (Ned T.Rifle II), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
What a boring title, no wonder no one remembered it. Sounds like a documentary about the menopause.
I have been to Avebury. I did krautrock noises.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Unfortunately I only really remember the shows everyone else remembers too.
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
(amazon tells me tomorrow people box set of all 8 series out shortly. radiophonic workshop TP theme music cd as well. COTS dvds for £8 too)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned T.RIfle II (Ned T.Rifle II), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
looks like a 47
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
The Changes occasionaly pops up on ebay - I'd love to see it. I wonder why the BBC dont commision more stuff like that, Children Of The Stones and ones like the Chocky Trilogy. Even up to the early 90's you'd get programmes like Tom's Midnight Garden and Moondial.
― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
The title appears over a 47, but there's a 52 earlier in the title sequence.
Even up to the early 90's you'd get programmes like Tom's Midnight Garden and Moondial.
Moondial was another fantastic series. Just this morning, coincidentally, I was searching for local photos for another thread (the Japanese War Tuba thread) and came across a photo of the Moondial itself.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
never heard it tho, there was only one copy on slsk and i never managed to get it.
never met anyone who remembers seeing this i dont think
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
They released two singles - the other one was called "This is the chorus". The chorus went:
This is the chorusIt goes round and around and gets into your brainThis is the chorusAnd twenty seconds from now, you'll hear it again.
I'm fairly sure that was them, anyway.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
OK, does anyone remember:
Nice Time (comedy sketch show starring Kenny Everett & Germaine Greer)Mad Mad WomenIt's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
and
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Film_and_TV/Question49496.html
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― jonviachicago, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Just Our Luck -- the idiot program about a guy and his genie slave. Programmed against The A-Team; died.
There Goes the Neighborhood -- Buddy Hackett and two other lamers are 'hobos' in a very badly made-up sense who inherit a fortune and deal with a prim and proper butler all day
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
(this goes for gig=show too)
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I remember this. I'm ashamed to admit I bought the 7" single. I thought the rubbish comedy show was a spin-off of the record, rather than the other way round.
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Brilliant TV Shows That Noone Apart From Me Appears To Have Seen
Me talking again about the Space Sentinels.
Obscure Children's Cartoons
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Ok then.
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
There were a few good episodes, I seem to recall.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been watching a lot of Soviet cartoons from this era and there's a lot of this in them.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ivan Gallardo (Ivan), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
The Children of Green Knowe
Geordie Racer (may have been part of a kids educational programme)
Some programme about a hotel, I don't know whether it was a drama or a comedy. My mum used to watch it on a friday or saturday night when I was quite young, maybe about 15 years ago. She doesn't know what I'm talking about though. I vaguely remember folk having affairs, some old woman wandering the corridors, I don't even know if it was british or american.
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 16 March 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 16 March 2006 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link
So Haunt Me - not bad for a BBC sitcom. It got mentioned in the press around here, because one joke featured a disparaging comment about the place.
The Children Of Green Knowe, I don't see how anyone could forget. I've thought about seeing if we could have a Cambridge FAP there - it's just off the A14, and they are willing to show people round if you get in touch in advance.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
My standard 'I remember this and you don't' show is 'The Ghosts of Montley Hall'. Sunday afternoons before (after?) Glen Michael's Cavalcade
― mms (mms), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link
2. Strike It Rich - this was on the BBC and was about Premium Bond/lottery winners.
3. Maelstrom - spooky 1980's thriller set in Scandinavia. Scary-looking dolls played a prominent part.
4. Westbeach - Early 1990's post-Eldorado BBC soap effort at two feuding families in a seaside town.
5. Rides - Early 1990's drama about an all-women taxi firm.
Am I ringing any bells here?
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
That's what I had written originally and then changed stupidly. Checked TV Cream and it was indeed Motley.
― mms (mms), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― andy --, Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Groovy Ghoulies, anyone?
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 November 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
great revive
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 November 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link