John Finch’s adaptation of Huxley’s post-nuclear story of an impoverished, devil-worshipping land.
ONE OF THE BEEB'S many 1970s Mediterranean thrillers bundled out during winter to cheer people up and which made no sense whatsoever...
THE HAIRY cornflake himself, DAVE LEE TRAVIS, presented this timely one-off anthology of hoaxes and ruses for kids.
LIFE IN THE most uncommercial, threadbare-looking department store in the world
"CAIRO? CAIRO? One. One! One way! Yes, just one. One way!"
"Hey, I've got a great idea for a cartoon! Why not take some old classic book, one that's out of copyright, and...
THE TEST CARD? PAGES FROM CEEFAX? Bugger that - C4 had its own special way to pretend it was still broadcasting even...
ONE GREAT big monster of a weekday afternoon craftfest.
FUCKING ODD (and slightly laughable) pretentio-fest 'bout - yes, it's the eighties - an apocalyptic war
DOTTY SCI-FI guru and thing inventor introduced this "crazy world" series.
MUDDY REWORKING of sprawling Arthurian swordsplay with OLIVER TOBIAS as The Nation's Hero.
SHOESTRING SPECTACULAR from a time when pointing a camera at anything and allowing people to see it was somehow the most thrilling...
A COUPLE of billion years squashed into 13 episodes and a cross-hatched jacket with leather elbow patches.
An effective genre thriller by Marc Brandel with Scott Forbes playing an intimidating game of cat and mouse with Toby Robins in...
WITTILY TITLED Sunday morning sub-continent news magazine.
THE GREAT ASP appeared in front of a giant balsa and Fuzzy Felt (TM) speech bubble.
WEIRD AS you like JOHN JUNKIN-fronted celebrity panel game, in the time-honoured weekday 5:15 ITV mould.
THE HOME COUNTIES' most preposterously erudite home-owners starred in this audience-free parlour-esque intellectual joustathon.
TOUTED AS ITV's premier chat bunker
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.
By Peter Terson. Workmates Colin Jeavons and Bruce Purchase buy a derelict narrow boat from dodgy Frank Middlemass, and find themselves renovating...
ALL ABOARD THE INTERNET for Tony Garnett's www-based drama set in the heady world of an internet start-up company which, bafflingly, seemed...
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.
David Hemmings is a young man hitching his way across Europe to Athens, accumulating a string of casual relationships on the way....
Pretty much arse, really.
THE FORMAT might have been through the mill countless times, but when it got itself sorted, this was close to the best...
HOW TO fill half an hour of early evening Channel 4 telly quickly and cheaply.
By Nemone Lethbridge. Zena Walker finally has a baby after receiving specialist treatment for ten years – then the problems really start.
By David Edgar. Patti Love undergoes a traumatic stillbirth, steals a baby, is arrested and sentenced to – appropriately enough – nine...
By Nigel Williams. Pregnant career woman Susan Littler seeks advice from her neighbour Pauline Quirke.
By Julia Jones. Lynne Jones develops a bond with Rachel Roberts, a reclusive widow in the Welsh mountains she delivers newspapers to.
ACE TEATIME CBBC fare documenting the exploits of one Brian Arthur Derek Boyes.
ANOTHER OF those cartoon double-bill "sandwiches" that spread like, indeed, nits during the 1970s.
13 EPISODES of sepia soft toy sophistry
CAPRICIOUS CAPERS from HELEN "LIZZIE DRIPPING" CRESWELL concerning a family of middle class loons with a penchant for weirdness, paranormal events and...
MORE OBSCURO-MATION.
ARNIE WIGGINS and a bunch of his urchin mates, soot of cheek and fleet of foot, are taken into the employ of...
RUDIMENTARY ASSEMBLY of dull black and white line drawings
THE OLD PETER SELLERS monologue about "glorious Bal-ham"
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN CARTOON about a small, bearded scientist
GEORGE "HANNIBAL" PEPPARD strolls around Boston
RETINA-INFURIATING Hanna-Barbera live-action mayhem of hazily-yet-vividly-recollected infamy
THE GOODIES decide to regroup after numerous solo efforts to "recreate the magic".
Joss Ackland gost bust in style.
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