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To ask what shite tv you used to watch

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botswanabanana · 10/08/2020 19:44

back in the days when there were only 4 channels to choose from and kids' tv was from 4-6 on weeknights and on Saturday morning.
Eg. Bonanza reruns, Snooker championships..... the very bottom of the barrel was horse racing for me!

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alittleisland · 10/08/2020 19:51

My Dad used to make us sit through the football results on a Saturday afternoon. Then I used to watch things like The Krankies, Grumbleweeds, 3-2-1, Miss Marple, Blind Date, Blankety Blank. During the week I used to like French Fields, Me and My Girl, Brush Strokes, Bergerac and that series with Joe McGann and Honor Blackman. I watched a lot of TV as a kid. I used to love the Incredible Hulk and used to cry every week when David Banner had to leave town because everyone knew he was the hulk (he'd had a rage) and they'd play that sad music. I remember watching a TV programme on Thursday nights with Bernie Winters and Schnorbits the dog and the theme tune was 'Maybe because I'm a Londoner'. I watched loads of Carry on films too.

Saturday Mornings - early morning cartoons followed by Saturday Superstore or Number 73. I also used to love Wackaday and Why don't you? in the summer holidays.

chergar · 10/08/2020 19:58

The upper hand? I watched that as well others I watched were

Quantum leap
Eerie Indiana
More & Mindy
Kate & Allie
Happy days
Prisoner cell block H
2.4 children
Gummy bears
The get along gang

alittleisland · 10/08/2020 20:00

@chergar
Oh yes! Upper Hand - that's it.
I watched Happy Days too and 2.4 children. Thought it was really sad that the actor who played Ben died to young.

I loved Goodnight Sweetheart too with Nicholas Lyndhurst as a time traveller back to WW2

chergar · 10/08/2020 20:03

I loved 3-2-1, always wanted a Dusty Bin

Duty free
Just good friends
Bay watch
Beverly Hills 90210

ruabon · 10/08/2020 20:04

I grew up with Anglia tv, and given the lack of remote controls we were largely a BBC watching house. So spared most of their regional output, which apart from nature programmes was generally awful.

WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat · 10/08/2020 20:06

I dunno, still watching shite TV as far as I can make out.

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botswanabanana · 10/08/2020 20:07

We had Central, the home of Bullseye.

I remember Howard's Way and Bergerac - so boring.

Kate and Allie was great!

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Gubbeen · 10/08/2020 20:08

We only had two channels (not UK).

My highlight was the frankly insane Falcon Crest. At the time, I was in love with Richard Channing, but now that I look back, the fascinating thing about it was all the formerly huge film stars who had roles in it as older actors, like Kim Novak, Lana Turner, Gina Lollobrigida, Ursula Andress, Leslie Caron etc etc.

MrsGrindah · 10/08/2020 20:09

Yes Kate and Allie

Does anyone remember in 70s and possibly early 80s that they used to have variety shows live from British Seaside resorts on Sat tea times? Lots of dancers , comedians, magicians etc?

Also we use to love beauty competitions...

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botswanabanana · 10/08/2020 20:11

I remember Hi De Hi, but not real variety shows!

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chergar · 10/08/2020 20:42

@MrsGrindah

Yes Kate and Allie

Does anyone remember in 70s and possibly early 80s that they used to have variety shows live from British Seaside resorts on Sat tea times? Lots of dancers , comedians, magicians etc?

Also we use to love beauty competitions...

I don't remember that but do remember opportunity knocks and New Faces.
MrsGrindah · 10/08/2020 20:52

Summertime Special it was apparently

1Morewineplease · 10/08/2020 20:55

@MrsGrindah

Yes Kate and Allie

Does anyone remember in 70s and possibly early 80s that they used to have variety shows live from British Seaside resorts on Sat tea times? Lots of dancers , comedians, magicians etc?

Also we use to love beauty competitions...

Yes I do!

I also remember that they always had naff comedians on who’d always have exaggerated mannerisms and would have catchphrases like “Ooh what a to do?” Or “Catch me!”
You’d then have a plethora of naff impressionists mimicking them.

AdoptedBumpkin · 10/08/2020 20:57

@WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat

I dunno, still watching shite TV as far as I can make out.
I was thinking the same Grin
MrsGrindah · 10/08/2020 20:58

Exactly. And lots of dancers flouncing around. As kids we thought it was fab Confused

TheKarenWhoKnocks · 10/08/2020 20:59

Weird to think that everyone, even the really rough kids at school, watched tame garbage like allo allo and brush strokes. I actually remember two 'hard' girls arguing about how the theme tune to me and my girl went.

blurpityblurp · 10/08/2020 21:01

Do you remember when Channel 4 used to air an “exercise” programme on the benefits of standing, and it was literally just ten minutes of some guy silently standing still, which audiences were encouraged to copy?

I swear I did not hallucinate that.

blurpityblurp · 10/08/2020 21:02

I was very unwell in the mid-90s so off school.

C4’s daytime lineup uses to be the Big Breakfast, Supermarket Sweep, this weird standing programme which was only on air for a short time, then Celeb Pictionary.

The Big Breakfast was great though.

FinnyStory · 10/08/2020 21:03

OMG I can't believe someone has already said the Upper Hand. That was my favourite thing ever. When (for some ridiculous reason that I can't even remember) I had 2 DC under 4, was working and doing a degree, half an hour watching that was my one break all week. I looked forward to it with genuine excitement. I watched some repeats a few years back. It was truly shocking.

belvoirbeaver · 10/08/2020 21:04

Blockbusters. Bullseye. Strike it Lucky. Noels House Party, even though Mr Blobby freaked me out.
Ski Sunday on Sunday afternoons.

And my mum made us all watch Bergerac, Lovejoy (she had a thing for Ian McShane and his leather jacket) and the Antiques Roadshow.

My dad made us watch Dads Army, Mash and Only Fools and Horses.

TheKarenWhoKnocks · 10/08/2020 21:08

@blurpityblurp I don't remember the standing programme (!) but do remember Naked Yoga on C4. Performed by exactly the kind of guy you'd expect to be doing naked yoga.

JacobReesMogadishu · 10/08/2020 21:11

I loved Baywatch.....but it was pretty shite tv.

belvoirbeaver · 10/08/2020 21:12

Oh Number 73! I loved that. And Going Live. Ghost Train, Parallel 9 (I think that's what it was called)

I also love watching the A Team and Knightrider

I've seen repeats of these and I now wonder why Hannibal always wore black leather serial killer gloves. And how they were always locked in a garage full of tools so that BA could make some sort of weaponised armoured bus.

And in Knightrider, I marvel at how kitt can see what's the bad guys are up to in a building without a camera and how his turbo boost launches them 30 feet at the press of a button Grin

IDrinkFromTheKegOfGlory · 10/08/2020 21:12

Blake's Seven and Press Gang were two of my favourites when I was a kid. Loved them! Definitely didn't think they were shite but I'd hate to watch them now and spoil the illusion!

Chicchicchicchiclana · 10/08/2020 21:14

I watched the first ever series of Big Brother when I was pregnant. And then I watched another one a few years later (the one with Jade Goody). But tbf to me Big Brother wasn't as shite then.