Economic Exile Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I've been re-watching this bbc drama broadcast in the 90's. I'm enjoying it more than the first time I watched it. Over 9 episodes it follows the fortunes of 4 friends from Newcastle from young adults to middle age against a backdrop of the politics and social conditions of the times. Well worth watching if you're sick of a lot of the current drama on offer. I've watched up to episode 5 so far and apart from a handful of times when sound and speech is out of sync the quality is fine for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y58jojJMClg&index=9&list=PLqWNCJXyZziFoA8vqYqeECTW5osjFaGt4 Anybody got any other you tube drama recommendations to help pass the long dark evenings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Auf Wiedersehen Pet series 1 Sapphire & Steel Strange (TV series) Ripping Yarns Children of the Stones The Professionals Brideshead Revisited (TV series) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Very good series and journey #OFITN. First big outing for the man who would be Bond too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 North Square This Life - feels very nineties indeed now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Auf Wiedersehen Pet series 1 Sapphire & Steel Strange (TV series) Ripping Yarns Children of the Stones The Professionals Brideshead Revisited (TV series) Wow! Television as it should be! I had to buy Ripping Yarns recently, Some episodes date back to 1975. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Lol, Daniel Craig went on to become James Bond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie_George Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 They should do a remake: "Our Friends in the Northern Powerhouse". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economic Exile Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 Auf Wiedersehen Pet series 1 Sapphire & Steel Strange (TV series) Ripping Yarns Children of the Stones The Professionals Brideshead Revisited (TV series) Thanks for posting these. A few there I haven't watched at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economic Exile Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 Yes a really great series that I understand more than when I enjoyed it first time around. Lots of hpc perspective re property, the ruining of the industrial base etc. The destruction of good quality homes replaced with terrible high rises. Was based on a true story of course. The infamous Poulson affair, the bribery of politicans. Poulson built much of Newcastle, major bits of Leeds and other cities at the time, even Waterloo re-development and Croydon station. Universally crap. (The modern at the time 'international' swimming pool in Leeds could never be used for major events because they forgot to factor in the pool tiles!). Poulson had major links to Bovis - Bovis was set up by Keith Joseph's father (the intellectual architect and arch liberal behind 'Thatcherism'). I feel there is a story within the story in this whole affair which has yet to come to light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poulson I can't imagine what policy making the Chairman of a major housebuilder the Minister for Housing would recommend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Joseph Interesting. I always thought that the OFITN drama series depicted what went on in politics, councils and police in a realistic way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainlessSteelCat Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Get a copy of Kodi on your computer/amazon firestick/etc - and a few unofficial plugins and you are set for life. Not that I would do anything like that of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Another one well worthy of a mention is The Beiderbecke Trilogy, which I was too young to appreciate when it originally aired. Very subversive, there's absolutely zero chance of ITV commissioning anything like it now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reIvABanQHw Fairly Secret Army, from the same time period, also well worth a watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Oh I did like "Fairly Secret Army"! A hoot. Must see if it's still available! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Haha. The Beiderbecke affair was also about corruption between northern councils and developers. (Helen of Tadcaster's Dad and his attempt to warp the planning and political processes). In the second part, The Beiderbecke Tapes, a bunch of conspiracy loons deliberately get handed some government disinformation. Very prescient considering this was long before the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
long time lurking Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Not drama but comedy and the wonderful Margret John ( probably not broadcast outside of Wales ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Turned Out Nice Again Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Most of the classic 70s/80s TV dramas (Play For Today, Wednesday Play etc.) are now on YouTube, eg. search on [play for today] for: The Black Stuff The fishing Party Comedians Land Of Green Ginger Our Day Out Nuts In May Abigail's Party the Flipside of Dominic Hyde etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economic Exile Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 Most of the classic 70s/80s TV dramas (Play For Today, Wednesday Play etc.) are now on YouTube, eg. search on [play for today] for: The Black Stuff The fishing Party Comedians Land Of Green Ginger Our Day Out Nuts In May Abigail's Party the Flipside of Dominic Hyde etc. Yes I've re-watched a few of those so far. Really good. Two I would add to your list are Hard Labour and The Spongers. Ken Loach is releasing a film next year about a 50+ bloke who has worked all his life then he becomes ill and for the first time has to claim welfare. I'm currently enjoying a lot of older drama but will probably watch this one when it comes out. http://www.screendaily.com/news/ken-loach-starts-i-daniel-blake-shoot/5096060.article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Edge of Darkness, the UK tv series which preceded the US feature film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilf Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Edge of Darkness, the UK tv series which preceded the US feature film Watched that recently, pretty good but goes a bit mental in the end. Harrys Game is also well worth a watch, pretty short, about 3 hours in total, but gripping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economic Exile Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 I've been filling in the time during a prolonged rainy spell in this region by watching all 4 Series of When the Boat Comes In on you tube. Broadcast in the 70's. Really enjoyed it overall and found the social history aspect of it very interesting. The drama was first broadcast in 1975 and tells the story of a fictional character, Jack Ford played by James Bolam, when he returns to Tyneside after the first world war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Fiction, be it literary or television dramas, set at the time I always think are a much better way to get a good feel for a certain period of history. You start to get a feel for just how much nonsense historians, and historical documentaries talk, when you get to an age where you think hang on a minute I lived through that decade and it was absolutely nothing like this bloke on the telly is describing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The XYY Man Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 A fair chunk of Our Friends In The North was - like Billy Elliott - filmed in Easington Colliery, Co Durham. I lived there at the time, and you can see my old house (now demolished) in many scenes, especially in the episode where Mary's son smashes up the copper's allotment. The shop that Tosker bought was at the top of our street and I watched a lot of these scenes being filmed. Many of the actors were not native North-Easteners, and the accents varied in quality. Daniel Craig and Mark Strong both produced pretty good ones, but poor old Peter Vaughan (Harry Grout from "Porridge") couldn't quite get the hang of it. Pretty much all of them were happy to chat with locals and sign autographs during breaks from filming, all that is apart from genuine North-Eastener Alun Armstrong, who sat in a car and totally ignored all approaches from members of the public. Miserable bástard... XYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 I learned OK "passable Geordie" during my time up there due to no fault of my own. Maybe I could be an "actor" and pretend I've been beyond Cockfosters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 I learned OK "passable Geordie" during my time up there due to no fault of my own. Maybe I could be an "actor" and pretend I've been beyond Cockfosters! I used to live in cockfesters.....truly that is what the sign said slip road off the M25.......worked in boreham stiff.......lots of old filming done out and about around those parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 apart from genuine North-Eastener Alun Armstrong, who sat in a car and totally ignored all approaches from members of the public. Miserable bástard... XYY As you say, genuine north-easterner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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