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  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,027
    Sorry to say it but The Office. Dreadful now.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    golfaddick said:
    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.
    I used to love watching that......where is it being shown now ?
    Unfortunately I don’t think it is in the UK. This maybe because of the music rights which is one of the reasons why it took so long to appear on DVD.

    I picked the DVD set up in an Argos sale about 4 years ago.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,905
    EveshamAddick said:
    Sorry to say it but The Office. Dreadful now.
    Nooooo. Still wonderfully cringey.
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,675
    EveshamAddick said:
    Sorry to say it but The Office. Dreadful now.
    I watched the first episode of Extras with my kids recently. Loved it when it first came out but it hasn't aged well. They were on their phones in a nanosecond.
     
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,757
    SantaClaus said:
    EveshamAddick said:
    Sorry to say it but The Office. Dreadful now.
    I watched the first episode of Extras with my kids recently. Loved it when it first came out but it hasn't aged well. They were on their phones in a nanosecond.
     
    TBF - Most kids would be on their phones in a nanosecond if they were watching a live moon landing these days. 
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,272
    Sadly Fawlty Towers. Got a Box set a few years ago and found it very unfunny. It might be that I overdosed back in the day so I had most of it memorised, but my daughters who'd never seen.it before both gave up after fifteen minutes.
  • red10
    red10 Posts: 837
    Still enjoy dad's army when I trip over it. Reminds me of all the petty goings on at work when I first started with how the main characters interact.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,237
    MrOneLung said:
    The News at Ten 

    And Finally.

    "Tiddles the cat was rescued from a high tree from its owners garden and the Women was so grateful she made the whole crew a cups of tea and chocolate biscuits. Unfortunately the fire engine ran over the cat on the way out."

    I swear Reginald Bosanquet had a Cheshire cat grin on his face after reading that 😁
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,180
    red10 said:
    Still enjoy dad's army when I trip over it. Reminds me of all the petty goings on at work when I first started with how the main characters interact.
    I think that period stuff (mostly) ages well. 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,248
    soapboxsam said:
    MrOneLung said:
    The News at Ten 

    And Finally.

    "Tiddles the cat was rescued from a high tree from its owners garden and the Women was so grateful she made the whole crew a cups of tea and chocolate biscuits. Unfortunately the fire engine ran over the cat on the way out."

    I swear Reginald Bosanquet had a Cheshire cat grin on his face after reading that 😁
    I think Reggie was probably pissed as usual.

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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,205
    SuedeAdidas said:


    I’d love to see the BBC reboot of this 😄
    You can say what you like about the original.  But it did have Françoise Pascal in it. (Mind you, like the programme, she hasn't aged well.)
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,248
    Covers the diversity angles.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,237
    iaitch said:
    soapboxsam said:
    MrOneLung said:
    The News at Ten 

    And Finally.

    "Tiddles the cat was rescued from a high tree from its owners garden and the Women was so grateful she made the whole crew a cups of tea and chocolate biscuits. Unfortunately the fire engine ran over the cat on the way out."

    I swear Reginald Bosanquet had a Cheshire cat grin on his face after reading that 😁
    I think Reggie was probably pissed as usual.


    Reggie was an alcoholic and died from Pancreatic cancer at the early age of 51. You can be tea total and get this shocking disease but vast amount of Alcohol will increase your odds; that's if your liver isn't screwed first. George Best abused two Livers and his immune system packed up as he was drinking and not eating  and checked out at 59. 

    Bosanquet was famous in his time and TBF was a good Journalist who spoke his mind telling Anna Ford that women shouldn't read the news on her first day.
    He changed his mind later and Ford said they played darts before reading the news and got on fine. 

  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,438
    Missed It said:
    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.
    I rewatched the whole lot a few years ago and yes, the sets and whatnot were terrible but the characters were superb and the overarching story throughout the entire run was great. 

    Plus Servalan was a total sort!
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,757
    iaitch said:
    Covers the diversity angles.
    Haha. Indeed……but not quite in the way they would like them to be covered 😄
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,042
    AFKABartram said:
    eastterrace6168 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🤷‍♂️
    And OFAH
    I'm not so sure about OFAH you know.

    I still find it hilarious.  I can still have an asthma attack through a laughing fit at the Batman/Robin sketch in that Xmas special, running through Peckham, rescuing the councellor and turning up at a wake thinking it was a fancy dress party but some of the gags are a bit cringey now and you think they wouldn't get away with that now.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Covered End said:
    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 watched an episode recently and was amazed that the guests were smoking.
    Ah come on they weren't THAT good, surely?
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    ken_shabby said:
    Sadly Fawlty Towers. Got a Box set a few years ago and found it very unfunny. It might be that I overdosed back in the day so I had most of it memorised, but my daughters who'd never seen.it before both gave up after fifteen minutes.
    I find it unwatchable for some reason, I used to love Groundhog Day and its the same and cant watch it.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,905
    Hal1x said:
    ken_shabby said:
    Sadly Fawlty Towers. Got a Box set a few years ago and found it very unfunny. It might be that I overdosed back in the day so I had most of it memorised, but my daughters who'd never seen.it before both gave up after fifteen minutes.
    I find it unwatchable for some reason, I used to love Groundhog Day and its the same and cant watch it.
    Very good. Pity there isn't a DROLL instead of a LOL. 
  • HerneBayaddick
    HerneBayaddick Posts: 45
    Covered End said:
    Stuart_the_Red said:
    The Persuaders

    I still love the theme tune.
    The great John Barry. 

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,088
    EveshamAddick said:
    Sorry to say it but The Office. Dreadful now.
    Yeah, I went back to it after watching the American version. The seed of a good idea was there, but it wasn't a patch on the copy.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,197
    Watched “It ain’t half hot Mum” on box set, can see why it’s not re-run. 
    But remember my Dad absolutely loved it . Especially as he was RA in India during WW2
  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    Starsky and Hutch
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,391
    MrOneLung said:
    The News at Ten 
    Oi!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,630
    usetobunkin said:
    Watched “It ain’t half hot Mum” on box set, can see why it’s not re-run. 
    But remember my Dad absolutely loved it . Especially as he was RA in India during WW2
    Some parts are dated but is still hilarious. My grandad was also in the RA in India and Burma and he said they had some of the characters spot on, especially the officers.


  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,630
    On The Buses hasn’t aged well.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,757
    DaveMehmet said:
    On The Buses hasn’t aged well.
    It’s gone from shit to fucking tragically awful. 
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,351
    I liked Secret Army at the time but not so much later. Also Allo Allo is not as funny as I remembered. 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,391
    soapboxsam said:
    iaitch said:
    soapboxsam said:
    MrOneLung said:
    The News at Ten 

    And Finally.

    "Tiddles the cat was rescued from a high tree from its owners garden and the Women was so grateful she made the whole crew a cups of tea and chocolate biscuits. Unfortunately the fire engine ran over the cat on the way out."

    I swear Reginald Bosanquet had a Cheshire cat grin on his face after reading that 😁
    I think Reggie was probably pissed as usual.


    Reggie was an alcoholic and died from Pancreatic cancer at the early age of 51. You can be tea total and get this shocking disease but vast amount of Alcohol will increase your odds; that's if your liver isn't screwed first. George Best abused two Livers and his immune system packed up as he was drinking and not eating  and checked out at 59. 

    Bosanquet was famous in his time and TBF was a good Journalist who spoke his mind telling Anna Ford that women shouldn't read the news on her first day.
    He changed his mind later and Ford said they played darts before reading the news and got on fine. 

    I worked at ITN when he was there, but had no idea until you mentioned it that he was only 51 when he died! He seemed quite a bit older. 
    I also worked with Anna Ford when I was a studio cameraman, and she was good fun.
    I can remember working on a lunchtime news bulletin with Leonard Parkin newscasting, and you could hear on the talkback that only one package was ready for transmission. That was supposed to be story four, but they had to make it story one. After that, Parkin just read the lead-ins to stories, followed by “we will bring you, more on that story when we have it”, and started reading more and more slowly to fill time. Eventually after the commercial break they actually had to play story one again. It was tortuous. Eventually, four packages were ready for transmission at the same time, but as the bulletin was about to end, they only had time to play one of them. 
    It has to be one of the worst news bulletins ever transmitted in the UK. The director nearly had a heart attack.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,271
    Stig said:
    EveshamAddick said:
    Sorry to say it but The Office. Dreadful now.
    Yeah, I went back to it after watching the American version. The seed of a good idea was there, but it wasn't a patch on the copy.
    Different shows, when they tried to copy like for like the UK version it was hard going. I'm eternally glad I stuck with the US office as its a genuine masterpiece. 

    The British office I think shows its age in that it looks 22 years old but the content is just as pertinent. Ricky Gervais was holding a mirror up to everyone, its done on a fairly base level when you get him. Dont forget at the Time a lot of people genuinely thought it was a documentary 

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