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THE TITAN of Saturday morning television. Its shadow fell over everything else that followed in the much-prized but frequently 'difficult' Saturday slot.
TRAILBLAZING London-centric commercial service
The soup-to-nuts of educational broadcasting in five integrated modules.
ASPEL-HELMED LONDON-ONLY weekend-starting magazine
SNAP! A futile attempt to replicate success of the above, masterminded by BEADLEBUM.
"THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT!"
STAGE ONE of the long and winding Tarrant.
ADULT TISWAS
CHRIS TARRANT'S uvular midlands thwack narrated a different "look at life" film each week.
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