Favorite TV show current and classic

[mstink]

What is your favorite Tv show that is on TV now?
What is your favorite classic (meaning it is no longer on the air) TV show?

For me the current TV show is Prison Break and my classic TV show is Miami Vice.

[teashoci]

My favourite show now would be skins (brit show)

And my favourite in the past was the prison series oz.

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by mstink

What is your favorite Tv show that is on TV now?
What is your favorite classic (meaning it is no longer on the air) TV show?

For me the current TV show is Prison Break and my classic TV show is Miami Vice.

I don't watch television now (apart from when I have to visit my parents, where there is compulsory "Coronation Street" plus any amount of news /current affairs documentaries etc.) but old favourites ... well ... sorry but I'm afraid they would be the fairly obvious ones - "The Goodies" when I was a much younger Celyn, (and, yes, that lot were indeed very good - a light-hearted and rather slapstick-y comedy series that did, however, have a go at social and political issues. Anyone remember the "ApartHeight" episode with poor wee Bill Oddie getting all discriminated against for not having the socially approved features, in this case, height? And I always liked the Bill Oddie character 'cos he was the wee scruffy one ),

and "Monty Python", then "Not The Nine O' Clock News". The “Ripping Yarns” series, although, of course, short-lived, was wonderful.

Years later, I liked “Drop the Dead Donkey”, although I would doubt very much that it would ever have been sold to be shown in other countries, being, as it was, a funny thing set in a newsroom, but always running very much with what was current in the U.K. News scene that week. So it would not be a thing that you would recognise, Mstink.


Having given up on watching telly, I think I do have to admit that there is probably much that is good that I probably would like. (I really have to teach myself that the television does have some good stuff), so things like the more recent “Chewing the Fat”, for instance, I have only seen a couple of chance episodes of, but I did like that.

Oh heck, I am just now realising how my notion of “what I enjoyed on telly” is focussing more upon the old, ancient things - “Vital Spark” anyone? I mean the one with Roddy McMillan et al, although I think there has been a more recent re-doing of it. Hmm, I feel a bit daft and old now.

Oh, hang about, I always used to like "Brookside", something that might have started off as a “soap-opera” thingwie, and with a slightly more realistic approach than others, but by the end had be become quite a comedy, with ALL sorts of strange mad stuff happening to this tiny little housing estate in Liverpool - mad assasins, drug wars (O.K., that one might not be so far fetched), but when it comes to outbreaks of PLAGUE, for goodness sake. That cute phrase about “jumping the shark” has to come to mind.

Hmm, you are a very bad person, Mstink, because you do remind me that it might be all right to watch television at times. Oh well, shall I go and put the plug back on to the bairdboard bombardment screen, then? ( I took the plug off it a few years ago in a fit of annoyance, deciding that it was a completely stupid thing. But I was wrong, I think.

Oh, but me admitting to being wrong? Me? Wrong? “Oh-ho, it wasnae fur the first time, Ah-ha, glory hallelujah”

Well, well, such nostalgia for the television: watch out, or I will be thinking about “Watch With Mother” and “Trumpton” next.

And indeed, why not? Let's hear it for “Camberwick Green”, and for “Bill and Ben”. And maybe even “Hector's House” (not as good as "Bill and Ben" , though, now there was a childrem's telly programme that really helped teach children how to speak the language.

Ooh, and the Rory Bremner thing is very good too. Yes, indeedy, the more I think of it, the more I think that telly is to be watched again.

Curses! Mstink, I hold you responsible, and just when you are soon heading off to China, too, a place where I doubt you will be watching much television, not least because you see to be in charge of leading and controlling 44 teenagers.

Oh, and since I mentioned "The Goodies" here is a picture of when they were on a mission to save everyone from the world-threatening evil that was Kitten Kong.

[Polwarth]

Yer showin yer age, Celyn!

I liked Tutti Frutti and Taking over the Asylum.

Nowadays - well, there ain't much I'm enamoured with...

[Celyn]

Ooh, heck yes! I had forgotten those, shame on me. Terrific, both. When "Tutti Frutti" was on telly, I was living in Englandshire, and a wee while after that, was up to Glasgow, bringing the Sassenach boyfriend mannie with me.

Oho, funny, one day, we were happily wandering along street, as one does, although normally does peacefully and without friend shouting out loudly “Oh! Oh! Look over there, Celyn!”

Me says “ yes, I look, now why do I look, and what is it that is I must look at, 'cos I don't see anything unusual so far”

Himself: "oh, look - that theatre there - it says it is called the "Pavilion".

"Yes, it is" Says me. (quite bemused) "But why is it of so much interest to you suddenly? I mean, it is a fine old traditional theatre, but it does tend to go in for doing things that we probably would not bother to see ... so why, anyway, does this Pavilion Theatre make you so interested?"

So, Himself explains that surely it was the very same Pavilion theatre that was involved in the ""Tutti Frutti" thing, when the “Majestics" were doing a "comeback" thing and managing to get a good gig, and he explains that he had not thought it to be a real place, but merely something invented for the telly series.

Anyway, English boyfriend was making a fine show of himself, pointing and shouting with great glee, for all the world as though he had just found the Loch Ness Monster.

(In fact, later, on another visit, same fella, when we were briefly stopping in Dundee, on the way to the far more civilised Fife (I just put that in to annoy any stray natives of Peh City, of course, Dundee is a wonderful place, really.) turned out to be surprised to find that William McGonagall had really existed and was not merely an invention of Spike Milligan. He got roundly laughed at later, when we met my East Coast peeps, but, then again, we all did so much laughing, what with us all doing readings from the great works of William Topaz McG that we were in danger of forgetting to go out and find the local pub. William Mcgonagall - lousy poet, but a great entertainer. )

And “Taking Over the Asylum” was absolutely wonderful. It really was. I think I need a time machine, because I want to see that again. Ken Stott is very good. But I do recall that whole thing as being enormously good alltogether. Oh, all right, I do rather get the impression that video tape have been invented, And even DVD thingwies. I'm just a bit slow on the uptake, that's all.

And as for showing my age,

hey, look who's talking.


< Celyn runs away fast so as not to get thumped by Polwarth>

[Polwarth]

Jist as weel.... jist as weel...

[Celyn]

Indeed, yes, jist as weel. The thought of being, chased, harassed, and horribly thumped by a Miss Jean Brodie is far too fearsome to contemplate.

Oh! Fetch me the smelling salts now!