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Offline Roger Kettle

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Favourite T.V. Shows.
« on: July 09, 2008, 08:45:33 PM »
I remember discussing favourite films and books on here several times but I'm not sure if we got round to T.V. shows. (I'm guessing the words "Doctor" and "Who" might be mentioned by a certain somebody). Anyway, as a kid, I vaguely recall peering at a snowy, black and white screen, trying to watch something called "Cabin in the Clearing"---a scary programme about pioneers in a log cabin, surrounded by hostile, Mohican Indians. Later on, but still in the black and white era, I fell in love with Lucy, Dick van Dyke and, especially, Bilko. Comedy was always my thing. Over the years, there were many shows that became unmissable. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Spike Milligan, The Smothers Brothers, Monty Python, Taxi, Cheers, Mash------all the way up to Alan Partridge, The Office, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Scrubs. I'm sure there are more that I've forgotten. On the Drama front, everybody I knew stayed in to watch The Boys From The Blackstuff and I, Claudius. These were the days when only the rich had video recorders and pubs' takings dropped dramatically when these shows went out. As I said, I'm sure there are many more that I've forgotten....

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2008, 10:02:31 PM »
Banana Splits.

The Double Deckers.

Pipkins.

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2008, 10:09:00 PM »
Camberwick Green.

6.05(?) Special.

Juke Box Jury.


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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2008, 10:16:56 PM »
That's Life.

Tales of the Unexpected.

Fingerbobs.

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2008, 12:05:53 AM »
Captain Kangaroo
Bewitched
Upstairs Downstairs
Seinfeld
Frasier
Sex and the City
Men Behaving Badly
Coupling

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2008, 05:05:35 AM »
From my childhood?
Basil Brush
Blue Peter
White Horses
Little House on the Prairie
Zoro (in B&W)
Anne of Green Gables

Teen years?
All Creatures Great & Small
Flambards
Cheers
The Cozby show
The Bob Newhart Show (His brother Larry and his other brother Larry)
Columbo


Now?
House
Survivor
Jeopardy
Corner Gas
And I like to catch the talent shows but don?t care if I follow the whole thing. I also like Coronation Street but have to get up early on a Sunday morning to see it so don?t catch it very often.

I mostly love to watch movies.


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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2008, 09:41:58 AM »
Quatermas
Gunsmoke
Wagon train
Saturday night at the Palladium

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2008, 09:46:09 AM »
Ah, The Bob Newhart Show! He is one of the great dry comics and I used to own an L.P. of his. Good choice, Diane!

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2008, 09:49:49 AM »
Quatermas
Gunsmoke
Wagon train
Saturday night at the Palladium
I wasn't allowed to watch Quatermass, Peter, as I was too young at the time but I remember the adults being scared to death by it. Something about a crashed Alien craft found in the London underground system?

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2008, 10:21:18 AM »
Ah, The Bob Newhart Show! He is one of the great dry comics and I used to own an L.P. of his. Good choice, Diane!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkwCBqClyE

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2008, 11:33:48 AM »
Quatermas
Gunsmoke
Wagon train
Saturday night at the Palladium
I wasn't allowed to watch Quatermass, Peter, as I was too young at the time but I remember the adults being scared to death by it. Something about a crashed Alien craft found in the London underground system?

That was the third one the two earlier ones were better .
The first was when they sent a rocket into space and of the crew only one survived but was gradually turning in to a alien.
The second was a meteor shower that of alien that was turning people into a kind of zombies
the third was the unearthing of an alian spaceship in the under ground station Quatermas and the Pit.
Because of our age,s the first was the most scary we hid behind the sofa when the scary bits came on.

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2008, 12:12:12 PM »
Dixon of dock green.
Dangerman
Yes minister
Hancocks half hour
Sykes
All creatures great and small.
Armchair theatre
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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2008, 06:31:06 PM »
Thanks for that clip, Mince---I'd never heard it before. Some great lines.

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2008, 07:58:49 PM »
Minces favourite Muffin the mule

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Re: Favourite T.V. Shows.
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2008, 08:07:15 PM »
I think I'll let that one go.