I must admit a lot of my favourite moments are from Blackadder - anything with Lord Flashheart, Nursey, Percy and his lump of purest green, bob (where one of my nicknames comes from) and Mrs Miggins and her pie shop.
I also loved the final moment at the end of Blackadder goes forth, very sad.
one of my favourite moments was watching torvil and dean skate the bolero in 1984 and getting top marks!, and watching ireland get through to the quarter finals of the 1990 world cup
sad moment was watching the race where ayrton senna (my favourite driver) crashed and died in 1994.
Back to Tv, wouldnt say funny or sad maybe into the etc catagory
The ending of Life on Mars. We all thought thats it when Sam lept of the roof, our TV screens went blank, I was waiting for the credits.Then it came back and the rest was played out .then finally when the children came running towards the camera and there was the girl from the test card reaching forward and pressing the off button of our tvs,brilliant finish to a brilliant series.
If we are talking sports (which looking atthe question, I see no problem) then it has to be the battles between Coe, Ovett and Cram in the early 80's!!!!
Do you remember when Coe broke the mile record, then Ovett a few weeks later, then Coe again. Bloody marvellous.
Just remembered another great telly moment, well for me anyway.
i remember seeing Riverdance for the first time, think it was during The Eurovision Song Contest which was held in Ireland at the time. Thought it was awesome.
The saddest- was watching the news unfold that day the Twin Towers fell, the news coverage that day will stay with me forever.
Film may have succeeded a couple of times with the likes ofCharlie Chaplin, but TV only triumphed twice in merging comedy and pathos. Black Adder goes forth and quite a number of episodes of MASH
On "I Love Lucy". Ricky puts Lucy on a schedule and she entertains his boss and wife for dinner. They serve frozen food and toss the biscuits from the kitchen and peg the boss in the head. That one is saved on my DVR box. I crack up everytime.
I was having Sky installed the day of the Johnny Wilkinson drop kick and was watching it in the bedroom. I came bouncing in screaming to tell the installers that we had just won the world cup and they barely raised an eyebrow. Bloody heathens.
I agree that MASH was one of the best shows.
They say that 1 minute after it ended the water pressure in places dropped due to people being glued to the TV and then running to the loo. :o