Wednesday, 28th February 1968 PICK OF THE DAY 7.05pm DAVID NIXON, BBC1 The Mellotron-inventing chess-demonstrating TV Conjuror That Time Forgot was once...
Wednesday, 16th February 1972 PICK OF THE DAY 8.30pm WHICKER’S ORIENT, ITV Peg-on-nose globetrotting witticisms ahoy as we touch down in what...
Wednesday, 10th February 1988 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm HANNAY, ITV Robert Powell’s Buchan-skewing swashbucking-with-additional-paperwork further adventures of Richard Hannay are hardly...
Wednesday, 21st February 1990 PICK OF THE DAY 10.35pm THE GOLDEN BREAK ADVERTISING AWARDS, ITV Wafer-sponsored Saturday Night Takeaway-anticipating one-off televisual presentation...
Wednesday, 11th January 1967 PICK OF THE DAY 9.05pm CATHY COME HOME, BBC1 “‘SPOT THE BOOBS’ CALL OVER A TV PLAY” –...
Wednesday, 29th January 1975 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm CILLA’S COMEDY SIX, ITV “How long does Cilla Black think she can keep...
Wednesday, 26th January 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 6.45pm DOCTOR WHO BBC1 The final part of ‘Snakedance’ (co-starring Martin Clunes as Future...
Wednesday, 8th January 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 5.35pm FIRST CLASS, BBC1 BBC Scotland upgrade to the network with the second series...
Wednesday, 16th January 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm WATERFRONT BEAT, BBC1 Third episode in the second (and final) series of Phil...
Wednesday, 16th July 1969 PICK OF THE DAY 6.40pm THE BEST OF TOMORROW’S WORLD, ITV A collection of highlights from the award-winning...
Wednesday, 14th July 1976 PICK OF THE DAY 8.00pm SUMMER NIGHT OUT, ITV There may have been a drought in full swing,...
Wednesday, 5th July 1989 PICK OF THE DAY 8.00pm PEOPLE, BBC1 It’s Frank Bruno and the wallpaper-bland Simon May theme song about...
Wednesday, 24th July 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WOGAN, BBC1 The unthinkable has happened and Old Tel has been prevailed upon...
Wednesday, 4th June 1969 PICK OF THE DAY 9.05pm WEDNESDAY PLAY: THE SON OF MAN, BBC1 “One of the most compelling pieces...
Wednesday, 20th June 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 8.10pm SURVIVORS, BBC1 Oh, could you just pass me that flask, please? Eighth episode...
Wednesday, 20th June 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm MIKE REID’S MATES AND MUSIC, ITV And there’s your elevator pitch right there!...
Wednesday, 16th June 1999 PICK OF THE DAY 9.30pm LOUIS THEROUX’S WEIRD WEEKENDS, BBC2 Initially, we mourned The Ronson Mission, and needlessly...
Wednesday, 28th March 1979 PICK OF THE DAY 7.35pm MORECAMBE AND WISE AT THE BBC, BBC1 Here’s a top bit of sour...
Wednesday, 13th March 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 9.30pm Q.E.D, BBC1 Such a shame that there isn’t a show like QED about...
Wednesday, 3rd March 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm THE DETECTIVES, BBC1 Originally part of Canned Carrott, this was the first full...
Wednesday, 22nd March 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm THIS IS YOUR LIFE, BBC1 We’d love to see a breakdown of the...
Wednesday, 10th May 1978 PICK OF THE DAY 5.10pm THINK OF A NUMBER, BBC1 The amazing Vic Reeves Big Night Out-style studio...
Wednesday, 20th May 1981 PICK OF THE DAY 7.40pm TERRY AND JUNE, BBC1 Don’t place your bets on whether it was Terry...
Wednesday, 27th May 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 10pm IN AT THE DEEP END, BBC1 In the space of just three months,...
Wednesday, 17th May 1989 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WOGAN WITH SUE LAWLEY, BBC1 “We bring you the big news from Liverpool!”...
Wednesday, 4th May 1994 PICK OF THE DAY 6.45pm STANDING ROOM ONLY, BBC2 For much of the mid-1990s, you couldn’t turn on...
Wednesday, 29th November 1967 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm MAN IN A SUITCASE, ITV Evans-nabbed reverb-drenched piano and Ipcress File-riffing graphics of...
Wednesday, 14th November 1979 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm QUATERMASS, ITV It’s near sacrilege to say so, but those black and white...
Wednesday, 4th November 1981 PICK OF THE DAY 6.35pm CROSSROADS, ITV “OK loves, everybody outdoors for the fire scene!” Look, we know...
Wednesday, 18th November 1998 PICK OF THE DAY 10pm WAR AND PISTE, BBC1 As the docu-soap reaches its apex year (Lakesiders debuted...
Wednesday, 24th October 1979 PICK OF THE DAY 6.05pm THE MUPPET SHOW, ITV Dudley Moore is the Very Special Guest Star, but...
Wednesday, 26th October 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 6.35pm CROSSROADS, ITV Be sure not to drop your French bread pizza in shock,...
Wednesday, 8th October 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 7.35pm THE LIVES AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL, BBC2 Dennis Waterman trades the leather...
Wednesday, 5th October 1988 PICK OF THE DAY 7.35m DOCTOR WHO, BBC1 Sorry, Mum, you’re just going to have to miss the...
Wednesday, 17th October 1989 PICK OF THE DAY 9.30pm AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, BBC1 “Hello? BBC, yes. You want me...
Wednesday, 2nd September 1970 PICK OF THE DAY 5.20pm ACE OF WANDS, ITV Purloining its title from an old Doctor Who story...
Wednesday, 8th September 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 8.10pm FAME, BBC1 Television series spun off from films are inherently troubling affairs. Somehow...
Wednesday, 18th September 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 5.30pm JOHN TOVEY’S ENTERTAINING ON A PLATE, BBC2 Still yet to feature on any...
Wednesday, 23rd September 1998 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm LIVING WITH THE ENEMY – OLD LABOUR VS NEW LABOUR, BBC2 Truly a...
LAMENTABLE SEQUEL to ROMANY JONES
COLOSSUS OF small screen blue light institutions
Adapted by Tony Garner from Robert O’Brien’s popular ‘adultescent’ novel. A post-Holocaust Welsh valley is populated by just two families, who gradually...
POST-NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE drama, but then they all were then.
THE GENESIS of SWAP SHOP
EDUCATIONAL KIDS' pot pourri
DON'T WORRY, we've nearly finished.
SATURDAY MORNING cartoon linking device featuring a talking pinball machine of that name which played pinball.
ROLLOCKING RESISTANCE capery wherein four French veterans reunite 30 years on to sweep the Riviera streets clean of loitering Nazi war criminality.
SHORT-TROUSERED LOOK-AT-THIS be-caged business
Hawaiian dolphin research labs, complete with absent-minded professor and his lil' daughter, have adventures with headset-enhanced dolphin of title.
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