Ruined TV memories

[stephec]

Close, I like your thinking.

Not Maggie Philbin?

 

[TVC]

Not Maggie Philbin?

So close....

 

[TVC]

Not Maggie Philbin?

For the record, Maggie Philbin grew up just down the road from here, and Keith Chegwin stayed at the hotel nearby on the night before their wedding. #claimtofame.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Any ideas who this is?

If I am correct then she used to appear with this feline

 

[TVC]

If I am correct then she used to appear with this feline
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We may have a winner.

For the record, my posting the picture is not so we can poke fun at someone off the telly, it's to realise that we've all got 45 years older.

 

[andyfraser]

Somehow missed this thread, apologies if it's been mentioned, but I tried an episode of Yes Minister recently - must-watch telly in its heyday, but god it was clunky. Laborious, predictable, just....not funny.

I still love 'Yes, Minister' and 'Yes, Prime Minister'. So many of the issues raised are still relevant. I shows that nothing really changes that much. And I still find it really funny even after watching each episode dozens of times. It can feel clunky but I put that down to how and when it was recorded. Things weren't always as slick back then.

We may have a winner.

For the record, my posting the picture is not so we can poke fun at someone off the telly, it's to realise that we've all got 45 years older.

I still have no idea who it is.

 

[Fnaar]

Any ideas who this is?

Lesley Judd

 

[Durian]

Lesley Judd

Blimey, I must be getting old.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Remember how they would always lose at least one Eagle an episode, but they seemed to have an infinite supply? Space 1999 should have been about resource management, and making things last, but it's more fun to blow things up. Kaboom! Crash! Kablooie!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09BzitMkUCw

(I think about 5 are destroyed in the opening sequence above)


(also remembering my surprise when seeing Crimes and Misdemeanours. What, Martin Landau can act???



Totally. I heard Round the Horn for the first time in 1990s, and it really made me laugh, even the slight racism and strong sexism didn't stop it being funny.

I once saw an interview with the SFX guys for the show. The crashing Eagle was nearly always the same model, scaled at 44 inches. It apparently had breakable landing gear for the crash scenes. It would then dutifully get dusted off, repainted to be ready for next weeks episode, probably crashing again!.

 

[Large]

Biggest pile of poo was the Banana Splits. Random sketch show with creatures found only in a California tv producer's 1969 acid trips.

Grange Hill - seeing old clips and episodes recently, was terrible!

 

[Dayvo]

Lesley Judd

From what I can remember about Lesley Judd is that her nipples were always poking through whatever top she was wearing.

 

[Cubist]

Any ideas who this is?

Ronnie Pickering.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Everybody I knew used to like Monkey back in the day, but even as an 8 or 9 year old I thought it was shite and much prefered The Water Margin. I also really liked The Flashing Blade. I didn't care for The Banana Splits, and I also vaguely remember some TV show called Here Come The Double Deckers, with a fat kid called Doughnut or something. I also used to really like Runaround with Mike Reid, I imagine that was pretty bad.

What I'd really like to re-visit is not television, but the radio. I used to love The Friday Rock Show, from 10 pm - midnight in the late seventies and early eighties. If Black Sabbath or AC/DC were on I was made-up. I'm sure the late Tommy Vance would still be cool, well I hope so. I used to wait with my radio cassette recorder ready to hit record if something good was on, those were the days. Music is so shite now.....

 

[stephec]

Everybody I knew used to like Monkey back in the day, but even as an 8 or 9 year old I thought it was shite and much prefered The Water Margin. I also really liked The Flashing Blade. I didn't care for The Banana Splits, and I also vaguely remember some TV show called Here Come The Double Deckers, with a fat kid called Doughnut or something. I also used to really like Runaround with Mike Reid, I imagine that was pretty bad.

What I'd really like to re-visit is not television, but the radio. I used to love The Friday Rock Show, from 10 pm - midnight in the late seventies and early eighties. If Black Sabbath or AC/DC were on I was made-up. I'm sure the late Tommy Vance would still be cool, well I hope so. I used to wait with my radio cassette recorder ready to hit record if something good was on, those were the days. Music is so shite now.....[/QUOTE]

Same here, trying to time it so you miss Tommy coming in at the end of the track, a quality show.

 

[andyfraser]

What I'd really like to re-visit is not television, but the radio. I used to love The Friday Rock Show, from 10 pm - midnight in the late seventies and early eighties. If Black Sabbath or AC/DC were on I was made-up. I'm sure the late Tommy Vance would still be cool, well I hope so. I used to wait with my radio cassette recorder ready to hit record if something good was on, those were the days. Music is so shite now.....

I remember that. I used to sit at the back of the living room listening to it on my Dad's stereo through headphones.