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?

The final scene of BlackAdder Goes Fourth was so poignant. I thought it was very well done.

That season of Call The Midwife with the thalidomide babies. Rhoda Mullucks and her little Susan. I think Heidi Thomas did a brilliant job with the screenwriting there. Oh and also the second series with the episode where sister Bernadette and Dr Turner finally get together on the doggy road! The look on Timothy 's little face!

Heartbeat, that episode with Foot and Mouth. The soundtrack was brilliant, I've never quite heard Nights in White Satin the same way Also that foot and mouth episode in the original All Creatures Great and Small, and the little girl having to have her calf she raised slaughtered.

Not a series but that ITV drama based on the Hillsborough disaster. I was still quite young when it happened and watching as an adult I was horrified by the callous response of some of the officials involved.

Secret Army is my DP’s favourite drama ever, @Fouradayistoomuch! We watched the entire thing over a month or two a while back and I agree, it’s brilliant. So well-written and so clever in the way all the characters were flawed and nuanced.

It's our Fault

Conversations with friends
Years and Years
Afterlife
It’s a sin
Tenko (only remembered how moving this was after others mentioned it here, I was 10 years old and remember all the characters)
Fawlty Towers - happy memory of watching multiple times with my lovely Dad who is no longer here.

My So Called Life

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Many episodes of Scrubs, Bones, Grey's Anatomy.

13 Reasons Why - unedited version.

CHiPs
Queer as Folk
SATC (before the films)

Cracker. The episodes with Robert Carlisle as Albie.

The Office (the original, not the American re-make). Such a relief to know other people hated office culture and had noticed prats like Brent and odious people like Finchie and Gareth. I thought I was alone. And the Betjeman
poem made me cry with joy.

I Claudius

Colditz (Bernard Hepton is the perfect embodiment of an old school gentleman)

Brideshead Revisited

Blackadder (the WW1 series and its heartbreaking finale)

Toast of London

The episode of Survivors (the one in the 1970s) with the rabid dogs. I was too young to watch it and it scared me shitless. It still haunts me.

And yy to the last episode of Blackadder Goes Fourth.

I loved my so called life. I'm fairly sure if I tried to watch it now it would not have the same effect.

Agree about This is England. That rape scene is the most upsetting thing I've ever seen on television, the thought of it still disturbs be now.

This dates me, but "An Englishman's Castle" from the late 1970s. I’ve never forgotten the final image. Brilliant series (and lovely music).

Yes! I don’t understand why it wasn’t repeated.

The Thick of It from S3.

The Bridge
The Killing

The bridge is the best thing I have ever seen on TV.

Cold Feet, the original group of series. At that time it was the only series on TV reflecting Manchester as I knew it, instead of "it's grim up North" patronizing TV. The episode of Cold Feet where Rachel dies was such a shock. Never forgotten it.

I really enjoyed Dr Who with David Tennant and Billie Piper, fun science-fiction episodes, chemistry, and unexpected ending where a version of him stayed on the beach. It's just gone downhill since to a pile of woke nonsense.

999 with Micheal Fish.

oops Berk

Anyone remember Flambards?

Greys anatomy, I’ve rewatched so many times

Blackadder Goes Forth, as so many of us (I watched it in the JCR with about 100 other people and for a couple of seconds you could have heard a pin drop)

Torchwood: Children of Earth. Not the Ianto storyline, that was just one of those things. Not even the Peter Capaldi bit. Just the scene with Jack's grandson.. and then at the end "ok, let her in". It's a great series, I'm very glad I watched it, and I will never watch it again.

I'm glad that there's so much love for Tenko. I watched it first time round.

A few years ago, my then teen dd discovered it on streaming (I can't remember which platform and don't know if it's still available) and we loved watching it together.

I agree. So hard hitting and well written.

This is really niche. But Netflix had an Arabic drama series on for a while (although it's gone now) called "Black Crows" about an ISIS camp.

It was really heartbreaking as they showed the awful things they did. But it also covered women who joined, for various reasons, and how they ended up. So it was quite gripping in that aspect.

So while it was fiction, it was all things we've heard about and know have happened. But seeing them on screen was still shocking.