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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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Rummikub · 04/06/2023 19:01

Jamie, Jamie! Jamie and his magic torch!

great kids tv. We all loved it.

catchingclouds · 04/06/2023 19:02

Ready or Not. It was a Canadian teenage sitcom in Trouble. The two characters were called Amanda Zimm and Izzy Ramone and they were opposites but friends. When Trouble channel stopped I never saw or heard of it again.

Helpimfalling · 04/06/2023 19:02

Peacepudding · 04/06/2023 17:31

Out of this world. It was about a girl who could stop time by pressing her fingers together and her dad was an alien who she communicated with through a prism. The theme tune was swing on a star. I loved that programme

You angel you!!

I've been searching for this for years!!

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woodhill · 04/06/2023 19:02

Rummikub · 04/06/2023 18:52

How can they not remember metal mickey?!!!

It was pretty awful

Helpimfalling · 04/06/2023 19:03

MagicClawHasNoChildren · 04/06/2023 17:39

God, the Devil, and Bob. Loved it. I think it was on BBC2, late one weekday evening. Nobody else seems to have ever heard of it.

And some hospital sitcom with Ade Edmondson in it. Even I can't remember its name, and I (unlike basically everyone else) quite liked it.

Good the devil and bob was amazing

Figrolls14 · 04/06/2023 19:03

💚Garth Marenghi
Round the Twist

woodhill · 04/06/2023 19:05

King of the castle was also very disturbing

Late 70s

Rummikub · 04/06/2023 19:05

Rummikub · Today 18:52
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How can they not remember metal mickey?!!!
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It was pretty awful

It was essential childhood viewing in our house. And in the street too.

Anguirus · 04/06/2023 19:05

@1952VincentBlackLightning

It's been an ear worm since I thought of it for this post !!
And even had a rewatch of the open credits on YouTube ,
It's a great tune - and a great closing credits for it also. Well composed :)

Helpimfalling · 04/06/2023 19:06

Something about a kangaroo jumping all over the place.

I have really vivid memories of.

Think it was played on special occasions and animated.

Someone else just said the one I've been searching for, for years (out of this world)

Fernticket · 04/06/2023 19:06

Loving this thread. It's bought back memories of some great TV shows of the past.
Some more obscure ones.
Laverne & Shirley.
The Kids of 47a.
Sir Prancelot.

Q1w2e3 · 04/06/2023 19:07

Bob and Rose. I’ve never met anyone who has seen it and I absolutely loved it. Alan Davies is Bob, a gay man who falls in love with a woman.

I would love to rewatch a programme I saw about a young woman who has been abused and had split personalities. Someone like a dentist or physio was trying to help her. It was hard to watch but really gripping.

TheBerry · 04/06/2023 19:07

The Tribe. Legit still my fav show.

woodhill · 04/06/2023 19:08

Helpimfalling · 04/06/2023 19:06

Something about a kangaroo jumping all over the place.

I have really vivid memories of.

Think it was played on special occasions and animated.

Someone else just said the one I've been searching for, for years (out of this world)

Skippy bush kangaroo?

OnthePisteAgain · 04/06/2023 19:08

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)).

The Changes-I remember that so well. Gave me a fear of electricity pylons for several years!

TheBerry · 04/06/2023 19:10

Q1w2e3 · 04/06/2023 19:07

Bob and Rose. I’ve never met anyone who has seen it and I absolutely loved it. Alan Davies is Bob, a gay man who falls in love with a woman.

I would love to rewatch a programme I saw about a young woman who has been abused and had split personalities. Someone like a dentist or physio was trying to help her. It was hard to watch but really gripping.

@Q1w2e3 United States of Tara?

grass321 · 04/06/2023 19:10

Maelstrom, still terrifies me.

I'm sure there was a program where alien species abducted humans and put metal caps on their heads. The aliens were on tripods (was that its name?).

notafruit · 04/06/2023 19:12

BreakfastClubs · 04/06/2023 17:53

This is a really obscure one. Does anyone remember Dooby Duck's Disco Bus?

I saw Dooby Ducks disco bus live in Blackpool. It was very odd. The other support act was Dana (70's singer) but the main act was Freddie Starr.

@ALongHardWinter

When I was about 7 or 8,I watched a programme called 'Here come The Double Deckers',about a gang of kids who lived on a London double decker bus. It was my favourite TV show as a child,but anyone I've mentioned it to has never heard of it! If it wasn't for the fact that I've looked it up on the internet to confirm that it actually existed,I'd think I imagined it or dreamt it!

I bloody loved the Double Deckers. I can still remember the song. That, alongside Why Don't You? were my favourites.

I do remember a lot of the shows listed here.
Does anyone remember Elidor? I was way too old in the 90's to be watching kids TV, but I must of caught this for some reason. I remember one of the kids being stuck by their hand in a rock (literally through the rock). I think they could go between modern and ancient worlds or something.

bryceQ · 04/06/2023 19:12

Man O Man on a Saturday night or something like this where men were pushed in the water topless. No idea what it was all about!

Dashel · 04/06/2023 19:17

CharlottenBurger · 04/06/2023 16:03

Mapp and Lucia in the 1980s. I actually didn't like it much, except for Geraldine McEwan's delicious impression of a Morningside accent. It has been called 'wonderfully camp' which is what tried my patience. I watched the episodes with a kind of grim fascination, I thought at the time. And now I miss it. I don't know anyone who ever watched it or who has heard of EF Benson. I do see today that lots of the episodes are on Youtube, so...

I loved the original series but not the newer one so much.

My mum got me into it as I must have been very young

FlappyFish · 04/06/2023 19:19

I loved Littlest Hobo and I still adore the theme.

lucylulululu · 04/06/2023 19:21

Hotch Potch House!! It took me years and endless Google/youtube searches to remember the name of it and my family and friends all looked at me funny when all I could describe was a model/cardboard house that spun around and the camera would zoom into various windows/doors before each new scene, then it would switch to an actual set ('inside the house') with puppets.

No one believed me or had any clue what i was on about, humming the theme song didn't help either bc i couldn't remember the name of the show and i knew the theme song was just the name of the show repeated over and over 😂 I'm so glad i finally remembered the name so I could prove I wasn't crazy 🤣🤣🤣

Riverlee · 04/06/2023 19:24

Issie Nooo - about a panda

The Happy Apple

tailinthejam · 04/06/2023 19:24

TrashyPanda · 04/06/2023 18:00

Topogigio

Calamero

the White Horses (best theme tune ever)

Junior Showtime

Why Don’t You…

(the last two were dire)

the BBC showed a Robinson Crusoe Tv series every summer (it started with a shot of the sea lapping at shore). Only they timed it for the English School Holidays, so we in Scotland never saw the end. For all I know, he’s still on that bloody island. Ironic, given the inspiration was Alexander Selkirk, who was Scottish.

Ah - someone much the same age as me, I loved White Horses.
Do you remember Champion the Wonder Horse as well?

SteamFunk · 04/06/2023 19:24

Beenhereforever1978 · 04/06/2023 15:52

Watoo Watoo. I have never lived in France but nor have a I met another English person who remembers it.

Loved it!

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