Watching and that Nicholas Lyndhurst comedy with Janet Dibley
I was going to say Watching. I think ITV moved Watching to Sunday nights for the last series or two. I loved Watching! And the other comedy you mentioned was The Two of Us. I used to like that too.
Great thread. Quite touching to see who had that Sunday night dread as kids. I loved school so Sunday nights were ok but hate them now as an adult. The ominous beginning of the working week looms...
Sundays were Hart to Hart then years later boring dramas (to me as a kid) such as Heartbeat. I remember the Muppet show on Sundays.
Yes I get "the dread" now but I don't really remember getting it when I was at school except I wasn't too keen on it by the time I got to Sixth Form! But I'd rather be young again
The theme tune to "Thats Life" still fills me with dread to this day. Im instantly transported back to being a little boy having tea and toast before I went to bed with that feeling of monday dread ever present.
Yes I know what you mean, but I loved That's Life so it was when I knew it was in its last 10 minutes (Esther, Cyril and co doing some daft filmed piece) that I knew time was slipping away and the dread fully took form as that totally crap feeling many of us will have known before school or work (or still do maybe). Personally Im not looking forward to tomorrow-which is pretty sad as Im approaching 50.
I do also remember Ray Moore doing a radio show from 11.00 Sunday nights (late seventies) which was supposed to ease everyone into Monday-can still remember listening to the theme music to that and the first few songs trying to mask the fact that I would awake tired and with double maths ahead of me.
The Last of the Summer wine theme tune is the most utterly depressing sound ever. I bet they use that as the lift music when sending people down to the fiery bowels of hell.
Always used to be Heartbeat. That was the signal for "get a wash, get ready for bed soon, you've got school tomorrow". Saying that, I can listen to that theme tune with glee now.
It's almost like Claude Greengrass and that stern bloke who played the police chief were subliminal reminders that you had to be back in class the following morning.
Sorry, after seeing the Saturday night listings thread I had to start this one!
Calling all 90's kids. Do you remember the buzz around Saturday night TV (blind date gladiators etc) and knowing you still had the next day off.
But on Sunday as soon as Antiques Roadshow and Songs of Praise came on you knew it was officially Sunday evening and that feeling of dread kicked in you were back to school next morning!
Its funny how you assosiate a certain feeling with a TV show.
For the rest of you what shows do you assosiate with good memories and what shows do you assosiate with bad memories?
Yep! for me Saturdays consisted of Live & Kicking or SMTV, Gazetta Football Italia then later on it was Blind Date, Gladiators, You Bet or if I was at my grandad's it was The Generation Game and Dads Army. Sundays were so boring! Corrie and Heartbeat at night with the only saving grace being Father Ted on CH4. I hated Antiques Roadshow and it would bore me to tears as I didnt have my own TV in my room back then and the parents insisted on watching it and that theme tune always reminded me of having to go up to bed in a few hours because I had dreaded school in the morning.
Maybe he is, maybe he's watching us all from above
If memory serves me right, it was Beadle's About that introduced me (or made me especially aware of) the bleeper to disguise swear words. I can picture it now - some poor guys car being trampled on by a tank or a factory worker being locked inside a below freezing chiller room (or whatever their called) and left for a while etc. what a larf!
Maybe he is, maybe he's watching us all from above
Nice thought. He's one of those people I actually forget has passed away and every now and again I re-remember he isn't among us anymore. Not since January 2008. Although Game For A Laugh began on Saturday nights back in 1981 with him, I seem to recall it on Sunday evenings by about 1985 or so. At the time I thought there was nothing funnier on TV. There's not enough to make viewers laugh on Sunday night TV nowadays. Clearly there needs to be.
Nice thought. He's one of those people I actually forget has passed away and every now and again I re-remember he isn't among us anymore. Not since January 2008. Although Game For A Laugh began on Saturday nights back in 1981 with him, I seem to recall it on Sunday evenings by about 1985 or so. At the time I thought there was nothing funnier on TV. There's not enough to make viewers laugh on Sunday night TV nowadays. Clearly there needs to be.
I was thinking the other week, that the only kind of general variety/entertainment show on Saturday evening, on a main channel, that isn't a talent/reality show or a quiz/panel show is Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway. I used to like Noel's House Party - they should bring something like that back to BBC1 (IMO).
Recently, there's been Fool Britannia on ITV1 and before then Harry Hill's TV Burp but they were both on Saturday nights, not Sunday. Sunday has had Dancing on Ice and All Star Family Fortunes. I can't think of much on BBC then, I don't tend to watch it then I suppose...there tends to be period dramas on then I think and shows like Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow, which are a bit plain.
I was thinking the other week, that the only kind of general variety/entertainment show on Saturday evening, on a main channel, that isn't a talent/reality show or a quiz/panel show is Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway. I used to like Noel's House Party - they should bring something like that back to BBC1 (IMO).
Recently, there's been Fool Britannia on ITV1 and before then Harry Hill's TV Burp but they were both on Saturday nights, not Sunday. Sunday has had Dancing on Ice and All Star Family Fortunes. I can't think of much on BBC then, I don't tend to watch it then I suppose...there tends to be period dramas on then I think and shows like Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow, which are a bit plain.
I've often been fascinated by "Sunday Night Programmes" that simply would never be considered any other night. Antiques Roadshow is a good example. Why must it be on Sunday night and no other, ever since the 70's. They're quite happy to show antiques on all other days of the week if it's in the daytime hours. The way the main terrestrial channels treat Sunday night with the type of shows does not really seem to have changed in decades. But at least I don't any longer have to get up and be on a freezing mucky playing field on a Monday morning just after 9am followed by a lukewarm shared shower! Infact I should have had a Tuesday night feeling too, as my Wednesday's began the exact same way as my Monday mornings.
I've often been fascinated by "Sunday Night Programmes" that simply would never be considered any other night. Antiques Roadshow is a good example. Why must it be on Sunday night and no other, ever since the 70's. They're quite happy to show antiques on all other days of the week if it's in the daytime hours. The way the main terrestrial channels treat Sunday night with the type of shows does not really seem to have changed in decades. But at least I don't any longer have to get up and be on a freezing mucky playing field on a Monday morning just after 9am followed by a lukewarm shared shower! Infact I should have had a Tuesday night feeling too, as my Wednesday's began the exact same way as my Monday mornings.
Nature shows are another staple of Sunday evening programming, although I've noticed that I think such shows are also shown on Wednesday or Thursdays, 8 or 9pm (BBC1 or BBC2).
Sunday night dread for me started after Spitting Image, The New Statesmen and Hot Metal finished. There used to be some comedy sitcom on Sunday night and after that it was bedtime!
Was the same for me, & i'll add Hale & Pace when the end credits came on.
There was Little & Large too, wasn't there? not sure when they were on TV though, that was when I was really young.
Supersonic!
Only relate to that being on Saturdays myself. I bet that has dated horribly. Syd wasn't even that funny at their peak was he? Seemed a nice guy though.
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I was going to say Watching. I think ITV moved Watching to Sunday nights for the last series or two. I loved Watching! And the other comedy you mentioned was The Two of Us. I used to like that too.
The Two Of Us. I use to love that show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7xOrzrbytw
Yes I get "the dread" now but I don't really remember getting it when I was at school except I wasn't too keen on it by the time I got to Sixth Form! But I'd rather be young again
Yes I know what you mean, but I loved That's Life so it was when I knew it was in its last 10 minutes (Esther, Cyril and co doing some daft filmed piece) that I knew time was slipping away and the dread fully took form as that totally crap feeling many of us will have known before school or work (or still do maybe). Personally Im not looking forward to tomorrow-which is pretty sad as Im approaching 50.
I do also remember Ray Moore doing a radio show from 11.00 Sunday nights (late seventies) which was supposed to ease everyone into Monday-can still remember listening to the theme music to that and the first few songs trying to mask the fact that I would awake tired and with double maths ahead of me.
Goodnight Sweetheart???
It's almost like Claude Greengrass and that stern bloke who played the police chief were subliminal reminders that you had to be back in class the following morning.
Yep! for me Saturdays consisted of Live & Kicking or SMTV, Gazetta Football Italia then later on it was Blind Date, Gladiators, You Bet or if I was at my grandad's it was The Generation Game and Dads Army. Sundays were so boring! Corrie and Heartbeat at night with the only saving grace being Father Ted on CH4. I hated Antiques Roadshow and it would bore me to tears as I didnt have my own TV in my room back then and the parents insisted on watching it and that theme tune always reminded me of having to go up to bed in a few hours because I had dreaded school in the morning.
Stop scaremongering, he isn't.....anymore!
Maybe he is, maybe he's watching us all from above
If memory serves me right, it was Beadle's About that introduced me (or made me especially aware of) the bleeper to disguise swear words. I can picture it now - some poor guys car being trampled on by a tank or a factory worker being locked inside a below freezing chiller room (or whatever their called) and left for a while etc. what a larf!
I was thinking the other week, that the only kind of general variety/entertainment show on Saturday evening, on a main channel, that isn't a talent/reality show or a quiz/panel show is Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway. I used to like Noel's House Party - they should bring something like that back to BBC1 (IMO).
Recently, there's been Fool Britannia on ITV1 and before then Harry Hill's TV Burp but they were both on Saturday nights, not Sunday. Sunday has had Dancing on Ice and All Star Family Fortunes. I can't think of much on BBC then, I don't tend to watch it then I suppose...there tends to be period dramas on then I think and shows like Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow, which are a bit plain.
Heartbeat, wah!
LOTSW, nah!
Nature shows are another staple of Sunday evening programming, although I've noticed that I think such shows are also shown on Wednesday or Thursdays, 8 or 9pm (BBC1 or BBC2).
Was the same for me, & i'll add Hale & Pace when the end credits came on.
Only relate to that being on Saturdays myself. I bet that has dated horribly. Syd wasn't even that funny at their peak was he? Seemed a nice guy though.