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[musicmancjay]

Following the Judi Dench thread and the comments about 'As Time Goes By', I thought I'd start a thread where we can reminisce over the old days...

For me, Linda Robson talking about 'Birds of a Feather' on Supermarket Sweep last night brought back memories of some great comedy. Am also a bit of a sucker for the older programmes like the Two Ronnies and Morecombe and Wise. Classic comedy which we just don't get the likes of these days.

What programmes did you like?

[Belle]

Following the Judi Dench thread and the comments about 'As Time Goes By', I thought I'd start a thread where we can reminisce over the old days...

For me, Linda Robson talking about 'Birds of a Feather' on Supermarket Sweep last night brought back memories of some great comedy. Am also a bit of a sucker for the older programmes like the Two Ronnies and Morecombe and Wise. Classic comedy which we just don't get the likes of these days.

What programmes did you like?

I love, and really miss, Red Dwarf!  Brilliantly silly, and with some very catchy music...  There's nothing like it now.

[musicmancjay]

I love, and really miss, Red Dwarf!  Brilliantly silly, and with some very catchy music...  There's nothing like it now.

Oooo yeah!!!

And The Brittas Empire!

[Peter]

I'm gutted that this second series of Life on Mars will be the last! At least it won't get stale I suppose, but it's one of the best things on the box at the moment...

[Belle]

I'm gutted that this second series of Life on Mars will be the last! At least it won't get stale I suppose, but it's one of the best things on the box at the moment...

I think they've made a very brave and intelligent decision in restricting Life on Mars to two series - it is absolutely brilliant, but knowing they have to wrap it up means they'll finish on a high.  And hopefully the same team will move on to another series that will be different but just as good.  

I really wish Lost had worked like this - the first season was addictive, but stringing it out with no hope of a conclusion means I've totally lost interest.  If they'd had a set two seasons, so we, and they, knew that they had to finish it, it would have kept my interest.

[Peter]

I tried to get back into Lost on Sunday, but am more bemused than ever. Maybe I'll just wait until the final few episodes when they finally explain everything (assuming that they will, of course!) and jump back in then...

[Blue]

I tried to get back into Lost on Sunday, but am more bemused than ever. Maybe I'll just wait until the final few episodes when they finally explain everything (assuming that they will, of course!) and jump back in then...

The problem with Lost is that they just tried extending the original idea too far. It was meant to be for only two seasons but because it caught on they had to keep adding storylines.

I will watch the final episode just to see the daft explanation for all of it.

[Backdrifter]

Troughton/Pertwee-era Dr Who - although I know how wobbly it was (even as a kid I knew that!) and I do really like the current one - surely one of the greatest TV success stories.

70s Top Of The Pops. Not just because I really fancied one of Legs & Co. And other music shows - Whistle Test, the new wave stuff like So It Goes and Revolver, The Tube.

70s/early 80s Horizon, back when it was good and when documentaries didn't all look and sound the same and feature overbearing music. The mere memory of the edition when they tore into Erich von Dainiken still makes me squirm with pleasure. I can still see his face getting redder...

End Of Part One - a David Renwick/Andrew Marshall sketch show on LWT that spoofed TV. With snooker commentary by Mike Too-Close-To-The.

And talking of David Renwick - One Foot In The Grave was one of my favourite sitcoms and not, as many people mistakenly thought, simply about a grumpy old man - it was about so much more than that! And what wonderful peformances from all the principles, even Deayton. Anyway, when you get into sitcom territory you're verging on opening a whole new thread in which I could wax lyrical about Porridge etc.

A couple of BBC1 teatime childrens' dramas no-one else seems to remember. Carrie's War was terrific (recently remade), The Changes was based on a book called The Devil's Children and was about humans rebelling against machinery and had a supernatural edge to it, and a truly creepy one (to me at the time) I can't remember the name of, about some ancient standing stons that started to move as though alive.

More recently (late 90s), another one seen by no-one else I know, a drama series called Ultraviolet that started off as a crime series but quickly turned into a semi-supernatural thriller. A complete one-off, literally, as they never made another series. I got it on dvd and it still looks very good.

Oh, and loads of other stuff.

[Blue]

Don't forget the best sci-fi series of all time

The day of the triffids

[musicmancjay]

Don't forget the best sci-fi series of all time

The day of the triffids

I remember watching this at school when we were reading the book... comedy vintage sci-fi!!