What British TV show would you like brought back?

[Bobby Hundreds]

The last train

Chocky

[Preston Red]

Spitting Image. Essential viewing on a Sunday night. They tried to re do something similar with whatever that fucking abomination was in the run up to the General Election (or as I like to call it, The Tory Bastard Rising).

I would've loved to have seen the rumoured return of Bottom as well but sadly that won't ever happen now as neither would the New Statesman.

Crystal Maze is a good shout but it would have to be Richard O'Brien presenting it.

Eurotrash was superb too. The voice over on some of the interviews were hilarious.

Gamesmaster. Used to be great watching spotty little herberts have their arses handed to them when they thought they were shit hot at games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2. The cheats section was a godsend too.

Knightmare. Brilliant show with a simple format.

[cloggypop]

The Adventure Game. It was like an earlier version of the Crystal Maze but with aliens. The alien royalty were played by large pot plants.

 

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

Spitting Image. Essential viewing on a Sunday night. They tried to re do something similar with whatever that fucking abomination was in the run up to the General Election (or as I like to call it, The Tory Bastard Rising).

I would've loved to have seen the rumoured return of Bottom as well but sadly that won't ever happen now as neither would the New Statesman.

Crystal Maze is a good shout but it would have to be Richard O'Brien presenting it.

Eurotrash was superb too. The voice over on some of the interviews were hilarious.

Gamesmaster. Used to be great watching spotty little herberts have their arses handed to them when they thought they were shit hot at games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2. The cheats section was a godsend too.

Knightmare. Brilliant show with a simple format.

Eurotrash used to have Kate Robbins doing some of the voiceovers when they were doing their(normally naked) shenanigans.

[Kant]

The Magic Rabbits.

[Mook]

The Magic Rabbits.

 

Whenever someone on Brookside was watching the telly that was on.

 

Edit - just looked it up and the Brookside producers invented it so the characters had something on their telly. Those cunts must've had some decent acid.

 

*goes off to look for a clip online

 

[Mike D]

Whenever someone on Brookside was watching the telly that was on.

 

Edit - just looked it up and the Brookside producers invented it so the characters had something on their telly. Those cunts must've had some decent acid.

 

*goes off to look for a clip online

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bbjt_4hcYWU

[Mook]

 

Cheers, Mike, out of rep, here's the clip, magic rabbits from 1:10 in...

 

[Bellflower]

Callan

The prisoner

[Trumo]

Jim'll Fi...not really!

[Kant]

Whenever someone on Brookside was watching the telly that was on.

 

Edit - just looked it up and the Brookside producers invented it so the characters had something on their telly. Those cunts must've had some decent acid.

 

*goes off to look for a clip online

Yeah, it' was a kids show but all the adults seemed to love it.

[Kloppite]

Grange Hill!

 

Johnny Briggs, but in the format of the adult years!

[Alan Sex]

Rentaghost and the Ghosts of Motley Hall.

 

Both brilliant.

[Trumo]

Byker Grove - with Geoff Keegan returning from the dead.

[Sputnik1]

 

Space 1999?  British?  You live and you learn!

 

You'll be a fan of The Tomorrow People, too, I presume.

 

 

 

It was a great show, I remember being terrified watching the episode 'Dragon's Domain' 

 

I enjoyed the Tomorrow People, they brought that back the other year and it was shit, as would most attempts these days be.

 

 

I loved the Ghosts of Motley Hall, I'd totally forgotten about that. I didn't like rentaghost at all, just thought it was weird. 

 

 

I often thought I'd like to see Randall and Hopkirk brought back, then Vic and Bob murdered it in 2001. The irony of it all being that Kenneth Cope (Marty) is alive and well 46 years later and Mike Pratt (Jeff) has been pushing up daisies for forty years. Watching the old series you are hit by the lack of parked cars and traffic in general. I know they probably filmed early to avoid traffic but if Marty could get killed by a mini on those empty roads he wouldn't last a minute on todays. 

 

TV shows today have to compete in a world where kids have so much else to occupy their minds, hundreds of channels to watch, the internet, consoles, social media. We had lego and three tv channels that didn't broadcast of a night and only partly of a daytime. If it rained, they had us. 

 

They also have to PC everything, for fear of upsetting someone out there, yes I understand some of it but it makes for boring TV. 

[General Dryness]

It was a great show, I remember being terrified watching the episode 'Dragon's Domain'

 

 

That one scared the shit out of me as well. That thing with the tentacles burning people up. It was quite horrific given the kind of time the program usually went out at.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The Word

 

I'd like to see all the people who appeared doing gross and stupid stuff because they'd do anything to be on TV.

 

20 years on, I'd like to see how their lives worked out.  I hope they're all desperately unhappy.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Hattytown.

 

Just so other people know it actually existed.

 

I had a toy donkey called Carrots.

[Mook]

I'd like to see all the people who appeared doing gross and stupid stuff because they'd do anything to be on TV.

 

20 years on, I'd like to see how their lives worked out. I hope they're all desperately unhappy.

Agreed, fucking Terry Christian.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Rolf's Animal Hospital

 

(Give Adam Johnson something to wank over.)

[Trumo]

I don't think Rolf's his type.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Space 1999, of course it wouldn't be as good as the first, in fact scrap that they'd 'pc' every fucking thing you liked and turn it to shit.

Not necessarily.  Doctor Who came back better than ever.  They didn't "pc it up" although there's a definite acknowledgement that today's audience is more comfortable with "adult" issues than last time around.  For example, some scenes were apparently cut in which Sylvester McCoy's sidekick Ace makes it clear she's not a virgin.  Fast forward 20 years and Captain Jack Harkness is constantly trying to get across every man, woman and alien he can get a grip of.

 

I do think Space 1999 would suffer from people going "that never happened".

[Sputnik1]

I think you just made my point for me. 

[Tj hooker]

Not the nine o'clock news & the fast show

[RobbieOR]

Pretty sure I read somewhere that the Crystal Maze is coming back. 

 

Whoever said Pot Black was right. I'd love that.