By Roy Minton. A day in the life of mental health nurse Tim Preece, struggling with not only the demands of his...
SENT TO EARTH to make Cannon and Ball and Little and Large appear talented, the putative stars of this shambles were CHEESE...
NOT MUCH to recommend this post-FROGGITT BILL MAYNARD trundler.
CURIOUS CHROMAKEYFEST centring on a couple of tiny aliens
THAT EXCLAMATION MARK says it all.
Very much a cross between George Hamilton and Robert Carrier.
THIS AND SALE OF THE CENTURY were the only times the rest of the country ever willingly sat down to watch Anglia's...
A lower-middle-class terraced house in a northern town, elderly Mrs Everton (Susan ‘Angels Are So Few’ Richard) receives a routine visit from...
GENERATION GAME-SLAUGHTERING, hysteria-mongering, surprise-springing, staircase-shimmying, Beadlebum-annointing ogre of Saturday nights.
BLOATED SPY GAMES from busy-busy pen of LEN DEIGHTON.
Immensely popular play by Philip Martin exploring the Birmingham underworld, in particular the ‘Blackbird Run’ of illegal immigrants. Maurice Colborne is an...
CONVOLUTED MURKY-DEPTHS shooting and shagging melodrama
LONG-SERVING horticultural hoedown
By HO Nazareth and Horace Ove. Patricia Garwood derides Bollywood romantic films as sentimental fluff until her life, including her 17 year...
PASSING RESIDENT of post-GRANDSTAND teatimes
By Maurice Leitch. Two travelling evangelists spread a fiery gospel to a peaceful part of Co. Antrim in 1959, befriending a retarded...
UPMARKET YARN for Children's ITV
BEN "ALIAS SMITH" MURPHY is an invisible man with a strict operating limit of a quarter of an hour.
DAYTIME SOAP froth set in Covent Garden workshop of titular fashion design company.
DR LEW GRADE re-opens the ATV medical wing
William Trevor serves up another fine comedy of manners in this battle of wills between ageing general Alastair Sim and cantankerous charlady...
QUITE SIMPLY, one of the finest programmes ever ever made. The jewel in small screen's light entertainment crown, this was absolutely essential...
HUGE FUCK-OFF grizzly "befriends" chipmunk-faced son
CAPABLE WOMAN-IN-A-MAN'S-WORLD coppery
"PASS THE kettle love, I've been up all night." "You could've fooled me, dear".
SCRATCHY VEHICLE for SID JAMES in post-Hancock hinterland
THICKO TARZAN-ALIKE and his well-spoken English gorilla chum ("Somebody within stone's throw again!") do the usual crap Jay Ward wisecrackery.
JUST LIKE the way the Presidency of the EU rotates between different countries, so a script involving posh kids in a haunted...
PHIL CORNWELL to Aswad: "Skin up, drummie!"
WHO ORDERED the embarrassing uncle?
"AND LATER on, I'll be trying my hand at something called paragliding."
EARLY RUN-OUT for your blueprint Barrymore
TOP HOLE Bond spoofery by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry
PART OF THAT 1950s revival which seemed to stretch from, well, 1959 right through to the final death cry of HI-DE-HI.
TITULAR INSTRUCTION obeyed to the letter by kids the country over as soon as they got whiff of this noneducating small tottery
REMIT-SATISFYING PSEUDATHON chucked out in the small hours by a bored Jeremy Isaacs.
SUPERLATIVE SUPERNATURAL derring-do
Cuddly KENNY EVERETT's swansong
BERNARD BRESSLAW and BILL FRASER do voices of animated observatory duo Gorilla and Gus
TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR, looking for a job a work while the others wrote more GOODIES episodes, undergoes metamorphosis into an animated cutout duck
By William McIlvanney and Bill Craig. When a salesman terminates his long-term affair, the woman in question commits suicide. Turning to drink,...
BONKERS JAPANESE cartoon about the mightiest robot in the world
LITTLE-SEEN OVER here but beloved of everyone over there.
Peter Everett’s near-future take on the film noir genre, with a detective on the trail of an embittered former astronaut for the...
PLAY AWAY'S JULIE STEVENS and DENISE COFFEY are two bored housewives looking for "additional" action. Derek Wilton - yikes! - obliges.
IN THE Kensington sky.
SHORT-LIVED SNOOKERDRAM with Daley-esque geezerian overtones
The ultimate in parlour game riddle-me-ree telly
DAVID "PERRIN" NOBBS-penned laugh-light effort about marketing men and (hey!) women.
CUT-PRICE CALEDONIAN distant forerunner of ROLF HARRIS CARTOON TIME, only without giant pieces of plain paper, fat marker pens and earnest insights...
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