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?

"Nancy is a junior secretary
In an advertising agency"

to the tune of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 😀

Mother Love was brilliant!!!!

The remake was Trevor Eve. The original was Frank Finlay about 1977? It was superb

I've just remembered about The Mens Room which was pretty risqué at the time.

Also Friday Film Specials which no one I know remembers but I know I didn't imagine it because I looked it up.

I googled play for today - my god the level of writing talent is astonishing. I wish they would revive it.

House of Eliot is on uktv play at the moment. I loved it and rewatched it recently.
Two I'd like to track down are the BBC Vanity Fair with Eve Matheson, late 80s, very lavish production and Anne of Green Gables with Kim Braden. Can't seem to locate them anywhere

My mum was a fan of letter to breshnev.

I can see why it wasn't shown much as it goes against the western dogma.

Anne of Green Gables from 1973 is a lost series i.e. junked.

The Eve Matheson Vanity Fair is on DVD: https://amzn.eu/d/dpc1qbY

Ah thanks! Will definitely look for that.

I searched Survivors on youtube, and came across one that seems to start with a worldwide plague. Might have a watch later. I think it’s 1975.

Gosh yes you’re right, I forgot there was a remake!

I was a huge fan of Firefly/Serenity and used to listen to a very good podcast based around it. There were some official comic books which continued the story or filled in bits and were fun. Sadly I leant them to someone about 10 years ago and never got them back!

Looking back it was probably a good thing it finished where it did before Joss Whedon could kill off even more characters…

Bangkok Hilton came to mind first, followed by the amazing 'Oranges are Not the Only Fruit' - which I cannot find in full anywhere as a film (Charlotte Coleman) (the play is easily found).

A Kind of Loving. That was wonderful!

Oooh thank you for starting this thread. So many brilliant ideas on here.

On The Up. Dennis Waterman
Mitch. It was John Thaw as a newspaper reporter. 1984
The Kids From 47A.
Tom’s Midnight Garden

Howards Way - best theme music ever

Ohh there was an amazing thread on here when they showed Howards Way on UK Gld a couple of years ago .

Mainly about the dodgy fashion./hair/shoulderpads
Jan's Boutique ( that never sold anything)
Ken Masters with his jumpers over his bare chest and his seductive dancing
Jack Rolf going up "t'yard"
Leo with his pouty lip

The programme is utter bollocks , the thread was a masterpiece ,

@MorrisZapp “Robert Carlyle was gorgeous” if you are into RC at his most gorgeous, may I recommend “Hamish Macbeth”?

The Trinity tales from the 70s with Bill Maynard and the first thing I ever saw Paul Copley in. We still quote from it.

It was on one of the lesser channels a while back c, so I recorded it. Haven’t watched it yet, in case it doesn’t live up to my expectations.

Also have This Life recorded to watch.

This is such a great thread!!

of course:
Tenko
Bangkok Hilton
Flame Trees of Thika (I think??)

I remember really enjoying Maelstrom. I can’t remember much of the storyline, but I can picture the woman with dark wavy hair in it.

Also great to see fellow Con O’Neill fans. He’s aged pretty well but he was lovely in DTTD!

Monicled Mutineer - introduced me to Mcann family of actors

Oh I loved the Monocled Mutineer!! And the incredibly handsome Paul McGann.
I remember the original series of the Survivors in the 70’s. I would have been 6 or 7 god knows why I was allowed to watch a dystopian drama at that age but hey..the seventies!
The main memory I have is a women trying to induce miscarriage by climbing up a rope and asking my mum why she was doing that.
50years ago now!

Loved Anne of Green Gables from 1973..as you can see from my username.

Try Dailymotion. 😀

My dad has a box of dramas/plays on VHS tapes, some from the TV & some bought, but no way of watching them!

The Lord of Misrule with Richard Wilson
Over here with a young & beautiful Samuel West as an RAF Pilot.
Ball trap on the Cote Sauvage with Zoë Wanamaker
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square about Victorian nannies.

Neverwhere
Sex, chips & Rock & Roll
Tenko
Yes, we have no bananas set in WW2 London
Happy Feet about a 1950's dancing school
Bluebell

A few of them were screen one/play on one type things that aren't available anywhere else. I suspect the tape has worn & they're probably unplayable now.

@MollyRover I watched the tribe when I was on maternity with DS1.