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?

Our Day Out, with the wonderful Alun Armstrong. Have loved him ever since seeing it in 1977.
It is not exactly lost or forgotten, and is another Willy Russell one, but I haven't seen or heard of it for years.

Excellent, I need to get watching to see if it's still good.

I remember that. The gorilla/child was called Gor. Superb series but it freaked me out and I actually had nightmares about it.

Actually, thinking about it, it still freaks me out.

Yes!!!! I remember Rachel Weiss being a traveller, that was great

Blott on the Landscape - someone mentioned this above. Loved it.

Mind Your Language - probably wouldn’t be made today, but was good in its day

Howards Way - best theme music ever

This Life - best series ever

” Just the one Mrs Wembley”

• On the Way Up (or something like that)

Wish me Luck? The French resistance one was amazing

Bluebell!!

GBH is amazing TV.

Loved Maelstrom. Those dolls in the title!

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang instantly came to mind when clicking on this thread.

“Survivors”

What a lovely nostalgic thread. Loving these suggestions.

Does anyone remember a version of Bouquet of Barbed Wire starring Frank Finlay and Susan Penhaligon?

I've been trying to trace a drama called (I think) This Year Next Year. It has Anne Stallybrass in it I think. Late 70s.

I used to love the Ruth Rendell mysteries, Inspector Morse and Frost (from the 90s).

There's some vintage drama on bbc iplayer which may be worth a look.

No, survivors was later, and brilliant. Loved scary spices ex in Survivors, whose name I've just forgot!

that one was The Last Train. I vividly remember one scene with a pregnant woman trying to terminate her own pregnancy due to the apocalypse, and also a scene where someone was crucified.

I’ve been trying to remember this one for decades!!! Thank you!!!

Boon - had young Neil Morrisey as leather-clad Rocky. Possibly my first teenage crush .

Robin Hood - Michael Praed - sigh. Another teenage crush.

Also remember Tube Tales with Denise Van Outen and various others.

There was a short 3 episode series called ‘Chessgame’, which were the first three Anthony Price Cold War British Secret Service (SIS) books, with a very beautiful Terrence Stamp in the main role as David Audley. They were good (but not as good as the books) but they only made those three which was a pity as there were many more books.
Danger UXB is being reshown on one of the Drama channels, Anthony Andrews as a (slightly reluctant) bomb disposal officer in WW2.
Two versions of Vera Brittain’s “Testament of Youth” were made by the BBC, miniseries of 3 episodes, the first was in 1979 and starred Cheryl Campbell as Vera, the remake in 2014 with Kit Harrington and Alicia Vikander. Both excellent, though I prefer the first one. Also another book well worth reading.
Does anyone remember “Firefly”, with Nathan Fillon, and the film “Serenity” that was made to finish the story when the series was cut prematurely?

And a couple of good children’s series I remember for the 1970’s:
”Tripods” a rather scary science fiction series in a dystopian world were the conquered population were controlled by the insertion of brain implants when they reached puberty. There were 2 series, but they didn’t make the third and final series, so the story ended without what was presumably a conclusion were the humans gained their freedom from the overlords.
The other was “Children of the stones” set in Avebury, Wiltshire, rather creepy iirc.

The Riff Raff Element from the 90s starring basically everyone.

But also Riff Raff, an unrelated film from the same era. Robert Carlyle is GORGEOUS and Ricky Tomlinson chases a rat round a building site.

Children'a drama used to be excellent - sadly due to budget cuts they don't make them anymore. I also used to loved some of the imported Children;s drama.

Midnight is a place about children working in the cotton mills
The Kids of Degrassi Street
Press Gang
Grange Hill in it's earliest years
The Red Hand Gang
Jessie's Giants

I still enjoy Tales of the Unexpected - though the quality certainly varies a lot!
Tenko was amazing
Threads - terrified me in the day when we were scared of a nuclear attack
House of Elliot

I was way too young to watch first born and it gave me nightmares for years 😂

The Happy Apple - staring Lesley Ash set in a small advertising agency

"The leaving of Liverpool was about looked after children being sent to Australia essentially in to servitude. It utterly haunted me."

Yes, it was unforgettable

common as muck I think I remember this was it early 90s? where can I what this?
I loved band if gold which I think is still available to watch on itv player.

Degrassi junior high! I remember watching this as a kid late 80s early 90s. watched a few episodes not long ago on YouTube. I was amazed at how much of it I remembered after all those years.

I found this on YouTube a few years ago having remembered it from the early 90s.