LONG-SERVING domesticated whimsy cavalcade and major player in ITV's 1970s children's lunchtime slot shake-up from Granada.
BLATANT COPY of same station's BONANZA, but none too shabby for all that.
FRIGHTFUL FRIDAY evening non-comedy
HARRY SECOMBE buys a Senior Citizen's Railcard
John Collin fights the council when they plan to demolish his home to make way for a bypass in Michael O’Neill and...
MULTI-WHEELED FUTURISTIC private dickery
UNTROUBLING UNCTIONS from a MARTI CAINE trying to make everyone forget about her cabaret credentials and instead concentrate on her acting acumen.
MUCH-QUAKING-IN-THE-QUADS
In a nutshell: Douglas Adams's visionary mix of 2001, PG Wodehouse and a physics A-level paper compiled by Stanley Unwin gets totally...
QUITE POSSIBLY the dullest quiz show of all time.
ALMOST UNIQUE nightclub-based Saturday night marathon passing quickly into pub-bound TV legend.
HOMER SIMPSON-IDOLISING Hunathon involving dopey Nazi kommandants getting their arse kicked by wise-cracking wacky Yanks for 168,000 episodes.
KIDS SLAPSTICK teatime affair
DON SPENCER puts words into the mouths of two shitty puppet doll things who are continually up to mischief.
CYNICOID YARN following fortunes of newspaper sports writer
BRAZENLY BONKERS kids comedy from the loony pen of DENISE "DO NOT ADJUST" COFFEY
Lamentable look-how-much-fun-we're-having wankery
DR WHO does sitcom!
By Jim Hawkins and Horace Ove. Account of the 1975 Spaghetti House Siege, when three black men held up a Knightsbridge Italian...
EVER-RELIABLE EARLY evening winter warmer
WUSSES IN leotards leap about on frozen water in name of family entertainment
THE ONE stain on Brucie's CV.
AH YES, the old "hard-bitten cop teams up with experimental robot" schtick.
Four senile old duffers drive each other mad.
TEN-MINUTE MID-AFTERNOON morsel.
JIM "CAMERON" DAVIDSON is still Jim London
YET ANOTHER pre-decimal diversion and faithful big screen supporting flick.
After the relative drop in quality of Who’s Who, Mike Leigh came roaring back to form, first with the formidable 1980 BBC2...
GOLD STANDARD mid-evening goofery with none-more-80s "sit" involving a grumpy JOHN THAW having to put up with layabout son REECE DINSDALE
BARGAIN BIN trio of plays shot on cheapola video equipment and themed on the same.
ANTIPODEAN SLEUTHING that basically pioneered the entire Aussie film and TV industry.
CORONATION STREET-BRUISER
WHO IS THIS SUPER HERO?
AN ETERNALLY EVER-NAFF home counties C&W craze ran amok in the early 80s
DRIVELLY SCOTTISH funsters MIKE HOPE and ALBIE KEEN
BARRY JACKSON doled out pathos and bathos
More from John Hopkins. Couple Glenda Jackson and Alfred Lynch’s quiet London lives are disrupted by the arrival of old art college...
Kids drama involving a posh girl in a large mansion where shenanigans are going down.
MORE FOAL PLAY, this time by way of a kids equinestravaganza
Comic drama of friendships and deals made and broken in a men’s sauna. Jack Rosenthal’s first work for the strand.
"PAPER! NEWS, NEWS! Paper! News, News!"
"ALL STYLES of music" allegedly catered for in this dance-arse variety bumstead
STAGE ONE of the long and winding Tarrant.
GRAVY-LUMPENING SUNDAY lunchtime fare
Adaptation of a short story by the famed Spanish poet and author Federico Garcia Lorca of the conflict between a young woman...
Er, there's this house, right...
TOO OFTEN are the ITV stations tarred with the 'eyes and teeth' brush of tawdry showbiz. Here was one independent afternoon banker...
By Roy Kendall. Trouble arises when Frances de la Tour hires Sharon Duce as a nanny. With Bernard Hill.
TISWASIANS JOHN GORMAN and CLIVE WEBB, plus ex-WHO DARES WINS JULIA HILLS, oversaw this typically gunge-graced gagathon, capped with a theme tune,...
A Yorkshire schools' morning stalwart.
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