Films that never seem to be shown on TV

[shed driver]

I suspect it's me just missing a rerun, but there seems to be a few films I watched on TV as a child that I've never seen again.

It's also possible that attitudes and language from the past may make them more challenging to present audiences.





Any more?

SD.

[zeb]

Restless natives never seems to come up

[Catweazle]

I haven't seen 'Forbidden Planet' for a while.

[miniman]

Wow I remember One of our Dinosaurs is Missing vividly but haven’t seen it for something like 40 years.

[Super Sonic]

Barbarella

[vixen1700]

O Lucky Man

[highway]

Soul Man
Boxing Helena
Ricochet.

[Higgs boson]

zeb said:

Restless natives never seems to come up

Probably because it was just about some clown on a Suzuki!

[richhead]

vanishing point, as this is a car forum

[shed driver]

Higgs boson said:

Probably because it was just about some clown on a Suzuki!

And a wolfman!

SD.

[Riley Blue]

If
Deep End
Harold and Maude
You're Big Boy Now
American Graffiti
Straw Dogs
Blow Up
Performance

[Risonax]

North West Frontier
The Admirable Crichton
Our Girl Friday
Genevieve
Rich for the Sky
The Wild Bunch
Cross of Iron
In like Flint
The Gods Must be Crazy
Two Lane Blacktop
The Wild Geese
The Dogs of War
Who Dares Wins
The Airport Movies
The original Planet of the Apes sequels
Hell in the Pacific/ Lee Marvin films in general (except for the Dirty Dozen)
While not exactly a film, those Tarzan episodes with Ron Ely
Stewart Granger films
Capricorn One
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chinatown
Excaliber
Harry Palmer films (The Ipcress Files etc)

[dundarach]

Loved this, not seen on TV for years and years??

[droopsnoot]

Risonax said:

North West Frontier

This was on a few months ago, typically on a few times over a period of about a week if I recall correctly. I remember seeing this when I was a kid (the bit where they notice someone is watching them by the reflection of the sun on their binoculars / telescope particularly sticks in my mind), and had been talking to my sister about how you never see it and I kept seeing "North by North West" in the listings and in piles of DVDs, but never this one.

[clive_candy]

Risonax said:

North West Frontier
The Admirable Crichton
Our Girl Friday
Genevieve
Rich for the Sky
The Wild Bunch
Cross of Iron
In like Flint
The Gods Must be Crazy
Two Lane Blacktop
The Wild Geese
The Dogs of War
Who Dares Wins
The Airport Movies
The original Planet of the Apes sequels
Hell in the Pacific/ Lee Marvin films in general (except for the Dirty Dozen)
While not exactly a film, those Tarzan episodes with Ron Ely
Stewart Granger films
Capricorn One
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chinatown
Excaliber
Harry Palmer films (The Ipcress Files etc)

Talking Pictures is your friend here. For the first few anyway.

[shed driver]

Are there any contractual reasons why some films seem to disappear off TV?

SD.

[Richard-390a0]

richhead said:

vanishing point, as this is a car forum

It was shown on one of the terrestrial channels about nine months ago... two days after I ordered a copy of the dvd online for the same reason as the thread title!

[ReallyReallyGood]

Batman (the first one, with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson)

Not seen that for a decade+?

[vixen1700]

Vanishing Point was on Talking Pictures about two months ago, looked forward to watching it again but just found it a little dull and quite dated. The end always shocks me though.

[toon10]

Arlington Road. Fantastic thriller full of twists with a great cast but never really seemed to catch on or get shown much.