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I was relaxing in front of the TV tonight, doing the usual channel hopping thing that has seen me develop a very limited attention span for much visual entertainment in the last few years when I alighted on BBC4. Normally way too high-brow for me it caught my attention because there was a programme devoted to Blakes Seven, a BBC science fiction adventure that ran for 52 episodes from 1978-81.

This really took me back, as at the time as a young teenager Blakes Seven gripped me. Looking back now the sets were dodgy, the acting poor, the scripts laughable and the special effects funny, but in the moment it was for a time the be all and end all of my television life.

Indeed watching this biography type programme reminded me that really the programme introduced me to adolescence in the shape of actress Jacqueline Pearce who played the baddie Servalan in a mixture of ballgowns, catsuits and leather. Probably explains a lot thinking about it!!

I suppose lots of people reading this are too young to remember Blakes Seven and instead more recently would refer me to Red Dwarf as their ultimate sci-fi-ish cult viewing.

I'm off to search Amazon for the Blakes Seven back catalogue!

What is the programme that you remember from years back that you hold the most affection for?

Blakes 7 was a little too early for me (I remember it being on but can't remember much about it).

My sci-fi series of choice was V, seems to be permanently repeated on Sky but I never seem to catch it from the beginning.  Great stuff, with a pre-Freddy Krueger Robert Englund playing one of the aliens.

One of my favourite shows when I was very young was Monkey.  All the kids my age loved it, although watching it now it seems bizarre as it was way too complicated for us to understand.  We just liked the fight scenes and the fact that there were characters called Monkey and Pigsy!

Sheriff

mine is without doubt Quantum Leap... I will stop whatever I am doing any time I manage to see an episode of that being shown...a close second is the wonder years. Brings back many memories of child-hood occurances. Its good to reminisce.

Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

The Flower Pot Men.

The Woodentops.

Rag, Tag & Bobtail

Muffin the Mule. (No, really, that was a kids programme).

Lord Boothby

Liberace

Wow, so so many of them

Sapphire and Steel - scared the chit out of me! lol
The Professionals
Minder - I so so so badly wanted a white capri with a black hood when I grew up!! lol
Tales of the Unexpected - hated seeing the dancing lady and that awfull music - It meant Bed Time!!! lol

Dukes of Hazzard - "just them good ole boys , never meaning no harm"
The A Team - so many bullets/explosions and no one ever died!!
Star Trek - "To boldly go............."

Going back even further :

Has to be Grange Hill - The origional series with Tucker, then Zamo (he still looks the same even now!!)
Chockie
Dungens and Dragons
Run Around

And EVEN further :

Pipkins - now what WAS the name of the tortoise?? Im sure it was "Tortoise"
Trumpton - Hugh Pugh Barney Mcgrew Cuthbert Dibble and Grub (Or something like that!)
Rainbow

And EVEN EVEN Further.........................

nah, now I really am showing my age!!

V
closely followed by Quantum leap

Drama 63

Armchair Theatre

Steptoe and Son

No Hiding Place

Alias Smith and Jones

Sugarfoot

Rifleman

Stingray

All our Yesterdays

Take your Pick

Double your Money

My Mother the Car

Mr Ed

The Littlest Hobo

The Magic Boomerang

Skippy

Bonanza

The Big Valley

Bootsie and Snudge

Thunderbirds

Dixon of Dock Green

Bad low-budget horror films. I just find them hysterically funny.

Sci-Fi channel always seems to have V on; but catching it from the beginning is tricky - it's confusing as it was both a mini-series and a spin-off TV show that ran for, I think, one season.

Willy (Freddy Krueger) was never the main attraction though... for sheer cult TV success, it has to be Michael "Darryl Revok" Ironside... ;tightend; ;tightend;

sooo many,

Quantum Leap ( Thats given )

Automan

Streethawk

Airwolf

The A team

The original Battle star Galactica

Knightrider

Miami Vice

And I cant believe no one has menntioned Dempsey and Makepeace, that was quality programming.


Also Ducktales, Darkwing duck have to be included.

Monkey was ok, but I  was put off the programme after was chastised for stealing my Grans brush handle and using all of my grandads insulating tape to make a Black staff with yellow ends........ now who else did that?

I think I might be the only one who caught this series but when i was a kid I loved "The Master."

Lee Van Cleef, who was brilliant in sergi leone's spaghetti westerns, was class as the aging ninjitsu master, righting wrongs across america(at least all the wrongs david "grasshopper" carradine had forgotten to resolve in Kung Fu.)

Seeing as I was only about seven when this was on, I  wouldn't have been allowed to watch this by my folks but my older brother used to tape the episodes and me and my younger brother used to sneak down early in the morning so we could watch it before school.

I remember us imitating Van Cleef throwing shuriken stars, using deadly cushions instead. Fun days!

Some years ago I bought at auction a large collection of books & photographs, they were from the deceased estate of Vere Lorimer, who was the Producer or Writer of Blakes Seven. I remember there being loads of scripts & publicity material, its all still stored somewhere in my warehouse. Ebay awaits  :D

Dempsey and makepeace - QUALITY!!! How did I forget that one?!?!

Also another that springs to mind, BIG DEAL with Robby Box - LOVED it!!

Anyone know where I can d/l the series?!? Would love to watch it again

You can watch it on your bloody own  :P

Quantum Leap

V

Saphire and steel

So many more ,but my memorys not what it used to be

Snap :D

And for all those that agree with V - this is interesting

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366112/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366112/)

It is "In contract negotiations between NBC Universal and Warner Bros."

Excellent news !!

The Man from UNCLE and Mission Impossible another 2 classics.

A modern day classic in my opinion is NCIS which continues to captivate people week in and out even in its 4th season.  By todays standards thats pretty good.

Top list paul. Minder in particular was great. Arthur Daley was a comic genius creation. The theme tune's brilliant too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENI-uhii2zo

I could write the feem toon, sing the feem toon..........

;iagree;

You can do it Duffy Moon.


Anyone remember that?

the prisoner


seen it on channel 4 when i was 11


brilliant

Speaking of Cult TV, someone recommended 'Firefly' to me recently; it was Joss "Buffy" Whedon's most recent TV series, which was cancelled by its network after just 13 episodes.

Really good, sci-fi/western mix with an excellent cast, extremely well scripted. Well worth a look.

Anyone old enough to remember "chips"

I loved Blake 7 is was my fav programme for ages.

And a little older, prisoner cell bloke H was quality

chips was erik estrada and blonde bloke

complete tosh

Knight Rider on the other hand was cult tosh!

I remember chips ......... and never had a crush on Eric Estrada  ;ashamed; lo

no i didnt either charmaine  ;whistle;

 ;grr; ;grr; ;grr; ;grr;

Hmmmmmmmmm ok, more talk about Makepeace please  ;)

lol you loon

Come to bed ffs!!! lol

You fancied anything with bleach blonde hair sweetheart  ;whistle;

I'm sure I was too young when that show was on ...  ;ashamed;

Prisoner cell block H ruled.

"The freak."

Bea Smith.

Wobbly walled sets.

And of course....

"She used to give me roses,
I wish she could again,
but that was on the outside
and things were different then....."

I used to bowl into school twenty minutes late, with dishevelled clothes and red eyes 'cos I'd been up till 2 watching the late runs of PCH.

Good call Tighty!!!   Also gives me the chance to repost my contribution to the best end to TV series again!!  Now that's what I call posting vallllllooooooooo  !! rotflmfao


6   General Category / General Discussion / Re: Best end to a TV series  on: December 07, 2006, 11:26:41 pm
 
My favourite big ending to a TV series was that of Blakes 7.  The whole of the 4th series seemed to have been written just to give Paul Darrow as Avon the opportunity to see how far over the top he could make the closing line of each episode.  Examples such as " I neeeeeeeed to kill her MYSELF" , "End game to Belkov" and "As you are always saying Vila.......you know you are safe ...WITH ME" stick with me now nearly 30 years later.   

The final episode surpassed this though without him even saying a word.   

Picture the scene....he's just found Blake, who despite the series title has actually been missing for two series!, and due to some confusion has just shot him for what he thinks is betrayal.   

Blake, the legend!, slumps to his knees, grips Avon and with his dying breath gasps, "Oh Avon I was waiting for you!!" before slumping to the floor quite dead.   

At this point Federation troopers storm the building , kill Avon's mates while he just stands there, before encircling him with guns raised.   

What does our hero do?  Well having realised now he's killed his best mate in error, he just steps one foot over Blake's dead body and raises his gun to confront the troopers.

Then the camera closes in on his face...and in a gesture that says more than a thousand words ever could.........he gives a little smile!           

End of episode, end of series, end of Blakes 7....................cut to music

DA DA DA DAH DAH DAAAAHHH,   DA DA DAHHH DA DAHH

Has drama ever got any better?   
 

And if that's whetted your appetite I found the following on youtube after making the original post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY10pMsq3N8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY10pMsq3N8)

 :)up

I love you. Platonically. Almost as much as I love Ian Hume, but more than I love Rob Kelly.

 rotflmfao  ......have to laugh...or I'd be very scared!   ;)

Actually talking of love........I thought Servalan ( Jacquie Pearce ) looked fantastic on that programme, it's nearly 30 years later but she didn't look anything like as old as she must be

Anyone remember Follyfoot Farm and that blasted lightening tree

ooo, ooo the lightening tree, down in the valley where the wind runs free

I may have the worms wrong???

How about Monkey? An absolute classic, but can anybody remember the program that use to be sandwich between Tuckers Love and Monkey on BBC2 on a monday night, which was an early version of the Crystal Maze and had a bloke that used to speak backwards and always said "Doog yrev"?

The Adventure Game?  The one with Heinz Wolf?

Absolutely superb tv it was doogy rev

The final game always used to be the one where the player would move one spot then the deadly beam of light would move and if you got to the otherside you won. Currency was red circles and green hexagons. Great fun!

P.S At 32 does this mean i am officially old?

you are officially half-a-tikay...yes, that's old.

Fantastic !!