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All posts tagged "1972"
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9.6K17TV: A is for...Are You Being Served?
LIFE IN THE most uncommercial, threadbare-looking department store in the world
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7.9K5TV: W is for...Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
WHAT THE SIMPSONS once did for the Clinton decade, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home did for Nixon-era America.
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12.7K22TV: W is for...
Weekend World
FIRST TV show to think that thunderously self-important po-faced analysis of politics would go down a treat at Sunday lunchtime.
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17.0K11TV: E is for...
Escape into Night
EARLY ENTRY in the 1970s Children's Telly Fantasy Catalogue.
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4.7KTV: M is for...
Mastermind
THAT FAMOUS theme tune was called "Impending Menace"
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3.5K2TV: B is for...
Beachcombers
SKIVVY CANADIAN live action "drama"
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3.3KTV: T is for...
Treasure over the Water
WORTHY ADAPTATION of the book Minnow on the Say
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7.7K2TV: T is for...
This is Your Right
CUE EXTENDED cymbal roll
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3.2K2TV: G is for...
General Hospital
DR LEW GRADE re-opens the ATV medical wing
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4.9K9TV: M is for...
McCloud
ANOTHER OFFSPRING of ITV's Mystery Movie strand
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7.4K10TV: J is for...
John Craven’s Newsround
THAT'S JOHN CRAVEN'S Newsround. Not the parade of non-threatening blandalikes in trendy haircuts who came afterwards.
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2.9KTV: V is for...
Viaduct, The
IN A brave attempt to push kids-costume-drama conventions to a dangerous extreme, this languid effort (based on book by Ray Brown) opted...
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5.1K2TV: V is for...Van der Valk
DUTCH POLICE inspector played by BARRY FOSTER in a coat, but no-one cared about that.
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3.8K1TV: U is for...Up Sunday
SATIRE, EH, never as good as it blah blah blah.
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3.5K3TV: L is for...
Love Thy Neighbour
NOWADAYS THIS is shorthand for everything that was shit about the 1970s, but in reality there was worse to be had in...
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2.8KTV: L is for...
Lotus Eaters, The
ANOTHER BBC thriller uncovering dark secrets in the Cretan underbelly
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10.7K8TV: L is for...
Long Chase, The
SEMINAL KIDS pursuit caper from pen of N.J. "DIXON" CRISP
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4.4KTV: L is for...
Lizzie Dripping
A TEENAGE TINA HEATH of Blue Peter pregnancy fame dons a bad blue anorak and converses with one very scary witch
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3.0KTV: M is for...
Man Dog
MORE FUTURISTIC folly, this time involving space rebel types hooking up with present day kids and, well, transplanting their dying leader's mind...
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3.8K3TV: W is for...
Whodunnit?
EARLY EVENING Cluedo-based antics with first EDWARD WOODWARD then JON P'TWEE as chairman.
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5.3K12TV: W is for...
Who Do You Do?
"MICK JAGGER visiting a laundrette? It would probably be something…like this…"
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4.0K2TV: M is for...
M*A*S*H
"YOUR WEDNESDAY night entertainment on BBC2 continues at 9pm with another helping of..."
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3.5KTV: H is for...
Happy House
CHILDCENTRIC FIFTEEN minute afternoon filler.
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2.9K2TV: W is for...
World at War, The
COMES WITH a faintly ridiculous semi-mystical, hushed tones, doff-your-hat air nowadays
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3.3KTV: O is for...
Organisation, The
ARCH SATIRE on power games in the PR department of a large corporation and one most-literate series ever to grace the screen.
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2.9KTV: E is for...
Emergency
TWO PARAMEDICS in LA County go around clearing up other people's mess and, indeed, other people.
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9.2KTV: E is for...
Emmerdale Farm
BANISH FROM YOUR MIND the current sex-in-the-shit-sheds kaboodle.
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3.0KTV: I is for...
Incredible Robert Baldick, The
ROBERT HARDY unsheathed his best eccentric credentials for this bonkers Hammer-esque Victorian yarn.
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4.3KTV: C is for...
Cabbages and Kings
EARLY RUN-OUT for renaissance man and "handsome chap" JOHNNY BALL.
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2.7KTV: A is for...
Arthur of the Britons
MUDDY REWORKING of sprawling Arthurian swordsplay with OLIVER TOBIAS as The Nation's Hero.
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5.3K1TV: A is for...
Ali Bongo’s Cartoon Carnival
A TWO-PRONGED, double-content pre-GRANDSTAND bonanza from P. Daniels' late "magic consultant".
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3.7KTV: A is for...
Alcock and Gander
NO CHEAP innuendo suggested by that title, no way.
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