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All posts tagged "1979"
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4.8K1TV: F is for...Friday Night… Saturday Morning
MERIDIAN-STRADDLING CHAT meanderer
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4.2KPhoto clippagePICTURE BOX no.1: NOT’s landing
Taking advantage of the acres of pixel space now opened on the front page of TV Cream, we start an occasional series...
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12.8K6TV: W is for...Worzel Gummidge
JON P'TWEE was your thick-but-loveable scarecrow
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4.9K5TV: Q is for...
Question Time
UNCOUTH VERSION of Radio 4's Any Questions, only with pictures.
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5.3K7TV: O is for...
Omega Factor, The
CHIEFLY REMEMBERED for having starred LOUISE "DICKIE DAVIES HAIR" JAMESON fresh from DR WHO as leather-clad inarticulate Leela
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4.5K4TV: L is for...
Life on Earth
THE FIRST of Sir Dave's big budget quests
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4.9K1TV: I is for...
In Loving Memory
THORA HIRD, as usual playing herself, is an undertaker in a bluff, gruff, "take me as you find me" Lancashire funeral firm...
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7.4KTV: O is for...
Only When I Laugh
Three patients spend four years in hospital even though there's absolutely nothing bloody well wrong with them.
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11.1K12TV: T is for...
Tales of the Unexpected
THE ONLY thing unexpected about them being, of course, the identity of the uber-celebrity playing the part of the doomed protagonist this...
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7.6KTV: T is for...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ALEC GUINNESS unearths a mole in the British Secret Service very very slowly
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9.6K8TV: G is for...Give us a Clue
The ultimate in parlour game riddle-me-ree telly
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9.4K6TV: S is for...
Sapphire and Steel
WOBBLY FRIDGE magnet letters and tadgerish geometric cartoons began this pretentious sci-fi supernatuum about two elemental agents...
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3.6KTV: T is for...
Tropic
"NOT THE Tropic of Cancer, or the Tropic of Capricorn, but our very own little English Tropic..."
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3.0K1TV: T is for...
Turtle’s Progress
SHORT-ARSED SNIVELLING baldie Turtle (JOHN LANDRY) is the brains of a petty crime partnership
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2.2KTV: T is for...
Two People
TEENAGE LOVE affair in the HELEN mould.
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2.4KTV: T is for...
Two Up, Two Down
THANKLESS AND thankfully-forgotten squattercom
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2.6KTV: T is for...
Time Express
GALLUMPHING SHORT-LIVED drama boasting a FANTASY ISLAND-type format
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2.8K1TV: T is for...
Tigris
ZEITGEIST-BOTTLING DOCUMENTARY
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3.3K1TV: T is for...
To The Manor Born
PUNNING TITLE and YES, MINISTER-type theme concealed ultra gentle aristocom
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4.0KTV: T is for...
Teliffant
ENGLISH LANGUAGE not evident.
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3.3KTV: T is for...
Telford’s Change
PETER BARKWORTH, in no way typecast as pinstriped corporate banker from the city, packs up (see? Change, like money) and moves to...
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5.0K2TV: G is for...
Grandad
WHO'S THAT walking down the street?
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3.6K2TV: M is for...
Mersey Pirate
ANOTHER SUMMER filler between the delirious dentures of TISWAS.
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2.4KTV: M is for...
Mike Harding Show, The
PROFESSIONAL NORTHERNERN wielding guitar, mouthorgan and dreaded squeezebox
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5.0K4TV: M is for...Monkey
"IN THE days before Monkey, primal chaos reigned..." You said it.
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6.4K3TV: W is for...
Where Are They Now?
DAVID "HELLO THERE" JACOBS talks to various Suez-era celebs
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3.2K1TV: D is for...
Deceivers, The
FIRST GLIMPSE of the great Beadlebum in this A-Z
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3.0K2TV: M is for...
Man Called Intrepid, A
DAVID NIVEN. Of course.
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7.8K7TV: M is for...
Minder
GEORGE COLE aka Arthur Daley (sheepskin coat, cigar, hat, jewellery, 'er indoors, "nice little earner", "world is your lobster, my son") and...
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11.0K2TV: W is for...
Wildtrack
MANY A first viewing of MIDNIGHT COWBOY's Florida daydream sequence will have been ruined by childhood exposure to TONY SOPER's Britnature miscellany
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3.1K1TV: W is for...
What’s On Wogan
Now probably self-deleted from El Tel's memory banks
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3.0KTV: W is for...
W.E.B.
WELL-MEANING (OR not, depending on your allegiances) spin-off from top film Network, about a fictional TV station and all the bribery, baseness,...
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3.0KTV: F is for...
Fred Dibnah – Steeplejack
LOVABLE OLD-ENGLISHERY with Bolton's late lamented Dibbers
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3.9K5TV: H is for...How’s Your Father?
SHOP-WINDOW-ABUSING FUNSTER HARRY WORTH didn't last long in this sitcom
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3.3KTV: F is for...
Flambards
ONCE MORE UNTO Edwardian England for another bout of tears'n'trauma drawing room dramatics.
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6.3K12TV: D is for...Dukes of Hazzard, The
"JUST SOME GOOD OL' BOYS."
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3.4K1TV: D is for...
Dick Turpin
PISTOL-PACKING MASKED MARAUDER who demanded "your money or your life" decision-making from coach-bound rich folk.
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2.9KTV: D is for...
Danger UXB
SMASHING WWII bomb disposal expert saga with ANTHONY "BRIDESHEAD" ANDREWS and MAURICE ROEVES heading a team of sappers clearing up Adolf's mess...
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9.7K16TV: N is for...
Not the Nine O’clock News
STEAMROLLER OF a sketch'n'satire brew
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4.0KTV: J is for...
Jason of Star Command
LONG-BANISHED LIVE action effort from the house of Filmation
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3.3K1TV: O is for...
Orion
ANOTHER BLOODY sci-fi musical (see FACE LIFT).
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3.7K1TV: E is for...
Enchanted Castle, The
MORE FROM THE fortuitously prolific pen of E. Nesbitt
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8.9K18TV: E is for...
End of Part One
SUBLIME SUNDAY AFTERNOON comedy from Andrew Marshall and David Renwick
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2.9KTV: T is for...
Take My Wife
THERE JUST had to be a sitcom with this title at some point in TV history.
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3.1KTV: I is for...
In the Limelight with Lesley
ULTRA-OBSCURE PLACEMENT for post-BLUE PETER JUDD
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5.2K6TV: K is for...
Kelly Montieth
AMERICAN EXPORTED choice of viewing to the Nine O'clock News.
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4.2KTV: F is for...F.A.C.T.S
"FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION Coaching, Tactics and Skills" is what it stood for.
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3.5KTV: C is for...
Cabbages and Kings
The handiwork of the seemingly ageless (and charisma-less) NIGEL REES.
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4.2K3TV: A is for...
Aphrodite Inheritance, The
ONE OF THE BEEB'S many 1970s Mediterranean thrillers bundled out during winter to cheer people up and which made no sense whatsoever...
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4.0K1TV: A is for...
Agony
ANNA RAEBURN-INSPIRED sitcommery starring MAUREEN LIPMAN as usual playing herself, i.e. externally strong, confident woman but internally a babbling mess.
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