HUGE CLOPPING CUT-OUT nonsense between giant girl and loping dog in a cottage in the middle of nowhere, where two butterflies looked...
GRUMPY UNDERPRIVILEGED working-class punky girl (red hair = troublemaker) finds out she's half-sister to one of the BBC's familiar stock of Posh...
DAVID ROPER is betrohed to DIANE KEEN but shares a house with LEWIS COLLINS.
SILVER-HAIRED Supersonic supremo MIKE MANSFIELD came out of retirement to host this live music showcase
BERNARD CRIBBINS dons the time-honoured red neckerchief to play titular "kindly" tinker dwelling in a caravan spun off from THE SHILLINGBURY TALES.
ACE DAVID "PERRIN" NOBBS-scripted "Play For Pleasure", with ROBIN "POTTER" BAILEY as a philosopher who takes up with a darts groupie (LESLIE...
RUMPUS-ROUSING MILLIGANISM
VERY FIRST comedy sketch show to appear on the new network
WELL, WHO wouldn't?
EARLY VEHICLE for CLIVE "GRANDAD" DUNN.
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PAPER puppetry.
JUNGLE QUACKERY in the Wameru Study Centre.
In brief, "A rich Texan family faces all kinds of trouble."
PRE-STARDOM BURT REYNOLDS uses nosey gossip to track down filth in Santa Luisa, California.
IN TRUTH, one big long prelude to infinitely superior THE PRISONER
SMASHING WWII bomb disposal expert saga with ANTHONY "BRIDESHEAD" ANDREWS and MAURICE ROEVES heading a team of sappers clearing up Adolf's mess...
"CRUMBS!"
THEY HADN'T done one for a while (see THE APHRODITE INHERITANCE), so it was high time the Beeb packed its flip-flops and...
HB'S TOP-RANKING baddie and his doggy in fruitless airborne pursuit of endlessly irritating pigeon with a satchel full of messages.
NEXT LINK IN THE Micro chain
PREMIER LEAGUE sub-fingered foul-mouthed Catholic pope-baiter on a stool with tumbler and fag railed against the modern and ancient world alike in...
YES, YOU read that right.
A TRIUMPHANT return to prime time Friday nights for redoubtable amusical pentheraphobe LES DAWSON.
JOHN DUTTINE dons a raggedy beard and eye patch to battle rattling rubber penis-plants walking on stems.
POST-FAWLTY TOWERS runaround for ANDREW SACHS
LESS THAN whelming drama effort with DENNIS LAWSON
MISH-MASH OF teencentric comedy sketches aimed at the 13-plus set
THE LATE, great RALPH BATES was the eponymous hero, dumped via mantlepiece-mounted letter by his wife and forced to take solace in...
FLOUNDERING DRAGCOM starring PEBBLE MILL staples Dr. Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Brackett
FIRST GLIMPSE of the great Beadlebum in this A-Z
FONDLY-RECALLED GENTLE introduction to flans with the primary-school teacher charm of Delia, who sometimes went all exotic on us (spaghetti) but always...
UNHINGED OZ half-hourathon boasting your usual chisel-featured bloke and shapely woman assistant in fitted leather suit.
"A GOLDEN EAGLE Production for London Weekend Television" Ah dear.
ORIGINAL WAS a top MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE UK-style Bentleys and fist-fights spy thrillah
MOUTHORGAN-THEMED TALES of speech-impaired dog deputy sheriff and tussles with Muskie (a muskrat), Vince (short-sighted mole) and racoon amusingly named Ty Coon.
TITANIC UPHILL STRUGGLE between two equally unimpressive vocations jostling perilously inside the one man
FRENCH MEDIEVAL adventure yarn.
CROSS-DRESSING ENTENDRE purveyor who virtually owned TV in the 70s thanks to sub-Benny Hill knock-off characters comprising bucktoothed vicar, flirty woman, bover...
PISTOL-PACKING MASKED MARAUDER who demanded "your money or your life" decision-making from coach-bound rich folk.
THE GREAT and the good settle down in a beige-toned boudoir set to ruminate upon the small screen highlights of the last...
WIDOWED MILLIONAIRE adopts two black kids, Willis and Arnold (GARY COLEMAN, purveyor of wisecrackery and "brave" illness-baiting stance), to go with ever-superfluous...
A CONTRADICTION in terms, surely?
CHRISTMAS TELLY staple for the entire late seventies
ALIEN DIMENSION terrorises sleepy rural village via a secret space research lab.
FARFLUNG OUTPOST of a pre-BLANK Terence of Wogan empire, wherein our host would take time out of his Sunday afternoon post-prandial repose...
STRICTLY RATIONED pre-home entertainment system helpings of Walt's supposedly greatest hits, reserved initially for Christmas but later to become a schmaltzy schedule...
NERYS HUGHES singlehandedly rids the Welsh valleys of all known diseases.
JACK WARNER singlehandedly rids England of all known criminals.
VERY EAGER "Hey! Let's make stuff!" bazaar for holiday mornings, presented by tomboyish SHEELAGH GILBEY, supposed "Editor" of the "Do It supplement"...
TOP NOTCH TEETH-CUTTING playground for Messrs IDLE, JONES and PALIN, with DAVID JASON and DENISE COFFEY along for the ride.
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