What late 70s to early 80s shows have you been watching?

What late 70s to early 80s shows have you been watching?

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Miguel Alvarez

4,944 posts

169 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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MarshPhantom said:
Miguel Alvarez said:
MarshPhantom said:
Loved Hill Street Blues as a kid - when and where is this on.
Old man has season 1 on DVD so borrowed that. Is the rest any good? I got as far as the Vampire dude hanging himself and those kids in the freezer with the hostages.
It's all good from what I remember, but the DVDs aren't the best. I'd have bought them from Amazon but apparently they have been heavily edited from the originals (altered to suit pre-watershed repeats by Channel 4 apparently).
Didn't know that. Rubbish

cirian75

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4,245 posts

232 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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Miguel Alvarez said:
MarshPhantom said:
Miguel Alvarez said:
MarshPhantom said:
Loved Hill Street Blues as a kid - when and where is this on.
Old man has season 1 on DVD so borrowed that. Is the rest any good? I got as far as the Vampire dude hanging himself and those kids in the freezer with the hostages.
It's all good from what I remember, but the DVDs aren't the best. I'd have bought them from Amazon but apparently they have been heavily edited from the originals (altered to suit pre-watershed repeats by Channel 4 apparently).
Didn't know that. Rubbish
Thats a dick move, people want unedited originals when they buy DVD's of old 70s and 80s shows

ajprice

27,321 posts

195 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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I know this thread is late 70's/early 80's, but these are more mid 80's. I'm 39, and all the Glen A Larson stuff and other similar series was all great when I was growing up, along wit the Wrestling on World of Sport hehe I'm going to have to go Youtubing for some of these series now.

Airwolf (1984-1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBd6ighzqYA
Street Hawk (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLLiqbIkCtw
Knight Rider (1982-1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Y7uCG3nks
The A-Team (1983-1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6kEsloMdE
The Fall Guy (1981-1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9ev40C30M

retrorider

1,339 posts

200 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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The Network fully restored versions of The Profesionals are very good.Just how it should of looked and worth buying if you're a fan.

Edited by retrorider on Wednesday 24th June 14:54

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

136 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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Anyone remember Chance in a Million - I don't think many people watched it but it was a funny show. Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn.

I bought the DVDs and have been enjoying them.


SpudLink

5,671 posts

191 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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MarshPhantom said:
Anyone remember Chance in a Million - I don't think many people watched it but it was a funny show. Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn.

I bought the DVDs and have been enjoying them.

I seem to remember laughing at it, so must have enjoyed it, but now the only thing I remember is being impressed by Simon Callow's ability to down a pint in one go.

birdcage

2,838 posts

204 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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SpudLink said:
MarshPhantom said:
Anyone remember Chance in a Million - I don't think many people watched it but it was a funny show. Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn.

I bought the DVDs and have been enjoying them.

I seem to remember laughing at it, so must have enjoyed it, but now the only thing I remember is being impressed by Simon Callow's ability to down a pint in one go.
You should see him with a sausage

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

ajprice

27,321 posts

195 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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Halb said:
That's what made me post above smile

bstb3

3,990 posts

157 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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Can't say I've been watching them lately, but only because I haven't the dvd's and they don't seem to be on the box at the moment, but Starsky and Hutch for me. Love that show, ever since a nipper.

Also the network restored Professionals? Are they the ones that are being run on ITV4 or are they edited? I know they aren't showing all the episodes for PC reasons (the Klansmen one for example). Would be good to find a full set of those.

retrorider

1,339 posts

200 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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bstb3 said:
Can't say I've been watching them lately, but only because I haven't the dvd's and they don't seem to be on the box at the moment, but Starsky and Hutch for me. Love that show, ever since a nipper.

Also the network restored Professionals? Are they the ones that are being run on ITV4 or are they edited? I know they aren't showing all the episodes for PC reasons (the Klansmen one for example). Would be good to find a full set of those.
Network episodes are all there and in full including Klansmen.Picture quality is fantastic.

skeggysteve

5,724 posts

216 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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We are recording and watching 'as and when' MASH. I remember watching it the first time round and it's still just as good!

True Entertainment (Freeview 61, Sky 184, Virgin 189 and Freesat 142) 7pm - 8pm week nights.

easytiger123

2,591 posts

208 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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Used to love Tales of the Unexpected. The theme music brings it back in a heartbeat. They are re-running them on one of the hundreds of crap channels. Dated but still very good.

Hyde

514 posts

147 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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The Equaliser, it started in 1985 so just about counts

I have it on VHS boxset and more recently DVD


Turns out the role was offered to Martin Shaw, before Edward Woodward !

kev b

2,708 posts

165 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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No end of creaky seventies shows have been on Freeview lately, On The Buses, George and Mildred, The Professionals, Bergerac, The Sweeney, Lovejoy, Minder etc.

They all creak like a haunted house, unconvincing fights and car chases, predictable plots and groaning character stereotypes, however I caught a late Minder (after Dennis Waterman had left), George Cole was brilliant, his lines were very very funny, mangling the language and slipping in obscure Cockney rhyming slang. Not enough to negate the awful stereotype Italian couple and hard man escaped convict though but Arthur Daley is brilliantly played and his lines are superb.

Re. Miami Vice, the first series was way better than any that followed, I remember noticing at the time that the quality of the lighting/filming went down after series one, did they change to video from film or something?

Beati Dogu

8,863 posts

138 months

Thursday 25th June 2015
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I don't know about the lighting quality, but I expect it was all done on film. The budget for Miami Vice was around a million dollars an episode, even then.

entropy

5,403 posts

202 months

Thursday 25th June 2015
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kev b said:
Re. Miami Vice, the first series was way better than any that followed, I remember noticing at the time that the quality of the lighting/filming went down after series one, did they change to video from film or something?
As I said earlier the quality drops noticeably in season 3 as it loses the stereotypical Michael Mann production as he goes off to other projects and you don't get the sharp use of colour/hue/contrast.

But I get what you mean with season 2. In season 1 you had up and coming film directors like Rob Cohen, Abel Ferrara, Starskey&Hutch directing and the cinematography and composition is absolutely ace but it drops off in season 2 though it still has great colour so it seems the production was more rushed in season 2.

belleair302

6,835 posts

206 months

Thursday 25th June 2015
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The filming costs were huge and the demands from NBC I think were pretty difficult to manage for episode after episode. They had some great actors in the first two series...and Lovejoy in the final one!!!

Morf

215 posts

169 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Bending the timescale a little:

Colditz (1972)

The Flipside of Dominic Hide (1980)

Private Schultz (1981)

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983)

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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ajprice said:
I know this thread is late 70's/early 80's, but these are more mid 80's. I'm 39, and all the Glen A Larson stuff and other similar series was all great when I was growing up, along wit the Wrestling on World of Sport hehe I'm going to have to go Youtubing for some of these series now.

Airwolf (1984-1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBd6ighzqYA
Street Hawk (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLLiqbIkCtw
Knight Rider (1982-1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Y7uCG3nks
The A-Team (1983-1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6kEsloMdE
The Fall Guy (1981-1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9ev40C30M
Loved Airwolf, Streethawk and The Fall Guy at the time but not seen any of them since, I'll give the youtube links a try.

Rewatched the whole of the A-Team a couple of years ago, and have got a reasonable way in to Knight Rider but it's scary how samey they get when you watch a few in quick succession. The Mrs worked her way through Quantum Leap too but I missed most of them.

I also tracked down The Highwayman which was ok but unsurprisingly not as good as I remember from when I was a kid.

Manimal and Automan were another couple in a similar vein from my youth, might have to track them down and see if they're as bad as I suspect they are.