butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I had no telly until 1990Most stuff from the 80s I've just never heard of...
Well, like people say about the wire, you're in for a treat with (EOD)
The Best BBC Drama Series ever
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Well, like people say about the wire, you're in for a treat with (EOD)
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
The thing I remember most about EoD was the atmosphere of it, and Bob Peck.
Tbh, I don't want to watch it again because I'm sure it can't live up to the memory; it just felt perfect for that moment in time.
Tbh, I don't want to watch it again because I'm sure it can't live up to the memory; it just felt perfect for that moment in time.
revol68
what, fucking what?
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
the monocled mutineer - made a massive impression on me as a kid
i'll defend a case that andrew davies' adaptations of some of the classics, while populist, are cracking tv nonetheless - and that the Firth / Ehle 'Pride and Prejudice' is a huge accomplishment.
another vote for 'tenko' - tho dimly remembered, i would certainly love to see it again.
also - 'lipstick on your collar', which -contrary to prevailing tastes, i rate as the finest of the BBC Potter series.
i'll defend a case that andrew davies' adaptations of some of the classics, while populist, are cracking tv nonetheless - and that the Firth / Ehle 'Pride and Prejudice' is a huge accomplishment.
another vote for 'tenko' - tho dimly remembered, i would certainly love to see it again.
also - 'lipstick on your collar', which -contrary to prevailing tastes, i rate as the finest of the BBC Potter series.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
at long last! I thought I was alone in loving this DP series.
bows before spangley one's good taste.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Another vote for "Edge of Darkness" here, absolutely brilliant especially Bob Peck.
Also "The Singing Detective" was a fine series though I remember being embarrased watching it with my parents when Patrick Malahide was shagging in the forest!
Also "The Singing Detective" was a fine series though I remember being embarrased watching it with my parents when Patrick Malahide was shagging in the forest!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Edge of Darkness is just too obvious, tho right.
I Claudius, hasn't aged quite as well as one might have hoped. Still damned entertaining tho.
Tinker Tailor is also very of its time, but brilliant stuff.
of more recent stuff, Blackpool would be top for me (tho maybe not enough episodes to count as a series??)
But the actual answer is simply Doctor Who.
I Claudius, hasn't aged quite as well as one might have hoped. Still damned entertaining tho.
Tinker Tailor is also very of its time, but brilliant stuff.
of more recent stuff, Blackpool would be top for me (tho maybe not enough episodes to count as a series??)
But the actual answer is simply Doctor Who.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
IMHO the early '80s version (with John Duttine) is the best.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I watched Episode 1 of State of Play. It's very good. 
I almost wish I hadn't watched the film first though
I find John Sim a much more convincing journo than copper.
I almost wish I hadn't watched the film first though
I find John Sim a much more convincing journo than copper.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I, Clavdivs 
)) - still great, altho it suffers from looking like a theatre production with cameras...still great tho...
All the Le Carré adaptations are superb.
IS House of Cards the Ian Richardson one? If so another vote for that.
Couldn't stand the Potter stuff TBH.
Have been too enamoured of HBO and US drama of late to really take in stuff like Friends In The North, Red Riding etc...
)) - still great, altho it suffers from looking like a theatre production with cameras...still great tho...All the Le Carré adaptations are superb.
IS House of Cards the Ian Richardson one? If so another vote for that.
Couldn't stand the Potter stuff TBH.
Have been too enamoured of HBO and US drama of late to really take in stuff like Friends In The North, Red Riding etc...
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I watched Episode 1 of State of Play. It's very good.
I almost wish I hadn't watched the film first though
I find John Sim a much more convincing journo than copper.
He's not convincing in anything IMO - he just looks like a large child or david platt off corrie.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I preferred Ehle in "The Camomile lawn", but only because of the bappage.
Now if only those LWT cunts would release it on DVD I'd be a happy Potter-fan.
I just can't get it out of my head that he was the bloke in Human Traffic. And when I watched thatk, I assumed at the time that all of them were random clubbers who just got asked to be in this film, I didn't realise they were 'proper' actors.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
John Duttine! You have just reminded me of another
"To Serve Them All My Days"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080298/
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Now if only those LWT cunts would release it on DVD I'd be a happy Potter-fan.
http://missedmovies.com/order/product_info.php?products_id=5949
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I didn't realise they were 'proper' actors.
they're not. One of them is Danny Dyer
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I preferred Ehle in "The Camomile lawn", but only because of the bappage.
Hold fire and keep your powder dry - the C4 thread has already been promised to us!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
1990 was a rather interesting series about a bureaucratic and authoritarian near-future Britain, with Edward Woodward as a journalist and member of the underground opposition movement.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075469/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075469/
pennimania
still dre and drooling
The Roads to Freedom - sometime in the 70's.
House of Cards - 1990's
AVery British Coup - but was that a BBC series?
House of Cards - 1990's
AVery British Coup - but was that a BBC series?
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Does 'Play For Today' count as a drama series? Wednesday nights (iirc) were never better. I think they were originally called 'The Wednesday Play' but I might have imagined that.
pennimania
still dre and drooling
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Oh good, I wondered if I just thought that's what they were called because of the day of the week they went out.....
'Comedy Playhouse' was quite good too.
'Comedy Playhouse' was quite good too.
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