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I bought a Monty Python DVD and it really hadn’t aged well. I think the films still stand up well, but the TV series had only a few minutes of funny stuff per episode3
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SuedeAdidas said:
Might have been. Equally shite 😄shirty5 said:
I could have sworn that was the Spanish fellaSuedeAdidas said:
Give me a sentence containing the word ‘deliver’.shirty5 said:Mind Your LanguageStep forward the Italian in the class……
”Too mucha vino is no good for deliver”
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I’d love to see the BBC reboot of this 😄8 -
A bit of a flip on this.
In my teens I watched The Wonder Years, I think I marvelled at America back then.
I'm watching it again with the family now and it's still very good. Well written, acted, poignant and has many messages.
It could be that it hasn't aged badly not only because of the above, but also as it was set in the late 60s and early 70s.3 -
The News at Ten0
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All those 70's quiz shows they're currently showing on BBC2(?) like Going For A Song, Call My Bluff and Face The Music are truly dreadful but were massively popular. Not really in keeping with the thread as I hated them as a kid and still do it seems.Stig said:I tried watching Call My Bluff on iPlayer a couple of weeks back. I thought I liked Frank Muir, but in reality I think I just liked the Fruit and Nut ads. Call my Bluff was so painfully slow it felt like I'd doubled my age by the time that a semi-comatosed me managed to hit the off button about ten minutes in. Was life really so painfully slow back then? It seems like it wasn't just music that needed Punk Rock's big kick up the arse.
I'll chuck The Professionals in the pot though, loved it when it came out, dreadful now.0 -
Noooooooooo.SuedeAdidas said:Moonlighting0 -
They were massively popular because there was only World in Action and Panorama on the other two channels, probably.Bournemouth Addick said:
All those 70's quiz shows they're currently showing on BBC2(?) like Going For A Song, Call My Bluff and Face The Music are truly dreadful but were massively popular. Not really in keeping with the thread as I hated them as a kid and still do it seems.Stig said:I tried watching Call My Bluff on iPlayer a couple of weeks back. I thought I liked Frank Muir, but in reality I think I just liked the Fruit and Nut ads. Call my Bluff was so painfully slow it felt like I'd doubled my age by the time that a semi-comatosed me managed to hit the off button about ten minutes in. Was life really so painfully slow back then? It seems like it wasn't just music that needed Punk Rock's big kick up the arse.
I'll chuck The Professionals in the pot though, loved it when it came out, dreadful now.0 -
I used to love watching that......where is it being shown now ?EastTerrace said:A bit of a flip on this.
In my teens I watched The Wonder Years, I think I marvelled at America back then.
I'm watching it again with the family now and it's still very good. Well written, acted, poignant and has many messages.
It could be that it hasn't aged badly not only because of the above, but also as it was set in the late 60s and early 70s.0 -
Agree that The Professionals isn't as good as the memory of it - but it's still passable.Bournemouth Addick said:
All those 70's quiz shows they're currently showing on BBC2(?) like Going For A Song, Call My Bluff and Face The Music are truly dreadful but were massively popular. Not really in keeping with the thread as I hated them as a kid and still do it seems.Stig said:I tried watching Call My Bluff on iPlayer a couple of weeks back. I thought I liked Frank Muir, but in reality I think I just liked the Fruit and Nut ads. Call my Bluff was so painfully slow it felt like I'd doubled my age by the time that a semi-comatosed me managed to hit the off button about ten minutes in. Was life really so painfully slow back then? It seems like it wasn't just music that needed Punk Rock's big kick up the arse.
I'll chuck The Professionals in the pot though, loved it when it came out, dreadful now.
On the other hand, I could watch original episodes of The Sweeney all day long.12 -
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There's only really a couple of programs that look as good now as they did originally...if not better...
...Fawlty Towers and Blackadder...that's about it🤷♂️3 -
charltonkeston said:Blake 7. They must have made that for about £2.50.
I'm simultaneously looking forward to, and dreading the new blu-ray re-release of Blake's Seven. I loved it as a kid but worried watching it now would be a disappointment with shonky sets, 70s costumes and cheap special effects.
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A few years back I watched Lost in Space - at the age of 9 I was captivated by it, but seeing it in colour rather than black and white, and a probably clearer picture it was embarassingly awful.2
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A couple of years back I told my 5 year old granddaughter how lucky she was to have modern children's TV.
All I had was Bill and Ben and the Wooden Tops. To prove the point I played an example of each on Youtube. She sat there mesmerised throughout. Maybe they weren't so bad?
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer.2
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It did at the time.JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:I bought a Monty Python DVD and it really hadn’t aged well. I think the films still stand up well, but the TV series had only a few minutes of funny stuff per episode
It’s just that some of it was brilliant.3 -
Was the kid called Kevin?golfaddick said:
I used to love watching that......where is it being shown now ?EastTerrace said:A bit of a flip on this.
In my teens I watched The Wonder Years, I think I marvelled at America back then.
I'm watching it again with the family now and it's still very good. Well written, acted, poignant and has many messages.
It could be that it hasn't aged badly not only because of the above, but also as it was set in the late 60s and early 70s.1 -
Used to enjoy Mr Ed the talking horse. Probably less so now .....0
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Men Behaving Badly has dated terribly0
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And OFAHeastterrace6168 said:There's only really a couple of programs that look as good now as they did originally...if not better...
...Fawlty Towers and Blackadder...that's about it🤷♂️4 -
Robert Winston?shirty5 said:SuedeAdidas said:
Might have been. Equally shite 😄shirty5 said:
I could have sworn that was the Spanish fellaSuedeAdidas said:
Give me a sentence containing the word ‘deliver’.shirty5 said:Mind Your LanguageStep forward the Italian in the class……
”Too mucha vino is no good for deliver”
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"Just chuck him on the back seat and let him sleep it off"AFKABartram said:
And OFAHeastterrace6168 said:There's only really a couple of programs that look as good now as they did originally...if not better...
...Fawlty Towers and Blackadder...that's about it🤷♂️
"Chuck him on the backseat? He's the driver"
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The Jolly Boys Outing episode is probably one of my favourite pieces of TV ever. Margate exactly how I remember it when I was a kid. Love it.15 -
Minder. Loved it back in the day. Caught an episode recently and was bored rigid.2
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Caught an episode of Wycliffe recently, definitely not aged well0
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It's amazing that Star Trek run concurrently with it in the 60s, and how goofy Lost In Space looked compared to it.Big William said:A few years back I watched Lost in Space - at the age of 9 I was captivated by it, but seeing it in colour rather than black and white, and a probably clearer picture it was embarassingly awful.0 -
And people say it was racist. He may not have got as far as he did in medical science without attending that college.Stig said:
Robert Winston?shirty5 said:SuedeAdidas said:
Might have been. Equally shite 😄shirty5 said:
I could have sworn that was the Spanish fellaSuedeAdidas said:
Give me a sentence containing the word ‘deliver’.shirty5 said:Mind Your LanguageStep forward the Italian in the class……
”Too mucha vino is no good for deliver”
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WTF? Arthur Daley is the original Del Boy.tangoflash said:Minder. Loved it back in the day. Caught an episode recently and was bored rigid.7 -
Was it the episode Diane Keen was is?, because she has the self same effect on me too!tangoflash said:Minder. Loved it back in the day. Caught an episode recently and was bored rigid.4 -
Diane Keen got them out for Jack Reagan in the first Sweeney film.1
