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?

Oh crikey, The Aphrodite Inheritance was weird, wasn't it?

A Very Peculiar Practice
Telford's Change
Cardiac Arrest
Maelstrom
Inside Out

This sounds like Michael Winner's Dirty Weekend based on Helen Zahavi's novel.

Oh my gosh, I loved the last train, such a good series.

From the tiny bit I remember - I was very young - extremely so! Who Pays the Ferryman? was the other one of his I was trying to remember (but that’s a cheat really as I never saw it, I just read the novelisation years later).

Just looked that up and that's definitely it - thank you so much. Not surprised my teenage self was disturbed by it having read the Wikipedia entry!

Does anyone remember an old film - set in a lighthouse - where a lighthouse keeper would announce '8 o'clock & all's well, '9 o'clock & all's well' etc through the film. I think something happened to them & announcements stopped? Prob saw it late 1970s though it might have been older?

I don't think they'd show A Sense Of Guilt again - the story was about Trevor Eve shagging his mate's daughter!

When The Boat Comes In is on one of the drama repeat channels you get on Freeview. I think I saw a bit of The Singing Detective on one of them too, one time.

I'd love to watch The Icarus Code again. There were some cracking children's drama series, back in the day.

I would love to find a crime drama called A Very Masculine Ending from the early nineties.

It was shot in my university college and lots of my friends were extras, including a dear friend who died in a car crash not long after. I'd love to watch it again to see her and would be grateful if anyone knows where it might be available.

Sorry ... it's might be called A Masculine Ending.

Therese Raquin
Brian Cox
Kate Nelligan
1980
Raunchy I seem to remember

Ahhh I’d forgotten that bit!!

From the 80s "Gentlemen and Players" I saw one episode , it was on a Sunday when I was travelling back to work .
Found it years later on YouTube

More recent "Between The Lines" very dated but I'd rewatch it

Yes I loved Bluebell.
And I'm another Con O'Neill fan who watched Dancin Thru the Dark over and over.

Anyone else remember The Riff Raff Element?

Used to love Play for Today
Also a fan of Con O'Neill

How about Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Brideshead Revisited
Howard's Way

The Camomile Lawn

Channel 4 drama shown in the early 90s, based on the novel by Mary Wesley. It's set in Cornwall on the brink of World War Two.

The problem I have with these programmes is I don't remember them until I see something that jogs my memory. Which for the lost and forgotten dramas is unlikely!

Though that said there's on drama I remember that was called "The Riff Raff Element". No one else seems to recall it (least no one ive, admittedly just occasionally, asked anyway). If there wasn't for the Internet where I can find a bit of info on it I'd almost believe I imagined it!!

I remember The Riff Raff Element @Snozzlemaid @AnImaginaryCat Starred a young (pre Emma Thompson) Greg Wise, Celia Imrie and had a cracking theme tune. Used to air Friday nights on BBC1 as I recall.

I watched a lot of television back in the day, hardly seem to watch any now.

Well that's odd I didn't even spot @Snozzlemaid asking about the Riff Raff Element!!! I'll blame late night browsing without glasses during a sleepless night! I didn't imagine it all then! (If I had I could have got writing and become a famous screenwriter 🤣.)

Just looked up who actually wrote it and turns out she also wrote Cutting It. Loved that too

Also it looks like someone has uploaded the first series to YouTube just five months ago!

Chiller - stand alone horror stories
Tales from the cryp
Eerie , Indiana and Are you afraid of the dark- tftc for dc

Murder in mind - stand alone murder drama

American Gothic

I also remember a British drama where she killed herself but still had to fo to school the next day.

Bangkok Hilton with a young Nicole Kidman
Similarly, another Aussie one, Vietnam, also starring Nicole Kidman
First Born, BBC drama about a hybrid ape child

The Camomile Lawn is on All4. I re-watched it the other day.

@FadedRed Robert Powell will ALWAYS be Jesus 😂

One Night. A BBC drama from 2012 was brilliant.

First Born, BBC drama about a hybrid ape child
I remember that!