Name a film or tv show you think no one on here has heard of -

[peachese]

So for tv show:

When the Street Lights Go On.
Really good and equally as sad.

Films …. Maybe Creep 2004, I just rewatched it all these years later. But maybe it’s not as obscure as I think.

A couple from childhood:

Manimal (man turns into animal to solve crime...)

Captain Zep Space Detective (which no one I know has ever heard of!)

And from later:

The Young Americans (US teen drama set at an exclusive boarding school)

Crashing (comedy with Phoebe Waller Bridge)

School of Comedy was on Channel 4 in 2010ish, it was a group of kids in sketches playing adult roles. One of them was a young Will Poulter, his talent for acting shone through. No one I have spoken to remembers it.

I think it was on BBC but it's not on iplayer.

Wouldn't mind watching it again if I could find it!

Has anyone mentioned Kingdom Hospital?

It was very niche when it was released

OMG yes, Kingdom Hospital! A good remake by Stephen King of Lars von Trier's the Kingdom. Both utterly weird and fantastic.

i haven't mentioned Lexx yet. Funny, puerile, dark, fabulous sci fi, often described as Star Trek's evil twin.

Forgot about Lexx.
Also, V about alien invaders.

I've seen this! It is very beautiful and sensuous.

My sci-fi geek DP loved this. I don't think I ever watched it; was more into horsy or fantasy things.

I remember The Snorks and Round the Twist. The latter dealt with some quite 'big' themes for a kids' show, I think now with hindsight, but was always accessible even when I was a kid. I very much wanted to live in a lighthouse with a cool dad

I'd forgotten about The Riff Raff Element but it was great.

About the Nazi? Is it Viggo Mortensen?

Mad hot ballroom - was a documentary about kids in New York learning to ballroom dance. It was so good!

Years ago:
Filthy Rich and Catflap. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer are estate agents. Think it had one season and then vanished without trace.

MacGyver. American show about a cop/PI who in my memory rode around Manhattan on a horse

The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand DeBargos. A bit like the voiceover one mentioned already, but black and white footage, I think, and of real and sometimes globally huge events, with comedy voiceovers.

More recently:
North Square. Legal drama with Phil Davies and I think Maxine Peake? Again, got cancelled too soon.

And Psychoville, concocted by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Cancelled because apparently no one was watching it (apart from me and DP!) but it was so good. Features an early turn from Daniel Kaluuya, and Shearsmith as Jeremy Goode the librarian: 'Will you return it tomorrow? Or the day after?' (only people who've watched it will appreciate that but I still hear it in my head if I'm a bit late with library book )

Hunderby
Stressed Eric
Murun Buchtansanger
Dinosaurs
Follyfoot Farm
The Tomorrow People
Ace of Wands
Howards Way
A Handful of Songs
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Busy Lizzie
Noggin the Nog
Fingerbobs
The Woodentops
Pipkins
Marked Personal
Crown Court
Now Get Out of That

Pipkins had that rabbit puppet that was from one's worst nightmares, didn't it? I'm not even going to google it, it's so upsetting . Lord knows who thought it was a good idea for a kids TV show.

Aaaargh!

Hartley Hare!

That’s the one!

It's on Amazon prime but you gotta pay😕

Came out in 2004!

I remember -

Hunderby - no
Stressed Eric - no
Murun Buchtansanger - no
Dinosaurs - no
Follyfoot Farm - familiar name
The Tomorrow People - yes
Ace of Wands - no
Howards Way - yes, best theme tune ever, loved this series (and saw Barracuda in real life)
A Handful of Songs - yes
Chorlton and the Wheelies -yes
Busy Lizzie - heard of it
Noggin the Nog - yet
Fingerbobs - yet
The Woodentops yes
Pipkins - yes, puppet rabbit
Marked - no
Crown Court- yes, they should remake this

Now Get Out of That - is that ‘ now get out of there’ where teams from Cambridge and Oxford had a series of challenges. One was to get a land rover going, which was stuck in mud and out of petrol. However, it was actually diesel (or vice versa). Believe it was filmed at Leeds castle.

Testees

Series about flatmates that make their money volunteering for medical experiments. Hilarious

Running in Heels - (documentary that was the inspiration imo for ‘The Devil Wears Prada’)
Bad Boy Bubby - amazing Australian film
Camping - another one by Julia Davis

Also a WW2 (I think) drama called Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, set in working-class London. An early lead role for Sally Hawkins.

There was also a series (possibly a film?) on (I think) ITV, about what would happen after a zombie apocalypse if they found the cure. How all the zombies would be reintegrated back into their old lives and how they'd come to terms with what they'd done while being zombies. Loads of stigma and protests about ex-zombies being moved in next door to regular people. I wish I could remember the name, it was very clever

No one I try and describe it to has ever heard of it or remembers it.

Oh that’s In The Flesh, it’s on iPlayer.