in all his 1982 glory - is it going to get an airing?

...on The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine in 1971. I'd only just been introduced to the delights of "Colosseum Live" by a school mate's elder brother, and one thing I knew for sure about this kind of music was, you never EVER saw it on the telly. Then, out of nowhere, in the middle of watching one of my favourite comedy shows, there were my current heroes, large as life and all saxes blazing, playing "Tanglewood 63". Unbelievable! YouTube is, to date, unable to oblige with a clip, so I hope the episode wasn't a victim of the infamous videotape recycling! I'd really love to see it again.

Life is complete.

The hand-knitted Leeds cardie. “They certainly can nudge a crafty ha’penny”. Wonderful.

Perhaps about 1967, I recall watching a TV programme about music and hippies, which even then I was fascinated by, being 10 at the time. I remember there was a group on it towards the end, with large big perms, who sang a song wherein the chorus was "(we can) frolic around in the nude", which seemed immensely daring and rude at the time. What was the programme, who were they and how do I see it again? I have wondered whether it was part of the Tony Palmer documentary but have never been able to establish what it came from. Perhaps an older irregular can help?

I seem to recall a few of these but could only find a rather good heavy metal clip and a video of the theme song. I recall a documentary on Spandau Ballet and New Romantics (may have been a 2 parter). I think it was on a Sunday before the big match.

Theme tune was good as well - John Foxx.

Heavy Meatal (sorry hard rock) dj clip.

PS - bemused as to the dj not liking the term heavy metal but still wearing a t-shirt with heavy metal wrtitten on it.

on OGWT asking a slightly stunned Paul Simon if he missed having Garfunkel as a songwriting partner. Excellent live performances from 'One Trick Pony' too - criminally under-rated album (I repeat for the nth time). Surely you have some influence here David?

Or John & Yoko coaxing Michael Parkinson into a large bag to conduct an interview - never seen it so it may simply be the stuff of legend, or else wiped by the BBC.

Never mind clips I want to see the entire series of Tutti Frutti from 1987 starring Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson. Written by John Byrne, the man who gave us Fud O'Donnell - bass player with The Majestics. A lost comic masterpiece.

Others may feel the same about the Arena documentary broadcast in 1980 on Dire Straits looking very tired and irritable while rehearsing and recording Making Movies. I seem to remember the live footage it showed of them kicking up quite a dust on stage.

It only shows repeats of The Vicar Of Dibley and Only Fools And Horses. Where's all the interesting stuff?

BBC4 unearth the odd gem, but otherwise, it's vanished. Of course it'll be down to 'market share' and 'demographics' and 'what the audience wants', but come on - all this stuff is langishing in the vaults just crying out to be seen. You could fill endless hours of cheap TV and keep everyone happy.

A Top Of The Pops channel with Whistle Test clips, bands on Blue Peter (I really want to see the Glitter Band doing Angel Face again), Cheggers Plays Pop, etc. There's enough to go on for years.

The list of stuff I want to see is endless. But I fear it'll remain just a dream.

the Bowie documentary "Cracked Actor" that was originally shown on BBC. I seem to remember him comparing himself to a fly in a carton of milk! Very "Derek Smalls"!!

Snub TV was amazing - it really documented the Madchester scene and I remember some ace clips of the Fall.

Rapido - no one mentions this programme anymore. What ever happened to Antoine De Caunes? Remember a great interview with La's and one with the Stone Roses.

of Dominic Hyde and a sequel were 2 hilarious programmes I think on the BBC in the early 80's - they were about the character Dominic Hyde who had I think time travelled to earth. I have a hazy memory of the actual programmes but have a very clear memory of laughing my tits off.I checked the BBC shop a while back and couldnt see them - must check again though.

Retro makes a good point about things that seemed very rude at the time. I clearly recall the comedy version of Casino Royale - there was a part in it where the female lead was captured by the baddies and stripped - there were 2 metal bands strapping her to a bed in her strategic places -I remember thinking at the time in my early teens that it was very erotic. It wouldnt pass muster these days.

..anyone remember that? It was on in about 1983 and told the story of two schoolfriends, one who landed on the scrapheap of Thatcher's Britain, and the other who became a successful songwriter, basing most of his songs on the ups and downs of the life of his friend, the eponymous Johnny.

One of the best pieces of TV I have ever seen. Shown once by the BBC, never repeated, and apparently the tapes have been wiped, though a few home video recorded dodgy quality dvd transfers occasionally turn up on ebay for a small fortune.

Keith Chegwin doing that naked game show. I'd like to see that. Some people liked It, but it did have it's knockers...

...regularly repeated on BBC4 but also got a showing on BBC2 around 2000 or so, they showed it with a concert Bowie did in front of an invited audience.

That heavy metal/NWOBHM '20th Century Box' documentary is on the Iron Maiden DVD 'The Early Years'. A vastly enjoyable period piece, though I'm at a loss as to why it's in black and white! It was 1980, surely it was made in colour?

In my case I never saw them aired but nevertheless I would like to see:

More Old Grey Whistle Test DVDs; I like the ones out there (and the wonderful audio commentaries on Vol 2/3- seriously, these are amongst the only ones I've found that aren't like watching paint dry!) but 3 volumes isn't enough for a show which ran as long as it did and covered such a wide range of music.

A 70s BBC series called 'Target' with Patrick Mower; legend has it that it's not terribly good but I'd like it to nestle amongst my Sweeney/Professionals DVDs!

'Colour Me Pop'; not much of this series left sadly (was some amazing acts on it too) but still a few gems I've seen on TV by The Small Faces, Zappa, Moody Blues, Bonzo Dog Band etc.

As for radio sessions, I'd like to have good CD collections of Stones, Roxy Music and Queen sessions.

'Indoor League' was put in one of those E4 'Worst TV shows ever' programmes- it's only a few blokes playing darts and snooker, there were far worthier targets than that!

would bear repeating. One of particular interest to me would be the Elvis Costello one about the making of Almost Blue.

There was a made for Television documentary about the Beatles tour of Australia in 1964.

None of the principals were involved which actually served to make it better. No one had anything to protect (unlike say Sir Paul)and those interviewed were keen to tell their tales.

They spoke to reporters who covered the tour as well as fans and it was honest to a startling degree.

I remember one reporter saying "I was entertaining a young lady in my hotel room and all of a sudden the door sprang open and someone said 'Who wants to meet John Lennon?' She was out of there so quick I was left doing push ups on the bed."

They showed one of the Melbourne concerts in its entirity, it went for about twenty minutes. That combined with the lurid, and detailed, backstage goings-on the doco was the best, most complete depiction of "Beatlemania" I am ever likely to see.

For some reason the title "It was Twenty Years Ago Today" is stuck in my head so it may have been something to do with Sgt Pepper which is why I'm confused abut the year it was shown.

There is a wonderful, cinema worthy, documentary waiting to be made on the subject of the Beatles tour down under.

They toured a lot of places so why do I think that about the Australian/New Zealand tour specifically?

They only toured once which is convenient as it means you have a ready-made beginning and end. It only lasted about two weeks so the time-span is short and sharp.

Most importantly though Ringo got tonsilitis and a temporary replacement had to found.

His name was Jimmy Nicol. That period of his life was like something out of Greek mythology. It was though the Gods spoke to him and said "You can have anything you want for two weeks but when those two weeks are over you can never have any of it ever again." The memories would be a torment.

The photo of Jimmy on his way home sitting in the departure lounge is one of the saddest photos I have ever seen. I have never seen the bloke interviewed (apart form during those two weeks)How can that possibly be?

I'd like to hear some Of Roger Scott's old Saturday Sequence shows that he used to broadcast on Radio 1. Somehow, Dermot O' Leary on Radio 2 on a Saturday, just isn't quite the same.

used to have a Monday night show called, if memory serves, "Out on Cloud 9" and it was terrific. Apart from introducing me to "Dead Industrial Atmosphere" by Leatherface (think MBV but more extreme) he did a superb interview with Frank Zappa one evening that would more than bear repeated listening.

You try googling this and all you get is bad spellings of Star Trek. The one I enjoyed was on Radio 4. There was a website with a 15-minute excerpt but even that has disappeared into a black hole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Terk_II

Failing that, The Burkiss Way please.

or buy on DVD, WKRP

I agree with JJ about repeating OGWT and Colour Me Pop episodes. Would love to see some more Whistle Test DVDs released too. Am hoping Mr Hepworth and Mr Ellen may know more...

there was film shown very late at night on tv that I swear has never been shown again and is unavailable elsewhere.
I think it was French and it was about unsuspecting innocents getting trapped in telephone boxes then the boxes would be eventually carted away on the back of a lorry and taken to some kind of depot where there I think there were lots or other people in the same predicament.
At my tender age at the time it was the scariest thing I'd ever seen and to this day evidently have it stuck in my head.
Please let someone else remember this!!

There are a few South Bank Shows i'd love to see again. Especially the Talking Heads one which was made around the time they were doing the Naked album.

I would love to see the original of David Hepworth's interview with Charlie Watts, you know, the one with the "5 years working, 20 years hanging around" quote. I actually saw it once with an American voice dubbed over yours, Mr. Hepworth. Shocking stuff. There was a bit of a giveaway though, because after Charlie's aforementioned quote, you can be heard laughing heartily into your mike. I'm sure you have a tape of the original somewhere?

Called, I think, 'Our Day Out' or something like that. Centred around two Liverpool scallies called (again, I think) Billy and Icky who abscond from Liverpool to the countryside - where they pitch up (and bond) with a single bloke who becomes a bit of a father figure to them. Eventually they find out/realise their friend is gay and the whole thing ends with quite tragic consequenses. I remember Madness's 'House of Fun' figures prominently throughout.

Anyone else remember this?

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The first series of Nightingales - comedy genius. Second series went a bit too far down the surreal path, as far as I can remember. Whole thing set in an Office Block in Birmingham, with amongst others Daid Threlfall, James Ellis And Robert Lindsay.

I'd like to see the Whistle Test special from 1984 or 1985 with David Hepworth interviewing Bruce Springsteen. My mum used to have it on tape and watch it repeatedly. Seem to remember it finished with a cracking 'Detroit Medley'.

On OGWT in 1986 singing Back to the Centre and The Island.

And - Richard Thompson in 1984, again on OGWT, singing a solo version of She Twists The Knife Again. He was wearing a trilby hat as I recall.

Even Bros are considering a comeback.

That's it, the entire OGWT shown on TV every night from the very beginning, followed by a tour of the UK where we watch our favourite clips, see live bands from the series and get to hear the wit and wisdom of The Word's answer to Hinge & Bracket before retiring to the bar where the audience are bought free drinks out of their considerable repeat fees.

Works for me

... I always remember [in 1977] seeing the BBC newsreader announcing that Elvis had died. This stuck with me because my (sadly) late sister was a Presley fan and my family all gathered around the 21" tv to listen to the news. I was only 9yrs old (and the youngest) and have no recollection of who the newsreader was or the time etc; but I would sure would like to see that actual transmission.

Some of the best ever TV films were made under the "Play for Today" banner, throughout the seventies and early eighties. Some classics by the likes of Dennis Potter (Blue Remembered Hills), Mike Leigh (Abigail's Party) and Jack Rosenthal (Bar Mitzvah Boy) are still broadcast fairly often of course. Other classics, which I haven't seen for years, include: "Just Another Saturday" by Peter McDougal, based around an Orange Walk in 70s Glasgow; "Gotcha", in which a pupil holds two teachers captive; "Elephant's Graveyard", also by Peter McDougal and with Billy Connolly in the cast; "Comedians", about budding comics. Oh, just remembered "Just a Boy's Game" - another Peter McDougal play, with singer Frankie Miller making a frighteningly convincing hardman. All brilliant stuff and there were many more - not sure how many of them are still in existence today though.

Thanks big man - I'll check those out.

The play with Billy Connolly as a gangster is called "Down Among the Big Boys", made in the early nineties. "Elephants' Graveyard" is about two blokes who pretend they are working but intstead spend the day walking about the Scottish hills. Doesn't sound too promising but actually it's very good and was Connolly's first lead acting role.

'The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil'.

Early C4 comedy starring Brenda Blethyn and Simon Callow as Tom Chance(when nobody really knew much about either of them). Never repeated, no signs of a DVD but was very funny (at least it seemed so then, times change...). Had lots of elements of One Foot in the grave, as the stangest, most unlikely things were always happening to poor Tom (hence, chance in a million...).

is a private torrent tracker which is really for ex-pats who want to keep up with whats been shown on British TV. Only British TV and radio shows are up there.

Tons of the stuff mentioned in this thread are available.

Private tracker = tough ratios.

You won't be able to get in straight away....you gotta keep trying.

NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY INVITES!!

what about Bonjour La Classe, a wonderfully silly school drama about a feckless French teacher. I loved it despite its stupidity.

Up there with Love thy neighbour and Allo Allo in the classics.....

Never understood why it gets pilloried so much. Comedy accents, decent acting and witty scripts (the first two series anyway). What's not to like? One of Perry's better efforts.

'Allo, 'Allo gets a proverbial kicking yet "Oh Dr Beeching" gets a free pass...? How does that work?!

I'm pretty sure I have them on VHS tape or maybe on the DVD recorder's hard drive. I'll get back to you.

I'd also love to see some of the less well known bands on OGWT such as Wally, Druid, Neutrons and the like.

Tuckers Luck again - seemed very 'adult' to me at the time!

I used to have well-worn Betamax tape of Aztec Camera on (I think) Rock Goes To College - great live gig with a blistering guitar solo on Jump - it was almost issued as a Live at the Beeb CD a few years ago but Roddy decided it wasn't up to scratch...

One Way Pendulum was an odd movie from 63/64? - Eric Sykes building Old Bailey in his front room, Jonathan Miller teaching speak your weight machines to sing the Hallelujah chorus- surreal stuff by A F Simpson - obvious influence on Python

And the "did I dream it" moment when Bernard Manning introduced Roy Orbison on Wheeltappers & Shunters in the mid 70s - supported by a multi harmonica trio and a balloon bending dance act

... but I saw The Nightingales at Wolverhampton The Little Civic a while ago, and they were as amusing and perplexing as the TV show.

I want more of Jenny Hanley on Magpie than is healthy, and a South Bank Show (?) of Nick Lowe producing Dave Edmunds and recording one of his solo albums (`Labour of Lust').

Brought Julie Covington and Rula Lenska to our screens. I vaguely remember some nudity was involved to make it even more interesting to teenage boys like me. And music was, I think, by Andy Mackay.

I was also going to suggest this clip on the grounds I may have imagined it but I just found it on YouTube:

"Leaving."

It was set in Glasgow in the sixties and it was about three boys leaving school. It was their final summer before getting swallowed up by the shipyards and it was just lovely, well observed and very sweet (if memory serves). That would be nice to see again.

I'd also like Chris Morris's Blue Jam to be repeated in full. Blooming marvelous that was (the radio one, didn't much like the telly version)

Here he is interviewing Jerry Springer from the radio show. Brilliant stuff.

Did I imagine this? A Play for Today or similar about a Dylan nut and fanzine writer who gets a note from Bob saying he'd like to talk to him after the 1978 Earls Court show.

It's actually his mates seting him up, but he goes along anyway and meets his hero (offscreen).

It would have been about 1980 I guess. Anyone see it?