Shows that people forget or get lost in time

Good find - with Philip Latham (Arthur Bourne from The Cedar Tree) the first actor we see speak.

I think only one series was made of this, by LWT, called "It's Beadle". A sort of variety show, featuring artists, and the public. Can't remember too much else of it.

It's Beadle was pretty much Game For A Laugh II, in that it involved various games and stunts with members of the audience, I remember watching it during the 1990 World Cup. A year before he'd done Beadle's Box Of Tricks which was a magic-themed show.

As the winter paraympics is on, it's an apt time for me to suggest a programme on channel 4 from way back when. The Big 8.

This was a wheelchair basketball competition, shown in highlights form on a Sautrday morning, featuring the top seven sides from division one, and the top side from division two. Played in a knockout format, I think two series were made.

I was just remembering “ How Not To Live Your Life “. IMO it was very well written and seems to have been largely forgotten about. It was broadcast on BBC Three. Can’t help feeling that it’s worth a repeat and that if it had been on BBC One / Two, or even Four, it might have got the recognition that it deserves.

Another long-forgotten BBC Scotland show from the early 2000s: Overnite Express.

Sitcom set on a Glasgow to London bus.

Long-forgotten for a very good reason: It was absolutely awful!

I suspect not many people remember medieval-themed CITV comedy drama Knight School from the late '90s.

Although it has a Wikipedia entry, there doesn't appear to be any trace of it on YouTube. As an avid CITV viewer at the time, I remember it primarily for its theme song, which began:

"In the year of our Lord 1073,
St Cuthbert built a fine academy,
Where chivalry and derring-do
Were taught if your parents had a groat or two."

St Cuthbert lived in the 7th century rather than the 11th, but of course the target audience wasn't supposed to know that yet (no disrespect intended).

It probably doesn't help that Knight School's name is very similar to that of a certain other medieval-themed CITV show - which, it's fair to say, will remain widely remembered for a while yet...

Well it solves a puzzle, from half-remembered musings and now I've checked the cast list I had a feeling I'd seen Ted Robbins in something on children's TV but I knew it was long before The Slammer came along and Knight School was probably what I half-remembered. Hope a video turns up soon

And Knightmare will probably live on in everybody's memories for a long while because a) it was groundbreaking at the time and unlike anything we'd ever seen before, b) it ran for years, and c) it still has a large fan base 25 years later that continues to evolve and feed new ventures as well as debate every key moment in the history of the show.

A wee while ago, someone on here mentioned a show called "Body Heat". It involved couples going through physical challenges, and was shown on ITV. There is a trailer on this youtube video, early on, for the show.



The reason the show ended wasn't through poor viewing figures, but for another reason. One of the challenges each week was for the couples to run a relay race, round an indoor athletics track. It was done at a UK indoor meeting that ITV were covering, and thus it was no problem to film, as ITV had the rights to the athletics event.

But at the end of 1996, ITV lost the rights to UK athletics events, and Channel 4 took over. Thus, ITV were unable to have the relay race at the indoor track, and that resulted mainly in the show ending.

I do remember Body Heat and thinking it looked like a cash-in on the Gladiators trend of the time. There were probably copious shows around at the time that either looked Gladiators-ish or were heavily inspired by it. Scavengers looked like a Gladiators transplant as well.