NOOLigan wrote:
J.A.K wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: some older uk tv I enjoyed.
Minder The Professionals Dr Who The Onedin Line
the onedin line.
you enjoyed that??
i forgot to mention upstairs downstairs.
that was my mums all time favourite.
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Old Blue wrote: What was the one with Jesse Birdsall and the Swedish bird? 'Anneka' or something.
That was the one i was trying to think of.Seem to remember that a swedish girl falls for some English bloke.Think it ends with a fela getting killed in a bike crash.Anyone no what year this was on the screens?
Most of my favourites have already been mentioned. A few other programmes i enjoyed - Monkey, Harry's Game, Young Ones and Superstars. Boaty mentioned Big Deal, i remember Paul McGann as the snooker whizzkid in Give Us A Break complete with the Chas and Dave cheesy theme tune.
Anybody else remember Survivors? Plague wiped out 99% of the population and the leftovers had to start from scratch again. Another Terry Nation effort, dunno if that qualifies it as old skool mind..
Quite spooky if you were a teenager! 
What was that programme where it's after some sort of world armegeddon and they had to survive getting around on horse and carts and had to stay away from electricity pylons ?
Jossies Giants The New Statesman Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't think anyone has said it..Everyone's favourite an mine that has to go down as yesteryear sadly,Only Fools and horses 
isaac wrote: G.B.H starring Robert Lindsey.That was good T.V
Repeated on More4 at 11pm tonight...
John Sludden wrote: Harry's Game.
Shug Sludden wrote: Most of my faves have been done.
But no-one's mentioned Murphy's Mob?
I agree John they both deserve a mention for Old Skool TV!
Johnny wrote: What was that programme where it's after some sort of world armegeddon and they had to survive getting around on horse and carts and had to stay away from electricity pylons ?
Hi Johnny wasn't that one The Tripods which was set in a post nuclear war/armegeddon world where aliens had taken over the earth. I also remember didn't the aliens limit the intelligence of humans with cybonetics after they got to the age of 18 or something? If it wasn't The Tripods a 1970's show called The Changes could be what you're on about in which the characters had a phobia of pylons and other new technologies, here's a weblink for it
http://www.bilderberg.org/changes.htm
Cheers!
Alan Paul Kitching wrote: [ Hi Johnny wasn't that one The Tripods which was set in a post nuclear war/armegeddon world where aliens had taken over the earth. I also remember didn't the aliens limit the intelligence of humans with cybonetics after they got to the age of 18 or something? If it wasn't The Tripods a 1970's show called The Changes could be what you're on about in which the characters had a phobia of pylons and other new technologies, here's a weblink for it
http://www.bilderberg.org/changes.htm
Cheers!
Yeah The Changes sounds like the one! ,Cheers APK.It was on at get home from school time.Deffo think that's the one.Post armageddon-ish Britain when nobody can go near electricity or something.
isnt that gary whatshisname from prospects dead? i saw him in 'ART' in london.someone has told me he's dead
El Jarvo wrote: Probably have to be of a certain age to appreciate any of these, and obviously based in the UK.
Can anyone add to these classic shows of yesteryear?
Scully Scum Made in Britain Prospects Johnny Jarvis One Summer Boys from the Blackstuff
Bought 'One Summer' when it came out on DVD...brought me back to when it was first shown on T.V. would love to hear off someone who has all the series of 'Dance Energy' (with Normski) some classic shows.
banshee wrote: isnt that gary whatshisname from prospects dead? i saw him in 'ART' in london.someone has told me he's dead
Affraid so banshee. Gary Olsen who played Pincey in Prospects died in Melbourne in 2000 after losing a battle with cancer. He moved there with his wife who was originally from Oz and he also played Ben in 2 Point 4 Children. Here's a weblink of the stuff he's been in
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0647653/
Cheers!
Dufford Charleywood Returns wrote: would love to hear off someone who has all the series of 'Dance Energy' (with Normski) some classic shows.
Didn't they release a compilation on VHS back and a CD in the early 1990's? I'll give it a check on amazon/ebay. If not and if all the episodes still exist they'd be worth a DVD release for Normski alone - remember his cheesy raps LOL!
Dance Energy also had a wide spectrum of Dance genres/bands on the show - from Acid Jazz to Hip Hop to Techno to Acid House to Indie Dance, the good old days before the majors bastardised the rave scene and everyone split up into different camps within Dance/Urban music 
Cheers!
Alan Paul Kitching wrote:
banshee wrote: isnt that gary whatshisname from prospects dead? i saw him in 'ART' in london.someone has told me he's dead
Affraid so banshee. Gary Olsen who played Pincey in Prospects died in Melbourne in 2000 after losing a battle with cancer. He moved there with his wife who was originally from Oz and he also played Ben in 2 Point 4 Children. Here's a weblink of the stuff he's been in
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0647653/
Cheers!
thanks for the link.i forgot he played steve in comic strips 'yob'.
Nice one chap....i've checked all over..but with no fun....one of the first episodes with 'A HOMEBOY A HIPPIE & A FUNKI-DREDD' doing 'Total Confusion' was one of my all time T.V highlights.....also seening a few of my mates 'EEEE'd off their nuts was not far behind....classic.
SiLeakHunt wrote: How can you all go on at such great length without mentioning The Sullivans ?
Cheers
It is Australian.
El Jarvo wrote: Probably have to be of a certain age to appreciate any of these, and obviously based in the UK.
Can anyone add to these classic shows of yesteryear?
Scully Scum Made in Britain Prospects Johnny Jarvis One Summer Boys from the Blackstuff
It was a classic show of yesteryear and although I'm not based in the UK there's nothing on the post about where the shows were set.
Cheers
SiLeakHunt wrote: It was a classic show of yesteryear and although I'm not based in the UK there's nothing on the post about where the shows were set.
Cheers
Fcuk me. Three pages in and people still ain't grasping the meaning of 'Old Skool'.
'Old Skool' is like a subset of 'nostalgia' but it only encompasses things which were considered 'cool' back in the day, and ain't a catch all for anything and everything.
Wearing Trimm Trabs and Fila BJ is Old Skool.
Listening to mid 80's Electro and Afrika Bambataa is Old Skool.
Watching One Summer or Prospects is Old Skool.
Watching the Sullivans just ain't. Unless you had some very weird mates in the early 80's?
Someone's gonna mention Take the High Road next!
Remember,the Pincey and Billy handshake? We picked that up from 'Prospects' and did it for yonks and yonks after the series had long finished..
er,and we still do it 
Well since I brought it up in the boozer..
I was a bit young for One Summer, tho lads I know remember it and say it was alright..Getting nostalgic,so I think i'll nab Scully on ebay an all.Loved it as a kid.
Any of you lot over in Oz remember a cop show called 'Solo one'.Don't think it made much of an impact here in the U.K but i enjoyed it,and can still sing the theme tune.
I have yet to meet a single soul who has ever heard of this show!
