31-01-2018 23:55 - edited 31-01-2018 23:56
31-01-2018 23:55 - edited 31-01-2018 23:56
I used to love Saturday evening tv as a kid. And watching Hi-De-Hi was a weekend favourite! Was just reading an article, HERE .. 30 years ago since it finished its run.. 19million viewers.. I don’t think anything gets that these days..
So what were you doing / watching 30 years ago???
(Noel Edmunds has to feature in this thread somewhere!!!)
on 02-02-2018 00:09
on 02-02-2018 00:09
We watched all the American programmes back in the day. Our love of touring the US came from watching those programmes, we wanted to see all those fabulous cities where the programmes were made.
Some come to mind and others I can't remember the names of.
Rockford Files, Mork & Mindy, M.A.S.H., TAXI, Streets of San Francisco, Quincey ME, CHiPs, Happy Days, Kojak, Different Strokes, Hawii Five-O, The Mary Tyler-Moore Show, I Dream of Genie and all the shows mentioned above.Most unmissable in their day.
Some my wife watched that I had to suffer such as Dallas, Little House on the Prairie, Beverly Hills 90120, Soap, Return to Peyton Place, Knots Landing....you get the general gist. Obviously many more but long since we'll forgotten.
I had to make do with Bonanza and Guns more. ...sad innit!
Her particular favourite was Starsky & Hutch because she drooled over Paul Michael Glaser and our youngest son was named Paul Michael.....I only let her get away away with that because I liked the names!
I think my big favourite was Alias Smith and Jones though my wife enjoyed that too because she also had a thing for Ben Murphy whilst I thought Pete Duell was pretty cool...as was James Garner in Rockford and Maverick !
Ah memories.....but also loss of these days!
on 02-02-2018 00:59
on 02-02-2018 01:12
on 02-02-2018 01:12
I forgot to mention another programme that avoided by playing with the kids....Falcon Crest...not sure who she drooled over in that, in fact I couldn't for the life of me name anyone in it!
on 02-02-2018 03:07
on 02-02-2018 03:12
02-02-2018 07:40 - edited 02-02-2018 07:52
02-02-2018 07:40 - edited 02-02-2018 07:52
Of the three, Dallas, Dynasty and Knots Landing, I watched Dynasty the most. It appeared to have more glitz and glamour. Mind you, the fight in Dallas between Alexis and Krystal was TV gold at the time...
I forgot to mention Knight Rider. I liked David Hasselhoff in that one. (and nothing else he did after)
In fact I liked a lot of TV. Couldn't always follow a series though. That was the problem with shift work back in those days....
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on 02-02-2018 08:04
on 02-02-2018 08:04
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Oh @jonsie sorry but Falcon Crest was another show I regularly watched. I can't remember all the show's stars but, and I don't know why, and this could be totally insane, I think Jane Wyman was the star. If anybody can remember Falcon Crest and can tell me if I'm imagining this or not I'd be most grateful.
Yes.... Jane Wyman was in Falcons Crest, as well as Kim Novak and Gina Lollobrigida. The rest were a bunch of actors I have never heard of. I googled it as I never watched it....
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on 02-02-2018 09:51
What happy memories all the above ^ ^ ^ you have brought back for me
Big Valley with Barbara Stanwyck leading the cast ... I remember it had great theme music
My earliest tv memories are of the American made tv programmed eg Whirlybirds / The Lone Ranger / Hawkeye & Chingjacook (bad spelling) may be called The Mohecans
There was an English soap centred on the posh boating community somewhere dahn sarf but I can't remember it's name, but I liked it
Also Triangle with Kate o' Mara in but I watched it for the leading man who's name I can't remember, he is still around on British tv
Anyone remember the somewhat short lived Eldorado, I liked that as it showed me a Mediterranean lifestyle
on 02-02-2018 09:56
on 02-02-2018 09:56
wrote:
wrote:
Oh @jonsie sorry but Falcon Crest was another show I regularly watched. I can't remember all the show's stars but, and I don't know why, and this could be totally insane, I think Jane Wyman was the star. If anybody can remember Falcon Crest and can tell me if I'm imagining this or not I'd be most grateful.Yes.... Jane Wyman was in Falcons Crest, as well as Kim Novak and Gina Lollobrigida. The rest were a bunch of actors I have never heard of. I googled it as I never watched it....
Thanks @Cleoriff. I didn't think to Google it I was working from memory. At leasr I know I wasn't mad when I said Jane Wyman
on 02-02-2018 10:24
on 02-02-2018 10:24
Actually I was quite amazed to see Gina and Kim Novak in it as well.
Every day is a school day...
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