I can vaguely remember it.... and have been looking forward to this.   We' re not allowed it up here - we have to have crap 'home grown' drama, so I'm recording it from English ITV.

I loved it Soozy. Frank Finlay was outstanding. I didn`t know it was on tonight. Thanks for that.

It's not on STV Scotty - you need to look for English ITV.

Oh. Kaffy, where do I find English ITV?

A bit before my time, but I remember my older brothers ans sisters saying the daughter and father's relationship was well dodgy, and there was loads of bonking in it.

It was controversial and extremely good first time around.  I doubt it will as good this time.

Thanks Soozy, I've set the V+ to record ITV (England).
In Scotland, they are showing a programme about Wormwood Scrubs.

Yogi, where is ITV England? ta x

I'm with Virgin, Scotty and it's on Channel 853.

I watched it and loved it

Me too Scotty - it says in very small print in the TV Times what channel its on on other services.   I'll look when I get home if you've not found it by then!

Me too Yogi. Found it...thankyoooo! I never knew that channel was there.

Got it Kaffy. Thankyou.

Sick of STV and the rubbish we have to endure. Why do we need to see a documentary on Wormwood Scrubs pray tell

I'll probably watch it this evening, but I think that some classic series really shouldn't be remade, and this is a prime example.  I thought it was one of the most outstanding series of its time; I've seen it several times over the years when it's been repeated, and it didn't seem to be really outdated.  Iwould be very surprised if the remake could be anywhere near as good as the original.

I know.. I went all 'Angry from Fife' on them once and emailed them.. they took off Lewis, Doc Martin, The Fixer to name but a few - the reply I got was that they feel the Scottish audience would prefer more 'home grown' talent and dramas (eerr... hello... Wormwood Scrubs?) which I took to mean - cheap telly.  Oh... and they think we want more Gaelic programmes.   Anyone know what percentage of the population up here actually SPEAK Gaelic?

Agree with you there Growly.

According to the BBC website, there are less than 60,000 Gaelic speakers in Scotland.

I emailed them too Kaffy , when i sat down to watch the new Lewis and i think we got something about hills and glens, then we didnt get the new Benidorm ...i went into a fit, got the same email back as you. I told them STV should stand for Stuff The Viewers !!

Well I hope they bloody appreciate what they've done to my telly!     Thanks heavens for cable.

I only found it recently, thanks to someone on here.

I remember getting busted for watching this - not that I really understood what it was all about as I was far too young, but we were forbidden to watch it so that made it a  challenge   I was always fascinated by Frank Finlay and decided if I ever had children I'd call my daughter Prue after her 


the things you do as kids 

i watched it first time round..........and had an immense schoolgirl crush on james aubrey who played gavin..........thought i'd find out what he's up to now.......and discovered he died in april this year.................was a brilliant series and i'm looking forward to watching the remake.......

aaaaaaaaaaand.......my lil claim to fame........i knew the twin boys who played the twins in the original series......they went to the same dancing school as me..........paul and jeremy stacey...........so i had a nosey at what they were up to..........they were in 'the lemon trees'(some group i'd never heard of!) and paul has apparently played guitar with oasis and madonna and god knows who else ......and has produced an album for some group which is top 5 in the states........

i'm thinking of tracking him down now he's rich ...and suing him for treading on my toes so much whilst cha cha chaing all those years ago...........

Yes I'm a little afraid of that.

i'm quite glad that I've never seen it since it was first aired - I'm hoping i'll be able to appreciate it without comparing too much.

I bought the CD collection for my sisters birthday a few years ago. She spent a lovely weekend snuggled up with goodies whilst it was knee high deep in snow outside. I love weekends like that.

Incidentally there was also a drama that was on TV around the same time called 'Helen a Woman of Today' as I remember that was quite controversial too - i think it would be considered quite tame now.

anyone remember that one.

That rings a bell with me

Oh bejesus My son just left the room with a big red face.  
Trevor Eves. Perfect casting. He`s a sleazy rat. I love him.

l'm taping it Scotty so will watch it tomorrow.  I love Trevor Eve!

I loved it!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ..............if you want a bit of time out from the lids just put something involving sex on the telly!

It's not really working for me TBH. In the early seventies if you were pregnant you more or less had to get married .....also the mobile phones etc.

I'd have rather it was set in it's original time ......................it's not quite right as far as I'm concerned!

I very vaguely remember it ..... mr manson ..... prue and gavin

wasn't everyone sleeping with everyone elses husband or something like that ?

Drat, i wanted to watch this, and missed it...

I think this is really disappointing. 

I was too young first time round and this lot are watching that gap year thing so I've no chance of getting the remote...have seen clips of it on documentaries and stuff, strikes me as something that has to be acted just "so" to get the story across properly.