It Was Alright in the 70s

[MrSki]

The episode that springs to mind is the woman who kills her husband with a frozen joint & the police end investigating the case end up eating it.

 

[Sea Star]

remember how the crew all knew he was a peed (the viewer knew he had been stitched up nut the crew didn't). And they were all fine with it.

er........ no....

 

[MrSki]

Great theme tune though.


And I used to well fancy Servalan.

 

[Sea Star]

Great theme tune though.


And I used to well fancy Servalan.

I used to want to be Servalan

 

[hot air baboon]

...they're actually re-showing old Rockfords on BBC2 at the mo and I watched one the other week.....I remember it as solid Wednesday night tv fare but god it was pretty awful I thought.....

...one of those stylish and confident women got gang-assaulted by Hells Angels and was left in a catatonic state in hospital..all to be fully rectified by the 45 minute mark...

 

[Citizen66]

I used to want to be Servalan

Is that her from Hi De Hi?

 

[hot air baboon]

Loads of great tec shows in the '70s,Jim Rockford,Colombo, Hawaii 5-0,Kojak,Streets of San Francisco, The Sweeney just to name a few......

...and a good few of those were....

....QUINN MARTIN PRODUCTIONS...


...including Cannon - the only obese action hero I can think of off the top of my head - who was a peak time Saturday evening highlight for some years...

 

[Sea Star]

Is that her from Hi De Hi?

the Welsh one?

 

[Citizen66]

Yeah.

 

[Sea Star]

Yeah.

no, it isn't.

 

[Sea Star]

...they're actually re-showing old Rockfords on BBC2 at the mo and I watched one the other week.....I remember it as solid Wednesday night tv fare but god it was pretty awful I thought.....

...one of those stylish and confident women got gang-assaulted by Hells Angels and was left in a catatonic state in hospital..all to be fully rectified by the 45 minute mark...

i didn't say all the women were stylish and confident... and not all episodes were up to the mark. Also, the fatc that it was a tv show constrained by a 45 minute time slot and a 70s telly format wasn't really the producers' fault.

 

[Citizen66]

no, it isn't.

So it's someone else in Hi De Hi? Lol

 

[Sea Star]

So it's someone else in Hi De Hi? Lol

nope

 

[Gingerman]

Rockford!! I love it! Full of stylish and confident women and I had a crush on Garner!!

Garner's likable easy charm carried Rockford,would'nt work with anyone else....ace intro as well

 

[Gingerman]

Another ace intro from the '70s....

 

[Gingerman]

Who can forget Jimmy's forces of anarchy rant..

 

[JTG]

So it's someone else in Hi De Hi? Lol

It's Ted Bovis

 

[Citizen66]

nope

So why the character check? lol

 

[jakethesnake]

Quatermass scared the shit out of me... I was aged 9 at the time.

 

[Celyn]

Kung Fu "when you can walk on rice paper, then you will have learned".
...

Hah! I can walk on rice paper. It's easy - you just put it down on the floor then walk on it.

 

[Celyn]

I haven't seen it. But perhaps you miss the point that what makes Monkey great isn't the srs kungfu but the (unintentional?) comedy.

"Water Margin" and "Monkey" would have been better had I not been too young for dope and booze at the time.

 

[Celyn]

And also: serious social drama ALL THE TIME! I think of Play for Today with real nostalgia amid all the cookery, house makeover, buy-a-house-in-France, the only way is mindless "reality" that defecates all over the schedules now.

YES! Meant to mention "Play for Today" but I was on very temperamental computer. WHY could we have good socially conscious drama then and not now?

 

[MrSki]

 

[Citizen66]

"Water Margin" and "Monkey" would have been better had I not been too young for dope and booze at the time.

There is that. Now my hallucinogen years have passed I'm left wondering if fifty minutes of Pigsy might have been more preferable than magical mystery tour.

 

[oryx]

YES! Meant to mention "Play for Today" but I was on very temperamental computer. WHY could we have good socially conscious drama then and not now?

Used to love Play For Today - some early Alan Clarke & Willie Russell among other good stuff.

 

[Citizen66]

This is normally around the time where someone calls World in Action "The Trot Slot" and then an even bigger politics geek corrects them with the details I now forget.

/2002 golden era

 

[Sea Star]

So why the character check? lol

Just having a laugh

 

[Citizen66]

At my expense

 

[og ogilby]

One of the stand out memories of 1970's afternoon telly was This Is Your Right, presented by Lord Winstanley. It might have only been shown in the Granada region?

Classical Gas theme tune.

 

[Sea Star]

At my expense