Ten Of The WORST TV Programmes Ever Made (WORST UK TV Shows List)
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That last one, if the reviewer can't even get Ron Grainer's name right, then alarm bells are already ringing. Besides he was seemingly so enamoured with Tom Baker that he didn't notice that Grainer only composed the theme tune with the iconic sound dynamics coming from the often unappreciated Delia Derbyshire. The composer of that period of Tom Baker's time on the show, depending on the episode, could've been Dudley Simpson, Carey Blyton, Geoffrey Burgon, Peter Howell, Paddy Kingsland, or Roger Limb, most of whom worked in the BBC Radiophonics Workshop.
Can't say I'd personally take that review all too seriously myself.
Dr who, really, yes we did hide behind the sofa, no we didn't question the reality of the monsters, yes the Darleks scared me witless, no we didn't question the scenery or the acting, it was and still is a bit of escapism. It only looks better today because of technology and a much bigger budget. Lastly although I'm obviously a fan, it's only a TV programme it doesn't solve world hunger or peace.Its just a bit of fun. Stop idiot, ( myself ), thou protest too much.
When Ron Grainer heard what Delia Derbyshire had done to the theme tune, he said’Did I write that?’ She replied ‘Almost!’ She was one of the true overlooked people of music - a true innovator and visionary. But she was a woman!! So at that time she didn’t count. She truly deserves far more recognition.
Tell me you're an a utter nerd without telling me you're an a utter nerd
Are you actually the bloke off the quaker oats box? I wondered what happened to you?!
Ok if we’re going to have a nerd off the Tom Baker period tune was Peter Howell with his brand spanking new synth sound!!(for the time anyway!!)
Victor Lewis Smith's review of Eldorado is still a work of brilliance. Also TV Offel was great. RIP Vic.
Every so often I recall Victor Lewis Smith and TV Offal and his demolition of the talent free zone known as Noel Edmunds.
I now see that Victor died last year. RIP.
I read Inside The Magic Rectangle until my copy fell to bits.
His review of Beam & Da Silva was a highlight.
For the information of the last reviewer, yes, I used to watch Dr Who from behind the couch. It was terrifying to young children. My first Doctor was Troughton and the yetis in the Underground gave me nightmares.
We used to go to my Aunt's house on a Saturday evening and I'd watch Dr Who from behind the couch. My first Dr Who was also Patrick Troughton but Jon Pertwee was the best. The series with the maggots is the one I remember most fondly but even in 2007, when I was 46, the weeping angels were scary.
My first Dr was William Hartnell in black and white
Tom Baker was a great Doctor -but the pantomime element got out of hand and was reigned in for his last season. Pertwee was superb.
I'd rather watch old Who than boring modern woke toss ones
No one ever mentions My Hero the very worst tv show ever made
My Hero with Ardal was funny enough. Not highbrow, but competent sitcom. Replacing him with James Dreyfus made the final series one of the worst excuses for a sitcom ever made.
That was bad might be in a league of there own
@@jakegodfrey4320 agreed
Yep, that show was terrible. Never understood it’s popularity.
My family too…how that lasted for 10 years is a national scandal
So no 'Shafted' presented by the permatanned Robert Kilroy Silk? "You decide whether to share, or to shaft''. Hand gestures optional.
How the fuck is Dr Who on this list, it’s an all time classic both the old and new who
I am not quite sure why Doctor Who is mentioned from an article dated 1998, when it hadn't been on telly since 1989, when it was cruelly axed by the BBC. There is nothing wrong with Doctor Who, right from 1963 to today, it is still a great programme and I love it.
It’s a good show but I think there’s a lot of hate regarding Jodie’s episodes mostly from I’ve seen and not because she’s a female, but mainly due to the writing.
@@rosiesubz5204 Yes, I agree that the writing has left something to be desired.
As someone who works for "Doctor Who"... I am gonna sulk now ;)
You just scoured 150+ stories of classic who, each of which comprised an average of 4- 5 episodes to get the naff scenes. The acting and stories usually made up for their shoestring budget. Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell are not to be sniffed at.
The clips mostly comprised scenes from 'The Ark in Space' - which is actually one of the really good stories Dr. Who came up with.
Don’t upset the Doctor Who fans lol classic Who was cool 👌.my favourite doctor was sylvester McCoy Btw .Ace was awesome! .Blake’s 7 was the Dog’s Bollox though not so much series 3 I was so gutted when Blake’s 7 finished 🥲Great last episode when all the crew died ( spoiler alert)
Old who is a true classic and don’t know how it made the list
I agree. Dr Who has and always will be a fantastic show.
Add to that, the piece of trash article said other than Tom Baker and most of the clips shown were first series Tom Baker and the rest were before him.
Coronation Street, Arse Enders, Emmerdale, in fact, all soap operas should be cancelled forthwith. Ghastly.
Arse Enders ... ha,ha,ha! .... love it! .... Got invited to my cousin's a few years ago for Christmas and had to endure not only Arse Enders on Christmas Night but Coronation St. and some other soap rubbish aswell..... Won't be going there for Christmas ever again!
HEEEY! I'm on this video! Im in the audience on the Vanessa Show, and yes it WAS terrible. I was also on a few of the other episodes, and each was as cringey as the other. I actually spoke on the video show. I asked a question to the scottish lady in the Chanel twin set. I asked how she felt after she had been so silly, she replied, and THEN Anglia TV cut my words out which were "But he gave you a shitty ring" referring of course, to the cheap wedding ring she had been given... Hey? what did you THINK I meant?!!! I'm on at 13:54 on the left hand side.
I never realised Doc Who was a comedy series. Then again, growing up I was a Tom Baker child. He was the best of the old bunch.
Yes I’m the same there ,best Dr who by far,I actually had his autograph ✍️, I’m scared of cybernen 😨
When Sylvester Mcoy became the Dr, i just lost all interest in it. And its got progressively worse to the point of pure embarrassing.
Since those days (I watched from the very first) I consider Matt Smith a good runner-up to Tom. (Which will upset lots of other Dr Who fans.) he and Tom definitely had that alien feel about them.
How much of the rest of the show did you see? We're you familiar with the previous 11 series?
@@davidwilliamson9162 The Cybernen weren't half as frightening as the Cybermen.
I never take notice of critics/reviewers, always watch and decide for myself.
My school friend had this weird phobia where if he heard the theme tune to Crossroads he’d get anxious and feel like the world was ending. It was both funny but really unsettling too as once I put it on as a joke and he started having a mini emotional breakdown. He was a totally normal guy otherwise
not as daft as it sounds when i was younger, the "black beauty" music used to terify me! not quite a phobia but i understand
I was a young child in the 60s and i found the cybermen scary and i did go behind the couch .
The Very fact that Doctor Who is still around & popular Proves all the crittics who are long gone & forgotten got it so so wrong , be it William Hartnell , Patrick Troughton Jon Pertwee , Tom Baker or any of the names that have followed to take the title DR WHO , each one has gone on to stamp there own unique style & persona on to the role , Making it the most loved show that it is & far greater than any minor critic that would dare attack it..
Or could it be that sometimes the armchair public will watch any old shite.
@@wilsonhodge71 old shite as you put it Does not cover a show that has been going for 60 years building up a world wide fan base of millions & is still as popular as ever Today , so popular that even The Disney company have just signed a deal with the BBC to keep making it ...
@@brianjones7907 It's only kept going that long because it is produced by a public service broadcaster, whereas a commercial-minded tv station would have cancelled it decades ago.
@@normanby100 Yes the shows no good , thats why Disney have just made a deal with the BBC so that they get to show them worldwide on Disney + & pay to make new episodes ...
@@brianjones7907I'm a big Doctor who fan the classic era and modern era
The one with Felicity Kendall looks absolutely abysmal.😂😂. How on earth do some of these shows get commissioned?
Most of these shows would never get the greenlight today... and not because of some modern P.C reason, but because they just aren't funny or interesting enough. Also, there was a lot less competition back then with fewer channels, so it was easier to fart out televisual crap back then and in some cases, even get some decent T.V ratings.
Surely Doctor Who was aimed at a younger age group than the writer of the critical article, so his comments are misplaced. Like his spelling of the name of the great composer Ron Grainer.
I remember Eldorado being universally panned. it was good for a laugh, but only now and again.
My sister used to make me watch Eldorado and it was awful!
@@LambsyLamb you poor sod. you have my sympathies
It’s hilarious watching it back under the modern gaze. One of the first storylines was a balding middle aged guy who had a 17 year old girlfriend
Googled, Bunny and Fizz
Marcus Tandy will be after you!!!!👹
@@mrhandsneigh …and ‘Fizz’ was intended to be the ‘totty’ of the show too. Just as well she had visual appeal really as the actress’ acting skills weren’t exactly ‘dazzling’ from what I recall! Ditto most of the cast especially that kid who looked like a horse (Blair?)…
Vanessa got sacked because she fiddled the guests so her friends appeared and tried to make her look good. But it failed. As the Guardian Newspaper said "10 Jun 1999 - BBC1's troubled Vanessa Show, which was at the centre of the "fake guests" scandal earlier this year has been scrapped."
Vanessa is just so annoying, how on Earth did she ever get into telly, great behemoth?
This was happening pre Vanessa.
There was Carlton TV's The Connection, which was so faked Carlton got hit with a £2 million fine from the ITC. (There were rumours the ITC wanted to revoke Carlton's Central licence in the Midlands as well because of that documentary).
Trisha's show was at it too with fake guests.
Not long after the Vanessa scandal, there was the one involving ITV's late night show Club@Vision, where the production company was wanting money upfront from nightclubs so they could get plugged on TV.
Unfortunately the ITC found out and Club@Vision was pulled (again temporarily at first). The ITC hit LWT, who presented the show on behalf of the production company, with a fine.
Club@Vision after the permanent axe was replaced briefly with a dance music show hosted by Claire, the one who replaced Nick Bateman on Big Brother.
with Dr Who it was the ideas that were important. the stories and creatures were well ahead of the available special effects at the time, and yes the sets were less rigid than much of the acting but it was still thrilling. I can remember some of the Troughton, Pertwee and T Baker series and some were terrifying. the episode (in black and white) where the doll like monster came alive on the back seat of a car was real 'from behind the sofa' stuff. you had to use your imagination to augment what was on the screen, it wasn't just passive viewing like some of todays telly. i will be 60 next year and I still look back on the first 4 Drs with great fondness. good times.
It's still seen as being terribly clever to disparage the effects on Dr Who. Yet there were wobbly sets and dodgy effects on prestige programmes that never get mentioned. Doomwatch was *serious* drama, so critics overlook some atrocious effects in that series, including rolled up bits of old fur coats sewn onto Robert Powell's trousers to simulate a rat attack. And in I, Claudius a wall visibly shakes when Brian Blessed pushed someone against it.
Terry Wogan used to lay into "Crossroads" on his Radio 2 breakfast show,, back in the 1970's & 980's, frequently describing the show as, "Dame Meg's home for destitute actors", and, "The only TV show where the walls of the set wobble everytime somebody closes a door".
I was too young to remember Crossroads, but Prisoner: Cell Block H had much the same going for it.
Anyone remember the Green Death Doctor Who story. Kids all over't country (including me) were losing sleep and looking under our beds every night for giant maggots with teeth and lethal green slime. Reviewer was dead wrong on the old Doctor Who's though I have not liked the new stuff from Eccleston onwards despite much better production values/budgets.
yes, that's the one I remember the most as well.
Crossroads! The day the motel burnt down my Grandma cried. I cheered and clapped
Personally I felt the last two seasons of Tom Baker's run were pretty poor. The mystique around his run comes from that brief period when it was trying to outdo Hammer Horror under Philip Hinchcliffe. Bloody Mary Whitehouse.
I dunno, State of Decay is pretty good, up there with the very best of Tom Baker in my opinion.
City of Death's a classic, but other than that, season 17 was poor. Season 18 had some decent bits such as The Keeper of Traken. I really like Season 19 with Peter Davison, though.... well except for Time-Flight.
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The Leisure Hive and Warrior's Gate are the only ones I like out of Tom's final two years.
Felicity Kendal has made some truly dreadful career moves since The Good Life finished.
How can any Classic “Doctor Who” be on this list??!? One of the most famous shows in TV history. Trolling stupidity. Why not just call it ‘My own bias list’?
I managed to get through 2 decades without ever watching an episode of Crossroads. The theme tune alone meant time to get away or switch over.
The theme tune really was the best part of the show. It's a nice example of counterpoint, with two separate themes being introduced separately, and then played together.
Wogan's Web was an attempt to bring his radio breakfast show banter to the tv. It simply didn't transfer. Wogan was always better on the radio.
It was just plain odd wasn’t it?
@@ChrisHopkinsBass Yes, very odd, and was on at lunchtime as I remember and it only ran for 10 episodes. Was it a filler or a real attempt to do something new? I have a vague memory of Lord Bath painting on there. Sorry to prattle on.
Yeah he was, it was just cringe they didn't realise that
Victor Lewis Smith will be much missed. A quite unique talent.
TV Offal was an underappreciated work of genius. As a Whovian, I’m sure you can guess which skits were my favourite.
@@rossallan3585 White wee-wee!
The sketch where he isolated Linda McCartney's voice and all we were left with was a screeching mess is for ever imprinted on my psyche.
@@monkeymanbob MMM. GOR. GEOUS.
Is he dead?
@@mgthestrange9098 Died December last year. I use follow him on Twitter and he was always teasing a warts and all biography that would contain all the bits that may have seen him sued. Perhaps a posthumous release?
All his tweets are gone bar one released 2 days after he passed.
"Once described as "dead funny"
but now only described as "dead""
Wow! I can’t believe you showed all the best bits of Elderado
Elderado!! Was that the version for older persons? 🙂
Funnily enough, I have just finished watching Nolly, ITV’s biopic of Noele Gordon. Interesting look into how Gordon was sacked from Crossroads essentially because ATV wanted to axe it and they thought by getting rid of the main actor, the audience would disappear as well.
I found her very wooden. Never liked the programme.
@@arthurcrown3063 oh she was atrocious. She seemed to think that she was a Shakespearean actress 😖🤭
@@lucyhurst2534She thought she and the show were the best thing on TV. I thought it was an abominable pile of muck.
I never hid behind the sofa for Doctor Who, I sat crossed-legged in front of the TV, gawping at it.
I would gladly watch any of these shows on an infinite loop for the rest of eternity, than watch even 1 minute of a Carla Lane written monstrosity.
I believe it was a _Not The Nine O'Clock News_ gag, "coming up next, the new show by Carla Lane, featuring pathos, bathos, and a joke in episode 3".
Yep, totally agree.
Well said
I recall my mother and sister avidly watching Bread and thinking...why!
@@vordman Butterflies was another one.
In that Catchphrase clip it was totally obvious the phrase was "grabbin" your trouser snake"
I was on a TV show back in about 1980 I was Nine-sh, it was called "Credo" a documentry style show was not just me it was our whole family my dad was being made redundant from the buses he was a conductor. Be lovely to see that again I remember my dads combover's (he had two) blowing in the wind as he crossed a carpark, that convinced him to cut them off, thank goodness 🤣🤣🤣🤣
TWO combovers? Wow, that’s dedication! Respect for your dad.
I look forward to all your videos and your back catalogue. Poor Victor Lewis Smith left this mortal world last year
Ahh shit, I liked "Inside Victor Lewis Smith and TV Offal.
As for doctor who, I happen to like Pertwee and Troughton. As far as I'm concerned, it only got too crap to enjoy with Colin Baker and slowly improved again with Sylvester.
Looking back,even Colin wasn't THAT bad, it was the terrible scripts that let him down.
Last issue of Private Eye had an extensive tribute to him. He was quite a character
Victor Lewis Smith was a genius of sarcasm and the withering TV review. He was the reason I read the London Evening Standard just for his comments, which often had tears of mirth rolling down my eyes. RIP VLS!!
I think Bread deserves a mention. How did that run for 7 seasons?
One of the best documentaries about Liverpool I’ve ever seen
I watched it but only cause there was nothing else on , quite literally, crap
Greetings, it used to make many of smile and laugh, especially if we were, as I was, on numerous occasions unemployed in a run down industrial town during Thatcher's reign of terror. But hey ho it's only tv, not life changing or universally essential to the benefit of mankind.
We had different expectations then, no Sky or Netflix, just 3 then 4 channels and everyone watched them. But it was shite.
It was worse than crap.
It was soul destroying and very dark and depressing.
Each character had "issues".
Did absolutely nothing to enhance the great people of Liverpool, painted them as scrounging lazy folk
Plus didn't do those that work in Department for Social Security any favours either.
Oh, it was totally unfunny as well.
Good God! You obviously haven’t gone back and watched 3-2-1 with Ted Rodgers.
321 where even Stephen Hawkins couldn’t have deciphered the clues…
What decade was Kilroy on the telly?....that was pretty dire as well.
That it was
1986 to 2004!
What was the game show he was on, Share or shaft?
I think the old dear serving the tea in Crossroads was the inspiration for Julie Walters Mrs Overall character in Acorn Antiques.
I think acorn antiques was taking the mickey out of crossroads
@@simonwilson1237 Yes, totally.
Amy “moi lips is see- yuld “ Turtle.
@@simonwilson1237 Yes - all great fun taking the piss.
Or the old waitress with two soups
I absolutely love English programming, so much better than the crap over on our side of the pond. But we always used to say "BBC Special Effects" and roll our eyes from "Are You Being Served?" gadgets or Doctor Who villain-related activity.
At least somebody loved them. Well done to you Samantha .
see i thought the opposite your 70's cop shows were class, Starsky and Hutch, Hawaii Five 0, etc and the greatest cop show ever Columbo! Action wise you nailed it as well :
Mission Impossible, the A team.. Airwolf, Knightrider used to love them all...
Eldorado used to make me think my tv was on the blink, I know these clips are old but even when it was new in the day the sound mix and camera quality was awful. I do remember the buzz around it being a new soap coming soon then when it landed it was absolutely trashed. Rightly so but sometimes it was soo bad it was good for a laugh.
I wanna hear something from Ron Grainger and his Gadgets. I'm assuming they were a four piece lounge act from the 70's, but I can 't find anything on 'em.
Still no mention of Lee Evans! So What Now?
The Dukes of Hazard was a class show (Daisy Duke, anyone?) and yes, I hid behind the sofa at Dr Who, but I'm assuming that critic wasn't a child like I was. Actually, by 1988 I was 18 so he probably had a point about Dr Who. It did go downhill from the late 80s.
Wogan's Web? I'm seriously beginning to think I've crossed over to another dimension.
I can almost imagine Alan Partridge trying to pitch it
@@Valveus I'd watch monkey tennis!
what killed Eldorado from the start in the uk was the choice of the spanish citizens speaking spanish with no subtitles for viewers , the prats at the BBC not realising that your avarage viewer was not multi-linqual & so were left to loose1/2 the plot of the shows plots due to not understanding a word being spoke...
Sorry but you can't have Doctor Who in this list. It's a classic
i actually liked eldorado... but then again Prisoner cell block h is one of my favourites
It's my favourite too. There were a lot of bad reviews about that as well but I'm not gonna diss it lol. th-cam.com/video/76i0cFXo0fs/w-d-xo.html
I really liked The Upchat Line, as it was first called. I think it came out at the right time for me and my age group. I also loved Vanessa. People move on so quickly from the things they love. It's a shame
A spoof news item from the two Ronnies- "Good news for insomniacs, Crossroads is now available in tablet form."
Eldorado was the first British soap opera to have a reoccurring disabled character. Played by the lady who was later in The Office.
What about Sandy in Crossroads?
Julie Fernandez
Currently in an ad for Specsavers
I'm not having catchphrase on this list, i though it was probably one of the better gameshows of the 80's and 90's because you could play at home, unlike a lot of them where you just watch people winning speedboats
Eldorado, (or 'Elbore-ado', as I used to call it), was a totally miscast soap from the off. None of the characters were even remotely relatable to the majority of viewers, the results of which meant hardly anyone took any interest in what they got up to in a show that was largely, again, un-relatable due to being set in an expat part of southern Spain.
I totally agree with the, 'Top of the Pops', review from 1993, too. By then, pop music, especially that which was presented on television had turned into nothing but a stream of, 'party, yeh, wooh, right-on', presenters trying desperately to convince teenagers and, 'young people', of the time that this was how to, 'have a good time', by listening to largely over-hyped mediocre pap.
I used to find the Doctor Who monsters quite funny in a sarcasticlly, 'how did they ever manage to fit a man inside that?', kind of way. I'm not sure when that review is from, but certainly, by the mid 80's the budget for the show had been reduced by the BBC, simply because they didn't want it anymore, but due to it's apparent popularity, continued to run it, (into the ground), until eventually it was, 'shelved.' By that time, I'd long since stopped watching the show, largely because of the story-lines. Oh, and Bonnie Langford.
In the last episode of Eldorado the lead character’s fancy-pants Renault GTA instantly changed into a Triumph TR7 as it got blown up.
Eldorado had some good actors, and it had some truly awful actors, but that's the same with every soap, and they could have easily been weeded out over time. The major thing it had going for it was the setting which every other dreary British soap didn't have. Had they not succumbed to the lazy critics, I genuinely believe it would still be going strong today.
RIP Victor Lewis Smith.
To be honest, most of these shows were perfectly crafted for the demographic they were intended for. Half pissed students just waking up after a bender or senile retired people who just stared at the screen all day. I remember flicking around TV in the mid morning/afternoon on occasion as a kid in the 80's and being thoroughly bored with stuff like 'Take the high Road' or 'Pebble Mill', switching off and reading a book. The poor quality of TV probably had a positive impact on literacy rates at the time....
Jeees, Pebble Mill. WTF was that all about?
great list... you can also add 'prospects' - this randomly popped up on my youtube a while back and a binged watched it...i did remember it, but not how bad it was...
one of the best programs from the 80s tho is 'one summer' (also on here) which is just amazing..!
Did anyone watch The Ricky Gervais Show? Late-night Channel 4 immediately pre-Office, it was genuinely odd and didn't work at all...
It did not work at the time but watching it now it is genius television.
The Ricky Gervais show was post Office. It was animated and basically him, Stephen merchant and karl pilkington sat chatting. It was also on sky tv not channel 4. I'm wondering if you're thinking of The 11 0 clock show. That was a channel 4 show where Ricky Gervais started his TV career. It was also where Ali G was first seen.
@@jpwartist Sorry I got the title wrong- it was called 'Meet Ricky Gervais'.
Did you notice the lady in the Vanessa clip. You only see her for a split second but that’s Lucy Montgomery from Titty Bang Bang and the IT crowd. I actually remember being in the audience for that show. It was bad
I'm from Australia, and grew up watching Tom baker as Doctor Who. He was MY favourite
no no no...john pertwees doctor was awesome...cup of tea slice of cake aunt sally..pertwee rocks!!!
Jon Pertwee. No "h".
I would’ve said “Come Dine With Me” and “Celebrity Bake Off” were the worst tv programmes ever made! I’ve never even heard of “The Upchat Line” or it’s follow up until this video?! I’m only in my mid 40’s and that bastard has never been repeated on anything as far as I know??
Anything that has the word 'Celebrity' in the title just proves it's going to be utter shite
Thanks. It makes you laugh at what I used to watch. A wasted childhood of playing football bike riding and being a child. The good old days before the internet.
TOTP was the bollocks in it's heyday! Four of us went in February 1978, my sister applied for the tickets & she didn't want to go so we went, there was a two year waiting list for tickets back then!
Never liked music when I was a kid till I saw Sham 69 on TOTP... Hurry up, Harry, come on...
As poor as early Eldorado was, after it was announced it was getting axed, it really improved. Even the critics agreed. Jesse Birdsall was easily the best thing about the show.
I loved Eldorado.It got much better and viewing figures improved a lot when it was axed
If I meet anyone called mark or Markus,I have to say it in the way his Spanish girlfriend said it to this day 😂👍
No matter how bad you think these programs were, you should remember that for most there was only 3 or 4 or in some cases 5 channels to choose and if you didn't watch live you would probably never see it again. Unlike today were we have 100's of channels broadcasting endless shite that we can watch anytime, anywhere. Oh such progress! 😂
I knew the moment i saw the top hat, it was the most iconic catchphrase episodes ever.
Snake charmer
Eldorado was one of the best soaps ever created when it got a new producer it was wonderful. The tag line for Eldarado was to bring Europe together as one! Till the person who commissioned it and wouldn't cancle it cause soaps take time was fired and the show cancelled, Britain didn't take the euro money and it was roomerd they where leaving the EU so having 10 million viewers per episode about a soap in Spain with lots of euro characters. Wouldn't have helped with them wanting to leave they eventually left as you know and turned its back 100% on Europe! So basically politics 🙄 got eldarado cancled even though it was commissioned for at least another 2 years.
….you’re essentially blaming _Brexit_ for Eldorado being sh*t? That’s a new one!
In truth Eldorado had a lot going for it, at least on paper. Indeed, exotic locales and continental intrigue were hardly turn offs for the average British viewer, then as now. Bad acting, poor production values, foreign actors speaking whole tracts of dialogue in their native tongue sans subtitles however were…
Tom Baker was the best.
I'd still love a scarf like that.
Some years ago I was walking down New Street in B'ham city centre with my then partner. A dalek passed us. "Exterminate," it said as it trundled past. We said hello; these things happen in Birmingham; a real camel once walked past me in the Bullring.
Next came a cyberman. They're bigger than you'd think in real life; I'm 6'1"" and he was taller than me; he didn't say anything. Thankfully there was no Davros, who reminded me as a child of my ancient, shrivelled-up primary school head mistress, Miss Shrimpton, who weirdly used to roll up beside me in her creaky Victorian horror film wheelchair and speechlessly watch me eat my school lunch but without any of Davros's cheerful, relaxed demeanour. Davros, Miss Shrimmpton, I dunno, frankly I'd rather have encountered Davross rolling down New Street.
GF and I carried on down the road and found a small queue outside Waterstone's. Tom Baker was signing copies of his autobiography inside. In the happy days when my GF and I had a bit of spare time and money to spend, we spontaneously bought a book and joined the line.
When we got to the front of the queue, Baker was charm itself, sat quietly at a table flanked by two young security guards who clearly had no idea who they were guarding. There was a bowl of jelly babies on the table. "Would you like a jelly baby?" he asked with his lovely Tom Baker voice, but we were both too shy to have one. We didn't look at the autograph he'd written until we got outside: it read, 'To Linda and Jonathan, happy days!' followed by an indecipherable signature. I lent the book to an elderly relative in a care home some years later, where she died and the book was stolen.
Anyway, that's the time I met a dalek, a cyberman, Tom Baker and had flashbacks to Miss Shrimpton all in one afternoon. The book, incidentally, is called Who On Earth Is Tom Baker? and is a really lovely read by a funny, intelligent, under-rated, self-deprecating man.
Those who can do; those who can't teach; those who can't teach become TV critics and those who can't become a TV critic are Victor Lewis Smith.
What don’t understand is why people watched stuff they didn’t like
Love Doctor Who but fair play with the dinosaurs and the Myrca, they were pretty bad. The Ark in space isn't that bad though, the bubble wrap is a bit obvious but it's painted green at least.
bubble wrap was then a very new material and so would have looked pretty unusual at the time
The fans admit the Myrka is an embarrassment and those dinosaurs were not liked by the fans or the production team. Sometimes lack of money and time we're against the producers. Bubble wrap was fairly new in 1974, not a common sight back then, although as a five year-old I did recognize it. It didn't stop me being scared. "The Ark in Space" is considered to be a very good story by aficionados of the show.
I watched every episode of Eldorado and it was cancelled too early and not given a chance.
I would nominate Outcasts . This was a risible SF series with Hermione Norris, filmed expensively in Namibia. It aired the same night as Call the Midwife. CtM is still going strong after nine series but Outcasts was axed after just one and was moved to the graveyard slot part way through. Alongside Bonekickers, it was truly dreadful.
'My Family'; ghastly middle-class comedy with lame 'jokes'. 'Last of the Summer Wine' was also dire in a different way
Mention of the latter reminds me of the old joke:
‘What’s your favourite episode of Last of the Summer Wine?’
‘Oh it’s the one in which Compo’s dressed up in an old suit of armour whilst rolling down a hill in an old tin bath on casters!’
‘Which episode is that?’
‘Every bloody episode’
😉
Where do you get the obscure tv letters from?
The kitten in The Goodies was scarier than those Dr Who monsters.
You mean Kitten Kong .
@@spmoran4703 Aww Kitten Kong was so cute though.
What about Jimmy Savile? :P
To be fair, particularly bad examples were shown. Dinosaurs weren't really meant to be scary anyway. I'd like to see you do better on a budget of two bob a week.
WhT? TOTP was brilliant until they allowed normal presenters to host, it instead of DJs.
Vanessa Feltz looks like Michael Winner in drag
Would seem you don't know the wonderful Victor Lewis-Smith is dead?
Mrs Browns Boys, worst of all
Chris Evans had a few flops as a producer and presenter on various networks; Boys and Girls (C4) The Terry and Gaby Show (C5) OFI Sunday (ITV) and of course, his ill-fated stint on Top Gear.
Always thought he was too much up himself
Touch the Truck from 2001 should be listed here. 20 contestants holding on to a truck as long as they can without letting go was worse than watching paint dry.
Crossroads was most famously parodied by Victoria Wood as 'Acorn Antiques '
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As a kid I remember Dr who’s Sea devils? Terrified me!.
A university in England (can't remember which one) offered a media degree course specializing in Eldorado studies. The course took longer than the program had lasted!!
I w8sh I had the money to create a company where I can advertise a position requiring degree in eldorado
Top of the pops….how dare you
Imagine thinking 'I Was Born on Christmas Day' by the unimpeachable Saint Etienne is one of the worst records of 1993.
To quote Boycie, 'as long as it isn't Elderado, then we can all sleep easy'.
How dare you criticize Saint Etienne
Sarah Cracknall could brighten anyone's day .
Emmerdale farm post 93 is worse than the slurry they spread on the field.
Did they ever find Archie??
Nay Mr Wilkes, happen he got lost in Hotten
Cracknall could not hold a tune. Much as I like the band, she can't sing tunefully.
@@leccybadger good looking woman met her a good few times early 90s .
She's on the phone is good tune
But came out 3 years to late
Best Emmerdale one from the 90s was the lad who lost a couple of fingers in a farm accident, only to have grown them back within a year. I think the characters name might have been Roy
@@MarkStevens8899 Amos Brierly owner proprietor Woolpack Inn
Beckindale.
Remember walter the bloke who was I. Hundreds of episodes but never spoke
My grandad had a Stafford Hildren 1300. Great car 🤣
Ron Grainer wrote the Dr Who theme tune yes, but it was Delia Derbyshire who was a pioneer at the BBC radiophonic workshop who "synthed" the music by some clever editing techniques,
Willian Hartnell, the original Dr Who, is still the only one who could be taken seriously. All of the rest have been clowns
You old fart!
@@douglasfreeman3229 I used to use that expression when I was a kid. You need to get up to date. Or at least find something original
El dorado is giving me strong 'the beauru' from the day today vibes