I want to reminsisce about crappy old (not kids) TV programmes. Anyone care to partake?

[MrsSprat]

Just had a hankering, points for obscurities with ludicrous premises

OK I'll start: Midnight Caller
Jack Killian, late night San Francisco DJ and sometime crime-fighter(?), with a Moonlighting rip-off will they/won't they thing with blonde boss.
Really rubbish.

We loved Howard's Way - mum had the single of the theme tune - Nana Miskouri (sp ?) Part of sunday evening/nights - Antiques Roadshow, Bullseye and then Howard's Way before bed

Course, you really couldn't beat Thirtysomething...

oh thirtysomething was great. Puppymonkey we are obviously TV twins

VeniVidiVickiQV have to say THANK YOU for giving me the title of Cover Up. It's been annoying me for years trying to remember it and nobody knew what I was talking about.

Ithink all my old favourites have been mentioned:
Gladiators
A-Team
Quantum Leap
Moonlighting
Juiliet Bravo
krackajack(sp)
All creatures great and small

Was their one called Dear John / Big John Little John?

Hmmm, Big John Little John - that rings a big old bell. Rummage, rummage. Yesssss

Also:
Crazy Like a Fox
Hardcastle and McCormick

THE LOVE BOAT!!! Come on everybody...Love, exciting and nu

I remember Dear John also

Onedin Line on a Sunday .

A 'must see' for my Mum , hence we all sat through it . Then it was bedtime

oh yes, Onedin Line, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, When the "boht" comes in, Upstairs Downstairs

What about Remmington Steele?

I so wanted to be the woman detective(don't think I can remember her name now - Laura???) and of course there was an early chance for a Pierce Brosnan crush.

Starsky and Hutch !!!

margoandjerry - yes TV twins! Upstairs Downstairs, sigh... And obviously The Good Life!

That's Life (snort)

ESTHER: Thanks Gavin/Grant/Adrian for that objective expose of tawdry fraudulent holiday companies ...Doc

DOC: ...Unfunny limerick or phallic vegetable anecodote

Sundays in the 80s - the most depressing telly night of the week (when you're 9): Highway, Lifeline, Songs of Praise, (fill in the gap crappy brit mini-series e.g. Bluebelle), Mastermind and then That's effing Life. Quite a 'do you homework' line-up

Bullseye

LOL at Doc on That's Life. He used to have a campaign to bring back whistling and would jump out at people in supermarkets to try to get them to whistle or actually which can substitute for the whistley smiley.

Doc Cox had an alternative career as a smutty songwriter monikered 'Ivor Biggun'. I was when I found that out!

Yes - he sang:

"Wanking my blues away, wanking my blues away"

Oi, PortBlacks! Have you killed this thread by your tone-lowering?

Here's a bit of Lovejoy to drag it back up.

margoandjerry I have to thank you for The Happy Apple. Could never remember the name of the programme but I have never been able to listen to Mozart without singing those words.

IIRC, she saved the agency because none of the bosses (all men of course) understood women but she did and they won some big account. Then she gave up her job because the boss she was secretly in love with, fell in love back and they got married [hmmm] Deeply suspect message there.

Can't believe I remember all that.

yes she was Miss Average so could understand the average woman and that's why they all loved her

About as PC as another TV classic - Mind Your Language

Oh Mind Your Language! can you believe that ever went on air? I saw someone - maybe even one of the writers - defending it. Saying it wasn't racist at all.

I'll tell you something shameful. My sis and I used to pretend to be the hostesses who showed off the prizes on Sale of the Century ("and now, from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week")

Margo, do you remember 'Love Thy Neighbour'?

Also,

Sale of the Century

The Golden Shot

Celebrity Squares

The Generation Game

Mr and Mrs

I'm amazed anyone remembers "Star Cops"! One showing in summer 1987, on BBC2, as if the BBC were ashamed of it. And no repeat, ever. (Only just out on DVD.) Those were the dark days of Michael Grade, though.

Sorry.