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To want to see these TV programmes shown again ?

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Jumell · 11/12/2024 15:42

Bullseye coming back has made me think this .

These are the programs I’d like to see shown again:

Winner Takes All
Generation Game
Punchlines
Krypton Factor
Crackerjack
Ever Decreasing Circles
Terry and June
A Fine Romance
There’s No Place Like Home
3-2-1

I apologise - some programmes above are ‘ones for the teenagers’

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MasterBeth · 11/12/2024 20:44

Jumell · 11/12/2024 20:09

YY to Rentaghost

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On Britbox/ITVx.

MasterBeth · 11/12/2024 20:43

Jumell · 11/12/2024 16:27

I’ll raise you -

Don’t Wait Up
That’s My Boy
Record Breakers
John Craven’s Newsround
Number 73
Bod

ALL on either BBC1 or ITV please ! No obscure digital channels !

I've literally just watched the 1984 Christmas special of Ever Decreasing Circles. Plenty of your list, especially of old sitcoms and dramas, are available.

It shows how desperate you are to watch these shows that you can't even be bothered to find them, even by punching in a slightly higher channel number!

frogpigdonkey · 11/12/2024 20:36

@User14March absolutely! Great ensemble cast too 😁😁

BobBobBobbing · 11/12/2024 20:35

I would pay serious money to be able to watch Due South on a streaming platform. Don't want a remake. Just the actual paul gross Due South. I was off sick for an extended period a few years back and it was on during the daytime but no way to watch if you missed an episode and I've never found it on streaming.

<watched it at an impressionable age and now has a thing for a rule abiding mountie>

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Jumell · 11/12/2024 20:32

Enigma52 · 11/12/2024 20:28

I bloody loved the Generation Game with Bruce, as a kid. However, I did watch a couple of episodes on BBC4, a few months ago and thought " oh crikey, this isn't great!"

Loved crackerjack with Stu!

Juliet Bravo.
Grange Hill.
Lizzy Dripping.

Never understood 321!

You see that episode of Generation Game I loved - Isla st Clair 🙌🙌🙌 - it was from 1981 🙌

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User14March · 11/12/2024 20:29

@frogpigdonkey RIP Nicola Pagett who was quite brill in Bit of a Do!

Enigma52 · 11/12/2024 20:28

I bloody loved the Generation Game with Bruce, as a kid. However, I did watch a couple of episodes on BBC4, a few months ago and thought " oh crikey, this isn't great!"

Loved crackerjack with Stu!

Juliet Bravo.
Grange Hill.
Lizzy Dripping.

Never understood 321!

User14March · 11/12/2024 20:27

@frogpigdonkey Bit of a Do was fab!

MistressoftheDarkSide · 11/12/2024 20:25

Oh, Secret Army anyone?

(I'm on a right nostalgia roll here lol 😆)

frogpigdonkey · 11/12/2024 20:21

Am in a hotel and just discovered to my joy the first episode of Bit of a Do was on London Live. A weird childhood favourite!

ilovepixie · 11/12/2024 20:19

Loved the krypton factor.

Misorchid · 11/12/2024 20:18

Can’t remember the name of late night gathering drinking round a table, just chat.
The one where a drunken Ollie Reed kissed a reluctant feminist.

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Jumell · 11/12/2024 20:09

MistressoftheDarkSide · 11/12/2024 20:02

Rentaghost please 😊

Recently watched all of "Come back Lucy" on YouTube and it was so different to how I remembered it, but really good for it's time.

Also The Phoenix and the Carpet.

And more grown up choice - Juliet Bravo. Lived for a time near Rawtenstall where alot of it was filmed and the town hadn't changed much in 20 odd years!

YY to Rentaghost

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MistressoftheDarkSide · 11/12/2024 20:04

Oh and The Duchess of Duke Street!!

MistressoftheDarkSide · 11/12/2024 20:02

Rentaghost please 😊

Recently watched all of "Come back Lucy" on YouTube and it was so different to how I remembered it, but really good for it's time.

Also The Phoenix and the Carpet.

And more grown up choice - Juliet Bravo. Lived for a time near Rawtenstall where alot of it was filmed and the town hadn't changed much in 20 odd years!

NeelyOHara1 · 11/12/2024 19:49

FYI there's a new Freeview channel (95) called Rewind TV which is showing a variety of vintage tv and films.

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Jumell · 11/12/2024 19:41

LlynTegid · 11/12/2024 18:56

Original versions maybe, not remakes that lose the essence of a show and the era in which it was made.

As an example, remaking The Inbetweeners would be dated because teenage lives are very different as so much is via smartphones.

Exactly Bullseye is a bit disappointing

I just want to make like it’s 1982 !

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LlynTegid · 11/12/2024 18:56

Original versions maybe, not remakes that lose the essence of a show and the era in which it was made.

As an example, remaking The Inbetweeners would be dated because teenage lives are very different as so much is via smartphones.

Poppins21 · 11/12/2024 18:43

MrsSethGecko · 11/12/2024 17:11

Going for Gold! Was that Henry Kelly?

I love Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes. Gene Hunt forever.

Life on Mars was great. If we are thinking old game shows I use to love The Adventure Game.

Ladyswhatlunch · 11/12/2024 18:42

@Bonjovispyjamas And who remembers California Fever?

Me! 🙋🏻‍♀️ loved the theme tune!

Poppins21 · 11/12/2024 18:41

DecayingRelic · 11/12/2024 15:50

I need to see The Last Train again but it is never shown🙄

There is a fuzzy vhs rip off on YouTube

GettingStuffed · 11/12/2024 18:41

The great egg race

Ladyswhatlunch · 11/12/2024 18:40

Kids shows I would like to see again

Kizzy
Lizzy Dripping
The Tomorrow People

Ladyswhatlunch · 11/12/2024 18:35

The Cedar Tree

LeggyLinda · 11/12/2024 18:18

A modern version of 3-2-1 would be OK.
But the rest are probably best left forgotten

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