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All posts tagged "1978"
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8.2KTV: A is for...All Creatures Great and Small
Driving-through-the-Dales-in-a-lovely-old-car with Hardy and Timothy sharing a joke.
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9.1K9TV: G is for...Grange Hill
GENERAL COLLAPSE of secondary education.
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3.3K1TV: A is for...And Now The Good News
OUR FIRST SIGHTING in this A-Z of the sainted STILGOE.
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8.7K7TV: F is for...
Famous Five, The
MUCH-TRUMPETED “prestige” adaptation of the venerable Blytonian underage derring-do saga
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6.4K2TV: G is for...Great Egg Race, The
IT COULD never happen today.
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15.9K29TV: K is for...
Kenny Everett Video/Television Show, The
SHOUTY SCOUSE sound effects nerd herein masquerading as A1 kids comedy champion.
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6.4K3TV: G is for...
Gambit
THIS AND SALE OF THE CENTURY were the only times the rest of the country ever willingly sat down to watch Anglia's...
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4.5K1TV: G is for...
Glums, The
APTLY-TITLED SUNDAY evening miserycom, reworking bits of Take It From Here off of the radio.
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11.3K14TV: T is for...Terry and June
STURDY EIGHT o'clock suburbacom
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11.6K20TV: L is for...
Little and Large
FAT MAN dons comedy wig/glasses/oversized bowtie while thin man attempts to sing popular song on acoustic guitar.
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5.0K4TV: B is for...
Beasts
NIGEL "KINVIG" KNEALE takes responsibility for these plays about various animal/human horror confrontations.
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2.5K1TV: T is for...
Twist in the Tale, A
US-DERIVED TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED-esque capery
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2.4KTV: T is for...
Traveller in Time, A
FUSTY PERIOD-SWAPPING kids drama
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3.6KTV: T is for...
Touch and Go
OLD-TIMEY ADVENTURE serial reworked as late-70s conspiracy thriller - for kids!
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4.1K6TV: T is for...
Taxi
HYPNOTIC BRIDGE traversal to Bob James flute/vibraphone theme started this proto-Cheers ensemblecom.
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3.1KTV: T is for...
Ten on Saturday
PROVINCIAL TELEVISION companies!
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3.8K3TV: G is for...
Going Straight
IFFY EEKING out of the last scraps of PORRIDGE
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24.9K25TV: 0-9 are for...3-2-1
HAND JIVER extraordinaire TED ROGERS flipped his wrists throughout this hour-long Spanish-derived mystery quiz
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2.8KTV: M is for...
Mixed Blessings
A multi-racial melting pot, if you will, wherein CHRISTOPHER BLAKE and MURIEL ODUNTON moved in with each other to collective muttering and...
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4.4K4TV: C is for...
Cheggers Plays Pop
Sub-Pinball Wizard fanfare was the cue for our man to bound, literally, onto camera, do a little skip and go "Yessss!" by...
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2.8K1TV: M is for...
Mork and Mindy
OVER-LIT, OVER-LOUD and over-egged spin-off
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5.6K8TV: W is for...
Waterloo Bridge Handicap, The
ANOTHER OF those PLANK-esque short Britcom films
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2.4KTV: M is for...
Moon Stallion
MEANDERING MOPERY serving up your usual BBC 70s kids drama courses of period costumers, suggestions of ghosts, evil relations, mystical artefacts and...
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2.7KTV: L is for...
Losers, The
LEONARD ROSSITER and ALAN COREN, apart indefatigable, together...execrable.
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4.8K11TV: L is for...
Love Boat, The
LOVE, EXCITING and new. Come on board.
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3.2KTV: L is for...
Logan’s Run
NUTS AND BOLTS knock-off of the bacofoil and plasterboard big screen classic
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2.5KTV: M is for...
Mallens, The
OLDE ENGLISH cobblers from another Catherine Cookson bodiceboiler
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3.9K2TV: F is for...
Fun Food Factory, The
HALF HOUR Saturday morning effort piloted by Nanette Newman.
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2.5KTV: W is for...
Wilde Alliance
FALTERING ATTEMPT to Anglicise HART TO HART
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5.4K1TV: H is for...
Hazell
MEAN-STREETS SAAAAHF LANDAN PI
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3.8K2TV: F is for...
Fantasy Island
Fantasies included "having lunch with Charlie's Angels". Show included first comedy Sikh.
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3.0K1TV: M is for...
Magic Circle
ALI BONGO anchored this kids magicarama "aided and abetted" by hopeless puppet cat in a fez, Ali Cat
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2.5KTV: W is for...
WKRP in Cincinatti
RADIO STATION in Ohio gets made over as a rock network
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3.1K3TV: W is for...
Wonder Woman
ACTUALLY CALLED THE NEW ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN.
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5.2K10TV: M is for...
Medusa Touch, The
MORE GRADE expectations.
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6.4K11TV: D is for...
Diff’rent Strokes
WIDOWED MILLIONAIRE adopts two black kids, Willis and Arnold (GARY COLEMAN, purveyor of wisecrackery and "brave" illness-baiting stance), to go with ever-superfluous...
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3.3K2TV: D is for...
David Cassidy – Man Undercover
YES, YOU read that right.
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3.0K2TV: O is for...
Out
FOUL-MOUTHED, KIDNEY-KNUCKLING ex-con TOM BELL gets "out" of nick and goes on the trail of the bloke who done grassed him up.
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2.8K1TV: O is for...
Our Show
ROTTEN SATURDAY rowdy runtathon and brief regional replacement for the "irresponsible" TISWAS
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3.1K1TV: L is for...
Lillie
RAGGED STUDIO-BOUND videotape romp through the turn of the century life of the titular royal-bedding ragamuffin
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3.4KTV: L is for...
Lennie and Jerry
TWO FOR the price of none!
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3.8K3TV: L is for...
Law and Order
FOUR-WAY GRIM crime capers, with each hour-plus episode detailing, in sequence, the doings of a police inspector, a lawyer, a felon and...
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7.0KTV: E is for...
Englishman’s Castle, An
KENNETH MORE is ageing harassed scriptwriter living in alternative England 30 years after successful Nazi conquest.
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3.6K1TV: E is for...
Empire Road
ARCHETYPAL GROUNDBREAKING-THEN, what's-all-the-fuss-about-now affair.
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6.2K8TV: I is for...
Incredible Hulk, The
DR 'DAVID' BANNER, nebulously defined "strength" research, gamma rays, green skin, ripped shirts, slow-motion violence, back to normal, new shirt from nowhere,...
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2.7KTV: Q is for...
Quark
SPACE NONSENSE about an intergalactic dustman.
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3.1K1TV: M is for...
Madabout
IN THE words of KENNETH WILLIAMS: "It's MATTHEW KELLY isn't it?! Game for a laugh!"
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3.4K1TV: E is for...
Edward and Mrs Simpson
BROWBEATINGLY PLAY-IT-SAFE dramatisation done on crappy videotape of hush-hush liaison between King Edward VIII (EDWARD FOX) and - oh no! - divorced...
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4.3K2TV: D is for...Dallas
In brief, "A rich Texan family faces all kinds of trouble."
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3.1KTV: A is for...
April Fool
THE HAIRY cornflake himself, DAVE LEE TRAVIS, presented this timely one-off anthology of hoaxes and ruses for kids.
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