Russ Abbott

fist of fun.
hang about,no i thought it was wank!

Last of the Summer Wine, 'Allo 'Allo and Blott on the Landscape.

Hi Di Hi
Butterflies

No Cure For Cancer, because years later someone showed me Bill Hicks. A whore is me.

And yes, I too am COMPLTELY unable to believe how badly Bread has aged. I feel pretty shoddy about my long love affair with 2.4 children too. I'm sorry, I'll write that again. My love affair with the sitcom Two Point Four Children.

Stating the obvious I know, but it's really, really horrible when you grin like a coalscuttle (Rudyard Kipling) at something as a child, but when you come to watch it years later there's nothing. I mean, thinking "Oh, god, how embarassing! I used to really laugh at that!" is one thing, but I'm talking about getting nothing. No comedy synapses whatsoever. It's confusing and unruly.

One such show for me was Max Headroom, bizarrely enough. I remembered it as being a duff sci-fi show with fantastically funny one liners. Having spent the best part of two decades looking for the videos, I finally found some eps a few months ago; only to discover it's actually a fantastically good dark sci-fi satire show with one liners that are about as welcome as a rampaging Bernard Manning loose in a shopping mall with a super soaker filled with his own semen.

That'll be four pounds eight for that image please.

I liked the video spin-off show best. Max was great.

The Brittas Empire.
Mr. Bean.
Red Dwarf.

Butterflies
Two Ronnies

Tenko

Tenko? comedy? perhaps....

mine are Red Dwarf, 2:4 and Brittas Empire.

shudder.

I can beat the lot of you. In the 80s Jim Davidson had a sitcom (I think called The Elephant and Castle) I used to watch that all the time.

I'm... sorry...

Never be ashamed of your childhood.

>I can beat the lot of you. In the 80s Jim Davidson had a sitcom (I think called The Elephant and Castle) I used to watch that all the time.
>
>I'm... sorry...

I was a regular viewer too - it was called Up The Elephant and Round the Castle. In fact, I think I once missed an outing with the cub scouts just to catch an episode. I was also hooked on Me and My Girl (Richard O'Sullivan, Tim Brooke Taylor and Joan Sanderson - rather good cast, actually) and Roll Over Beethoven (Liza Goddard and Derek Deadman) Anyone else remember those? Both were on ITV.

Incidentally, what's wrong with Butterflies?

Mind Your Language... oh dear god.

Harry Worth
Mike Yarwood in Person
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

> I feel pretty shoddy about my long love affair with 2.4 children too. I'm sorry, I'll write that again. My love affair with the sitcom Two Point Four Children.
>
I still really like that. Sorry.

I also liked Butterflies and Bread, although I find on rerun that I can't imagine why. Are You Being Served was also "must see tv" when I was a child. Hi de Hi was always pants in my book though.

To be honest the only good thing about Butterflies was the theme tune, by Dolly Parton BTW.

And for most children a good theme tune is good enough, Adrian Mole fer example (Ian Dury).

I'm not sure this is a healthy thread, I mean, we watched this stuff, it influenced us. Should we be bringing it back.

I can vaguely remember a sitcom with Molly Sugden playing the mum to some bloke with a wife, what good would it do being reminded?

So if anyone can remember please let me know.

I take it we were all big fans of Duty Free

To The Manor Born. The recent repeats scarred me for life - "Oh my God, if I found this funny, I must have been a Young Conservative..."

*and* I loved Duty Free. Odd.

I used to love Moonlighting (great theme tune) as a child, but even as a 11 year old I realised that the last series was shit.

Mr. Viloa, great name.

Right that's it I'm spending the rest of the night at TV Cream.

>>Right that's it I'm spending the rest of the night at TV Cream.

Get us some Mint Cracknell while you're there.

>I can vaguely remember a sitcom with Molly Sugden playing the mum to some bloke with a wife, what good would it do being reminded?
>
>So if anyone can remember please let me know.

That's My Boy?

the brittas empire was good until they made 4 identical series that were all meant to be the last ever ones. it was good when it started, when carol had the kids in the cupboard and his wife was covered in sick, ho ho ho

>I used to love Moonlighting (great theme tune) as a child, but even as a 11 year old I realised that the last series was shit.

Yep but that's no reason to be embarrassed about liking the first couple of series, they were fantastic, and the same people went on to make the incredible "Duckman."

>>I used to love Moonlighting (great theme tune) as a child, but even as a 11 year old I realised that the last series was shit.
>
>Yep but that's no reason to be embarrassed about liking the first couple of series, they were fantastic, and the same people went on to make the incredible "Duckman."

I wasn't slagging Moonlighting, it's just the last series was shit, no really shit, it wasn't funny, it wasn't romantic.

I wish I'd seen more of Duckman, but now it's too late, the tubby bloke ended up in Seinfeld, which I despise, no don't even try, I hate the man, hate him.

Does anyone remember Barun Munchinsanger, I'm not sure of the spelling, but it was about a green bloke who lived under the floor boards, it was on c4 and was 5mins long.

>Does anyone remember Barun Munchinsanger

Murun Buchstansangur. A google search reveals this:

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/tombstone/890/murun/murun.htm

Isn't the web brilliant?

>I wish I'd seen more of Duckman, but now it's too late, the tubby bloke ended up in Seinfeld, which I despise, no don't even try, I hate the man, hate him.

Duckman still turns up on Play UK . George was the best thing about Seinfeld, though.

>
>Duckman still turns up on Play UK . George was the best thing about Seinfeld, though.

I don't have cable, and the thought of paying all that money... Nah, M2s not that good (& whats the deal with that Talk Talk video? Everyone chooses it, even fucking Frank Black!)

As an East Anglian,it's my duty to remind you all of 'Majorie and Men' a one series sitcom, and the last comedy that Anglia TV made.It starred our 2 finest Patricias, Hayes and Routledge.

I was also a fan of Astronauts, Dead Ernest and Cowboys, all of which also lasted one series. Is it any wonder I have a persecution complex?

Are You Being Served was bearable as a naff, third-rate time-filler, it's when American twats (who've never seen Dad's Army , Morecambe and Wise or OFAH: say what you like, but these really ARE the nation's favourites) claim it's "high-class British humor", and the best of "Brit Wit" (whatever that is), that I get annoyed.

That's my Boy was weird...
but how bout The Happy Apple with Leslie Ash, Sink or Swim wiht Peter Davison and a weird one about an old man who lived with a punk, the name of which escapes me but it was on in about 1982 on ITV. We'd all be sniggering now, if we were Zoe Ball.

>That's my Boy was weird...
>but how bout The Happy Apple with Leslie Ash, Sink or Swim wiht Peter Davison and a weird one about an old man who lived with a punk, the name of which escapes me but it was on in about 1982 on ITV. We'd all be sniggering now, if we were Zoe Ball.
>

Mentioning Peter Davidson reminds me of a programme call A Very Peculiar Practice, I think it was about doctors, I used to watch it but I don't think I understood much of it (I was about ten), was it cos I was so young or was it a crap sitcom with not much to laugh at. The only reason I watched it was it had Doc Who in it.

Peter Davison was a crap Dr Who but that series he did about the lottery winners was okay.

>Peter Davison was a crap Dr Who but that series he did about the lottery winners was okay.

This whole best doctor comes down to who you remember, I was a Tom Baker lad.

Didn't watch the Lottery thing, except the last episode where everything turn out nice.

1-Patrick Troughton
2-Sylvester McCoy
3-Tom Baker
4-Jon Pertwee
5-Paul McGann
6-William Hartnell
7-Peter Davison
8-Colin Baker

>1-Patrick Troughton
>2-Sylvester McCoy
>3-Tom Baker
>4-Jon Pertwee
>5-Paul McGann
>6-William Hartnell
>7-Peter Davison
>8-Colin Baker

I can't believe you included Paul McGann. I hate that man and his brothers, espesh the big thick one who was in "The Upper Hand"

Still Sly McCoy should be included cos some of those episodes were fucked up. Hale and Pace discussing what they'd do if a lion chased after them

>Duckman still turns up on Play UK . George was the best thing about Seinfeld, though.

The music is just another thing to love about Duckman. God bless Frank Zappa and Klusky Caspo (?) for giving his music an outlet.

>God bless Frank Zappa and Klusky Caspo (?) for giving his music an outlet.

Klasky-Csupo. Gabor Csupo is the Zappa fan (and also designed the cover of his 'Lost Episodes' CD).

> Gabor Csupo is the Zappa fan (and also designed the cover of his 'Lost Episodes' CD).

So who's the bloke behind "Duckman"?

>So who's the bloke behind "Duckman"?

Klasky-Csupo is the animation company. Gabor Csupo is founder of that company. And a Zappa fan.

http://www.rykodisc.com/RykoInternal/Features/195/fzlost.html

>> Gabor Csupo is the Zappa fan (and also designed the cover of his 'Lost Episodes' CD).
>
>So who's the bloke behind "Duckman"?

Duckman was created by Everret Peck in comic book form for Dark Horse Comics. It was quite different (and less good, it must be said) from the animated series. There was a black & white strip in the anthology series 'Dark Horse Presents' and a one-off b&w Duckman comic, both of which were reprinted in a one-off comic by Topps after the TV show aired. Topps also produced a line of colour comics based on the show.

Too much info?

Sorry to trump you all but I never missed an episode of..........






Terry & June.


I'm off to find a low beam.

Don't be ridiculous, I loved Terry & June. And Brittas, and 2.4 Children (anyone remember when the daughter brought round her Catholic boyfriend, only to find her parents stabbing a lifesize inflatable Pope?). And Chalk (I know it wasn't original, but the performances were fantastic), and Allo Allo. Actually, even I feel a slight pang of shame at that last one. Somebody back me up, Herr Flick and von Smallhausen were funny, weren't they?

>Actually, even I feel a slight pang of shame at that last one. Somebody back me up, Herr Flick and von Smallhausen were funny, weren't they?

Were and still are. It was a fantastic programme that ran out of steam towards the end.

Did you see the one where Herr Flick was dressed as a baby? I defy even the most po-faced contributor to sit with their arms folded and not laugh at that. I mean - a senior ranking officer in the Gestapo, disguised as a *baby*.

So You Want to be Top?

A kid's programme called 'The Ghost of (something) Hall' - can't remember the name but I think Jim Henson was involved and Dizzy Gillespie was a guest on one ep.

Pob


Surprised no-one's mentioned "It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling", actually.

>A kid's programme called 'The Ghost of (something) Hall' - can't remember the name but I think Jim Henson was involved and Dizzy Gillespie was a guest on one ep.

The Ghost of Faffner Hall, a Henson thing that was meant to teach kids about music in a fun way. Actually quite boring, but you're right about Dizzy Gillespie. A girl in my class used to get called Faffner because she had a turned up nose, like said Ghost.

Why should you be ashamed to have liked something when you were a child? It's all part of developing tastes as you grow up and experience more of the world around you.

There are some bands I used to be fans of, naming no Carter USMs, that I now can't understand why I liked. But I'm not ashamed to have liked them. It's part of who you were and what you were feeling at the time.

Janet, why are you ashamed to have liked The Two Ronnies? They're still great as far as I'm concerned.

As for "Up The Elephant And Round The Castle", I believe it to have been one of the most shamefully awful pieces of television ever witnessed. The end credits - in which Jim sat atop a model elephant and castle, pointing at them and grinning for the benefit of those viewers who might have otherwised missed the 'subtle' gag - says it all.

does anyone remember
Your Mother Won't Like It.

I was only about 4, but i remember my mother not liking it and banning me from watching it.

>As for "Up The Elephant And Round The Castle", I believe it to have been one of the most shamefully awful pieces of television ever witnessed. The end credits - in which Jim sat atop a model elephant and castle, pointing at them and grinning for the benefit of those viewers who might have otherwised missed the 'subtle' gag - says it all.

It did however feature the line "Ooh, what a fright - I nearly gave birth to a set of dustbins!" which, as a child, I found incredibly funny.

Roger Sloman was also a cast member.

>does anyone remember
>Your Mother Won't Like It.
>
>I was only about 4, but i remember my mother not liking it and banning me from watching it.
>
>
I remember this, it was pretty good (I think I was a little bit older than you). It had that worm thing. It spawned Palace Hill (Grange hill spoof). It also gave us loads of CITV presenters.
Yer mum's a facist

palace hill....that name rings a bell...more info anyone?

>palace hill....that name rings a bell...more info anyone?

As I remember it was a take off of Grange Hill.
Some characters I remember (or am subcon making up):
Prince William type with stuck on ears and teeth.
A Boy zone type from the 40's
A bully who fancied a posh bird
A posh bird

I'm pretty sure some of the cast turned up in other CITV stuff, usually being crap.

"Let's go a meet the gang at Palace Hill"

>A Boy zone type from the 40's
>
>

I mean of course Boy Own.

All the characters were based on politicians and members of the Royal family, weren't they? Hence the word "palace" in the title. Margaret Thatcher was'head girl', and John Major turned up in the last series, as did Lady Di, who turned out to be from outer space. I used to love it. That and Jackson Pace. I have a very clear vision of a Giant vomiting over Josie Lawrence.

>As for "Up The Elephant And Round The Castle", I believe it to have been one of the most shamefully awful pieces of television ever witnessed. The end credits - in which Jim sat atop a model elephant and castle, pointing at them and grinning for the benefit of those viewers who might have otherwised missed the 'subtle' gag - says it all.

Ah, TJ. That "model" would be the Elephant & Castle on the front of the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre opposite the Elephant & Castle pub in Elephant & Castle. The council put the Elephant & Castle there in case the locals didn't "get" where they live. A landmark, I think they call it.

i have to say i am embarrased to say that my favorite show when i was a child was

'Wiping Spunk from My Eyes' by Big Daddy

>
>Ah, TJ. That "model" would be the Elephant & Castle on the front of the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre opposite the Elephant & Castle pub in Elephant & Castle. The council put the Elephant & Castle there in case the locals didn't "get" where they live. A landmark, I think they call it.

Oooh, so he was actually balancing precariously on the front of a shopping centre was he? Not on a model?

>Oooh, so he was actually balancing precariously on the front of a shopping centre was he? Not on a model?

The Elephant & Castle shopping centre, no less. And it's very, very high up.

>>Oooh, so he was actually balancing precariously on the front of a shopping centre was he? Not on a model?
>
>The Elephant & Castle shopping centre, no less. And it's very, very high up.

He was REALLY REALLY on it?
Blimey Moses.

>He was REALLY REALLY on it?
>Blimey Moses.

Unless they used a model Jim, but he was waving and I don't think animatronics were that advanced in those days. I'd say the Elephant & Castle on the front of the Elephant & Castle shopping centre was about, ooh, five feet long, three feet wide and four feet high. And it's mainly pink with some gold, like the shopping centre itself.

Facts, you see, folks. Dimensions.

I get the feeling this has been mentioned SOMEWHERE but I can't find it. A kids' programme involving god knows how many presnters including Morwenna Banks, who we all love, of course, adn I think it was called Jellyneck. It was very, very silly, and seemed almost like it was juts made up on the spot and filmed simultaneously...oh, a quick way to say that is 'improvised',..but anyway, it was fanTASTic children's television and I wa about 16 when it was on but that is irrelevant. Any info/thoughts/reminiscences or inferences on that particular item?

Mr Berry, have you heard they are knocking the Elephant down. Personally i won't be sad to see the eyesore that is The Elephant and Castle removed.

All for the new station you see, but i wish they'd bloody hurry up!

Thanks for the information about Your Mother Won't Like It. I only vaguely remember it, but probably thought it was ace, also i remember the other programme mentioned. It was also good.

Anyone remember Degrassi Junior High, or how about Our House (well it had a madness theme tune anyway)?

Ciao.

>Mr Berry, have you heard they are knocking the Elephant down. Personally i won't be sad to see the eyesore that is The Elephant and Castle removed.
>
>All for the new station you see, but i wish they'd bloody hurry up!
>
>Thanks for the information about Your Mother Won't Like It. I only vaguely remember it, but probably thought it was ace, also i remember the other programme mentioned. It was also good.
>
>Anyone remember Degrassi Junior High, or how about Our House (well it had a madness theme tune anyway)?
>
>Ciao.

Knocking Down of things: They said they were going to knock down a carpark/indoor market thing in Portsmouth... 10 years ago or so, still there.

Remember Degrassi stuff (different schools for different series). The Our House thing I think I remember, some family thing (maybe with step family/extended family)

Home to Roost! I wept with joy when they repeated that a couple of years ago.

The Our House thing I think I remember, some family thing (maybe with step family/extended family)

sounds about right. Any more?

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>Home to Roost! I wept with joy when they repeated that a couple of years ago.

now that was a series.........

i've been watching George and Mildred and Man about The House a lot lately. God i wish i'd seen those first time. very funny one liners.

My favourite TV show which no one else can remember is Excuse Me! which was a Children's BBC sketch ahown on Fridays c1980. I think it had Martin Jarvis in it, and each sketch had a title. Each week, the continuity announcer would announce the show by clearing his throat and saying 'Excuse Me!' while the title appeared under the BBC spinning globe, which really impressed me as a 8 year old.

Also, does anyone else recall when episodes of Terry and June and Ever Decreasing Cirlces where shown back to back, and were found to have absolutely identical plots? The issued was raised on Points of View, but I think Anne Robinson told the letter writer not to be so silly, we're the BBC you know.

>My favourite TV show which no one else can remember is Excuse Me! which was a Children's BBC sketch ahown on Fridays c1980.

I can remember one sketch I really enjoyed as a child and I think it might be from this. An artist is looking at a bowl of fruit, extending his thumb, and doing some more painting. The camera pans round to reveal that the artist as painted a large picture of his thumb. Brilliant (in my opinion, when I was 5).

Anyone remember Copperfield? Gary Wilmot did something similar, I recall.

>My favourite TV show which no one else can remember is Excuse Me! which was a Children's BBC sketch ahown on Fridays c1980. I think it had Martin Jarvis in it, and each sketch had a title. Each week, the continuity announcer would announce the show by clearing his throat and saying 'Excuse Me!' while the title appeared under the BBC spinning globe, which really impressed me as a 8 year old.

I remember that, and also Fast Forward which I enjoyed. Sketch shows for kids are often omitted from "nostalgia" conversations which is a shame.

>Also, does anyone else recall when episodes of Terry and June and Ever Decreasing Cirlces where shown back to back, and were found to have absolutely identical plots? The issued was raised on Points of View, but I think Anne Robinson told the letter writer not to be so silly, we're the BBC you know.

There's also at least one incident where they showed the same episode of a particular sitcom two weeks' running and denied it. No one ever admitted it but several people I know noticed. I can't remember which it was, but it was something quite "lame", BBC1 8.30 kindofthing.

Rather like the Vicar of Dibley/dinnerladies/Eric Morecambe UK Gold/BBC1 incident. Humph. Still sulking about that.

>how about Our House (well it had a madness theme tune anyway)?

Could this have been a thing on Children's ITV called something like "Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest"? I think it was set in something like a children's home and was piloted as part of Dramarama

it might well have been, but i seem to remember it being a series, but i was quite young at the time.

Anyone remember Breakfast Serials? it was n Saturday mornings, before Going Live. It was a show that contaiend lots of little serials of a 'comedy' nature, i remember one about a superhero who escaped from a drawing done by a cartoonist.

'Bread' and 'Allo Allo', again. Also: 'Bless This House' (recently found an episode on an old [86ish?] video... shocking), 'Duty Free', 'Three Up, Two Down' (or 'Two Up, Two Down', forget which), 'You Rang, M'Lord', those two ITV series that Nicholas Lyndhurst did (which might not have actually been that bad - one had Patrick Troughton in, so it can't have been all bad - but don't sit well in my addled memory), and various others I forget the titles of.

Still quite like 'To the Manor Born' (though I've only ever seen that in repeats, anyway). And 'Hi-De-Hi' had Simon... forget his surname (Ca- something?), but he was very good. Died, I think.

It was 'You Mother *Wouldn't* Like It' ("you know she wouldn't like it"), not "won't". 'Palace Hill' was the spin off, of course, though that stretched the one joke a bit far from what I remember. I was a very dull child, I got vicarious thrills from watching things like that. Going back a very long way (neo-natal, virtually), there was Marmalde Atkins - very good, if memory serves. And 'Bad Boyes' (though I also formed a weird, pre-pubescent crush on the main character in that - I still wonder whatever happened to him, he was such a good actor at that age).

(And someone said, of YMWLI: It also gave us loads of CITV presenters. Who?)

>
'Palace Hill' Presenters, I don't know names, but they were the types who appeared in The Pink Windmill, and Spatz (Kids sitcom set in a fast food eatery
>
Marmalade Atkins was Charlotte Coleman (Four Weddings) it was tops from what I remember, very St Trinians, which I love.

Chance in a Million with Simon Callow and Brenda... one that was in Secrets and Lies.

Brenda Blethyn?

http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/celeb/188141

Marmalade Atkins and Hugh Grant? Stroof. Great show though.

I'd just like to mention Gideon at this point. Loce to see that again.

Chance in a Million was brilliant!

I was probably more discriminating as a kid than I am now - I used to hate stuff like The Two Ronnies, while now I can see there's some good stuff. But I'm still into what I guess you'd call kids stuff today - Warner Bros cartoons, the Looney Tunes stuff, consistently crack me up. Is that so wrong?

>Chance in a Million was brilliant!
>
>I was probably more discriminating as a kid than I am now - I used to hate stuff like The Two Ronnies, while now I can see there's some good stuff. But I'm still into what I guess you'd call kids stuff today - Warner Bros cartoons, the Looney Tunes stuff, consistently crack me up. Is that so wrong?

The origional Daffy Duck and the Duck Dodgers stuff was cool as fuck.
Also they was a joke in Animaniacs which was sick as fuck as it involved some one ringing Minnie Ripperton to see if she wanted to go on a date (Minnie died of cancer about 15 years earlier)

>Marmalade Atkins was Charlotte Coleman (Four Weddings)

Better than that. Her parents were John Bird (!) and Lynda LaPlante (!!), and it was written by Andrew Davies (!!!). You'd never get a line-up like that on a kid's show today.

Further research indicates there were books first and during (and this site has covers on):
http://www.paulmorris.co.uk/marmalade/index.htm

>it was tops from what I
>remember, very St Trinians, which I love.

I just remember that I liked it. As I say, though, I was very young - exactly how young, I'm not sure, but I think I was under 4. One of a handful of things I saw before going to school that did leave an impression (others include 'Doctor Who' and the James Bond film, 'Moonraker').

>Chance in a Million with Simon Callow and Brenda... one that was in Secrets and Lies.

No memory of that.

But I have now remembered the Simon in 'Hi-De'Hi' (I think): Simon Cadell. Very good.

Whilst on the subject of kid's TV: Nobody I know seems to remember 'C.A.B.' On CITV, roughly contemporary with the early (and superior) seasons of T-Bag, I'm sure it featured a junk shop (or, at least, an Egyptian sarcophagus) and a missing elderly relative, someone I e-mailed on-line who also remembered the title said it was set in a Citizens' Advice Bureau. Anyone?

of course t-bag is now Diane in Emmerdale.

Shall we all go over to TV forum now?

>it might well have been, but i seem to remember it being a series, but i was quite young at the time.

The thing I was referring to was a series that was also a pilot on Dramarama.

Yeah, sorry i'm a retard who can't read.

I loved Watching. And now I do not.