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Tv series that stuck with you

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SecretLifeOfTeachers · 08/02/2025 22:21

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?

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BackoffSusan · 09/02/2025 19:32

Normal people

duckywoof · 09/02/2025 19:34

IlovePond · 09/02/2025 14:47

I missed off:

Into the Night: Probably the most terrifying children’s TV series ever made. Based on the novel Marianne Dreams, about a girl sick in bed whose drawings come to life in her sleep. It still haunts me now 🙀

Edited

Was that the one where she draws rocks that come alive and move closer to the house each night? 1970ish?

CrushingOnRubies · 09/02/2025 19:40

AshCrapp · 09/02/2025 19:30

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.

Beef was great! Went under the radar and I'm surprised wasn't watched by more people

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Elderflower14 · 09/02/2025 19:43

Ashes to Ashes
A Woman Of Substance.
This Little Life. This was a programme about a couple who's son was born prematurely.. Having been through it it made me sob... 💔 💔 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327691/

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mismomary · 09/02/2025 19:44

ClaredeBear · 08/02/2025 22:47

Six Feet Under

Yessss me too.

evilharpy · 09/02/2025 19:49

My So-Called Life

I don't think it has ever been equalled.

NoBiscuitsLeftInMyTin · 09/02/2025 19:51

PyongyangKipperbang · 09/02/2025 00:03

Dont know if this has been mention, and cant remember if it was mini series or a one off, but Mr Tom.

The scene where the poor boy is found under the stairs clutching his sister will never leave me.

I read the book and was hooked before they made the series 😢

IlovePond · 09/02/2025 20:33

@duckywoof - that’s the one - gave me nightmares for years!

cariadlet · 09/02/2025 20:52

As we're talking about children's programmes that have stayed with us, one that I've never forgotten is The Changes.
It was based on a trilogy by Peter Dickinson and was probably shown in the late 70s or early 80s.

I remember scenes where people thought that modern appliances were diabolical and had to be destroyed. I was just about young enough to think that that could actually happen.

When I was young, the BBC did a lot of adaptations of classic or high quality children's stories - lots by Leon Garfield, Thursday's Child (possibly Noel Streatfield), The Diddakoi, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden etc

3 scenes stand out for me: Kizzy deliberately flooding the bathroom when made to have a bath; Kizzy showing off by pouring petrol on a bonfire and accidentally causing a dangerous fire and Sara Crew's birthday party at school being stopped - she's told that her father is dead and she's been left a pauper.

IlovePond · 09/02/2025 21:00

@cariadlet - oh my goodness: The Changes - it’s left me with a lifelong fear of pylons!

Just remembered: Timeslip and Tarot - both scary!

purpleme12 · 09/02/2025 21:22

I would like to add one
It's not a series but a Tele film

No Child of Mine (the 1997 one with Brooke Kinsella) does anyone remember this?

Elderflower14 · 09/02/2025 21:43

Just remembered My Beautiful Son. Julie Walters. Her son who was adopted in America needs a bone marrow transplant and comes to Liverpool to find her. It's on You Tube....Brilliant! www.imdb.com/title/tt0299163/

LardoBurrows · 09/02/2025 22:01

Just remembered another one that I loved, 2.4 children, so funny.

ChristmasPudd1990 · 09/02/2025 22:08

This is England. Some traumatic scenes but amazing series.

Ditto "It's a sin". Colin 😭

Moonlightdust · 09/02/2025 22:09

Flamingo68 · 09/02/2025 00:15

The Last Train

Oh my goodness - I was a teenager when I watched this and it stayed with me for ages. Nobody else ever seemed to remember it!

suburburban · 09/02/2025 22:18

Wishihadanalgorithm · 09/02/2025 19:12

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.

Yes definitely those programs especially the episode where we find out how awful Daniel Mays character is

suburburban · 09/02/2025 22:21

Jude with Christopher Eccleston was pretty awful , really disturbing

Also Jack the Ripper with Michael Caine was scary

Pudmyboy · 09/02/2025 22:28

FastFood · 08/02/2025 22:39

  • THAT episode of Futurama, Jurassic Bark.
  • Seinfeld - The Marine Biologist. That's peak Seinfeld. Absolute genius.
  • Southpark - Scott Tenorman must die

Jurassic Bark: oh yes, I am tearing up right now thinking of it!

YourAzureEagle · 09/02/2025 22:36

Strange Report, or at least its theme tune that I regularly hum to myself!

Pudmyboy · 09/02/2025 22:51

LardoBurrows · 09/02/2025 02:28

Several that have already been mentioned like
Tenko
Secret Army
The World at War - fantastic series
This Life
Cold feet

And a tv series called Take Three Girls shown on BBC1 between 1969 and 1972 about three girls sharing a flat in "swinging London". I remember loving it and also the theme tune by Pentangle. I've never met anyone else who remembers it and have never seen it mentioned on any thread about old tv series. The BBC destroyed or taped over all the episodes and apart from one or two odd episodes on YouTube there is no trace left. Happy days.

Take three girls: I remember that! It was the first time I had seen anything that showed there was a choice in adult life: you didn't have to only leave home to get married, you could have a life if your own....a really revolutionary idea to a pre- or just-teen me, and helped set me on the path to independence!

IlovePond · 09/02/2025 23:04

I remember The Last Train - it was brilliant! I am horrified it was 1999🙀

Pudmyboy · 09/02/2025 23:08

There was a TV series of Quatermass with John Mills in the title role, looking for his granddaughter in a world that was falling apart, the country was gripped by anarchy and martial law was in place: scary, brutal and sad...
Goodnight Mr Tom for the reason given by previous posters: the part when he says 'where were you? I called and called but you didn't come!' has me in bits even thinking of it,
On a lighter note: Episodes bears multiple watching, it develops in a most satisfying way as the series progress, especially the character of Carol...
And sci-fi: Grimm: watched the series a few times then bought the box set

Fernticket · 09/02/2025 23:10

Tortielady · 09/02/2025 18:45

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.

I loved General Hospital and remember this episode well. There was a spare of documentaries about rabies and the dangers of smuggling animals in from abroad (Survivors and Z Cars also did episodes about it). Scared seven shades out of me then and still does to this day!

Raindropskeepfallinonmyhead · 09/02/2025 23:18

TheCheeseTax · 08/02/2025 22:42

The Affair.

Yes - loved this series. When Oscar threatens Noah to tell Helen so Noah gets in there first.

And This is us when Rebecca tells her mum she is a racist for the way she treats Randall.

Flamingo68 · 09/02/2025 23:25

Moonlightdust · 09/02/2025 22:09

Oh my goodness - I was a teenager when I watched this and it stayed with me for ages. Nobody else ever seemed to remember it!

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I would have been about 13. I have found it is on YouTube! I loved it. Post-apocalyptic dramas were my love as a teen. Especially “The Tribe” on Channel 5 🤣

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