I could have done with another series of Anna Lee. Not because it was particularly brilliant telly, but just because I had such a crush on Imogen Stubbs!
@@Steve157Oh Rumour has it that Kimberley-Clark were going to sponsor it, as it was responsible for a sudden increase in sales of Kleenex especially in the male 14-18 age group.
Bit of trivia- the theme song to Anna Lee was sung by a singer called Luciana. The same Luciana who would later collaborate on tracks like Come on Girl by Taio Cruz and Bodyrox's Yeah Yeah. Not to mention she was in Donna Air's group Crush (replacing another member I believe).
4 out of 6 contestants on a gameshow didn't know that a ladybird is a type of beetle? What did they think it was, a bird? ffs it goes to show that general thickness isn't exclusively a modern millennial thing anyway.
Its a bit unfortunate that we did not get a good look at the " Share....or Shaft " hand movement. Its a thing of beauty. The way Kilroy fists the air...you know hes a man who shafted a few in his time!
Watching Kilroy-Silk crucify his TV career repeating 'shaft' with concomitant fist-action is oddly very satisfying. The saying, what goes around comes around seems appropriate here.
I don’t think execs realise just how offensive that term is its a euphemism for forcibly getting f’d. 😆 ie. I got shafted by that last question and I don’t go up to a girl and say you want shafted 😆😆😆
@@briscoethecollie1510 Agreed. As I said, the adult version was Tiswas. How could it not be with the likes of Bernard Manning being a regular guest? OTT was vulgar purely for the sake of it and totally unnecessary.
I liked it, although some aspects of it seem dated now. I also liked Saturday Stayback which was the follow up series in 1983 which I believe was transmitted live. It was a brilliant platform for up and coming comedians including Phil Cool and Tony Slattery. There is one episode on RUclips with Thin Lizzy as the band, and a hilarious improv version of Dallas with all the characters played by Tony Slattery. I laughed my head off when I watched it recently.
Shafted was one of the first ever funny videos I got sent by my mate on RUclips. I'm sure I didn't imagine this but in the early episodes didn't he make a groin thrust when he said "Shaft" until people complained and then he had to go with the fist instead?
Couple of a sports ones. How’s about The Premiership on ITV, their version of Match of the Day? They chose to start it at 7pm initially, when everyone was out or going out and they had Andy Townsend’s tactics truck, which didn’t last long. No wonder BBC eventually got the rights back. Also, when BBC changed Today at Wimbledon to Wimbledon 2day and brought in a studio audience. It didn’t work and they reverted back to the old format after a few days. Also, gotta mention the Chris Evans’ Top Gear series which was never going to reach the heights of the Clarkson, Hammond and May era.
Top Gear is a shadow of its former self, the endless presenter changes have done nothing and it’s sinking in the ratings faster than a 1975 Austin Allegro that a bewildered pensioner has accidentally driven into a canal.
Probably to appease Des Lynam, as one of his gripes was Match of The Day went out late. The 7pm slot too was home to shows like Blind Date. During the Premiership's 7pm run, it was damaging ITV's audience shares on Saturday nights and handing an advantage to BBC1. In the end, they moved it to 10.30pm like MOTD and the Saturday night repeat was moved to Sunday morning (like MOTD).
I actually enjoyed Eyes Down, but I think that was probably down to the cast which as well as Paul O'Grady included Sheridan Smith, Rosie Cavaleiro. Edna Dore and Neil Fitzmaurice.
Helen Atkinson-Wood who was in the OTT clip was famously Mrs Miggins of the Pie Shop in Blackadder and also once the five year girlfriend of Craig Ferguson - The most famous Scot that most people in the UK have never heard of. (he made it big, in the US)
Yes. I saw Craig Ferguson's one off comedy show on British telly around 1989-90 but he was soon off to the states although he did play Lister's confidence in Confidence and Paranoia in Red Dwarf series 1.
How about Davina, the one-series chat show hosted by Davina McCall? Or the 2010s BBC sci fi epic Outcasts, a near-primetime show that was so poorly received that the final few episodes were punted out into the summer graveyard slots in a oner. A shame, I liked it.
Nice to see "Sir" Lenny Henry doing his cultural enrichment character before he went all outraged.....and disappeared up his own @rse. I bet he's very proud of it.
Lenny used to be funny then got all race aware and political. I don't think he ever realised that British people actually enjoy racial humour without being racist. Goodness, Gracious, Me was incredible and very popular, launching the careers of a lot of asian comedians. It really did lean into the stereotypes, but also turned them on their heads. "Going for an English" is probably the best known sketch.
Funny how Lenny Henry never mentions the aount of times Bernard Manning was on Tiswas and OTT. Oh, and Lenny doing another one of his black stereotypes. Isn't it about time he aplogised for all of them? And not just for being desparately unfunny.
(dis)honourable mentions: Hardwick House (ITV), Mr Charity (BBC2), Viewpoint (ITV), The Fades (BBC Three), White Van Man (BBC Three), Full English (Channel 4), Stressed Eric (BBC).
An I'll fated TV show that you missed out is BBC's Heartburn Hotel starring Tim Healy as a grumpy hotel owner in Birmingham amid a bizarre cast of eccentric characters that included Clive Russell as his best friend it was shown around 1999-2000 I think but seems long forgotten by most although I think it had a sort of charm to it.
I believe Heartburn Hotel is mentioned in another on of TFOOS videos? Like gary comments below, they're mostly up on youtube. I also watched them and thought it wasn't too bad a show. It was hardly Fawlty Towers. But definitely worth a watch.
@@frankbrodie5168 You have just reminded me, it is in one of the sitcoms you may have forgot, as I searched for it after seeing that video and bookmarking it for later. As I have done for several series lol. If i see one I remember fondly or like the look of, I search and bookmark there and then.
I thought I was the only person who remembered that! It did have a sort of charm to it, even though it immediately gave off those "this is going to be rubbish isn't it?" vibes when you saw the premise - not least because it looked like a cut-price _Fawlty Towers_ of course. I was actually a lot more impressed by it than I thought I would be though, because it had the wit to aim higher than 'necessary': it was a good deal more surreal and bigger in scope than one would've expected from the small parochial setting, in other words. I seem to recall the characters actually invaded a small African country in one episode! (Looking it up again now, yes I think I was broadly correct about that, heh. And - and I'd forgotten this completely - it was written by _Only Fools and Horses_ creator John Sullivan.)
From what I can remember, I did like Anna Lee at the time, though it could have been more a teenage crush on Imogen Stubbs. Eyes Down was semi-watchable, but again that was more for Sheridan Smith more than anything else! I've always tried to erase Naked Jungle, the image of a naked Keith Chegwin is something no sane person ever wants to even imagine, nevermind actually see!
@@ian_b did you ever see her in Big Kids? Know it wasn't aimed at us who were in our early 20s when it was shown back in 2000, but Imogen certainly was damn fine in that! She's definitely aged well too from the most recent pics of her I've seen, no way does she look nearly 62!
The Share and Shaft game show reminded me of another from the early 2000s. I think it was called "Divided" on ITV where things could turn very nasty between the contestants towards the end. Eg: the least competent contestant could screw the other two more able ones for a greater share of the final prize. It was very uncomfortable to watch. Upon reflection, a lot of TV shows in the early 2000s had a nasty element to them. For example: "The Weakest Link" where contestants get voted off. I think this is when I started to go right off television.
Yeah, the Split or Steal thing has been going for ages, which is odd considering how dogshit the mechanic is. If you split, you either get half or nothing, if you steal, you either get all or nothing. Why the hell would anyone split?
@@oninineone Oh yeah, I used to say the exact same thing. The whole system is set up to ''steal'' and I think most contestants worked that out in the end.
Me and my girlfriend at the time caught the first ever episode of Naked Jungle just by chance flicking through the channels after we'd come back from the pub one night. It was so bizarre to us at the time. I had to ask the next morning if what I'd seen was real or if it was just a result of the copious amount of alcohol in my system at the time, turns out it was actually a thing 😂
@BarryFrancis Well that explains why for a couple years after everyone I told about it had never seen it. Almost like we'd caught a show from an alternative universe lol.
Jeez, Kilroy. Is it share, or is it shaft? The look on his face and the way he clenched his hand, I always expected him to say, "So is it share? Or is it fist?" Truly frightening.
Considering that The Golden Girls was already a popular sitcom in the UK I always thought Brighton Belles as a bit pointless. Apart from the Upper Hand. I cant think of any other American sitcom that had a successful British remake. Also on the subject matter have you mentioned Days Like These? It was the British remake of That 70's Show and had the direct involvement of American creators.
There was a series I think late 80's / early or late 90's called star turn the host was Giles Brandraeth and a woman called Beverley . A bit like a poundland talent show. If I remember correctly Various acts or turns would do thier act and the audience would give thier verdict but it doesn't matter if you win as the score was divided by 11 then multiplied by 11 and 11 added (god knows why ) and the Beverley woman had trouble adding the scores (a la Anne Aston on the golden shot a very long time ago).
I bet that Raise The Roof 'Spanish dream home' was in some really inconvenient remote village and collapsed due to dodgy foundations about three years later.
I remember Raise The Roof and Shafted. Apparently ITV crap gameshows were what we watched. Remember Clue? Naked Jungle was hilarious. I actually liked Eyes Down but mainly for Sheridan Smith.
There was definately one ill fated show from ITV in the 1980s called Andy Capp, based on the comic strip character and starred James Bolam. I think that was pulled after just one episode, but i remember loving what I saw.
I've always hated Kilroy, so I had no interest in watching "Shafted" at the time. ITV advertised it quite a bit, but I think it was pulled after only three episodes... Edited: According to Wikipedia, twenty episodes where recorded, but only four of them aired ; colour me surprised!
Brighton Belles is one of the rare instances where the British made a bad adaptation of an American show. Usually it's the other way around. Would it be possible for you to do a list of the worst American versions of British tv shows?
Curry and chips failed due it’s raciest content, after all Spike Milligan played an Indian Irish man. (Indian mother Irish father) If you can get over the racist content (for the 70’s) its actually very good and well written comedy
OTT was meant to be a slightly more adult version of Tiswas. The usual amount of titillation and crude humour that became synonymous for Friday night TV when the pubs kicked out. It basically run out of ideas as to how to keep it up, (oo-err!!), and ended up being ditched.
Jean Boht's astonishing arrogance in presenting what she thought was an 'accent' made me want to crawl into the woodwork with embarrassment. The programme was so ill conceived, and equally badly contrived. What were they drinking back in those days ?
No mention of Wyatts Watchdogs ? Take Last of the Summer Wines Foggy Dewhurst and drop him into Terry & June land to run a neighbourhood watch... Trouble was no body watched it.. and it was canned in one season...
Anna Lee was reasonably good. Should not be on this list. They should have done what the Americans did when Leslie Charteris said 'no more Saint stories for you'. They just changed the name of the central character to The Falcon.
RI:SE . Channel 4's disastrous attempt to replace The Big Breakfast. After months of anticipation, it just limped on air with a cold opening straight into the studio, no title sequence, and managed to lose the remaining few viewers of Channel 4's breakfast offering within its first morning on air. Half way through, they decided to let two TV critics give their opinion on how the first half went. It was brutal. It was savaged so badly, that main host Mark Durden-Smith clearly had the hump for the remainder of the show. Space Cadets. Think Big Brother in space. An overly ambitious practical joke, where an elaborate setup saw several contestants train for a trip into space. In actual fact, they were put on a simulator. Didn't really work. The participants clearly hadn't fallen for it, but were going along with it for the sake of being on TV. Back To Reality. A Channel 5 Big Brother rip-off which differed very little. Despite bagging some key former Big Brother contestants, including Jade Goody, Nasty Nick and Craig Phillips, it lacked the buzz of Big Brother. Scoring low ratings, it ended after just one series partly due to Endemol threatening legal action over plagiarism. Castaway 2000. Pre-dating Big Brother by half a year, this much heralded reality series was meant to be THE event of 2000. It was met with huge apathy. Then Channel 4 launched Big Brother and stole its thunder completely. Something For The Weekend. Denise Van Outen hosted this mishmash saucy gameshow, based entirely on people being naked or doing something rude. It was as poor as you'd imagine, and then some. Last Chance Lottery. Channel 4 wanting more Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, Chris Evans refusing to do another series. The solution? Get Patrick Kielty in, rip it off. However, it was not the answer at all. It was a poor man's Toothbrush. Nothing more to say. Big Ticket. Once again, Patrick Kielty and the Lottery. Only this time, it was the real deal. Alongside Anthea Turner, this huge scale gameshow was supposed to be the biggest thing ever on TV. It turned out boring and hollow. Despite being panned and gaining low ratings, a second series was planned but ended up being shelved after the broadcasting regulator got involved and banned it for breaking rules governing the BBC and commercial tie-in games.
If I recall, the Bernie CGI character crashed off the screen at one point on The Big Ticket so Kate Robbins, who provided the voice, practically had to improvise.
Yes, the draw with the graphics crashing is on RUclips. They changed the format slightly after, to ensure that a repeat of the incident would never happen again. All dialogue with the Bernie character in-vision became pre-recorded, and they stopped having the mixture of the CG over the live studio images. Between the pre-recorded elements top and tail of the draw, Kate Robbins' mic would go live without the character on-screen to announce the numbers as they appeared. It was fairly seamless, and most people would never have noticed the switch between the recorded images of Bernie and the live voiceover.
Curry and chips is not that bad watched a the dvd recently Spike was a header you got to realise he would laugh at his own jokes but if he got it right it was really good. Had a 3 HR conversation on a train one day one very intelligent yet feeling of despair Man . You also have got to have lived in a Catholic household to understand alot of his humour.
Pets win Prizes (Dale Winton). Hole in the Wall (Dale Winton again, or if you like Anton Du Beke). Full Swing (a golf themed gameshow with Jimmy Tarbuck as host) - this really was awful. Scavengers - Space / Sci-fi themed show with John Leslie. Very short lived and only remember seeing it once. X-Fire - Channel 4 paintballing show, one series and generally pants.
Once again, I really don't remember the majority of these! Must have been too busy going out on the town in my feckless youth! Some great puns there, really liked the "Tiswasn't" for some reason!
Raise The Roof was my first TV games how. The show was a shambles and Holness was all over the show. We destroyed the green room bar afterwards so it wasn't all bad.
Eyes down was great. I still watch it for time to time now. Cast was great. Never thought it was cancelled just thought Paul were too busy to carry on. It's last episode was a Christmas special so I assumed the BBC liked it.
I remember curry and chips. Spike could make pretty much anything funny. Not sure about the 'satirical racism defence'. This seems still to be in use (with variants) when 'alternative' comedians wish to make jokes about, for example, disabled people, old people, and so on. It's a bit like having your fingers crossed behind your back and thinking that makes it OK to lie. But poor old Anna Lee. Your clips look dire. I love the books and Imogen Stubbs is a fine actor (although not on this showing). I was actually thinking of getting the Anna Lee vids. Not now.
Ten ill fated shows? So we start with Brighton Belles at number ten, then jump to number eight with Anna Lee, then jump to number six with Raise the Roof. Where's number nine and seven?
Jesus,Amanda Holden has really utilised what little talent she possesses into a very long, successful career.
Milked les dennis
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@@Barcrest yep, with a plunger handle
Fit though.
She is the triumph of self promotion over talent in every regard.
Bernard Manning and Lenny Henry in a TV show together? Blimey.
Yeah well Lenny Henry hadn't realised he was black at that stage or made enough money to become a "Victim".
Mrs Brown's Boys should be on here. Worst TV show ever. 🤮
Agreed
Definitely
I could have done with another series of Anna Lee. Not because it was particularly brilliant telly, but just because I had such a crush on Imogen Stubbs!
Same here. She was lovely.
@@Steve157Oh Rumour has it that Kimberley-Clark were going to sponsor it, as it was responsible for a sudden increase in sales of Kleenex especially in the male 14-18 age group.
Me too. She was beautiful.
Just posed that question her name and here's the answer.
Bit of trivia- the theme song to Anna Lee was sung by a singer called Luciana.
The same Luciana who would later collaborate on tracks like Come on Girl by Taio Cruz and Bodyrox's Yeah Yeah. Not to mention she was in Donna Air's group Crush (replacing another member I believe).
Anna Lee. Visual proof that wagon wheels used to be so much bigger.
4 out of 6 contestants on a gameshow didn't know that a ladybird is a type of beetle? What did they think it was, a bird? ffs it goes to show that general thickness isn't exclusively a modern millennial thing anyway.
😂
Its a bit unfortunate that we did not get a good look at the " Share....or Shaft " hand movement. Its a thing of beauty. The way Kilroy fists the air...you know hes a man who shafted a few in his time!
That arm motion gets me every time. Even after all these years. 🤣
Shafted a few😂
I thought kilroy was a good programe to be honest
Golden balls? 🤔
Kilroy's "Shafted" was awful but it was no worse than Jasper Carrott's "Golden Balls" which did EXACTLY the same thing and ran for six series.
I don't think the format was the problem Kilroy was pretty hated at the time
Yes, but people like Jasper. Something rarely said about Kilroy.
I came here to say the same thing!!😂😂
I said that before I read your comment 😅
I loved golden balls 😂
This top 10 is so ill fated it only contains 8 shows
Glad someone else noticed, thought I was going mad 😂
You forgot Hardwicke House, so bad it was pulled after just one episode.
Watching Kilroy-Silk crucify his TV career repeating 'shaft' with concomitant fist-action is oddly very satisfying. The saying, what goes around comes around seems appropriate here.
I don’t think execs realise just how offensive that term is its a euphemism for forcibly getting f’d. 😆 ie. I got shafted by that last question and I don’t go up to a girl and say you want shafted 😆😆😆
excellent use of "concomitant" 👍👍
The problem with OTT was that the adult version of Tiswas was, um, Tiswas. That was why the parents watched it with the kids on Saturday mornings.
I didn't like it. It seemed very grubby.
@@briscoethecollie1510 Agreed. As I said, the adult version was Tiswas. How could it not be with the likes of Bernard Manning being a regular guest? OTT was vulgar purely for the sake of it and totally unnecessary.
I liked it, although some aspects of it seem dated now. I also liked Saturday Stayback which was the follow up series in 1983 which I believe was transmitted live. It was a brilliant platform for up and coming comedians including Phil Cool and Tony Slattery. There is one episode on RUclips with Thin Lizzy as the band, and a hilarious improv version of Dallas with all the characters played by Tony Slattery. I laughed my head off when I watched it recently.
For me an "adult version" of Tiswas, would've had Sally James topless for each episode.
@@billybollockhead5628 Ooh, I'd have watched that!!😁
HIGHNY had plenty of fun with Kilroy and Shafted.
I thought O.T.T. was a work of genius. Mind you, I was twelve.
Michael Lush's bungee jump for Noel Edmonds's The Late Late breakfast show was pretty ill-fated. Too soon?
Did a vid about that a while ago ruclips.net/video/_ye48xFQzZc/видео.html
And he still managed to claw his way back to haunt television viewers for years after his hand in a murder
@@bendream544murder is a bit strong I don't think they ment to kill him.
@@brendanroberts1310 got brilliant publicity?
That weird hand gesture that Kilroy Silk used to do made my stomach churn
Shafted was one of the first ever funny videos I got sent by my mate on RUclips.
I'm sure I didn't imagine this but in the early episodes didn't he make a groin thrust when he said "Shaft" until people complained and then he had to go with the fist instead?
Fisted with Killroy.
i enjoyed this show.....wasnt the worse show
Couple of a sports ones. How’s about The Premiership on ITV, their version of Match of the Day? They chose to start it at 7pm initially, when everyone was out or going out and they had Andy Townsend’s tactics truck, which didn’t last long. No wonder BBC eventually got the rights back. Also, when BBC changed Today at Wimbledon to Wimbledon 2day and brought in a studio audience. It didn’t work and they reverted back to the old format after a few days.
Also, gotta mention the Chris Evans’ Top Gear series which was never going to reach the heights of the Clarkson, Hammond and May era.
Top Gear is a shadow of its former self, the endless presenter changes have done nothing and it’s sinking in the ratings faster than a 1975 Austin Allegro that a bewildered pensioner has accidentally driven into a canal.
Thank Christ for that...Clarkson is one of the most repulsive things that ever crawled into existence..just check that head out!!?
@@bendream544 I think you misunderstood my comment.
Probably to appease Des Lynam, as one of his gripes was Match of The Day went out late.
The 7pm slot too was home to shows like Blind Date. During the Premiership's 7pm run, it was damaging ITV's audience shares on Saturday nights and handing an advantage to BBC1.
In the end, they moved it to 10.30pm like MOTD and the Saturday night repeat was moved to Sunday morning (like MOTD).
I actually enjoyed Eyes Down, but I think that was probably down to the cast which as well as Paul O'Grady included Sheridan Smith, Rosie Cavaleiro. Edna Dore and Neil Fitzmaurice.
Sheridan is talented eye candy
Eyes Down was decent.
I never saw it, but I admit to smiling at the "...ironing her clothes on the back of a wok " line!
Sheridan Smith is the girl who could easily be working at Lidl but also a centrefold in Razzle
The clip was funny. It wasn't a terrible show at all. It even did well in the ratings so why on that list I will never know
Helen Atkinson-Wood who was in the OTT clip was famously Mrs Miggins of the Pie Shop in Blackadder and also once the five year girlfriend of Craig Ferguson - The most famous Scot that most people in the UK have never heard of. (he made it big, in the US)
She was also in KYTV.
@@TheYoungDoctor Which was an adaptation of BBC Radio 4's Radio Active comedy, where she played the part of DJ Anna Daptor.
Yes. I saw Craig Ferguson's one off comedy show on British telly around 1989-90 but he was soon off to the states although he did play Lister's confidence in Confidence and Paranoia in Red Dwarf series 1.
How about Davina, the one-series chat show hosted by Davina McCall?
Or the 2010s BBC sci fi epic Outcasts, a near-primetime show that was so poorly received that the final few episodes were punted out into the summer graveyard slots in a oner. A shame, I liked it.
Nice to see "Sir" Lenny Henry doing his cultural enrichment character before he went all outraged.....and disappeared up his own @rse. I bet he's very proud of it.
Lenny used to be funny then got all race aware and political. I don't think he ever realised that British people actually enjoy racial humour without being racist. Goodness, Gracious, Me was incredible and very popular, launching the careers of a lot of asian comedians. It really did lean into the stereotypes, but also turned them on their heads. "Going for an English" is probably the best known sketch.
Funny how Lenny Henry never mentions the aount of times Bernard Manning was on Tiswas and OTT. Oh, and Lenny doing another one of his black stereotypes. Isn't it about time he aplogised for all of them? And not just for being desparately unfunny.
"The show muff go on." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another reminder just how unfunny Lennie Henry has always been.
Correct
And yet he got a knighthood
And that was before he decided he hated white people and had a chip on his shoulders.
Totally right. Affirmative action.
@@mrfrisky6501 Yes, after years of playing blackface 😂
(dis)honourable mentions: Hardwick House (ITV), Mr Charity (BBC2), Viewpoint (ITV), The Fades (BBC Three), White Van Man (BBC Three), Full English (Channel 4), Stressed Eric (BBC).
Wasn’t that ‘Share or Shaft’ basically the premise for the later ‘Golden Balls’?
An I'll fated TV show that you missed out is BBC's Heartburn Hotel starring Tim Healy as a grumpy hotel owner in Birmingham amid a bizarre cast of eccentric characters that included Clive Russell as his best friend it was shown around 1999-2000 I think but seems long forgotten by most although I think it had a sort of charm to it.
I have just rewatched them all on RUclips a few weeks back. Not bad
I believe Heartburn Hotel is mentioned in another on of TFOOS videos? Like gary comments below, they're mostly up on youtube. I also watched them and thought it wasn't too bad a show. It was hardly Fawlty Towers. But definitely worth a watch.
@@frankbrodie5168 You have just reminded me, it is in one of the sitcoms you may have forgot, as I searched for it after seeing that video and bookmarking it for later. As I have done for several series lol. If i see one I remember fondly or like the look of, I search and bookmark there and then.
I thought I was the only person who remembered that!
It did have a sort of charm to it, even though it immediately gave off those "this is going to be rubbish isn't it?" vibes when you saw the premise - not least because it looked like a cut-price _Fawlty Towers_ of course. I was actually a lot more impressed by it than I thought I would be though, because it had the wit to aim higher than 'necessary': it was a good deal more surreal and bigger in scope than one would've expected from the small parochial setting, in other words. I seem to recall the characters actually invaded a small African country in one episode!
(Looking it up again now, yes I think I was broadly correct about that, heh. And - and I'd forgotten this completely - it was written by _Only Fools and Horses_ creator John Sullivan.)
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From what I can remember, I did like Anna Lee at the time, though it could have been more a teenage crush on Imogen Stubbs. Eyes Down was semi-watchable, but again that was more for Sheridan Smith more than anything else!
I've always tried to erase Naked Jungle, the image of a naked Keith Chegwin is something no sane person ever wants to even imagine, nevermind actually see!
Imogen Stubbs was certainly worthy of a crush!
@@ian_b when I was a teenager I used to get through a whole box of Kleenex for every episode of Anna Lee…
@@ian_b did you ever see her in Big Kids? Know it wasn't aimed at us who were in our early 20s when it was shown back in 2000, but Imogen certainly was damn fine in that!
She's definitely aged well too from the most recent pics of her I've seen, no way does she look nearly 62!
@@rikrob Yes, she's a fine looking woman :)
Hardwick House suffered the most. I remember it being yanked of the air after only showing the hour pilot & first episode.
Naked Jungle was the stuff of nightmares. Sometimes when I close my eyes and can still see Cheggers little sausage 😳
Cheggers little sausage 😂
MK-Ultra grade levels of psycho-trauma.
His little chipolata!😂
The Share and Shaft game show reminded me of another from the early 2000s. I think it was called "Divided" on ITV where things could turn very nasty between the contestants towards the end. Eg: the least competent contestant could screw the other two more able ones for a greater share of the final prize. It was very uncomfortable to watch.
Upon reflection, a lot of TV shows in the early 2000s had a nasty element to them. For example: "The Weakest Link" where contestants get voted off. I think this is when I started to go right off television.
Oh yeah, that was around 2009. I know someone who went on it. God it was bleak.
It reminded me of Golden Balls, with Jasper Carrot
Yeah, the Split or Steal thing has been going for ages, which is odd considering how dogshit the mechanic is. If you split, you either get half or nothing, if you steal, you either get all or nothing. Why the hell would anyone split?
@@oninineone Oh yeah, I used to say the exact same thing. The whole system is set up to ''steal'' and I think most contestants worked that out in the end.
Me and my girlfriend at the time caught the first ever episode of Naked Jungle just by chance flicking through the channels after we'd come back from the pub one night. It was so bizarre to us at the time. I had to ask the next morning if what I'd seen was real or if it was just a result of the copious amount of alcohol in my system at the time, turns out it was actually a thing 😂
It wasn’t just the first ever episode of Naked Jungle it was the only ever episode.
@BarryFrancis Well that explains why for a couple years after everyone I told about it had never seen it. Almost like we'd caught a show from an alternative universe lol.
Whatever happened to "after the pub" TV? The late 80s and early 90s were brilliant for this kind of entertainment.
Didn't a fat naked lady fall down into the set and get hurt?
@@andyhinds542 Yes, like In Bed With Medinner
OTT was brilliant!!! As was its follow up series Saturday Stayback in 1983. They really should get it released on DVD if possible.
god bless you man your work has kept me safe and well while I've been on the "pat and Mick" thank you so much!!!
Jeez, Kilroy. Is it share, or is it shaft? The look on his face and the way he clenched his hand, I always expected him to say, "So is it share? Or is it fist?" Truly frightening.
My fondest memory of OTT is watching it in an RAF nuclear bunker whilst buttoned-down on a very long exercise.
I bought the full set of Curry and Chips on DVD I quite liked it.
Considering that The Golden Girls was already a popular sitcom in the UK I always thought Brighton Belles as a bit pointless.
Apart from the Upper Hand. I cant think of any other American sitcom that had a successful British remake.
Also on the subject matter have you mentioned Days Like These? It was the British remake of That 70's Show and had the direct involvement of American creators.
Anna Lee ITV 1993.... Nice!
"We was just making the English look bigoted". I'm not sure that defence by them was any better than what the show was accused of.
I won't have it! Shafted was one of the greatest game shows ever. " Oh what they gonna do? Oh their sharing, oh no he shafted her." Perfect TV
Bob Holness the original James Bond on South African radio
I bet Carlton was behind most if these.
As a general rule of thumb, if Lenny Henry is in it, it’s sh*te.
Are you saying TISWAS was shite?
Some people have no taste. Bet you even had a replica posh pass plushy.
Inadvertently switching over to naked jungle made a friend of mines dad literally smash their tv in anger.
Why did you clickbait Benidorm? It wasn’t even mentioned.
There was a series I think late 80's / early or late 90's called star turn the host was Giles Brandraeth and a woman called Beverley . A bit like a poundland talent show. If I remember correctly Various acts or turns would do thier act and the audience would give thier verdict but it doesn't matter if you win as the score was divided by 11 then multiplied by 11 and 11 added (god knows why ) and the Beverley woman had trouble adding the scores (a la Anne Aston on the golden shot a very long time ago).
it was Star Quality. Hilariously terrible
I bet that Raise The Roof 'Spanish dream home' was in some really inconvenient remote village and collapsed due to dodgy foundations about three years later.
It was actually on the abandoned El Dorado set, hence its sudden availability at a knock down price.
i used to watch Eyes down too. liked it back then. but seeing it nows making me think.
OTT was brilliant - particularly the topless cancan dancers.
I seem to recall shafted was halted mid-run because of 9/11. It’s almost poetic that one disaster saved us from another.
My Grandad used to love Raise the Roof. He used to watch that, and then teach me to play chess afterwards.
I remember Raise The Roof and Shafted. Apparently ITV crap gameshows were what we watched. Remember Clue? Naked Jungle was hilarious. I actually liked Eyes Down but mainly for Sheridan Smith.
I used to watch Eyes down, I enjoyed it
There was definately one ill fated show from ITV in the 1980s called Andy Capp, based on the comic strip character and starred James Bolam. I think that was pulled after just one episode, but i remember loving what I saw.
I remember that! I'm pretty sure it got more than one episode, but it didn't last long ; I liked it as a kid.
I was young when I first watched OTT, being a fan of Tiswas
OTT was naughty. I loved it!!
I've always hated Kilroy, so I had no interest in watching "Shafted" at the time. ITV advertised it quite a bit, but I think it was pulled after only three episodes...
Edited: According to Wikipedia, twenty episodes where recorded, but only four of them aired ; colour me surprised!
Nothing will ever be as good as the Golden Three: Are You Being Served?; The Good Neighbors; and Keeping Up Appearances.
Brighton Belles is one of the rare instances where the British made a bad adaptation of an American show. Usually it's the other way around. Would it be possible for you to do a list of the worst American versions of British tv shows?
Curry and chips failed due it’s raciest content, after all Spike Milligan played an Indian Irish man. (Indian mother Irish father)
If you can get over the racist content (for the 70’s) its actually very good and well written comedy
OTT was meant to be a slightly more adult version of Tiswas. The usual amount of titillation and crude humour that became synonymous for Friday night TV when the pubs kicked out. It basically run out of ideas as to how to keep it up, (oo-err!!), and ended up being ditched.
OTT wasn't bad as such. It was pulled due to tabloid outrage mainly.
Brighton Bell-ends
Red Alert with Lulu, BBC's attempt to replace Noel's House Party (which was already long in the tooth for 1999) and missed. Hard.
You short changing us? There were only 7 there! You skipped 9 & 7 and another
I was going to say number 5 seemed to come rather quickly into the video
Lenny Henry is black, not sure if he has ever mentioned it 🙄 😳
1:08 saying that, 2.4 children was brilliant
Bill was a bit of a MILF.
Belinda Lang was the reason I watched it.
@@ronwhite8503 - Thanks. I’d forgotten the actress’s name.
Ha ha, that wee 'shaft' at the end of the edit made me spill my coffee 😄
Wtf did they not just call it Steal instead of shaft 😂
Jean Boht's astonishing arrogance in presenting what she thought was an 'accent' made me want to crawl into the woodwork with embarrassment. The programme was so ill conceived, and equally badly contrived.
What were they drinking back in those days ?
No mention of Wyatts Watchdogs ? Take Last of the Summer Wines Foggy Dewhurst and drop him into Terry & June land to run a neighbourhood watch... Trouble was no body watched it.. and it was canned in one season...
Shafted!
Anna Lee was reasonably good. Should not be on this list. They should have done what the Americans did when Leslie Charteris said 'no more Saint stories for you'. They just changed the name of the central character to The Falcon.
RI:SE . Channel 4's disastrous attempt to replace The Big Breakfast. After months of anticipation, it just limped on air with a cold opening straight into the studio, no title sequence, and managed to lose the remaining few viewers of Channel 4's breakfast offering within its first morning on air. Half way through, they decided to let two TV critics give their opinion on how the first half went. It was brutal. It was savaged so badly, that main host Mark Durden-Smith clearly had the hump for the remainder of the show.
Space Cadets. Think Big Brother in space. An overly ambitious practical joke, where an elaborate setup saw several contestants train for a trip into space. In actual fact, they were put on a simulator. Didn't really work. The participants clearly hadn't fallen for it, but were going along with it for the sake of being on TV.
Back To Reality. A Channel 5 Big Brother rip-off which differed very little. Despite bagging some key former Big Brother contestants, including Jade Goody, Nasty Nick and Craig Phillips, it lacked the buzz of Big Brother. Scoring low ratings, it ended after just one series partly due to Endemol threatening legal action over plagiarism.
Castaway 2000. Pre-dating Big Brother by half a year, this much heralded reality series was meant to be THE event of 2000. It was met with huge apathy. Then Channel 4 launched Big Brother and stole its thunder completely.
Something For The Weekend. Denise Van Outen hosted this mishmash saucy gameshow, based entirely on people being naked or doing something rude. It was as poor as you'd imagine, and then some.
Last Chance Lottery. Channel 4 wanting more Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, Chris Evans refusing to do another series. The solution? Get Patrick Kielty in, rip it off. However, it was not the answer at all. It was a poor man's Toothbrush. Nothing more to say.
Big Ticket. Once again, Patrick Kielty and the Lottery. Only this time, it was the real deal. Alongside Anthea Turner, this huge scale gameshow was supposed to be the biggest thing ever on TV. It turned out boring and hollow. Despite being panned and gaining low ratings, a second series was planned but ended up being shelved after the broadcasting regulator got involved and banned it for breaking rules governing the BBC and commercial tie-in games.
Interestingly RI:SE the reboot had Zora Suleman, who is now doing a similar role at TalkTV.
If I recall, the Bernie CGI character crashed off the screen at one point on The Big Ticket so Kate Robbins, who provided the voice, practically had to improvise.
Yes, the draw with the graphics crashing is on RUclips. They changed the format slightly after, to ensure that a repeat of the incident would never happen again. All dialogue with the Bernie character in-vision became pre-recorded, and they stopped having the mixture of the CG over the live studio images. Between the pre-recorded elements top and tail of the draw, Kate Robbins' mic would go live without the character on-screen to announce the numbers as they appeared. It was fairly seamless, and most people would never have noticed the switch between the recorded images of Bernie and the live voiceover.
Does anyone remember News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald?
A very blatent attempt by ITV to try and ape HIGNFY. 🤔
I think I may have watched that at the time.
Curry and chips is not that bad watched a the dvd recently
Spike was a header you got to realise he would laugh at his own jokes but if he got it right it was really good.
Had a 3 HR conversation on a train one day one very intelligent yet feeling of despair Man .
You also have got to have lived in a Catholic household to understand alot of his humour.
3 hours? You lucky sod! I once spent five minutes in his company in 1990 and I still feel blessed.
I lived through all of these and all I can remember is OTT and admittedly, it was pretty crap. Tiswas was a lot better.................
Paul o grady was always funny what ever he was in ❤
Pets win Prizes (Dale Winton).
Hole in the Wall (Dale Winton again, or if you like Anton Du Beke).
Full Swing (a golf themed gameshow with Jimmy Tarbuck as host) - this really was awful.
Scavengers - Space / Sci-fi themed show with John Leslie. Very short lived and only remember seeing it once.
X-Fire - Channel 4 paintballing show, one series and generally pants.
Once again, I really don't remember the majority of these! Must have been too busy going out on the town in my feckless youth! Some great puns there, really liked the "Tiswasn't" for some reason!
eyes down was as good as most sitcoms
BBC's 'Triangle' has been top of many of these lists on previous occasions.
Chegwin didn't need to be naked in naked jungle he thought it would b e awkward to be clothed when all the contestants were naked.
Getting secondhand embarrassment from "Share or Shaft"!
Raise The Roof was my first TV games how.
The show was a shambles and Holness was all over the show.
We destroyed the green room bar afterwards so it wasn't all bad.
Curry and chips was good, And if anything was anti racist.
Eyes down was great. I still watch it for time to time now. Cast was great. Never thought it was cancelled just thought Paul were too busy to carry on. It's last episode was a Christmas special so I assumed the BBC liked it.
the problem is that Brighton Belles is funnier than any BBC or ITV comedy in the last 20 years!
Remember Days Like These, the uk version of That 70s Show, first few episodes on itv sun at 10pm, then a few at an obscure time, then disappeared
I remember "Eyes Down" being good.. Memories are a funny thing arent they?
There was nothing wrong with OTT except Lenny Henry
Always thought naked jungle was produced as a one off anyway.
I remember how much stick shafted got from have I got news for you
I remember Raise the Roof hosted by post-Blockbusters Bob Holness RIP.
Er mate.......I dont wanna be that guy......but your "Top ten" list here......only has 8 shows listed!
I remember curry and chips. Spike could make pretty much anything funny. Not sure about the 'satirical racism defence'. This seems still to be in use (with variants) when 'alternative' comedians wish to make jokes about, for example, disabled people, old people, and so on. It's a bit like having your fingers crossed behind your back and thinking that makes it OK to lie. But poor old Anna Lee. Your clips look dire. I love the books and Imogen Stubbs is a fine actor (although not on this showing). I was actually thinking of getting the Anna Lee vids. Not now.
Surely nothing was worse than 'Don't Scare the Hare', but this may have been the 2000s.
If theGuardian hated OTT it must have been funny. 7 million viewers is impressive.
Naked Jungle... Who thought that was a good idea?
Ten ill fated shows? So we start with Brighton Belles at number ten, then jump to number eight with Anna Lee, then jump to number six with Raise the Roof.
Where's number nine and seven?
I thought it was just me!
@@christopheranderson1968 Nope, nine and seven are missing