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 OknotOK  Cockfosters, London 28 Jul 15 3.52pm |
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Sorry to say this but a few years ago I invested in the Boys from the Blackstuff box set and it's pretty much unwatchable.
I did this with 'the Professionals'. Tripe.
Funny, it used to be good when I was 8.
that's why I love the Sweeney , doesn't really date , still as hard hitting when it was first made and great seeing London in the 70`s .
I'll make myself unpopular with some I am sure, but I re-watched the first series of Oz a couple of weeks ago. It has *not* aged well.
Still a good show. But nothing more. And the weird Augustus Hill soliloquies just don't really work.
I bought 'Oz' off the back of a similar thread on here a few years back. Managed about 8 episodes before realising I just didn't like it.
One that's not been mentioned, which is supposed to be good (not seen it yet) is 'Borgen'.
I think it is good. And I remember watching it a few years ago and loved it.
But was really disappointed when re-watching.
I really like Corleone - if we're looking at foreign shows as well. Think it was called Il capo dei capi in Italian. About Cosa Nostra in Sicily.
"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show
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| dannyb1 Chichester 28 Jul 15 3.53pm |
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Only fools
Blackadder
Crystal maze
Knightmare
gamesmaster
IT crowd
Green wing
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Johnny Eagles  berlin 28 Jul 15 6.12pm |
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Knightmare?! Are you serious?
Even when I was a kid it was rubbish. It was just so easy! They'd get a spell and then one room later they'd have to use it. And they took AGES to decide anything so you got like two rooms an episode.
The whole premise was ridiculous, I realised that when I was 8. Still watched it though.  It's scary how much awful TV Iused to watch as a kid.
...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...
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johnno42000  28 Jul 15 6.16pm |
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Quote Johnny Eagles at 28 Jul 2015 6.12pm
Knightmare?! Are you serious?
Even when I was a kid it was rubbish. It was just so easy! They'd get a spell and then one room later they'd have to use it. And they took AGES to decide anything so you got like two rooms an episode.
The whole premise was ridiculous, I realised that when I was 8. Still watched it though. It's scary how much awful TV Iused to watch as a kid.
Calm down or I shall turn you into...spellcasting 't.u.r.n.i.p'
Edited by johnno42000 (28 Jul 2015 6.17pm)
'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'
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| ghosteagle 28 Jul 15 6.33pm |
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Quote Johnny Eagles at 28 Jul 2015 6.12pm
Knightmare?! Are you serious?
Even when I was a kid it was rubbish. It was just so easy! They'd get a spell and then one room later they'd have to use it. And they took AGES to decide anything so you got like two rooms an episode.
The whole premise was ridiculous, I realised that when I was 8. Still watched it though. It's scary how much awful TV Iused to watch as a kid.
You sir are wrong, and stepping upon my childhood. Knightmare was and remains one of the greatest TV shows ever. Classic television.
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Kermit8  Hevon 28 Jul 15 6.58pm |
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Forgot about 'the office'
A brilliant bit of TV which deserved all the plaudits. Has aged very well too. Impossible for Gervais or anyone else in the TV comedy field to better as all the ones up there - curb, porridge, etc - have long since finished and I don't think in these dumbed down TV times we will see their level again.
Big chest and massive boobs
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pefwin  Where you have to have an English ... 28 Jul 15 7.10pm |
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Blake 7
"Everything is air-droppable at least once."
"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."
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| Y Ddraig Goch In The Crowd 28 Jul 15 8.37pm |
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One I should have mentioned is Agents of Shield. Great series
the dignified don't even enter in the game
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| Red-Blue-Yellow Surrey 30 Jul 15 12.52am |
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave Them
Sykes
Football Italia
I also enjoy posting on: Love Everton Forum, the Acceptable Face of Scouse Football.
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Come and give it a look, new members would be lovely.
Come and JOIN.
Or they'll nick your telly.
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 so many memories basingstoke 31 Jul 15 12.02pm |
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Auf wiedersehen pet.
Minder.(Dennis waterman).
Tales of the unexpected.
Space 1999.
Grange Hill.
Plebs.
Get it on-get it in-F**K OFF ALAN HANSEN!!
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| Part Time James 31 Jul 15 12.05pm |
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Quote ghosteagle at 28 Jul 2015 6.33pm
Quote Johnny Eagles at 28 Jul 2015 6.12pm
Knightmare?! Are you serious?
Even when I was a kid it was rubbish. It was just so easy! They'd get a spell and then one room later they'd have to use it. And they took AGES to decide anything so you got like two rooms an episode.
The whole premise was ridiculous, I realised that when I was 8. Still watched it though. It's scary how much awful TV Iused to watch as a kid.
You sir are wrong, and stepping upon my childhood. Knightmare was and remains one of the greatest TV shows ever. Classic television.
With you on that. Knightmare was brilliant. I also don't think it was easy. If it was so easy how come the kids very rarely won it? Even with the big beardy nonce and the questionable little fella in lycra trying to spell things out for them they still mucked about so much an unconvincing skull would bite them to death. What's not to love?
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| chris123 hove actually 31 Jul 15 12.29pm |
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Dragnet.
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| 80`s biker Harlow Essex 31 Jul 15 4.02pm |
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I`m older than some of the replies on here but I loved the tongue in cheek `The Persuaders` and the original `Randall and Hopkirk Deceased`.
You`re making me go back to Buckeye Road?
I`m making you go back to Buckeye Road.
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| JL85 London,SE9 31 Jul 15 4.30pm |
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Ray Donovan is pretty good. Definitely worth a watch.
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| TheJudge 02 Aug 15 12.14pm |
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Star Trek
Star Trek TNG
X Files
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Waking The Dead
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python
Columbo
Breaking Bad is recent so has an unfair advantage right now.
There were other good series but they would not necessarily stand up to the scrutiny of modern standards.
For example,
Thriller.
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| leggedstruggle Croydon 02 Aug 15 2.28pm |
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The Black and White Minstrel Show
mother-in-law is an anagram of woman hitler
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| Andy_G Wimbledon 03 Sep 15 12.57pm |
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Into season 3 of The Wire and its fantastic. Got Breaking Bad to follow when I've finished.
Also starting liking Odyssey on BBC 2 but now 11 episodes in it's garbage....luckily only 2 to go!
The ups and downs of Palace have left me older than my years
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| Johnny Eagles berlin 03 Sep 15 12.59pm |
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Quote Part Time James at 31 Jul 2015 12.05pm
Quote ghosteagle at 28 Jul 2015 6.33pm
Quote Johnny Eagles at 28 Jul 2015 6.12pm
Knightmare?! Are you serious?
Even when I was a kid it was rubbish. It was just so easy! They'd get a spell and then one room later they'd have to use it. And they took AGES to decide anything so you got like two rooms an episode.
The whole premise was ridiculous, I realised that when I was 8. Still watched it though. It's scary how much awful TV Iused to watch as a kid.
You sir are wrong, and stepping upon my childhood. Knightmare was and remains one of the greatest TV shows ever. Classic television.
With you on that. Knightmare was brilliant. I also don't think it was easy. If it was so easy how come the kids very rarely won it? Even with the big beardy nonce and the questionable little fella in lycra trying to spell things out for them they still mucked about so much an unconvincing skull would bite them to death. What's not to love?
Because they were thick as sh*t.
...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 03 Sep 15 1.02pm |
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The best series on at the moment is easily 'Mr Robot'. Its kind of a cross between Requiem for a Dream, Rain Man and Fight Club with Hackers.
Brilliant stuff. I have almost no idea what is going on half the time, nor where the series is going (or how much might be real).
"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Quote leggedstruggle at 02 Aug 2015 2.28pm
The Black and White Minstrel Show
Are you cucking in disguise? 
"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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