Unidentified Weird TV @tv_unidentified
Blog devoted to identifying and locating bizarre memories from UK TV (70s-90s). Got a UWTV memory you'd like us to identify? Drop us a tweet or email! unidentifiedweirdtv.co.uk United Kingdom Joined October 2020-
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A few weeks ago a member of the MR James Appreciation Society group over on Facebook asked if anyone could ID this half remembered TV show from their childhood, I got intrigued so can anyone help? @tv_unidentified
If anyone knows who this woman is in this Tizer "I'se Got The Ize" ad from 1986, also let me know. She looks a bit like Linda Hayden, but it's probably not her. youtube.com/watch?v=OtWIZ5…
Does anyone know who the white suited guy is in this second launch ad (What's Your Reaction?) for First Direct bank in 1989? It aired on ITV as the "optimistic view" opposite Steve Punt in a black suit with a "pessimistic" view on Channel 4. youtube.com/watch?v=DZ54Hj…
@tv_unidentified I have a few things I’m trying to identify. Here’s one. x.com/bunglemark/sta…
Behind door number eight of the Scarred For Life advent calendar sits Kinder Egg's terrifying 1980s mascot. They genuinely thought it was a good idea to advertise chocolate eggs like this...
Does anyone out there recognise this nasty little short from the early 70s?
Happy Halloween to all our followers! We have a new entry live on the blog, about a surreal drama seen on TV in the 80s featuring three people, seemingly dead souls, trapped in an apartment: unidentifiedweirdtv.co.uk/2023/10/31/thr… Can anyone identify this for us? If so please get in touch!
Rainbow Interview with John Leeson - Oct 2023 youtu.be/1eBqrDnpx78?si… via @YouTube #Rainbow #JohnLeeson #Actor #Television #BungleBear #Children #PeterHawkins #DavidCook
What weird thing on TV that you weren't supposed to be scared of freaked you out as a youngster? Was anyone else inexplicably bothered by this character...? timworthington.org/2020/04/27/the…
What's a TV series that you're *convinced* that only you remember? This is mine... timworthington.org/2019/06/12/the…
Ah, damn. RIP David McCallum. Famous for The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Colditz, and countless film and TV roles, he will forever be a Scarred For Life legend for his performance as the titular mysterious time agent in Sapphire and Steel.
Also @tv_unidentified and @ScarredForLife2 you might be interested in my piece on Weird Britain for the film crit journal I co-edit cinemayearzero.com/2023/05/01/lon…
I have been on a quest to find this claymation short for years! Hoping someone else has a shared memory of it
I have been on a quest to find this claymation short for years! Hoping someone else has a shared memory of it
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@folk_horror @gemmafiles @tv_unidentified Good call.
@MikeWalters60 @gemmafiles @tv_unidentified Two entries in the small but precious genre of 70s British seashore wyrd films. The Shout can probably join them too.
@EmbroideredYeti @frazer_lee @tv_unidentified Having watched it now I don't think it can be what the OP saw as folklore doesn't play much of a role in the story. And yes, I liked the playing with expectations with the children you met first not being the ones to identify with.
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A few weeks ago a member of the MR James Appreciation Society group over on Facebook asked if anyone could ID this half remembered TV show from their childhood, I got intrigued so can anyone help? @tv_unidentified
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@gemmafiles @MikeWalters60 @tv_unidentified An odd film but with a great atmosphere. I love both its titles: 'Neither the Sea Nor the Sand' sounds cryptic & somewhat wistful while 'The Exorcism of Hugh' sounds like a very different film. It'd make a good double bill with 'The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea'.
@DoctorAtlantis @tv_unidentified It sometimes seems like there's an inexhaustible supply of such spooky shows from the 70s and 80s. You may be interested in some imdb lists I assembled of British telefantasy, here's the links to the ones for those two decades imdb.com/list/ls0981205… imdb.com/list/ls0981251…
@damienvt @tv_unidentified That's a great book, I love the paperback front cover art by Antony Maitland. It's never been adapted, there was a film @giantundersnow in pre-production but sadly it seems to have gone quiet.
@frazer_lee @folk_horror @tv_unidentified My goodness, that has got to be it! What a little gem. I loved the sensible working class kids keeping an eye on the spoiled little twats, a delicious twist on Enid Blyton. :)
@folk_horror @tv_unidentified Good question! IMDb lists the German tv premiere of Forest as 1963, so maybe they did crop up on UK TV also. Some CFF films were definitely aired on the Beeb in the 80s. They regularly used clips from the films on Screen Test too.
@frazer_lee @tv_unidentified Another thing, were Children's Film Foundaton productions shown on TV, and if so would one from the 50s still be shown as late as the late 60s/early 70s?
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