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All posts tagged "1986"
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8.8K1TV: D is for...Domesday Detectives, The
PAUL COIA hosted this lunchtime quiz effort based on pointlessly elaborate mid-80s Beeb project to celebrate the 900th anniversary of The Domesday...
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8.8K9TV: N is for...Naked Video
SCOTTISH COMEDY export leavened with two southerners when transferring from radio to TV.
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9.3K6TV: E is for...Every Second Counts
THE SECOND, and undoubtedly the greatest, instalment of PAUL DANIELS's great Beeb game show trilogy (alongside ODD ONE OUT and WIPEOUT), this...
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7.4K9TV: D is for...Dear John
THE LATE, great RALPH BATES was the eponymous hero, dumped via mantlepiece-mounted letter by his wife and forced to take solace in...
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7.2K5TV: V is for...
Very Peculiar Practice, A
UNIVERSITY OF Lowlands higher edutainment with PETER "COME ALONG, TEGAN" DAVIDSON
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4.7K2TV: O is for...
Other Side of Midnight, The
IT WAS the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
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5.9K8TV: L is for...
Lovejoy
THE gentle swish of a watercolour paintbrush, the chiming tinkle of an endlessly hummable signature tune
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23.0K26TV: N is for...Neighbours
EVERYBODY NEEDS good ones.
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15.9K1TV: O is for...
Open Air
YOU'RE OFF school - again - with an upset tummy.
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7.4K6TV: D is for...
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
WILLY FOG might have been testing the limits of literary credibility somewhat
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3.8K3TV: T is for...
TTV
T! T! V! Teatime Television!
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4.0K1TV: T is for...Two of Us, The
SCHMALTZY, SICKLY-SWEET, totally-80s lifecom
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2.4K1TV: T is for...
Thunderbirds 2086
UP IN ARMS bastardisation of the Gerry Anderson stringathon
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4.3K3TV: G is for...
Get Fresh
PHIL CORNWELL to Aswad: "Skin up, drummie!"
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2.9K1TV: M is for...
Moonlighting
DOWN-ON-LUCK MODEL (CYBILL SHEPHERD) "discovers" she owns a detective agency run by bigmouth BRUCE WILLIS and decides to join in the sleuthing....
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3.3K2TV: M is for...
Monocled Mutineer, The
DAILY MAIL-BOTHERING armchair general-alarming Beeb-bashing yarn
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3.4K1TV: H is for...
Hot Metal
"PAPER! NEWS, NEWS! Paper! News, News!"
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4.5K2TV: F is for...
Five to Eleven
"AS I SAT at my small kitchen table this morning, a thought formed in my mind: what price the peace of one...
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3.4K1TV: W is for...
Who’s the Greatest?
BRIAN "IT'S IN THERE!" MOORE fronted this self-explanatory yet ultimately disposable celebrity-endorsed battle of the sporting greats.
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4.8K5TV: W is for...
Wilderness Road
SLIGHTLY SURREAL yet totally unfunny sitcom starring ROBIN DRISCOLL and DAVID SIBLEY as two losers who spent all their time in a...
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3.0K3TV: W is for...
Wizbit
"TIME CAME to grow a bit, grow a bit, grow a bit."
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2.8KTV: W is for...
We’ll Think of Something
UNSYMPATHETICALLY SLOW sitcom from the light channel
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3.9K1TV: H is for...
Hunter
Yes, it's the bog standard (the operative word there being "yes") Tough Dirty Harry Cop Partners Female Cop routine.
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3.8K3TV: H is for...
Help!
IFFY SCOUSE povertycom which earned its spurs by dint of not being BREAD.
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6.1K10TV: H is for...
Helping Henry
BAFFLING EARLY C4 kids show (weren't they all?)
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2.7KTV: W is for...
Wondermaths
PRIMARY SCHOOL afternoon maths frolics with Plymouth's finest CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP
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3.4KTV: D is for...
Digance at Work
A CONTRADICTION in terms, surely?
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2.8KTV: F is for...
Farrington of the F.O.
AVERAGE AMBASSADORCOM with ANGELA "MR TYLER!" THORNE as the eponymous Foreign Office consul
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2.8KTV: J is for...
Jigsaw (II)
NOWT TO do with the above
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3.2KTV: J is for...
Juice
BBC2 'POP' MUSIC extravaganza helmed by MAGENTA DEVINE
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4.9KTV: J is for...
Jossy’s Giants
JUMPERS-FOR-GOALPOSTS JAPERY
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3.5KTV: O is for...
One Game, The
MIDWEEK MELODRAMA about a whiskery bloke who sets up a company designing Dungeons And Dragons games.
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3.6K2TV: L is for...
Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The
LIGHTHOUSE-BESIEGING, SURGERY-BAITING, Dr Who-shagging, wart-wielding epic
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2.6KTV: L is for...
Laughs from Her Majesty’s
WE'D WELCOME THEM.
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3.7KTV: L is for...
Langley Bottom
THE SAINTED BERNARD CRIBBINS took the reins for this short-lived rural rumpus
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3.0KTV: I is for...
It’s Your Move
POST-WOGAN WHIMSY with made-to-measure wiseguy kid
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3.3KTV: I is for...
It’s My Pleasure
DES LYNAM extended the eponymous salutation to a parade of rum and rusty small screen relics
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4.7K5TV: V is for...
Valerie
BOTTOM HOLE arse-for-the-money drabcom.
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3.4KTV: A is for...
All at Number 20
Maureen Lipman is back.
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3.5K1TV: A is for...
ALF
NONE MORE 80s puppet sitcom with eponymous "Alien Life Form"
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