Programmes like by your mum and dad.

[stephec]

By the looks of it some people are using this thread to slyly air a few guilty pleasures.

 

[rich p]

A lot of the programmes, in my teens, that I particularly liked involved women undressing...
...Wednesday Play, Play for Today, Bouquet for Barbed Wire...
They would harrumph and either go to bed or switch over to Ludovic Kennedy on Panorama

 

[Glow worm]

My Mum quite liked Triangle, a soap set on board a North Sea ferry. I can't possibly imagine why that one got shelved!

 

[hopless500]

Me and my mum watched Poldark many moons ago. We lived in Cornwall at the time so all I remember is 'oh look, that's Wheel Jane, Godrevy' etc etc. I hasten to add I was very young then

 

[summerdays]

My Mum quite liked Triangle, a soap set on board a North Sea ferry. I can't possibly imagine why that one got shelved!

The babysitter liked that and if we were quiet she would let us stay downstairs to watch it! I think that was badminton night.

 

[hopless500]

My Dad loved westerns. All westerns. He also liked The Sweeney and Dixon of Dock Green, Z Cars and the like. My mum liked the Onedin Line, Van derValk, Triangle, Bergerac, Doctor Killare (??) Edited to add The Brothers. I had forgotten about it until reading further up the thread.
My Nan loved Liberace and the wrestling on a Saturday, on the sport programme.

The ones you list for your dad were my grandparents favourites. I used to get to watch westerns on a Saturday morning and then they sat and waited for the pools results.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Dave Allen

Glen Frogger is a huge fan of Love Thy Neighbour.

The interesting thing about it, was that the wives got on perfectly well, & were sensible

It was just the men, but does memory serve me correctly, as invariably I recall that the white guy always came off worst?

 

[Glow worm]

The babysitter liked that and if we were quiet she would let us stay downstairs to watch it! I think that was badminton night.

Wikepedia suggests the programme was a rather ambitious idea..

"Unfortunately the plan was revealed to be flawed almost as soon as shooting began. Shot largely in the North Sea, the inclement weather made the exterior scenes appear gloomy and dull, and far from glamorous. In making the first episode Kate O'Mara had to endure a scene in which she sunbathes topless on a clearly freezing deck."

 

[tyred]

Wikepedia suggests the programme was a rather ambitious idea..

"Unfortunately the plan was revealed to be flawed almost as soon as shooting began. Shot largely in the North Sea, the inclement weather made the exterior scenes appear gloomy and dull, and far from glamorous. In making the first episode Kate O'Mara had to endure a scene in which she sunbathes topless on a clearly freezing deck."

Soap operas are easy. No matter what the setting, they just consist of depressing people shouting at each other.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Triangle

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I cannot remember if she liked When the Boat Comes In.

Oh gawd, I remember having to ensure that, it was one of the grimmest TV programmes ever*


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHjkLE4qCQk


*which it was supposed to be, so a success in that respect

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

(she's still alive btw, which is good).

Nothing like a bit of reassurance .
In case we got the wrong idea .

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Rather depressingly, 'Get Some In!' is being repeated on one of the (Virgin) cable channels

 

[Grant Fondo]

Say Yes to the Dress

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Rather depressingly, 'Get Some In!' is being repeated on one of the (Virgin) cable channels

I remembered the title sequence, and thought "I remember that programme"; having just watched series one, episode one I was correct in remembering the title sequence but the programme itself rang no bells at all.