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All posts tagged "Millions of other bloody people"
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8.1K13TV: W is for...Wogan
LIVE FROM the verdant pastures of Shepherd's Bush Green
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7.2K3TV: Q is for...Question of Sport, A
"SPORTING WIT AND BADINAGE", as Ceefax often had it
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7.3K16TV: M is for...Morecambe and Wise Show, The
FORGET RUNNING WILD, their hopeless first foray into television during the 50s.
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5.2K7TV: C is for...Comic Relief
LAUNCHED ON Christmas Day 1985 by NOEL EDMONDS
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5.3K3TV: U is for...
Upstairs, Downstairs
THE IMPERIAL Leather of costume soap combining the best and worst of rich people and their servants with lots of dressing up
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30.3K40TV: L is for...Last of the Summer Wine
OH LOOK, Compo tries to catch a glimpse of Nora Batty's night attire and then ends up in a bath on wheels...
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7.8K9TV: J is for...
Jesus of Nazareth
GOSPEL ACCORDING To Lord Lew.
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22.1K43TV: A is for...
‘Allo ‘Allo!
THAT EXCLAMATION mark says it all.
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10.4K16TV: L is for...
Late Late Breakfast Show, The
BOMBASTIC TEATIME behemoth which sprawled across half a decade
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6.1K7TV: C is for...
Children in Need
ANNUAL TIN-RATTLE from Television Centre
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6.9K9TV: Y is for...
You Rang, M’Lord?
YET ANOTHER load of You Have Been Watching lummoxery from David Croft
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5.9K19TV: M is for...
Murder, She Wrote
TEA-AND-SLIPPERS SLEUTHERY, best taken over doilies and Darjeeling, if not Lucozade and egg soldiers.
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7.7K21TV: I is for...
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
SIMPERING SITCOMMERY involving a single studio set standing in for the entire British World War Two Indian subcontinent campaign and two million...
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9.8KTV: G is for...
Good Morning Britain
Main, indeed for a time only, plank in ITV's half-built semi-bodged creaking edifice of a breakfast television service
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3.2K2Films: P is for...Pink Panther Strikes Again, The
Mid-period mad scientist slapstick of Sellers vs. Lom – stand by to tick off Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Leonard Rossiter, Richard ‘Slartibartfast’...
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2.4KFilms: O is for...
Out of the Clouds
One of the late-period Ealing drama series to cover a particular location or institution ( e.g. The Square Ring – boxing, Pool...
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2.9K2Films: I is for...
Inchon
Whether or not the Reverend Sun Myung Moon was told by Jesus to fund an epic retelling of this pivotal moment in...
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2.3KFilms: H is for...
Human Factor, The
One of those actors we love even though we’re never sure whether they’re actually being any good or not, Nicol ‘Seven Percent’...
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2.4KFilms: D is for...
Day to Remember, A
Stanley Holloway leads a darts team on a trip to Boulogne. Basically another of those ‘Brits abroad’ ensemble comedies like San Ferry...
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2.1KFilms: C is for...
Curse of the Pink Panther
Gawd. Now there are no more clips to raid, Edwards finds he has to think fast (the simpler option of just not...
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5.8K1TV: E is for...
Elizabeth R
GLENDA JACKSON shaves her head, wears a beak and paints her face white in order to rule England for 60 years.
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13.0K10TV: I is for...
I, Claudius
Premium pulling-out-the-stops affair courtesy of a benevolent Beeb looking for something to celebrate 40 years of telly.
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5.9K3TV: C is for...
Crown Court
ONE OF YOUR MORE credible off-school-with-the-Lucozade viewing options.
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9.8KTV: P is for...
Play School
"A HOUSE. With a door! Windows, 1, 2, 3, 4."
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7.5K7TV: T is for...This is Your Life
ORIGINALLY HOSTED by television's most ill-at-ease presenter
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6.5KTV: B is for...Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night
Brucie follows Morecambe and Wise to ITV
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6.9K2TV: P is for...
Play Away
CAMP SONGS and stories for the under-12s
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9.6K8TV: G is for...Give us a Clue
The ultimate in parlour game riddle-me-ree telly
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6.8K11TV: M is for...Muppet Show, The
MULTI-AWARD WINNING gloves-with-eyes
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2.8KTV: P is for...
Peyton Place
STUBBORN SCHEDULE whelk.
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14.4K29TV: T is for...
That’s Life!
AS NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS had it: "Bleeding bloody ESTHER bleeding bloody effing bloody RANTZEN bloody woman."
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6.3K3TV: B is for...Bob Monkhouse Show, The
Our man welcomes to BBC2 those viewers bored of Panorama and World In Action on the other side.
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7.1K14TV: B is for...Blue Peter
"AND I think I can just hear the sound of the Chalk Farm Salvation Army brass band coming up the hill..."
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4.3KTV: B is for...
Bilko/The Phil Silvers Show/You’ll Never Get Rich
"PLAAA-TOOOON, HIYAAAAH-HA!!"
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3.3K4TV: C is for...
Comedians, The
KEEPING THE OLD SCHOOL of British comedy in pocket for the best part of decade was this does-what-it-says stand-upathon
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7.4K12TV: P is for...
Parkinson
ONCE UPON a long ago, this was the finest chat show of them all
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5.9K3TV: J is for...Jackanory
RAMSHACKLE READING-IS-FUN RELIC.
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2.4KTV: L is for...
Lord Mayor’s Show, The
ANNUAL INTERRUPTION to your favourite (or Live And Kicking) Saturday morning entertainment.
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4.8K11TV: L is for...
Love Boat, The
LOVE, EXCITING and new. Come on board.
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3.1K4TV: M is for...
Miss Marple
SPRIGHTLY SPINSTER gets invited to a weekend in the country
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7.1K10TV: C is for...Crossroads
"ROMANCE WAS IN THE AIR at King's Oak."
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3.9K2TV: F is for...
Falcon Crest
PREPOSTEROUS VINEYARD vagaries courtesy of shameless DALLAS rip off relocated to Napa, er, Tuscany Valley.
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10.8K11TV: H is for...
Hi-De-Hi!
XYLOPHONE-WIELDING THREE-NOTE monster
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2.8KTV: F is for...
Forsyte Saga, The
GENEALOGICAL GALLOP courtesy of (at the time) the Beeb's most expensive production ever.
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2.9KTV: N is for...
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
FROSTIE'S SECOND coming after the Beeb axed TW3.
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2.8K1TV: O is for...
One Step Beyond
ESP-BASED SELF-CONTAINED yarns with people travelling back to Krakatoa or the holocaust and forward into the future by means of juddery-camera visions.
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2.8KTV: O is for...
Onedin Line, The
TITANIC NAUTICAL saga which steamed through BBC1 Sunday nights for nigh on a decade.
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3.7KTV: O is for...
One Day in the Life of Television
THE BRITISH Film Institute's attempt to get a snapshot of What We Watch, and an absolutely stunning one at that.
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3.8KTV: E is for...
Edward the Seventh
NOT THE same Eddie as him above; rather his dad, and Queen Victoria's replacement.
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6.3K10TV: Q is for...
Q5/Q6/Q7 etc.
MILLIGAN MULLARKEY which bemused most (including the Beeb) but delighted enough to keep it being recommissioned despite the same things showing up...
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