I'm surprised I hadn't heard of Bloody Friday. Its not really Belfast specific, its about hate, though I know the areas [Cavehill Road/Antrim Road] 

7up

By far and away the most intriguing and important social studies of human life ... and one hell of an emotional journey

Nah Saint they all got through ok didn't they. I'm not one for mourning the Troubles but the sheer disregard for human life  on Bloody Friday

'Threads' was a great drama on the horror of nuclear war, that looked so likely back in the 80s,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg

Well you did ask what was the most important programme I had ever seen.

And that was the one.

Sure Saint I get it but the programme I said was something else

But you asked for our choice ya daft lump

I was gonna reply with this one, It affected me for a long time in my younger days, scary as hell it was 

 Are you looking for a fight?  Who you calling a daft lump Saint cos I'll give ya one  and I'm from Belfast so you'll remember it

Well I just wanted someone to watch this docu ...it seemed to sum up the troubles...

The programme I mentioned was heartbreaking by the way

* oH GOD I never realised how heartbreaking the troubles were*  Young kids blown to bits*

Far too upsetting - sorry, not for me.

The troubles have been well documeted whereas this social study 7up was utterly original and groundbreaking.

Try and catch it Rosie

I've seen it ya muppet... 

Its soft social history... 

WHO YOU CCALLING A MUPPET !!!

OHH nooo good call Saint  Animal is the coolest card to play

I woulda called up Beaker... but Animal,the drummer wins every time *damn you* *shakes fist*

*Isn't happY* leaves in a right   mood too 

Remeber The Big Breakfast?

Loved Paula Yates

Same here. My children were 7 and 4 and it made me seriously doubt why I had them because the future seemed so scary and sandbagging under the table didn't seem a realistic option.

With lies and and only a recent apology from the British government.

Ohh I was thinking of "Bloody Sunday" when civil right marchers were gunned down by the paras..

I can't really think of an "Important" show,yes many have made me think and be outraged etc.I think(me being older) was one on the Vietnam war,when that iconic image  of the child on fire with her skin hanging off  after a Napalm attack on her village by the Americans helped end the war.

Katty I also remember that image you posted, so horrific. A few years ago on a tv programme I saw the girl who had become a woman by then and she talked about that time. She had coped remarkably well and seemed happy.

Like you, over the years I've also seen many programmes that have left an imprint for many different reasons. One of my earliest was in my 20's I saw a documentary about the starving and dying of babies, children, women and men in Biafra. It was a very heavy and depressing programme witnessing so much suffering and so many deaths. At my age then I'd never witnessed anything so stark on tv and it really affected me. It prompted me to do voluntary work raising funds for a charity that was helping to supply food, water and medications. TV has a lot of fluffy stuff at times but every now and again there's a programme that can raise awareness in us, and I still come across programmes that do that for me, whatever the subject.

There was also an image of a captured Viet Cong being shot in the side of his head (executed) by   a soldier.The image was horrific as blood gushed out as he was falling,this was on a documentary show whilst the Vietnam war was ongoing.I don't think they show images like that now ,maybe they should,the news is sanitised now.

That image stays with me now as man's inhumanity to man.

Katty when I was replying earlier I also had memory of the pic that was in the papers that you're talking about. The pic as I remember was a close up one and I saw the terror in his face and felt utterly sick and had to quickly turn the page as mentally I couldn't deal with his fear, I still remember that pic vividly though. You're right, man is still inhumane to others, ths is a sick planet at times.

Maybe we should leave the planet to the animals .I  think they would make a better job than us..sadly.

If animals kill it's usually for survival of them or their species, they know no different. When humans do it it's for other reasons, it's either personal or political. Humans should know different, but far too many don't.

Everyone has their own favourite I suppose. The most eventful TV prog for us took place on the night of 3.5.79. In those days people were interested in politics and we used to get a load of booze in and take turns at each other's houses and watch the general election result. With a sense of impending doom we left the pub and headed to one of my friend's gaff.

As the results came in people began to cry at the realisation of the coming disaster which let's face it still affects us.

Proceedings were not helped by someone (a friend of a friend?) who turned up with a preparation we now know to have been hash oil. To cut along story short, the house had two bathrooms and they were fully occupied by people throwing up and/or having "loose bowel movements!" I haven't touched anything like that since.

A happier memory is that the deputy Tories, or Liberals as they were then could only manage 11 seats.

Interesting comments about Threads, it scared the willies out of me at the time.  Must have been around 1983, a few years after Russian invasion of Afghanistan and Reagan was getting all gung-ho with his "Star Wars" program.

There were no signs of Russian reform of communism in those days and it really did look like nuclear war was likely within the next ten years.  It did honestly kept me awake some nights.

cathy come home

I was too young to know better but I was quite pleased when she won.  I absorbed the satire of the time of BL workers sitting on the toilet all day doing the Sun crossword in between calling strikes.  I thought Labour were ineffectual idiots dragging the country to wrack and ruin and the unions did need their arses kicked.  "Let the managers manage!" she said.  It seemed sensible to me, the unions had turned us into "The Sick Man of Europe".  I was way too young to really understand how evil and vindictive she was.    Good job I couldn't vote in those days, as I'd have voted for her!

it was indeed a scary time, It used to keep me awake some nights as well.. 

Anyone remember a prog - was drama but passed off as a seance documentary.

It came in for a lot of critism - a young man with mental illness committed suicide after watching it cos he thought it was real.

Did it have Anthea Turner in it?

The Threads film was made in sheffield, so was particularly "real" for me, it began with problems in middle east and escalated from there, i used to worry everytime something was mentioned  about the  middle east on the news.......

Dunno.

Maybe the wall coming down.

Velvet have you got a new name

Ohhh - that looks like my avi gone evil, Rox

Roots. I saw it on video a few years after it was broadcast. It made me all motivated and political.