Blakes Seven...my ultimate Cult TV

[TightEnd]

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?

[Sheriff Fatman]

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

[totalise]

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.

[tikay]

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?

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

[M3boy]

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!!

[vegaslover]

V
closely followed by Quantum leap

[RED-DOG]

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

[NoflopsHomer]

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

[I, Zimbra]

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...

[Newmanseye]

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?

[JungleCat03]

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!

[Tonji]

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?

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  

[M3boy]

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

[charmaine]

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 

Quantum Leap

V

Saphire and steel

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

[Jon MW]

V
closely followed by Quantum leap

Snap

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

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

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