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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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jackles · 04/06/2023 21:36

Radi0liverpool · 04/06/2023 20:05

Oh I loved that!

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I have the boardgame. My whole family used to love it! Watched Knightmare Live at the Birmingham Games Expo too.

Has anyone mentioned Adam Adamant or Trapdoor yet?

behaveasbefitsthesituationwillyas · 04/06/2023 21:37

ArthnoldManacatsaman · 04/06/2023 20:14

@Dublincailin Storybook International?

Woah, what a blast from the past!!

behaveasbefitsthesituationwillyas · 04/06/2023 21:38

Rasputina · 04/06/2023 21:35

Foreverware! I just bought the DVD. Loved it!

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I remember this too! Very good it was!

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Liverpool52 · 04/06/2023 21:38

Space: Above and Beyond. With James Morrison in a black flying suit as Col TC McQueen. The final episode was devastating because I think they already knew it wouldn't have a second.

Boom Town. Love Donny Wahlberg and Neal McDonagh.

Loved Firefly as well. The film is brilliant. Except for Wash. 🥺

behaveasbefitsthesituationwillyas · 04/06/2023 21:40

Anyone remember a show called 'The Red Hand Gang', from the 70s? It was about a gang of child detectives. Loved it!

TheLemon · 04/06/2023 21:40

Mysterious Cities of Gold (better theme tune than actual show which never bloody ended)

The Odyssey - a kid in a coma hallucinates a journey and casts his real life friends in fantasy roles (another never ending one, shown on weekend mornings).

YY to Portland Bill, also Cockleshell Bay, Gran and Bertha, Charlie Chalk.

Radi0liverpool · 04/06/2023 21:41

behaveasbefitsthesituationwillyas · 04/06/2023 21:31

I have a vague recollection of an Aussie children's TV show about kids in a care home. And I think it was called 'Home' or 'House'. I remember it was really good! And the tune went something "home, home, home, on the other side" - or something like that. Would like to see that again. No one else seems to have heard of it.

This was Betty's Bunch!!!

Radi0liverpool · 04/06/2023 21:41

Oh actually the theme tune sounds working

Radi0liverpool · 04/06/2023 21:41

Wrong

Radi0liverpool · 04/06/2023 21:42

behaveasbefitsthesituationwillyas · 04/06/2023 21:40

Anyone remember a show called 'The Red Hand Gang', from the 70s? It was about a gang of child detectives. Loved it!

Loved that!

Gardenerboo · 04/06/2023 21:42

Cockleshell Bay

ThePoshUns · 04/06/2023 21:44

Already mentioned but I loved
The Red Hand Gang
Mr Rossi
The Kids of Degrassi street
Heidi

There was also a programme set in New Zealand and involved hot springs and the people that lived there, will have to Google

User1234000 · 04/06/2023 21:44

@lucylulululu

It's called Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuliaJekylllandHarriettHyde

Absolutely loved it!

behaveasbefitsthesituationwillyas · 04/06/2023 21:44

Anyone remember Marmalade Atkins from the 1980s! I used to love her and the way she dressed, all punky and rebellious.

behaveasbefitsthesituationwillyas · 04/06/2023 21:46

Radi0liverpool · 04/06/2023 21:41

Oh actually the theme tune sounds working

Just googled BB, I don't think it's the same show I'm thinking of.

Dintymcdinter · 04/06/2023 21:46

egowise · 04/06/2023 15:59

Sharky and George! It was animated and on around 5am!

Sharky and George the crime busters of the sea,Sharkey and George will go down in histooorrryyyy x

Rummikub · 04/06/2023 21:47

Yes loved marmalade Atkins.

was the Charlotte Coleman?

AlwaysFoldingWashing · 04/06/2023 21:48

NightOwlNotEarlyBird · 04/06/2023 16:34

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

Robin Williams!

TellingBone · 04/06/2023 21:49

cormorant5 · 04/06/2023 16:19

Not a series but a serial: Crime and gave a view from the criminals POV, but it came close to glorifying crime. BBC I think discontinued it before the last episode.
Criminal Lead character was called David? Hogg.
He had 3 'soldiers' one of them had big Afro hippie hair. but cut it to an almost normal style midway.
It was before Budgie.

Big Breadwinner Hog. Very violent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Breadwinner_Hog

Big Breadwinner Hog - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Breadwinner_Hog

ThePoshUns · 04/06/2023 21:49

SteamFunk · 04/06/2023 19:35

Children of Fire Mountain. I loved the theme tune so much.

Ah I think this is what I'm thinking of!

Mummaluma · 04/06/2023 21:49

@Zoologydragon there was a weird spin off late night channel 4 show by the same people. All weird marching cats etc

@monicagellerbing Yes to So HauntMe.Not sure it would have aged well- iirc, the ghost was a Jewish stereotype (I seem to recall a lot of 'Oy vey')

philautia · 04/06/2023 21:49

Finally I have somewhere to put this - warning...I do not know the name of the show. Probably around 30 years ago there was kind of a crime drama / one off that I saw by accident due to being poorly off school.

It was set in the 80s about two 'criminals' who were driving around trying to rob people, someone called one of them a "croc" (no idea), that same person ended up stopping to help an elderly lady who actually was one of the criminals in disguise. Then the show ended. It obviously had an effect on me as I still remember it now decades on.

Riverlee · 04/06/2023 21:49

70sTomboy · 04/06/2023 21:10

Another one I've thought of is Codename Icarus.

I remember that, but missed the last episode due to going out to a stage show.

AlwaysFoldingWashing · 04/06/2023 21:49

ILookAtTheFloor · 04/06/2023 16:41

The Tribe on Channel 5. A Kiwi drama where the only people left on earth were teens and kids, they wore lots of crazy make up and had to fend for themselves in tribes. First series was good but started to get a bit odd in the later ones.
Anyone else?

Yeah I used to watch this at my Granny's on a Saturday

AlwaysFoldingWashing · 04/06/2023 21:50

Soubriquet · 04/06/2023 16:52

Going round the twist! Who remembers that?

Loved this! The Robinsons I think?

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