Random programmes you remember?

[Wishfulmakeupping]

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?

There was also Watching, an ITV sitcom.

Absolutely loved the House of Elliot. Have all the DVDs, just need a few weeks to be able to sit down and watch them properly. Didn't realise it was cancelled early, always assumed it ended the way it was intended to end and have hated the writers ever since. Evie acted SO out of character.

Treasure Hunt
Pigeon Street
Will Quack Quack
Count Duckula
Number 73
You Bet
Butterflies

Loved the Brittas Empire - all the cast were superb! Must dig out the DVD's.

Survivors from 1977 really affected me profoundly as a just turned teen.The opening sequence and music used to give me shivers.

I also had a fondness for Blake's Seven (another Terry nation drama) and the scheming but beautiful Servalan

My eldest used to love/be scared of Ghosthunter on BBC kids TV (around 2000, 2001) and Goosebumps.

Someone further upthread mentioned a character who said Oisky Poisky - it was from a kids cartoon called Noah's Island the next series from the people who made the lovely Animals of Farthing Wood. My lot also liked Redwall and Cardcaptors. The favourite of all time though was Jeopardy about a group of kids on a schooltrip filming in the outback in Australia - they loved voting for the ending in the final episode. They also loved Animorphs but the BBC stopped buying it in.

Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince, similer to The Boy From Space, but a bit more shit.

There was an 80s mini series called the Mad Death, about a rabies outbreak in the Uk which I used to love as a child.

Someone mentioned Silas, the theme music to that was brilliant. Nothing ever actually happenedin it though.

The BBC did several long-ish scare programmes. One I think was Tightrope to Terrot about people being trapped in a cable car. Maybe another one about pigeons.

Anyone remember Nanny? Started Wendy Craig. I loved that show. Used to stay up 'late' on a Sunday evening to watch it. Early 80's I'd guess

Please Sir! - unruly school kids with John Alderton as teacher

Mind Your Language - comedy set in a language school in London, where heavily stereotyped foreign students learned English

Moody and Pegg - a couple renting neighbouring flats fall in love

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) - private detectives, one of whom is a ghost that only his colleague can see

I'm 48 so remember these from the late 70s to early 80s.
Nanny. And Butterflies.
Just Good Friends.
Brush Strokes.
Bread.
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Tales of the Unexpected.

The world stopped for Top of the Pops!

Green fingers?? A monster type thing that grew plants with his friend, a girl with a northern accent & a bob!
Up the Garden Path with Imelda Staunton.
California Dreaming. It was on after Sweet Valley high on Saturday mornings.
I loved Blakes 7 & any sort of unsuitable mini series that were on on Friday nights like Lace.
Ooh, also the random Friday evening sitcoms like Nurses, Shaun's show, Paul Merton & Eurotrash. I used to watch them whilst babysitting in the 90's. Such a random selection of stuff all on one after the other on C4!

Yes I also loved the mini series like Rich Man poor Man, 79 Park Avenue, Mistral's daughter, thorn birds, North and South etc - great stuff!

Apparently FIL was quite fond of watching Eurotrash.

In another part of the country, so were my H and me.

home to roost
chocky
bushstrokes
round the twist
fat tulip
upstairs downstairs
a team
the littlest hobo

I have a recollection about a girl and her friends on a boat...maybe a narrow boat? I always thought there was a bird involved but I may be combining two - the one with the boat and one about a peregrine falcon?
Help?!

Joking Apart
The High Life
mr. don and mr. george
The Hitman and Her

the thread is long, was anyone else hooked on Families?

Thursday night (i think) late, a very young Jude Law was in it, was in Australia and UK.

amazing

"I have a recollection about a girl and her friends on a boat...maybe a narrow boat?"

Not The Flower of Gloster?

Hang on, just found this:

"Fondly remembered by Look And Read Fans, Sky Hunter told the story of three children on a barge holiday in London, who discover peregrine falcon thieves at work. They enlist the help of kindly Mr Trim (Geoffrey Bayldon), from the antiques shop, only to discover he's in on it too! "

From www2.tv-ark.org.uk/schoolstv/bbcschools_programmes.html

Was that it?

I loved the Brittas Empire!

Going back a LONG way, one box set I was given some years ago was The Pallisers (70s I think and missed nearly all of it first time around but had read all the novels).
Thoroughly enjoyed wallowing in all 24 episodes - everything from the virtually forced marriage of a heiress to murder, with Victorian politics and lots of other all sorts chucked in.

Into the Labyrinth - wizards and time travel!

But one of the greatest shows that nobody remembers was the spoof version of The Flashing Blade. It was a real French costume drama (originally Le Chevalier Tempête ), which had been shown with a serious translated dub, but the redub for the Saturday morning show On the Waterfront (which was generally great) was amazing. The script was by Russell T Davies, and it was the best thing he has ever done. Maybe.

Another one - Bonjour La Classe with Nigel Planer; anyone remember that one?

The High Life was brilliant :) I still can't express mild and slightly insincere regret without saying "Oh dearie me!" in an Alan Cumming voice :)

"Soap" on Channel 4 - American spoof of American soaps, with a young Billy Crystal as the gay son.

I remember Jessica(?) the mother, carefully lying on the sofa in the only position where her boobs looked perky (as she thought she was ~Quite Old)

I remember Bonjour La Classe. Another classic (though I keep thinking it was Lenny Henry as the lead but I know it wasn't).

Remember most programmes mentioned above.

Runaround (with Mike Reid), Crackerjack, The Liver Birds, The Good Life, Black Beauty, Man about the House, George and Mildred, Robin's Nest, Dick Turpin (the last four with Richard O'Sullivan - he was a busy actor in the '70's!)

There was a programme about a weird monster thing which in my head was called Morcheba or something like that. All I remember was it escaped and it was scary.

Dan Tanner think he fell from the top of a casino to his death but that maybe a dream of some kind.

And a Swedish or danish scary series about a house next to near a lake with lots of China dolls. This also maybe a figment if my imagination!

Space boy too all white blond hair and blue jump suit!

Found Dan Tanna, TV show called Vega$!

The Boy from Space not Space Boy!