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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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Clawdy · 04/12/2016 20:23

Loved "Shelley " with Hywel Bennett. And "Alexander the Great " about a Jewish family.

missyB1 · 04/12/2016 20:30

NannyR I liked the Young Doctors, they were always going for a drink in "Bunny's Bar" Grin

pklme · 04/12/2016 20:47

Ooh, and isaura the slave girl! I watched during my o levels.

kiwi5 · 04/12/2016 20:54

Jossy's Giants - Loved that!
Jamie and the magic torch
Brush strokes
Heartbreak high - Drazic!
Saved by the bell

kiwi5 · 04/12/2016 20:56

Oh and angels - one of the nurse is a consultant on casualty, another on eastenders (married to max), can't quite remember the other two but think one of them has been in something recently.

TeaAddict235 · 04/12/2016 20:56

Simon and the witch!!!

Legendary programme!!!

Ready or not!!!!

FoofFighter · 04/12/2016 21:07

A Country Practice

Flying Doctors

DeGrassi Junior High

RayofFuckingSunshine · 04/12/2016 21:22

Sunset Beach
USA High
The Tribe

flumpybear · 04/12/2016 21:31

I loved
sapphire and Steel
Chocky
Up the garden path
Fresh fields
Why don't you
Mosschops
Wuzzles....

BonusNewt · 04/12/2016 21:44

The most obscure programme I remember was about an alien disguised as a chair, and the theme tune went "Henry, we're helping Henry, and we're telling Henry everything we know."

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.

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Wishfulmakeupping · 04/12/2016 22:33

Bonus I felt compelled to google that as it's my ds' name - channel 4 'helping Henry' en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helping_Henry

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DispatchReady · 04/12/2016 22:54

autumnchill I loved Murder One!

Waxlyrically · 04/12/2016 23:15

Does anyone remember "is it legal" a 90's sitcom about a solicitors practice. It had Imelda Staunton in & I remember it being really funny.

MagicalMrsMistoffelees · 04/12/2016 23:34

MichaelBuble I'm so glad you remember Growing Rich too! I was 13 when it was on and I just loved it.

Thanks to the internet I was able to remember what it was called a few years ago (by googling 'Martin Kemp devil itv') and I've been hoping for a DVD ever since. Today I looked again and discovered the full series is on YouTube! I can't wait to find some time to watch it - though if it's a load of rubbish it'll be a massive bubble burst!

FromAtoB · 04/12/2016 23:39

The Last Train! Weirdly, I think of it quite often.

And Parsley the Lion and the Herb Garden

GiddyOnZackHunt · 04/12/2016 23:44

bloodycold I have the book Scully. Not sure if the book is based on the telly series or vice versa but my book had the actors on the cover.

I remember Give Us A Break with Paul McGann and there was a time travel children's show that was filmed at Simon Groome's family home.

Permanentlyexhausted · 04/12/2016 23:55

Oh yes, Robin of Sherwood!

I went on a school trip to some castle somewhere, possibly Chepstow. They were filming a TV programme there and the actor signed autographs for me and my friends using my pen. I had no idea who he was (some actor called Michael Praed) so gave the autograph to my sister who then lost it. How gutted was I when he became famous!

Which leads me on to Dynasty.

Hidingtonothing · 05/12/2016 00:15

Anyone remember Fresh Fields and May to December? Oh and No Place Like Home?

MargotLovedTom · 05/12/2016 00:28

I've had to zoom to the end to post in case I forget this so apologies if it's already been said - there was a programme in the 80s called Driving Ambition about a suburban woman who became a racing driver. Her coach was quite dishy (to an impressionable 12 year old Grin) then he popped up years later as Tiffany's dad in EastEnders. My then best friend and I loved it but nobody else remembers it.

MargotLovedTom · 05/12/2016 00:30

Loved Don't Wait Up with Tony Britton and Nigel Havers. Had a massive crush on Nige.

Hidingtonothing · 05/12/2016 00:38

What was the one with Windsor Davis set in the antiques shop?

GiddyOnZackHunt · 05/12/2016 00:44

Hiding Never The Twain?

MargotLovedTom · 05/12/2016 00:45

Never the Twain? I remember him being in that with Donald Sinden, but don't know if antiques were involved.

Hidingtonothing · 05/12/2016 01:22

That's the one, thank you muchly Smile

ShangriLaLaLa · 05/12/2016 05:10

In the early 80s? there was a family sitcom where the dad was a cartoonist and used to draw his cartoons wearing a glove puppet on his hand. Please tell me I didn't imagine that one?

Owl Service was indeed horribly dark. Flashbacks of the lady of the flowers and owl patterned dinner plates in a spooky attic with a picture on the wall gradually being revealed. And it was for children! Just given up any hope of sleep now. Google suggests that i would have been too young to watch it when it came out. And that is spooky too!