Tv series that stuck with you

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I was watching an old episode of gogglebox - they were watching the final episode of Its a Sin and I instantly started tearing up. I remember when I watched it I couldn’t stop crying for hours - the scene where the main character is in hospital and tells his mum, he just looks like a scared boy. I thought it was a fantastic series but il never watch it again.
Is there a scene in a series that just sticks in your head and that emotion comes straight back as soon as you think about it?

Bloody love that.
The film and every series.
I thought no way could the series be as good as the film but they bloody were. So sad when I'd got to the end of them!

North and South mini series, the one with Patrick Swayze, Leslie Anne Down and Kirstie Alley

Excellent tv.

I loved a series called Clocking Off, set in a textile factory and each episode focussed on a different character.

It was by Paul Abbott who also wrote Shameless, another brilliant programme at the beginning. It went off in later series.

Ha ha, someone from my era!

I've also got the DVD of Robinson Crusoe and Arthur of the Britons with Oliver Tobias.

I bought DS the complete Ivor the Engine when he was little, but sadly Noggin wasn't available then.

The Burning Bed. There was a spate of true life - awful stories made into films. The one that stuck with me was one called I Know My First Name is Steven.

I've tried to think of something that haven't been mentioned, agree strongly with the death of Lady Sybil and the rape in This is England.

Dr Foster - the dinner party scene where Suranne Jones exposes her husband's affair at dinner. Absolute class.

The flash forward ending on six feet under, I remember sitting on the floor in front of the telly and weeping.

Doctor Who - quite a few to try to filter down to an ultimate, but the end of the Vincent Van Gogh episode.

Cucumber - Lance. (Trying not to be spoilery) I find Russell T Davies hit and miss with his writing and positioning of female characters sometimes, but he's an incredible storyteller.

Oh yes, Clocking Off was fantastic. I re-watched it a couple of years ago and realised I had forgotten how many well known and wonderful actors like Sarah Lancashire and Lesley Sharp had appeared in it. It is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer.

Talking of Lesley Sharp, she played a medium in a series called Afterlife with Andrew Lincoln. It was fantastic and very scary, I loved it, but it was sadly very short-lived.

When they see us. Drama about the Central Park five. Devastating watch

Excellent series.

Orphan Black has always stayed with me

Adding Clocking Off to my list thank you! And to the poster who mentioned Dr Foster - yes that was a great scene! A brilliant series.

I agree with lots of these - After life, It's a Sin, Cracker, Band of Gold

Also would like to add:

One Foot in the Grave - the episode where Victor dies, so sad
Paddington green - following real people. Would love to know how Jackie is doing now
Wedding Stories - mid 2000s show following couples in the run up to their wedding. I remember a couple that split up just before they were due to get married. They both went on their hen nights anyway and ended up at the same place. They got back together and got married but I didn't see it lasting. Another bride got absolutely hammered and there first dance was her clinging to the groom trying to stay upright!

I read an article about how awful soaps are these days, with too many episodes, ridiculously OTT storylines, yet there's so much drama in ordinary lives. If soaps were more like Clocking Off they probably wouldn't be losing so many viewers.

(Didn't Jodie Comer play the OW in Dr Foster?)

Yes!!! My family LOVED that!!!!

Although I didn't like him kissing his daughters vibrator.

I remember that book, really scary. Never saw the tv version though.
Agree with many mentioned, but I also liked the Danish political drama Borgen and the Norwegian drama State of Happiness, which had a 3rd series recently.
I have only just got around to watching Breaking Bad, which I am really enjoying, but Bryan Cranston who plays the lead, was also really good in Malcolm in the Middle. We watched it a few years back when our kids were 11 and 14. It wasn't quite as good in later seasons though.

The last episode of Black Adder Goes Fourth

Mad Men
This is Us

Purely because there's quite often a situation which reminds me of it Friends

Testament of Youth from the 1970s. Absolutely brilliant. Also Lorna Doone, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre from around the same time.
An episode of General Hospital in which someone smuggled a rabid dog into the UK. There was a lot of concern about rabies at the time and this episode might even have been made with deterrence in mind. Likewise an episode of Heartbeat, much later on with a rabies storyline.
An episode of The Cedar Tree, in which a central character is diagnosed with a brain tumour and has to have her lovely wavy brown hair shaved off before surgery.
An adaptation of My Cousin Rachel in the 1980s with Geraldine Chaplin as Rachel.

The Thorn Birds
Tenko - amazing cast
Gavin and Stacey - perfect from start to finish
Brooklyn 99 - not a bad episode amongst them
I Claudius - Sian Phillips is amazing in this
Father Ted - Mrs Doyle fighting in the tea shop, the largest lingerie dept in Ireland, Irish dancing in the caravan

She did!

Oh! BBC 'Day of the Triffids' 1981, I was 13 and terrified

The monocled Mutineer - 1986

One Summer - 1983 &

A very British Coup 1988.

All have stayed with me for 30 - 40 years.

Traffik - the original 1989 TV series with Bill Paterson and Lindsey Duncan. All about the heroin trade, it was quite incredible.

A PP has mentioned Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. The last ever episode of the whole programme really stuck with me. It was so sad realising who Gene Hunt really was.

Our Friends in The North was epic, but I don’t think I could sit through it again. The last episode of Blackadder Goes Fourth is powerful, brilliant TV that I’ve seen many, many times and cried during every one. It’s that level of punch in an easy-viewing comedy that makes it so fabulous.

DH and I loved all the Scandi dramas in the early 2000s but I don’t think we’d rewatch them.

Currently I’m very invested in Call The Midwife, having seen these characters grow into a third decade and into the world I was born into. The history of the NHS docudrama it’s become is, I think, incredibly powerful. We need to assess what has become of the NHS, what we expect of it and how hard we are prepared to fight/what we are prepared to pay for it.

Reading back on the thread - I agree with the pp who mentioned GBH.

And I'll add State Of Play and Our Friends In The North. Just really intelligent tightly written dramas.

Twin Peaks for me, the atmosphere is something else.

Beef. This isn't an old show, (2022?) but I've watched it at least twice a year and I think about it all the time. It's so beautiful and captures that rage aspect of human experience that I've never seen done so well. I'm sure that it will stay with me.