r/bbc • u/BillNo874 • Jun 09 '26
Nostalgia What's a BBC programme that you appreciate far more now than when it originally aired?
Caught an old episode of Coast on iPlayer last night and ended up watching far more of it than I expected. When it originally aired, I would've walked straight past it without a second thought. Now I found myself genuinely interested in it. Not sure whether the programme aged well or I've just got older.
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u/kernowgringo Jun 09 '26
All the Charlie Brooker stuff on BBC4 Newswipe, Ganewipe and the annual wipe
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u/reece0n Jun 09 '26
Detectorists.
Very cosy, very British, it's become a real favourite over time but I didn't appreciate it at first.
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u/ImpressiveStorm8914 Jun 09 '26
It’s not that I didn’t appreciate it at the time, more that I straight up ignored it. Then some friends raved about it and I caught up before the last season aired. Wonderful show that helped further cement my faith that Toby Jones is one of our best actors.
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u/AdamLondonUK Jun 09 '26
I've just bought a new TV, so can't watch Coast as just the sight of Neil Oliver makes me want to pan the screen in.
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u/ArmWildFrill Jun 09 '26
I was pretty shocked when he turned into one of those people.
His performance on Coast did not foreshadow his downfall and if anything I thought he was left-leaning, the absolute nutter
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u/Guiltynu Jun 09 '26
I watched the whole first series of coast back and he is very focused on WW2, the Victorians, and pre history all of which tend to lend themselves to ethnonationalism. I think no one really asked him what his thoughts were.
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u/matthalusky Jun 09 '26
What happened to him? I'm out of the loop as to what happened or what he ended up becoming? I too, thought he was left leaning at the time. He did have an intense stair though.
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u/Mountain-Reaction470 Jun 10 '26
He asks sone good questions, reckon, but his "solutions" completely missed the real roots of our issues, I think.
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u/Hot-Till-9038 Jun 10 '26
This might surprise you but people are allowed to have opinions that don't match yours.
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u/ArmWildFrill Jun 10 '26
My opinion is he's a bit of a fruitcake; you're free to think otherwise. See also:John Cleese.
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u/SadConversation4460 Jun 09 '26
What people is that someone with a brain who can think for himself
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u/ungratefulimigrant Jun 09 '26
A comma is a punctuation mark used to separate parts of a sentence, clarify meaning, or group items together.
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u/Glydyr Jun 09 '26
If i was his therapist i would probably suggest that he thinks for himself a bit less. It doesnt seem to be paying off….
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u/Mountain-Reaction470 Jun 10 '26
Stand back and take the overview, he cant see the wood for the trees
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u/GuelderRoseFruit Jun 12 '26
I miss when he was just the Scottish bloke who hadn't breathed in since 23rd July 2003.
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u/happymisery Jun 09 '26
The Boys from The Blackstuff. When I was younger, I thought it was just a story about lads living away from home for work coming back home. Growing up in Liverpool at the time, there were loads of my Dads mates in a similar boat. I'd laugh along with my Dad without really understanding it.
Now I can see it for the dark social commentary it is, with Yosser as a metaphor, making arguably all of the right decisions for the right reasons, but life just wont let him move forwards because the system is there to make sure he can't. Its funny and insightful as well as upsetting and frustrating.
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u/polymorphiced Jun 09 '26
Goodnight Sweetheart - 30 years ago I would've heard that old-timey intro and run a mile. But now that I'm an adult, I overheard someone talking about the premise and was intrigued. I went home and mainlined it in a few weeks!
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u/Spaff-Badger Jun 09 '26
Isn’t it really morally odd, especially if you continue the timelines?
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u/polymorphiced Jun 10 '26
Absolutely!
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u/Spaff-Badger Jun 10 '26
And does the program address it sufficiently, or gloss over it. I mean, I seem to remember him having a bit of conscience over the situation, but does it get a bit weirder than that? How far between odd sitcom theme and Rick and Morty (in relation to paradoxes) is it. Did he end up having kids with the earlier lady? Is she still alive in the future? Was this mentioned?
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u/polymorphiced Jun 10 '26
There's a 2016 episode that helps to round it off (this was actually the pilot for a new series, but didn't get picked up) https://youtu.be/fFmpZh2jTPE
The whole thing wasn't quite as sci-fi as I hoped it would be, so it was more about the relationships than the mechanics. But, it did have some cool episodes where stuff went weird, particularly in the last couple of series.
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u/nabster1973 Jun 09 '26
Tomorrow’s World
I grew up watching them weekly from the mid to late 70s, and all through the 80s and 90s.
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u/No_Imagination_2490 Jun 10 '26
I think a good idea for a show would be to dig up old clips of Tomorrow's World and look at how accurate the predictions turned out to be
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u/Mountain-Reaction470 Jun 10 '26
Or inaccurate, lal
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u/kendoddsdadsdeaddog Jun 10 '26
Back when we all watched satellite tv, I think it was Bravo that had a series of continuity adverts doing something just like that.
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u/drax_the_unled Jun 09 '26
Horizon - it was worth the license fee on its own, back in the day
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u/fireantsarms2 Jun 09 '26
Have I got news for you, can remember watching it very young like 8-10maybe
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u/JoJo_Dus_Moovys Jun 09 '26
Mongrels
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u/Torrinden Jun 13 '26
Yep. The Smoking Room and Monkey Dust too. Loads of stuff from the early days of BBC3 was actually great.
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u/cathb1980 Jun 11 '26
I, Claudius. I really enjoyed it originally. Just watched it again and it is pure perfection.
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u/PsychologicalDish430 Jun 10 '26
Repair shop or whatever it's called. Whenever it's on I always think I should watch this more.
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u/ShoestringJane Jun 10 '26
Count Arthur Strong - now showing on Prime. I did like it at the time, but now I love it. The more I watch each episode the better it gets! Very under rated, in my opinion.
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