Best late night TV program.

[Mad Cyril]

As someone who has wasted years watching late night TV and singing along to the 0898 - 50 - 50 - 50 advert I am asking the question......

Which program is/was the best?

 

[canveyshrimper]

Jackanory.:p

 

[Leeboy]

Get Stuffed


student cooking at it's best, Pot Noodle on toast always a winner

 

[DTS]

I used to like Shameless.

 

[osymandus]

They Highway man , 2 Ozy truckers in hi tec rigs fighting crime !!!

 

[EastStandBlue]

I've found recently that there's about 5 or 6 different channels that show episodes of CSI until the early hours...

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Loved my late-night random Sci-Fi... Farscape, Babylon 5, The Highlander TV series...

:)

 

[Pubey]

i used to love the dodgy channel5 stuff.. that redshoediaries etc etc!

also battlestar galactica at about 3am is always good!

 

[Yer Blues]

get suffed was ace as was american gladiators back in the day

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

i used to love the dodgy channel5 stuff.. that redshoediaries etc etc!

also battlestar galactica at about 3am is always good!

Yeah, great late night masturbation material in the pre internet days. What were the other shows? Pleasure Zone was one I think

 

[moneypit23]

Married with Children. ITV used to bung it on at about 11:30pm years ago. Al Bundy was class.

 

[canveyshrimper]

There was a Vietnam War programme, similar to Platoon, but I'm buggered if I can remember the name. Help.

 

[moneypit23]

There was a Vietnam War programme, similar to Platoon, but I'm buggered if I can remember the name. Help.

Wasn't that the one with "Paint it Black" as the theme tune?

Edit: got it (I think) - Tour of Duty.

 

[callan]

There was a Vietnam War programme, similar to Platoon, but I'm buggered if I can remember the name. Help.

Think it was called tour of duty or something.

 

[class]

Babecast...

:p

 

[canveyshrimper]

Wasn't that the one with "Paint it Black" as the theme tune?

Edit: got it (I think) - Tour of Duty.

Think it was called tour of duty or something.

Thanks chaps, yes it was have some green.:D

 

[Desert Shrimper]

This whole thread has reminded me of the late 80's ITV "Night time" era when it seemed really progressive to have TV on after midnight. Shame they chose the absolute ar$e end of their budget and put on whatever they could get for £9.99 a pop. I went for "Get Stuffed" just for the theme tune but you always really hoped for some smutty 70's film with Joan Collins in it or something....

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

As mentioned in a previous thread Get stuffed was a great show on at the weekend. And strangely timed when people would be getting back indoors from the clubs.

A weekday fav of mine was Prisoner Cell Block H, which after a few beers was strangely addictive. Loved the time when some of them were released and tried to go straight. This was Oz's version of Porridge and Going Straight. :D


Regarding under cover movements. Who is old enough to remember when Channel 4 first hit the screens with their late night shows which would have a Red Triangle in the corner, to show that it would have violence and sex content.

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

Most of my 'late night TV' was generally 'really early morning TV' when I finally managed to find my way home.

For a completely off your face mind-f*ck I just couldn't beat Dynamo Duck. Real animals dressed like people wandering round a miniature world solving crimes or something - apparently it was an old French kids show that had been bought up by a US producer and re-cut as a detective show and dubbed with the voice of Dan Castellaneta (of Homer Simpson fame) - absolute quality - "The world is my pond and danger is my destiny!".

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

The days before 24 hour TV, would mean you never ended sleeping downstairs as when the station went off air a high pitch sound would be emitted from you TV.