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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..

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.

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.

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.

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....:))

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