Page 5 of 7 FirstFirst 1234567 LastLast
Results 81 to 100 of 123

Thread: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

  1. #81
    Commercial Operator
    Join Date
    May 2003
    Location
    Northeastern Parts
    Posts
    5,221
    Rep Power
    14

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    On a slightly darker note - who remebers what I think is about the best British thriller ever put on TV?

    Edge of Darkness....

  2. #82
    Registered User Crazy Shark's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    Deep Blue Sea
    Posts
    5,019
    Rep Power
    10

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    On a slightly darker note - who remebers what I think is about the best British thriller ever put on TV?

    Edge of Darkness....
    Nope doesn't ring a bell!!!

  3. #83
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Waltham Abbey
    Posts
    5,534
    Rep Power
    12

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    Edge of Darkness....
    Dunno that one. The thing that scared me the most was Hammer House of Horrors. and Arthur C. Clarks Mysteries.


    I used to love Not the Nine O'clock News. Rowan Atkinson was such a geek in that. I thought he looked sexy in Blackadder.

  4. #84
    Registered User Beowulf's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Location
    The Beoverse
    Posts
    7,985
    Rep Power
    13

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    On a slightly darker note - who remebers what I think is about the best British thriller ever put on TV?

    Edge of Darkness....
    I remember that!... a young Joanne Whalley (Later to be Joanne Whalley Kilmer) Plutonium in Gleneagles, and black flowers

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    The thing that scared me the most was Hammer House of Horrors. and Arthur C. Clarks Mysteries.
    Armchair theatre... the Nun in the Attic !! now THAT was scary !


    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    I used to love Not the Nine O'clock News. Rowan Atkinson was such a geek in that.
    and WHAT, pray, is wrong with being a geek?

  5. #85
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Southampton
    Posts
    6,709
    Rep Power
    13

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    They are rerunning Red Dwarf on Dave at the moment (Dave is a TV channel by the way)
    Most of you will not have seen the brilliant video to David Lee Roth's version of Just a gigolo. It's hilarious.

    The relevance is that it is set in a TV studio, with DLR as the presenter. It starts off with a cod-interview section which ends up with a sort of channel-ident bit finishing with DLR shouting "...on DA-A-AVE TV!!!" (David Lee Roth - geddit?)

    That was - 20 years ago? And now there really is a Dave TV.

  6. #86
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Southampton
    Posts
    6,709
    Rep Power
    13

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Hugh Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub.

    And speaking of Dibble - "OK, TC - what's going on here?" "Well hullo, Officer Dibble! How nice of you to drop by!"

  7. #87
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Location
    Waltham abbey
    Posts
    4,610
    Blog Entries
    4
    Rep Power
    12

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    there was a scary dracula film on when we were kids, most scary thing i ever watched, cant remember for the life of me what it was called. It was over two parts i think.. my brother was so scared he dived behind the settee when this dracula thing sat up all of a sudden on the screen. anyone have any clue?

  8. #88
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Waltham Abbey
    Posts
    5,534
    Rep Power
    12

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    Armchair theatre... the Nun in the Attic !! now THAT was scary !
    Do you mean Armchair Thrillers?




    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    and WHAT, pray, is wrong with being a geek?
    Nothing at all...especially when you are Rowan Atkinson with several hundred million in the bank

  9. #89
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Waltham Abbey
    Posts
    5,534
    Rep Power
    12

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    there was a scary dracula film on when we were kids, most scary thing i ever watched, cant remember for the life of me what it was called. It was over two parts i think.. my brother was so scared he dived behind the settee when this dracula thing sat up all of a sudden on the screen. anyone have any clue?
    Salem's Lot - starring David Soul.Terrifying.

  10. #90
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Location
    Waltham abbey
    Posts
    4,610
    Blog Entries
    4
    Rep Power
    12

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Salem's Lot - starring David Soul.Terrifying.
    oh god, thats the one. Absolutely frightened the bejeezers out of us all.

    They are bringing a new version out apparantely but i bet its no where near as scary.

    Anyone want to pass body fluid, find it and watch it.... even now, scary as hell.

  11. #91
    Registered User Beowulf's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Location
    The Beoverse
    Posts
    7,985
    Rep Power
    13

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Hugh Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub.
    Actually it's Pugh , Pugh.. Twin brothers. Bany McGrew is the only one with his forename.

    See here

  12. #92
    Formerly known as DavidJames David Bailey's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Location
    Norf Lundin
    Posts
    17,001
    Blog Entries
    1
    Rep Power
    18

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Crazy Shark View Post
    Nope doesn't ring a bell!!!
    Before your time (literally).
    Edge of Darkness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    I mainly remember it for a marvellously-OTT performance from Joe Don Baker as a CIA agent.

    It's dated well - some of the issues it raised (Gaia / environmentalism, loony right-wing American politicos) are even more relevant now than then.

    But the absolute best political TV series of the 1980s was Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister - it's almost difficult to believe how relevant it still is, 25 years on. And how much it now looks like a documentary rather than a satirical comedy...

  13. #93
    Registered User Beowulf's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Location
    The Beoverse
    Posts
    7,985
    Rep Power
    13

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Before your time (literally).
    Ah .. he's here already.. no wonder it's spreading out to his Heh heh thread !!

  14. #94
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Sep 2006
    Location
    South
    Posts
    5,424
    Blog Entries
    22
    Rep Power
    11

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by fletch View Post
    the Clangers


    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    I CANNOT believe no-one's said "TIZWAS" yet.

    Sally James


    How about Sapphire and Steel (I think that's what it was called?), with Joanna Lumley.

  15. #95
    Registered User Beowulf's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Location
    The Beoverse
    Posts
    7,985
    Rep Power
    13

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    How about Sapphire and Steel (I think that's what it was called?), with Joanna Lumley.

    Indeed and David McCallum too. Freaky Sci-fi madness.

    "All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."

  16. #96
    Registered User Isis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Glasgow
    Posts
    1,398
    Rep Power
    9

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    I bought my daughter the complete Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green. She watched them for 5 minutes and said "this is really boring".

    Kids today!!!!!

    I liked Mr. Benn, Bod, The Mister Men, Animal Crackers, Bagpuss, Swap Shop, The Muppet Show, Play School, Playaway.....

  17. #97
    Papa Smurf
    Join Date
    Jan 2002
    Location
    Planet Scathe
    Posts
    12,528
    Blog Entries
    6
    Rep Power
    18

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Isis View Post
    I bought my daughter the complete Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green. She watched them for 5 minutes and said "this is really boring".

    Kids today!!!!!

    I liked Mr. Benn, Bod, The Mister Men, Animal Crackers, Bagpuss, Swap Shop, The Muppet Show, Play School, Playaway.....
    how old is your daughter ? My daughter was not too bothered by Trumpton either but she is only 2. She loves the Muppet Show though , so do i of course, its far better than most "adult" tv nowadays Compare "Big Brother" and "The Muppet Show"...er...no contest

    Tikkabilla is almost exactly like Play Away and she likes that too.

  18. #98
    Registered User Isis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Glasgow
    Posts
    1,398
    Rep Power
    9

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    She's nearly 9 now. In her favour, she loves Rentaghost so there's hope for her yet.

  19. #99
    Dickie Davies' love-child Cruella's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Location
    Rugby
    Posts
    6,159
    Rep Power
    13

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Rowan Atkinson was such a geek in that. I thought he looked sexy in Blackadder.
    Seriously?

  20. #100
    An Eclectic Toaster
    Join Date
    Jan 2002
    Location
    Glasgow
    Posts
    2,042
    Rep Power
    12

    Re: Tenko, TV and general reminiscing...

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    Indeed and David McCallum too. Freaky Sci-fi madness.

    "All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."
    First one that always springs to mind for me is the one about the WWI soldier's ghost in the railway station. Great series, can't imagine anything like it being made nowadays, with its glacial pacing, impenetrable plots and minimal cast. Stick it on BBC4 and it'd be high art.

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Similar Threads

  1. Forumite TV Appearance
    By Will in forum Chit Chat
    Replies: 12
    Last Post: 9th-February-2004, 04:36 PM

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •