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?

Chocky, and Chockys children on childrens ITV about an alien that lived with matthew and Polly. Also Metal Mickey and a great comedy in the late 80's early 90's called streets apart with amanda Redman. Just remembered another one Dodger Bonzo and the rest another CITV gem.

There is one I remember which must have been late 80s where some kids went back in time to the medieval period and at the end one boy who didn't any family decided to stay while the others returned to the current day. It's bugged me for years as to what that was.

Also, The Boy From Space, which I was obsessed with.

Haven't read the whole thread so so if it's been mentioned but I remember a Saturday night one off drama thing that I thought was Hammer House of horror. Two young women rent a flat and hear things from upstairs so they ask the landlady who lives there and she says "you do". It wasn't HHOH as they were all repeated recently and it wasn't shown.

Does anyone remember the Australian mini series 'Return to Eden'? There was another series with the same lead characters that was longer. It was about an ugly businesswoman those husband tried to kill her by putting a crocodile in their swimming pool. She survived the attack by the crocodile and following a load of plastic surgery became a famous international model and set about gaining revenge on her husband and his mistress. It was nuts, but utterly compelling.

Does anyone remember
How?
Belle Sebastian and the Horses (arty continental tv)
Robinson Crusoe (ditto)
Garrison's Guerrillas
Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves
Animal Magic

Sunnymeg Yes! I remember Return to Eden, was just about to ask if anyone else did. Loved it along with Cover Up - thanks to the poster upthread who mentioned it as no-one in real life has a clue when I mention it.

Other favourites of mine that none of my friends remember were Mosschops, The Happy Apple, Me and My Girl, Kate and Allie and Tripods.

Not random or obscure but I have to mention Just Good Friends as it's just so wonderfully written. It's currently on BBC2 at lunchtimes and try to organise my lunch break so I can watch it at my desk!

I loved cover up - it was never the same with the replacement bloke.
I also loved Remington Steele with a young pierce brosnan

Not sure shadows but your post reminded me of murder most horrid which I haven't though about for years

Symphony Was it "Don't Watch Alone" on Saturdays at 9pm?

I liked Kate and Allie. Does anyone remember "Heartbeat" that I think was an all female maternity unit? The star was Kate Mulgrew (had to google Captain Janeway!)

Remember Belle and Sebastian very fondly, Yoyo . I remember it as a black and white series that was dubbed, and then caught it again as a cartoon when my DCs were young.

The Last Train sticks in my head, too, especially when going through tunnels on train journeys! I was absorbed by it, but recall the ending was rather bleak.

Lots of love for Round The Twist and Eerie Indiana here, but I also remember a weird and possibly foreign children's show about a boy having his laugh bought. I've never heard of it since and it was an unsettling watch when I was little! Never met anyone who knew what I was talking about when I mentioned it though!

The Brittas Empire was a fab show, as was Due South - happy memories

I recently rewatched Lace, it was very dated but at the time the wait for the following week and to find out who her mum was, was agonising!

"Also Staying Alive, an odd seeming series set in a nurses home and hospital, with Jessica Hynes. There doesn't seem to be much about it on the internet apart from the fact it existed but I remember it as being a bit dark and a bit weird." Fantastic! You're the first person I've come across in 20 years that watched this!

One I also really loved was 'waiting for God' with the wonderful Stephanie Cole.

The dvd for maelstrom has been on my Amazon wish list AGES but nobody's bought me it

Anybody remember crime traveller? Michael French as a time travelling copper? Naff but fun

I also loved
out of this world
Me and my girl
On the up
Adventure game
Brittas empire
May to December (preferred the original Zoe, crushed on Paul venables)
Metal Mickey
Sapphire & Steele
The upper hand
Howard's way (taught myself to play theme on violin)
Airwolf (so disappointing that the then gorgeous Jan-Michael Vincent such a twat in real life)

Loved house of Eliot still pissed off it was cancelled without allowing a proper ending. So weird seeing 'evie' in CSI.

I have vague memories of a sci fi show, bbc I think, a team of protagonists, anti terrorism plots pre 9/11...actors that weren't so famous then but are now - found it - Bugs!

Did the person saying nightcaller mean midnight caller with Gary Cole? If so did you watch American Gothic with him in?

Did anyone watch Master of the Game? With the sadly lost Ian charleson? Was the first 'grown up' full drama I watched.

Did anyone ever watch Springhill?
It was a drama/soap on Channel 4 in the mid nineties after Hollyoaks (when Hollyoaks was good) and repeated after Light Lunch the next afternoon.
I remember skipping school to catch up on episodes I had missed

It wasn't a normal soap like Corrie etc, they had super powers and could see ghosts and time travel and stuff

It was from the creator of Shamless. I loved it!

Springhill has reminded me of actress Christine Tremarco, who was in a TV movie /mini series called The Leaving Of Liverpool which has reminded me of another mini series from Australia called The Brides of Christ
I think I watched a similar kind of series about the Magdalene Laundries as well,

I remember the Leaving of Liverpool - really sad

The big Soap and Glory set in the case is going to be reduced to £30 on Friday, I got the email from MSE today

Oops wrong thread!

Just thought of Xerxes, v early 90s I think. Swedish (?), Scandi anyway, about a teenage boy and his travails with school/parents/friends.

I remember being intrigued and confused because he had dark hair and eyes and quite dark colouring, and in my clueless youth I thought all Scandinavians were blond.

Oh, also just thought of the Dennis Potter stuff that used to be on. I was a bit too young for them and didn't really get them, but persevered anyway. There was one called Blackeyes about a rather melancholy model of that name.

Does anyone remember a one-off programme called "Annika (not sure if that's the right spelling) about a young man meeting a Swedish girl and travelling to be with her?

It was repeated a couple of times, I really enjoyed it

One for Scottish mumsnetters

City Lights!

It was about Willie Melville and his dreary job in a bank but trying to be a writer

It was brilliant and had a brilliant cast

My friend and me went to see the stage show and I remember we were in tears of laughter

RIP Gerard Kelly

I love Gerard Kelly in everything, even when he was cast as baddie Callum Finnegan in Brookside

He played a guest character called Father Henderson in Fags Mags & Bags (radio comedy series) and completely stole the show for me

Was never lucky enough to go see him in Pantomime though.
The King of Panto. "Hiya Pals!"

Yes Annika with Jessie Birdsall

I watched "The Leaving of Liverpool" when I was a bit too young for it really but it was really sad and affecting. There's one scene that I remember where the deaf lad got struck across the head and it speaks volumes that I can remember that 20 years on

Happier musings: was watching a BBC3 doc about Grime music and there was a squad called "The Get-Along Gang"

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I was quite young as well when I saw it, I probably didn't understand it fully but it has stayed in my memory all these years too

I'd like to watch properly it as an adult but don't want to either as I remember how sad it made me feel back then

DramainPyjamas

Elaine C Smith does our pantomime every year, usually as the Good Fairy

Her, Alan McHugh and Jordan Young are absolutely brilliant and the reason we go every year