I guess everyone has their fave show. But with the current trend for bringing classics to the big screen I was wondering what people would like to see revived next?

With Wonder Woman and Thunderbirds on the way, Charlie's Angels and Scooby Doo allready out there, I have only one show left that I can think of.

So the question is.... Can anyone else out there remember Fantassy Island?:)

Oh yes. 'Da plane, da plane...'.

Hmm used to really like - 'The 6 Million Dollar Man'. Although, a la Austiin Powers he'd have to be the 1 Billion Dollar man these days or else everyone would laugh.

You need to go to this site http://www.tv.cream.org/

Trust me. The nostalgia will have you weeping on your keyboard.

Nomme

a slight variation but i can think of a couple of programs that were revived but just didn't hold the same appeal for me

Superstars and
it's a knockout!

Mine's not exactly a classic as such, but I wish they'd air all the Lee & Herring TV shows again sometime.

I'd like them to make more shows, but they wont. So a revival is out of the question.

Jack - I saw the first episode of "Fist of Fun" again yesterday. It's not as funny as I remember it to be :(

Susie, TMWRNJ

I want to see Knightmare return... With today's computer imaging technology that show would look ACE!

I read on some site that there was talk of bringing it back but with a virtual reality "avatar" instead of a kid in a helmet as the "Dungeoneer".

Originally posted by Rich
I want to see Knightmare return... With today's computer imaging technology that show would look ACE!

I read on some site that there was talk of bringing it back but with a virtual reality "avatar" instead of a kid in a helmet as the "Dungeoneer".

yea that might be knida cool actually :thumbsup:

Originally posted by jackthedog
Mine's not exactly a classic as such, but I wish they'd air all the Lee & Herring TV shows again sometime.

I'd like them to make more shows, but they wont. So a revival is out of the question.

I've just watched all these again. I'm not sure the bbc have even still got copies of them, I think Rich Herring said on his website that they have def lost some of the TMWRNJ programmes.

The BBC should re-run the old Grange Hill series, the one with the sausage poking someones eye out in the intro.
Zammo with drugs, the sikh kid getting racially harrassed, the holiday abroad! anyone remember - they were great!

I agree.

Half the cast of Eastenders were in GH at some point of their childhood.

On another note I think the Beeb should show classic Neighbours episodes so that I don't have to get up at 7 to watch them on UK Gold..

I'd love to see the return of Alias Smith and Jones the old cowboy show. I was a huge fan of Pete Duel in my youth - he was my childhood hero....sigh! Lust!

Originally posted by Jayne
I've just watched all these again. I'm not sure the bbc have even still got copies of them, I think Rich Herring said on his website that they have def lost some of the TMWRNJ programmes.

ok call me daft (no, don't) but what is TMWRNJ

TomMorrow's World Was Really Neat Jack/Jayne ??

no not advocating a return of Tommorrow's World as i never used to watch it anyhow!

Fraggle Rock, I always loved that program as a child :)

Originally posted by Bedhead
no not advocating a return of Tommorrow's World as i never used to watch it anyhow!


A re-run of old Tommorrow's World episodes would be good.
But you'd have to call it Yesterday's World. I know - awful...

Would be interesting to look back at what they thought we'd all have in the year 2000! Personal jet-packs anyone?

Originally posted by jackthedog
A re-run of old Tommorrow's World episodes would be good.
But you'd have to call it Yesterday's World. I know - awful...

Would be interesting to look back at what they thought we'd all have in the year 2000! Personal jet-packs anyone?

actually yes what a great idea!!

'And here ladies and gentlemen we have, wait for it a portable mobile telephone unit which as demonstarted here by hip band of the future Sigue Sigue Sputnik, fits neatly into the boot of any large car - alternatively you can carry this 'mobile phone' around with you in a shopping trolley', be the envy of all your friends what a marvelous invention'

Bring back Rent-a-ghost I say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Bedhead
ok call me daft (no, don't) but what is TMWRNJ

TomMorrow's World Was Really Neat Jack/Jayne ??

no not advocating a return of Tommorrow's World as i never used to watch it anyhow!

This Morning With Richard Not Judy - Lee and Herring's show after Fist of Fun. (although I like the alternative above :))

tenko of course

got to be the a team

has to be TISWAS!

Originally posted by greennigel
has to be TISWAS!

Beat me to it. Tiswas definitely, or the adult OTT version.

id love to see willow the whisp back on again,the original one though, with kenneth williams doin the voice for the television box thingy and that scarey old hag of a witch! rock on kenneth! ooooooo matron! i feel giddy now thinkin of bein a kid again lol

oh and of course pidgeon street! lol respect to the pidgeons!

Originally posted by TWIST
id love to see willow the whisp back on again,the original one though, with kenneth williams doin the voice for the television box thingy and that scarey old hag of a witch! rock on kenneth! ooooooo matron! i feel giddy now thinkin of bein a kid again lol

oh and of course pidgeon street! lol respect to the pidgeons!

Sadly Kenneth "Ooh you are awful" Williams kippered it recently so he wouldn't be able to come back for the voice overs.

I'd like to see Chips return. :D

Jim Henson's Storyteller and Spaced love to see them come back

JON!

'Im a storyteller, and my stories must be told ( plays flute )
I have many stories, stories both for young and old
( fox follows him around a tree etc )
I have heard stories that describe many places,
many tales of old and many faces' . . ( i think)

Is this the one? It used to be on Childrens ITV and each one was about half an hour . . they were brilliant!

i used to like the six million dollar man... but if they remade it then it would be rubbish. My fiancee would say buffy ?!?!?!?! PLEASE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! All these Sabrina/ Buffy/ Charmed all seem the same to me! lol

I think they should bring 'Jail birds' back on..it was facinating.

Surely there are too many repeats on TV as it is!!!!!!

Pity they never repeat anything worth watching, always seems to be Birds of a Feather or Only Fools and Horses and Keeping up Appearances... only happy thought it they must be wearing the tape down :D

Id like them to repeat The High Life marvellous sit com before Alan Cummings made it big :thumbsup: and a little known Austrailian kids programme on Central remember that?! called Ellie and Jools... I think :? it was about a ghost I remember it being funny :D

Originally posted by Rich
Sadly Kenneth "Ooh you are awful" Williams kippered it recently so he wouldn't be able to come back for the voice overs.


yeah i know he pegged it but obviously wot i should have said was that they should re run it! sometimes children should be made (ie tied to a chair) to watch the old stuff lol

<i now wait for reports to b made to the nspcc lol)

Bring back the Crystal Maze with Richard O'Brien, not the other guy.

I wish they'd repeat Terrahawks! I used to LOVE that show when I was little.

I even had some of the figures from it, such as Sgt Major Zero, Dr Ninestein and the blonde English one, I also had a couple of the vehicles.

Originally posted by dinp
Bring back the Crystal Maze with Richard O'Brien, not the other guy.
You know the reason they got rid of Richard O Brien? He said the contestants were morons... and lets face it most of them were!
Then the "other guy" Ed Tudor Pole was sacked for the same reason :roll:
Then of course they got some annoying bubbly bint to take over and naturally the show died

There used to be a TV show many years ago, abit like the Crystal Maze but with ZX Spectrum computer graphics. The contestants used to have to cross hexagonal stepping stones in space in the final!? . . and i remember a computer voice saying something like : Gronda or Grunda. Anyone remember it?

I think that'll be "The Adventure Game" that you are thinking of.

I used to love Citizen Smith

I also liked Wheeltappers and Shunters and the old time music hall entertainment show.

Originally posted by Rich
Sadly Kenneth "Ooh you are awful" Williams kippered it recently so he wouldn't be able to come back for the voice overs.

PEDANT: "Ooh you are awful" was a catch phrase of Dick Emery not Kenneth Williams.

No one has mentioned Blakes 7 yet.

Nomme

Originally posted by Lestat
There used to be a TV show many years ago, abit like the Crystal Maze but with ZX Spectrum computer graphics. The contestants used to have to cross hexagonal stepping stones in space in the final!? . . and i remember a computer voice saying something like : Gronda or Grunda. Anyone remember it?

As Yodameister said, it was The Adventure Game, graphics were done by a BBC 32K computer, like the ones they used to have at school. Jonny Ball was in it and was Moira Stuart the news reader. Im sure the thing that went Grunda Grunda, was a big plant that would move around, called uncle something or other
cant remember its full name.

Pah. Does nobody follow the links I post.

From www.tvcream.org:

" Basically, an alien-planet-set game show, where a team of three comprising child-friendly celebs (FRED HARRIS, DEREK GRIFFITHS, MAGGIE PHILBIN. you know the score) and affable boffin-types (IAN "MICRO LIVE" MACNAUGHT-DAVIS, world Rubik Cube champ DAVID SINGMASTER) are 'kidnapped' and forced to work their way through impenetrable series of logic games by human-impersonating aliens (including Moira Stuart at one point). But it wasn't a simple as that. Wildcards included the Drogna Game (NOT the title of the actual programme, as many still seem to think), involving logic-stepping-stone floorplan and geometrically-themed plastic 'local currency' of the "Red Salamander" (the only alien available to ask about the currency was usually mute, and merely pointed to a sign saying "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain"). Purists reject such later additions to the mix as the strangely pointless banter between the 'aliens' about "grandad turning into an aspidistra", green cheese rolls, and moles, or something; LESLEY JUDD as a two-timing alien saboteur; backwards-talking aussie bushwacker BILL HOMEWOOD, aka Ron Gad; and a bizarre version of tag against an invisible vortex on a gantry suspended in space to guarantee their safe return to 'Earth'. Which is being a bit harsh, even for us. The bizarre "charm" was maintained pretty well throughout the entire run, bolstered immeasurably when there was someone of the calibre of Derek Griffiths or Johnny Ball to play off. All alien names were derived from 'dragon' - Arg (The planet), Drogna, Gronda (traditional salute), Rangdo (the aspidistra-like "uncle"), Dogran (little BBC Buggy-derived thing, notionally controlled by Fred or whoever (always one of the blokes in the team) via a state-of-the-art BBC micro around a pitch black maze), Gnoard (Charmian Gradwell) doing an admittedly rather dull non-live phone-in segment. Suffice to say, if you never saw it, you missed a minor gem. And Keith Chegwin always got evaporated."

Nomme

are we talking repeats here or actual re-makes ??
i think re-makes provide a far more interesting proposition!
a lot of things are repeated anyhow these days with all the channels that are about - it's funny to see how crap some of the Doctor Whos look for example! :D

Bring back Chris Evans,
Every show he did were brilliant TFI friday and Don't forget your Toothbrush my two favorites.

I bet no one remembers "Catweazle"

Col S

I remember Catweazle - who was that actor?

I also remember that Monkey Magic programme on BBC2 but can't recall the actual title (Monkey Magic was the song) - the martial arts series - anyone else remember that?

Originally posted by tiffy
I remember Catweazle - who was that actor?

I also remember that Monkey Magic programme on BBC2 but can't recall the actual title (Monkey Magic was the song) - the martial arts series - anyone else remember that?

was just called 'monkey' wasn't it?? that was a weird show! but good though - different

Monkey?! Think it's still around on Challenge TV on Sky that one.

Catweazle - Actor was Geofrey Bayldon
I don't know why I remember that !!!!!

Col S

Monkey on challenge TV - that doesn't make sense?!?! we talking about the same program?

Originally posted by greennigel
has to be TISWAS!

Speaking of Tiswas, Spit the Dog has been auctioned off and fetched £5,378. I bet Carolgees was laughing all the way to the bank. :rolleyes:

Things i would like to see remade

- Thundercats

- Knightmare CG style

- Star Trek -the original series!!!!!!!!!! I would love to see this brought up to date!!!!!

What about The Tomorrow People

or

Can anyone remember that 70s english sci-fi programme where machines took over (or am I imagining it?) ?

or

Survivors!!! that used to scare me to death at the time.

or

Anyone remember I Didn't Know You Cared with Uncle Mort, Uncle Staveley (I heard that, pardon?) and Our Carter?

Originally posted by Rich
I agree.

Half the cast of Eastenders were in GH at some point of their childhood.

On another note I think the Beeb should show classic Neighbours episodes so that I don't have to get up at 7 to watch them on UK Gold..

Rich, wasn't there an invention known as the VCR/DVD Recorde/Sky + Box? Save you getting up at daft hours of the morning - then you could tape the whole series and watch the dreadful Ausie toot any hour you like ;)

Originally posted by amhudson119
Rich, wasn't there an invention known as the VCR/DVD Recorde/Sky + Box? Save you getting up at daft hours of the morning - then you could tape the whole series and watch the dreadful Ausie toot any hour you like ;)

Bleh, you still have to get up to set the video... Even if you go straight back to bed after, so what the chuff's the point of that?!

Anyone remember something called BIg John Little John about a man who turned into his son or something like that.

Or "the mersey pirate" on a saturday morning with Jimmy Tarbuck.

They should show the monty python series again....

Originally posted by Wavey
What about The Tomorrow People

Was that the kids show where they used to 'jaunt' and teleport themselves around to save the planet? That was excellent.

what about the politically incorrect Love thy Neighbour. I loved that, but theyre never likely to show it again. I've got the DVD though.:thumbsup:

I loved :-

Please Sir ! - What sort of school would it be like nowadays ?

Man About the House - Underestimated comedy.

A small drama called 'One Summer' (anyone remember that ?)

Avengers (with Diana Rigg only) - By the way, the film was pants and they should have had Liz Hurley play Emma Peel, even if she's a crap actress. She'd look good.

Bewitched - I think the film version will have Nicole Kiddman as Samantha ? Good call !

Shoestring - Trevor Eve was brill in it.

Doctor in the House - When some of the Python team wrote for them.

Do not Adjust Your Set - Pre-Python days.

er... can't think of anymore !

>Can anyone remember that 70s english sci-fi programme where >machines took over (or am I imagining it?) ?

I think it was based on a novel called Heartsease - I remember it had something to do with the machiens tsopping working and the whole of the UK returning to a sort of 'peasant' economy. Had something to do with Merlin in there as well, I seem to remember. Too many hippies writing scripts in the 70s...;-)

>Survivors!!! that used to scare me to death at the time.

That was grown up stuff indeed - I remember the episode where they shot the simple minded kid for a crime that he didn't commit -very heavy stuff.


>Anyone remember I Didn't Know You Cared with Uncle Mort, >Uncle Staveley (I heard that, pardon?) and Our Carter?

YES! I loved 'I didn't know you cared'!!!!!

And there was a series about a cartoonist and his rather weird domestic arrangements....I think it was called 'It takes a worried man'.

Joe

One of the problems nowadays is that a lot of potentially interesting series don't get time to develop.

Some years ago I quite enjoyed a series called 'Dark Skies' - a sort of X Files Lite. It got binned after two series and the second series was rather truncated.

Another recent one that we should demand the return of was Joss Weedon's 'Firefly'. That was EXCELLENT! Forget Angel and Buffy - Firefly was the mutts nuts.

However, the corporate geniuses in the US didn't like it so....probably no more.

Joe

I thought Dark Skies was really good.
Can anyone remember the Secret Caberet with Simon Drake, used to be on C4.

Originally posted by JoePritchard
One of the problems nowadays is that a lot of potentially interesting series don't get time to develop.

Some years ago I quite enjoyed a series called 'Dark Skies' - a sort of X Files Lite. It got binned after two series and the second series was rather truncated.

Another recent one that we should demand the return of was Joss Weedon's 'Firefly'. That was EXCELLENT! Forget Angel and Buffy - Firefly was the mutts nuts.

However, the corporate geniuses in the US didn't like it so....probably no more.

Joe

Yeah, they automatically assume that if the Yanks don't like it nobody else will, without even giving it a chance overseas :loopy:

Yea, Secret Cabaret was great, if a little nauseating at times.

However, I would remake 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' ... Lovely boy.

Would love Bullseye back at Sunday teatimes. Sunday's just aren't the same anymore without a bit of Bully.

Journey to the unknown.
time slip.
crime traveller.
the invaders.

I'd probably kill to see a re-run of Mysterious Cities of Gold... somebody mentioned Dark Skies as well - that was an excellent series...

& How about showing some of the classic Pete & Dud stuff? Anyone remember their Gerry Anderson **** take 'Superthunderstingcar' ?? Genius like that is rarely seen!!

Originally posted by Wavey
Anyone remember I Didn't Know You Cared with Uncle Mort, Uncle Staveley (I heard that, pardon?) and Our Carter?

That was written by Peter Tinniswood who used to work at The Sheffield Star and sadly died last year. His books are hilarious and you can recognise many Sheffield landmarks in them.

Back on topic, does anyone remember Adam Adamant starring Gerald Harper? It was all about a Victorian crime fighter who was encased in ice but became defrosted in the 20th century. Perhaps they could film the series again but set 40 years later.