Underrated: A Man Called Hawk. It was a spinoff of “Spenser For Hire” and focused on Avery Brooks’ character from that show, a sort-of hero-for-hire who moves from Boston back to his hometown of Washington D.C. to take on various antagonists like killers, abusers, kidnappers, mobsters and smugglers. It only lasted one season in 1989 but since there’s no season-ending cliffhanger to worry about, it’s an easy watch.
Quantum Leap was the only one out of this one I'd even heard about. Fortunately, it was one I remember well and watched religiously in the last couple of seasons at least.
Quantum Leap was a stellar show, I was a massive fan in my teens when it came out and I still enjoy watching it today. Scott Bakula went on to play Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise, another great show that was cut short because American TV companies only care about ratings and not how good a show actually is. 🙄 How about this one: I, Lovett. It stared Norman Lovett (best known as Holly I from Red Dwarf) as an eccentric artist who lived in his own fantasy world, complete with talking dog and various inanimate objects who'd get pretty animated! It only ran for one series, sadly. I suppose the level of surrealism wasn't for everyone, but I, erm, love it! If ever there was a show that needs resurrecting, it's this one!
The Mid-90s reboot of The Outer Limits gets a vote from me. Thought it was really good and always looked forward to the next week's episode. Covered a lot of topics and genres and was able to be as creepy as some of the iconic X-files Monster-of-week episodes. Perhaps overlooked because of the iconic 60s(?) original series but holds its own. It's definitely a precursor to Black Mirror.
I liked that. One episode in particular. 'The Voyage Home' sticks in the mind. Because it featured Michael Dorn without any makeup on. So suddenly realising who it was was quite a surprise. Surprisingly explicit at times as well in terms of adult moments. I wonder if the bbc actually looked at it before broadcast.
You got one thing wrong about Murphy's Mob. Murphy wasn't one of the kids, he was the football manager. The kids wanted to form a junior supporter's club but the director of the adult supporrter's club was a weaselly snob who hated the kids from the estate and wouldn't let 'em join.
Another brill series was 'One Summer '. Shown on Channel Four and repeated on ITV, it revolves around Billy and Icky, a couple of tough streetwise scallys from Liverpool who coming from difficult and impoverished homes wish to recreate a happy school holiday in North Wales. Without giving the plot away, (the series is/was on UA-cam), it is a humorous and bittersweet tale which may, just may bring a tear to the eye.
I have a couple of suggestions which for me fit into both the forgotten and excellent categories. 1. Elly & Jools. An Australian children's series from around 1990 I think. City kid Jools is horrified when his family ups sticks and moves to the back water town of Waterloo Creek. His life takes an interesting turn when he encounters his new homes resident ghost 'Elly'. A girl who passed away under mysterious circumstances some 100 years or so earlier. 2. Nightingales. Robert Lindsey stars in this late night sitcom which follows 3 security guards who work the night shift in an eerie office block. Sometimes surreal but always funny. I think it is a crime that this show didn't get a better time slot although I suppose it is understandable because of the bizarre nature of the show. P.s was a really nice surprise to bump into you at the Cell Block H event the other day. An extra Brucey Bonus to what was already a top day!
The Harry Hill Show was excellent, but TV Burp was my favourite. I love Harry Hill. A lot of people find him annoying, but I find him hilarious. I wouldn’t recommend his novel Flight From Deathrow though. It’s too bonkers and confusing even for my taste.
Quantum Leap was amazing!!! I loved it so much and wouldn't watch the remake because of it. (Though I felt bad because Ernie Hudson was in it and I adore him.) And yes, I did have strong opinions about Yes. Dear, but it was THAT bad, haha.
I just gave the first series of the reboot a go. About four episodes in it clicks and it is pretty good from then on. But I do miss the humour of the original. It just doesn't seem capable of such.
Auf wiedersehen pet was a brilliant show in the eighties and the early 2000's about seven guys in the building trade who become great friend's get up to some wild adventures whilst working for ever who they could get work from
Here's one for Forgotten, it was called Powerhouse and it came out in the early 80s. I believe it was an educational series about a nice lady that opened up a youth center in an urban neighborhood. I remember watching it as a child and learning about safety and health.
The Late Great Ken Hutchinson (aka Murphy) appeared in a few Play for today episodes, that was a bit before my time but was definitely “excellent” and probably “forgotten” as the BBC never repeat them
much love great shows a good one was jeopardy the Childs alien cbbc drama, kind of fits an eerie vault if it wasn't fiction that is, keep up the good work my friend
Excellent - Teachers (well, series 4 was a bodge, but the first 3 were great) Andrew Lincoln's balls visible in the first 5 minutes, a fab cast, wonderful soundtrack, and even the presence of James Corden didn't ruin it. Rubbish - Miranda. 'Nuff said.
Teachers was indeed excellent, although I've never fully understood their casting decisions. Why did Jenny and Susan leave for series 3? Why randomly kill off Kurt and Brian, literally piss on their graves, and make series four??? Soundtrack was awesome too
My favorite knight errant show was the fugitive with David Jansen. Tge key was that the stories were not about Kimble at all but the troubled people he runs into while on the lam. He tried to help but always has to be looking over his shoulder for the possessed Gerard who is after him. The actor who played Gerard was from the uk and wound up on the first year of space 1999.
Quantum Leap was OK, I watched it sometimes but was never a big fan of it. But to end it with "Sam Beckett never returned home."? Damn,that had to have really sucked for the hardcore fans of the show back in 1993 when they saw that!
This is a forgotten show that's so obscure I can't remember the title but these videos make me think of it. It was called something like Battlefield Earth (but not related to that awful John Travolta film). It was a BBC sci-fi series set around a military base, and there was some messages from an alien race warning about another alien race that were on their way. I can't remember much, but there were characters who were kidnapped and mind controlled, and something about lobbing nuclear weapons down wormholes. It only lasted one series, around 2000 perhaps, was supposed to be a big production but didn't get any viewers. If anyone has any idea about this, I'd like to know what it was called.
Invasion; Earth. Six fifty min episodes on a friday night back in the 90's. I've still got the vhs. It....was ok but could have been better. It was science fiction written by someone who didn';t have any experience with the genre. Did have one great performance though. Anton Lesser played a human soldier who'd been a prisoner of the aliens for decades. He was really good in the part.
Forgotten - Funky Squad (ABC (Australia) 1995) - a quarter-century-late spoof of 1970s-era cop shows like Mod Squad. Notable for its cheap production budget (1000 Australian dollars per episode) and use of actual 1970s commercials.
Oh God, I absolutely HATED "Yes, Dear". I preferred Anthony Clark on the NBC sitcom "Boston Common" that aired years before, he can be funny. But I cannot stand Mike O'Malley or Lisa Snyder, and that awful piece of crap show lasted six seasons! The only other thing I saw Jean Louisa Kelly in was the 1989 Uncle Buck where she was the rebellious teenage girl. She's just fine!
Yeah I was a fan, never been repeated. Bought the entire series off iTunes for a fiver in the sale years ago and have got a few people into it. It was more like 2010ish. It definitely wont appeal to all but I think if you liked the Inbetweeners/Peep Show/IT Crowd humour you'll enjoy it. Some big cameos and Dan interestingly played a mugger in the only fools and horses batman and robin episode.
I remember watching a few episodes of How Not To Live Your Life. I recall it being pretty decent. Mainly because of the main guy's performance and there not being a laugh track.
The Harry Hill show, I don't understand. I don't know if it tries to be a sillier and lamer, version of most of Matt Berry's work. It worries me, when people think its funny.
I remember watching "The Kids from C.A.P.E.R." in 1976 and wishing there was a second season. I enjoy your videos for the shows (good, bad or otherwise) and finding them somewhere on youtube!
8:51 interestingly, I can inform you that the one word I remember from studying Latin at school is baculum which is a stick. So you're sort of in the right ball park there.
Back when BBC2 Broadcast the first season of Quantum Leap, my area had a power cut ten mins into the first episode after the pilot. 'Star Crossed'. Featuring a very young Terri Hatcher. In those days pre iplayer and streaming if you missed something, you had to wait for it to come round again. Thus I didn't get to see that episode in full till a sunday lunchtime repeat in Summer 1994. Five days after they showed the very final episode. It made it like an epilogue. I have just finally started on the new version. I'm sixteen episodes into season one. That clicked after about four parts and it is pretty good. Like most modern tv though it just isn't able to do character humour at all though. Which I miss. Excellent: The Returned. 2012-2015. A french supernatural mystery show [The lost sub genre] about a small town where the dead of the place have suddenly returned. People want answers. A strange boy might know more than he says. The first season was on channel four on sunday nights with a lot of publicity. It had a very haunting theme tune by a band whose name escapes me. It was really good. I liked the police captain a lot. A rational man who wanted rational answers and nobody could give him any. As is channel four's want, they lost interest quickly and when the second season showed up it was buried on E4 with little publicity. The time between seasons meant I spent the entire second one thinking one particular character was actually another one from season one. Who only popped up again in the final scene. I think that might have been down to actor availability. Great thing about the Returned, though? It did finish it's story. It did give answers to everything. Which worked. That might be a matter of opinion, but it was nice to have a proper ending.
First! Ha ha! Remember when people did the "First!" thing? Aah, nostalgia. I didn't like a lot of American Things during my childhood and mid-teens, but Quantum Leap made it through. Pity the reboot wasn't much cop, they should've gender-flipped it.
Underrated: A Man Called Hawk. It was a spinoff of “Spenser For Hire” and focused on Avery Brooks’ character from that show, a sort-of hero-for-hire who moves from Boston back to his hometown of Washington D.C. to take on various antagonists like killers, abusers, kidnappers, mobsters and smugglers. It only lasted one season in 1989 but since there’s no season-ending cliffhanger to worry about, it’s an easy watch.
Quantum Leap was the only one out of this one I'd even heard about. Fortunately, it was one I remember well and watched religiously in the last couple of seasons at least.
Quantum Leap was a stellar show, I was a massive fan in my teens when it came out and I still enjoy watching it today. Scott Bakula went on to play Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise, another great show that was cut short because American TV companies only care about ratings and not how good a show actually is. 🙄
How about this one: I, Lovett. It stared Norman Lovett (best known as Holly I from Red Dwarf) as an eccentric artist who lived in his own fantasy world, complete with talking dog and various inanimate objects who'd get pretty animated! It only ran for one series, sadly. I suppose the level of surrealism wasn't for everyone, but I, erm, love it! If ever there was a show that needs resurrecting, it's this one!
The Mid-90s reboot of The Outer Limits gets a vote from me. Thought it was really good and always looked forward to the next week's episode. Covered a lot of topics and genres and was able to be as creepy as some of the iconic X-files Monster-of-week episodes. Perhaps overlooked because of the iconic 60s(?) original series but holds its own. It's definitely a precursor to Black Mirror.
I liked that. One episode in particular. 'The Voyage Home' sticks in the mind. Because it featured Michael Dorn without any makeup on. So suddenly realising who it was was quite a surprise. Surprisingly explicit at times as well in terms of adult moments. I wonder if the bbc actually looked at it before broadcast.
Forgotten and Excellent - BBC children’s series Greenclaws. I remember magic plants in the greenhouse that grew “unusual” things like cheeseburgers.
You got one thing wrong about Murphy's Mob.
Murphy wasn't one of the kids, he was the football manager. The kids wanted to form a junior supporter's club but the director of the adult supporrter's club was a weaselly snob who hated the kids from the estate and wouldn't let 'em join.
I think most people remember it more for the theme tune that was sung by Gary Holt who played Wayne in Auf Wiedereshen pet
Rest in Heaven Bernie..... Hopefully Bernie never been to a Diddy party
Another brill series was 'One Summer '. Shown on Channel Four and repeated on ITV, it revolves around Billy and Icky, a couple of tough streetwise scallys from Liverpool who coming from difficult and impoverished homes wish to recreate a happy school holiday in North Wales. Without giving the plot away, (the series is/was on UA-cam), it is a humorous and bittersweet tale which may, just may bring a tear to the eye.
I remember watching that and relating to it in some ways, as well, as I would have been, roughly, the same age with the same aspirations, etc.
loved this show. good drama.
@TheJuzi a very young David Morrisey was in it
@@keithsolley come ed laa
I have a couple of suggestions which for me fit into both the forgotten and excellent categories.
1. Elly & Jools. An Australian children's series from around 1990 I think. City kid Jools is horrified when his family ups sticks and moves to the back water town of Waterloo Creek.
His life takes an interesting turn when he encounters his new homes resident ghost 'Elly'. A girl who passed away under mysterious circumstances some 100 years or so earlier.
2. Nightingales. Robert Lindsey stars in this late night sitcom which follows 3 security guards who work the night shift in an eerie office block. Sometimes surreal but always funny. I think it is a crime that this show didn't get a better time slot although I suppose it is understandable because of the bizarre nature of the show.
P.s was a really nice surprise to bump into you at the Cell Block H event the other day. An extra Brucey Bonus to what was already a top day!
Good to meet you Ian, thanks for the suggestions 👍👍
I've got one for excellent, The Harry Hill Show on Channel 4 in the mid 90s! Weird and surreal and absolutely hilarious!!
The Harry Hill Show was excellent, but TV Burp was my favourite. I love Harry Hill. A lot of people find him annoying, but I find him hilarious. I wouldn’t recommend his novel Flight From Deathrow though. It’s too bonkers and confusing even for my taste.
Loved quantum leap love the re runs on British telly
Yes,Dear ran for six whole seasons? The horrific events of 2001 must have given me some kind of a mental block.
Yes, Dear was one of those shows where when you watched you just thought "Who is the audience for this show?" absolutely terrible show.
Quantum Leap was amazing!!! I loved it so much and wouldn't watch the remake because of it. (Though I felt bad because Ernie Hudson was in it and I adore him.)
And yes, I did have strong opinions about Yes. Dear, but it was THAT bad, haha.
I just gave the first series of the reboot a go. About four episodes in it clicks and it is pretty good from then on. But I do miss the humour of the original. It just doesn't seem capable of such.
Auf wiedersehen pet was a brilliant show in the eighties and the early 2000's about seven guys in the building trade who become great friend's get up to some wild adventures whilst working for ever who they could get work from
Here's one for Forgotten, it was called Powerhouse and it came out in the early 80s. I believe it was an educational series about a nice lady that opened up a youth center in an urban neighborhood. I remember watching it as a child and learning about safety and health.
I remember a show called "Moving Story" it was about removal men with a sort of Dad's Army set up. I really liked it.
The Late Great Ken Hutchinson (aka Murphy) appeared in a few Play for today episodes, that was a bit before my time but was definitely “excellent” and probably “forgotten” as the BBC never repeat them
He was great in the second Sweeney film.
much love great shows a good one was jeopardy the Childs alien cbbc drama, kind of fits an eerie vault if it wasn't fiction that is, keep up the good work my friend
Excellent - Teachers (well, series 4 was a bodge, but the first 3 were great) Andrew Lincoln's balls visible in the first 5 minutes, a fab cast, wonderful soundtrack, and even the presence of James Corden didn't ruin it.
Rubbish - Miranda. 'Nuff said.
My parents used to watch Teachers. I remember seeing some bits of it and it was pretty good.
Teachers was indeed excellent, although I've never fully understood their casting decisions. Why did Jenny and Susan leave for series 3? Why randomly kill off Kurt and Brian, literally piss on their graves, and make series four???
Soundtrack was awesome too
Miranda was terrible but I don't think Teachers was THAT much better - very forgettable.
Yes,Dear, it was a good sitcom
My favorite knight errant show was the fugitive with David Jansen. Tge key was that the stories were not about Kimble at all but the troubled people he runs into while on the lam. He tried to help but always has to be looking over his shoulder for the possessed Gerard who is after him. The actor who played Gerard was from the uk and wound up on the first year of space 1999.
Quantum Leap was OK, I watched it sometimes but was never a big fan of it. But to end it with "Sam Beckett never returned home."? Damn,that had to have really sucked for the hardcore fans of the show back in 1993 when they saw that!
This is a forgotten show that's so obscure I can't remember the title but these videos make me think of it. It was called something like Battlefield Earth (but not related to that awful John Travolta film).
It was a BBC sci-fi series set around a military base, and there was some messages from an alien race warning about another alien race that were on their way. I can't remember much, but there were characters who were kidnapped and mind controlled, and something about lobbing nuclear weapons down wormholes.
It only lasted one series, around 2000 perhaps, was supposed to be a big production but didn't get any viewers.
If anyone has any idea about this, I'd like to know what it was called.
I think it was called " Invasion Earth "
@@georgelea4297 Yeah I think that was it. It's been annoying me that I can't remember the title. I can't remember if it was good or not either.
Invasion; Earth. Six fifty min episodes on a friday night back in the 90's. I've still got the vhs. It....was ok but could have been better. It was science fiction written by someone who didn';t have any experience with the genre. Did have one great performance though. Anton Lesser played a human soldier who'd been a prisoner of the aliens for decades. He was really good in the part.
Murphy's mob 😂😂😂😂😂..... classic
Hacker T Dog cbbc was/is the funniest thing on tv. made for kids? too good. he was on mastermind too.
Forgotten - Funky Squad (ABC (Australia) 1995) - a quarter-century-late spoof of 1970s-era cop shows like Mod Squad. Notable for its cheap production budget (1000 Australian dollars per episode) and use of actual 1970s commercials.
I think it was one of the least successful Working Dog productions.
Quantum Leap. Brilliant show.
"man in a suitcase" 1967 brilliant
Great theme tune. Which was used again in due course by a certain Chris Evans show.
Yes Dear was pretty good I liked the cast Greg Garcia went on to do My Name is Earl and Raising Hope
I love My Name is Earl and Raising Hope, but I have to say Yes, Dear looks terrible. I’ll give it a try if I can find it streaming anywhere in the UK.
Oh God, I absolutely HATED "Yes, Dear". I preferred Anthony Clark on the NBC sitcom "Boston Common" that aired years before, he can be funny. But I cannot stand Mike O'Malley or Lisa Snyder, and that awful piece of crap show lasted six seasons! The only other thing I saw Jean Louisa Kelly in was the 1989 Uncle Buck where she was the rebellious teenage girl. She's just fine!
I'm With Stupid- BBC Three early 2000's comedy. Only run for 1 series but I thought it was good.
How not to live your life was excellent, i still use the term "bum rubbish" to this day
Yeah I was a fan, never been repeated. Bought the entire series off iTunes for a fiver in the sale years ago and have got a few people into it. It was more like 2010ish. It definitely wont appeal to all but I think if you liked the Inbetweeners/Peep Show/IT Crowd humour you'll enjoy it. Some big cameos and Dan interestingly played a mugger in the only fools and horses batman and robin episode.
I remember watching a few episodes of How Not To Live Your Life. I recall it being pretty decent. Mainly because of the main guy's performance and there not being a laugh track.
"how not to live your life " is not even in the BBC I player yet 2 pints is ?
The Harry Hill show, I don't understand. I don't know if it tries to be a sillier and lamer, version of most of Matt Berry's work. It worries me, when people think its funny.
I remember watching "The Kids from C.A.P.E.R." in 1976 and wishing there was a second season. I enjoy your videos for the shows (good, bad or otherwise) and finding them somewhere on youtube!
Loved how not to live your life, some great episodes, still funny to watch to this day
OH BOY!
8:51 interestingly, I can inform you that the one word I remember from studying Latin at school is baculum which is a stick. So you're sort of in the right ball park there.
Back when BBC2 Broadcast the first season of Quantum Leap, my area had a power cut ten mins into the first episode after the pilot. 'Star Crossed'. Featuring a very young Terri Hatcher. In those days pre iplayer and streaming if you missed something, you had to wait for it to come round again. Thus I didn't get to see that episode in full till a sunday lunchtime repeat in Summer 1994. Five days after they showed the very final episode. It made it like an epilogue.
I have just finally started on the new version. I'm sixteen episodes into season one. That clicked after about four parts and it is pretty good. Like most modern tv though it just isn't able to do character humour at all though. Which I miss.
Excellent: The Returned. 2012-2015. A french supernatural mystery show [The lost sub genre] about a small town where the dead of the place have suddenly returned. People want answers. A strange boy might know more than he says. The first season was on channel four on sunday nights with a lot of publicity. It had a very haunting theme tune by a band whose name escapes me. It was really good. I liked the police captain a lot. A rational man who wanted rational answers and nobody could give him any.
As is channel four's want, they lost interest quickly and when the second season showed up it was buried on E4 with little publicity. The time between seasons meant I spent the entire second one thinking one particular character was actually another one from season one. Who only popped up again in the final scene. I think that might have been down to actor availability.
Great thing about the Returned, though? It did finish it's story. It did give answers to everything. Which worked. That might be a matter of opinion, but it was nice to have a proper ending.
Look up CBC - Hangin In... was it good ? Idk cant remember
First! Ha ha! Remember when people did the "First!" thing? Aah, nostalgia.
I didn't like a lot of American Things during my childhood and mid-teens, but Quantum Leap made it through. Pity the reboot wasn't much cop, they should've gender-flipped it.
If they gender-flipped it, people would have complained about it being “woke” 😂🙄