You’ve seen one episode, you’ve seen them all?

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Inspired by the ‘Vera’ thread - what are the shows you can see once, then theoretically never see again without missing anything?

My vote goes to Location Location Location. As much as I love it, the formula is eternally predictable:

‘Steve and Samantha Deluded-Twats are looking for a spacious two-bedroom apartment in west London. They love pricey Chiswick, but only have £300k to spend. They’re hoping that, with our help, they can find an area nearby with an attractive high street with a villagey feel and lots of independent shops and cafés, even though they buy everything off Amazon and get their lunch from Tesco Express like the rest of us. Today, I’ll be showing them a one-bed in need of work opposite a condemned council estate now being used as an unofficial skate park and drug den. I REALLY hope they can see the potential’.

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Bargain Hunt! Antiques Roadshow! Any of those boringarse ‘antique’ auction shows involving self satisfied’funny’( not even remotely) antique dealers. And Tim Wonnacunt🤯yes I know that’s not his actual name. My husband loves such shows. Should I LTB?

Naked attraction, someone claiming to be either 'quirky' or 'shy' says I'm unlucky in love so I'm looking for someone different from people I usually date. Naked suitors are unveiled while the presenter and chooser make comments about penis piercings and breast sizes. Those who are eliminated pretend to take the rejection in good grace whilst silently fuming. Eventually, the chooser picks the person with the largest breasts/penis who is exactly lile everyone else they've ever dated. There's an extremely awkward moment when everyone gets naked and the person who has been chosen wishes they hadn't been. They go on a date and decide there's no chemistry and never see each other again.

CSI anywhere, team go out to collect evidence find DNA, get man with DNA who proves he was there innocently, find more evidence, suspect explains it away then third but evidence find the perp

LOL like anyone genuinely shy would ever in a million years go on Naked Attraction. God I loathe that programme with a passion.

Scooby doo.
Things get weird, the group investigate. Culminates with the pulling off the mask of the perpertrater to find it wasnt a ghost but someone they knew all along

Yes, and he'll say 'I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you pesky kids.'

And they never ever change their clothes.

The Great House Giveaway, 2 hapless dupes are given money to buy a house at auction and renovate in 6 months to hopefully resell at a profit, which they keep. One dupe has very basic DIY skills, the other struggles to change a lightbulb. Instead of buying something that requires a general cosmetic update they buy a shack and then decide to add a loft conversion and extension despite having no skills to do so. 2 weeks into the project, the dupe with no DIY skills gets bored and drops out of the project leaving the other to strugggle on alone. They struggle to finish in the timescale and the house fails to sell/ makes a loss so they end up doing all that work for nothing, the end.

@Piglet89

The Barefoot Contessa on food network.

“My gorgeous flower arranger friends Mark and Bob’s dog Mike is having his sixth birthday, so we’re all celebrating in my amazing house with a meal composed mainly of butter and other Hamptons farmers’ market produce. I’ve also made an Italian ragu with a lovely wine - just something you would drink. And my other friend Gerard is doing spectacular table settings”.

And Ina wears her signature light blue shirt/blouse every time.

The Hotel Inspector

The Supervet.

Sad dog breaks some complex series of leg/hip/face/back bones. Hot Irish man does some cutting edge operation. Dog limps away happy. Owner cries.

I agree about the Supervet, but illogically was sad to see that his own dog died recently.

@WeatherwaxOn

Deadly 60 (or any other programme featuring Steve Backshall). Talks about wildlife Goes out to remote location Finds deadly creature Picks it up/pokes it about and does piece to camera Bonus points for filming at night in infra-red (so as not to disturb wild creature) Takes off shirt and swims/canoes More grabbing dangerous/venomous creatures Cheeky grin and thumbs up.

I’ve never seen Deadly 60, but the description has given me terrible deja vu.

Steve really needs to stop doing this.

@Excited101

Call the midwife

Mad nun says mad things and goes missing/gets deathly ill
Doctor smokes and says earnest things
Sheleigh simpers and wrings her hands
Something wholesome in the village hall
Babies get born, 50% of the time in extreme poverty
Some mild peril, possibly involving a bicycle or a car

The end.

Yes but I still adore it!

I love that phrase 'mild peril.' I love at the beginning of streamed programmes when they say:

Warning:

Contains: Language
Mild peril.

I've yet to see a film that didn't contain language.

The Archers - the well off folk have problematic children, but money can always sort it out, while the common folk do the real graft but never make any money, but have lots of laughs and heartwarming family moments....... And on and on and on for centuries.....

PheasantsNest

When Friends came out my actual closest friends decided to stay in on Friday nights to watch the series episode of Friends live . I remember going to the pub on my own and the irony was not lost on me. luckily widening my circle of friends 😂

Location Location. Love the descriptions from other posters, really made me laugh.
Just want to add that Phil will offer to call the estate agents to make an offer on the house they like and he NEVER gets them a good deal. He's a useless negotiator. Every time they pay more than he offers. Or they go in way too high. He's useless but I love the programme

@Excited101

Call the midwife

Mad nun says mad things and goes missing/gets deathly ill
Doctor smokes and says earnest things
Sheleigh simpers and wrings her hands
Something wholesome in the village hall
Babies get born, 50% of the time in extreme poverty
Some mild peril, possibly involving a bicycle or a car

The end.

Everyone is always immaculately coiffed and made up, even when living in poverty. The midwives always look fabulous even after working all night in really grim conditions, saving lives. The doctor can make the most amazing diagnoses, of diseases, just by consulting a few books.

I still love it though,

cocktail to be fair though, if you were selling a house and Phil from location was putting in an offer, you'd know to reject it and hold out for a better offer because the couple are usually cheeky fuckers trying to underpay and always have more in the pot than Phil initially claims. They always say final offer and then locate another 5k down the back of the sofa!

@BoredZelda - Ladd is a multi millionaire and she makes millions from her ‘down home country girl’ routine. They ‘home school’ like Angelina Jolie homeschools, i.e. they have a professionally qualified school teacher who lives in (if not more than one). I’m fairly sure she has shed loads of other staff just out of shot - I certainly would with her sort of money.

@Talia99

Wow, must be a lot of money in cows 😂

Ladd’s family owns half the state and they get millions in government subsidies for the ranch. Basically, while I accept he works hard, he got his money the old fashioned way - he inherited it.

I’ve never seen Deadly 60, but the description has given me terrible deja vu.

Steve really needs to stop doing this.

I got Steve Irwin flashbacks, too.

Suzi Ruffell sums up Naked Attraction

m.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yeuUcmSmo

@the80sweregreat

The Christmas hallmark films are utterly ridiculous ( I'm sure channel five will be starting to put them on soon now it's autumn) The lead actress is always beautiful and clever with nice clothes and the kids are theatre school urchins who are wise beyond their years and make sure their widowed dad marries the smart lady who gives up her glittering New York lifestyle to live with them in rural harmony in the sticks forever more and be a ' mom ' to them and the cute farm animals and non cold looking snow ( from a hired snow machine ) Christmas was never like this when I was growing up : a festive tin of quality street was seen as high end living.

We love those tacky films - you always know what to get.

We play a little game now - we scroll through the listings to see the film titles, then we have to guess what the plot is about and see how close we get!

It's ALWAYS a girl who has left her home town to be a success and has to unexpectedly return to her home town, where she meets up either with an ex boyfriend from high school, or a new resident that they take an instant dislike to, but you know they will be shagging within 90 minutes...

They are so insanely obvious but some of them are really quite likeable!

@Kanaloa

With ‘Wanted Down Under’ it annoys me that they visit the area they want to live in and spend the time canoeing, visiting beaches and going days out. I always think they should arrive on a Sunday night, and the kids should be enrolled in a local school for a week and both parents should be working. Because basically anywhere is nice if you’re on holiday. It’s not quite the same when you’re dragging yourself from work to school in the Australian heat to pick up your kids.

This exactly!

of course its fun youre on holiday not doing the day to day drudge of life its so false

and the fact theyre never bothered about leaving the rest of their family because we want a different life-what do you hate them or something?