Random programmes you remember?

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After watching worst tv of the 90's on five I was having a quick google of worse tv ever and one show universally panned was one I loved- called 'out of this world' 80's sitcom about a girl whose half alien and another one me and my sister remember but no one else about a ghost haunting a family that had moved into her house after she'd choked on a chicken bone.
What ransoms do you remember?

I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Adventure Game!

I spent many an afternoon laying on the sofa with tonsillitis marking off time according to which soap was on ..

And Heidi !!

Keep it in the Family Shangri, Dudley Rush was the cartoonist

Anyone remember an 80's sitcom set in an advertising agency? It had Liza Goddard in it and the theme tune was something like 'Nancy is a junior secretary in an advertising agency.......'

The Flashing Blade on Saturday mornings with the Banana Splits.
Catweasel, bought first series on DVDs, Carries War, Tom's Midnight Garden, White Horses, Roobarb and Custard,
I remember By The Sword Divided, English civil war wasn't it? Lorna Doone was another one of those Sunday must watch series.

Hiding - thank you! I have the vaguest of memories of it. But I do recall having a massive crush on the dad.

MrMoon was it Roll Over Beethoven? Probably not but that had Liza Goddard too, and Nigel Planer.

Metal Mickey....for some reason just came into my head..

Did anyone else watch Sex, Chips and Rock n' Roll with the divine Joseph McFadden? (and the woman who was Debbie from Brookside, as in Damon n' Debbie ).

Yes loved that and I think Nick Farrel was in it.

Dark Season - kids thriller starring a young Kate Winslet, that was fab.

Shocked nobody's mentioned "Knightmare" - caution team

From my young teens I remember "Last Chance Lottery"; Patrick Keilty ably assisted by a greyhound named "Gorgeous the Dog"

Also: Star Test! I'm sure it was on Channel 4 after the Chart Show (before it moved to ITV). Pop stars of the time answer questions on an "interactive" screen. Bit like a televisual version of the Smash Hits "biscuit tin".

Finally; anyone remember an ITV comedy drama called "Head over heels"? I remember it was 1994 because I named my gerbil after one of the characters. Was obsessed with that programme.

Matilda, that sounds great! I've no idea what it was though.

Olly, the name Spyder's Web rings a tiny bell. What was it about?

Owl Service sounds amazing. Would love to see it.

Anyone remember Filthy, Rich and Catflap? Rik Mayall was in it playing one of a company of solicitors/lawyers. Think I was too young for it – it went over my head a bit – but I always loved the title.

woodhill....yes I remember big john little john, could even sing you the theme tune

"...big john, little john, what a way to grow...."

Anyone remember 'Duffy Moon'? - "you can do it Duffy Moon"

Also 'Love, sydney'

Loved 'Chocky' and 'Sapphire & Steel' too, flumpybear

Just thought of The Borgias

Not the more recent version on Sky Atlantic but an 80s one.

Can't remember any of the actors though

Sapphirestrange
Was the show on channel 4 The sword of Tipu Sultan?

No, I think it was just called the Mahabharata.

Seems quite highbrow now I think of it, though

Olly, the name Spyder's Web rings a tiny bell. What was it about?

It was a bit like The Avengers or the Champions without magic powers. They solved strange cases. Quite clever and witty - or so it seemed to the teenage me.

Sapphire I do remember it being on. It was confusing with a hangover

Does anyone remember a programme where kids were being chased through icy tunnels by big hairy monsters?? Late 80's maybe??

Alex Mack - she had magic powers, could morph into water and a pile of silver gunk.

Can't remember what it was called but had a young Kelly bright, honour Blackman and a mcgann brother - he was the housekeeper.

The hitman and her show - used to sneak downstairs and watch this about 4:30am

I remember first getting cable to when I was about 12/13 and loved the trouble channel - Keenan and kel, sister sister, moesha.

a young Kelly bright, honour Blackman and a mcgann brother

The Upper Hand - UK version of Who's the Boss!

Trouble channel - loved that channel!!!

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'The Happy Apple' with Lesley Ash?

Destiny Box of Delights?

Anyone remember Sea View?

Great thread OP.

FrancisCrawford I remember The Kids from 47A. I loved it. I think one other mnetter remembered it on a similar thread a few years ago. So there are 3 of us! The bit with one of them cycling over a pack of sausages in the opening credits is imprinted in my mind.

Also loved so many mentioned.
Flambards anyone? Great evocative theme tune.
The Prince and the Pauper with a child Nicholas Lyndhurst.
Follyfoot Farm.
Armchair Thriller. Particularly spooked by the faceless nun and the one with the wee Scottish girl: 'Someone put plasticine in the gun barrel'.

Ahhh. Happy days.

I loved the Follyfoot books but the TV show was a bit saccharine in comparison. If I remember rightly, the books dealt with some quite gritty stuff like abandoned children, poverty and social inequality, racism etc.