UK TV from the past

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by CV19

I have watched both of these shows myself, and I also remember Howard's Way being on a Sunday evening (around 8 o'clock-ish) back in the late 1980's. I don't know why, but every time I heard that theme tune, it always said to me that the weekend was rapidly coming to an end and it was back to work in the morning. Rather like Spitting Image, which was always aired around the 10 o'clock mark......this was my last bit of weekend fun before heading off to bed for the start of a new week.

Yes, Bergerac was on around the same time slot, and as well as being shown on Sunday's, I think it may have also been aired during the week - mind you these may well have been repeats rather than first broadcasts.

Yes, I remember the original Spitting Image being on at 10 pm on Sunday nights.

On the BBC Four repeats of TOTP a few years ago, was the spoken version of the Howard's Way theme tune, Always There by Marti Webb (I think it was played over the end credits of the second series of Howard's Way).

Do you remember a sitcom called Watching? The lead actor in it, I saw on Coronation Street earlier this year (he had scenes with Roy Cropper, and his daughter who has the goth look and works in Roy's Rolls).

[CV19]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Yes, I remember the original Spitting Image being on at 10 pm on Sunday nights.

On the BBC Four repeats of TOTP a few years ago, was the spoken version of the Howard's Way theme tune, Always There by Marti Webb (I think it was played over the end credits of the second series of Howard's Way).

Do you remember a sitcom called Watching? The lead actor in it, I saw on Coronation Street earlier this year (he had scenes with Roy Cropper, and his daughter who has the goth look and works in Roy's Rolls).

That's right, yes I remember Marti Webb's version - very nice it is too. It hit the charts on 20 September 1986 and reached no. 13 according to my Guinness book......I just had to check as curiosity got the better of me. You can imagine though if this show was broadcast today, you'd have some plonker just prattling over the whole end credit sequence and ruining the song.

I'm sorry mate, I've no recollection at all of Watching.

[OceanBlue]

Yes, with the obsession with squashing up and talking over the end credits, Howard's Way's end credits would be spoiled.

Channel Quest Red never used to squash up the end credits, but the past few weeks they're doing what the majority of channels are doing now. Just before the end of the true crime documentaries they've shown on Saturday nights, in the top right-hand corner they tell you what is coming up next. Then just after, they put a big fat banner across the bottom of the screen, telling you what is coming up next and later.

[CV19]

I stopped subscribing to Sky Movies quite a while back now, but I do remember when they started with this annoying practise a few years ago. I found it especially irritating considering these were so-called premium channels which you had to subscribe to. They only occasionally used voice-overs back in the 90's which was when I first got Sky, but at that time the credits were left untouched. However in later years, voice-overs became more commonplace, and now they've simply picked up the bad habits from every other channel.

[OceanBlue]

Sad to hear recently about actor Geoffrey Palmer passing away. I've seen him in the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and some episodes of sitcom As Time Goes By (which he starred in with Dame Judi Dench). Not seen much of Butterflies, but the role which sticks in my mind is that of Jimmy in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (always remember his catchphrase, which was a variation on "cock-up on the catering front").

[CV19]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Sad to hear recently about actor Geoffrey Palmer passing away. I've seen him in the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and some episodes of sitcom As Time Goes By (which he starred in with Dame Judi Dench). Not seen much of Butterflies, but the role which sticks in my mind is that of Jimmy in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (always remember his catchphrase, which was a variation on "cock-up on the catering front").

The only thing I remember about Butterflies is the theme tune. Other than that, I'm not sure if I've ever sat and watched a whole episode. A role he played that sticks in my mind is that of the doctor in the Fawlty Towers episode "Kipper and the Corpse". The poor bloke really was desperate for his sausages.

[OceanBlue]

Sad to hear this past weekend about Des O'Connor passing away (goalkeeper Ray Clemence has also sadly passed away). Among his many TV credits was the gameshow Take Your Pick.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Sad to hear this past weekend about Des O'Connor passing away (goalkeeper Ray Clemence has also sadly passed away). Among his many TV credits was the gameshow Take Your Pick.

This is well before our time (1955), but here's a clip with Michael Miles as host during the "yes/no" game. I read somewhere that Take Your Pick was the first show on British TV that offered cash prizes.

Take Your Pick - Yes / No Interlude - YouTube

[OceanBlue]

The setting of this year's series of I'm a Celebrity has reminded me of a series I used to watch when I came back from school on Friday afternoons, Knightmare (the castle setting). Challenge repeated the first series a couple of years ago, but I don't think they've shown any further series since.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

The setting of this year's series of I'm a Celebrity has reminded me of a series I used to watch when I came back from school on Friday afternoons, Knightmare (the castle setting). Challenge repeated the first series a couple of years ago, but I don't think they've shown any further series since.

I've never watched Knightmare, although I do remember it being on around the late 80's. I also recall The Crystal Maze starting around 1990/91 or thereabouts, and was shown on Channel 4. I only watched it for a short while to be honest, but I did catch one or two episodes which Challenge screened a few years ago that was hosted by a bald-headed bloke (can't remember his name) which would have been the earliest series from the 90's.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by CV19

I've never watched Knightmare, although I do remember it being on around the late 80's. I also recall The Crystal Maze starting around 1990/91 or thereabouts, and was shown on Channel 4. I only watched it for a short while to be honest, but I did catch one or two episodes which Challenge screened a few years ago that was hosted by a bald-headed bloke (can't remember his name) which would have been the earliest series from the 90's.

That would be Richard O'Brien. He was the first presenter of the original The Crystal Maze. He left after a handful of series, replaced by I think Edward Tudor Pole.

[CrockettandTubbs]

Originally Posted by CV19

I've never watched Knightmare, although I do remember it being on around the late 80's. I also recall The Crystal Maze starting around 1990/91 or thereabouts, and was shown on Channel 4. I only watched it for a short while to be honest, but I did catch one or two episodes which Challenge screened a few years ago that was hosted by a bald-headed bloke (can't remember his name) which would have been the earliest series from the 90's.

Knightmare was classic

Hosted by Tregaurd, the dungeon master (later joined by annoying sidekick Pickle, the Elf):

https://www.knightmare.com/

Loved The Crystal Maze with O'Brien - didn't take to Tudor Pole so stopped watching.

The new series with Richard Ayoade has started on e4 (Sundays at 16.55).

[CV19]

Originally Posted by CrockettandTubbs

Knightmare was classic

Hosted by Tregaurd, the dungeon master (later joined by annoying sidekick Pickle, the Elf):

https://www.knightmare.com/

Loved The Crystal Maze with O'Brien - didn't take to Tudor Pole so stopped watching.

The new series with Richard Ayoade has started on e4 (Sundays at 16.55).

If Challenge get round to showing Knightmare again, I'll give it a go to see what I've been missing. The channel normally repeats gameshows fairly frequently......you only have to look at Bullseye, one of my favourite game/quiz shows from my teenage years.

It's the Richard O'Brien shows that I started watching back in the 90's (thanks Ocean for remembering his name). However when Challenge repeated them, I only watched a couple or so of the O'Brien episodes as I seem to remember them being screened during the late morning/early afternoon period, and I was working shifts in those days so I missed a few of them.....I should have recorded them and watched them later on - looking back now, I'm not sure why I didn't frankly.

[OceanBlue]

Towards the end of the Richard O'Brien era, they introduced a new zone in The Crystal Maze. Can't remember it's name, but the sets had the look of the inside of a ship.

Can't remember the actress's name, but they had a character in the Medieval Zone who was called Mummy (she was a fortune teller I think).

[OceanBlue]

I wasn't sure if it had had a UK Blu-ray release, but it has (I vaguely remember it now. Network released it). UFO is currently airing on Forces TV from Mondays to Thursdays (think it replaced The Equalizer). It was one of the Gerry Anderson series. One of the actors in it, I recognise from a small role in the Bond films You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever.

[CrockettandTubbs]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Towards the end of the Richard O'Brien era, they introduced a new zone in The Crystal Maze. Can't remember it's name, but the sets had the look of the inside of a ship.

Can't remember the actress's name, but they had a character in the Medieval Zone who was called Mummy (she was a fortune teller I think).

Mumsie - the actress was in Carry On Camping (Babs Windsor's friend)

Sandra Caron (Fanny - fnarr, fnaar).

[HotRats]

Been watching Absolute Power. Ran for two series on BBC TV and five series on Radio 4. Stephen Fry as the utterly amoral image consultant Charles Prentiss and John Bird as his business partner Martin McCabe. Very funny with a fine supporting cast, just as good as the radio series. A priceless scene has Prentiss trying to figure out who painted some pictures signed AH, the scene then goes to levels you couldn't get away with now.

[OceanBlue]

It already had some classic episodes (including the Christmas special with the garden gnomes), but one of the funniest things I've seen has been the One Foot in the Grave episode "The Beast in the Cage". In it, Victor, Margaret, and later joined by neighbour Mrs. Warbuoys, are stuck in Bank Holiday traffic (think they were behind a horse box). The highlight for me was when Victor puts a music cassette tape in the player...

[OceanBlue]

Apologies for posting about this in this thread (but it is about when The X-Files aired over here). I asked a question a few weeks ago in the UK & Ireland sub-forum thread for the Blu-ray release. Either no-one knew the answer, or some posters chose to ignore my post.

The post I'm referring to is quoted below:

That's what I thought in my previous post, that there was an exclusive time period, between the VHS releases of the mythology two and three-part stories, and them being shown by Sky.

I can remember the Sky promo for the third season episode "2Shy", and when the show moved back to BBC One (sure that that time it was with the fifth season, as I can remember when the episode "Kitsunegari" aired (that shot of

[Show spoiler]the victim covered in blue paint).

Yes, the show did go back to BBC Two. I remember the episode "The Truth" airing late at night.

Did the BBC cut any of the season two episode "The Calusari"? I remember seeing or reading an interview (possibly a Chris Carter interview), where they said they wouldn't be able to do that again ("that" referring (I think) to

[Show spoiler]the teaser of the episode where the toddler was killed,

because of a real-life case which had been in the news)

[dublinbluray108]

I've just read that Barbara Windsor has died aged 83. She had died from Alzheimer's. RIP.