Hannibal Brooks, starring Oliver Reed and the underrated Micheal J Pollard isn't on very often, last time I saw it was on The History Channel I think! And not on DVD as well.

I've watched it three times now.
Once at the cinema.
Once on DVD.
And once in 5 minute bursts, over the 24 times they've shown it on an ITV channel late in the evening.
And every time I think... oh yeah... blimey... that's Gary Oldman!

But, in answer to your question ...
80s stuff, from my teenage years. I'd like to see just how bad The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty In Pink and Ferris Beuller's Day Off really were, without shelling out for a DVD. Of course, at the time I loved them.

You can never get enough of Bad Bob (my favourite bit).

spring to mind that just never get an airing anymore. The ones that stick in my mind most vividly from my viewing habits in the 70s were those films where big studio stars from Hollywood came over the pond to appear in a film set in Britain. These films often seemed to me to be a big deal and quite surreal because of the cast around the big star. So, for example you'd have Frank Sinatra in The Naked Runner< acting opposite Harry Grout from Porridge, or more accurately, the actor Peter Vaughan. And there was Grouty again with Paul Newman in The Mackintosh Man. And hang on, isn't that Heslop from Porridge (aka Brian Glover) in Brannigan opposite John Wayne?

The others ones are the non-Horror Hammer films, like the sub-Hitchcock outings, again with old school Hollywood, such as Taste of Fear, The Nanny (Bette Davis!), Fanatic (Tallulah Bankhead!) and Hysteria (Robert Webber!).

If I had to choose one from that era it would be The Man Who Haunted Himself, possibly Roger Moore's finest role.

Please could you put Moviedrome back on the box in it's former Sunday night spot with a re-run of all the films featured. Thank you.

In other news, I can't believe I forgot to record Brazil the other night. Bugger.

http://youtu.be/4Wh2b1eZFUM

Lee Marvin and a terrifying Ernest Borgnine...
Haven't seen it in years.

I'd love to see The Lacemaker again, it's a french film telling the love story between intellectual boy and pretty hairdresser girl with a tragic ending. I saw it in the early 80s and loved it.

Also, the old horror films that BBC2 used to show - The Raven, Cat People, things like that, and the american 'disastrous consequences of radiation' films such as The Blob, Them, The Incredible Shrinking Man etc.

I'd like to see those again...

..and the rest of the Moviedrome fillums.

and any number of other forgotten Oscar-shortlisted films from the 30s, 40s, 50s...

My Man Godfrey: 1936; William Powell; Carole Lombard; Oscar nominations for director, screenplay, all four acting categories (didn't win any). I had never heard of it until I picked a DVD up for a pound in a bargain bin in a supermarket. It was great. Who knows what other forgotten gems we could be seeing on a channel with any programming imagination instead of all the usual suspects.

I had never seen Batman Begins until I was flicking around last night looking for a movie to watch and it just happened to be starting. Funny that.

What is up with Hot Fuzz on ITV 2? All. The. Time. I still stop and watch a chunk of it each time though. D'oh!

'Freebie and the Bean' is a film I remember being on 'every week' when I was in school but is never on now.

Tony Robinson was in 'Brannigan' too- John Wayne threw him in the Thames!
Pity Wayne can't be on Time Team

'This is the remains of a 12th Century commode'

'The hell it is!'

(sorry)

It's never on, and not on DVD either.

The Prize was on rotation on TCM until recently. It's good. You don't see Torn Curtain very often do you?

Other wishes:

Smashing Time
Where's Jack?
Sudden Terror
One Plus One
The Games
Our Mother's House
A Thousand Clowns
A Hatful of Rain

Donald Cammell
Nic Roeg
Ken Russell
Shane Meadows
Thorold Dickinson
Terence Davies

and so on.

You don't even need to go anywhere near Hollywood to think of all the films by talented British directors that just don't get an airing anymore.

When was the last time a Hitchcock film was shown on terrestrial TV?

So may of the films made by these directors would reveal so much of themselves on modern TVs and would go a long way to informing a new generation that films are so much more than the blockbuster in the summer and crescendo-based film editing that functions as some kind of image-based prolonged orgasm.

that isn't The Sound Of Music or the Wizard Of Oz would be nice.

Gene Hackman's The Conversation or any number of darker early 70s films would go down a treat right now.

right now on TCM ...aaaarrghhh!!!!

I am a shift worker, so sleeping during the day & watching a bit of TV in the afternoon is fairly routine to me.

I would love to see a run of late 50s / early 60s B&W films

(Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Norman Wisdom, - even stuff like whistle down the wind & High Noon)

That would be TV heaven.