Television of Yesteryear.

[tex]

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Children of the Stones and The feathered Serpent I remember watching. Both were pretty good, but I preferred COTS due to its creepy supernatural atmosphere.

Child's Play was a light fluff series just right for weekend viewing. As always, Aspel was very good.

prefered childs play starring Chucky the psychopathic doll

[George 1978]

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Children of the Stones and The feathered Serpent I remember watching. Both were pretty good, but I preferred COTS due to its creepy supernatural atmosphere.

Child's Play was a light fluff series just right for weekend viewing. As always, Aspel was very good.

The inspiration for Small Talk, the game show presented by Ronnie Corbett which had a Celebrity Squares-alike 3x3 grid of youngsters defining certain words.

One of them described the word "Highwayman" as saying that "Harry Secombe was one" which I thought was very clever.

Did Michael Aspel present at least half of all networked ITV programmes in the 1980s? It seemed like that to me.

[staffslad]

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Children of the Stones and The feathered Serpent I remember watching. Both were pretty good, but I preferred COTS due to its creepy supernatural atmosphere.

Child's Play was a light fluff series just right for weekend viewing. As always, Aspel was very good.

[Donald the Great]

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• Child's Play was a hilarious program presented by Michael Aspel. It basically comprised short film clips of young children answering heavyweight philosophical questions in "their own words".The children were usually aged between 5 and 8 which, of course, made for ...
  
  
• Children of the StonesThis 1970's television drama was broadcast on ITV network and was only 7 episodes long.The story was set in Wiltshire and was based around a small village which had stone circles. Astrophysicist, Adam Brake and his son Matthew move ...
  
  The Feathered Serpent: A series that was on in the late '70s that was set in a kind of ancient Inca civilisation in Aztec Mexico and starring former Doctor Who Patrick Troughton as the scheming High Priest Nasca.

[zabadak]

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Checkout man in the moon, the story of kaufmans fake death played brilliantly by Jim carrey

Soundtrack album (mostly) by REM

[Moonraker]

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Oh well. So much for the Internet.

[tex]

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There was also a Taxi episode which starred a novice actor called Tom Hanks.

Sad to hear about Andy Kaufman aka Latka.
I will always remember him for a scene that went something like this:
A debate is taking place amongst the taxi drivers about how divorce is becoming far too common and that there appears to be no solution.
Enter Latka.

Latka: You know in my country if a man likes a woman and a woman likes a man, then they do it and if they like it then they get married.

Tony: Hey, thats a great idea.

Latka: Yes I know...now only if the women will buy it.

Checkout man in the moon, the story of kaufmans fake death played brilliantly by Jim carrey

[Moonraker]

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Christopher Lloyd was another who got his break through Taxi.

It's unfortunate that the real breakout star of Taxi, Andy Kaufman died not long after it ended.

There was also a Taxi episode which starred a novice actor called Tom Hanks.

Sad to hear about Andy Kaufman aka Latka.
I will always remember him for a scene that went something like this:
A debate is taking place amongst the taxi drivers about how divorce is becoming far too common and that there appears to be no solution.
Enter Latka.

Latka: You know in my country if a man likes a woman and a woman likes a man, then they do it and if they like it then they get married.

Tony: Hey, thats a great idea.

Latka: Yes I know...now only if the women will buy it.

[staffslad]

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Taxi was okay but I preferred All in the Family and The Odd Couple. Never seen Friends or any of the modern US sitcoms. I also liked Rhoda, a spinoff of the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

[Richard1978]

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Taxi was a great show no doubt, but I have to disagree here, Frasier tops it for me.

Christopher Lloyd was another who got his break through Taxi.

It's unfortunate that the real breakout star of Taxi, Andy Kaufman died not long after it ended.

[tex]

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Bum? You had 4 asterixs so assumed you meant her t***.

Heather wont let me say asre

[Smeghead]

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Taxi.
The best American comedy series ever. From 1978.
It beats 'Friends' any day.
It starred Judd Hirsh and Danny DeVeto.

Taxi was a great show no doubt, but I have to disagree here, Frasier tops it for me.

[Donald the Great]

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Dad's Army was a comedy about the antics of the British Home Guard who are led by Capt. Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) and his long suffering second in command, Sgnt Wilson (John Le Mesurier) with each recruit having some comical "quirke".

If I remember this one rightly it had Adrien Zimmed as the host of a dance competition between couples. This was similar to 'Dances with the Stars', but just with everyday people. ...


Danger Man Patrick McGoohan played John Drake, some sort of government agent. It was James Bondish but edgier


Danger Mouse There was only one super spy that children of the 1980s needed, and he didn’t drink Martinis. DangerMouse (voiced by David Jason) - who wore an eye patch and a figure-hugging outfit in exactly the same shade of white as ...


Danger UXB was about about a unit of bomb disposal experts during the second world war. The UXB meant 'Unexploded Bomb'. As the name suggests, it was ...

Dark Shadows A gothic soap opera which featured vampires, werewolves, witches, worlocks and other supernatural beings.The soap lasted 5 years, starting in 1966 and running until 1971 and was aired during the daytime. It became massively popular in it's time. ...


Darkroom Darkroom was hosted by James Coburn. This anthology was an 80's version of Twilight Zone, as if the New Twilight Zone, was not enough. It was a little darker than The Twilight Zone however. It hosted many "has been"stars such ...

Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines This is quite often, and quite incorrectly, called Stop The Pigeon, and I'm pleased that a site other than mine has got it's facts spot on again.This featured Dick Dastardly, Zilly and Klunk as 3 people whose sole job it ...

[Moonraker]

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Taxi.
The best American comedy series ever. From 1978.
It beats 'Friends' any day.
It starred Judd Hirsh and Danny DeVeto.

[Donald the Great]

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I found Chance In A Million. I have seen it as I recalled the odd way Callow's character spoke.. stilted with obvious words missing. Brenda was luscious in those days.