mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
You know what I meanI don't know the actors name, Jack Killian
Gary Cole !
and if you get Hallmark channel North and South is on regulary !
Series you would love to see repeated
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Gary Cole !
and if you get Hallmark channel North and South is on regulary !
I just started watching Outlaws, on Jefe's recommendation, and it's superb! How come it's so obscure?
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
Dont remember this one but the original Widows was excellent.
Seem to remember a British Army series years back called Spearhead, that & Tour of Duty.
Ich bin ein Mod
does his make up in his room
Neverwhere, cos I've never seen it and I rather enjoyed the novel adaptation
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Ken Stott, alcoholic, hospital radio? Grand stuff.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
My favourite Vietnam War soap opera (though the wacky Apollo Creed & Six Million Dollar Man MACVSOG third series maybe not so much).
Actually, talking of Indochina, I'd rather like to see that Tim Page biopic Frankie's House.
I also vaguely recall a mini-series drama more specifically about the Australian experiences in the VN war, can't remember the name though, anyone know?
pigtails
putting the tit in titilate
Oh I loved that and no one else ever remembers it!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I'd like to see Natural Lies, the Bob Peck sort-of-companion-piece to Edge Of Darkness, again.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
And of course, The Machine-Gunners. I still flinch when I think about that belt. A shame Robert Westall's follow up Fathom Five wasn't filmed as well.
The Turbulent Term Of Tyke Tiler got turned into a half-decent drama too, and Running Scared (Chris Ellison being menacing, a spooky Woolwich foot tunnel...) Oh, and Archer's Goon. Very odd, but compelling.
The Turbulent Term Of Tyke Tiler got turned into a half-decent drama too, and Running Scared (Chris Ellison being menacing, a spooky Woolwich foot tunnel...) Oh, and Archer's Goon. Very odd, but compelling.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
I think it's time that A Very British Coup and Hot Metal were shown again.
Geemonster69
Useful Idiot
Prisoner Cell Block H with all it's wobbly walls and all.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
There is a legal/rights issue with that series. It is actually not for the wont of trying but the BBC and the other parties seem unable to reach an agreement.
American Gothic
North and South is a good one though
American Gothic was awesome! But if I had to have something repeated it would be Sliders.
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
was Running Scared a serial/only one series on BBC (or ITV) circa 90/91, if so I thought of it the otherday for the first time in ages
If it's the right programe I watched it at the time and taped/have an off the tv, audio recording of the theme song, iirc it had lyrics re running from the threat?
Watched (and read) Tyke Tiler, don't think I saw Archer's Goon - maybe part of one episode and got really confused by it - remember being freaked out by the tv guide/Fast Forward blurb about it and IIRC there was a book too (?) that I never saw but had a disturbing 'also available' synopsys at the back of something else.
full EGGS please, like a bird's egg!
most of both series are available from googlevideo here. I think they're the un-EGG-ited versions (egg I said egg
); they're 45 minutes long.I'd like to see 'alexei sayle's stuff' again
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
was Running Scared a serial/only one series on BBC (or ITV) circa 90/91, if so I thought of it the otherday for the first time in ages
If it's the right programe I watched it at the time and taped/have an off the tv, audio recording of the theme song, iirc it had lyrics re running from the threat?
That sounds about right - IMDb puts it at 1986 though.
Another good children's drama: Jan Needle's A Game Of Soldiers - a bit Machine-Gunnersy, but set in the Falklands.
Still on 'issue-based drama' and the 'young adult' front:
- Junk was a good adaptation of the Melvin Burgess novel about getting into smack;
- Safe was a superbly unsentimental 'Screenplay' production about homelessness, with a young Antonia Bird directing from an Al Ashton script, and an awesome pre-fame cast including Robert Carlyle, Aiden Gillen and Kate Hardie, backed up by the likes of George Costigan, Andrew Tiernan and Steven Mackintosh.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Aye, because as someone who paid full price for the DVD when it came out, those Guardian Shop ads for cut-price copies irk me.
For sure!
And the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmeses, and all those other B&W supporting features that used to get aired of a teatime on BBC2.
and yet also 
The American remake with Judd Hirsch from Taxi, less so.
And the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmeses, and all those other B&W supporting features that used to get aired of a teatime on BBC2.
The American remake with Judd Hirsch from Taxi, less so.
Never saw the remake thankfully.
Yes and the Rathbone films. Doc Savage was in that slot a few times too
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
It has been recently on Sky Arts 1 - maddeningly at 2pm on a weekday.
My contribution is "Northern Exposure" - but this is very much a "buy on DVD" series now ...
Gmart
Well-Known Member
Seconded, along with the Goodies and North and South
Also Blake's Seven - always a favourite
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Back in the 80s Enn Reitel did a marvellous series of half hour silent comedies, The Optimist. Haven't seen hide nor hair of them since.
