TV programmes from the past.

The Groves
Compact
No Hiding Place
The Adventures of William Tell

Butterflies (Wendy Craig?)
The Cedar Tree - on at lunchtime/early afternoon

The Forsyte Saga, Onedin Line, brilliant series both of them.

SO many reruns at the moment

crazyH

Rising Damp
George and Mildred

that is on again now

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, Watching, Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

Anyone remember Adam Adamant Lives? About a man frozen in Edwardian Britain, and is revived in 60's London and his bewilderment of modern times.

Butterflies where they had to all move the cars to park, The Good life and The Likely Lads some of our old favourites.

lefthanded

YorkLady

Drop the Dead Donkey and Blake’s Seven.
I would imagine that neither has aged well!😂😂

I thought I was the only person who could remember Drop the Dead Donkey - a program well ahead of its time. And Blake’s Seven - the first two series were fantastic, after that it lost its way, I think.

The program I would like to see again would be “Man in a Suitcase”. I can still hum the theme tune.

Two of our favourites here.
We went to see Drop the Dead Donkey recently at Nottingham All the original cast except , of course, for Haydn Gwynne. Really enjoyable. Familiar yet brought up to date.

Where will i find rewind please?Loved moonlighting the series with Bruce willis and Cybill shepard- used to watch it with my late mum.My daughter found it on STV for me.

grumppa

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.

Those are still wonderful. I've seen a few lately and they still seem relevant, politically, today!

Is rewind on sky?

Diana was a bbc drama starring jenny seagrove and kevin mcnally

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are old, think they were made in the 70's, but they are as relevant today as they were then. Still funny and such great acting from all of them but especially Nigel Hawthorne and his wonderful , so hard to learn, speeches. A lot of the Dads army, but especially "Dont tell them Pike" episode, Some of the Good Life was execellent too, although you would actually find someone like Tom Good a bit of a pain to live next to. Penelope Keith in her yellow outfit falling over in the garden etc etc. Fawlty Towers of course, Never been interested in any soaps like coronation street or suchlike, but the other things that I loved were Micheal Parkinson, who always did his homework and was usually a very good show to watch but could not be beaten when the great Billy Connolly was on. Parky tried so hard to be ready for anything but Billy would have him corpsing in a few minutes. Billy.s take on life was always worth listening to and would have me crying with laughter when he just said something unexpected and had you looking at things in a very different way. On days when life is tough a look at an old Connolly bit will cheer me even now. So for me life tended to be quite serious and difficult at times and I have been so thankful for music and art and some humour to get me through a rough day.

Mackenzie.....(1980s starring Tracey Ullman.)
Alias Smith & Jones
The Flying Doctors.
The Sullivans.
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Diana......(,nothing to do with Lady Diana)
We'll Meet Again ( Ww2 drama with Susannah York)
Itv couldnt fund a follow up
But i was happy to buy the follow up in book form

Alias Smith and Jones, The Bearcats, with Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole, Cagney and Lacey.

All the great programmes mentioned here, not so many these days that we'd be able to look back on with such joy.

I loved M*A*S*H*, watched most of them.

YorkLady

Drop the Dead Donkey and Blake’s Seven.
I would imagine that neither has aged well!😂😂

I thought I was the only person who could remember Drop the Dead Donkey - a program well ahead of its time. And Blake’s Seven - the first two series were fantastic, after that it lost its way, I think.

The program I would like to see again would be “Man in a Suitcase”. I can still hum the theme tune.

Heidi
White Horses
Banana Splits
Little House on the Prairie
Starsky & Hutch
Dukes of Hazard
Open All Hours
Dinner ladies

Personally I didn't like Kenny Everett, slapstick wasn't my sort of comedy. But I did like Dad's Army, just not Clive Dunn. I really liked old series like Upstairs Downstairs, Bread and Poldark. A bit later was the newer comedies, Only Fools and Horses, Goodnight Sweetheart and Fawlty Towers.

NanKate I was in labour with my first and pacing around watching Kenny Everett in the visitors' room. The laughter certainly helped my labour along!

We were gripped by the unnerving Edge of Darkness in the 80s, we wouldn't answer the phone if it rang whilst we were watching! On the other extreme Dear John , written by John Sullivan, had us in fits of laughter and we happened to catch our favourite episode on the Great channel the other day, it was just as funny. Loved many shows already mentioned - Follyfoot, White Horses, the Tomorrow People , the 3 Musketeers and Captain Zeppos as a child then things like Poldark(original), Onedin Line, Howard's Way, The Bill, Blott on the Landscape, Rumpole of the Bailey etc etc. Good we have so many channels where they get an airing

Bonanza
Dixson of Dock Green
Mr Ed
Cracker Jack
Thunderbirds

The Young Ones
Absolutely Fabulous
Follyfoot Farm
Time Team

There are so many great old sitcoms, but one I would really like to see again is Absolutely Fabulous. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley really sent up people who were stuck in the sixties and couldn't move on. Also the episode with Lulu was hilarious as Patsy tries to convince Lulu she knew all the sixties models and pop stars and Lulu realises she's making it up.