"Old" TV stuff

[Easytigers]

Anybody remember 'Monkey Magic'? Bet it hasn't dated well!!!

 

[welsh dragon]

I'm not sure or convinced about all the old stuff on TV. I quite like watching things like the two Ronnies, but for me most of that stuff, like the sweeney, the professionals etc is very dated now, and I just feel embarrassed looking at the trousers and shoes. And to be honest the filming wasn't that good, and the acting wasn't great either.

I know some people still love the old stuff, and the bad filming and acting is all part and parcel of the programmes, but for me I'll leave those programmes where they belong which is well and truly in the past. Happy watching ladies and gentlemen.

 

[TVC]

[QUOTE 3025348, member: 9609"]I think we have been banned from considering anything from the 70s as funny.

and you have also gained another point on me in the football thing [/QUOTE]
BBC4 are repeating Ripping Yarns at the moment. Very silly

 

[Roadrider48]

"On the buses"

 

[Dayvo]

As a youngster in the 70s, I think I watched far too much TV.

My favourite series were Alias Smith & Jones, The Likely Lads and Dad's Army, and still watch repeats when possible.

I also liked Shoestring and Bergerac.

Never liked The Sweeney as I can't abide Dennis Waterman - useless stiff 'actor'.

 

[sazzaa]

Porridge still makes me laugh. Cheers too. A lot of old tv is gash though. (Same as a lot of new tv I suppose)

 

[Julia9054]

So . . .
For all ladies of a certain age. . .
Bodie or Doyle?
Starsky or Hutch?

 

[welsh dragon]

So . . .
For all ladies of a certain age. . .
Bodie or Doyle?
Starsky or Hutch?

Bodie of course

 

[MarkF]

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It got me thinking about other "old stuff" - Tarzan movies, Abbot and Costello, Laurel and Hardy - which are rarely, if ever, on TV nowadays but which were standard fare in the late 70s/early 80s. And I think the TV world is a sadder place as a result.

Yours, a sad old bugger.

Just about everything is available at the National Media Museum in Bradford, browse through all the archives, choose your show, then sit in a little booth to view, excellent. I watched "Curry & Chips" on my last visit. When my daughter was v.young she became hooked on the Clangers there, I know every bleedin episode.

 

[stephec]

Bagpuss
The Professionals
The Clangers
The Sweeney

All still worth watching today.

 

[Easytigers]

It hadn't dated that well at the time - though was strangely addictive

You're right about it being addictive...there must be something on youtube so going to go and have a look how it looks nowadays

 

[stephec]

[QUOTE 3025581, member: 1314"]The macho buddy cop stuff is so obviously repressed homosexuality that it's wearing cowboy chaps with nothing underneath, a wahoosive Stetson, and a long-barrelled shooter hanging from the waist.

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That was way out of order, still very funny though.

 

[stephec]

Bodie of course

Bet you liked The Cuckoo Waltz as well?

 

[welsh dragon]

Bet you liked The Cuckoo Waltz as well?

No.

 

[stephec]

No.

Not even for Diane Keen?

Mmmm, I even remember her being in an episode of The Professionals.