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?

Same. This was a game changer for me just entering adulthood and on the dating scene. It gave to me the confidence to think "no, I don't have to put up with that" and realise that my experience was just as important as his pleasure.

Oh God that hillsborough drama, Christopher Eccleston and a great actress as parents of sisters who died that day. Hicks I think was the name of that family.

That's it.

I've never seen people play parents as well as they did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough(1996film)

Torchwood. Great when I was watching it but don't think I'm ever up to a rewatch..
Children of Earth episode, Miracle Day where no-one could die, and the cannabilism episode stick out most.

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.

Robert Carlisle is fantastic.

Yet to see him in 28 weeks later (never got round to it) but with the much anticipated third one in the series out soon will have to beforehand.

"Have you ever, ever felt like this. Have strange things happened, are you going round the twist."

Heartbreak high too.

Plenty of Aussie stuff then. Halfway across the galaxy and turn left (the crazy pilot from the Mad Max films is the villain in it).

Also remember Henderson Kids (early Kylie). And Daphne dying in Neighbours, my God that was traumatic. I was about 8. Poor Des crying into the pillow.

And... "he used to give me Rose's"... Bea Smith and lizzie in cell block H. There was a few episodes with a Scottish fella playing a villain. Frightening.

The most recent version of The Diary of Anne Frank. She and the dentist guest were in an upstairs room listening as the Nazis discover the secret entrance to their hiding place. Neither of them says a word. The silence is tense, the only sound the clatter of Nazis approaching up the stairs. Annie kneels down to tie her shoe laces but her hands are shaking so much that shat she can't. She keeps trying in silence to tie them and the Nazis are getting closer.
I thought the whole scene built terrifying tension through Anne's silent fumbling an everyday task and the noise the Nazis made on the wooden staircase. It certainly stayed with me.

Yes!! I have this memory of one of them ending up in a bin bag and being thrown into the bin lorry, did that happen?

I was a child and my mum was watching it… I definitely should have been in bed 😂

Hillsborough was so well done.

I saw Trevor Hicks interviewed years later and he said something about not coming across well in the film. I thought the couple came across brilliantly, a loving family completely destroyed by the events.

Another series, 'Anne' is also moving, I don't think you can deal with Hillsborough without emotions as so much was done to those families.

I made it through 'Anne' until the credits started to roll, and before the credits they listed the 97, that set me off sobbing.

If you have not seen it then it is on ITVX
https://www.itv.com/watch/anne/2a5505

The last episode of MASH was and still is brilliant.

I watched Take Three Girls too and thought it was wonderful
I got interested in Pentangle too and bought one which was largely.compiled of English folk songs. What clear pure vocals they had!

Forty years later I was making worksheets for a story from a book. It turned out to be the one about the two sisters who lived near 'the Bonnie broom'. The one.sister was jealous of the other's fiance and the wedding preparations so she drowned her sister in the river. No happy ending. The killer sister was drowned by the vengeful murdered sister.I used to play Pentangle singing the story athe dramatic story.t the end. The class was fascinated by their voices and the story.

@Lardoburrows I've just looked and Pentangle are there. The song is called 'Cruel Sister'
. Stuck with me for years.

The episode of ER where Mark Green's final letter is read out to the staff after his death. It's then pinned to the noticeboard and you see the seasons pass.

There are 3 for me, Band of Brothers was harrowing, it seriously affected me.
Roots, about slaves, I watched it in the 80s as a kid, it had a massive affect on me, I absolutely cannot abide racism, and the stories stick with me, 40 years after watching them, and the 3rd one is a single scene from Titanic, where the lady puts her 2 children to bed, knowing they are going to die, because they are on the lower deck and they cannot escape, just thinking about it makes me tear up.

Hammer house of horrors,so scary. And 'V'

Mare of Eastwick… spoilers ahead.

the last episode with her friends son being found out totally destroyed me. I wish I’d never watched it as just upset me for ages.

Jock Stewart

Survivors, from the 70s! That's the one I was thinking too. Really impactful at the time.
Also Edge of Darkness.

Sky’s Dream Team from the late 90s. I loved that series. The episode that sticks with me in particular is the one with Clyde’s death.

This is Us. Cheesy and American but really gets me in places. And it’s currently available to watch.

Also Friday Night Lights. It seems I’m a sucker for US sagas

Already mentioned but The Sopranos is the best TV I've ever seen.
Also ER ep when the mother dies but the baby lives after a lot of stuff-ups by the staff
The Good Life
Every episode of Fawlty Towers and Seinfeld.
Most superior though is Frasier. That show was so well written and acted it's unbelievable. I'm struggling to think of a bad episode.

It was a TV movie called Small Sacrifices. FF was incredible in the film. I saw it as a teen and still remember it. It might be on YouTube. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Sacrifices

Scully. A boy dreaming of being a footballer and becoming disillusioned by it all. I remember him shouting at Kenny Dalgleish (I think I am remembering correctly) about how players don’t care about their fans.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scully_(TV_series)

The Handmaids Tale.
I watched all 5 seasons of it.
A very difficult series to watch.
The cruel men, assisted by evil women doing unspeakable things to women and girls.
I had to steel myself to watch each episode.
Margaret Attwood the author of the original book has said everything in her book has happened to women through the ages.

It's scary to think it could happen.

Instead of Canada being the safe haven across the border in the tv series, if a certain political leader gets his way it will be subsumed into the USA.

GBH in the early 1990s. It was an excellent. Well written, well acted and still very contemporary IMO regarding political cover ups/fuck ups and general underhand tactics.

It was back before TV drama had to be 'on message' and instead just concentrated on a good story.

Also, a programme I watched, maybe 1998 ish. I can't remember the name but it was on terrestrial TV late one night and was about people who have sex with animals. They were all in the UK and no one had their faces blurred out. I can't imagine how anyone would want to own up to something so heinous on national TV.