We were sat watching some YouTube videos of TV shows Rory (A Guy Called Bloke) had listed under Sitcoms suddenly morphed into another excuse to watch my favourite programmes.
Dad you do know most of the stuff you like on TV will mean nothing to most people. They will just look blankly at you. The worry is that I have part of your DNA. Thanks….
So it’s time to enlighten the world. Well a really small part of it…
The Indestructible Captain Scarlet trying to defeat his nemesis Captain Black and the Evil Mysterons. My favourite show ever. With strings or the much later expensive version. WE NEED A CAPTAIN SCARLET MOVIE.
Hectors House. The grumpy dog with a hunting gun.
With the earth under attack from aliens we need to respond with the coolest defenders ever. It’s got to be UFO.
Think Star Wars without the special effects or the humour. Think Star Wars without a budget. I give you Blake 7.
Bearded puppets with attitude means Michael Bentine’s Potty Time.
Magicians shouting ‘Size of an Elephant’, a scary letter box and a show dripping of awesomeness. It’s The Banana Splits.
Monty Python meets the stories of our dreams (or nightmares). One of the funniest TV shows ever. It’s Ripping Yarns.
I have the blank look 🙂 I don’t know any of those – but I trust they must be pretty funny!
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What have you been doing. That’s my Christmas presents to you sorted for the next 20 years……
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My knowledge of UK tv shows is sorely lacking🙁
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It’s reassuring our sons View is true. I’m an oddity.
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Odd is good!
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It’s great.
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OMG. I remember all of these!
Don’t forget
Lost In Space, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Captain Pugwash, Noggin the Nog,
The Magic Roundabout (children’s version), and Tales of the Unexpected!
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At least 2 of these will be on the next couple of lists. Bizarrely I never got into Thunderbirds but loved the ships.
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I have zero knowledge of UK shows and it’s always fun to see what others consider Must See tv. I’ll have to ask my friend from your part of the world if she loves these, too.
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That might reveal how little taste in quality I really have.
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Yep… Know all of these…
And who remembers the ‘Wooden Tops’ and the real early stuff for small kids, like ‘Listen with Mother,’ Andy Pandy,” Bill & Ben, ‘ and Tales of the Riverbank, ‘
I loved Captain Pugwash… And wow, that was so full of naughty inuendo that I never understood as a child. 😂😂😂
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Your son has to like ‘The Clangers’ and the famous Soup Dragon, surely? 😁
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That’s on the list to come.
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Oh, and sadly, age 5, I was an absolute bonkers, ‘Noddy’ fan. Although “Sweep’ from ‘Sooty and Sweep’ was my favourite Charactar.
But as an adult…. We’ll, you just can’t beat ‘Wallace and Gromit!
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But YouTube fans… Do go look at ‘Simon’s Cat.’ Some of those animations have me howling with laughter! Cat owners will know the humour all too well! 🤣
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Never really got into Noddy.
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I was only 5… And a girl!
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🙏 no excuse…..
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😂
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Pugwash is a classic.
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Ok. 🙂
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The Banana Splits one looks slightly familiar but not sure. None of the others have I heard of ever eclectic taste. Which is awesome. 🙂
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All classics
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Blake’s 7 was a superb series — I used to watch it religiously when it was on TV.
Did you ever see Sapphire and Steel? That was an incredible series.
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Yes a couple of times. I think it was on at the same time as something our Dad would watch. Days before we had video.
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I remember those days. All the arguments about which channel we would switch to… It’s funny, we only had three channels and they still managed to screen everything worth watching at the same time.
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It was a nightmare. You got one chance and it was gone. Plus TV took about 10 minutes to warm up.
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It was, wasn’t it?
I’d completely forgotten about having to wait for the TV to warm up.
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And occasionally having to hit it on the top to make it work.
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Ah yes. Two thumps if I remember rightly — one to stop the picture scrolling and another one to centre it.
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Then 20 minutes walking round the room with the indoor aerial with dad shouting directions.
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Haha. Yes indeed. And you had to have it at exactly the right angle or the picture would dissolve into snow yet again.
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Good old days
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Anyone here remember a 50s/early 60s show called PANIC! I think it was a good show, kind of like Twilight Zone. I’ve never seen it it reruns.
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Sorry – (only just) before my ‘time’. 😦
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OH yeh……
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HEY!!
Do i detect a hint of denial in that typing??? 👼
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Who me…..
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I’ve got my eye on you, meladdie! 👁️
😉
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I feel watched
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I do it out of Love!
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A bit like Superman.
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Maybe a very, very little bit? (Minus the Kryptonite factor).
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Lol.
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I’m going to look that one up.
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No, not seen that one rg. But I did like the ‘Twighlight Zone!’
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Not seen that in years. Loved the music.
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We all did, I think.❤
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Many great shows here although i don’t clearly recall Hector’s House (hunting gun??) or ever recall seeing Potty Time. (Eeeeww!) 😉
UFO would’ve been my top pic for Scifi, and what could ever beat The Banana Splits? – a real life AND animated version of The Monkees – only betterer! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Hey Fleegle – take out the Trash!! 😉
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UFO was so cool. The special effects were surprisingly good for the time.
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I thought so – i really liked the gas turbine cars they drove, often along narrow ‘English countryside lanes’!
Oh, and i think maybe i might have liked the Interceptor squad just a teeny bit. 😉
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Very much indeed. I had the poster.
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Cool!
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No, I don’t remember Hector’s hunting gun either. Is that a Mandela effect???
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We have every episode on dvd. SAD.
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More like a bit of a mind flip – we’re into the time slip! 😉
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An education for me 🙂
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The University of Life.
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I remember all of those! Youtube is a mine of nostalgia.
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It really is. Looked up two new ones already today.
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I don’t know how far back you go but I remember watching The Invaders sci-fi series as a kid and rewatched it all on youtube a couple of years ago. I thought it was still good.
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I remember that. Quite liked it.
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You have brilliantly documented some of my favourite viewing as a child, although I never quite got into Blake’s 7. Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds and Joe 90 were required viewing in my peer group.
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Thank you. Good to find a fellow fan.
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I remember watching Blake’s 7 and theirs adventures aboard the Liberator. As a child I didn’t like the character of Avon but he fascinated me. I guess he might be the Severus Snape of science fiction!
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I liked Avon. As I did with Snape. The show seemed to get darker. I still remember the shock ending.
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It was certainly a shock. It was nothing like what I had expected.
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OH MY GOSH I LOVE LOVE LOVE RIPPING YARNS! Those stories are just AMAZING. So fun to see Michael and Terry together, and the school episode is just KILLER.
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It’s so funny. Going to let son watch it soon. In fact Yarns is often funnier that Python. Did you like Fawlty Towers.
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Bo LOVES Fawlty Towers. I can take it in small doses. 🙂
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What American ones do you like. I adored Soap.
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Oh I’ve never been much for the American comedy sitcom….um…Murder, She Wrote, I guess?
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Mums favourite. It was always on her TV if I popped into see her at 1.00pm midweek. That brought a smile and a tear.
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It was a fun show. Watched it often with my grandparents when I lived with them for a summer, and it was always a fun watch as a kid. 🙂
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