Stuff you've found on TV worth watching

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I'm 3/4 the way through series 1 of 'Starsky & Hutch', yes, it's as cheesy and as good in equal measures as I remember it the first time round as an impressionable kid in the '70s, but the cars are worth the purchase price alone, and I'd forgotten how good Lalo Schifrin's original score is. A breath of fresh air in a world full of 'orrible germs, tribal politics on social media and a repetitive round the clock 'news' onslaught.

Before 'S&H' I watched the whole of 'The Invaders', with Roy Thinnes getting paranoid about alien visitors and slightly dodgy early Star Trek style special effects. Brilliant, creepy, loads of ace yank cars and very watchable!

Next in line is The Rockford Files... ;)
 
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P5Nij said:
I'm 3/4 the way through series 1 of 'Starsky & Hutch', yes, it's as cheesy and as good in equal measures as I remember it the first time round as an impressionable kid in the '70s, but the cars are worth the purchase price alone, and I'd forgotten how good Lalo Schifrin's original score is. A breath of fresh air in a world full of 'orrible germs, tribal politics on social media and a repetitive round the clock 'news' onslaught.

Before 'S&H' I watched the whole of 'The Invaders', with Roy Thinnes getting paranoid about alien visitors and slightly dodgy early Star Trek style special effects. Brilliant, creepy, loads of ace yank cars and very watchable!

Next in line is The Rockford Files... ;)
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I got Invasion:UFO (1974) which is a movie made from cut out bits from the TV series UFO, it's not bad, I find the UFO TV series drags on a bit. Absolute tosh though!

I really want to rewatch The Partridge Family - I know it's rank but would bring back so many memories. Come-a come-a down, doo be doo down down. Cant see it anywhere even if worst comes to worst, to actually pay for it.
 
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Wanderer said:
I got Invasion:UFO (1974) which is a movie made from cut out bits from the TV series UFO, it's not bad, I find the UFO TV series drags on a bit. Absolute tosh though!

I really want to rewatch The Partridge Family - I know it's rank but would bring back so many memories. Come-a come-a down, doo be doo down down. Cant see it anywhere even if worst comes to worst, to actually pay for it.
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You really are getting lockdown fever :D

If you want to rewatch your childhood at least make it Tiswas and The Banana Splits but here you go £8

www.ebay.co.uk

The Partridge Family series 1.dvd | eBay

THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY SERIES ONE.DVD SLEEVE AND DISCS ARE IN EX+ CONDITION.
www.ebay.co.uk
 
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Bangers and cash

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Watch Bangers and Cash Series & Episodes on UKTV Play

Behind the scenes of a Yorkshire-based, family-run historic car auction business.
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Mathewsons | Classic Car Auctions in North Yorkshire

Mathewsons | Classic Car Auctions in North Yorkshire
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I've got through the first season
One thing I have noticed , everybody and I mean everybody not a dealer buying and selling is over 60 , all the automobillia buyers are over 60

Classic car prices have to start falling soon because nobody young is interested it seems
 
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I've got through the first season
One thing I have noticed , everybody and I mean everybody not a dealer buying and selling is over 60 , all the automobillia buyers are over 60

Classic car prices have to start falling soon because nobody young is interested it seems
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Classics tend to move with the times, no one will be after Daimler Darts but VW Golfs of various marks or E46 BMWs.
 
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Enjoying Bodies again iPlayer. Set on a Gynae ward - a bit grim at times but some deliciously dark humour. Particularly Keith Allen's jaded outlook.
Oh - his reg. plate is VAG 1.
 
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Just noticed there's a few good films on the BBC iPlayer
The Dammed United is on
Doesn't matter if you hate football you'll like this , I've never watched a match all the way through but really enjoyed the film , it's about the people not the game.
Michael Sheen is brilliant in it
 
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BBC:

Killing Eve
Fleabag
Peaky blinders
Giri / Haji (quirky Anglo - Japanese contemporary gangster thing. Very good)

Netflix:
Breaking Bad (if not seen you'll have heard about it. Worth the hype) if you like that, the prequel is:
Better Call Saul
After Life
Fargo (series based loosely on the Coen Brothers film. Quirky, violent, epic. Some British actors)
Narcos
Narcos Mexico
Bloodline
Tell me who I am
Don't **** with cats
Confession killer

Sky/ Hbo:

Gomorrah (this is the #1 of the lot IMHO. Italian Neapolitan crime family drama series. "epic" dies not do it justice. Brutal, shocking, hyper - real. All the romance of the Godfather et Al completely absent. TV drama on another level). And if you like that there's:
Suburrah, Blood On Rome (same director as Gomorrah. Very similar. But that's on Netflix)
The Bridge (scandi - noir at its best)
Chernobyl
Westworld
The Wire (try subtitles for a bit if the street slang gets too much)
Boardwalk Empire (Steve Buscemi brilliant as 20s gangster and Steven Graham as a young Al Capone. Scorcese was involved)

.. And I'll second that Deutschland 83 someone mentioned. Can't remember where it's on. C4 maybe?

Should keep u goin a while that lot.
 
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Wack61 said:
Just noticed there's a few good films on the BBC iPlayer
The Dammed United is on
Doesn't matter if you hate football you'll like this , I've never watched a match all the way through but really enjoyed the film , it's about the people not the game.
Michael Sheen is brilliant in it
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There's another Brian Clough movie out soon, he was a brilliant manager. Twice he got a club promoted, twice they won the league the following year.
 
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TV is better than film now, I think we've moved over the line.....
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Way over the line. I feel sorry for any cinema director now. Take an excellent series, something like Breaking Bad or Peaky Blinders, 4 or 5 series long, you've got 20 to 50 hours of footage to develop characters and plots. Cinema you've got about 2 hours sometimes less. When I see a 90 minute film now it seems so truncated it feels like watching an advert. The only directors working now that seem to make it work are the Coens IMHO even Scorcese failed with the Irishman, and that was 3 hours long
 
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wife's turn to choose a movie last night and must admit the one she chose was very moving and all about the barbaric sharia law, shocking true story with a barbaric graphic ending, fooking outrageous this still happens in some parts of the world:mad:

the stoning of soraya m
 
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Finished off DEVS last night.
Don't know what to make of it. Not easy to follow and I know a bit of Physics too which the program flirts with.
 
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Anyone tried 'Normal People' on iPlayer? I found it hard going and Ep 2 was just constant shagging. Now I'm all for a bit of rumpy-pumpy on telly, but this was almost constant and to cap it all, her tits were tiny.

I've been downloading '90 Day Fiancé - Before the 90 Days' - car crash telly at it's best, not sure if it's real or staged or half and half but even if half true there's some real saddos about. There's this short guy with no neck knocking about with a Fillipina years younger and so far he's asked to take an STD test, and bought her a toothbrush and toothpaste as a present cos she has bad breath. And this 60 yo chap from US chasing this 25 yo Ukrainian girl totally and I mean totally out of his league, she's stood him up 4 times previously and now he's gone back to Odessa to be rejected twice more. This 'girlfriend' of seven years and they never even met!

Schadenfreude-tastic!
 
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Dont forget "The Wacky Races'...
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I got those! Still annoys me that Dick Dastardly has the only rocket propelled car and could win easily every week, but he always stops to cheat and never won one race.

I got every ep of Bilko too aka The Phil Silvers Show, absolute class especially Col. Hall who was notorious for forgetting his lines and the cast help him out when he has a memory lapse "You were going to see your wife in hospital, Sir...?" - "Ahh, yes Bilko, I was, thanks, she's quite ill..."

Don't tell anyone Bilko but at Military School they called be Melonhead....

MH, MH!!
 
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Was rewatching After Life Series 2 and noticed that Peter Egan was in it, as is Penelope Wilton, both starred in 'Ever Decreasing Circles' with Richard Briers and embarked on an underlying tryst. Same actors, same character names, same tryst.

Since I noticed it Wiki'd a bit and it seems that said show was one of Gervais' favourites so spotters badge to me.
 
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