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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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DinosApple · 06/06/2023 21:09

Bonekickers.
We've got it on DVD and are researching it with the kids. It only got one series, but we enjoyed it. Easy watching, far fetched archaeology TV series.

Apart from fellow archaeologists and enthusiasts I don't know anyone who liked it (even then it was divisive 😁).

DBro and I loved Round the Twist as kids.

I also have a vague recollection of a creepy kids drama that had been dubbed and was about a boy whose smile had been stolen. I hated it though. Would have been late 80s, very early 90s maybe.

Fleamaker123 · 06/06/2023 21:12

Monkey
Raffles

Late 70's

SerendipityJane · 06/06/2023 21:20

van der Valk

Hazell

The XYY Man

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JimnJoyce · 06/06/2023 16:10

I remember Pinky and Perky, I had an album of theirs, also remember Noggin the Nog.
Does anyone remember Tinga and Tucker?

I remember Pinky and Perky and also had their record.

was Tinga and Tucker Australian?

Idontlikeshouting · 06/06/2023 23:55

@JaneJeffer I was literally going to google to find Attachments as I remembered DW being in it but not the name!

Does anyone remember Nylon - around the same time - long distance relationship between London and NY?

@Ihavenoauthority I loved Revenge. It's on Disney plus atm.

Roger Roger - about cabbies.

Capital city - on ITV with Douglas Hodge, about city dealers

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 06/06/2023 23:59

egowise · 04/06/2023 15:59

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

Crime busters of the sea!

It was on at like 3.30pm after primary kids got home from school. I quite liked it

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 07/06/2023 00:00

Bangers and mash - kids show, two moneys living in the jungle. Loved it!

BreakfastClubs · 07/06/2023 00:03

Did anyone else watch Pirates with Liz Smith?

BreakfastClubs · 07/06/2023 00:04

Also I'm cheating because I watched these on video but Ewoks and Strawberry Shortcake.

blueshoes · 07/06/2023 00:25

Land of the Lost. Sleestaks were terrifying.

OooPourUsACupLove · 07/06/2023 00:28

By the Sword Divided! Always got that and the Miss Marple (Joan Hickson obvs) theme tune tangled up.

Throwing in a very obscure one... anyone remember Murun Buchstansangur?

Flustercuckoo · 07/06/2023 00:32

American Gothic. Sarah Paulson was in it.

miniegg3 · 07/06/2023 00:44

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

Not obscure but noone seems to have watched gomorra (it's amazing)
Or a Swedish show called 30 degrees in February which I really liked

JimnJoyce · 07/06/2023 00:52

@Riverlee yes I think so

mathanxiety · 07/06/2023 04:28

Anyone ever watch a Japanese show called Monkey?

sashh · 07/06/2023 04:37

Dollhouse was great, the second series in particular.
Firefly.
Kids in the hall - "I'm crushing his head"

Anyone ever watch a Japanese show called Monkey?

I have the urge to spin round and shout, "monkey Magic"

Soap.

Let the blood flow free.

@SerendipityJane

There is a remake of Van De Valk with Marc Warren.

Radi0liverpool · 07/06/2023 05:59

mathanxiety · 07/06/2023 04:28

Anyone ever watch a Japanese show called Monkey?

Ah Monkey!

Sunflowers80 · 07/06/2023 06:09

Lost in space and a kids TV series about vampires but can't remember the name and no one has heard of it.

Catsmere · 07/06/2023 06:24

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!)

I watched all of Blake’s Seven - and cried my eyes out at the end.

catskate10 · 07/06/2023 06:29

The Flame Trees of Thika, set in Kenya. I think it was on a Sunday and Holly Aird was in it who went on to be in Soldier Soldier.

Catsmere · 07/06/2023 06:32

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 started watching that online once (because Geraldine McEwan and Nigel Hawthorne - ❤️❤️❤️) but didn’t like it at all, sadly.

I didn’t know it was from EF Benson novels - I know him as a writer of ghost stories, mainly the great and much-anthologised The Room in the Tower.

Catsmere · 07/06/2023 06:35

BreakfastClubs · 04/06/2023 16:26

The Flying Doctors. Does anyone remember that?

I remember it, never watched it though.

Catsmere · 07/06/2023 07:02

NightOwlNotEarlyBird · 04/06/2023 16:34

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

That was always being quoted here!

Catsmere · 07/06/2023 07:10

The Wacky Races, Perils of Penelope Pitstop, New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - I loved the Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

Catsmere · 07/06/2023 07:18

FindingTheFox · 04/06/2023 16:49

@NightOwlNotEarlyBird I used to love Mork & Mindy! I watched it in my teens in the 90s so would have been repeats.

Does anyone remember the late 80s Beauty and the Beast series? My best friend and I used to go trampolining together on a Friday evening then she'd come back to mine for a sleepover or I'd go to hers, and we were allowed a can of fizzy drink and a bar of chocolate whilst watching that. Highlight of the week.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(1987_TV_series)

I loved that! Ron Perlman never looked so good. 😄

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