OMNIPOTENT CHILDREN'S odds-and-sods odyssey
SHOP-WINDOW-ABUSING FUNSTER HARRY WORTH didn't last long in this sitcom
SWAGGERING BRINY proto-soap
JACK WILD is Jimmy, owner of golden talking flute named Freddie much sought after by freaky gorgon Witchiepoo BILLIE HAYES.
CAMP CUISINE on a Grayson scale courtesy of titular Australian twosome riding the back (steady now) of late-80s NEIGHBOURS UK popularity.
YET ANOTHER Grundy production.
Yes, it's the bog standard (the operative word there being "yes") Tough Dirty Harry Cop Partners Female Cop routine.
MORE ANTIPODEAN antics, this time by way of their answer to James Bond.
An animated detective pooch with a bashed hat and a knackered hunting horn.
Council officer Nigel Stock’s mid-life crisis at his brother’s pub causes him to see life as a game show populated by Donald...
MOANING YORKSHIRE clan the Brandons.
TWO MIDDLE-AGED middle class middle Englanders...with mirth in mind!
Premium pulling-out-the-stops affair courtesy of a benevolent Beeb looking for something to celebrate 40 years of telly.
ONE JOKE officecom.
LIFE SWAP endeavour for kids.
By Ian McEwan. In late 1940, 19-year-old Cathy Raine (Harriet Walter), lives a dull, stifling lower middle class existence in Frinton with...
FROM THE BOTTOM of Will and Joe's filing cabinet came this offering.
HEADLINE VEHICLE for ubiquitous have-a-go merchants CHRIS SERLE and PAUL HEINEY moonlighting from THAT'S LIFE.
"THEY SAY: 'Do you realise you're eating something dead there?' Well yes, I do, and as a matter of fact, I'm enjoying...
Harold Pinter, Jane Arden and Catherine Woodville find themselves pay for their various sins by finding themselves trapped together in hell –...
THORA HIRD, as usual playing herself, is an undertaker in a bluff, gruff, "take me as you find me" Lancashire funeral firm...
Black Power reggae in the Play School studio.
ULTRA-OBSCURE PLACEMENT for post-BLUE PETER JUDD
DECENT ENOUGH diminutive dosage courtesy
FLEDGLING EFFORT from the boys at Euston Road
DR 'DAVID' BANNER, nebulously defined "strength" research, gamma rays, green skin, ripped shirts, slow-motion violence, back to normal, new shirt from nowhere,...
RAGGED SITCOM - literally - with ROY KINNEAR and BRIAN MURPHY dressing down for the occasion as street entertainer escapologist and assistant.
ROBERT HARDY unsheathed his best eccentric credentials for this bonkers Hammer-esque Victorian yarn.
CHARMLESS CRIMEWATCH roadtester shuttled out on BBC2
EARTHY ATTEMPT to popularise earthy Professional Northern earthiness
MORE PASTIME hard sell, here taking the shape of a giant castor oil dose of "home activities" comprising gardening, DIY, cooking and...
PYTHON IMPOSTER and ex-Rutle presents ragbag of self-penned songs
ROY KINNEAR again, this time as a professional worrier, hypochondriac and towering bore.
SCHOOLS EFFORT for hard of hearing kids
EXECREABLE ECCENTRIC with show-off retractable limb assortment and punchable face.
By Andrew Carr. Post-Jonestown indictment of personality cults, with a sinister Simon Callow as ‘Maximillian Schreiber’, taking an assortment of gullibles under...
Alan Bennett plays a 39-year-old man in his own tale of a lonely vigil at his dying father’s bedside, conversing wistfully with...
"I LIKE IT!"
Millionaire Michael Finlayson buys and furnishes a sumptuous Georgian townhouse with help from master decorator Barry Foster. As Foster shows Finlayson’s wife...
FRESH FROM ruling the known world BRIAN BLESSED settled his sticky paws upon no less a target than the known universe.
PREPOSTEROUS MAGUFFINISM with the emphasis on guff.
CHIRPY APOCALYPSE CAPERS
BETTER EFFORT, this time with PIP DONAGHY as the unseen psycho.
WAFER-THIN (APPROPRIATELY) Wells-baiting update
INEVITABLE ROLE-REVERSAL spin
By Stewart Parker. Simple but effective study of two girls on a winter’s day in Belfast, coping with separate yet similar tragedies....
PETER BOWLES, playing himself, retires to the rural west coast of Ireland.
PERRY MASON fancies a bit of a rest and decides to serve out the rest of his 'tec tenure in a mobile...
KEITH CHATFIELD'S JACKANORIED tales of the escapades of children Sally and Andrew Martin and a magical, talking panda
SIMPERING SITCOMMERY involving a single studio set standing in for the entire British World War Two Indian subcontinent campaign and two million...
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