Classic TV memories

[Jah Lush]

Spike Milligan's There's A Lot Of It About or any of his Q series. Some of the sketches could be a bit hit and miss others were downright bonkers and hilarious in equal measure.

[fish]

What about Lift Off, on a Saturday morning, with Ayshea - who used to wear this chain with a massive A?

[shygirl]

Dallas - catch it on UK Gold Sat morn

Stetsons galore, Sue Ellen hitting the liquour cabinet and Bobby Ewing in tight swim trunks....

[Keef]

I had a memory of a programme I remember enjoying as a kid, the theme tune (well one line of it) has always stuck in my mind.

Who else remembers THIS??? >:D<

I love this thread, so many old memories... Anna, Knightmare was f**king class!!!

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Any love for "The Chinese Detective", "Tales of the golden Monkey" or that gambling drama about two brothers, one an ex gangster, the other a (fallen?) priest? Citizen Smith was indeed excellent...Moonlighting and Mike Hammer were also usually excellent along with the good ol' Streets of San Francisco, Cagney and Lacey, Hill Street blues, Hogans Heroes, Rentaghost...Ah, nostalgia!

Edit: Who can forget Battle of the planets (Space Science Ninja team Gatchaman - which has had several sequels in the last 10 years), Starfleet (Go Nagai's tribute to Gerry Anderson productions, known natively as Space Bomber) that so bad it was good Pac Man cartoon, The Adventure Game, Flash Gordon, Monkey (Saiyuuki, also remade a couple of years back), Tales of the water margin etc..

[Annasfield]

What about

Rosemary the telephone operator?

>:D<

[Michael Palaeologus]

Singing Ringing Tree - strange eastern european kids TV series of 60s/70s - very scary.

[East Dulwich Angst]

Anyone remember these?

Double Deckers

Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!

Roobarb and custard

[Annasfield]

Keef - as you're a similar age to me. Do you remember this

The trolls used to scare me quite a bit...

[Michael Palaeologus]

Try this

Generations of disturbed children

[East Dulwich Angst]

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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Try this

Generations of disturbed children

Ha ha ha, I remember this from the 70's. Was it a film or a series?

[atila the gooner]

Has anyone mentioned the Water Margin yet, or an obscure series from the 60's called The Human Jungle starring Herbert Lom?

[Michael Palaeologus]

The Singing Ringing Tree was shown on the BBC during the summer holidays in 60s and 70s, its East German.

Other summer holiday classics were

Belle and Sebastian

The Flashing Blade

White Horses

Robinson Crusoe

They were all pretty cheesy and designed to force us kids out of the house to play in the great outdoors.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Atila, I mentioned it a few posts above. It was released here on dvd a good few years back, and there are quite a few games on the Playstation family of consoles by Konami, the Suikoden series (not sure what its called in English) which are loosely based on many of the characters and stories the tv series also drew its inspiration from.

[zephyr]

The Flashing Blade was one of my favourites as was Champion the Wonder Horse

[Michael Palaeologus]

There was a re-dubbed version of The Flashing Blade that was shown on one of the Saturday morning kids shows.

It was very camp and very funny.

[bob]

Rag tag and bob tail,Muffin the mule, wooden tops,bill and ben.andy pandy,four feather falls,noddy,torchy,stingray,fire ball x L 5.

Bob S

[East Dulwich Angst]

I've found some old progs that I recall from my youth

Casey Jones

Daktari

Skippy

Flipper

[jumpinjackflash]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> Lovely Chav!

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> They were Pan's People!

one of the ladies from Pan's People now lives next door to my aunt on Underhill Road!

[SimonM]

>>one of the ladies from Pan's People now lives next door to my aunt on Underhill Road!<<

Ohhh....which one?!

SimonM (starstruck)

[Keef]

How could I have forgotten this bit of French Literature!

[atila the gooner]

Please help me, anyone know ANYTHING about a series called the Human Jungle starring Herbert Lom from the early sixties? I remember it being very dark and deep but loved the moodiness of it and its theme tune which I can just about recall.

[Keef]

Wikipedia says the following.

The Human Jungle was a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ITV by the small production company Independent Artists. It ran for two series between 1963 and 1965, and starred Herbert Lom as Dr Roger Corder, who saw patients in his own Harley Street practice and at the local (fictional) St Damian's hospital. He was supported by the more junior Dr Jimmy Davis (Michael Johnson), by his secretary Nancy Hamilton (Mary Yeomans) and, more occasionally, by Jane Harris (Mary Steele). He shared his home with his headstrong teenage daughter Jennifer (Sally Smith), whose mother, we are told, was killed in a car accident.

Each 60-minute episode (26 in total) focused on a specific patient, whose psychological ailment Dr Corder would treat and, invariably, cure, using an idiosyncratic approach which mixed Freudian psychoanalysis with more contemporary methods associated with the likes of the controversial R.D. Laing. A number of high profile guest stars appeared in his surgery, including Margaret Lockwood, Flora Robson, Roger Livesey, Rita Tushingham and Alfie Bass.

[SimonM]

I remember it - and yes the theme tune was very atmospheric: also recall the episode where Joan Collins guest-starred as a disturbed young woman who stripper off all her clothes in the Underground......but alas this was the 60's and the camera angles were frustratingly discreet....:))

[atila the gooner]

Cheers for your help guys. Much appreciated. I'd love to get hold of some DVDs of this show, but the masters were probably wiped years ago.