80s TV shows. good or bad any favorites

[marshalla]

Zod said:

Sprouts said:

A Very Peculiar Practice was a great, odd show.

It was great and weird. Who was the manin character? I remember her and Troughton, but not the main one.

Peter Davison.

[B Huey]

Miami Vice
The Young Ones
Bullseye
The Comic Strip Presents

[Terzo123]

Cover Up
Hardcastle and McCormack
MacGyver
Wonder Years
TJ Hooker

[bigrich4]

I used to like watching 'The Highwayman' when I was a kid. It had a truck that turned into a helicopter which, to me back then, was the pinacle of cool. I have the ominous feeling that if I were to watch it these days it would be utter dross though.

[AmiableChimp]

Raify said:

Anyone remember Cover Up? No-one else I know does. If it didn't have a wiki page I'd think I'd dreamt (nightmare perhaps) it.

Didn't the guy from Cover up die after playing Russian Roulette or something?

Title tune was "Holding Out For a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler?

I remember it well!

[Raify]

AmiableChimp said:

Raify said:

Anyone remember Cover Up? No-one else I know does. If it didn't have a wiki page I'd think I'd dreamt (nightmare perhaps) it.

Didn't the guy from Cover up die after playing Russian Roulette or something?

Title tune was "Holding Out For a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler?

I remember it well!

Someone else remembers it! According to wiki it was a joke with a blank-loaded gun, the wadding drove a piece of bone into his head and he died.

The theme tune was the main bit I remember, and a man jumping over a white wall in the opening sequence

[Ozone]

Police Squad
Sledge Hammer!
HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy.
The Young Ones.

All good

[kelk]

Raify said:

AmiableChimp said:

Raify said:

Anyone remember Cover Up? No-one else I know does. If it didn't have a wiki page I'd think I'd dreamt (nightmare perhaps) it.

Didn't the guy from Cover up die after playing Russian Roulette or something?

Title tune was "Holding Out For a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler?

I remember it well!

Someone else remembers it! According to wiki it was a joke with a blank-loaded gun, the wadding drove a piece of bone into his head and he died.

The theme tune was the main bit I remember, and a man jumping over a white wall in the opening sequence

and IIRC the title music wasn't sung by Bonnie Tyler but a Tyler-esque impersonater and the hollywood wheels of lawyers kicked into motion and as part of the penance BT got to release the track and did very successfully with it.

[Raify]

Found the intro on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7gOiGYFJz8

[marcosgt]

There was a series with Edward Woodward - Think it was called 1984? or maybe 1980?

Might have been late 70s, but it was pretty good.

M

[y2blade]

Daz68 said:

Still watch Auf Wiedersehen Pet often. Great stuff.

snap..I have the complete box-set on DVD

[cazzer]

marcosgt said:

There was a series with Edward Woodward - Think it was called 1984? or maybe 1980?

Might have been late 70s, but it was pretty good.

M

1990

Made in 77-78

"Great Britain, 1990. The population is now governed by the tyrannical Home Office Public Control Department (PCD), who have done away with the rights of the individual and maintain control through ID cards, rationing and electronic surveillance."

They just missed the start date by 7 years.

[Zod]

marshalla said:

Peter Davison.

thanks

[.Adam.]

I used to really enjoy Sapphire and Steel when I was young>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gjHmEUiaxo

[vladcjelli]

bluebear said:

well i'm on a bit of a nostalgia roll just now. Just watched thundercats and a bit of Automan. Now tonight its a bit of Street hawk. Anyone else miss these TV shows or are they best left in the past ?

I'm glad a few other people can verify the existence of Automan. Whenever I mention it during those nostalgia conversations, all I normally get are blank looks.

Between that and Manimal, all my playtimes were fully booked up pretending to be them. Used to be able to do a passable impression of his hand as the transformation took place, with the knuckles rippling and that.

[bluebear]

anyone remember the film MEGAFORCE. crazy bikes and dessert buggies with lasers and missiles

[vladcjelli]

bluebear said:

anyone remember the film MEGAFORCE. crazy bikes and dessert buggies with lasers and missiles

Delta Force with Chuck Norris?

[bluebear]

vladcjelli said:

bluebear said:

anyone remember the film MEGAFORCE. crazy bikes and dessert buggies with lasers and missiles

Delta Force with Chuck Norris?

no megaforce !

[cazzer]

Ozone said:

Sledge Hammer!

Trust me, I know what I'm doing

[Langweilig]

I remember Manimal. Simon Corkindale turned it into a turkey. Airwolf was good. The Tripods would have been a good sci-fi series but it lacked Tripods. The best cartoon series were The Dreamstone. Excellent artwork and animation. As for the bad guy Zordrak's voice - really mean & scary. Best comedy was teh Young Ones and the frst series of Red Dwarf.