Classic TV memories

[Keef]

Totally right, espeially when you see special effects which would have been great 20 years ago, but are laughable now.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Sundays. My Dad would drop me off at my Gran and Grandads. He and my Grandad would go to Hawkins Colliery WMC to play dominoes (loudly) and drink pints of Banks' Mild Ale. I stayed with my Gran being stuffed with Kayligh (sherbet) and boiled sweets - watching:

Proper wrestling (Mick McManus, Big Daddy, Kendo Nagasaki, et al)

and

UFO or Space 1999 or The Invaders

and reading the Mighty World of Marvel, Spiderman and The Silver Surfer - most of which I still have.

I would then go home, full of sweeties and get shouted at by my sainted Mother for not eating the Sunday roast.

[Keef]

You have wicked taste in comics!!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

OMG Michael - Space 1999 - classic example. Never been more frightened by one episode in my life....

[Michael Palaeologus]

Keef - I have HUNDREDS of comics that go back over 30 years (mostly Marvel - UK and US). They are stored at a mates house (my psuedo-brother) awaiting my purchase of some IKEA storage shelves.

Space 1999 - loved the shows and the Matchbox models of the space-ships that actually fired the nose-tip missiles.

[Nero]

MP, Keef,

I too loved Space 1999. Maya was the best thing but was not in the first series, I think.

As for comics, does anyone remember SpiderWoman with her venom blasts? Fantastic. The UK comics of the time didn't really work well, like Captain Britain. Nero

[Keef]

Don't remember Captain Britain, was he a rip off of Capt America by any chance? I have always been a Spiderman fan, which is why at my age I was still excited when they made the films (and think they've been quite true to the comics). And yes, I do remember Spiderwoman but there were different versions of her, one with a Spideman type outfit, and another with a dark outfit and white hair if memory serves.

Aaaaanyway, back on the TV theme, one of my favourites from my early teens on Sunday mornings (I think) Saved by the bell! I so fancied Kelly, and actually thought Zak and Slater were pretty cool... Oh Dear.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Does anyonbe remember Degrassi Junior High? Please someone say they do :))

[mockney piers]

He he, did you hear about Screech dancing for nickels as he's destitute now?

Oh yeah, remember that android. Canadanians obsess about it. I've a funny feeling it's continued indefinitely a la the bill.

It's now "Degrassi Thirtysomething - Whinging About 3-Wheeled Prams" or something.

[Keef]

How weird, Android that was going to be my next post. It started as The Kids of Degrassi Street or something like that, and then went on to Junior High, and dealt with issues like sex (and how you shouldn't have it), and bras...

I looked on youtube and found a scene that I actually remembered clearly when the boys were being very mean to a girl about her first bra, and shouted "you're so flat the walls are jealous", only for her mates to throw him in the swimming pool... Hmm, TV brass.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Has anyone mentioned "Randall and Hopkirk" yet? I remember refusing to get in the ambulance to take me to hospital until it was finished!!!

[Nero]

Two's Company, with Elaine Stritch and Donald ? on a Sunday night was good. Agony was better, though. Starsky and Hutch on a Friday night with a Chinese takeaway. Nero

[Louisa]

Howards way - always brings back good memories of a sunday night. My brothers son always tell me that it reminded him that it was bedtime and school was next morning. It always makes me think of the 1980's for some reason. Good times. :)

[downsouth]

I know it was on the big screen but I'll always remember Howard the Duck.

[Keef]

Who remembers a British sitcom about 2 antique dealers?

Also liked the one about the father and son doctors, which I think may actually be being repeated now...

[Louisa]

'Never the twain' was the antique dealers comedy

[Keef]

That's the fella! I used to love that when I was a kid! (not a kids programme, but one I remember watching in the evenings).

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

What about:

Liver Birds

Fenn St Gang

Randall & Hopkirk Dcsd

[SimonM]

I wish they'd repeat both series of "Chance In A Million"....starring another lcoal thesp of course! >:D

[Jah Lush]

Fenn Street Gang, that's going back a bit. I loved that. Err..what else, anyone remember Magpie? Sort of ITV's version of Blue Peter. Had a great theme tune anyway. "One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy etc."

[SeanMacGabhann]

I used to adore Never The Twain - but that too suffered big time when I rewatched it only a couple of years later... Donald Sinden wasn't it?

[Michael Palaeologus]

"How?". Fantastic.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Cribbing from another thread: Citizen Smith, Power to the people!

[Mogs]

Just flicking throught the freeveiw channels and have stumbled across one of my fave programmes from when I was a kid, 'The Fall Guy'.

US FIVE if anyone else has freeview

[Keef]

How about "Crazy like a Fox"... Anyone?