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Off Topic Greatest Ever Northern TV Series?

Discussion in 'Newcastle United' started by Albert's Chip Shop, May 31, 2015.

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Which is the best?

Poll closed Sep 7, 2015.

  1. Our Friends In The North

    5 vote(s)
    21.7%

  2. Auf Wiedersehn Pet

    17 vote(s)
    73.9%

  3. Boys From The Blackstuff

    1 vote(s)
    4.3%
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  1. JakartaToon

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    Looking forward to the sequel Get Carver - featuring BRS as the evil henchman thinking up new and heinous ways to dispose of our misunderstood hero.
     
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    I'm a big fan of George Gently too. Auf Wiedersehn Pet is top for me.
     
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    Pet was great, but Our Friends was better.

    Cracker should be in with a shout, though.
     
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  4. Rum & Black for 2

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    Agree with George Gently.

    Admit to slight bias as youngest daughter has had a small part in one of the earlier episodes. The one about Northern Soul and racism, she was the barmaid and cloakroom attendant.

    :emoticon-0160-movie
     
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  5. Hung Drawn and Quartered

    Hung Drawn and Quartered Well-Known Member

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    55 degrees north - worked on that one
    Rocket Man ( Robson Green) - worked on that one
    Vera - worked on that one
    Distant shores - worked on that one
    Byker Grove - worked on that one
     
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    I can understand your Tyneside bias: but in all honesty, The Boys from the Black Stuff wiped the floor with any other ones mentioned there. Bernard Hill's performance as Yosser Hughes was incredible, and one that made a massive impression on many people at the time, which was set in the darkest days of Thatcher's Britain..
     
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    Cracker is one of the best British TV shows over the last 30 years.
     
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  8. MrRAWhite

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    Yes..Totally agree..Robbie Coltrane was awesome as the alcohol and gambling addicted criminal psychologist. Based in Manchester as well I believe..
     
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    Aye - The one episode that sticks out for me, the one with Robert Carlyle as the Psycho Liverpool fan. Absolutely brilliant. Shame they never made that many episodes though.

    Some of the best British shows in my lifetime, not in any order:

    Auf Wiedersehen Pet
    Only Fools and Horses
    Cracker
    One Foot in the Grave
    Boys from the Black Stuff
    Our Friends in the North
    Life on Mars/ Ashes to Ashes...
     
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    I can't argue with the vast majority of that list, although I have to confess that I have never saw an episode of Our Friends In The North..
     
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    Most people thinking more NE than North. I say stick to NE
     
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    Waterloo Road was set somewhere in Greater Manchester, now relocated to Glasgow!! And for the ancients on this site Z Cars, and Everton's theme tune!
     
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    Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

    I must have seen all 29 episodes 100 times over yet I still laugh like a drain every time I watch 'em :emoticon-0140-rofl:
     
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  14. MrRAWhite

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    Loved the episode when they were trying to avoid the England result so they could enjoy the game on TV later..
     
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    I love that film. So many great scenes. When Caine kicks the car door and the thugs head goes through the glass...ahh just wonderful stuff. Def check out The Reckoning, Sitting Target and The Squeeze for underrated British crime flicks of the 70's.
     
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    Our Friends In The North.
    Only seen it recently on DVD but it spawned so many careers and won loads of awards.
     
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    Bit of "spender" jimmy nail.
     
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    Ant and Dec did a remake of that episode a few years back with Rodney Bewes making a cameo appearance,
    obviously nowhere near as good as the original.

    'Look who's coming to dinner' is a particular favourite of mine <ok>
     
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    I believe you have quoted my wrong post, but I know what you mean..<ok>
     
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    <doh> <laugh> Bread winner hog not bread.
     
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