Do you rememebr these 1980's TV shows?

Yes, thanks Dave, must watch more TV or have a better memory!

Brass was a short run series in the U.K. with Judi Dench’s husband as the ruthless factory owner. Great program!

Do you mean Timothy West? – husband of Prunella Scales

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BRASS

Brass was a short run series in the U.K. with Judi Dench’s husband as the ruthless factory owner. Great program!

I also loved Grange Hill in the early/mid 1980’s. It stopped and I assumed it had finished, till I went to the UK in the mid 1990’s and it was still going with a complete new cast. I was amazed! Wasn’t the same without Roland, Tucker, Pongo Paterson and who was that little guy, was it Eggy?

‘Pogo’ Paterson I remember and Roland Browning with his girlfriend Janet, Poor Roly was always getting done over by psycho bully boy ‘Gripper’ Stebson. 😀

Don’t know who Eggy was and that’s no yoke ? 😀

I also loved Grange Hill in the early/mid 1980’s. It stopped and I assumed it had finished, till I went to the UK in the mid 1990’s and it was still going with a complete new cast. I was amazed! Wasn’t the same without Roland, Tucker, Pongo Paterson and who was that little guy, was it Eggy?

The Littlest Hobo was cool. That was Canadian too, wasn’t it?

I remember Fame, but not with any fondness I’m afraid. The others, Red Hand Gang and Degrassi I have not heard of.

I never heard Hitch Hikers Guide on the radio, my experience of that was watching it on TV on Thursday nights.

I remember “Our House” vaguely, I think I only watched it a couple of times. I also liked “The Red Hand Gang” and other things that used to be shown in school holidays. The early “Grange Hill” was superb, I never missed that. Then there was a Canadian series set around Degrassi Street “The Kids from Degrassi Street” and “Degrassi Junior High”. Also “Littlest Hobo” was fun. “Fame” was great on TV, I used to have the magazines, the records, the books, the posters. The only thing I never had was a Fame tee shirt 🙁

Then there was Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy – superb TV series but now being murdered in movie form 🙁

I haven’t seen the film as yet (though my sister went to see it last night and really liked it) but I always consider the TV version to have murdered the original radio version. Though it was a good TV adaptation for its time, those 1980’s special effects are appaulling, but on radio it doesn’t matter because it’s all about the imagniantion in that medium.

I remember Wait Till Your Father Gets Home – some of the charcacters were just like those in The Family Guy, and I originally thought that the latter was a rip-off of the former, but The Family Guy was a much funnier show.

Anyone remember the British kid’s drama “Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest”, and another similar one called “Our House” about a foster home in London? And another that comes to mind from around those days was “Buddy” starring Roger Daltrey as a teddy boy father and his kid, real gritty kid’s drama. The British really know how to make them great.

Another I used to really like as a kid was a Canadian show called “Danger Bay”, about twin boy and girl who’s Dad was a marine biologist and his girlfriend flew a DHC Beaver. That was a way cool show, and it’s where I first learned anything about Canada because most Canadian productions tend to masquerade as American shows.

Australia did a few good kid’s shows in the 1980’s. One was “Dusty” about an old chap (Bill Kerr) who owned a part dingo dog in the outback. And there was one about a camp run by kids, there was one old man in chrage but the rest were kids. They had their own radio network and got into scrapes with other kid gangs and stuff. I can’t recall the title, but many of the young cast later ended up in Neighbours and other soaps.

Have a look on TV Cream – where I have just seen UFO. Another oldy! – Nermal

Ah haa ! It’s ‘Bless This House’ I was thinking of with Sid James !! 😀

Great site that, just downloaded the themes from Wonder Woman, Monkey, Grange Hill, Taxi and Different Stokes. 😎

www.tv.cream.org

I think I must be confusing it with Man About The House ?

Have a look on TV Cream – where I have just seen UFO. Another oldy! – Nermal

Think it was an American cartoon – Nermal

I think I must be confusing it with Man About The House ?

Yes, it was a US cartoon sitcom from the mid /late 70’s. think the Simpsons, King of the Hill and Family Guy, this show had much of the sarcasm and aldult humour 20 years earlier. Althogh a cartoon, it was very adult orientated, but shown when kids would be home from school in the early evening / late aft.

Think it was an American cartoon – Nermal

Was ‘Wait til your father gets home’ a US sitcom or a UK one ?

[QUOTE]What was that American TV show about the judge and that criminal that had the cool car?

Hardcastle & McCormack was the title. I think it was about a retired judge who vowed to turn bounty hunter and track down crooks who’d jumped bail. He was aided by a petty crook who decided to work for him in return for escaping a jail sentance.

Remember Crazy Like a Fox?

and Hunter? A cut price Dirty Harry.

Then there was Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy – superb TV series but now being murdered in movie form 🙁

From TV Cream –
THEME TUNE… A sweeping orchestral evocation of crashing waves, followed by a desolate, melancholy refrain for strings played over a textbook early 1960s ‘beat’ backing. Full recording includes a solo apparently played by someone who had mistaken an organ for a typewriter.
PRINCIPAL CAST… A stranded, island-bound and increasingly bearded European and his noble native friend. Oh, and a parrot.
‘VILLAINOUS’ FIGURE… Hostile natives, shipwrecked mutineers, and the existential tedium of slowly chopping wood in overlong scenes.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN… France.
DUBBED?… And how.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES… Shown over practically every school holiday, not to mention inter-holiday early morning weekend slots, for the lion’s share of two entire decades.
YOU’RE THINKING OF… THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE – perhaps the most famous example of all, indelibly imprinted onto the subconscious of millions of viewers who never even liked it, and a longstanding sore point for those poor unfortunates who went back to school a week earlier than everyone else and always missed the denouement.
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE (the 60s, sometime)
AGAIN, OLD black and white stuff which strayed far into the colour era. Summer holiday fodder, possibly due to its epic 60-odd episode nature. But what can you really remember? The bad overdubbing of the French original? The parrot? Or just that classic ten-second orchestral theme plus hand disappearing below the water titles? Yeees, that’s it…
TV CREAM immortality rating –
…”DA DA DA DAAAA, DA DAAAAA, (BOM BOM BOM)”
Dreadful drama – Nermal

but did enjoy Perfect Stranger; if only for Valky- who never failed to bring a laugh.

Actually that just appeared to me to be a bit like… hey lets copy Mork and Mindy but we can’t use an alien, lets use a foreigner. It also reminded me of Taxi and I thought the guy in perfect strangers was no where near as good as that nutball in taxi Ladka or whatever he was called was brilliant.

Of course lets not forget the bad things about the 80s, Facts of life, Cosby etc… all carrying on the tradition of teaching your children values and morals in 30mins less adverts. Just thinking about it now makes me cringe….

I did enjoy night court though. And despite being repeated adnauseum and therefore inelligble for this thread even after seeing them a hundred times at least I still like MASH. Americans in a tough spot, not perfect and not pretending to be, and of course very good humour.

Not the Nine O Clock News – remember the scene when Rowan Atkinson or Gryff Ryhss Jones goes into a newsagents and buys a copy of the Daily Star and a porno mag. Thinking he’d wrap the Daily Star around the porno mag, he does the exact opposite…after all, who wants to bee seen with a copy of the Daily Star?:)

Not the Nine o’clock News – bloody funny 😀

Dallas- before they brought back Bobby Ewing.

Spitting Image.

Let’s not forget The New Statesman with Rik Mayal as Tory MP Alan B’stard. Summed up the Thatcher gov’t to a T.

And of course Spitting Image.

Oh, and Not the Nine O Clock News.