TV dramas of yesteryear that were so bad they were good (iyswim)

[MardyBraWouldDoEddieRedmayne]

Following on from all the chat about the Thorn Birds on the fancying priests thread in AIBU, I was thinking about all those corny dramas from my youth.

Like Secret Army Me and my mum used to try and remember the order of the roads, canals and railways each week.

Or Tenko. One of the few programmes of the 70s or 80s to pass the Bechdel test.

[LemonMousse]

Hassled you wanted to shag Prince Charles?!

[LadyBeagleEyes]

Juliet Bravo (the person) was so dull.

[StephaniePowers]

Oh oh what was the one with a police woman called Maggie something? Drippy early 80s perm...

[MardyBraWouldDoEddieRedmayne]

Of course, Upstairs Downstairs, needs a mention.

[BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack]

Steph It was The Gentle Touch.........loved that too!!

[TalcAndTurnips]

Stephanie - wasn't that The Gentle Touch?

[StephaniePowers]

That's it! I remember coveting her clothes.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Oooh and the spin off from The Gentle Touch....

Cat's Eyes (leslie Ash)

[Hassled]

LemonMousse - noooo . I wanted to shag the Prince of Wales circa 1890, I think. Edward VII? I wanted to go back in time and be a royal hooker.

[MardyBraWouldDoEddieRedmayne]

I'd forgotten The Gentle Touch.

. Great theme tune.

[ohmeohmy]

Sunset beach.

[LadyBeagleEyes]

I bet no one is as old as me remembers 'The Lotus Eaters', another one set in Crete, Agios Nicholias in fact.
It was about a couple that ran a bar and she was a 'sleeper', who was ordered to spy on her husband.

[Hassled]

Oh I liked the Gentle Touch. I must have spent a decade at least doing nothing but watch shite TV dramas - I recognise just about all of these, which given that I didn't move to the UK till 1976 is impressive.

[HintofBream]

The Cedar tree! Wasn't it broadcast a little earlier than Rainbow? Another one, like El Dorado that was suddenly axed with unfulfilled story lines.
Is anyone old enouugh to remember a series called "The Brothers"? All about family rivalry within a freight haulage company, sounds curiously dull but I was very taken with it.
Also, a serialisation of one of my fabouite books, A Married Man by Piers Paul Read; it starred a pre-Lector Ant(h?)ony Hopkins. It is available on DVD but not in a UK suitable format. Very annoying.

[LemonMousse]

Ah - an olde worlde Prince of wales - that's alright then Hassled

[LadyBeagleEyes]

What was the name of the American series about a late night Radio dj who solved crimes?

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

yy sunset beach

[MardyBraWouldDoEddieRedmayne]

I remember Crown Court being on at lunchtimes. When I was little, I thought it was real rather than a drama.

[RedPencils]

Winds of War was repeated recently on some obscure satellite channel. I tried to watch it but it was so slow, hardly anything happens for hours! I loved it at the time.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Oh yes The Brothers.
Was it Liza Goddard and Colin "Dr Who" Baker?

She faffed about doing dinner parties in a long dress

I am old

[DamnDeDoubtance]

Ooooooo......do you remember Lace? Then Lace 2?

They were fab.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Quincy- how could anyone forget Quincy

[MardyBraWouldDoEddieRedmayne]

. Not so bad it was good. Just dreadful. But we still watched it as students in the 80s.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

LadyBeagle my DH was talking about this . Was it Midnight Caller or something?

[EldritchCleavage]

The Professionals! Loved that. Used to hide and watch it with my father then my mother would march back in and make me go to bed. She sued to torment us by watching Edward VII. I loathed that.

LBE Midnight Caller, Gary Cole was the lead. That was quite good.

Remember The Rockford Files? Same plot every week, if I recall. We still watched it. Ah, the days of 3 channels!