TV series they're trying to forget

[WhiteCrow]

Thought it might be fun to have a thread dedicated to those TV series you can barely remember and sometimes at night think might just be a bad dream.

To start - KINVIG



http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/ar..._7774040.shtml

A very bizarre program about a man who runs an electrical shop who gets transported to an alien world after drinking some kind of bizarre chemical, where he is recruited to be their agent on Earth. Well erm yes ... thankfully it was a comedy!

[Pip Madeley]

That looks like the best TV show ever.

(well there's a bird with boots, that's enough for me)

[Wayne]

I've never heard of it, but it looks right up Ralph's street.

[Pip Madeley]

I've never heard of it, but it looks right up Ralph's street.

@ Wayne

[Andrew Curnow]

I think my brother watched that when it was on - ITV, Sunday nights?

[Ralph]

I've never heard of it, but it looks right up Ralph's street.

I'm not on drugs thanks...

[Wayne]

Come off it Ralph, It looks like a cross between ST:TOS & Barbarella!

[Ralph]

Yeah...right

[Wayne]

I know i am.

[Anthony Williams]

7.39 from sendit.com!

Ant x

[Pip Madeley]

So, it's a sci-fi sitcom from Nigel Kneale with Patsy Rowlands...

[Andrew Curnow]

The words 'sitcom' and 'Nigel Kneale' somehow don't sound right together...

[Milky Tears]

I almost bought Kinvig last year, but the reviews put me off.

[Pip Madeley]

I had 10 on at Ladbrokes that you owned it.

[Jonno]

I had a pony on that he owned it but hadn't unsealed it yet!

[Pip Madeley]

I had a pony on that he owned it but hadn't unsealed it yet!

I'd keep quiet about that if I were you, the animal rights people might take offence.

[Paul Clement]

My friend Stev bought this and Beasts when they came out last year. We watched it and he said it wasn't too bad though not as good as Beasts. I prayed for it to end.

[WhiteCrow]

Okay some more I've managed to dig out (will post each as separate posts).

Come Back Mrs Noah

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




Come Back Mrs Noah was a short-lived British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden and Ian Lavender. It aired for a pilot and one series from 1977 to 1978. Come Back Mrs Noah was not a success, with some regarding it as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made

In 2050, a British housewife called Gertrude Noah won a cookery competition, and the prize was a tour of Britannia Seven, the UK's new Space Exploration Vehicle. In the pilot episode, the craft was accidentally sent blasting off into space with Mrs Noah and a small crew on it. The series then centred on efforts to bring Mrs Noah back down to Earth. The news bulletins on Earth, read by Gorden Kaye, provided what some say were the funniest lines in the programme, revealing countries like the USA and Germany had to turn to Britain, the most successful nation on Earth, for help.

[WhiteCrow]

Dead Ernest

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

Dead Ernest was a 1980 UK TV sitcom set in heaven starring Andrew Sachs in the role of Ernest.

Ernest wins half a million pounds on the football pools. Unfortunately he is killed by a stray champagne bottle cork striking him on the head. He subsequently ascends to heaven.

The notion of a sitcom set in the afterlife was an intriguing one, but despite the original idea, some promising comic setpieces (Ernest encounters Beethoven and Bach in one episode), Sachs' undoubted comedic abilities, and support from other seasoned comic actors such as Ken Jones, it was regarded as a disappointing effort, and only lasted for one season.

[Mike Saville]

Kinvig was excellent, if nothing else than because she was one of my first **** fantasies, and TVTimes even had a full colour A3 centrefold of her in... oh, what a bad boy I was.

[Simon R]

Who remembers The Peter Principle, A Prince Among Men, Dad and Keeping Mum? Flop BBC sit-coms of late 90s early 00s.

[Pip Madeley]

His fault for leaving Red Dwarf VII.

[Andrew Curnow]

The Peter Principle should have been excellent, as it had Jim Broadbent in it, who I think is marvellous - yet somehow, the perfect sitcom vehicle for him remains undiscovered. And Dad was, I think, George Cole and was his son played by matey from "The Twin Dilemma"?

What about Laura and Disorder, co-written by its star Wendy Craig? Or even worse, there was a sitcom about two girls starting a catering business, and the boyfriend of one - it was on Thursday nights, and I can recall only one funny moment from the entire six week run, which was a cutlery joke with the punchline "fork off".

[Dave Tudor]

I can't think what that might have been, but Laura and Disorder vaguely rings a bell - you can just tell from the title that it was awful (see also 'Land Of Hope & Gloria' starring Sheila Ferguson from The Three Degrees, one of the most unfunny sitcoms I have ever seen).

The Peter Principle and Prince Among Men were indeed terrible, despite the talents of Jim Broadbent and Chris Barrie respectively, although I thought Dad and Keeping Mum weren't too bad actually.

Incidentally, Francesca Hunt, pictured there as Chris Barrie's wife in 'Prince Among Men', is the sister of one India Fisher. Just thought I'd mention that.

[Alex]

I vaugely remember an ITV sci-fi show which (possibly) starred Michael Praed, there was a book released beforehand, and viewers got to vote on how it ended.

I remember it being absolutely terrible, but really liked the idea behind it. Can anyone remember it, and what it might've been called?

Edit: I've done a bit of googling and it was called Murder In Space - http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/397174

Edit 2: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089641/ - I was completely wrong about the Michael Praed thing it seems, it was Michael Ironside infact!