80's TV shows

[Harry Squatter]

Watched Chips about a year ago on ITV4 when I was off sick. Unbelievable how camp it was. There was a scene where Erik Estrada and some fella kept eyeing each other up in the changing rooms. I think George Micheal must have got the inspiration for his "outside" video from Chips.

[setreal]

I loved this piece of trash. Still do I downloaded all of it a year or so ago

 

 

Yep. Also this:

 

[Mike D]

Minder

[the chimp]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greatest Amrican Hero, ALF, Starfleet, Tropical Heat and Dear John (the legend that is Kirk St. Moritz).

[the chimp]

You can also add Brush Strokes to the above, I think it was only me and Rob (Paddy Berger 15) who ever watched it on here.

 

[Dr Nowt]

I used to watch Brush Strokes. Elmo the fat ugly barman being a comedy counterpoint to Jacko's womanising ways.

 

This was another favourite of mine as a child:

 

[Trumo]

I used to hate 80s TV on a Sunday because it was usually all tedious shite and only served to remind you that the next day was a Monday. I'm talking about crap like Watching, The Two Of Us and Highway To Heaven. I did like Bullseye though - it was great for mimicking the announcer ("Iiiinnnn One!"), ripping the piss out of the prizes (2 fat blokes could win a 2-berth caravan or a speedboat) and the fact the Jim Bowen could give the contestants their prize money out of a wad of cash from his back pocket.

[VladimirIlyich]

Shelley.

An English and posher Rab C Nesbitt.

Also Rab C Nesbitt on the show he was born,Naked Video.

[Harry Squatter]

My Dad always used to call Highway to Heaven "Heighway to Toshack"

[Dr Nowt]

Shelley.

An English and posher Rab C Nesbitt.

Also Rab C Nesbitt on the show he was born,Naked Video.

 

With Helen Lederer's drunken yuppie, among others.

[Total Longo]

I vaguely remember two short-lived and woeful US shows in the early 80's, "Manimal" and "Automan". i think Manimal was based on the premise of a man who could transform into any animal, and Automan was possibly half man half car. Actually the more i think about it, the more i think i may have had hallucinogenics put in my food.

 

[stringvest]

Top quality shite there Longo. Manimal was as bad as it sounds.  I don't remember the other one, but that sounds even shiter.

[rubble-rouser]

I used to hate 80s TV on a Sunday because it was usually all tedious shite and only served to remind you that the next day was a Monday. I'm talking about crap like Watching, The Two Of Us and Highway To Heaven. I did like Bullseye though - it was great for mimicking the announcer ("Iiiinnnn One!"), ripping the piss out of the prizes (2 fat blokes could win a 2-berth caravan or a speedboat) and the fact the Jim Bowen could give the contestants their prize money out of a wad of cash from his back pocket.

 

Don't diss Watching! And on Bullseye he wasn't mimicking the announcer - it  was the announcer - Tony Green.

 

Add to the list of tedious Sunday TV The Love Boat and Murder She Wrote.

[Trumo]

Don't diss Watching! And on Bullseye he wasn't mimicking the announcer - it  was the announcer - Tony Green.

 

Add to the list of tedious Sunday TV The Love Boat and Murder She Wrote.

 

WE used to mimic the announcer.

 

Murder She Wrote was horrendous. She was like a fucking grim reaper because somebody got killed wherever she went and the police were all fucking useless.

[Trumo]

Anyone remember Child's Play? It was a game show based on answers given by kids. I remember at school, some kid was talking about being shit-scared of Child's Play and most of us wondered what was so frightening about a quiz show. Turns out he was on about the horror films with Chucky.

 

Also 3-2-1? I never understood how the game worked. All I remember is Dusty Bin and that very fast 3-2-1 thing the host did with his fingers. 

[The Golden Eel]

[Tony Moanero]

Miss Marple (Joan Hickson)

 

The Monocled Mutineer

 

Robin of Sherwood

 

The December Rose

 

Spitting Image

 

Blockbusters

 

Knightmare

 

Stay Lucky

 

Happy Days

 

The Wonder Years

 

The Mysterious Cities of Gold

 

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

[jonnybastard]

No-one mentioned BJ and the Bear yet? If so I must have overlooked it (easy done when you're bombing up the M6 one-handed). Memories are vague, but it was a a US show about the adventures of a trucker and his disabled midget lover (played by Peter Reid, I believe). Obviously in the '80's they had to be subtle about the homosexual aspect, but the wink was tipped to those in the know via the innocent sounding title.

[Total Longo]

 

Top quality shite there Longo. Manimal was as bad as it sounds.  I don't remember the other one, but that sounds even shiter.

Sounds ace, to be fair...

 

"Automan (the "Automatic Man") follows the adventures of a police officer and computer programmer named Walter Nebicher (Desi Arnaz, Jr.), who had created an artificially intelligent crime fighting program that generated a hologram (Chuck Wagner) able to leave the computer world at night and fight crime.[1]

 

While in the real world, Automan posed as a government agent by the name of "Otto J. Mann." This was a secret to all except Walter's close associate, Roxanne Caldwell (Heather McNair).

 

Nebicher could merge with Automan to become one being, sharing consciousness and skills, while retaining Automan's invulnerability.

 

Cursor was his sidekick, a floating, shifting polyhedron which could "draw" and generate physical objects as needed. The most common forms taken were a car (the Auto Car), an airplane, and a helicopter, all of which could defy the laws of physics."

[setreal]

I vaguely remember two short-lived and woeful US shows in the early 80's, "Manimal" and "Automan". i think Manimal was based on the premise of a man who could transform into any animal, and Automan was possibly half man half car. Actually the more i think about it, the more i think i may have had hallucinogenics put in my food.

 

 

Yeah, I have seen some of Automan. I liked the Tron-style visuals, but I even as a kid it felt like a knock-off version of Street Hawk to me.

 

Manimal always comes up in threads like these, but I don't think it ever made it on TV over here.

[Bogman]

No-one mentioned BJ and the Bear yet? If so I must have overlooked it (easy done when you're bombing up the M6 one-handed). Memories are vague, but it was a a US show about the adventures of a trucker and his disabled midget lover (played by Peter Reid, I believe). Obviously in the '80's they had to be subtle about the homosexual aspect, but the wink was tipped to those in the know via the innocent sounding title.

 

 

You c@*t. Got the theme tune rattling in my head now.

[Guest Super Sub]

WE used to mimic the announcer.

 

Murder She Wrote was horrendous. She was like a fucking grim reaper because somebody got killed wherever she went and the police were all fucking useless.

Always wondered why the fuck the police never told the nosey bitch to fuck off!

[Mook]

The bit on the intro to Automan where he flies round the corner in his car always has me in hysterics, it's the noise it makes.

 

Same with the eagle squawking on the intro to Manimal.

 

 

 

I used to smoke a lot.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Crazy Like A Fox

 

Sledgehammer

 

Moonlighting (don't care, Cybil Shepherd was fit)

 

Also, might've been late 80's, but more likely 90's, but I remember a woman in Neighbours, the mum from the Martin family, who without fail always had stonking nipple ons in EVERY scene she was in.

[evv]

mad - a mate of mine was talking to me the other day about manimal.

I too thought he'd had hallucigens put in his food.

obviously I was wrong.

I wont be telling him he was right though after the p1ss I took out of him!