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Short-Lived Series and Sitcoms
aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 10, 2002
Didn't it all end with them being trapped in a house floating in deep space or something equally insane?
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 10, 2002
Very probably.
Timeslip, The Changes and Doomwatch were all *much* better.
Gangsters by Troy Kennedy Martin. Now *that* was a series.
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 10, 2002
...bet none of them were as good as biddy-biddy-Buck Rogers.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 10, 2002
I think it's a safe bet that the view of the back of my eyelids is better than bl**dy biddy biddy Buck Rogers.
No ones mentioned Gerry Anderson's shot lived but excellent UFO yet, either.
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 10, 2002
Everything Gerry Anderson has ever done was a pile of w***.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 10, 2002
Ho ho ho.
That's fighting talk round here young man.
I'm sure somebody'll be along soon to 'offer you out' behind the bike sheds.
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 10, 2002
"Bring 'em on I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around."
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 10, 2002
...to quote a scruffy looking nerf herder!
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 10, 2002
There is at least one researcher who likes it-look for a piece in peer review soon.
Personally I found it unbearable, as well as Space Precinct.
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 10, 2002
Give me The Adventure Game any day of the week!
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Jim Lynn Posted Jul 10, 2002
Oh no, someone's mentioned 'The Adventure Game' - isn't there an equivalent of Godwin's Law to cover this eventuality?
And was Sapphire and Steel really short-lived? There were seven stories, some of which were quite long.
Here's some more:
"Hello Mum" - Nick Wilton, Clive Mantle, Arnold Brown and others in a quite dreary comedy sketch show - might even have been broadcast live.
"Alfresco" - superb series starring Fry & Laurie, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson. Occasionally pops up on Granada Plus.
"Girls On Top" - Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and Tracy Ullmann do a girly 'Young Ones'
"Happy Families" - written by Ben Elton, starring Jennifer Saunders as an entire family (except Ade Edmondson as their idiot brother)
"Virtual Murder" - unsuccessful attempt to do a show 'in the style of The Avengers'
and finally...
"Pulaski" - anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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Jim Lynn Posted Jul 10, 2002
Just found another one:
"The One Game"
A really annoying video game designer becomes embroiled in a real-life game over which he has no control. Or something. It had potential, but squandered it, IIRC.
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Jim Lynn Posted Jul 10, 2002
I knew I shouldn't have started this.
"Colin's Sandwich" - Mel Smith as an aspiring writer. Quite funny, I thought.
"Joking Apart" - superb sitcom by Steven Moffat (who writes Coupling).
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DogManStar Posted Jul 10, 2002
Captain Zep? Useless kid's show circa 1983. Quite, quite horrible.
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DoctorGonzo Posted Jul 10, 2002
Has anyone mentioned Man In A Suitcase yet? Maybe I did, can't remember.
Anyway, The Saint, The Prisoner, Dangerman, and that lot always get mentioned as classic TV, yet McGill was so much cooler. That hair! The smoking out of the side of his mouth thing! The way he could hit people before they knew he was going to hit them! Oh, and Donald Sutherland guest-starring, with a scary wheezing laugh!
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Mycroft Posted Jul 10, 2002
Around five years ago there was a fun American drama axed after the first series which was about a Wall Street whizz kid who happened to be a Machiavellian uberpsychopath on account of his Borgia-like family who stuck him naked in a cardboard box for the duration of his childhood. Does anyone remember what it was called?
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Bright Blue Shorts Posted Jul 11, 2002
Oh Jim Lynn remembers the great stuff ...
"Hello Mum" - I actually quite liked it.
If I remember correctly "Happy Families" had Song for Guy as the theme music. I really enjoyed it. It reminds of a 6-part Dick Emery series from the early 80s - "Ace of Spades/Spies" or something where he had to track down 4 women to find the parts of a map or something. And of course he played many of the characters.
"Colin's Sandwich", indeed, I thought quite good too.
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 11, 2002
Re: Posting 195.
I quite liked Captain Zep.
...and althougb I dig "Man In A Suitcase", I find Simon Templar and Number 6 (the Prisoner) far cooler.
But thats just, like, my opinion, man.
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Hoovooloo Posted Jul 11, 2002
Mycroft:
You're thinking of "Profit", starring Adrian Pasdar (who was in the excellent 'vampire-movie-where-nobody-ever-actually-says-the-word-vampire', "Near Dark", alongside Jenette Goldstein, Bill Paxton and Lance Henrikson, or put another way, half the cast of "Aliens".)
The other half and I were hooked on it from about the second episode, and then it just seemed to disappear. A shame, because it was really good, I thought. Possibly a bit too thoughtful, though... A bit like Police Squad - you had to WATCH it, not just have it on in the background.
H.
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