Wednesday, 26th January 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 6.45pm DOCTOR WHO BBC1 The final part of ‘Snakedance’ (co-starring Martin Clunes as Future...
While OTT was attracting terrible column inches, the BBC had its own Saturday night disaster to contend with. Sin on Saturday was...
MUSTY MAN ALIVERY with a doff of a whimsy-sized hat to ABOUT BRITAIN.
CHIRPY APOCALYPSE CAPERS
Wednesday, 16th January 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm WATERFRONT BEAT, BBC1 Third episode in the second (and final) series of Phil...
Central Television’s OTT was on the search for new, cutting-edge talent to augment the team of Tarrant, Gorman, Henry and Carolgees. Chris Tarrant came...
Wednesday, 11th January 1967 PICK OF THE DAY 9.05pm CATHY COME HOME, BBC1 “‘SPOT THE BOOBS’ CALL OVER A TV PLAY” –...
The success of Game For A Laugh and the corresponding demise of The Generation Game meant that, by the start of 1982, the BBC...
Yes, we’ve made it through another year, which all and sundry have called the worst ever, but which one hasn’t been recently,...
Wednesday, 8th January 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 5.35pm FIRST CLASS, BBC1 BBC Scotland upgrade to the network with the second series...
With the exception of Game For A Laugh, television producers struggled to come up with any major Saturday night hits during 1981....
Sid Roberson (15/03/1937 – 22/12/2016, reported January), award winning advert director, also directed the Sweeney and Fast Show Larry Steinbachek (06/50/1960 –...
Friday, 26th December 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 6.45pm BLANKETY BLANK, BBC1 From start to finish, it was a brilliant Boxing Night...
“He faces his past to decide his future” It always happens at Christmas – you end up seeing people you haven’t for...
This week’s categories: Newtown becomes Oldtown, Where do I go from here?, Goodnight grapple fans, A brimful of Asher, Telemachus, my son, you...
It’ll Be Alright on the Night producer Paul Smith took the decision to introduce the format to American television, and while in the United...
Friday, 24th December 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 8.40pm CHRISTMAS WITH TERRY AND JUNE, BBC1 Featuring our heroes on baubles in the...
Hullo again! And we’re back with the second half of your Christmas Creamguide. Actually, such is the way the dates fall this...
Call The Midwife? By all means Call The Midwife. Open All Hours? Okay. But what about all the other deserving shows over...
Merry Christmas! And welcome to, heavens, the eighteenth annual Christmas Creamguide where once again we collate all that’s worth watching and listening...
Yes, it’s that time again – when everyone starts going on about the big-hitting Christmas specials of yesteryear. That episode where your...
This week’s categories: Break out the Quality Street, Have a cracking Christmas, Jollier than When the Wind Blows, A turntable and some Xmas...
This Christmas, we join Ian and Graham, who despite rejecting (and, in at least one case, being instrumental in having banned) the...
The massive popularity of LWT’s It’ll Be Alright on the Night can’t have provided much encouragement to old school directors like Richard...
What might a perfect Christmas Day’s viewing look like? Well, we found an old VHS which contains that very info. Hence the...
Friday, 18th December 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm VICTORIA WOOD: AS SEEN ON TV SPECIAL, BBC2 “This special is a temporary...
Our final festive furlong, and we’ve thrown everything in here. Lots of different comics and mags from the Cream era. Merry Christmas,...
FOR NINE CHRISTMASES between 1974 and 1982, the All-Star spin-off from THE RECORD BREAKERS was the glittering festive showpiece of the BBC Children’s...
The Cream era Dandy covers, charting Korky’s falling stock, the demise of Nutty and Hoot, and Dan’s preference for cow pies. TOMORROW:...
ORDINARY BLOKE (GLYN OWEN) gets coerced into working for sinister baldy with steel-rimmed specs (PHILIP STONE) whose boss is GERALD "KAMELION" FLOOD.
We’ll leave it to you to imagine the back covers that resolved many of the incidents depicted here… TOMORROW: THE DANDY!
UNREMITTINGLY GRIM this-is-real-life-so-you-better-get-used-to-it strand
"OOH AMY!" "Oh David!"
Following the sad news of Keith Chegwin permanently ‘checking out’, we revisit the highs and lows of his career on camera. OPEN...
Onward, and this time it’s a look at new Eagle. Acknowledgements, meanwhile, to Comic Vine website, from where these sprung. Scroll down...
This week’s categories: Never bet on Yorkshire Television, No one’s having a party, Car crash TV, They made a real gaffe(r), An utter...
“I’m sick and tired of those same old prizes,” bemoans Peter Holmans. “We’ve got to think of something new”. Self-criticism and angst...
Time for the shutters to arise at our Christmas-only newsagents. And we begin this year’s run of festive frontages by looking at...
Friday, 12th December 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 5.35pm MASTERTEAM, BBC1 Let’s play! It’s the quarter-finals of the teatime pub quiz-team Olympiad,...
This week’s categories: The BRMM years, The Blair years, The exercise book years, The definitely set in London years, The game over years
“The nation talked about it,” says Boyd of Game For A Laugh. “’Did you see that daft story?’” “We did three series, then...
Friday, 4th December 1992 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm DOCTOR WHO, BBC2 Back in the 1990s, you had to get your Who...
This week’s categories: My gas bill, Wallied!, This week’s addicts: porn & gambling, Hiding inside his own logo, Wheear’ast that bin sin’ ah...
“Nothing on television so exercises the critics as the game shows,” wrote Laurie Taylor and Bob Mullan in their book Uninvited Guests: Intimate Secrets...
Friday, 24th November 1963 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm THE PRISONER, ITV With Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons also lording it over...
It’s arguably an association that wouldn’t have pleased James Anthony Coburn, but he will always be connected to Doctor Who. Fifty-four years...
This week’s categories: Quite another sort of yard, Arse-biting dalekry, Time and the Varney, Acceptable in the 80s, Who knows? Who nose!
“Those of us who watched (Game For A Laugh) for the first time, did so in slightly gob-smacked admiration,” says David Docherty,...
Diamond and Williams (and Kibble-White) have been assigned. Yes our very own triumverate of transuranic heavy elements who may not be amused...
Friday, 19th November 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm DEMOB, ITV Hyped up as the next big hit comedy drama that wasn’t...
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