Lost and forgotten dramas

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A few weeks ago I started a thread about hard to find documentaries. A few people brought up Cathy Comes Home and Play for today. They're a bit before my time but I remember things like Screen One and Two in late 80s to mid 90s. Like the documentaries, they are difficult to find on YouTube and has no DVD release (as far as I know).
The ones I remember are:

1. Alive and Kicking (1991) where Lenny Henry plays a reformed yardie who forms a football team for recovering drug addicts with the help of tough social worker played by Robbie Coltrane (similar to his Cracker character). Apparently it's based on a true story. I specifically remember this one as they showed it to us in social studies at school.
2. Somewhere to run (1989) about two teenage runaways. Stars the lady who plays Simon's mum in Inbetweeners.
3. On the 8 ball (1998). Also about Yardies.
4. On the edge of the razor blade (1998- I think that's what it was called). About these two women who hide in a public toilet to get away from rapacious drug dealers. There's a bit when one turns on the other because she was left to be assaulted while the other one was too high. It was on a gay film season on channel 4.
5. Dancing in the dark. Set in Liverpool. A woman bumps into her ex boyfriend on her hen do
6. Letter to Breshnev. Sometime in the 80s. Also set in Liverpool where this girl falls in love with a Russian sailor and tries to join him in the USSR.

Does anyone else remember these. Or where to find them, or do you remember any hard to find dramas?

Omg, I forgot to mention those. I know they were more blokey but they had the perfect blend of drama and comedy. Great programs. I nearly cried when Basil got snubbed by that lady he liked and his step son was trying to cheer him up 😭

Nearly forgot Abigail's Party.
and the Blue Remembered Hills.

I remember Desmond Bagley's Running Blind with Stuart Wilson who I thought was just lovely. I had this book too.

In the football bit with the kids at the beginning, take note of the kid who questions why anyone would want to get married - it’s baby Stephen Graham!

Like the sound of watching Letter to Breshnev.

@BeyondImagining when that guy got mugged and the boss tells him everyone had a whip round for him. So he brought him a wallet 🤣

Yep. I'm the saddo that recognised him from that scene when I first saw him in something as an adult.

I had a MASSIVE crush on Con O’Neil after seeing Dancin thru the Dark ❤️

That might explain why I wore out the video tape from 'taping it off the TV'

Just tried it on Prime but unfortunately it needs a log in but nowhere to register. So disappointing 😞

i have no idea if it was any good but I remember watching with my parents a drama about a group of people who were on an underground train or tunnel during an apocalyptic event, then coming up to the surface and having to survive. No idea what it was called but sticks in my mind and remember my parents being glued to it. Probably late 90s.

Oh my goodness, I was just thinking about this series but I couldn't remember the name! I remember lying in my mum's bed watching it with her and getting freaked out by the statue that would change (and/or door knocker)

House of Elliot
When the Boat Comes In
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Brideshead Revisited

That'll be The Last Train en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Train_(TV_series)

Harry's Game

I loved Annika … quite edgy for the time….think it was on Channel 4 in the late 1980s and Diana, also late 1980s.

Just off the top of my head:

Last Tango in Halifax
At Home with the Braithwaites
Cal
Rock Follies
Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Harry's Game

I didn't know they made a film of In This House of Brede! I read the book years ago and am still traumatised by it.

Edge of Darkness
Blott on the Landscape
Life and Loves of a She Devil
One Summer

I remember being utterly gripped by Jake's Progress (mid 90s I think).

Letters to Breshnev was given away free with a newspaper (remember when that was a thing?) so worth checking in charity shops - several round here have a box for them.

The Thorn Birds
A Woman of Substance
Roots

Frost in May. BBC. 1983.

@Runningupthecurtains thank you 🤩 Kindred spirits!

I came on this thread to say exactly that! I was convinced noone else would have heard of it. I was obsessed with it in my late teens.

I also fondly remember those educational dramas that we were shown at school. Badger girl and Dark Towers.

Another massive fan of Dancin ' Thru The Dark and Con O'Neill!! Will be watching tomorrow eve.
Currently rewatching London's Burning. Soldier Soldier next !