ONE GREAT big monster of a weekday afternoon craftfest.
NIGHTMARE-INDUCING PRODUCTION, shown to kids in school assemblies to learn them of the dangers of arseing about with dangerous farming equipment.
AUSTRALIAN EPIC re-telling sterling Oz exploits in World War One.
WEIRD AS you like JOHN JUNKIN-fronted celebrity panel game, in the time-honoured weekday 5:15 ITV mould.
THE TEST CARD? PAGES FROM CEEFAX? Bugger that - C4 had its own special way to pretend it was still broadcasting even...
ONE OF THE BEEB'S many 1970s Mediterranean thrillers bundled out during winter to cheer people up and which made no sense whatsoever...
A DEVOUTLY devolved kids' talent contest.
DRAMATISED VERSION of THE GOOD LIFE with home computers.
SHOESTRING SPECTACULAR from a time when pointing a camera at anything and allowing people to see it was somehow the most thrilling...
THE HOME COUNTIES' most preposterously erudite home-owners starred in this audience-free parlour-esque intellectual joustathon.
ANGLO-YANKEE LATE night comedy from the Four's early days
GOSCINNY AND Uderzo's pint-sized French pugilist and nemesis of the Roman Empire
THREE ASTRONAUTS live in first-ever all-British space station, interrupted in their musings by US ground control boss called Beadle.
SEMINAL FIVE MINUTE episodes in life of friendly cartoon purple teardrop-shaped antenna sporting Astro, plus long-suffering Earth "pal" Oscar Mild.
THE SCOURGE of many a small child struggling to learn an outsize musical instrument.
A REDUNDANT entry, really. What's to say?
ODD CARTOON short about an accident-prone sort of orange testicle-man with big floppy nose, who had various stereotypical adventures.
ENDURING TRAGICOM FROM THE pens of Likely Lads Clement/La Frenais
BASICALLY WHAT it says.
Pretty much arse, really.
Soft-spoken grey haired bloke proceeds to show us exactly how to draw bird/fish encounter.
BRITISH VERSION of the BANANA SPLITS, where none was really needed.
Half-hearted HEADS AND TAILS wannabe plus dreary animation.
BOLD TWILIGHT TIME escapades for Fen-dwelling insomniacs.
NUTS AND BOLTS RE-HEATING of NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN
LITTLE-KNOWN SEMI-EDUCATIONAL morning cartoon filler which began with the moustachioed titular prof in his lab introducing a wacky, sub-Wilf Lunn invention to...
WEIRDO SPECCOID Canadian mind reader who turned up for about ten minutes with confusing and unimpressive mind trickery.
OLD HAT blue and red swingy leotard bloke
THEY REALLY needn't have bothered.
Your familiar "home study kit" suggestion box for making the most of the wildlife "in your own backyard".
ONE-OFF PRETEND conspiracy documentary about the supposed disappearance of super-intelligent citizens.
BOUGHT AS a job lot by cash-strapped infant Channel 4 and flung out after COUNTDOWN.
WEIRD DRAMA about a teenage girl who goes to stay with her dad and stepfamily for the summer.
Maureen Lipman is back.
SEASIDE-BASED KIDS' drama, easily a step up from the salty SEAVIEW, revolving around a rather attractive young girl's attempts to pep up...
The instant Nimmo had hung up his cowl, it was only gone and swiped by RICHARD BRIERS doing a spot of moonlighting...
NETWORKED SEPIA-DRENCHED homily to Better Times.
WELCOME TO MICHAEL PARKINSON: The Wilderness Years.
YOU NEEDN'T have bothered.
RALPH MCTELL was aided by various female second fiddles in this letter-by-letter song and illustrated storyathon with Holly the Hedgehog.
LATE ERA Cosgrove-Hall spectacular
BBC2 SLIPPED off its tight waistcoat and cummerbund with this endless Butch and Sundance-style banditathon
A TWO-PRONGED, double-content pre-GRANDSTAND bonanza from P. Daniels' late "magic consultant".
GRAB BAG alterno revue, late in slot and long of trouser.
SWEDISH ADVENTURES of a bald cartoon boy and his bald cartoon dad.
NONE MORE 80s puppet sitcom with eponymous "Alien Life Form"
NO CHEAP innuendo suggested by that title, no way.
RUN-OF-THE-MILL HOBBY/COLLECTING magazine (see MADABOUT) employing ex-mime artist ADRIAN "JIGSAW" HEDLEY
ROY KINNEAR was your jovial accident-prone street sweeper in one of those 1970s silents in the PLANK/RHUBARB mould.
NIFTY BLACK futurocopter saga with none-more-eighties JAN MICHAEL-VINCENT as cello-playing loner maverick Stringfellow Hawke,
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