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Classic shows you remember, but the public might not (July 2017)

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james-2001
Blake Connolly posted:
Created by Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame.


Don't forget the titles of SM:TV Live!
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Whataday Founding member
james-2001 posted:
DJ Dave posted:
Loved Game On, and yeah My Family should have stopped when Nick left for erm Doctor Who? Very Happy


Didn't he go on to be the dad in the BT adverts? Then the first series of Death In Paradise. Then he vanished.


He did four series of Death in Paradise and hasn't long left.

The Dot Stop on Playbus (as it was then) used to terrify me!
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BillyH Founding member
One of my fondest memories of any show was 'Cult Toons' on Cartoon Network, the Wikipedia article of which was half written by me over a decade ago and expanded by others since. Old Hanna Barbera cartoons from the 60s and 70s were "remixed" by rewinding/repeating footage and splicing all sorts of random clips in them, old live action movies etc, making for an extremely surreal show. As a kid it was one of the most incredible things I'd ever seen, and shown quite late in the evening just before the TNT handover.

Various indie bands and comedians of the era were interviewed on the show in short segments between the cartoons. I remember being a bit astonished when the Super Furry Animals showed up on one ep and casually swore throughout - the words were bleeped but probably the only show in Cartoon Network's history where that's happened.
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Worzel
MetalGearRex posted:
Mr Zzzap posted:
I used to watch FTN at stupid o'clock in the morning in the mid 2000's and some of the shows they aired from Flextech's back catalogue have become quite obscure.

My fondest memories are of Sin Cities, where a presenter called Ashley Hames visited various countries and explored the "nightlife" if you get what I mean. But the show had somewhat a humorous tone. He wrote a tie in book about the series when it ended which is quite an interesting read.

I also remember Booze Britain. Which was literally a show which consisted of a camera crew following around a group of mates who go on a night out and get completely trollied. That was pretty much the gist of the half hour show.

And then of course there were the endless repeats of Defectors, Stake Out and TV Scrabble at 4am in the morning.

Out of what I had watched on Ftn - Street Crime UK stood out pretty much - an unflinching look at crime at its finest. The highlight of said show for me, was the angry reactions made by the offenders.

It nowadays, sporadically airs on Pick; albeit only series 4.


Of course Street Crime UK was originally broadcast on Bravo. The reason only series 4 is now re-shown is because The Lab produced series 1-3 (they went into administration I believe), series 4 was produced by Granada/ITV, hence obtaining the rights to 1-3 is near impossible. They also show Costa Del Street Crime and Christmas Crime UK from time to time on Pick.

Also worth noting that a lot of the footage was reused from old ITV Crimefighters episodes. There were two memorable clips from Street Crime UK, the first was darts player Eric Bristow being accused of threatening somebody in an old 1990s clip and a cameraman spotting a robber, both were originally broadcast on Crimefighters. The Bristow clip is on YouTube...



Another similar show produced by ITV Anglia was Nightwatch (hosted by Steve Scott), that had a series run during the mid 00s.

A few others include the late 90s Police fly on the wall series 'Speed' and 'Coppers' - both from the Sky One archives plus this classic series from ITV, Blues and Twos. It did have re-runs on UK Horizons for a while, but the series hasn't been re-shown recently.

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james-2001
Whataday posted:
He did four series of Death in Paradise and hasn't long left.


Oh yes, I'm getting the order of Ben Miller and Kris Marshall on that show mixed up...
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VMPhil
Mr Zzzap posted:
I used to watch FTN at stupid o'clock in the morning in the mid 2000's and some of the shows they aired from Flextech's back catalogue have become quite obscure.

My fondest memories are of Sin Cities, where a presenter called Ashley Hames visited various countries and explored the "nightlife" if you get what I mean. But the show had somewhat a humorous tone. He wrote a tie in book about the series when it ended which is quite an interesting read.

I also remember Booze Britain. Which was literally a show which consisted of a camera crew following around a group of mates who go on a night out and get completely trollied. That was pretty much the gist of the half hour show.

And then of course there were the endless repeats of Defectors, Stake Out and TV Scrabble at 4am in the morning.

I remember TV Forum's excitement when Ftn started showing old gameshows like The Krypton Factor, The Crystal Maze and Bullseye (before Challenge was on Freeview) shortly before it was replaced by Virgin 1.
London Lite, DE88 and Rex gave kudos
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Rex
VMPhil posted:
Mr Zzzap posted:
I used to watch FTN at stupid o'clock in the morning in the mid 2000's and some of the shows they aired from Flextech's back catalogue have become quite obscure.

My fondest memories are of Sin Cities, where a presenter called Ashley Hames visited various countries and explored the "nightlife" if you get what I mean. But the show had somewhat a humorous tone. He wrote a tie in book about the series when it ended which is quite an interesting read.

I also remember Booze Britain. Which was literally a show which consisted of a camera crew following around a group of mates who go on a night out and get completely trollied. That was pretty much the gist of the half hour show.

And then of course there were the endless repeats of Defectors, Stake Out and TV Scrabble at 4am in the morning.

I remember TV Forum's excitement when Ftn started showing old gameshows like The Krypton Factor, The Crystal Maze and Bullseye (before Challenge was on Freeview) shortly before it was replaced by Virgin 1.

Around that time - Ftn was beginning to finally turn a corner, as it sadly built up a reputation for being a lame-duck channel on Freeview, specifically. Takeshi's Castle always was ripe for a nice bout of laughter at 6 o'clock, even though it is regularly repeated on Challenge these days.
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VMPhil
Ftn was always a Freeview showcase channel for Flextech's cable/satellite channels like Living TV, Bravo, Trouble and latterly Challenge. Similar to how UKTV Bright Ideas was UKTV's showcase channel for programmes from UKTV Style, UKTV Food and UKTV Gardens.
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JAS84
Whataday posted:
james-2001 posted:
DJ Dave posted:
Loved Game On, and yeah My Family should have stopped when Nick left for erm Doctor Who? Very Happy


Didn't he go on to be the dad in the BT adverts? Then the first series of Death In Paradise. Then he vanished.


He did four series of Death in Paradise and hasn't long left.
Kris's final DIP episode aired the same week his departure was announced! Which was, of course, only a few months ago.
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Riaz
Once Upon a Time... Man doesn't seem to be all that well remembered. It was broadcast in the 1980s and I think it was repeated at least once in the 1990s on a satellite channel.
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Steve Williams
623058 posted:
Did that morph into It's only tv but I like it?


No, just as A Question of Sport didn't morph into They Think It's All Over. A Question of TV came at a time they were flinging out endless variations on the format, there was A Question of Pop as you say (which I enjoyed, but I do love a pop quiz) and a 'stEnders variant for its anniversary which seemingly led to this series. Was bloody awful, though, and incredibly uninspired, as can be illustrated by the fact that while A Question of Sport has home and away, and Pop had A-side and B-side, this had "easy" and "difficult".

Neil Jones posted:
It might have been interesting to see if Hill would have gone on to do a Bob Monkhouse - go out of fashion and then come back in and a resurgence - if he hadn't died in 1992 that is on the same day, it is stated, he received a new contract from Central in the post.


Well, he did come back in fashion a bit because they did an Omnibus documentary about him in 1991, and then the next year there were repeats on ITV - indeed, they were running when he died. In 1993 they showed some on C4 as well, and I remember it was just after they started selling their own advertising and there were pieces in the paper about how this was the start of the decline with mass dumbing down (except of course they showed loads of old comedy, in every era). It's interesting how quickly Hill came back into favour, though, cos his last show was in 1989, but by 1992 he was already back on ITV in repeat form.
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