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All posts tagged "Northern streets looking purposefully Northern"
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3.5K1Cream over BritainSign of the (disappearing) times
Sad news from our Northern desk: one of the country's most iconic bits of telly signage has been "retired". Yup, the giant...
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10.6K15TV: A is for...Albion Market
IT HAD a fantastic theme tune, if you watched closely sometimes you could see the back of Granada's studios, and DAVID "SCIENCE...
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8.4K13TV: C is for...Coronation Street
FROM AN IDEA BY Tony Warren.
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5.7KTV: O is for...Open All Hours
TIGHT-ARSED STUTTERING grocercom
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2.6KIndependent ProducersMANCUNIAN FILM CORPORATION
Not all British films were produced in the Home Counties. Even by the standards of most of the companies listed here, Mancunian...
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4.9K10Films: G is for...
Get Carter
The grimmest, bleakest, and most often misquoted Caine film of the lot gets a look-in for its peerless use of locations as...
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11.5K14TV: B is for...
Bread
THUNDEROUSLY WORTHLESS Scouse shitecom
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4.9K1TV: I is for...
In Loving Memory
THORA HIRD, as usual playing herself, is an undertaker in a bluff, gruff, "take me as you find me" Lancashire funeral firm...
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2.4KPlay For TodayEngland’s Green and Pleasant Land
By Rita May. A mini-Watergate scandal erupts before local elections in south Yorkshire when a motorway extension is slated to be built...
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10.9K1Play For Today
Black Stuff, The
In the late-’70s Liverpool of fast-rising unemployment, a gang of tar layers strike out in an old transit for a job laying...
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5.7KPlay For Today
Our Day Out
This Willy Russell musical ensemble piece isn’t usually counted as a ‘true’ Play for Today because it wasn’t billed as such, but...
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9.3K12TV: N is for...
Nearest and Dearest
GRANADA'S BIGGEST-SELLING situation comedy.
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2.8KPlay For Today
Sunset Across the Bay
Alan Bennett makes his first contribution to Play for Today with some autobiographical sketches of the fag end of family life. ‘Mam’...
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4.6KPlay For Today
Kisses at Fifty
Bill Maynard has it away
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6.2K2TV: R is for...
Rocky O’Rourke
GROTTY KIDS grimeathon serial
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4.5KTV: P is for...
Pickersgill People
WHIMSICAL DRAMA by MIKE STOTT set in and around a fictional Lancashire town.
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4.4K2TV: B is for...
Bit of a Do, A
WELL-REMEMBERED RETINUE of dramatised revelries
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4.4KTV: B is for...
Brass
TOP RANK DEMENTED Lancashire-set era-spanning lampoon-sitcom
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3.3K2TV: B is for...
Boys from the Blackstuff
"SHAKE 'ANDS!"
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2.9KTV: B is for...
Brothers MacGregor, The
ABSOLUTE POLAR opposite of BREAD
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6.1K5TV: B is for...Brookside
RIGHT, FORGET ALL THE BOLLOCKS post-1990.
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2.9KTV: B is for...
Billy Liar
KEITH "HAPPY APPLE" WATERHOUSE adapted his own novel for this sitcom
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3.0KTV: T is for...
That’s Your Funeral
MUCH LIKE the vogue for programmes beginning with a fulsome TAKE (see above), so programmes opening business with a terse THAT'S are...
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3.0KTV: M is for...
Middlemen
SIX SERVINGS of ALAN PLATER.
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2.9KTV: M is for...
Maggie
CHIPPER CHICANERY from north of the border
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3.2KTV: D is for...
Dustbinmen, The
PROTO-ON THE BUSES rubbish (literally) comedy
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5.5K5TV: H is for...
How We Used To Live
A Yorkshire schools' morning stalwart.
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3.9K3TV: H is for...
Help!
IFFY SCOUSE povertycom which earned its spurs by dint of not being BREAD.
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3.3K2TV: S is for...
Scully
ALAN BLEASDALE etched these BLACKSTUFF-lite tales of the eponymous Scouse kid (ANDREW SCHOFIELD) kicking in phone boxes and failing a trial for...
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3.0K1TV: S is for...
Strangers
THE RETURN of the inhaler-wielding, glove-toting, Shakespeare-spouting fop DCI George Bulman, still played by DON HENDERSON.
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