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By *akie32 OP Man
over a year ago

winchester

been watching this, takes me back, cheesy rubish but love it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

Im surprised that they havent done a remake of it.

They did with knightrider

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hubby was watching it the other day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That takes me back a lot of years, used to love a bit of Airwolf! That with a bit of Knightrider and Dukes of Hazard and my weekends were almost sorted as a kid!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Manimal, Automan, Streethawk, Blue Thunder..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved Airwolf. One of many reasons I love flying and aviation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The opening scene in the very first episode what happened to the poor lizard that fell off the wheel?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love Airwolf I want that helicopter.

Love the theme music as well.

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

All programmes mentioned so far are gold

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

"All programmes mentioned so far are gold

The others that was on at same time was

chips and fall guy.

That was the saturday viewing

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By *ronmant16Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

Was watching it the other day, used to love watching it as a kid just before going to youth club with my friends , that along with A team, Knight rider etc.

The startup of the aircraft along with that iconic tune still make the hair stand on back of my neck

Good old days eh

Apparently the very helicopter was sold off and was used as a sort of air medical craft, it crashed killing all onboard

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Airwolf was actually a commercial Bell 222 Twin the guns and rocket launcher where just bits ‘bolted’ on whenever they where needed in a shot, you never saw them deploy when it was flying. After the series ended it was sold to I think a German medivac organisation but was unfortunately destroyed in a crash a few years later.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going back further how about the Six Million Dollar Man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Manimal, Automan, Streethawk, Blue Thunder..

My youths TV watching right there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wow, blast from the past!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Going back further how about the Six Million Dollar Man "

S**t how did i miss that one out?

And the Bionic woman.. wasn't there a dog too?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Least said about the dog the better I think lol

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By *ownwithafeatherMan
over a year ago

Watford

I loved The Lady, and had a soft spot for Caitlin too.

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By *akie32 OP Man
over a year ago

winchester

cant get the bionic man tune out of my head now dam you, the one when he does amazing stunts

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By *ronmant16Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Going back further how about the Six Million Dollar Man "

Man of loved Steve Austin , even had the action figure

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By *razytimesinloveCouple
over a year ago

SW Scotland

Love Airwolf, anyone else remember macgyver?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I heard there is talk of remaking it but as the six billion dollar man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got that tune stuck in my head now. Great programme that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bit later Buck Rogers In The 25th Century?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Love Airwolf, anyone else remember macgyver?"

He once made plastic explosives from the fibres of a sports jacket, and blew the bloody door off!

Macgyver was an effing Don!!

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By *ronmant16Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Bit later Buck Rogers In The 25th Century?"

Di bi Di bi Di, way to go buck

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By *razytimesinloveCouple
over a year ago

SW Scotland

"Love Airwolf, anyone else remember macgyver?

He once made plastic explosives from the fibres of a sports jacket, and blew the bloody door off!

Macgyver was an effing Don!!"

Managed to pick up the dvd box set in Afghanistan of all places

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Blue Thunder', great helicopter film. They actually built it for the movie too. It flew like a brick!

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By *akie32 OP Man
over a year ago

winchester

maybe being nostalgic, but they dont make great programs like that anymore, and dont even mention the a team lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"'Blue Thunder', great helicopter film. They actually built it for the movie too. It flew like a brick!"

Built it!!? F**k. And this is pre CGI, Hollywood was crazy in those days they must of had money to burn..

I mean they still do, but they're a bit more savy about how they spend it for blockbuster movies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buck Rogers in the 25th century did anyone else at the time notice Twiki’s sex toy shaped head lol

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By *akie32 OP Man
over a year ago

winchester

"'Blue Thunder', great helicopter film. They actually built it for the movie too. It flew like a brick!

Built it!!? F**k. And this is pre CGI, Hollywood was crazy in those days they must of had money to burn..

I mean they still do, but they're a bit more savy about how they spend it for blockbuster movies."

i worked on a film, rush was its name, and the money being spent was madness, amazed it made a profit, if it did, good film btw if you like car racing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"'Blue Thunder', great helicopter film. They actually built it for the movie too. It flew like a brick!

Built it!!? F**k. And this is pre CGI, Hollywood was crazy in those days they must of had money to burn..

I mean they still do, but they're a bit more savy about how they spend it for blockbuster movies."

It wasn't that hard. Took existing helicopters and did some bodywork, prop guns, dummy equipment etc. Although it looked like a mini Apache a lot of the gear in it was real. .....JAFO!..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bluethinder, everything behind the cockpit was a Gazelle but the cockpit was totally rebuilt so yeah it wouldn’t have been cheep but I don’t know if the ‘real’ Bluethunder was destroyed in the movie or if it was a mock up, common sense would say the real one would have been kept in case of a sequel movie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bluethinder, everything behind the cockpit was a Gazelle but the cockpit was totally rebuilt so yeah it wouldn’t have been cheep but I don’t know if the ‘real’ Bluethunder was destroyed in the movie or if it was a mock up, common sense would say the real one would have been kept in case of a sequel movie"

A mockup was destroyed. For a long time the front end of one, engine bays forward, was in private hands. It really looked the part. A lot of the flying sequences were RC Models....nerd alert

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Strangely enough me and a work mate where talking about old TV shows just the other day and neither of us could remember if it was Roy Schneider in the series

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Strangely enough me and a work mate where talking about old TV shows just the other day and neither of us could remember if it was Roy Schneider in the series "

Nope. I'd of remembered. They kept the copter, the brilliant theme tune, but not the man.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never watched the series. Would it ruin the film for me? I was flying Gazelles in the early 80's and bizarrely later flew in high-tech Police surveillance machines. No gatling gun though, dammit!....ours was called 'Blue Blunder'..

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

I used to love it. Where is it on now, or is it DVDs?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I used to love it. Where is it on now, or is it DVDs?"

You can get the whole series on DVD. I just watched a couple of youtube clips, but most of the flying was taken from the film, and the rest looks a bit cheesey, like Airwolf...

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By *inger_SnapWoman
over a year ago

Hampshire/Dorset

"Love Airwolf, anyone else remember macgyver?"

These were my faves, Knight rider, A team, Chips... So many!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to do a boat version of knight rider or air wolf. I was going to call it Fast Boat.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"I used to love it. Where is it on now, or is it DVDs?

You can get the whole series on DVD. I just watched a couple of youtube clips, but most of the flying was taken from the film, and the rest looks a bit cheesey, like Airwolf...

Thank you, I liked it but wouldn't buy the box set or anything.

I've got The Professionals and the Musketeers though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All the stars from the cast also long gone.

It was a great show. But to add to the roster of great shows from that era that has also been mentioned, surely The A Team has to be up there too!

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By *ittleMissCaliWoman
over a year ago

all loved up

I love airwolf x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I love airwolf x"

Bites tongue......so many chopper jokes..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Funny how my youthful mind papered over the obvious budgetary constraints in SFX quality for Airwolf, and others. Like the constant recycling of particular camera shots.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Funny how my youthful mind papered over the obvious budgetary constraints in SFX quality for Airwolf, and others. Like the constant recycling of particular camera shots."

I think that we now look back at a lot of our old favourite shows and films and think..'yeah, actually that was shit'..but it was so cool back then.

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

'Get to the chopper'

Oops - wrong one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Magnum P.I was class. Tom rocked the shit out of that tache.

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By *rab74Man
over a year ago

Huntingdon

As much as Airwolf looks cheesy today, it was a step ahead of the others back then. For all the rest, no-one was allowed to die. The A-Team never killed anyone ever, and Knight Rider mostly didn't either. As cool as some of the stunts were, it was still recognisably kid stuff.

Airwolf upped the stakes by being perfectly willing to blow the crap out of the bad guys and then beat on the wreckage until it bounced. And not only that, they regularly killed off friendlies too (even making it a thing that Hawke didn't want a girlfriend because they all got killed). You never ever felt that the A-Team or Michael Knight were really at risk, nor even the minor characters. For Airwolf, you honestly didn't know who was going to live to the end of the episode.

The Blue Thunder pilot film was definitely not aimed at kids though. There's an initial sequence of them using a surveillance helicopter to perv a pretty girl undressing, which is very much not PG!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loved all those shows! Especially the vehicle based ones - Airwolf, Knight rider, Street Hawk...

- Andy

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

"Magnum P.I was class. Tom rocked the shit out of that tache.

The new one is absolutely pants.

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By *ikesEmBigMan
over a year ago

Herts

I often do a Knight rider binge. I love that car

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.

Other shows

Magnum pi

Chips

The bionic woman

The fall guy

Wonder woman

Simon and Simon

Blue thunder

Street hawk

Highwayman

Battlesbridge galactic

Stingray

Siz billion dollar man

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By *akie32 OP Man
over a year ago

winchester

"Magnum P.I was class. Tom rocked the shit out of that tache.

The new one is absolutely pants.

didnt know there was a new one, old was bad enough lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.

Other shows

Magnum pi

Chips

The bionic woman

The fall guy

Wonder woman

Simon and Simon

Blue thunder

Street hawk

Highwayman

Battlesbridge galactic

Stingray

Siz billion dollar man

Wonder woman...Lynda Carter, man it did my heart no end of good seeing her cameo in Wonder woman '84

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By *ownwithafeatherMan
over a year ago

Watford

"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.

Other shows

Magnum pi

Chips

The bionic woman

The fall guy

Wonder woman

Simon and Simon

Blue thunder

Street hawk

Highwayman

Battlesbridge galactic

Stingray

Siz billion dollar man

Surely not many people remember Highwayman, that was a weird show! I used to watch it every Saturday night at around midnight

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.

Other shows

Magnum pi

Chips

The bionic woman

The fall guy

Wonder woman

Simon and Simon

Blue thunder

Street hawk

Highwayman

Battlesbridge galactic

Stingray

Siz billion dollar man

Surely not many people remember Highwayman, that was a weird show! I used to watch it every Saturday night at around midnight

Yep. Staring Mr Flash Gordon himself if I remember

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No one has mentioned MacGyver! That was awesome…

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.

Other shows

Magnum pi

Chips

The bionic woman

The fall guy

Wonder woman

Simon and Simon

Blue thunder

Street hawk

Highwayman

Battlesbridge galactic

Stingray

Siz billion dollar man

Surely not many people remember Highwayman, that was a weird show! I used to watch it every Saturday night at around midnight

Ya it was always on at a weird time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.

Other shows

Magnum pi

Chips

The bionic woman

The fall guy

Wonder woman

Simon and Simon

Blue thunder

Street hawk

Highwayman

Battlesbridge galactic

Stingray

Siz billion dollar man

Surely not many people remember Highwayman, that was a weird show! I used to watch it every Saturday night at around midnight

Yep. Staring Mr Flash Gordon himself if I remember"

Your right just looked that up, he was in Ted and Ted 2 also

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buck Rogers is being remade and supposedly so is Quantum Leap

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