Forgotten TV Shows, Good TV Shows, Bad TV Shows and Underrated TV Shows PART 28 (Viewer Picks)

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Retro TV Round-Up - The Foot Of Our Stairs

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@MartinParnham 2 ай бұрын

Big fan of Rex The Runt. Very underrated, in my opinion. I actually used to work briefly with someone who had previously worked for Aardman and did some of the drawings/animations on Rex The Runt, which was pretty cool.

@erinallen7311 2 ай бұрын

I can suggest a forgotten/underrated show, Mongrels. It was a puppet sitcom on bbc 3 it ran for 2 seasons, obviously not for kids. I bad with spelling due to ASD, please excuse me, so I got the further source from Google, "All the animals hang around at the back of the Isle of Dogs pub in London and they all get into misadventures. The animals include metrosexual fox Nelson, who has a thing for self-centred Afghan hound Destiny. But Destiny does not have the same feelings for Nelson. Then there's grudge-holding pigeon Kali has a hatred of all humans and foxes because of their treatment of birds and Vince, a foul-mouthed fox who thinks of himself as a proper animal."

@ericpode6095 2 ай бұрын

I remember that! Destiny was voiced by Lucy Montgomery, a very funny lady. She had her own radio sketch show.

@ModelsExInferis 2 ай бұрын

Mongrels was a great show! I miss the old days when TV was actually good and wasn't wall-to-wall reality shite.

@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe 2 ай бұрын

Steve Coogan did a few voices also.

@erinallen7311 Ай бұрын

@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe ohh interesting

@erinallen7311 Ай бұрын

@@ModelsExInferisagreed.

@Chris_34 2 ай бұрын

"The Russ Abbott Show: a simple show for a more civilized age" *- Obi-Wan Kenobi*

@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe 2 ай бұрын

**The Russ Abbott Show** From the days when you only had to be slightly amusing to get a primetime TV programme. Thankfully, that generation of "comedy" quickly died its inevitable death.

@dazz1566 2 ай бұрын

RIP, Shelley Duval. I loved Rex The Runt & Banzai. Russ Abott was OK. I don't remember Kizzie. I was ten in 1976.

@ModelsExInferis 2 ай бұрын

I was born in 1976 so I've no hope of remembering Kizzie! 😂

@bulletproofblouse 2 ай бұрын

I really like the look of that Kizzy. Might have to find a source to watch that.

@Zombie_Problem 2 ай бұрын

The Great Egg Race (1979 to 1986) broadcasted on BBC 2. Started as a challenge to get an egg across the finishing line using limited resources and without breaking the egg. I learnt a lot about eggs, rubber band engines and we even had a (not so great) Egg Race at my old school. The egg-racing challenge was dropped by the show and evolved into a problem solving show. Teams would be given the challenge at the beginning of the episode with limited resources and they would hopefully solve the challenge by the end of the episode. It was great fun and often wonder about egg profits in the U.K. during 1979 and 1986. 🍳

@j0hnf_uk 2 ай бұрын

I managed to get hold of the, 'Rex the Runt', DVD a number of years ago, from the US, no less! Luckily for me, if was in PAL form, so had no issues playing it. There were 2 series, as I remember, both of which were shown around Christmas time of consecutive years, (2000 and 2001, I think), and so, will always be associated with it, despite having nothing to do with Christmas. The humour in both series was pretty surreal and played upon the fact that they were plastercine dogs to great effect. Vince being the favourite character who'd often come out with odd statements like, 'I like jam', for no apparent reason, or, 'Tuesday', in response to something said. I shall have to dig it out of my collection and have another watch. Maybe over Christmas? I vaguely remember Kizzy. One of those tea-time serials they used to show after John Craven's Newsround on a Tuesday or Wednesday. A lot of such series were instantly forgettable, (although, I remember one called, 'Graham's Gang', for some reason), and weren't generally repeated. They filled in the slot between the aforementioned Newsround and, sometimes, the 5 minute animated show, (of which there were many), before the News at 5.40 on BBC1. 'Banzai', was one of those shows on Friday nights on Channel 4, in the, 'just home from the pub', slot, that played on the idea of a Japanese gambling show that was, frankly, quite absurd. Good for a bit of a laugh, but soon got old.

@bulletproofblouse 2 ай бұрын

I got the 2CD box set of Rex The Runt from CEX for 59p in (around) 2011. I've trimmed my DVD collection down a lot, but that one's in the evergreen Keepers selection.

@brantnuttall 2 ай бұрын

10:17 Absolutely loved Banzai and who can forget the inimitable Mr Shake Hands Man.

@MartinParnham 2 ай бұрын

Lady One Question too! Fond memories of Banzai. It was nuts but reminds me of 6th Form/uni days and watching it after getting in from the pub - I think I must've watched some of the later series as repeats because I thought it had started airing around 2003 but obviously was earlier then I remember.

@denverleatherboy Ай бұрын

Blah blah blah, KZbin PAY THE MAN! !!! CHEERS MATE!!

@thefrecklepuny 2 ай бұрын

Glad to see my suggestion of Kizzy getting a mention. I think all episodes are on KZbin.

@dinara_safina 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for mentioning this! I think it's a show I'll really enjoy. (and cry over)

@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe 2 ай бұрын

RE,: Banzai channel 4. "Burt Kwouk was Chinese:" He was born in Warrington.

@neilold7291 2 ай бұрын

Excellent. The secret cabaret. Brilliant channel four magic show that is criminally unknown. Ultra cool and introduced us to Ricky jay and his amazing card skills. Also help introduce many to Simon drake Britain's coolest magician. Specially worth seeing for his beheading trick. Made magic on tv go from terrible to amazing

@ComboNation8 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact about Fairy Tale Theatre: after Shelley Duvall completed her studio commitments, she told her agent "No more violence!" She figured there was less violence in children's shows.

@Chris_34 2 ай бұрын

Good: Roobarb and Custard. Great cartoon with an iconic theme tune.

@Toooldforthis78 2 ай бұрын

My son loves that, he only has to watch an episode and that’s it, the theme tunes in my head for days!!

@Chris_34 2 ай бұрын

@@Toooldforthis78 Once heard never forgotten😆👍

@jerzywoking1699 2 ай бұрын

I loved "Angry Kid" by Aardman Animations, shown on Channel 4 before moving to BBC3. Brilliant short films, particularly when he was in the car with his dad and sister or when he was out on his bike on his own. Still makes me laugh.

@MartinParnham 2 ай бұрын

I vaguely remember that being on. I shall try and seek it out on KZbin.

@witterth 2 ай бұрын

love your work man!!

@Justinian-IV 2 ай бұрын

Rex the Runt was great.

@MartySulls Ай бұрын

There is a great forgotten BBC series that I recall fondly whilst laying on the sofa. The usual thing. Bunking off from school and sipping on Lucazade. BBC SCHOOLS - EVERYDAY MATHS 1978 series. It was a schools programmer that encouraged maths skills. But to me it was more like a sitcom. It starred Jack Wild who was the big time Artful Dodger at the time. And the majestic Arthur English playing his dithery grandfather. They would both go about their business whist working out various maths problems. Loved it.

@tech10k14 2 ай бұрын

Russ Abbott's show: 80s cringe perfection.

@mjx2207 2 ай бұрын

Rex the Runt excellent 💯

@BigHairyKev 2 ай бұрын

*Cool nostalgia!* ⭐😃👍

@djmattblack 2 ай бұрын

Was that Nick Nack from Man with the golden gun in Fairy tale theatre?

@jeremywade9287 2 ай бұрын

Yes it was.

@ModelsExInferis 2 ай бұрын

I was just thinking about Banzai the other day, but for some reason it was in my head as an actual Japanese game show al la Takeshi's Castle. Silly brain! Rex the Runt was epic, I loved that show! Russ Abbot is a national treasure! Every single time I hear someone say "atmosphere" that song pops right into my head, love it! Great video, have subbed for more!

@sturussell6599 2 ай бұрын

An underrated or forgotten one from me is Still Standing. It's an American sitcom from 2002 starring York's own Mark Addy (yes, I know that's the wrong side of the big hill for you) and the stunning Jami Gertz. It's about working class parents in Chicago, and the antics they get up to.

@MartysWhiteSuit 2 ай бұрын

There was quite a rare TV show from, I think, the 80s' called 'The Secret Cabaret', where they did illusions up close to the camera. It was a late night thing with a bit of gore. Wish they had more of that. Also, further back, a programme for kids called 'Rocket Robin Hood'. It was a lot of the Robin Hood stuff, but set in space. Best of luck in finding these. I was a space kid, so used to watch a lot of stuff like that.

@ronaldwayne7092 2 ай бұрын

The Friar Tuck vignette shatters the Unintentional Comedy Scale.

@BigKelvPark Ай бұрын

Can't go wrong with Banzai's 'Mr Shake Hands Man'. I do have the DVD of the first season but some of the music has been changed due to licencing issues. The Rabbi Bible Challenge just doesn't seem to work as well with 'swing low sweet chariot' compared to the original 'Ding A Dong' music. Classic after the pub TV. Monkey Dust is one of my all time favourites you may want to include later. Another great nostalgia trip!

@lonewolfhamradio 2 ай бұрын

I remember Kizzy mainly because we had gypsies at the end of our road in the 70’s and they really did have the bow top wagons and horses. Pretty sure her nan was burned in her wagon the romany way but I could be wrong. Thanks for the memories

@sergioandrade8735 2 ай бұрын

Danger Man which I knew in the U.S. as "Secret Agent" A.K.A. 'John Drake' or 'Desination: Danger'Patrick McGoohan as a hard boiled spy, character development rather than gun fights and love scenes. 4 series 1960-1968. Also U.S. had the coolest theme song "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers.

@dinara_safina 2 ай бұрын

"I really want to have a wee, but it's too cold." - Best line in TV! I loved Fairy Tale Theater! (RIP Shelley Duvall.) If I'm correct, Jane Weidlin from the Go-Go's was in the Sleeping Beauty episode as a fairy, or maybe that was some other fairy tale show. Check out The Charmings, a sitcom from the 80's about Snow White and the Prince raising a family. Does anyone know where/if I can watch Kizzy? I'd not heard of it, but it looks like something I'd enjoy.

@jamesjimbob71 2 ай бұрын

i loved Faerie Tale Theatre the stories were great one story i will always remember is golidilocks starring tatum o'neal, another great story based program was storybook international

@AndrewHalliwell 2 ай бұрын

Got another oh my God I'd forgotten about that one, and this was one even I'd forgotten until i watched a Cosgrove Ball retrospective about a week ago. Possibly one of the first tv programmes i ever saw. The magic ball.

@thefrecklepuny 2 ай бұрын

Another very forgotten series has got to be 'Quick on the draw'. It was a quiz show presented by Bob Monkhouse, a talented artist in his own right. Monkhouse drew the questions, and three celebrity contestants had to respond by sketching cartoons to illustrate their answers. They also had to provide captions for cartoons drawn by others. Marks were awarded for the best efforts. I remember this being on when I was a kid and enjoyed it as I was an aspiring cartoonist.

@peteince 2 ай бұрын

There was a show in the early 1980s called 'Going Out.' Written by Phil Redmond and made by Southern TV. I've got an unofficial DVD of the show bought around 15 years ago. Obviously copied from a recording on VHS video tape from the TV. Poor quality. I don't think it was ever officially released on any format.

@Chris_34 2 ай бұрын

Good: The Boy Who Won the Pools. Early 1980's series about a boy whose aunt wins the pools and gives him the money. Apart from him buying a Ferrari and a tiger I don't remember a great deal about it (I was pretty young), I do remember I liked it, though.

@1rhpsfan 2 ай бұрын

2 Excellent choices, "Mystery Science Theater 3000" wich debuted in 1988 on an indipendant channel KTMA in Hopkins Minnesota USA then The Comedy Channel from 1989-1991, Comedy Central from 1991- 1996, Sci-fi Channel from 1997- 1999, Netflix from 2017- 2018, and finally the Gizmoplex which started in 2022. A man (or woman In the case of Season 13) is trapped in space by Mad Scientists, and forced to watch bad movies, however the subject of the Mads' experiments always have help from their Robot friends as they make jokes during the movies they watch the end results for the most part is hilarious. And, "Let's Make a Deal" on CBS in the USA, an update of a Game Show that started in 1963, the newest version started in 2009. Wayne Brady, Jonathan Magnum, and Tiffany Coyne, play games with Costumed Contestants for money, and prizes, and avoid Zonks that would make them lose the games, the fun that the guests, Wayne, and company have really show through in each episode.

@ericbay398 2 ай бұрын

'Beast Wars', Excellent. Set 300 years after the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons, their descendants, Maximals and Predacons, crash land on a planet that has a radiation that will kill them from overexposure. But since organic life is unaffected, they make alternative forms based on local wildlife. That's a lot to process, but the outcome made an incredible show.

@Toooldforthis78 2 ай бұрын

Banzai was a funny one, it seemed to be everybody was talking about it and it was an instant cult classic when it came out but then it sort of fizzled out really quickly and people seemed to rapidly get bored of it. I liked it.

@paultapner2769 2 ай бұрын

Excellent: {and also forgotten because it didn't come back to me till this morning. No idea why it popped into my head] Sexton Blake and the Demon God. Sexton Blake was a fictional private detective who just happened to live in Baker St and smoke a pipe. He was in British magazines and books and Black and white B-movies in the 30's. Also after that on the radio. This tv version was in that 4.30pm sunday dinner time classics slot on BBC1. Six thirty min long episodes saw Sexton and his loyal sidekick Tinker on the trail of an evil cult trying to resurrect an ancient Egyptian god. Proper pulp fiction. It brought the character to life perfectly and was great entertainment. For anyone who read the short lived comic Tornado in 1979, that had a story called Victor Drago. Victor Drago was supposed to be Sexton Blake. But then at the last minute the publisher found they didn't actually have the rights. They'd thought otherwise. So he had to be slightly retooled. He was Sexton Blake by any other name though.

@brantnuttall 2 ай бұрын

6:17 Herve bless him!

@IainThomson-dc8ge 2 ай бұрын

I liked the planet of the apes t.v. series starring Roddy McDowell Ron Harper and James naughton it ran for 13 episodes in 1974 I think they based it ten years after the events of the planet of the apes film's

@marcusblackwell2372 2 ай бұрын

It seems to have been popular when it aired, but one show that I think is (these days) underrated is a South African show called Pumpkin Patch. It was made during the Apartheid era as, effectively, a way to protest the movement, as that show had people of multiple races on it. Unfortunately, the show does suffer some less than stellar puppetry, but it doesn't look like it was high-budget anyway. If you want to learn more about it, a Canadian channel named Jett McPlane (a psrson whose channel is all about underrated puppet media) made a good video explaining it. Another definitely underrated one though is called "Magic Mouse Magazine", created by a certain Harvey Matusow, a person with a very interesting life, as he was an Ametican communist who believed in McCarthy-era ideas, but then changed later on in life. It's a lot to explain. The show, however, is a public access show from I assume Tucson, Arizona, showcasing the talents of the local Magic Mouse Theater, while also having a few moral lessons, too. It's a show best watched and researched, rather than spoken of

@tomsenior7405 2 ай бұрын

Ye Gods! I haven't heard of any of these shows this time around. Usually there is one I have heard of. Occasionally there is one I may have watched. I seem to have missed out on life, by not watching telly and doing other things. Fair play to the guys who suggested this stull.

@GodLovesYou828 2 ай бұрын

The second pix on thumbnail looks like chris chan

@davidbarton1928 2 ай бұрын

Excellent/Forgotten The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986) is based upon the 1983 book by Fay Weldon of the same name. The titular She Devil is Ruth, a tall and unconventional woman played by Julie T. Wallace. Ruth discovers that her husband Bobbo (Dennis Waterman) is having an affair with author Mary Fisher (Patricia Hodge), so she decides to exact a terrible revenge on both of them. The show also stars 4th Doctor Tom Baker as Father Ferguson, one of Ruth's more enthusiastic lovers. There was a later Hollywood movie adaptation starring Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep. The TV show is much better.

@McSynth 2 ай бұрын

Kizzy, the story of a young stage school girl who was forced to take elocutuon lessons and speak in BBC English / Received Pronunciation - just like all Romany girls..

@CaitiffPrimogen 2 ай бұрын

PLACE BETS NOW! A friend bought me a Banzai DVD with some of the better bets, but also a sort of interactive guessing game as a bonus feature. Kept us amused for an hour or so. BETTING ENDS!

@erinallen7311 2 ай бұрын

BANZAI!!!!!!!!