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It’s time to take another stroll down nostalgia alley and revisit some of the shows from British TV of the 1970s that you may not necessarily remember. I’ve picked ten series to feature in the video and I’ll also let you know where you can watch these hidden or overlooked gems.

This is 10 Forgotten British TV Shows of the 70s

00:23 Ace of Wands with Michael MacKenzie
01:23 Joker’s Wild with Barry Cryer
03:48 The Feathered Serpent with Patrick Troughton
05:41 Cooking Price-Wise with Vincent Price
06:40 General Hospital with Lynda Bellingham
07:45 Carry On Laughing with Sid James
08:49 The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club with Bernard Manning
09:52 Target with Patrick Mower
10:50 The Duchess of Duke Street with Gemma Jones
11:47 The Protectors with Robert Vaughn
12:45 Video Highlights

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  1. @davids8449

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Everything old in 2024 is worth a great deal of money……..except me

  2. @SingleTrack66

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Comments are turned off on your kids tv video

  3. @OriginalCaliKitty

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    I loved the Duchess of Duke Street. It showed on PBS in the US, and my female friends and I were avid watchers. It was our introduction to Gemma Jones (who's wonderful in everything she does), and we all had a crush on Christopher Casenove.

  4. @philippenaluna2312

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    There are 2 shows that only ran for 1 series each from the '70's: 1) 'The Persuaders' starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis 20 'the Zoo Gang' starring Brian Keith, Lilli Palmer, John Mills and Barry Morse. The characters having been part of the French Resistance during WW2 and coming together post-war using their wartime zoological code-names.

  5. @Leon-lt5gv

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    I can only rembember the actual tv itself ' but ours had a 50p metre stuck on the side 🤣 & when we could afford a tv ' the extorstionate tv licence came out 😡 out an out liberty 🤑

  6. @brian3174

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Dianne Keen then was stunning

  7. @brian3174

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Protectors on ITV4 weekly

  8. @LearningCurveScience

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Does anyone remember a show, I think it was called 'The Changes'. All the electricity in the world??? suddenly stopped working, and a young girl packed some belongings and her teddy bear (for some reason I vividly remember the teddy bear) and went to find out what went wrong. I have very vague memories of this, so it must be early to mid 70's. For a children's show it was really creepy.

  9. @trevormardenborough8244

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Love thy neighbour

  10. @SUK2293

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Carry On Laughing was a great inspiration for BlackAdder..

  11. @sheppertonstudios8253

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    It's no wonder we all grew up twisted isn't it? 🤣🤣🤣

  12. @carolinejayes157

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    They all are Golden oldies well rememberd ,and well loved.!

  13. @Lukozer

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    I remember The Feathered Serpent really well… especially the intro sequence. Gave 5 year old me a few sleepless nights. I remember it was shown around the same time as The Georgian House, another forgotten 70's gem that wasn't anything like as potentially trauma inducing as The Feathered Serpent, but still gave me nightmares over that weird possessed artefact that allowed them to travel through time to the Georgian era.

  14. @DLR300

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    This brought back horrible memories……not for the programmes but for that bloody wallpaper background 🤮

  15. @DLR300

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    The original Hawaii five-O was another with terrific theme tune.

  16. @newforestpixie5297

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Does anyone recall a programme during the mid 1970s aimed at children called The Long Chase ? We didn’t have telly from 72 to 78 so i rarely kept up with how things panned out !

  17. @regifredwhite9484

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Does anyone remember "Follow That Dog" a kids TV series in the 1970's on ITV starring Norman Rossington and a Bassett hound.

  18. @motormouthalmighty

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    isn't it amazing?just how much that we forget in life.i've got a memory like a sieve.i even used to watch sapphire and steel and cloppa castle!when I watched the six million dollar Man entire run,last year,on legend/horror.apart from the opening theme tune and Steve,Jamie?and Arthur? I didn't remember a single storyline ,sentence or guest star such as sonny bono?Carl weathers and George foreman and Andre the giant and ted?Cassidy(lurch?six foot nine!).the scenery was just breathtakingly beautiful.the jets and spacecraft looked so modern.america has always been an absolutely awesome country!

  19. @WernerBrandt-w2f

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    I remember Ace of Wands back in the 1970s, it was one the kids programmes that were always broadcast just as I got home after school (well here in the midlands anyway) I remember it that well that I can still remember what day of the week it was shown and it was every wednesday, bit weird how I remember that when I often cant remember what happened yesterday. I really liked this series which also had a catchy theme tune (I still remember how that went too). Its not the only kids programme from the 70s that is no longer available for broadcast, another of the iconic midweek classic kids programmes from that era was the Freewheelers, starring William Franklin I was really gutted when I found out that every episode of this brilliant programme were all destroyed in a fire. It also had a theme tune that you will never forget.

  20. @bryanneighbour6978

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    HA! Finally a few I remember. Target wasnt he also Hazel? Loved the Protectors. Although it must've been re runs even back then as I was probably too young when initially shown. I do remember wheeltappers but the must've been from Dad watching it.

  21. @plasteckfly

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Paul Daniels had to be one of the most irritating people ever on television.

  22. @MrNewtonian

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Arnold Capper?

  23. @incredibleflameboy

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Im amazed ace of wands was shown on TV what with the pentagram motif and use of magic. The satanic panic was in full swing in the 80s but i live in a very religious, mainly elderly village where it still holds strong, hell my grandparents were very disapproving of my playing games like Warhammer and MtG because of their supposed links to satanism. Im a practising witch and had to go to a meeting at my daughter's school because my openness about it upset one of her friends mother after she came over after school and noticed I had an altar. Apparently the UK government still consider anything thats not a mainstream belif system as dangerous so its amazing that iconography got past censors.

  24. @davidobrien9362

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Please,please don't you put DOOM Watch on your top ten every this type thing has it .

  25. @casinodelonge

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    I remember the Feathered Serpent, and Diane Keen was my second TV crush after one of Charlies Angels.

  26. @casinodelonge

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    You should do The Changes, that scared the living shit out of me.

  27. @Kvbftng

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    The carry series from carry on doctor ,is when it changes completely with showing nudity in all of these films up until the 1978 last original series. The carry on laughing didn't really work . because of this and people expected it to be the same in the carry on laughing series but it was back to the earlier films

  28. @RapunzelinOttawa

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    re Duchess of Duke St. you prob. mean Gemma Jones, not Gemma Craven.

  29. @garybryant5946

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Not forgotten by me 👍📺

  30. @usedfuzzbox

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Wow, I had no idea The Feathered Serpent was just a kids show [I never knew the name until now, thank you!!]. I was born in 72, but still to this day have vivid memories of the intro and certain aspects of it, I presumed I was recalling a hardcore adult TV show along the lines of the movie Caligula!!!!

  31. @percyprune7548

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Feathered Serpent; look at today's telly with warnings prior to almost every programme (may contain images of war, content of the period etc) then the opening titles alone with the decorated skulls on a childrens' programme. Human sacrifice, murder of prisoners of war, walled up alive, a witch that drags her daughter's mummy around, torture – imagine doing that today as a children's series.

  32. @PaulHFleming

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Although not produced in UK Star Maidiens and the Star Lost worth mention. But , Iwould not waste any money buying DVDS

  33. @PaulHFleming

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    That guy sounds like Tom Jones to me. Avenues snd Alleyways made Pop chart in 1970s

  34. @PaulHFleming

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    The Feathered Serpent seem little extreme for Children's tv show. But. I watch just see Patrick Througon.

  35. @WilliamFisher-jn4ul

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Scared me the feathered serpent

  36. @racheldoesacrylic4089

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    wow JUST WOW takes me back to sitting with my mum and dad ,thanks so much for putting this together, a time when you had not a care in the world and felt truly happy ,the 1970s to 2024 like night and day x

  37. @Porkypies6m

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    the tomorrow people

  38. @shaunhouse8469

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    "The Protectors" is probably where I've seen the most Robert Vaughn performances, more than the man from UNCLE, more than the Magnificent Seven or his other movies. Interesting fact about the show was it was a half hour format unlike most if not all other live action fantasy/action/adventure type dramas

  39. @partyentertains4092

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    1:00 Sadly, series 1 and 2 of Ace of Wands no longer exist in the archive. Thames wiped them.

  40. @JC-sd3vh

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Diane Keen….my word…my puberty!

  41. @peterking2794

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    A good friend of my late brother wrote a series called 'Trainer' about the world of horse racing. I don't think it amounted to much and probably one series. Cheers!

  42. @siroswaldfortitude5346

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    Can I give a shout out to 'Zodiac' the TV series starring Anouska Hempel. Though I was but a mere boy, she was my first TV crush.

  43. @karaperrio-du5gs

    October 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    They were all great and I remember them well, feathered serpent was v scary but even at the time it's outside shots were very obviously studio based and Dr who was wonderful, but Patrick mowers Target was also a weekly adventure comic published by Polystyle, launched in 1978, based on the show that gave it it's name, i have every Gerry Anderson show on dvd,

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