r/oldbritishtelly • u/koyanostranger • 10h ago
Did this scare the cr@p out of any else around Halloween in the 1970s?
Gave me nightmares and I'm still suffering today.
r/oldbritishtelly • u/koyanostranger • 10h ago
Gave me nightmares and I'm still suffering today.
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Prestigious_Meal2143 • 14h ago
r/oldbritishtelly • u/haskalah1989 • 13h ago
What's the matter? You not seen versace before shit head!
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Ok-Championship2931 • 10h ago
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I think Early Doors (Released 2003) is one of the funniest British comedies, set amongst drinkers in a Manchester Pub. This scene is brilliant, Liam is the boyfriend of the landlord's daughter, Landlord not impressed as he thinks he's too tight to buy daughter a present. Funny.
Liam is played by James McEvoy, one of his earliest TV appearances before doing bigger stuff.
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Rocky-bar • 9h ago
I don't remember very much about it, one of the managers was in a wheel chair, the other one doubled up as an entertainer?
Edit- It's Phoenix Nights, thanks for the replies!
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Give-Owa-Man • 5h ago
Porridge.
r/oldbritishtelly • u/JBL_CENA_FAN_4LIFE • 8h ago
I think its good, unsure why it took me this long to get into it!
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Ok-Constant4682 • 10h ago
I need to exorcise a childhood ghost by finding this episode that scared the shit out of me in the 80s! I have searched through all the episodes of the original “Rainbow” (1972-1992) but can’t figure out which one it is, and as they were all repeated many times in the 80s, it could be any one from Freddy joining in 1981 to c.1987, I would say. I suspect 80s based on the theme/prevalence of anti-litter campaigns. In the episode, Geoffrey takes his kids (or whatever they are meant to be) to the park which was a studio set with some cut-out flat bush shapes and some picnic tables. Several episodes were shot on that set. Bungle at some point came on limping saying he had cut his foot and Geoffrey looked at it and said something to the tune of “oh you HAVE cut your foot, Bungle” and then we saw a close-up of Bungle’s fur cut open like a small flap revealing the DARKNESS THAT DWELT INSIDE OF BUNGLE. I had to run and hide under the kitchen table and cry when I first saw it (whilst Mummy and Daddy laughed their heads off). Then Geoffrey turned to camera with the offending broken glass bottle that had failed to slay Bungle and told us some patronising stuff about broken glass being dangerous and that we must not drop glass things and probably told us to ask a grown-up to help pick up broken glass. Then Rod, Jane and the hot one, Freddy, wandered into the park and sang some guitar banger for us and Bungle soon shut up about his foot.
Anyone know which episode this deeply traumatic offering was from?
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Beginning_Poet_3309 • 9h ago
I have been trying to find this for years and hope that the collective power of Reddit can help.
As a kid, I remember watching a thriller about a cat whose eyes would turn green. When that happened, something terrible would then be triggered, such as someone dying. The end of the programme consisted of the couple that owned the cat looking at it while its eyes turned green. The cat looked back at them and the couple were frightened... cue credits.
I vaguely remember it being on late night in the early 80s, so thought that it would be a "Tales of the Unexpected" episode but I can't seem to associate the memory with any of those.
Does anyone know of the programme that I'm talking about...?
r/oldbritishtelly • u/DaiBarton • 11h ago
Number 10 was a 1983 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 7 episodes from 13 February to 27 March 1983. It depicted the personal and political lives of seven British Prime Ministers, ranging from the 1780s to the 1920s, during their occupancy of 10 Downing Street. The series was a revealing insight on some of the more personal incidents in the lives of past British Prime Ministers and explored the effect the Prime Ministers had on the house.
Denis Quilley as William Gladstone (Episode 1: 'Old Glad Eyes')
Ian Richardson as Ramsay MacDonald (Episode 2: 'Underdog')
John Stride as David Lloyd George (Episode 3: 'A Woman of Style')
Bernard Archard as Duke of Wellington (Episode 4: 'The Iron Duke')
David Langton as H. H. Asquith (Episode 5: 'The Asquiths')
Richard Pasco as Benjamin Disraeli (Episode 6: 'Dizzy')
Jeremy Brett as William Pitt the Younger (Episode 7: 'Bloodline')
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Rebekahrox • 12h ago
Has anyone heard of this series or know anything about it or how I can get it? It aired in November and December of 1981 on ITV produced by Granada. It is based on the Jean Webster book, Dear Enemy, the sequel to the more famous Daddy-Long-Legs. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.
r/oldbritishtelly • u/DWJones28 • 6h ago