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Post by sallyann on Jun 7, 2008 23:54:06 GMT -1
My fave programme ever is sons and daughters without a doubt but I really love Home and Away! I somehow always love the australian soaps but they're much better! Nicer to see the beach and sun than looking out the window at continuos rain!
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Post by allenmx on Jun 8, 2008 7:25:01 GMT -1
I love loads of TV ;D Australian:- Prisoner (probably my favourite EVER show and I have the boxset) Sons & Daughters (of course and I've got all episodes on DVD) Return to Eden (I love and have both the mini-series and full series) Power Without Glory (this is a great historical series) Against The Wind (another classic series set in the past) The Young Doctors (would love to see more of these) US:- Dallas (fab)! Dynasty (equally as good for the Bitchiness of La Collins) LOST (bizarre yet totally addictive) Prison Break (just about to watch the Season 3 finale - I love this series) Desperate Housewives (comedy and drama mixed to perfection) Heroes (great concept and stories) X Files (can't wait for the new movie) 24 (I'm a bit behine and my next Season is Season 4 UK:- Coronation Street (really enjoy unwinding to this) The X Factor (a bit addictive) Delia (I hope she makes another comeback) There's loads of others I like, but can't think of at the moment!!
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Post by lillyivimia on Sept 19, 2008 22:27:45 GMT -1
Oh dear, where to begin? My favourite soaps are, in order, Prisoner - like me old mate allenmx - (hi mark, by the way , Sons and Daughters (Yay!), Home and Away, Neighbours and then there's Coronation Street, Eastenders and would you believe, Hollyoaks? ;D I have every episode of Sons and Daughters on tape and I've watched them countless times since I first tuned in sometime in 1981 or 1982. As for other programmes, well, as a kid in the 70s I used to watch The Tomorrow People (anyone remember that?) and Doctor Who. I've since got hooked onto The X-Files, Charmed, Buffy, Angel, Blake's 7 and - well, the list goes on and on. And no, before anyone asks, I really don't get out much. ;D
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Post by col on Sept 21, 2008 21:45:31 GMT -1
Hello Lillyivimia. Good to see you over here aswell as the Prisoner boards.Im Bevbaker over there. ;D
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Post by lillyivimia on Sept 21, 2008 23:28:11 GMT -1
Hi Col (Bev) - oh the people you meet, eh? Yeah, I joined up a day or so back and just getting the feel of it all.
Great to have a few familiar people around, makes it all seem lime home. ;D
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Post by allenmx on Sept 22, 2008 21:55:31 GMT -1
Yes, welcome Lillyivimia (Carl) - it's nice to have a bit of a cross-over between S&D and Prisoner.
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Post by lillyivimia on Sept 23, 2008 0:04:27 GMT -1
Thanks for the warm welcome, Mark. It's really lovely that there are a few familiar people over here who, like myself, love both Sons and Daughters and Prisoner. Easily my two favourite shows. I look forward to catching up on all the threads here and see if I can post something that might be worth a read. Here's hoping. ;D
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Post by andrew98 on Sept 24, 2009 2:14:54 GMT -1
1. Star Trek: The Next Generation
2. The Weakest Link(Original UK version)
3. After You've Gone
4. Keeping Up Appearances
5. Wheel of Fortune
6. Mother and Son
7. My Family
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Post by sean on Oct 28, 2009 22:18:17 GMT -1
Six Feet Under, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos, Nip Tuck, Melrose Place(1993-1999), Blake's 7, Dallas(1978-1991), Space 1999, Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-78)
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Post by dee16 on Nov 25, 2009 23:19:18 GMT -1
loved Melrose place, they have just filmed a new series. started just after i got back from Canada. I assume it will be on in the UK soon.
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Post by Woombai-Yarr My Lord! on Jan 2, 2010 13:01:06 GMT -1
Oh my word, I watch far too much TV than can ever be healthy for one person! I’ve just really scared myself just thinking about this topic! Other than Sons and Daughters, my absolute all-time favourite TV show ever is Prisoner Cell Block H! Scarily enough, I’ve been watching it over and over for more than half my life now! It also scares me that I’m now older than Fiona Spence was when she started playing Vera Bennett! I’ll be as old as Lizzie and still bumping my gums about it before I know where I am! Still, as a madman once randomly remarked to one of my friends, “You know how to make time fly? Jump off a cliff!” As for the characters, Erica Davidson is very well the Governor of my heart... that is all! All things Australian, and especially their TV output from the ‘golden age’ of the 1970s and 80s in particular are the love of my life actually – I fell head over heels for Neighbours in its Scott and Charlene glory days and I’ve never looked back! But funnily enough, of my top three favourite shows, only one is Australian! The other two are Upstairs, Downstairs and The Royle Family – now there’s an eclectic mix for you! For me, Upstairs, Downstairs is an absolute masterclass in the art of television at its very best (so many of them are great in that but Gordon Jackson is my all-time favourite TV actor ever – love, love, love his work!) and as for The Royle Family, I reckon Caroline Aherne’s a genius (does anyone remember that series she did in Australia with Anne Charleston and Michael Caton – Dossa and Joe? I loved that too), although I must admit I’ve found the last two Christmas Specials a bit of a disappointment and it hasn’t been the same since Nana died! How true is that for real life too?! What else do I enjoy? I like a few American things – The X Files, Desperate Housewives, Dallas (Barbara Bel Geddes – another wonderful actress! Go Miss Ellie!) and I loved the barminess of Sunset Beach! As camp as Christmas itself and a veritable feast for the eyes with all those impossibly gorgeous spunky monkeys! I adored that when it was screened on Channel Five when Channel Five was like belonging to a lovely little club with the continuity announcers interacting with the viewers! I loved them sending up Madame Carmen “Where’s Gobby?!” and Kitchen Utensil (Baby Trey!). Happy days! ;D Over this side of the pond, apart from UpDown and The Royles I’ve just fallen in love with Crossroads of all things! Actually my earliest TV memory ever was of the hotel going on fire (who said that poo doesn’t burn?!!!!) and La Meg sailing off on the QE2! Poor Nolly getting her comeuppance like that! I bought the compilation DVD for my Mum for her birthday last year but have ended up greedily devouring it myself! I’m so besotted with it that I treated myself to the box set of all the episodes they’ve released so far for Christmas! Much like Prisoner, it really is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my entire life! It breaks all the conventions of TV drama that you can imagine and is as a consequence just nectar! I don’t think I’ve seen an episode yet that hasn’t made me laugh or my jaw drop at least once! Oh and I love Amy Turtle! She’s like a real little old lady who’s just wandered in front of the TV camera by mistake! Superb stuff! And the fabness of Meg warbling “We need a little Christmas!” right down the camera at you! Never mind a little Christmas, I just can’t get enough of it! And so to the land Down Under! Where to begin?! Other than S&D and Prisoner, what else do I enjoy? Well just about anything and everything, to be honest! Number 96 is what the word fabulous was invented for! It’s like a hybrid of Coronation Street of the same era and the Carry On films and is unbelievably outrageous for a prime time show of that age...or indeed any age for that matter(!), but I just love how broadminded and diverse it is and as with so many Aussie things, the characters are so well drawn and realised and there’s so much heart and soul in it that transcends the cardboard sets and lairey 1970s outfits! A good one for S&D fans too because Pat McDonald plays one of the main characters in it. As you’ve no doubt guessed by now, I have a high camp sensibility and so adore Return To Eden! How tremendous is Peta Toppano in that?! She really eats up the screen in that! I was incredibly lucky enough to be at the Prisoner 30th anniversary celebrations in Melbourne last February and can’t believe I actually got to meet her! And she even signed her autograph for one of my friends as “Jilly in RTE”! What a trip! Oh there are loads and loads of other Aussie TV series I love – too many to mention them all but others I especially enjoy would be The Flying Doctors (I must say, as much of a fan as I am of Grundy’s, Crawfords productions have such a flair!) and speaking of Crawfords, I’ve just managed to get hold of the complete set of The Sullivans so I’m really looking forward to having a run through that starting next week too! I really love all those classy mini series like Brides of Christ (absolutely flawless), The Leaving of Liverpool (such powerful television – it left such an impression on me from the first time it was screened on the BBC that has never left me), The Dirtwater Dynasty (what a musical score that has!) The Harp In The South/Poor Man’s Orange, 1915, Power Without Glory, The Cowra Breakout, Come In Spinner, I Can Jump Puddles, Against The Wind...honestly the depth and breadth of output from those shores over a couple of decades is just stunning! More recently I’ve been enjoying Bed of Roses (Julia Blake’s another of my all-time faves! Check her out in a Paul Cox film called Innocence with Bud Tingwell for another acting masterclass!) and for something completely different, Underbelly, which is incredibly swish and slick! Oh and for a bit of light relief, you can’t beat a bit of Kath and Kim! “I said a statue of the Baby Jesus, not the baby cheeses!” Oh my days, I don’t know where I’d be without my magic window!
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Post by kathdayknight on Feb 4, 2010 15:37:45 GMT -1
My fave programmes are Packed to the Rafters (managed to obtain series 1 from an Australian on-line dvd retailer and it arrived in time for christmas - fabulous!) we watched it when we were over in OZ on holiday last year andcaught it mid-series, but loved it so had to see it all - hence buying the dvd).
Obviously love Neighbours, but Home & Away is much better on the gritty storylines.
Quite liked City Homicide and will alway wonder why the character Bernice Waverley was in trouble and put on suspension last year. Anyone able to help with that one?
Loved Bondi Vet, Bondi Rescue and daft stuff like that cos it reminds me of being in Australia - sad, eh?
I only like Celebrity Big Brother, the public ones are pathetic and I would rather they just killl that show and keep up the Celeb one.
Loved Frasier, have all the dvds of that and continue to watch. Niles is great.
Ghost Whisperer is a huge favourite in our house too.
Loving Wanted Down Under, but like a lot of other shows lately, I get really frustrated with the constand reminders and up-dates which we only saw at the beginning or a few minutes ago...we do not have 2 second memory spans! Seems to be the constant theme these days...unfortunately.
Paul Merton in China & now ...in Europe are great fun. Loved the German one...who knew Germans had a sense of humour...lol.
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Post by kathdayknight on Feb 4, 2010 15:53:13 GMT -1
OMG!! How could I forget the best comedy show to come out of Australia? Kath & Kim - I love that show and have all the dvds too.
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Post by kathdayknight on Feb 5, 2010 13:49:25 GMT -1
All Saints - we're still on 2003 in the UK; mainly cos the beeb don't seem to give 2 hoots how many years they go without showing any of the series. Out of the Blue - treated the exact same way by the beeb. Blue Heelers - treated much the same way by ITV back int he 90's - excellent series.
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Post by mark27 on Feb 6, 2010 13:04:15 GMT -1
My all time favourite tv shows are The Avengers with Diana Rigg and Linda thorson, i loved this as a child growing up in the 60,s, forget Dallas and Dynasty, my fave american soap is Falcon Crest, i love Jane Wyman as Angela Channing, both she and Rowena are the best soap bitches ever, have just bought Falcon Crest season 1 on dvd, cant wait to collect them all. on the whole i think tv today is rubbish compared to the 60,s 70,s and 80,s.
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