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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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

Oh yes Captain Caveman was wonderful!

Yes! Starred Julian Glover as Sir Martin Lacey.

Happy Days, Metal Mickey, Mash and Space 1999. Sons and Daughters was also a regular watch. Mork and Mindy was a family favourite, it feels like there were a lot more programs you could all watch together and things were less aimed at specific ages. Children’s drama like The Children of Green Knowe were brilliant too.

Does anyone remember Tenko?

Yes

Women imprisoned in a Japanese prisoner camp, their fight for survival, the betrayals, rivalries and the aftermath of their release.

Wasn't that Russian. She tell her father to being, "the first thing that hits him on the nose" and it is acorns.

Although this says it is hazel nuts https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070832/

And the singing ringing tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Ringing_Tree

I think the BBC bought a load of children's TV shows from Eastern Europe.

Coupled with the fact ,that lots of families only had one tv and there were limited channel,s so.I remember watching stuff from a young age that probably wasn't age appropriate!😂

OK, supernerds,

"The One Game" - weird late 80s fantasy series. Very much inspired by the (then) boom in D&D.

Also, The Adventure Game, an earlier show where they were on a Spacecraft and had to step across and avoid the Void.

I was only 5! My mum liked watching it.

I’ve never met anyone who had heard of it.

@Idontlikeshouting if we team up we can have an amazing memory between us

This was absolutely sublime TV. Thank you for reminding me. I want to see if I can find it online now...

I remember this one! My gran had a cassette recording of the stories that she would play to us in the car on long journeys

I've just remembered I used to love 'A Very Peculiar Practice' which ran on the BBC for two series in 1986 and 1988. A medical practice at a university, with Peter Davison as a hapless newly arrived (at the start) junior doctor, and the wonderful Graham Crowden as the head of the centre, very fond of the odd wee dram. The theme tune haunted me for years; it's a song by Elkie Brooks, called 'We Love You' and it's never been released on a record.

Remember sink or swim comedy with Peter Davison

Being April and Sweet Medicine

Oh. Yes. The Singing Ringing Tree . She put her hands into the water of waterfall and it freezes. There’s a tiny evil creepy little goblin that hides inside tree stumps and giant seashells

Holding the Fort? Peter Davidson was SAHD with his own brewery helped and hindered by Matthew Kelly . His wife played by Patricia Hodge went back to join the Army.

Which leads me to Jemima Shore Investigates - also Patricia Hodge

Yes. I put Maggie up thread

i can still remember the theme toon 😳

I was thinking about Packet of Three the other day !
jenny Eclair and …..cannot remember the other person.

packet of three was slang for condoms !

Silas! I used to get up at about 6 when I was a kid to watch it. It was bizarre,supposedly a kids show but I think there was a lot of crazy not age appropriate stuff 😄 I think it was eastern European, and it started with Silas riding a horse, and there was something about a friend with a limp who was beaten by circus owners, and an old blind evil witch that lived in a swamp. It was grim but very watchable. I didn't even know anyone else back then who watched it.

The Lives and Loves of a She Devil … Patricia Hodge and a posh- talking Dennis Waterman, living in a lighthouse… quite a strange series.

The Box of Delights, from around late 1984 …. Was on childrens tv but it was very dark and scary!

I remember both of these.

I was a kid too, though a bit older than you. The series was popular enough that a film was made from it eventually. I think a lot of this thread has become less “obscure series” than “series from when I was a kid and never knew if they were popular or not”. Someone mentioned Happy Days - that doesn’t qualify as obscure by any definition. It even gave us the term “jumping the shark”!

I watched that, it was from a Fay Weldon novel. Tom Baker was in it as a priest!