John Bird – TV Cream

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It's Saturday Night

52. A Shrivelled Little Thing

Bob Monkhouse found his niche at the BBC in 1984, but he was not the only one to attain a sense of...

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It's Saturday Night

16. Killing the Golden Goose

“The nation talked about it,” says Boyd of Game For A Laugh. “’Did you see that daft story?’” “We did three series, then...

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TV: V is for...

Very Peculiar Practice, A

UNIVERSITY OF Lowlands higher edutainment with PETER "COME ALONG, TEGAN" DAVIDSON

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TV: E is for...

Educating Marmalade

Future telly drama overlord ANDREW DAVIES was responsible for unleashing The Worst Girl in the World on an unsuspecting public.

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TV: J is for...

Jane

Misguided schedule filling attempt to combine wartime nostalgia with nascent video technology which probably doesn't figure too prominently on GLYNIS BARBER's CV.

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TV: B is for...

BBC Television Shakespeare, The

HERE WAS a prime cut of your actual Public Service Broadcasting with a capital "p", illuminated in red with a filigreed gold...

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Films: T is for...

This, That And The Other!

Granted, this delirious product of the long-running Stanley Long-Derek Ford partnership is unlikely to owe its disjointed, spaced-out nature to close semiotic...

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Films: B is for...

Best House in London, The

Would you get Philip Saville in to direct a Denis Norden script about whoring? Philip ‘Both versions of Sir Gawain and the...

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Radio 4: The Programmes

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

IMPROV-HEAVY panel game whose legacy has far outweighed its paltry six-episode tally.

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Play For Today

Falklands Factor, The

By Don Shaw. The Play for Today slot had largely kept away from historical drama, but the reasons for this production going...

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Play For Today

Walk in the Forest, A

By Jeremy Paul. John Alderton is a writer who befriends a dissident from the USSR. With John Bird and Paul Freeman

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Play For Today

Last Window Cleaner, The

By Ron Hutchinson. Detective Constable Ken Campbell is transferred to Belfast, taking digs in a run-down boarding house called The Crumlin View,...

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Play For Today

Blue Remembered Hills

A wartime countryside idyll (closely modelled, of course, on Dennis Potter’s Forest of Dean domain) is populated by seven-year-old children playing in...

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TV: J is for...