Films that aren't on the telly anymore

[NelsonM3]

Honey I Shrunk The Kids and Howard the Duck.

[Cantaloupe]

Those old Herbert Throbwalloper films

Ooops, Is That Your Bloomers ? [ 1935 ]
Can You See The Join ? [ 1935 ]
Oh ! What a Biggun [ 1935 ]

[PhilboSE]

The Tall Guy. Was on TV a few times about 30 years ago, I’ve not seen it scheduled since.

My pet theory is that Emma Thompson bought the rights and buried it because of the scene where she was young and needed the money.

[dudleybloke]

The Police Academy films.

[Johnspex]

Ebo100 said:

When I was a kid I loved the old black and white films shown on bbc2 at 6pm. The Will Hay and Harold Lloyd were my favourites as well as Norman Wisdom. Never seen any of them on tv for years.

Will Hay films are often on Talking Pictures Tv.
Channel 81.

[RemyMartin81D]

NelsonM3 said:

Honey I Shrunk The Kids and Howard the Duck.

Good shout, as rubbish as it is, I would love to watch Howard the duck again. I guess it's down to the baddie being a sex offender in real life.

[Halb]

Johnspex said:

Will Hay films are often on Talking Pictures Tv.
Channel 81.

oh excellent, thank you

[anonymous-user]

Critters

[FlossyThePig]

Ebo100 said:

When I was a kid I loved the old black and white films shown on bbc2 at 6pm...

When I was a kid everything on TV was black and white. The only channels were BBC and ITV.

[Flumpo]

Halb said:

Hub said:

I remember the Herbie films used to be on all the time, but I haven't seen any or noticed them on for years (though that isn't to say they aren't!)

I think the Herbie/Love Bug films suffer from rebootitus, whereby the reboots (at least two) move into the tv schedules. Conan suffers from this, everytime I see it on the planner it's, 'yes'! Then I press play to see it's the stty remake.
Love the first three Herbie films.

I’m not sure if it’s also got something to do with the permissions to show them?

All the herbie films are available on sky cinema Disney. I’m not sure if that impacts the rights to buy or show them in terrestrial.

I’ve tended to notice when a film comes on terrestrial or even on Netflix, it seems to disappear from sky’s catalogue.

I could be wrong though.

[Mcphisto]

I can't remember seeing The Exorcist on TV for ages.

[AshVX220]

Who remembers the old Sinbad films with the stop motion animated monsters etc? Or Jason and the Argonauts?

When I saw the Sinbad film with the cyclops I was about 6, that thing scared the st out of me for years!!

[ChevyChase77]

Halb said:

Steve vRS said:

One is Our Dinosaurs is Missing.

Is it no longer shown due to Peter Ustinov made up to look Chinese?

I recall that being on a few years ago.

Yep. It was on not so long ago.

[ChevyChase77]

RemyMartin81D said:

NelsonM3 said:

Honey I Shrunk The Kids and Howard the Duck.

Good shout, as rubbish as it is, I would love to watch Howard the duck again. I guess it's down to the baddie being a sex offender in real life.

Honey I shrunk the kids was on last week.

Howard the duck was on not so long ago.

[bad company]

Life Of Brian. I really want to watch it again but it’s not coming up anywhere.

[droopsnoot]

AshVX220 said:

Who remembers the old Sinbad films with the stop motion animated monsters etc? Or Jason and the Argonauts?

When I saw the Sinbad film with the cyclops I was about 6, that thing scared the st out of me for years!!

I remember seeing some Sinbad films, and probably the same ones. There was one on the Horror channel the other tea-time, but I don't know if it was a later remake or one of the old ones.

[Abbott]

The Vikings was always on at Christmas when I was a boy. Not seen it for years

[Joyrider1]

Digby The Biggest Dog In The World

Was on every Christmas when I was a kid, not seen it for years

[Riley Blue]

Halb said:

Johnspex said:

Will Hay films are often on Talking Pictures Tv.
Channel 81.

oh excellent, thank you

Talking Pictures is 328 on Sky with Retro Movies at 327. Both are worth checking if you like obscure films from the '40s and '50s.

[Halmyre]

AshVX220 said:

Who remembers the old Sinbad films with the stop motion animated monsters etc? Or Jason and the Argonauts?

When I saw the Sinbad film with the cyclops I was about 6, that thing scared the st out of me for years!!

Jason and the Argonauts has been on fairly recently.

Someone mentioned Conan the Barbarian as one of those films where it's alsways the remake that's shown. I'd add The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 to that list.

A few films that were on TV years ago but I've never seen in a long time - 11 Harrrowhouse (Charles Grodin) and Heist (Warren Beatty/Goldie Hawn).