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Post by Three Litre on Jul 1, 2019 21:30:38 GMT
Magic Roundabout. I had a strange childhood... Villain Belter of a show. Especially that chap with a spring up his arse.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jul 1, 2019 21:32:57 GMT
Can think of a few more;
How!
Out of town with Jack Hargreaves - programme which told you about old fashioned antique devices and machines and farming methods etc (Got amusingly lampooned by The Fast Show - Bob Fleming sketches?!)
Bygones - another antique/oldy worldy programme - with Dick Joyce
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Post by Three Litre on Jul 1, 2019 21:36:55 GMT
Can think of a few more;
How!
Out of town with Jack Hargreaves - programme which told you about old fashioned antique devices and machines and farming methods etc (Got amusingly lampooned by The Fast Show - Bob Fleming sketches?!)
Bygones - another antique/oldy worldy programme - with Dick Joyce
How! was good, I think one the presenters is still going, Fred Dineage.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 1, 2019 22:09:12 GMT
Not a lot of truly 'adult' material so far until....
One of my friends used to be alone in the house of a morning during the school holidays. Being an inquisitive child he once went to his father's cupboard where he kept his cine projector. I'd gone around there one morning with the intention of playing on his Scalextric while his mum was at work but he had other ideas. Amongst the family birthday and Christmas cine films he'd found something altogether different! Properly adult!
It was very tame by today's standards and had many appearances of what can only be describe as 'Welcome Mats' but to an impressionable pair of eleven or twelve year olds this took "Postman's Knock" to a whole new level.
Sam
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Post by Sparky on Jul 2, 2019 6:27:25 GMT
One of the films didn't feature a guy handcuffed to a bed being whipped by 2 nuns, then part way through, Gene Hunt and his team crash in and nick everyone?
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Post by Sparky on Jul 2, 2019 6:31:11 GMT
For some reason, I used to watch "World in Action" - never understood it as a child, but it had a great theme tune!
Yes, great theme tune! I often used to watch this, although the subjects they investigated were sometimes quite scary for a kid! I remember watching one about the Ku Klux Klan and racism in America around 1980. I may have seen that one too. There was another about Domestic Violence, that freaked me out.
A groundbreaking and well respected TV series, but certainly not for the faint hearted!
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 2, 2019 7:42:28 GMT
One of the films didn't feature a guy handcuffed to a bed being whipped by 2 nuns, then part way through, Gene Hunt and his team crash in and nick everyone? No, it wasn't a horror movie!
If I remember rightly it was just the two nuns....
Sam.
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Post by Three Litre on Jul 2, 2019 8:01:42 GMT
One of the films didn't feature a guy handcuffed to a bed being whipped by 2 nuns, then part way through, Gene Hunt and his team crash in and nick everyone? Picturing that has put me right off my breakfast Shreddies.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jul 2, 2019 16:44:08 GMT
One of the films didn't feature a guy handcuffed to a bed being whipped by 2 nuns, then part way through, Gene Hunt and his team crash in and nick everyone? Can't remember the nuns but do remember a certain colleague of mine being tied to a bed one night by a young bird who danced at The Warren. It involved a camera an'all. Gene Genie.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 2, 2019 20:29:41 GMT
In my early to mid teens I was a regular at the local video rental shop, my mum used to take me down & I'd pick out some video nasty for her to hand to the bloke behind the counter Films that seem tame by today's standards but in the 80's with only 3 or 4 tv channels these films were the first time anyone would've seen explicit violence/gore. My mum made the odd comment about some of the titles, I remember her worrying about me watching 'First Blood' because it had 'blood' in the title. I usually watched the films by myself when the family were out or in bed but on one occasion the family sat down to watch 'Death Wish 2'...big mistake...my mum was disgusted by the rape scene early on & told my dad to turn it off. Pretty awkward.
Whenever there was a show or film with adult content on tv that I wanted to record I'd place an empty video cassette box against the machine's display so no one could see I was taping it. You could still hear the VCR whirring but I usually got away with it. One time my brother set the video to tape 'The Great Rock N Roll Swindle' on channel 4, my dad happened to turn it on towards the end of the film when 'Frigging In The Rigging' is playing. He stopped recording it & lectured my brother the next day about foul language.
I was a big fan of horror films as a teen & had gory film posters all over my bedroom walls, whenever I did anything wrong my parents liked to put my behaviour down to 'all those horror films you watch'. Used to get stick at school as well from other kids for watching them.
Happy days
On a different note I recall the Steve Davis/Dennis Taylor snooker final in April 1985, as you may remember it was an epic battle & didn't finish till after midnight. I still remember the headmaster talking about it the following day at assembly. According to wikipedia it still has the record for highest viewing figures ever after midnight in UK tv history.
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