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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 14:45:29 GMT
The Six Wives of Henry VIII with Keith Michell Abigail's Party Rock Follies For trash, can I add Within These Walls and Beryl's Lot? Out of all the dramas mentioned Abigail's Party had by far the biggest impact where I was living, the next day literally everyone was talking about it from school kids to adults. But it wasn't really a TV drama was it, rather a stage play transferred whole to TV. I agree but I couldn't not mention Abigail's Party! As you say, it had huge impact, I remember, because of its TV outing. Without it, I wonder if it would have become 'just another Mike Leigh play' seen by a relatively small number down at the Hampstead Theatre... |
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Post by Marwood on Feb 25, 2017 14:54:24 GMT
If you're going to mention Abigail's Party, you HAVE to mention Nuts In May as well.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 15:06:55 GMT
Oh yes... Poor Ray, having to join in with the zoo song...! Priceless!
(Spent years after these TV plays doing impressions of Candice-Marie and Beverley! )
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 15:07:34 GMT
Victoria Wood's Pat and Margaret...? Perfection.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 25, 2017 21:37:01 GMT
Another vote for I, Claudius - something I rewatch on a regular basis. The performances stand up to anything else ever made for TV
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 23:03:49 GMT
The Gentle Touch.
Still have a soft spot for Jill Gascoine...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 23:46:09 GMT
Line of Duty
Undercover
The Missing
One of Us
Unforgotten
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Post by d'James on Feb 25, 2017 23:47:49 GMT
Was Undercover the one with Sophie Okonedo? I liked that!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 12:49:49 GMT
One off dramas, one that has stuck in my head since I saw it was Murdered by My Boyfriend on BBC3, that has really stuck with me! Series wise, shameless guilty pleasure, Bad Girls! The first few series though, it wasn't as good toward the end!  |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 26, 2017 14:07:44 GMT
Big fan of Jimmy McGovern
Thought his Hillsborough film was sensational. Thank you Mr McGovern.
Reg with Tim Roth and Anna Maxwell-Martin was really good. The real life scenes of the speech at the end just works so well.
Also loved McGovern's The Street and Accused. The Coleman/Duff episode is as good as drama gets.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 26, 2017 14:09:19 GMT
Another vote for I, Claudius - something I rewatch on a regular basis. The performances stand up to anything else ever made for TV I'm just a bit too young for I, Claudius. I am going to revisit this. |
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Post by Kenneth_C on Feb 27, 2017 0:25:21 GMT
My #1 is, and probably always will be, Brideshead Revisited.
One of the most sublime works of art in any medium.
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Post by viserys on Mar 3, 2017 17:35:56 GMT
As a pair, "Eskimo Day" and "Cold Enough for Snow." And "Barmitzvah Boy" of course. And "London's Burning." Not forgotten, Jack... I loved London's Burning back in the days, at least the first seasons. Dutch telly showed a few seasons with subtitles in my youth. A lovely English lady sent me VHS tapes of the later seasons, but without subtitles I was pretty much lost. Sadly, when the show was finally re-released on DVDs, those had no subtitles either. If they ever re-re-release a set with subtitles, I'd be all over it to piece together what I missed on those VHS tapes |
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 3, 2017 22:41:31 GMT
As a pair, "Eskimo Day" and "Cold Enough for Snow." And "Barmitzvah Boy" of course. And "London's Burning." Not forgotten, Jack... I loved London's Burning back in the days, at least the first seasons I used to love London's Burning too viserys. Have you discovered Chicago Fire? I know it's not British, but it's pretty good! Season 5 will be in the UK soon and already showing in the States. |
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Post by viserys on Mar 4, 2017 7:26:18 GMT
I loved London's Burning back in the days, at least the first seasons I used to love London's Burning too viserys . Have you discovered Chicago Fire? I know it's not British, but it's pretty good! Season 5 will be in the UK soon and already showing in the States. I was very excited about Chicago Fire when it was first announced - at last another firefighting show on telly and it even starred Jamie Spencer who I had liked since his Billy Kennedy-days on Neighbours - but I didn't make it through the first season. I was turned off by the typical American casting of everyone being extremely young, handsome and perfect. However, a friend of mine who persevered with Chicago Fire told me it would be getting better, so maybe I'll return to it. Would still prefer a re-release of subtitled Londons Burning DVDs followed by a reboot of the show  |
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 4, 2017 7:36:54 GMT
I was very excited about Chicago Fire when it was first announced - at last another firefighting show on telly and it even starred Jamie Spencer who I had liked since his Billy Kennedy-days on Neighbours - but I didn't make it through the first season. I was turned off by the typical American casting of everyone being extremely young, handsome and perfect. However, a friend of mine who persevered with Chicago Fire told me it would be getting better, so maybe I'll return to it. Would still prefer a re-release of subtitled Londons Burning DVDs followed by a reboot of the show Yes. Yes. And yes......does it for me! Seriously though, apart from the eye candy, the location scenes are stunning. There seems to be a limitless budget and it never ceases to amaze me how no one gets hurt in the process. |
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Post by viserys on Mar 4, 2017 7:42:57 GMT
Haha, okay. I'm currently watching the fourth season of Vikings (Rollo is all the eye candy I need!) but I'll give Chicago Fire another shot afterwards!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 8:40:36 GMT
It's not going to go down in history as a great, but while we're on the subject of fire-related dramas, did anyone else watch The Smoke when it was on?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 4, 2017 8:46:15 GMT
My #1 is, and probably always will be, Brideshead Revisited. One of the most sublime works of art in any medium. It was beautifully made - but my issue with Brideshead is that none of the characters elicit any sympathy from me. All of their misfortune seems entirely self-inflicted! |
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Post by lynette on Mar 4, 2017 8:54:56 GMT
The Pallisers in their day was a very good and long dramatisation. There was a strike of some kind...power, tv, who knows it was strike strike strike then my people...so the last episode was delayed. It has been on the tv in the day recently but for some reason isn't on the catch up service.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 4, 2017 9:11:48 GMT
It's not going to go down in history as a great, but while we're on the subject of fire-related dramas, did anyone else watch The Smoke when it was on? I don't remember it being on the telly, but I got it on box sets a while back. Gave up after a couple of episodes - don't remember why, but couldn't get into it. |
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Post by Polly1 on Mar 4, 2017 12:34:42 GMT
Ken Stott is a fave - Takin' Over The Asylum (with a v yyoung D Tennant) was fab.
Jack Rosenthal - The Knowledge (who can forget Nigel Hawthorne with the sinus tube stuck up his nose!)
Also Moving Story, spin off series from his film The Chain, with Warren Clarke, I loved that.
Ooh, yes, Clarke and Nigel Havers in Sleepers, that was another good one. And Dalziel and Pascoe of course (whatever happened to Colin Buchanan?)
Final one - Underworld, comedy thriller with great cast, David Troughton, Susan Wooldridge, James Fleet, Kevin McAnally , Alan Armstrong, Trevor Peacock. Wish they'd show it again.
Sorry for rambling!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 4, 2017 14:59:17 GMT
A Very British Coup is one I go back to from time to time. Some great performances in that one.
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Post by Jan on Mar 4, 2017 15:13:24 GMT
Ken Stott is a fave - Takin' Over The Asylum (with a v yyoung D Tennant) was fab. Jack Rosenthal - The Knowledge (who can forget Nigel Hawthorne with the sinus tube stuck up his nose!) Also Moving Story, spin off series from his film The Chain, with Warren Clarke, I loved that. Ooh, yes, Clarke and Nigel Havers in Sleepers, that was another good one. And Dalziel and Pascoe of course (whatever happened to Colin Buchanan?) Final one - Underworld, comedy thriller with great cast, David Troughton, Susan Wooldridge, James Fleet, Kevin McAnally , Alan Armstrong, Trevor Peacock. Wish they'd show it again. Sorry for rambling! A good Jack Rosenthal one that I found again on DVD recently was "Ready When You Are, Mr McGill", the one about the film extra perpetually forgetting his lines, Jack Shepherd playing the furious director. |
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Post by Jan on Mar 5, 2017 10:15:00 GMT
^Didn't they film that twice, Jan Brock? They did. The second version was problematic not least because of the intervention of Rosenthal's wife who we have discussed on another thread. Couple of good drama performances were Hurt in "The Naked Civil Servant" and Sher at his reptilian best in "The History Man". |
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