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?

Yes I remember it - absolutely heartbreaking and so so shocking. Brooke Kinsella was brilliant in it. The bit where she phones child line and just says “help me” still stays with me 30 years later…

She was wasn't she

I would have been 12 when it came on Tele..
Which seems very young to have watched it...
Maybe it was shown another year as well..

Yes exactly! The idea of living independently as a single woman in London was so exciting a prospect at that time and it made me realise that was what I wanted.

Three girls. Cried all the way through.

And the menendez brothers in Netflix. When they get separated at the end 😢

ER
Twin Peaks
Thirty something
This Life

Loved the Affair too

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

Omg I remember this! It was so scary

I loved Afterlife.

Spooks (all early episodes):

The obvious episode is the deep fat fryer incident, for its shock value, with the one with the young suicide bomber a close second. But the one that really sticks in my memory is the one where the team is up for appraisal. They’re told they’ll be assessed on a mock exercise, but then news of a real terrorist incident breaks so the test is abandoned. My family and I spent the whole time second guessing what was going on, with the suspense lasting til the very end. Considering we had a 5 operative with us who was also on the edge of his seat it had to be good.

I am currently rewatching Due South on youtube. It's still amazing. Going to be sad when I finish series 2 and Ray leaves though.

@duckywoof , I vaguely remember it , it was one of my mums favourite programmes . I've looked for it on IMDB and it was shown in 1976 so I was only 12 , it really stayed with me after all these years .

West Wing - not just because it is brilliant, but because it of the way it tackles the issues and shows that the answers are never black and white, there are always impossible trade-offs.

Flambards - I was very close to my grandmother who died and this feels like it was her life when she was young.

Tenko - just horrifying what those people went through

Bangkok Hilton - similar to Tenko, but has made me paranoid about my luggage! For those that haven't seen it, it is clearly also the inspiration for the corresponding scenes in Bridget Jones.

These all date from when I was at a more impressionable age!

What an excellent show with such on point social observation!

Orange is the new Black ( except for the last few episodes). Should have stopped when they were all escaped and swimming. Great show though.
People will hate this but I thought early Roseanne was hilarious,it jumped the shark with the winning the lottery bit and the reboot was terrible but the early seasons were great.

There were a lot of very badly dubbed European children's shows in the 70s, mostly in black and white.

White Horses, Robinson Crusoe, Belle and Sebastian, which I remember.

There was a bonkers historical one creed the Flashing Blade!

I loved the theme tunes to The Flashing Blade and White Horses.

Thinking about it has now triggered the theme tune to Monkey my head.

I wish my memory for useful things was as good as my recollection of 1970s theme tunes.

Always loved Stephen Poliakoff's work - especially Shooting the Past and The Lost Prince.
Loads of other already mentioned. As a kid I was really spooked watching both Children of the Stones and Timeslip.
Loved Catweasle and still refer to the tellingbone when chatting with my brother.

The Lost Prince - this was one of the first bbc dramas I watched when I was allowed to stay up after 9pm as a pre teen / teen. Vividly remember it

The Singing Ringing Tree.... That was a very odd one!!

The White Lotus (Series 1), especially when coked-up hotel manager Armand craps in an entitled guest's suitcase....

Oh Christ, how could I have forgotten this?! It was actually “Escape Into Night” and was genuinely one of the most frightening things I’d ever seen as an over-imaginative 14 year old. Even now, looking at the Google images of the living rocks with the glowing eyes surrounding the house… Shudders…

@ACatAsleepInYourHat - ah yes, Escape Into Night 🙈

There was a film version too- Paperhouse.

I read the book as an adult - I still found it scary!

This Life
This is England
Alan Bennet Talking Heads

Thanks I was thinking of Shooting the Past but couldn't remember its name.

This was incredible