FROM THE BOTTOM of Will and Joe's filing cabinet came this offering.
LIFE SWAP endeavour for kids.
ONE JOKE officecom.
TWO MIDDLE-AGED middle class middle Englanders...with mirth in mind!
MOANING YORKSHIRE clan the Brandons.
FORGOTTEN INHERITANCECOM with JENNIFER SAUNDERS as ageing dame.
THIS IS the entry for the long-running American sitcom HAPPY DAYS (CUE DEAFENING AUDIENCE APPLAUSE AND WHOOPING WHICH GOES ON FOR FIVE...
SEEMS LIKE LESLIE ASH spent an entire decade appearing in obscure shows.
TOMMY STEELE theme song heralded less-than-welcome appearance of Carpenters-style singing/acoustic guitar duo.
ON-ITS-LAST-LEGS FINAL throw of the dice for the fine folk at Hammer.
GERALD HARPER stalks the moors as eponymous lairy lord of the manor, before contriving to hitch up with HILARY DWYER and, well,...
CURIOUS CHROMAKEYFEST centring on a couple of tiny aliens
NOT MUCH to recommend this post-FROGGITT BILL MAYNARD trundler.
PROFESSIONAL RED and sirer of luvvies LYNN REDGRAVE took centrestage in this Guardian-derived sitcom
"FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION Coaching, Tactics and Skills" is what it stood for.
REDOUBTABLE CROTCHET'N'QUAVER quizzery.
THE PREMISE: in 2074, we're all going to be idle proles.
JUST HOW DID all those tribes of native American Indians live so peacefully alongside the bluff lovable old coves of the 19th...
BROWBEATINGLY PLAY-IT-SAFE dramatisation done on crappy videotape of hush-hush liaison between King Edward VIII (EDWARD FOX) and - oh no! - divorced...
In brief, "A rich Texan family faces all kinds of trouble."
Typically woeful attempt at pop-fest by junior C4
BLUSTERING PERIOD ROMP based on school library staple.
PRE-STARDOM BURT REYNOLDS uses nosey gossip to track down filth in Santa Luisa, California.
JUNGLE QUACKERY in the Wameru Study Centre.
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PAPER puppetry.
EARLY VEHICLE for CLIVE "GRANDAD" DUNN.
WELL, WHO wouldn't?
ONE OF those American imports that lit up the dark recesses of late night ITV
"AH, WOULD THAT IT WERE."
ANGLO/ANTIPODEAN CO-PRODUCTION, trotted out in that tantalising post-9pm-news not-too-adult-but-worth-staying-up-for-all-the-same slot.
The handiwork of the seemingly ageless (and charisma-less) NIGEL REES.
EARLY RUN-OUT for renaissance man and "handsome chap" JOHNNY BALL.
MORE OBSCURO-MATION.
CAPRICIOUS CAPERS from HELEN "LIZZIE DRIPPING" CRESWELL concerning a family of middle class loons with a penchant for weirdness, paranormal events and...
ANOTHER OF those cartoon double-bill "sandwiches" that spread like, indeed, nits during the 1970s.
"CAIRO? CAIRO? One. One! One way! Yes, just one. One way!"
SINGLE-HANDEDLY KEPT ITV in business in the early 70s
VAPOURS-IN-THE-VESTRY PALAVER fronted by DEREK NIMMO, here beginning long service as TV's resident clerical buffoon.
TOUTED AS ITV's premier chat bunker
MILD-MANNERED MENAGERIE of human foes masquerading as zany zoo awareness initiative that went the way of, well, zoos.
MEDICAL MARATHON.
About 14 or 15 years ago, Kevin Greening did a thing while standing in for Danny Baker on Saturday morning Radio 1....
ACE TEATIME CBBC fare documenting the exploits of one Brian Arthur Derek Boyes.
HOW TO fill half an hour of early evening Channel 4 telly quickly and cheaply.
THE HAIRY cornflake himself, DAVE LEE TRAVIS, presented this timely one-off anthology of hoaxes and ruses for kids.
DOTTY SCI-FI guru and thing inventor introduced this "crazy world" series.
WITTILY TITLED Sunday morning sub-continent news magazine.
MUDDY REWORKING of sprawling Arthurian swordsplay with OLIVER TOBIAS as The Nation's Hero.
FUCKING ODD (and slightly laughable) pretentio-fest 'bout - yes, it's the eighties - an apocalyptic war
ABOVE AVERAGE ISLE of Wight euromance
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