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All posts tagged "Cuh – those Americans!"
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9.0K14Pot pourriThe not-quite-late-enough shows
When Britain tries to do topical late-night TV: eight-and-a-half examples For unfussy disciples of US popular culture, which nowadays is pretty much...
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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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4.3K3TV: V is for...
Vega$
GIRLS, Guns ‘n Gambling-festooned great grandaddy of all those ‘maverick Private Eye with a snazzy car and Vietnam flashbacks’ imports, starring Robert...
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7.6K10TV: I is for...
It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
PRE-LARRY SANDERS pissabout for the eponymous moocher.
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5.2K6TV: D is for...
Donahue
THE SILVER-HAIRED MIC-WIELDER was king of the ITV nighttime schedules even before they went 24-hour.
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7.0K13TV: A is for...
America’s Top Ten
"HELLO, I'M CASEY KASEM," beamed the garishly-sweatered host at the start of this imported Billboard countdown-cum-cheap syndicated overnight time filler, standing behind...
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6.7KTV: R is for...
Ripcord
BONKERS CRIME serial featuring Quick Yankee Ted McKeever (LARRY PENNELL) and Slow Southerner Jim Buckley (KEN CURTIS)
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2.7KTV: P is for...
Petticoat Junction
RAMBLING RURAL odyssey in an Ordinary Sleepy Hotel in Hooterville.
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2.7KTV: P is for...
Perfect Strangers
SHORT-ARSED MISERABLIST batchelor finds out he has a wayward cousin from comedy made-up backward East European island of Mypos.
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2.9KTV: B is for...
Brave New World
HUXLEY GOES disco
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4.5KTV: B is for...
Big John, Little John
PHIL SILVERS-LOOKALIKE teaches in your average all-American high school
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5.1KTV: B is for...
Benson
NEVER-ENDING BUBBLE floated off from SOAP
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2.4KTV: B is for...
Boy in the Plastic Bubble, The
TOP LOOPY clam worshipper JOHN "WELCOME BACK, KOTTER" TRAVOLTA led this adolescence-while-allergic-to-everything "true life" TV movie.
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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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4.4K6TV: C is for...
CHiPs
WELCOME TO SATURDAY lunchtime
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3.5KTV: C is for...
Cry Wolf
HALF HOUR spoof of the werewolf genre.
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3.5K3TV: G is for...
Gilligan’s Island
LITTLE-SEEN OVER here but beloved of everyone over there.
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3.3K1TV: M is for...
Mr Merlin
DOTTY OVER-THE-HILL eponymous medieval meddler BARNARD HUGHES helps/hinders dopey teen CLARK BRANDON in meddlesome sitcommery ways.
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4.6KTV: G is for...
Greatest American Hero, The
FLIMSY FROLIC revolving around teacher (WILLIAM KATT) getting "magical" superhero suit from ghost of an alien (or something) and being forced against...
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5.7K11TV: M is for...Monkees, The
PETER, DAVY, PETER, MICKY, PETER, MIKE, DAVY and PETER
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2.7KTV: L is for...
Longstreet
NEW ORLEANS criminal insurance investigator gets blinded in the line of duty, but on he bloody well goes.
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4.8K11TV: L is for...
Love Boat, The
LOVE, EXCITING and new. Come on board.
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3.0K1TV: W is for...
Whiz Kids
UNEASY - OK, shite - cross between the HARDY BOYS and WAR GAMES.
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2.7KTV: H is for...
Harlem Globetrotters, The
NOVELTY BASKETBALL bunch with annoying whistley theme tune do battle with basketball-playing robots, or something.
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5.3K6TV: F is for...
Fame
FOLLOWING ALAN PARKER'S shouty 1980 big screen sweatband-and-leggings bonanza, here came more high-kicking high-falutin' histrionics from life at New York's School For...
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3.1K3TV: W is for...
Wonder Woman
ACTUALLY CALLED THE NEW ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN.
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3.0KTV: W is for...
Welcome Back, Kotter!
IN BLOODY DEED.
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3.1KTV: 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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3.8K2TV: W is for...
We Got It Made
RANK SITCOMMAGE from across the pond.
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2.4KTV: H is for...
Holmes and Yo Yo
AH YES, the old "hard-bitten cop teams up with experimental robot" schtick.
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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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2.8KTV: N is for...
New People, The
SATURDAY TEATIME American bollocks
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3.0KTV: S is for...
Simon and Simon
LIKE THE above, ubiquitous for a while over there, rarely glimpsed if at all over here.
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3.6K6TV: E is for...
Empire
RAMBLING AND RUMBUSTIOUS DALLAS parody set in the boardroom of a large industrial company run by John Steed.
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3.0KTV: E is for...
Enos
THICKIE SUB-SHERIFF off of THE DUKES OF HAZARD moves to LA and teams up with obligatory I-Spy style black partner.
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3.5KTV: E is for...
ER
WE-WERE-THERE-FIRST STATES-SIDE sitcommery
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3.0KTV: I is for...
It’s Your Move
POST-WOGAN WHIMSY with made-to-measure wiseguy kid
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4.1K3TV: K is for...
Knight Rider
RARE CHARACTER study for EDWARD "THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR" MULHARE.
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4.7K5TV: V is for...
Valerie
BOTTOM HOLE arse-for-the-money drabcom.
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2.5KTV: R is for...
Roger Ramjet
SOMETHING AMUSING about that name, hmmm?
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4.0K5TV: T is for...
Tabitha
INEVITABLE YET ill-advised spin-off from BEWITCHED.
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4.9K4TV: M is for...
MacGyver
"RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON will be in my dreams tonight!"
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2.5KTV: L is for...
Lancelot Link – Secret Chimp
OVER HERE we had the PG Tips chimps ("You hum it son, I'll play it").
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7.8K16TV: L is for...
Lace
"ALL RIGHT, which one of you bitches is my mother?"
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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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5.3K6TV: H is for...
Happy Days
THIS IS the entry for the long-running American sitcom HAPPY DAYS (CUE DEAFENING AUDIENCE APPLAUSE AND WHOOPING WHICH GOES ON FOR FIVE...
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3.2K2TV: S is for...
Spider-Man (II)
LIVE-ACTION SPIDEYFEST that's the best for our money simply because, being live-action, it looks completely ridiculous.
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2.2KTV: S is for...
Supertrain
MASSIVE LUXURY Trans-Am train (complete with cocktail bar, swimming pool etc.) plays host to various thrilling incidents.
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3.0K2TV: S is for...
Soap
RICH FAMILY/POOR family satirecom
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2.4K1TV: S is for...
Small Wonder
THE DEPTHS to which mankind can sink was effectively summed up in this schmaltzcom
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