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Late to this but anyone remember MacGyver?

He was an action hero who would regularly gets captured by the bad guys but would always be able to escape/blow up the building by using only random stuff he found in his pockets or in the vicinity like a piece of string a match and a safety pin or something.

Also LA Law, used to watch it with my mum loved it!

I used to post on this discussion thread about Sunset Beach
I was Queen Bitch (warning - eyewatering wallpaper!)

I bloody LOVED SUnset Beach!!!
I was at Uni at the time and bought a one of those portable mini-tellies so I didn't miss an episode even though there was an omnibus

Also loved Revelations Why does no-one remember it??? It was written by none other than Russell T Davies!!! Revelations

And it's out on DVD

One funny thing in the book though, is that Joan (Helen) got a heating engineer to install central heating in a porch for her cat who loved to sit there!

He says the engineer was most bemused

Eldorado! Brilliant stuff

It is so sad WifeofPie

I can't see an episode now, without thinking about it, kind of wish I'd never read the son's biography.

Thanks Zukie. How terribly sad .

Tenko was good.
So many strong women's parts.

Bit concerned that the original poster had a thread entitled "so bad they are good" and then proceeded to mention TENKO. You would have to be a moron to think that was a bad show. Fabulous then, still fabulous now and holds up surprisingly well for a 30-yr old show.

I'm inclined to say Maelstrom, a BBC thriller set in Norway that was on in (at a guess) 1983/4 was bad but enjoyable.

However, as it seems to have turned into a general 70s/80s thread, my votes for thoroughly enjoyable (some genuinely good, others not but still entertaining) would be:

St Elsewhere, Hill St Blues, Ever Decreasing Circles, Falcon Crest, Prisoner Cell Block H, Juliet Bravo, The Cedar Tree and, the best TV show of the 1970s Upstairs, Downstairs, which makes Downton Abbey look like a pile of vomit (and the latter nicked several plot elements from the former).

The 1980's sorry, not the 1970's

WifeofPie

It was just so sad in the way that the vets died.

Brian Sinclair (Tristan Farnon) died in the 70's of a brain illness.

After Alf Wight died there was only Donald Sinclair (Siegfried) left, and he felt so alone, as his wife of 53 years had also recently died, and all the children had long grown up and left home and made their own lives with their families.

Donald Sinclair felt so alone and lost, that he took his own life with an overdose of barbiturates

He was 85, and I just find that so sad, and very poignant watching the programme now.

By all accounts though, Siegfried was even more eccentric in RL than portrayed in the show. He also adored all children, that isn't really shown in the programme either.

Have googled, the drama I meant was definitely Scully. It was written by Alan Bleasdale and set in Liverpool.

I do remember Shelley too though.

I was obsessed with the James Herriot books as a kid, very odd to learn later that he was called Alf, and grew up in Glasgow. Seigfried Farnon, now there's a character. Sadly he only appeared in the first couple of books, because the guy he was based upon IRL took huge exception to his portrayal, and brought legal proceedings.

oh and thank you also YoureMyOrangeGoldWifeNowDave

Thank you 70isalimitnotatarget it WAS the Sullivans

i was a huge fan of prisoner cell block h and sons and daughters as well as the adventure game where at the end you had to get across a giant board without walking into the vortex and i loved space 1999 with maya who could change into other beings.

I bloody LOVE All Creatures G & S. Haven't read that biography, Raaah; what happened?

70isalimit it was Shelley,not Sculley.Hywel Bennett was rather attractive in those days....

I remember The Brett's, it was a bit dull and the scenery wobbled iirc.

I read Alf Wight's son biography,

I really enjoyed it, until I heard what happened to them all, it was so sad.

It takes the shine of the series for me now

'All creatures great and small' was brilliant- I used to love it. And of course Christopher Timothy went on to do 'Doctors'....

Nobody's mentioned All Creatures Great and Small yet! Christopher Timothy, Peter Davidson and Robert Hardy attempting to act with an arm up a cow's arse. Carol Drinkwater swanning around Yorkshire dales going 'Oh James'. I watched the entire lot on YouTube recently (at least the first three series - it wasn't the same with Lynda Bellingham). I did a name change here for a while to DarrowbyEightFive (the telephone number at the vets' house) and I don't think anyone ever got the reference - most people shortened it to Darrow .

Bunbaker

I'm a lifelong horse fanatic!

Never been lucky enough to have my own horse, but have ridden friend's horses.

It's my dream to go to The Spanish School of Riding in Vienna,

The training and beauty of these wonderful animals is breathtaking, I'd be more than happy to just see one walking round, though we did see a practice session in Lipica.

A huge part of me wanting to go to Yugoslavia was to see the Lippizaner Stud.

"MardyBra - there's so many interesting old TV shows mentioned here, and it would be a pity for the thread to eventually disappear. Maybe it could be moved to somewhere more permanent, such as Telly Addicts?"

Yes I'm happy for it to be moved. Have reported it to MNHQ.

Morris it was Sculley (Hewell Bennett.Educated lay about )

Anyone remember Holding the Fort ? Patricia Hodge,Matthew Kelly and Peter Davidson.