Obscure TV shows you really miss...

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:24 am 0

Firefox wrote:Dweebs! That was funny!

Rude Dog and The Dweebs? Or a totally different show?

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:19 am 0

Zen-Chan wrote:
Firefox wrote:Dweebs! That was funny!
Rude Dog and The Dweebs? Or a totally different show?

Nah, it was about a bunch of geeks who worked at a software company they'd set up. They were all massively socially disfunctional in varying ways but had mad skillz behind the keyboard.

They all really fancied their pretty office manager (who was an ordinary human bean) but didn't know how to talk to her because she was A Girl.

It was so funny because the different geek characters were all like various people I've worked with in real life but magnified by a hundred.

Istar · Post by **Istar** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:48 am 0

Mr Trimble.
Mary, Mungo and Midge.
Pipkins.

On a related note, my brother got me the complete Crystal Tipps and Alistair on DVD for xmas. A combination of the MM&M/Pugwash animation style, and the zoned-out whacky trippiness of Magic Roundabout. 'Course when I was 6 it was just a cool cartoon, but now I see it for the funky altered-state yellow-submarine-esque mindblast it really is.

Also, I saw The Herbs the other day on some backwater Sky channel. That was awesome. I used to have a Parsley the Lion as a child.

Ah, nostalgia.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:32 pm 0

Firefox wrote:Dweebs! That was funny!

I loved that show. Wasn't it on at some ungodly hour on C4 - something like 3am? I'm a big nerd for Stephen Tobolowsky anyway. According to epguides.com it only got halfway into it's first season before being canned...

turk182 · Post by **turk182** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:34 pm 0

Game On!
(But maybe only the ones with ben chaplin , pre hollywood).

Colonius · Post by **Colonius** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:23 pm 0

Ah another one.
Wattoo Wattoo superbird.
Twenty-five years later me and a mate still talk about it when we're drunk.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:24 pm 0

The Cedar Tree.....bet none of ya remember that!!

Istar · Post by **Istar** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:27 pm 0

i8manx wrote:The Cedar Tree.....bet none of ya remember that!!

Yep, 'fraid so. Replaced by The Sullivans in the 12.30 - 1pm slot, IIRC. Great program, The Cedar Tree. Didn't 'father' come home from the war in the last episode?

I.

Tetra Elemental · Post by **Tetra Elemental** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:30 pm 0

i8manx wrote:The Cedar Tree.....bet none of ya remember that!!

Very vaguely.
It was on at dinnertime and was about a family. I remember it bored the arse of me as I was having my dinner when I was a kid .

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:49 pm 0

Istar wrote:
i8manx wrote:The Cedar Tree.....bet none of ya remember that!!
Yep, 'fraid so. Replaced by The Sullivans in the 12.30 - 1pm slot, IIRC. Great program, The Cedar Tree. Didn't 'father' come home from the war in the last episode?

I.

My God, thats the first time anyone i have asked remembers it!!! Don't know if father made it home or not

I was really young when it was on, remember watching when i came home for my lunch when i was ickle

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:50 pm 0

aureole wrote:I loved that show. Wasn't it on at some ungodly hour on C4 - something like 3am? I'm a big nerd for Stephen Tobolowsky anyway. According to epguides.com it only got halfway into it's first season before being canned...

Yep, and yep sadly. I distinctly remember it because they had the boss of the company equip his office with a trampoline. Meetings were held on the trampoline

And having Stephen Tobolowsky in it just added to the cred...

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:58 pm 0

I miss the 11 O'Clock Show with Iian Lee and Daisy Donovan...... actually I mainly miss Daisy Donovan

merman · Post by **merman** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:00 pm 0

Matrixxx wrote:I miss the 11 O'Clock Show with Iian Lee and Daisy Donovan...... actually I mainly miss Daisy Donovan

Schwing!

Here's another oldie but goldie - EUREKA, with Wilf Lunn & Sylvester McCoy. Mad inventor Wilf would try to make something strange, like a worm-charming machine, and Sylvester would act the history of various inventions, like the biro...

Post by **Snakey** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:56 pm 0

Matrixxx wrote:I miss the 11 O'Clock Show with Iian Lee and Daisy Donovan...... actually I mainly miss Daisy Donovan

Stolen by the USA, mate.

Now starring in "Daisy Does America".

WHITAKER · Post by **WHITAKER** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:06 pm 0

Here's a REALLY obscure one I saw on tv in England many years ago. It was called Road Dreams or something like that. It was a half hour long and consisted of camera footage of American highways, roads, towns, etc, often shot from a moving car. Something like a music video, but the soundtrack was someone reading what I think was excerpts from 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac. Maybe it was a recording of Jack himself. Nothing more, just America and Kerouac. Wonderful. The effect was hypnotising and I've never forgotten it.