Retro TV Channel

[Big Dave]

Post an old time (Pre 2000) TV show that you enjoyed or still enjoy. Bonus points for any interesting fact accompanying.

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Waterman went from good cop in the Sweeney to 'bad cop' in Minder.

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This guy's edited highlights are a good way to review the shows. http://www.youtube.com/user/ARTHURSJAG/featured

[Swoop]

Sledge Hammer!

1986 comedy/pisstake regarding all the cop shows and movies of that time.

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Set against Miami Vice in the US airtime programming war, the series slowly attracted a dedicated audience!
David Rasche (Sledge) appeared as the President of the United States in the short-lived 2001 television series DAG. His secret service code-name on the series was Sledge Hammer.

[Usarka]

Wiseguy

Remember this classic?

I bought a moody blues album after watching this. *kind of spoiler alert*

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I don't know no trivia apart from what's on imdb.




Sledge Hammer!

Good times. I vividly remember watching the first sledge episode not sure what it was about until he used a rocket launcher to kill a sniper on the roof of a building.

[pete376403]

Wiseguy

Remember this classic?

I bought a moody blues album after watching this. *kind of spoiler alert*

I don't know no trivia apart from what's on imdb.
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Remember it? I've got all the series, plus the movie on 35 DVDs. Still pretty good even after all these years.

[pete376403]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7e4NiDEC24

Got all of this series as well.

(the only series as it happened, after one of Pete Duel died)

trivia - The names "Smith and Jones" originated from a comment in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when, prior to one of their final hold-ups, the characters are outside a bank in Bolivia and Sundance turns to Butch and says: "I'm Smith and you're Jones"

[Big Dave]

Wiseguy

Remember this classic?

I bought a moody blues album after watching this. *kind of spoiler alert*

I don't know no trivia apart from what's on imdb.

Good times. I vividly remember watching the first sledge episode not sure what it was about until he used a rocket launcher to kill a sniper on the roof of a building.

I remember.

For someone that doesn't know any trivia you done good.

[Crasherfromwayback]

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Also featuring Kiwi girl done good...married to Billy Connelly, Pamela Stephenson.

[mashman]

Turns out it was actually a documentary... still pops up on Comedy Central every noo and then and still bloody funny.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FRVvjGL2C0

[swbarnett]

Turns out it was actually a documentary... still pops up on Comedy Central every noo and then and still bloody funny.
One of the best comedys ever to come out of the UK.

This may be apocryphal but I heard that the Chinese premier of the time asked Maggie Thatcher if the British Government actually worked as portrayed in Yes Minister. Her reply was along the lines of "yeah, pretty much".

[swbarnett]

Chef


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MixYRIUzVXs

[Oakie]

I'm always disappointed when I go back and watch programs that were great 20 or 30 years ago. They seldom seem to be as good as I thought they were back then.

(Oakie the Thread Grinch).

[swbarnett]

I'm always disappointed when I go back and watch programs that were great 20 or 30 years ago. They seldom seem to be as good as I thought they were back then.

(Oakie the Thread Grinch).
Depends on the program. Things like Knight Rider that were made purely for the money I would agree. The ones made for the "art" of it are a different matter. Yes Minister (and Yes Prime Minister), Chef, Mash, among others, are well worth watching again.

[scumdog]

Depends on the program. Things like Knight Rider that were made purely for the money I would agree. The ones made for the "art" of it are a different matter. Yes Minister (and Yes Prime Minister), Chef, Mash, among others, are well worth watching again.

Don't forget 'Open All Hours' - gold!:niceone:

[Laava]

All in the family.
When I went to New York and was flicking thru the 53 odd channels on TV it was the only thing I could find worth watching
Edith; Oorchie, how come we don't have romance any more?
Archie; well Eedit, it!'s like this, when you catch the bus you stop running.

[scumdog]

And don't forget 'Renegade' - cheesy-as eh!:laugh:

[swbarnett]

Don't forget 'Open All Hours' - gold!:niceone:
:doh: How could I ever forget that! Got the entire series on DVD. IMO Ronnie Barker is one of the best (if not the best) comedians ever.

[swbarnett]

And don't forget 'Renegade' - cheesy-as eh!:laugh:
And not a helmet to be seen! Not so many hang-ups back then.

[blue rider]

The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLwreD9NL7c

[swbarnett]

The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
I was an absolute Hitchhiker nut. IMO the best version is the original radio series. I first heard it when it went to air in NZ in the late '70s or very early '80s.

I have the radio series on CD; including the two later series that were made from Adams' writings after his death. I also have the original radio scripts in paperback and the TV series on DVD. However, I don't have the later movie. IMO they stuffed it up. It came across as cheesey and really didn't live up to the original.

Douglas would do anything to "not write the next bit". One episode (of the radio series) he didn't start until 20minutes before it went to air.

[swbarnett]

Speaking or Ronnie Barker...

The Two ronnies (always preferred the bits with Barker on his own):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0nFQgRApY