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Hi everyone
After reading a post on another thread about tv theme tunes I commented that Rentaghost used to be a favourite of mine as a child.Anyway it got me thinking about old tv programmes that have for one reason or another have been given cult status............
So, what are your oldies but goldies????
Here is a couple of mine....
Rentaghost.... ( love Timothy claypole)
Dallas.......as a teenager i loved the cheesiness of it
The Young Ones..
Blackadder 2
Blakes 7
jj
cult: has to be the Prisoner! :D I am a name not a number!!!! bawhahahahha
Horsham_Dingle
15-03-05, 11:30 PM
Father Ted and Phoenix Nights for me.
The characters in both made them. Esp Father Jack Hackett - Jameson Whiskey on tap = heaven.
Slainte
The Prisoner,? too young to remember, but did have the pleasure of stocktaking at Portmeirion Pottery (set up by William Clough Ellis's(architect of Portmeirion - setting of the Prisoner) offspring) prior to its Stock Market flotation - and delivering a draft of the prospectus to Kleinwort Benson in London.
bazranz
16-03-05, 01:04 AM
it has to be Dr. Who for me. I watched it from the very first (black and white :bigeyes: ) show with william Hartnell. Yes I know there were shaky sets, wobbly monsters, but it was brilliant. :thumbs:
goosegirl
16-03-05, 06:56 AM
It has to be,
Star trek,
Ufo,
Blake 7,
Doctor Who,
GG.
Bonkers Mad!!!
16-03-05, 09:14 AM
wow, blasts from the past
all of the above for me :thumbs: (except Sooty :blink: )
Tom Baker was the Doctor when i was a kid and i was allowed to stay up late to watch Blakes 7 :lol:
I used to have a massive crush on Avon from Blakes 7!!! :hihi: :hihi:
Now, for ten points who can name all the Doctors in Dr Who????
I know the first 4 or 5 then it becomes all hazy!!
Will Start you off with the first
1.William Hartnell
JJ
freakyfun
16-03-05, 11:09 AM
Ah ha .. (warms to subject)
Ok .. the main TV series...
1. William Hartnell
2. Patrick Troughton
3. John Pertwee
4. Tom Baker (My favourite!)
5. Peter Davison
6. Colin Baker
7. Sylvester McCoy (oh dear)
8. Paul McGann
9. Christopher Eccleston (we shall see if he lives up to it)
But, there were others .. oh yes...
Peter Cushing played Dr Who in two films, "Dr Who and the Daleks" & "Daleks -- Invasion Earth 2150 AD"
Rowan Atkinson, Richard E Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley player Dr Who in the comic relief epsiode "The Curse of Fatal Death"
Some borderline spoofs:
Rod Hull starred in "Dr Emu and the Deadly Dustbins"
Fred Harris and Tony Aitken starred as the Doctor in "Dr Eyes"
Jim Broadbent (again) in a Victoria wood Dr Who sketch
Mike Smash (aka Harry Enfield) played Dr Who in the 60's (ok, very borderline)
Mark Gatiss played the Doctor in "The Web of Caves" vs David Walliams as a camp alien (1999) - very funny
Cheers
FF
Domestic Goddess
16-03-05, 12:34 PM
The X Files
Blake's 7
Old Dr Who (am hoping that the new is good!)
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
Bonkers Mad!!!
16-03-05, 03:26 PM
i saw Sylvester McCoy at Kings college hospital years ago, my goodness, what a grumpy old man :blink:
Freakyfun!!!!
Something tells me you are a Dr Who Buff...........
I remeber Jon Pertwee and TomBaker. he was my favourite...such a deep voice!!!
Ten points to you, go to the top of the class!!!!lol
JJ
OOOhhh
Just remembered 2 kids classics that used to love
The Clangers
Play away ( eith Brain Cant)..................
JJ
Kev9090
16-03-05, 06:41 PM
Well I don't know about all of them being Cult tv Programmes but anyway:-
Favourite as a kid:
- Doctor Who
I remember crying once when a series had finished! The Daleks and the Cybermen were my favourites (Because I was fascinated with Robots and anything that looked like a Robot).
- Gigantor (cartoon about a giant Robot) and stuff with Robots in like the Sci-Fi Film 'Forbidden Planet'
- The Avengers, The Benny Hill Show, The Banana Splits, The Tomorrow People, Star Trek etc etc (can't remember them all)
Favourites now:
- Comedies (some of them been mentioned already)
Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, TFAR of Reginald Perrin, One Foot in the Grave, Bottom, The Young Ones, The Day Today, Alan Partridge, Not The Nine O' Clock News, Fast Show, Big Train, KYTV, Harry Enfield and Chums, Little Britain, The League Of Gentlemen etc (forgotten some)
(BBC2 used to be a good breeding ground for Comedy stuff, but not anymore)
Oh yes.... almost forgot.... 'I hate my Neighbours'
.
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(ok so I made that one up!)
Mr Ribbit
16-03-05, 07:33 PM
Blimey, this is a hard one to answer. :blink:
Of the top of my head I'd say: -
Start Trek
Blakes 7
Space 1999
UFO
Dr Who (I met Jon Pertwee once - what a nice chap)
Only Fools and Horses
Steptoe and Son
Fawlty Towers
The Young Ones
Not the Nine O'clock News
Tiswas (I saw the Phantom Flan Flinger once! :lol: )
;)
I loved Rentaghost :D
Clangers and Bagpuus of course, Dallas, and one of my faves, Prisoner Cell Block H :lol:
Now I can't get enough of Smallville :thumbs:
freakyfun
17-03-05, 10:09 AM
Just realised I didn't post my list:
Dr. Who
StarTrek (all series, except DS9 - it was awful)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (proud member of ZZ9 plural Z alpha)
The Avengers (Mrs Peel makes me go all wobbly)
UFO
Space 1999
The Man from Atlantis
Mission Impossible
Red Dwarf
The Mighty Boosh
League of Gentlemen
Now and Again (canceled after 2 series .. booooo)
Alias
Poltergiest: The Legacy
I could go on....
FF
Lofty13
20-03-05, 05:11 PM
For me, :thumbs:
Dr Who (especially Jon Pertwee)
Space 1999
Mary, Mungo & Midge (we must remember to make sure the lift door is shut)
Clangers
Rhubarb & Custard (nananana, nananana, na-na-na-na-na, etc)
Ivor the Engine (hello Ivor...Pahp, Pahp!!)
Fingerbob
Dangermouse (crikey!!)
Rent a ghost
UFO
Captain scarlett
Thunderbirds
Captain Pugwash
Jackanory (especially when Bernard cribbins was on, telling storiies aboout mortimer the crow....Hello Mortime......... Never morwah)
Voyage to the bottom of the sea
Randall & Hopkirk (original)
The Tomorrow people
Magpie (Jenny Hanley!!!, Phwoar!!!)
Blakes 7
Porridge
Open all hours
That'll do for now
Lofty13
Lofty, I was watching Ivor the Engine on Sky the other night, it was on at about 10pm on one of the childrens channels, I loved it :) brought great memories back
Lofty13
20-03-05, 11:25 PM
:D Forgot about:
Hector's House :)
Stingray
Joe 90
Tiswas
Lofty13
Hi Lofty!
Mary Mongo and Midge....wow...I have often asked people if they remember it and nobody ever did, I was beginning to think I was imagining it..............
How could anyone forget to mention
SCOOBY DOO
My kids are still watching episodes from 1969, that I remember watching...
JJ
I definitely remember Mary Mungo and Midge :thumbs: Mary was the little girl, Mungo the dog and Midge the mouse - I even had a book about them, the story was something to do with them sleeping outside in a tree house :lol:
Lofty13
21-03-05, 09:53 PM
Hello all,
Saw Danger Mouse yesterday, brought back memories.
How about:
Take hart :D
Vision On :D
Thomas the tank engine
And of course, the greatest cartoon duo, EVER!!!.......Tom & Jerry. :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
JustJo, yeah, Scooby Doo (Zoikes!!), BUT, only until S********py Doo appeared. Once he did, it was rubbish.
Lofty13
Neighboured
21-03-05, 10:06 PM
http://www.tvsgreatesthits.com/
Some really evocative shows!
Spent an hour this afternoon with my managing director, going through various tunes! :hihi:
Does anyone remember a kids quiz programme called ' Screetest'....? it was hosted by a guy who I can visualise and know his name but cannot remember. It was a quiz about tv, films and suchlike!!!!!....................
jj
ooo ooo
Just had a flashback..I think his mane was 'Rod' something......not Rod hull.lol
hi
screentest.mp3 [2.56 Mb MP3 file]
try this....
Screen Test - great programme, wasn't it someone like Michael Rodd used to present it? :D
john craven used to do a programme like that on bbc one .............
eeyores right
just found it on google, it was Michael Rodd
Michael Rodd
Michael Rodd was one of the original Lookaround team when it launched in 1961.
He went on to present the BBC's children's quiz Screen Test.
Michael was also one of the presenters of the BBC's, Tomorrows World.
Michael also presented TVS's The Real World and stood in for Mike Scott on The Time The Place.
linky here (http://www.btinternet.com/~rob.frowen/presenters_r2.html)
Cheers for that Beth - I just remembered his name :D Strange the things that stick in our minds ;)
Michael Rodd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cheers guys.....
JJ
And another thing that me and my little brother used to watch was a kids programme on a Sunday morning called ''Sing me a Story'' ( something like that ) any way the presenters name was a little chap with a guitar called Christopher Lily********p!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol..........I kid you not!
Sad but I remember Christopher Lilli******** too :lol: He had a wild mop of black curly hair and very piercing eyes if I remember :)
Words and Pictures, there was a learning programme I loved, always remember they did a song called chewing gum and chips ;) :D
Yep Eeyore, that was him....reminded me a little of wayne sleep only cuter...
JJ
blimey, I just stuck his name in google...that guy did loads!! :o I mean loads!! :D
Singing shows :lol: that reminds me, what was the stange one in the early seventies that had a man and a woman singing a variety of children's songs. they were supposed to be special requests and they always read out the letters. :unsure:
Strange thing is, every week someone had asked for ' Puff the Magic Dragon'
Help :rolleyes:
Its now driving me mad trying to remember it
a demented rb
Lofty13
22-03-05, 10:07 PM
:thumbs: Michael Bentines Potty Time :thumbs: Classic.
rb2002, that rings a bell with me as well. I'm sure someone will let us know.
Good thread, this.
Lofty13
Hi All
Here is another couple of ones I have been thinking of.....
1. Tales of the unexpected..( opening theme had a silhoueted woman dancing and wiggling her hips)
2. Ripping yarns... spoof thriller series
3. The Hair Bear Bunch........(theme tune; at the wonderland zoo..doo de doo de doodoo.....0
4. Swap shop
JJ
Me thinks i watched too much tv as a child... Must have words with my mum!!!
Lofty13
22-03-05, 10:42 PM
Me again,
JJ, Tiswas was better than Swap Shop, but like you, I enjoyed the other three.
Also, used to like:
Trumpton (Pugh, Pugh, etc)
Camberwick Green (Windy Miller?)
The Double Deckers (alll aboard.....all aboard....etc)
Why Don't You? (Used to wear the striped anti-doris sock)
The Bananna Splits (Tra-la-la, la-la-la-la, Tra-la-la, la-la-la-la)
Aah, nostalgia ain't wot it used to be.
Lofty13
RENTAGHOST
rentaghost.mp3 [643 Kb MP3 file] 44kHz : 16 bit mono
Sit back and enjoy the start and end variations of Timothy Claypole's advertisement for the services of his spooks-for-hire firm. Lovely use of the harpsichord, and an-actually-rather-chilling evil laugh at the end.
try this...............
jj
Mr Ribbit
23-03-05, 08:17 AM
OMG! All these programme names are bringing back soooo many memories. Why Don't You - I watched it religiously as a kid and always dreamed of joining the gang. Also wanted to join the Double Deckers. :blush: :lol:
Also loved the Banana Splits - I'm not going to be able to get that tune out of my head now. :lol:
Lofty13
23-03-05, 09:10 PM
Great memories :thumbs:
Reading about Screentest reminded me of something I liked to watch.
I think it was presented by Chris Kelly, and was called Clapperboard. It went behind the scenes in filmmaking, TV shows, etc.
JJ, was Michael Palin in Ripping Yarns?
Lofty13
Bonkers Mad!!!
23-03-05, 09:32 PM
mr ribbit, Why don't you :thumbs: i got the tune in my head straight away, were you "home dinners"? cos that was on at lunch-time and in the holidays :lol: i didnt like being "home dinners", was rubbish on the telly, Rainbow, mr Benn or me and you, you and me lots and lots for us to see :blink:
who said Space 1999? wow, i loved that program :thumbs: i so badly wanna be the girl with the eyebrows, even now :hihi:
The Double Deckers (alll aboard.....all aboard....etc)
"all aboard" makes me think of the Skylark (with Noah and Nelly) and the Skylark reminds me of baba papa and i really could go on for ever now :hihi:
Mr Ribbit
23-03-05, 09:49 PM
'Home dinners' - crikey, that's a blast from the past. :bigeyes: It's a long time since I heard that term. Yep, that was me. :yes:
And Space 1999, I mentioned it because I used to try to dream up ways of saving all of them and getting them home - it was real you know. :blush: :lol: I wanted the Eagle Transporter that was for sale in the local post office as a kid but on 2 pence a week pocket money, :lol: I had next to no chance of ever being able to afford to breath on it (I couldn't even reach the shelf it was on in the shop), let alone take it home. :rolleyes:
Here's one for those who don't know what I'm talking about. ;)
Bonkers Mad!!!
23-03-05, 09:54 PM
you're quite right :yes: it was real
when i was at senior school i used to rush home at the end of the day, i used to pretend i was addicted to "Sons and Daughters" but it was really because i didnt want to miss The Moomins :blush:
Mr Ribbit
23-03-05, 10:00 PM
Ahhh, the original Moomins (not the newer version). Ribbit used to sing the Moomins song. Memories eh? :D
Here's a really rough version of the tune.
Bonkers Mad!!!
23-03-05, 10:06 PM
yep, the newer version was just not the same
Bonkers Mad!!!
23-03-05, 10:09 PM
:thumbs: :jump: :clap2: nearly makes me want to skip :lol:
Mr Ribbit
23-03-05, 10:21 PM
Hey everyone, check out this link for TV show tunes from the 80's.
Click here (http://www.80snostalgia.com/classictv/misc/sounds.html)
Enjoy. ;)
Crackerjack!! :thumbs:
Being ancient, I remember the original with Leslie Crowther. but there were later remakes including one with Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart. My claim to, err, almost fame, was that I went to school with Sarah Hollomby,one of the girly assistants on the show.
Aaah, those halcyon days..........
I remember looking forward to Crackerjack, though it was Ed Stewart and Stu Francis in my day :D Oooh I could crush a grape :lol:
LOL @eeyore :lol:
Ah yes, but, I was still a foetus when I watched it with Leslie Crowther :hihi: :lol: :bigeyes:
Gosh!!!!!!!!!
Crackerjack........''It's Friday. Its five to 5 and its.....Crackajacktime.......''
loved the little game they used to play with kids holding loads of prezzies, and the more they held, the more they got to take home!!!! If they dropped the prizes they got a cabbage.............''Double or Drop'' was its name!!!!!!
Yes..... Michael Palin was in Ripping Yarns.,.....................
jj
Aaawww, yes, those cabbages! :cry: They were huge, and the poor kids dropped even more things then.
Cheap game though,when you think about it...... :rolleyes:
Cheap.... but fun! :D
And a great way to stock up on veg! :lol:
Mr Ribbit
24-03-05, 07:38 PM
I used to love Crackerjack. I completely forgot about that programme you know. Memories or what! :blush: :lol:
Errrr, does anyone remember 'We are the Champions' and the Royals entering it as well? How times have changed eh? :yes:
Thanks for that link Mr ribbit, brings back many happy memories.
Battle of the planets and Fraggle Rock :D Loved them both.
Crackerjack?
Unfortunately I was at the end of the Ed Stewart era and the beginning of the Stu Francis ' I could crush a grape' era. I'll never forgive him for giving the Krankies a break :lol:
rb
I remember We Are the champions, kids from different schools working as teams to complete sort of sporty tasks :D with Ron Pickering wasn't it?
Now I think the thing you are referring to with the Royals, Mr R, was It's a Knockout :lol: That was such a silly programme, people dressed in daft outfits trying to fill containers with coloured water, and generally falling over and looking silly - I remember Stuart Hall on that one, he had a real dirty laugh :hihi:
Funny thing is Mr Eeyore and I used to call Mr NFH "It's a Knockout" (not to his face!) :lol: as he once spent 4 hours filling a water butt in his garden from his kitcehn sink with a bucket - he'd run with the bucket, feet all over and the water would go anywhere but in the water butt :hihi: so Mr Eeyore and I used to sing the It's a Knockout theme :lol:
Kev9090
25-03-05, 05:10 PM
I remember It's a Knockout.
Some others I watched in the '70s (and maybe some in the '60s)
The Champions (they had special powers)
Lost In Space
Time Tunnel
Scooby Doo
Wacky Races
Thunderbirds
Capt. Scarlett
and those kids TV programmes from the Continent like:
White Horses
The Singing Ringing Tree
Belle and Sebastian
Robinson Crusoe