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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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YesYesAllGood · 04/06/2023 16:23

One was in CITV and I think it was called ghost catcher or something like that. It featured a Victorian shoe shine boy and a woman who tried to catch all the ghosts.

Moondial?

ZittiEBuoni · 04/06/2023 16:24

I watched Issy Noho, and everyone I knew was obsessed with Blake's 7, including me.

I liked The Song and the Story on BBC1, early 80s, with Isla Sinclair doing a history of folk songs. Nobody else remembers it though.

BreakfastClubs · 04/06/2023 16:24

Ultraviolet. I think it was on Channel 4 and it was about vampires.

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@LadyOfTheCanyon I loved Phoneshop! New Man! And the shrine to Little Gary Patel 🤣.

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Dublincailin · 04/06/2023 15:58

I can remember a series called Cover Up.

Anyone else remember that?

Omg yes. I was crazy about him! So sad.

Snoopsnoggysnog · 04/06/2023 16:25

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...

There was some kind of remake of this a few years ago - with Anna Chancellor? I haven’t watched the 80s one though

littleburn · 04/06/2023 16:25

@Theeyeballsinthesky I remember Tales of the Golden Monkey! I think it was on in the very early '80s. They had a seaplane!

BreakfastClubs · 04/06/2023 16:26

The Flying Doctors. Does anyone remember that?

DisplayPurposesOnly · 04/06/2023 16:26

FlamingoQueen · 04/06/2023 16:23

I’ve always remembered a programme that I think was called ‘Maelstrom’ although I could have spelt it wrongly. I think I remember a dolls house and it was quite creepy, but again, I’m not sure!

I definitely watched Maelstrom, can't remember anything about it tho

SirVixofVixHall · 04/06/2023 16:26

Dontlistitonfacebook · 04/06/2023 15:57

Blake's Seven

( I have not watched any on your list OP but I like the look of it!)

Oh yes to Blake’s Seven !
Children of the Stones

ZittiEBuoni · 04/06/2023 16:27

My friend was obsessed with a terrible programme called Automan in the mid-80s. I just had to google to remember the title.

TheOnlyMooncat · 04/06/2023 16:27

@excelledyourself My little sister loved Greeclaws! She's 15 years younger than me, I'm more from the You & Me era 😂

SirVixofVixHall · 04/06/2023 16:27

Oh and Sapphire and Steel.

ZittiEBuoni · 04/06/2023 16:27

Definitely remember Manimal, we used to call the Slazenger tennis rackets at school Manimal rackets because of the black panther logo.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 04/06/2023 16:28

@littleburn yes!!! 😃 I think Roddy McDowall was in it & it was all a bit Indiana Jones!

boysmuminherts · 04/06/2023 16:28

@BreakfastClubs yes. I am obsessed with Australia so loved The Flying Doctors.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 04/06/2023 16:29

SirVixofVixHall · 04/06/2023 16:27

Oh and Sapphire and Steel.

That used to scare the living daylights out of me!

LivingDeadGirlUK · 04/06/2023 16:29

egowise · 04/06/2023 15:59

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

Aaand thats the theme tune stuck in my head again...

FlamingoQueen · 04/06/2023 16:30

DisplayPurposesOnly · 04/06/2023 16:26

I definitely watched Maelstrom, can't remember anything about it tho

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I’m so pleased that I’m not the only one! I watched it with my Mum, but she’s no longer with us so I can’t pick her brain. No one else has ever heard of it!

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!

Idontlikeshouting · 04/06/2023 16:32

@AnElegantChaos I LOVED secret life of us! One of my favourite series ever!

DisplayPurposesOnly · 04/06/2023 16:32

I've never met anyone who watched Mad Death, 1980s TV series about an outbreak of rabies in the UK.

Also Living In The Past in the 1970s where a group of people live 'in' the iron age for a year.

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Soubriquet · 04/06/2023 16:33

YesYesAllGood · 04/06/2023 16:23

One was in CITV and I think it was called ghost catcher or something like that. It featured a Victorian shoe shine boy and a woman who tried to catch all the ghosts.

Moondial?

No. But a quick google has said it’s called The Ghost Hunter. I really liked that

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The Ghost Hunter (TV Series 2000–2002) - IMDb

The Ghost Hunter: With Jean Marsh, Lee Godwin, Terry Crow, Will Theakston. Mrs Crocker is the ghosthunter, and along with her assistant, De Sniff, she tries to capture all the ghosts. She hates all ghosts, especially a little Victorian shoe shine boy,...

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0281444/

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LubaLuca · 04/06/2023 16:33

Space Cadets, presented by Johnny Vaughan. A load a reality TV star wannabes thought they were training to be cosmonauts and go into space, but they were actually in a hangar in Tipton or somewhere. Minsky the monkey featured.

ZittiEBuoni · 04/06/2023 16:33

My parents wouldn't let me watch Mad Death because it was too scary.

But around the same time they did let me watch Malice Aforethought about a serial killer poisoner Grin.

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