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Random programmes you remember?

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Wishfulmakeupping · 03/12/2016 13:20

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?

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MrsJayy · 07/12/2016 16:11

zukie do you watch 2 doors down?

zukiecat · 07/12/2016 16:24

I've never been able to catch it MrsJayy

I always seem to be working the night it's on and I always forget to record it, it does look very funny though

MrsJayy · 07/12/2016 16:49

It's lol funny see if you can get it on catch up

CorporalNobbyNobbs · 08/12/2016 18:21

The brittas empire is on GOLD right now!!

JustDanceAddict · 08/12/2016 18:24

Sunset Beach in the late 90s. The vicar was hot!

TheTartOfAsgard · 08/12/2016 23:00

I loved sunset beach - it had it all! Evil twins, baby swapping, it was amazing!

Didn't it end up that it was all Megs dream?

JustDanceAddict · 09/12/2016 17:50

It was, Tart

Beebeeeight · 09/12/2016 23:16

Game On

Samantha Janu with 2. Guys very 90s

Floellabenjaminsearrings · 10/12/2016 00:03

Ellie & Jools. It was an Australian kids show on sunday mornings. Ellie was a ghost living in Jools' house and they try to find out how she had died. Sounds very morbid for a kids show, but I loved it.

I always remember a really scary series where a group of children are doing a ritual around a bell. The bell collapses and two of them are trapped/disappear. They then start appearing trapped behind objects/fleeting glimpses of reflections. Years later the now remaining adults who are haunted by what happened perform the ritual again to try and release them.

Hidingtonothing · 10/12/2016 02:58

I loved Game On, especially the first series with Ben Chaplin, was never as keen when Neil Stuke took over as Matthew.

Sunnymeg · 10/12/2016 20:50

I adored Sunset Beach, you can probably tell from my user name Wink All the episodes are available on YouTube. Does anyone remember that it finished on the 28th February 2000,which was a leap year. Channel 5 didn't realise about the extra day and so repeated the final episode again on the 29th February, which was somewhat fitting. In the last episode Meg had a dream that all the characters were living in Kansas and then she woke up and discovered that her life on Sunset Beach was real.

Does anyone remember the 'Murderer for a day' episodes with Jerry Springer? That was SB at its best.

Bumply · 11/12/2016 22:53

I remember so many of these
Anyway me else remember Catweazle?

lilygirl81 · 12/12/2016 00:12

Not RTWT but has anyone mentioned the terrifying children's films shown on BBC in the 1980's? The production company had a flock of pigeons flying away from Trafalgar Square. The ones I remember involved leprechaun and a stagecoach that came to claim your sole when you died, and one with a boy and girl getting b lost in a haunted mine . The memory of them terrifies me to this day!

Witchend · 12/12/2016 16:47

Loved the 90s version of the Tomorrow people. Better than the originals. Grin

"Half way across the Galaxy and turn left" anyone? I found the book in a charity shop the other day and was most disappointed to find it was nothing like. I suppose that's fairly typical though. Sad

I have a couple that I remember that I can't remember the name.
One was a David Bellamy nature programme. He's on the beach and shrinks so he can go into rock pools etc. It ends with him being woken up by his children after a day on the beach. Loved that.

And one where a little lad has a missing younger sister. She was being looked after by their nanny/aunt/friend and has a car accident. Adult left baby in the car seat when going for help and when they come back baby has gone.
This is set about 8 years later, but he goes to stay with the adult, and starts finding clues to his sister being alive and in a community-possibly travellers, (but I don't think it was.) He finds her toy dog that disappears with her and sends it to his mum and things like that.

And one that you can find on YouTube: Bird brain of Britain. That's fun watching!

Toddlerteaplease · 12/12/2016 21:04

Loved Brittas empire!!

BorpBorpBorp · 13/12/2016 12:04

I remember reading the Puddle Lane books - they had short large font text and a picture on one page, and longer smaller font text on the other page, and you could read either and still follow the story. I'd forgotten what they were called.

I don't think these have been mentioned, all kids shows from the 90s:

The Wild House
Grown Ups, where the parents are hypnotised and start behaving like kids
Cat's Eyes with Rowland Rivron and Shauna Lowrie
Melvin and Maureen's Music-a-grams with Sophie Aldred
Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde
See It Saw It with Mark Speight

And two that I can't remember the names of:

A kids sitcom on the BBC about a teenage girl and her family, quite surreal, involved the brother's imaginary friend (giant blue mouse?) and a Roman emperor in a toga lived in their coffee table.

This one really bugs me: A 90s BBC kids schools programme (science, probably KS2) featuring a humanoid alien robot with an orange arm computer thing and orange visor exploring the world with help from a black girl called Sarah. Sarah had a computer with a weird cursor. The alien robot would look through his visor and it would explain things he saw to him, like google glass. The alien robot really liked prawn cocktail crisps. I've been trying to remember what that was called for 10 years.

NotDavidTennant · 13/12/2016 12:37

The Two of Us. It was a Nicholas Lyndhurst sitcom where the premise was that they were a couple who were living together but ... gasp ... not married!

elsmokoloco · 14/03/2017 08:51

So many from the 70's/80's
Callan
Blakes 7
Land of the Lost
Duchess of Duke Street
Hi-Di-Hi!
Metal Mickey
Oh, Dr Beeching!
Sapphire & Steele
Monkey
Brittas Empire

glitterglitters · 14/03/2017 16:22

@Wishfulmakeupping So Haunt Me :)

glitterglitters · 14/03/2017 16:26

We had sky in the 80s which left me a wealth on to shows nobody remembers

Anybody remember Widget the World watcher. He was a purple alien that was very concerned about conservation and the environment. Consider it a poor man's (albeit on the very expensive sky Tv) Captain Planet

MusicToMyEars800 · 14/03/2017 22:47

does anyone remember crossroads ( I think that's what it was called ) I remember this one where there was a blonde girl with pig tails and I think she was being stalked and she ended up getting murdered I think!
mine are:
The Herbs
Hectors House
Gran
Daria
At home with the Braithwaites
8 simple rules
Home improvement

MusicToMyEars800 · 14/03/2017 22:48

oh can't forget Tots Tv and Rosie and Jim

glitterglitters · 15/03/2017 07:02

@MusicToMyEars800 ahh Home Improvement. JTT was my first proper crush. And 8 Simple Rules where Bridget was actually younger than Carrie in real life.

How about Blossom, Hang Time and Eerie Indiana?

MusicToMyEars800 · 15/03/2017 11:31

glitterglitters ohh yes I remember blossom, it had joey Lawrence in it, I remembered it when I started watching Melissa and joey on E4 Grin
I also used to watch lizzy McGuire, that's so raven, Sabrina the teenage witch. Do you remember Bucky O Hare?

MusicToMyEars800 · 15/03/2017 11:32

oh and Malcom in the middle

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