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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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LorraineInSpain · 04/06/2023 17:07

aliensprig · 04/06/2023 15:56

The Murder Game. Wish they'd bring it back!

I came to post this when I saw the thread title. Hardly anyone seems to have watched it!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 04/06/2023 17:08

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)

Yes , Ron Perleman (HellBoy) was Vincent .
I could never work out if it was meant to be scary , funny or what ?

BathshebaKnickerStickers · 04/06/2023 17:09

@FlamingoQueen I Came on to say Maelstrom. I fell in love with everything Scandi then. I had the book too.

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Potterbore · 04/06/2023 17:09

Tv series from 1993 - Head Over Heels. It was set in a 1950s finishing school.
I missed the last episode and can’t find it anywhere 😥

lieselotte · 04/06/2023 17:09

Blakes 7 was my favourite programme as a child.

I remember Maelstrom, Susan Gilmore who was later Avril in Howard's Way was in it.

I also liked Look And Read (schools programme) especially the one about the peregrine falcon and had characters called Jackie, Trevor and Butch.

AnElegantChaos · 04/06/2023 17:11

@Bookist Yes to Barbapapa!

Quite surprised Mork & Mindy is now seen as obscure! It was really, really popular so def a generational thing. It also reminds me of "Taxi", which my folks watched.

Iudncuewbccgrcb · 04/06/2023 17:12

excelledyourself · 04/06/2023 16:09

Greenclaws. We watched it in school, but no-one I ask everyone seems to remember it

I loved greenclaws! I had a thread about it on here YEARS ago under another user name.

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 04/06/2023 17:12

"Chelworth" 1989 - drama series about a family who inherited a large house and estate and worked to make it viable.

"The Riff Raff Element" 1993/94 - comedy drama about the clash/meeting of cultures when an impoverished upper class family let out a wing of their home to a lower class family.

"Mulberry" 1992-93 Mulberry, the cheerful Cockney son of Death and Springtime, starts his "career" as the Grim Reaper's apprentice when he is sent to collect the acerbic and reclusive Miss Farnaby.

"The River" 1988 David Essex as a cheeky chappy lock keeper

"Kingdom" 2007-2009 Stephen Fry as a small town solicitor with his apprentice in Norfolk. They have started showing it on Drama or Alibi.

ReginaPerrin · 04/06/2023 17:12

Panpig · 04/06/2023 15:51

Garth Marenghi's darkplace! Never met anyone who's heard of it

I love this programme, and Man to Man with Dean Learner!

BlueThursday · 04/06/2023 17:12

Vesuviusbeats · 04/06/2023 16:44

My brother had the clubhouse caboose and all the little characters!

At school, we used to watch a program called Through The Dragon's Eye. Looking now, it just seems to have been an educational thing, but it seemed quite sinister and frightening to a 6 year old.

Charn was beyond what should have been acceptable on cbbc for schools!

MrsRachelDanvers · 04/06/2023 17:13

Seaforth-a tv series in the nineties with Linus Roache playing a jack the lad. I loved it and would love to see it again. Also The Water Margin-a series set in ancient China about a gang of bandits-really good fun. No one else I know remember these.
I loved Blake’s 7 though.

lieselotte · 04/06/2023 17:13

More recent but still quite obscure was a short BBC series called Truth (Trust?) (I think) and was about a law firm. I think Robson Greene was in it, and maybe Sarah Parish.

NiceUnusualDifferent · 04/06/2023 17:14

Anyone remember Wish me Luck? Bbc Sunday evening drama, World War 2? Used to watch it with my mum

boysmuminherts · 04/06/2023 17:15

I feel like I watched The Murder Game

NashvilleQueen · 04/06/2023 17:15

I used to love Small Potatoes and Sean's Show.

x2boys · 04/06/2023 17:15

Soubriquet · 04/06/2023 16:52

Going round the twist! Who remembers that?

Yeah I was too old for it really but it was good
have you ever ,ever felt like this
Where strange things happen
are on going round the twist!

TidyDancer · 04/06/2023 17:16

I loved Sharky and George and also Through the Dragon's Eye.

Managed to get a copy of the latter on video a few years ago, brilliant trip down memory lane!

BathshebaKnickerStickers · 04/06/2023 17:17

@70isaLimitNotaTarget - I remember The Peppermint Pig - it was a late Sunday afternoon one. In the same slot as The Phoenix In The Carpet

GalileoHumpkins · 04/06/2023 17:17

"Maggie" set in Glasgow , she wanted to leave and go to University , Her parents wanted her to stay, get a job, husband and kids

I loved Maggie, I had the books as well.

monicagellerbing · 04/06/2023 17:19

So Haunt Me in the very early nineties! Sit com about a woman who died choking on a chicken or fish bone I can't remember which, then she haunts the house and a new family move in. I remember loving it as a small kid but nobody ever remembers it!

My So Called Life
Hex
Charmed
Banshee
Let The Blood Run Free

Yiayoula · 04/06/2023 17:20

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere -
I loved The Riff Raff Element , wasn’t Celia Imrie in it ?
Cant recall Mulberry , but the plot sounds very much like Mort , by Terry Pratchett - off to Google !

ReginaPerrin · 04/06/2023 17:21

Jangles, with Hazel O’Connor and Jesse Birdsall.

risefromyourgrave · 04/06/2023 17:22

Soubriquet · 04/06/2023 16:52

Going round the twist! Who remembers that?

The episode where the elder boy got cursed to have to say ‘without my pants’ at the end of every sentence is legend in our house!

TheOnlyMooncat · 04/06/2023 17:24

pornyshroudofturin · 04/06/2023 16:53

I had the Getalong Gang toy lamb too!

No one else seems to remember The New Schmoo. Was a Hanna Barbera cartoon about some sort of mystery solving shape shifting creature.

Also, a series on bbc during the school holidays called Silas. Was dubbed (badly) story about an orphan who escape a circus or similar. He was a horse acrobat I think. He was chased by various people including "the crone", who ended up getting hung on a water wheel in the last episode. Was a cheery watch!!!

I loved Silas! A lot of 80s kids tv seems to have been badly dubbed, I remember a really badly dubbed version of The Littlest Vampire.

risefromyourgrave · 04/06/2023 17:25

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 04/06/2023 17:12

"Chelworth" 1989 - drama series about a family who inherited a large house and estate and worked to make it viable.

"The Riff Raff Element" 1993/94 - comedy drama about the clash/meeting of cultures when an impoverished upper class family let out a wing of their home to a lower class family.

"Mulberry" 1992-93 Mulberry, the cheerful Cockney son of Death and Springtime, starts his "career" as the Grim Reaper's apprentice when he is sent to collect the acerbic and reclusive Miss Farnaby.

"The River" 1988 David Essex as a cheeky chappy lock keeper

"Kingdom" 2007-2009 Stephen Fry as a small town solicitor with his apprentice in Norfolk. They have started showing it on Drama or Alibi.

I still remember the theme tunes to Mulberry and The River. Every time I have to say the word ‘Mulberry’ (which TBH is not very often…) I say it in the old lady’s voice!

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