I bought a Monty Python DVD and it really hadn’t aged well. I think the films still stand up well, but the TV series had only a few minutes of funny stuff per episode
I tried watching Call My Bluff on iPlayer a couple of weeks back. I thought I liked Frank Muir, but in reality I think I just liked the Fruit and Nut ads. Call my Bluff was so painfully slow it felt like I'd doubled my age by the time that a semi-comatosed me managed to hit the off button about ten minutes in. Was life really so painfully slow back then? It seems like it wasn't just music that needed Punk Rock's big kick up the arse.
All those 70's quiz shows they're currently showing on BBC2(?) like Going For A Song, Call My Bluff and Face The Music are truly dreadful but were massively popular. Not really in keeping with the thread as I hated them as a kid and still do it seems.
I'll chuck The Professionals in the pot though, loved it when it came out, dreadful now.
I tried watching Call My Bluff on iPlayer a couple of weeks back. I thought I liked Frank Muir, but in reality I think I just liked the Fruit and Nut ads. Call my Bluff was so painfully slow it felt like I'd doubled my age by the time that a semi-comatosed me managed to hit the off button about ten minutes in. Was life really so painfully slow back then? It seems like it wasn't just music that needed Punk Rock's big kick up the arse.
All those 70's quiz shows they're currently showing on BBC2(?) like Going For A Song, Call My Bluff and Face The Music are truly dreadful but were massively popular. Not really in keeping with the thread as I hated them as a kid and still do it seems.
I'll chuck The Professionals in the pot though, loved it when it came out, dreadful now.
They were massively popular because there was only World in Action and Panorama on the other two channels, probably.
I tried watching Call My Bluff on iPlayer a couple of weeks back. I thought I liked Frank Muir, but in reality I think I just liked the Fruit and Nut ads. Call my Bluff was so painfully slow it felt like I'd doubled my age by the time that a semi-comatosed me managed to hit the off button about ten minutes in. Was life really so painfully slow back then? It seems like it wasn't just music that needed Punk Rock's big kick up the arse.
All those 70's quiz shows they're currently showing on BBC2(?) like Going For A Song, Call My Bluff and Face The Music are truly dreadful but were massively popular. Not really in keeping with the thread as I hated them as a kid and still do it seems.
I'll chuck The Professionals in the pot though, loved it when it came out, dreadful now.
Agree that The Professionals isn't as good as the memory of it - but it's still passable.
On the other hand, I could watch original episodes of The Sweeney all day long.
Blake 7. They must have made that for about £2.50.
I'm simultaneously looking forward to, and dreading the new blu-ray re-release of Blake's Seven. I loved it as a kid but worried watching it now would be a disappointment with shonky sets, 70s costumes and cheap special effects.
A few years back I watched Lost in Space - at the age of 9 I was captivated by it, but seeing it in colour rather than black and white, and a probably clearer picture it was embarassingly awful.
A couple of years back I told my 5 year old granddaughter how lucky she was to have modern children's TV.
All I had was Bill and Ben and the Wooden Tops. To prove the point I played an example of each on Youtube. She sat there mesmerised throughout. Maybe they weren't so bad?
I bought a Monty Python DVD and it really hadn’t aged well. I think the films still stand up well, but the TV series had only a few minutes of funny stuff per episode
It did at the time. It’s just that some of it was brilliant.
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In my teens I watched The Wonder Years, I think I marvelled at America back then.
I'm watching it again with the family now and it's still very good. Well written, acted, poignant and has many messages.
It could be that it hasn't aged badly not only because of the above, but also as it was set in the late 60s and early 70s.
I'll chuck The Professionals in the pot though, loved it when it came out, dreadful now.
On the other hand, I could watch original episodes of The Sweeney all day long.
...Fawlty Towers and Blackadder...that's about it🤷♂️
I'm simultaneously looking forward to, and dreading the new blu-ray re-release of Blake's Seven. I loved it as a kid but worried watching it now would be a disappointment with shonky sets, 70s costumes and cheap special effects.
All I had was Bill and Ben and the Wooden Tops. To prove the point I played an example of each on Youtube. She sat there mesmerised throughout. Maybe they weren't so bad?
It’s just that some of it was brilliant.
"Chuck him on the backseat? He's the driver"
https://x.com/OnlyFoolsLines/status/1588219971917807616
The Jolly Boys Outing episode is probably one of my favourite pieces of TV ever. Margate exactly how I remember it when I was a kid. Love it.