Programmes that never get repeated

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Every Easter I hope (in vain) that The Passion will be repeated on tv. It was in the late 1990's with Gina McKee and Paul Nichols and set in Devon, never even been released on dvd. Does anyone else remember it? What other programmes have only been on once and you'd like to see again?

Alan Bleasdale also did another series in the 90s, with Robert Lindsay and Michael Palin. Again, everyone was obsessed by it, but it has vanished into obscurity

GBH. It’s on All4.

I could have sworn it was Ronnie in Game on. She was in something similar on BBC 2. Have to look it up.

thanks @SarahSiddons

The80sweregreat
Yes, it's the same actress. I was trying to make a little joke. As she was in Game On first, she'll always be thought of as her character Mandy to G.O. fans. Then she was in Eastenders (Ronnie). Sorry.

Dear John
Dear John
By the time you read these lines I'll be gone

I wish they'd show The Goodies so DS can see Kitten Kong.

2000 acres of sky. I loved that program. Never seem to be able to find it online.

I've never met anyone else who watched (or even remembers), a reality show in the early 2000's where the contestants were sleep deprived and whoever lasted the longest won. There were different tasks they had to do every day, and they weren't allowed to close their eyes for more than 10 seconds. It was on over a week and I'm sure Dermot O'Leary presented it.

I remember enjoying it but don't particularly want to see it again, just please someone tell me they remember it and I'm not going mad.

I remember that show. It was called Shattered and was a bit like big brother, but a shorter version.

I remember it being quite controversial because sleep deprivation is pretty dangerous.

I loved Yellowthread street but have never seen it repeated.

Romanmum the chimera series with Charles Dance was called First Born. It was fab, wasn’t it?

haverhill were there any sexual problems?

To the pps who have Forever Green and Wish Me Luck on DVD please can I come over and watch them? I’ll bring wine and twiglets

dingdongdigeridoo thank you! I always say that there's no way they'd get that past the H&S bods now.

There was a programme in the 80s called 'Two by Two' about a zoo vet which I loved as a kid. Would love to see that again although I expect it's aged badly

Filmed at dudley zoo iirc? I came across the book it was based on recently in a charity shop.

Some of the early reality shows before they were ubiquitous. There was a show about wannabe models, i think they picked 6 girls and 6 boys and put them in a london flat and showed them going to castings etc. One was vernon kaye- they interviewed his parents, who were very manc and said “well if the modelling doesn’t work out he can always be a truck driver like his dad”...

Radio 1 are playing clips of airport or whatever the one based at luton was.

I’d also like to see the very first big brother. The first one was all but a social experiment, they went in to the house with no clue about the outside world, if any one would even watch. It was more of a “lets shut these people away from the world and see what happens to them”, rather than a make you famous thing.

Yes, the first BB was great. One woman was an ex-nun. Then it got toe- curlingly awful.

I think the one based at Luton was called airline about easyJet? The one with Katrina who had cancer?

I used to watch heart break high when DS1 was small. He's 20 this year 🙈. The tribe was another long lost programme from back then.

The house of Eliot was on ITV3 when I was on maternity with DS2. I remember watching it originally with my grandma who was learning to sew as a young girl in the 1920's and loved watching it.

@DrCoconut I loved The Tribe on channel 5!

What happened to the village? It seems to have fizzled out?

Dear John has been on recently on ITV3 I think.

@Newname12 was it called Model Behaviour? I remember watching it really well and me and all my school pals fancying Vernon (and laughing at his name ) and thinking it was funny his dad wanted him to be a truck driver!

Colin's Sandwich.

The scene with the cat and the skip. Laughed till I cried.

Wonderful Mel Smith.

Silks.

A programme about people who came down to earth as barrister angels, can't remember its name. It really was rather bizarre, but starred Sam West and Tobias Menzies and I sat through each episode drooling.

A programme about people who came down to earth as barrister angels, can't remember its name. It really was rather bizarre, but starred Sam West and Tobias Menzies and I sat through each episode drooling.

I had totally forgotten about this one! have googled- it was eternal law.

Also the pathologist one with john hannah- mccallum

The last TV film John Thaw starred in called Buried Treasure, I thought it was great. They repeat Goodnight Mister Tom loads of times, not that I'm complaining I love it.

Yes, I agree with Fame!