Robin of Sherwood was superb! Still got the first two series on video and I keep meaning to get the DVDs.

 

I was tring to remember some of the things I used to like watching in the 70s. I used to really like The Streets of San Franscisco with Karl Marlden and wasn't it a young Michael Douglas.

 

I also used to like The Rockford Files a lot. I also used to watch Shoestring and The Chinese Detective as well. The best cop show had to be Between The Lines. God I used to watch a lot of cop shows. Can't stand most of them now.

 

lol.. me too!

 

cannon, ironside, mc cleans law, t j hooker :lol: , yep and rockford, shoestring, hazel.. the only one i can stand now is morse.

 

i loved robin of sherwood, got the album by clanad :)

I even used to watch Dempsey and Makepeace as well! Seen it again recently and it is awful.

I even used to watch Dempsey and Makepeace as well! Seen it again recently and it is awful.

 

i couldnt be doing with that one, id gone off cops by the 80's..... until morse :)

The only cop show I regularly watch now is Waking the Dead. Did like Morse though too.

Here goes mine for the 20th Century. But I'm sticking to an all British lineup as I've never been that big a fan of American imports:

 

1. Doctor Who (1963-1989) - Quite simply my favourite ever programme. I was never a Sci-Fi fan as I dislike Star Trek, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers..., Blake Seven, etc but this struck a chord due to its concept of time travel - going anywhere in the past, the future, to alien or parallel worlds but with always a strong human element carrying socialogical & political messages wrapped up in family entertainment that could make you scared one minute, laugh the next & cry the next. My love of this show has been spectacularly awakened thanks to RTD & the BBC throwing money, top script-writers & top acting at the show in its 21st Century revival.

 

2. The Avengers (1961-1969) - Lets be honest the Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) years 1965-68 are the highpoint. Perfect spy-fi combining secret agent storylines with science fiction elements.

 

3. The Singing Detective (1986) - Dennis Potter's best work, largely thanks to a stunning acting performance by Michael Gambon. The less said about the movie starring Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson the better.

 

4. Cracker (1993-1996) - Thanks to Jimmy McGovern's taut writing & Robbie Coltrane's portrayal of the criminal psychologist Fitz = the perfect antihero. Plus most of the rest of the cast have gone onto greater things. Although Jimmy McGovern's best stand alone work remains Hillsborough - quite possibly the most damning piece of drama against the "Man" by the Conservative "Establishment" in the history of TV.

 

5. House Of Cards (1990) - A political thriller novel written by Michael Dobbs and clearly inspired by Macbeth & Richard III, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters, which was set at the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 'You may very well think that; but I couldn't possibly comment' is a phrase I occasionally use at work today!

 

6. Our Friends In The North (1996) - "Three decades, four friends and the world that shaped their lives". The four core actors Christpher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig & Mark Strong have all gone on to bigger things.

 

7. Press Gang (1989-1993) - Written by Steven Moffatt. This show starring the teenage Julia Sawalha & Dextor Fletcher was the best kids TV show ever written, shaming 95%+ of adult dramas.

 

8. Boys From The Blackstuff (1982) - Written by Alan Bleasdale, and it helped to put Bernard Hill & Julie Walters on the map. As the BFI described it " a seminal drama series... a warm, humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people... TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture." "Gissa a job....."

 

9. Tenko (1981-1985) - Unique at the time. The cat was virtually exclusively females. The series dealt with the experiences of British, Australian and Dutch women who were captured after the fall of Singapore in February 1942, after the Japanese invasion, and interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. It was great to see Stephanie Cole, Stephanie Beacham & Louise Jameson do some pretty gritty acting.

 

10. The Edge Of Darkness (1985) - A mixture of crime drama, political thriller, and science fiction, it revolves around the efforts of policeman Ronald Craven (played by Bob Peck) to unravel the truth behind the brutal killing of his daughter Emma (played by Joanne Whalley). Yet another great drama bashing Thatcherism.

 

11. Inspector Morse (1987-2000) - A great show. I just loved the character of Morse (John Thaw) was different from classic characters such as James Bond and Sherlock Holmes. Morse was brilliant but he wasn’t always right. He often arrested the wrong person or came to the wrong conclusion. As a result, unlike many classic sleuths, Morse does not always simply ‘bust’ his culprit; ironic circumstances have the case end and the crime brought to him. In short he was a flawed human being we can all relate to.

 

12. The Prisoner (1967-1968) - The Prisoner is an allegorical UK 1960s science fiction television series starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan. It follows a former British secret agent who, after abruptly resigning from his position, is held captive in a small village by the sea by an unidentified power which wishes to establish the reason for his resignation. Episodes typically feature the unnamed prisoner, labelled "Number Six" by his captors, unsuccessfully attempting to escape from "the Village" (set in Portmeiron), but successfully resisting interrogation and attempts of brainwashing.

morse seems to be everyones fav... :)