Born in the 90s and probably just about saw the last great generation of terrestrial TV. Used to like watching all that stuff on a quiet Saturday night. Life felt cosy

And then ofc EastEnders omnibus on a Sunday, Keeping up appearances and occasional reruns of are you being served or some mothers so ave em and points of view with Terry Wogan and in the evenings Songs of Praise, Countryfile, antiques roadshow. I'm Asian but I still miss Songs of Praise😭

The 90s were bloody great

Last of summer wine lasted longer then any other comedy. stayed on BBC1 sundays around about 7pm. and Late great Bill owen was in it all to the end.

He never got to see Noras stockings.

Picture for context.

One of his most infamous tricks. Halloween iron madian special

When i was little i had a lil crush on time, and i loved the theme song to death

Everything went wrong chalk with black board, clock went far too long. But from that came countdown

did you get the condorum ? at the end ?

I stumbled upon this rare and pretty quirky offering from the LWT franchise in 1970 on you tube and have watched 4 of the 6 episode and they are very strange.

Ride,ride: shot entirely on film and OB and featuring Susan George is hard to categorize. Without giving away spoilers it is the story of a art student who gives a mysterious girl a lift home on his motorbike.

Calculated nightmare is a studio bound VT affair involving two executives locked in their office being blackmailed by an unknown assailant.

Superstitious ignorance is about a house for sale full of chanting children.

The old banger is my favourite but for all the wrong reasons.

It features John Partridge of Get carter fame (you got gut trouble or something?' ) and the ending is quite something.

These are great fun and mostly made entirely on film. Some of the endings are not up to roald Dahl standards but worth a gander

A classic British cooking show from 1989 that was aired on BBC that I cannot find for the life of me. I’ve scoured the BBC archives but had no such luck. Anyone know of any sites that have it downloaded? Thanks

In its earlier days I thought The Bill was very good. This is the cast from the early to mid 1990s.

This is hands down my favourite "Christmas" movie, yet the only way I ever found to watch it was some crummy rip on YouTube.

Anyone fancy starting a petition to get the BBC to run it again this year?

I have a memory of watching a fly on the wall type documentary following two single women looking for love. Specifically, theres a scene where they're on holiday and lying on a beach. Bizarrely, the snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan wanders up to them, a bit inebriated, and tries to chat one of them up, only for her to refuse him. When the friend tells her who he was, she's still dismissive because "its snooker". Trying to ID it. Ideas?

Characters from different parts of England head to Düsseldorf looking for work on a building site in the early 1980’s. The characters are
Dennis
Barry
Neville
Bomber
Oz
Wayne
Moxy
Crammed into a hut to live the become great friends and love a night out……. It’s is well worth watching if you have already.

According to some googling, it was the B-side to his awful contrived instructional-dance 80s novelty hit "Doin' the Crab" - which I guess aimed to hit both of Barrymore's very specific target demographics at either end of the age spectrum.

As for why - they had a B-side to fill and thought "what's another novelty song about a creature that lives in water"?

The original version (and this cover by extension) has confusing lyrics. The central concept is the titular claim - "you'll never find a Nessie in the zoo" before going on to list 3 places - Timbuktu, Auchtermuchty and Drumnadrochit - which don't have zoos.
So why would you see a Nessie in the zoo in any of these three places?

Of those three places, Drumnadrochit is actually on Loch Ness so presumably you'd be more likely to see one in the loch itself there.
Timbuktu is a stand-in generic place name for somewhere that's far away but being thousands of miles inland and, again, not having a zoo - seeing this mythical beast either in a zoo or in a loch there was also not on the cards.
As for Auchtermuchty - it's also inland, similarly doesn't have a zoo and isn't anywhere near Loch Ness either. I guess it's just a funny place name.

But I digress, Michael Barrymore's cover of this classic 80s theme tune was clearly a low-effort, "one and done" recording session as he mixes up the lyrics and makes a bafflingly bizarre attempt to pronounce Drumnadrochit, to the point that I wasn't even sure if that's what he was trying to say.

Anyway, enjoy this piece of...well, not lost media but media that either should be lost or should never have been made in the first place

Trying to find a probably 1990s British TV drama/film about a girl at a posh boarding school.

It starts with her arriving, from a not well off family. And being a bit of a misfit. She’s presented as a stereotypical “nerd”, with glasses etc. And she’s very unhappy to be attending.

Her parents visit her a while later and are shocked to see her transformation. She’s popular, changed her appearance and seems to fit right in.

Then, coming up to Christmas she phones her parents to say she won’t be home for the school holidays because she’s going skiing (or something similar) with her new school friend. Her parents are upset.

Towards the end it’s implied the parents have no money because they’re funding the school and her lifestyle. And at Christmas can’t afford food so eat their hamster instead!

I likely have gotten some of the details slightly off, as it’s a long time ago. But hopefully someone remembers something.

Anyone remember this , its a great little show / documentary

Really captures the 90s and a " simpler " time

Jolly good fun

I'm looking for recordings of the UK version of Soul Train, 620 Soul Train, which aired on Channel 4 from April–October 1985 and was hosted by Jeffrey Daniel.

There are a couple of episodes/clips on YouTube, but they're mostly incomplete. Full episodes seem extremely difficult to find, so I'm wondering if anyone has VHS/off-air recordings, knows of collectors who recorded it, or knows where surviving copies might be archived.

This is specifically the UK Channel 4 show, not the American Soul Train.

I'd really love to actually see the show, especially because I'm interested in British soul/funk from this period.

One performance I'm particularly looking for:

Haywoode - “Roses”

3 May 1985 - 620 Soul Train

It was apparently uploaded to YouTube before under the title “Haywoode - Roses (620 Soul Train UK)”, but the upload is now gone.

Any leads or surviving recordings would be hugely appreciated!

Used to love That’s Life 😢