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Random programmes you remember?

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Wishfulmakeupping · 03/12/2016 13:20

After watching worst tv of the 90's on five I was having a quick google of worse tv ever and one show universally panned was one I loved- called 'out of this world' 80's sitcom about a girl whose half alien and another one me and my sister remember but no one else about a ghost haunting a family that had moved into her house after she'd choked on a chicken bone.
What ransoms do you remember?

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Wishfulmakeupping · 03/12/2016 13:21

*randoms!
Sorry sleep deprived

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PonkAlert · 03/12/2016 13:24

I have a very vivid childhood memory of sitting on the sofa on my mum's birthday watching The Brittas Empire, a sitcom where the nerdy bloke out of Red Dwarf was managing a leisure centre. If the Internet didn't exist I'd be convinced I'd dreamt it because no one I've ever mentioned it to as an adult remembers it!

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FedUpBird · 03/12/2016 13:26

Ponk I remember that, the receptionist used to keep her baby in the bottom drawer of her desk Grin

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ExcuseMyEyebrows · 03/12/2016 13:45

I loved the Brittas Empire Grin

No-one I know remembers So Haunt Me (think thay's the one you mean OP?) or Shillingbury Tales. They were on tv in the 1980s and 90s.

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absolutelynotfabulous · 03/12/2016 13:47

Brittas Empire is on Gold.

Does anyone remember The Singing Ringing Tree? It traumatises me even thinking about it, even now!

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woodenmouse · 03/12/2016 13:57

I vividly remeber watching a kids programme about a group of kids/teens who used to time travel and they were regularly in some sort of wasteland. I've googled it and I can't find it and it's driven me crazy for years. Dh thinks I imagined it all!!

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woodenmouse · 03/12/2016 13:58

Oh and imnsure there was some sort of grandfather clock involved

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hardheadedwoman · 03/12/2016 14:09

I remember the singing ringing tree! Scary

Anyone remember Life Without George on a Sunday eve before That's Life?

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sparkle789 · 03/12/2016 14:16

Does anyone remember don't forget your toothbrush? I used to love it but no one else seems to remember it

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MadHattersWineParty · 03/12/2016 14:18

Bernard's Watch!

He never had any fun with that bloody watch though. He used to just use it for extra time to paint his Nan's hallway or to freeze the postman so he could put his Auntie's birthday card in the postbox before 5:30pm.

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MadHattersWineParty · 03/12/2016 14:19

woodenmouse did the group of children also travel with a big dog?

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AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 03/12/2016 14:20

Tickle on the Tum. Nobody ever remembers it except me. And Ghost Train.

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JustDanceAddict · 03/12/2016 14:21

I remember the Brittas Empire and the most random one I remember is End of Part I which had the Corrie tune backwards as it's theme tune. I don't even remember what it was about, but think it was on itv in the late 70s/early 80s. If anyone else remembers I'll be amazed.

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CharlotteCollins · 03/12/2016 14:23

Rude Dog and the Dweebs.

What was that? I had a minor obsession about the main character. (Wtf? He was a cartoon!) But nobody I've mentioned it to remembers it.

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DramaInPyjamas · 03/12/2016 14:23

The one about the ghost haunting the family is called 'So Haunt Me'

I remember a kids show called Alfonzo Bonzo(?) I think he was an alien who liked to do swaps and then get into a whole heap of trouble Grin nobody else ever remembers that show when I mention it

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MadHattersWineParty · 03/12/2016 14:24

Does anyone remember a little cartoon mongoose or similar that used to constantly say 'hoisky poisky'?

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DramaInPyjamas · 03/12/2016 14:27

And 'Last Chance Lottery' which was a 'Don't Forget Your Toothbrush' rip-off with Patrick Kielty

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FrostyLeaves · 03/12/2016 14:29

Michael Bentine's Potty Time, which I recall as being sublime but no one else I know watched it!

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MrsJayy · 03/12/2016 14:30

wooden i think that was the Tomorrow people which ive just come on to say i remembered

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EverySongbirdSays · 03/12/2016 14:31

I remember Out Of This World!

So Haunt Me sounds so familiar I'll have to google it.

I remember don't forget your toothbrush

Does anyone remember Wanted (Channel 4), Would Like To Meet (BBC2) OR the one where the kids redecorate the houses when their parents went away on ITV that I always forget the name of.

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FrostyLeaves · 03/12/2016 14:31

Twas the 70s though..

I liked the Britta's Empire too. It never got the recognition it deserved imo!

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HelenF350 · 03/12/2016 14:32

I remember tickle on the tum, an humming the theme tune now Grin

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228agreenend · 03/12/2016 14:32

I loved The Brittas Empire.

Wooden mouse - was it an American series? I have a vague image of an old tv series of a group of boys going to,strange places. The boys were typically Americn looking.

Angels - does anyone remember this? It was about nurses.One of the actresses was the late Richard Whitely's partner. I remember one episode when she got a used of stealing things out of lockers. It turned out to be a workman, who coincedently was always around during her shifts.

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FrostyLeaves · 03/12/2016 14:32

I think I probably watched the entire output of Channel 4 in its early days.

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EverySongbirdSays · 03/12/2016 14:33

Oh GOD I was OBSESSED with Rude Dog and The Dweebs, see also, Galaxy High, and Potsworth and Company

and KISSYFUR

Does anyone remember Kissyfur?

And I'm probably getting this wrong but Professor Poopsnaggle?

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