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What obscure tv shows do you remember watching, but no one else really watched or remembers it so you feel alone?

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Soubriquet · 04/06/2023 15:47

I have a few. I used to love watching certain shows but no one I knew watched it. So it felt like I was the only one at times.

Hex
Dollhouse
Dark Angel
Roswell (the original not the newer one)
Firefly

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egowise · 04/06/2023 18:43

The herbs!? Had a very friendly lion called parsley!

porkchopsandwiches · 04/06/2023 18:45

Does anyone remember The cuckoo's sister?

It was about a girl who's older missing sister suddenly just turns up on the doorstep one day.

She had been snatch from her pram when she was a baby.

TheFormidableMrsC · 04/06/2023 18:46

Siberia. It was gripping. Stopped at a cliff hanger and then no further episodes were made. I was annoyed for ages 🤣

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Yiayoula · 04/06/2023 18:46

@TheOnlyMooncat
Oh, I remember Gideon ! - a little yellow duck with an abnormally long neck , the other ducks used to be very spiteful to him .
Very sad theme tune, too .
My daughter , who would have been about 3 or 4 years old , used to cry every time we watched , but would still insist on watching as it was her favourite.

Trainhel · 04/06/2023 18:47

I can’t remember the name of it and nothing comes up on Google but I’m sure it existed! It was like a variety of ‘creatures’ that lived behind a wall (maybe in a shop) that came to life at night and I think turned to stone again in the morning. I’m sure I can’t have dreamt it…

Tidsleytiddy · 04/06/2023 18:47

Cow and Chicken when my kids were younger

Tidsleytiddy · 04/06/2023 18:48

Trainhel · 04/06/2023 18:47

I can’t remember the name of it and nothing comes up on Google but I’m sure it existed! It was like a variety of ‘creatures’ that lived behind a wall (maybe in a shop) that came to life at night and I think turned to stone again in the morning. I’m sure I can’t have dreamt it…

Bagpuss?

RobinHumphries · 04/06/2023 18:49

NellyTimes · 04/06/2023 16:30

Children's drama called Aliens in the Family, never met anyone else who remembers it.

I loved Blake's 7 too, had the best ending to any TV series. We also had a few homemade teleport bracelets thanks to Blue Peter!

I remember aliens in the family

Spottycarousel · 04/06/2023 18:49

Sapphire and Steel
Blake's 7
Knightmare (kids game show)

ODFOx · 04/06/2023 18:49

I remember Kizzy, about the Traveller girl fostered into a kindly but ill-equipped middle class household.
A few years earlier: The Changes on BBC and Georgian House on ITV. Both supernatural (the former slightly Wyndham(ish)).

catskate10 · 04/06/2023 18:50

Swish of the Curtain with a very young Sarah Greene
The Kids of Degrassi Street. Had to Google the title as only remembered that it was Canadian and had street in the title!

Coffeesnob11 · 04/06/2023 18:51

I used to love metal mickey but no one else seems to remember it although lots of people remember ALF. There was also a kids show drama and it was about this creepy windmill thing I have no idea what it was called.

FannythePinkFlamingo · 04/06/2023 18:52

The BBC used to make great children's tv back in the day. I remember Kizzy, Lizzie Dripping (starred Tina Heath who went onto be a Blue Peter presenter), Moondial, White Peak Farm and many, many more.

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 04/06/2023 18:52

Grady Green Grass
Poltergeist the Legacy

Rummikub · 04/06/2023 18:52

How can they not remember metal mickey?!!!

AndTheSurveySays · 04/06/2023 18:54

Garth Marenghi's darkplace! Never met anyone who's heard of it

DH bought be 'Garth Marenghi's Terrrortome' book for Xmas. Buy and read it if you haven't, it's brilliant.

celticprincess · 04/06/2023 18:55

BreakfastClubs · 04/06/2023 16:26

The Flying Doctors. Does anyone remember that?

Yes. And Sons and Daughters.

TheInterceptor · 04/06/2023 18:56

See my username!

Helpimfalling · 04/06/2023 18:56

NightOwlNotEarlyBird · 04/06/2023 16:34

Mork & Mindy. I've only come across one other person who has seen this!

Nano nanooo

Zoologydragon · 04/06/2023 18:56

The littl' bits - I have never met a single person who has watched it or even heard of it!!!

BigButtons · 04/06/2023 18:57

Monkey and the watermargin
bloody brilliant - both Chinese

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 04/06/2023 18:57

Rub a Dub Dub - hazy memories of an early 80s cartoon

Yes , my DC watched this , there was a crocodile , a shark , (cannot remember the rest) one was called Terence .

Round the same time there was The Backyardigans who were yellow and rode horses .
The theme tune was we are your friends the Backyardigans and I'm sure they had a song that went "you need to fight fight fight with all your f*cking might" but it's a kids cartoon

User1328745 · 04/06/2023 18:58

The Event which was a sci-fi series on at 10-15 years ago, ended on a cliffhanger and was then cancelled

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 04/06/2023 18:58

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 04/06/2023 18:57

Rub a Dub Dub - hazy memories of an early 80s cartoon

Yes , my DC watched this , there was a crocodile , a shark , (cannot remember the rest) one was called Terence .

Round the same time there was The Backyardigans who were yellow and rode horses .
The theme tune was we are your friends the Backyardigans and I'm sure they had a song that went "you need to fight fight fight with all your f*cking might" but it's a kids cartoon

Oh . np[e the crocodile and shark were the RubberDubbers , ear;y 2000s .

celticprincess · 04/06/2023 18:58

Jaime and his magic torch
Hy don’t you?
Supergran
Huckleberry finn

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