For me it would be Holiday (Jill Dando 1993), 999 (Michael Buerk 1992) and Strange But True (Michael Aspel 1993).
Which older TV programmes would you like to see remade in to modern versions?
To clarify, I am wondering if a budget drone could carry such things and be programmed in such ways. Thank you so much in advance.
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My partner ( female ) absolutely abhors it. She finds it the lowest common denominator of TV entertainment.
For me, I find it tongue-in-cheek, definitely weird, but I find humour in it.
For straight - and gay couples - what is your couple's take on it?
For me, just a bit of fun, but the strange male appendages are a bit weird.
Hit or miss for you - and why?
Hi! Long-time lurker of reddit and have lately been talking to a few people about a show called You've Been Framed. It's now hosted by Harry Hill but this particular episode was hosted by Lisa Riley if I'm remembering correctly. The year would have been between 2000 and 2004 as I was super young back then.
So in this episode, there was a clipshow of "weird" and/or "creepy" videos that featured a double-headed snake and other odd things. The clip in particular that I'm trying to find is of this green alien/puppet thing that was driving a car from my memory. I was about 5/6 years old when I saw it and it scared me so much, I remember begging my parents to let me sleep in with them.
I was a really wimpy kid back then, but my aunt seems to remember what I'm talking about so hopefully reddit can help us find the episode no. please
There was a programme on the BBC (I think) around 2003ish where normal people had to work together to solve various crises (like natural disasters or pandemics etc).
They had real BBC reporters do fake news stories for it and all the contestants decisions had real time consequences. I think they could fail dramatically as well.
I think it got axed because people thought it was real and complained…
Does anyone remember this?! I remember thinking it was a great show but I can’t find anyone I know who remembers it!
(Also, please help because this post just got banned from the Casual UK subreddit along with myself because it was too political so I’m even struggling to find answers on Reddit!…)
Thanks!
I mean she's ok but goodness I expect her to be presenting the News any day now.
For me the best is Raggy Dolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhnhQODdlRo
With honourable mentions for Tots TV and Okey Doke
I remember watching this in the daytime at my then childminders which would have been 1991/1992.
Memory wise there's very little about it that comes to mind but it was a similar premise to the likes of Rainbow I.e. real people in a "normal" setting and it probably had animal puppets but not entirely sure on that.
I think there were segments that took place outside of the primary set the only one I can remember after 30 years is that there being a big red brick wall where said segment took place on/around.
Not much to go off I know. I vaguely remember only ever seeing it mid morning and would have been aimed at toddlers to young children.
I doubt it's anything as memorable as Play Days but hopefully someone can remember. The fact I haven't seen it since doesn't fill me with confidence.
My girlfriend keeps telling me to watch the other side but there is only a screen at the front.
Just been watching Malcolm in the Middle and, bloody hell, Hal is hilarious! He’s so stupidly innocent yet crafty and conniving. Utterly brilliant.
Plus Lois is was the first mother figure on tv that is like someone’s mum in real life. No ‘hey honey, can I fix you some pancakes?’, more ‘This is the most stupid, irresponsible, dangerous thing you have ever done! Will we have to identify your charred little bodies through their dental records?’
In fact, the whole programme is utter class!
Hello, today I took a CAE exam and I was asked to write a small essay about a TV programme from my country. I wrote about History Channel and I often reffered to it as "programme" and "channel". Now after some research I found some vague answers that might indicate that these two words are not synonyms which means I f-ed up big time. Am I good?
I've been thinking of a British programme that I saw somewhere around 1992-1998. It wasn't on normal TV in Finland, but we had some weird cable package that included at least The Children's Channel and it was on one of those.
It's mostly set in modern day with characters coming from the future for some reason (to fix something or just escape?). I remember the future being really gritty and dystopian. I was a dumb, sheltered kid and this was the edgiest thing I had seen to this point.
I think most characters were kids, but there was at least one adult antagonist guy. He represented some kind of evil future government and might have been fairly high ranking. He wore some kind of nazi-adjacent uniform and might have had weird cybernetic implants on at least one eye and maybe an entire robot hand. Not sure if he came back in time to hunt the protagonists or was just a threat in the future. I think they went back and forth more than a few times.
At one point a young girl from the future (protagonist?) was explaining stuff to a young boy from present day. He asked if there were any aliens and she said yes, but you needed a microscope to see them.
There was a scene later on where the bad guy saves the protagonist girl from a falling elevator. It might have been a beginning to a redemption arch or teaming up against some bigger threat or something like that. The main reason I remember this show at all is that every single scene in a show or movie with someone almost being crushed by a falling elevator reminds me of this and it's finally started to bother me so much that I have to rediscover it.
First post on this sub, sorry if I messed something up. This was a very long time ago, so some of my details might be completely wrong and/or memories from another show blurred together.
SOLVED It was an episode of American programme Tales From The Darkside, called The Geezenstacks
Internet please, I need your help!
I'm trying to find the name of a TV horror/mystery episode.
In the episode, a family come into possession of a doll's House. The little girl plays with the doll family, and gives them names & personalities.
During the episode things that the girl says happens to the dolls, starts happening to the family - mother buys a new coat, father gets ill and can't go to work.
In the end of the episode, the family themselves become the dolls, and their house is found empty with nothing but the dolls house still there - seemingly a constant cycle.
This show was something like "Tales of the Unexpected", naff TV horror/mystery from the 70's, I believe.
If anyone is able to identify this programme for me, I'd be eternally grateful!!
Everytime I watch UK TV Programmes such as 999 what's your emergency or Ambulance it's all Catergory 1s and saving the day which in reality we know it isn't.
These TV programmes are trying to make it entertaining for the people watching the programmes which I understand but it's not showing the reality of the ambulance service.
My problem with these programmes is they show someone dialling 999 and then they get an ambulance which gets there in the correct response time. After some treatment they are taken to hospital and its all happily ever after. We know this isn't true, we know the crew with cameras on get cherry picked calls and we need to stop showing this.
What's burning out crews is not Cat 1s and Cat 2 calls its the utter waste of time calls and the shite we deal with.
I would love to see an ambulance episode where you sit outside a hospital for hours on end cause there no beds or you go someone house as they feel under the weather and called 999 because there GP has no appointments. Or when you go to a genuine cat 1 call but have to drive for 30 minutes because everyone nearby is busy dealing with shite.
These Programmes need to educate people on when to call 999 and show the truth about the pressures the ambulance services are facing. There would be outrage if you dialled 999 and the fire service could not attend a house fire because they were busy on a call changing a smoke alarm. But there isn't a sense of outrage when someone waits 6 hours on there bathroom floor with a dislocated knee (call I went to on Saturday) because the ambulance service is busy dealing with a blocked catheter as the district nurses are too busy.
I'm 53 and exist in the states, but grew up on a lot of British material. Something that I always found intriguing was how they'd use film for outside, and then switch to video for inside shots. This would have been 70's - 80's material and I'm not sure this method is used any more due to newer filming technology.
I figured this is as good a place as any to ask: does anyone have an explanation why they used this filming arrangement?
They filmed the street riot scene in the Film 71' 10 mins away from me. We actually watched part of the shoot on a side street on the monitors as the crew faced one out towards the onlookers so we could watch. All the set guys were pretty sound and talked to us about it. I also had a fake brick made out of foam that they used whilst throwing stuff in the riot
After yesterday’s nostalgic discussion, I had a look and I don’t think we’ve ever done a “best kids’ programme ever” thread.
My arbitrary rules (that everyone will probably ignore!)
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One programme per comment - otherwise we won’t know what’s won
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One nomination per user - otherwise one person (me) will go and hoover up all the obvious candidates and it will be boring
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Say why you like it - so we can have some chat about it
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British programmes only (actually, I’m not that bothered about this, it’s just those are the ones I’m nostalgic for!)
Since I can’t be arsed to do one of those daily voting things (maybe somebody else can?) I’m declaring the highest voted programme as officially best ever
I rented the DVDs from Laser Video on South Great George's Street in 2002, and I just finished watching it again for the first time on RTE Player.
It's a fascinating watch, I still enjoyed it a lot.
Does anyone have any thoughts about the show, or any trivia about the making, anything like that?
When I was in primary school - early 90s - my favourite programme was a cartoon that involved (as far as I can recall) relatively small dinosaurs doing heroic things. I think they were dressed in some sort of futuristic armour with visors, but that is pretty much all I can remember and I have never been able to find it by searching, which I have done periodically for the last decade. If anyone can think what it could be I would die happy.
[SOLVED] It was an American show, Tales From The Darkside. An episode called The Geezenstacks
Internet please, I need your help!
I'm trying to find the name of a TV horror/mystery episode.
In the episode, a family come into possession of a doll's House. The little girl plays with the doll family, and gives them names & personalities.
During the episode things that the girl says happens to the dolls, starts happening to the family - mother buys a new coat, father gets ill and can't go to work.
In the end of the episode, the family themselves become the dolls, and their house is found empty with nothing but the dolls house still there - seemingly a constant cycle.
This show was something like "Tales of the Unexpected", naff TV horror/mystery from the 70's, I believe.
If anyone is able to identify this programme for me, I'd be eternally grateful!!
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