All posts tagged "1960s"

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  Batfink

  TATTY-LOOKING CARTOON Batman spoofola

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  Beatles, The

  PREPOSTEROUS POPPERMOST Yank animated antics

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  Trade Test Transmissions

  ONE OF those functional but nevertheless well-remembered series that BBC2 showed in the run-up to colour broadcasting

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  Tom Tom

  OBSCURE SHOW for boys

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  Tom Slick

  RACING DRIVER plus spouse plus wisecracking mother-in-law type Gertie Growler go up against different evil opponents each week

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  Gary Halliday

  PASSING RESIDENT of post-GRANDSTAND teatimes

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  Mr Rossi

  NOT, FORTUITOUSLY, the animated escapades of a rock'n'roll three-chord-trading troubadour

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  Winsome Witch

  LITTLE-KNOWN H-B short about Winnie the Witch who can't do anything right.

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  Fairytale Theatre

  VARIATION ON textbook "anthology" format

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  Magic Boomerang, The

  ANTIPODEAN ANTIQUE no doubt burnt/drowned/disintegrated long ago

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  Joe

  WATCH WITH MOTHER segment similar in style to MARY, MUNGO AND MIDGE concerning self-same kid whose father ran a roadside transport cafe.

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  Val Doonican Music Show, The

  Genial, Irish besweatered rocking chair maestro fronted this never-changing pleaser from "the BBC Television Theatre" for pretty much a quarter of a...

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  Lancelot Link – Secret Chimp

  OVER HERE we had the PG Tips chimps ("You hum it son, I'll play it").