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All posts tagged "Everyday kids without unsettlingly posh voices"
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6.6K3Your Friday Night In...Your Friday Night In… February 1982
Friday, 5th February 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm FAMILY FORTUNES, ITV The mighty Monkhouse boots up Mr Babbage once more to...
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9.2K9TV: G is for...Grange Hill
GENERAL COLLAPSE of secondary education.
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7.0K7TV: C is for...Chocky/Chocky’s Children/Chocky’s Challenge
ADAPTED FROM John Wyndham books that nobody read
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84.3K56C.F.F.The Children’s Film Foundation
All the underage poacher-thwarting antics worthy of the initials CFF.
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75.5K23Schools and CollegesProgrammes for Schools and Colleges
The soup-to-nuts of educational broadcasting in five integrated modules.
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2.5KPlay For TodayMother Like Him, A
By Frances Galleymore. Five orphaned children are split up, with the eldest (Perry Fenwick) put in charge. Featuring Nicholas Lyndhurst as a...
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6.6KPlay For Today
Blue Remembered Hills
A wartime countryside idyll (closely modelled, of course, on Dennis Potter’s Forest of Dean domain) is populated by seven-year-old children playing in...
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3.0K3Play For Today
Vampires
Too much Hammer!
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5.7KPlay For Today
Our Day Out
This Willy Russell musical ensemble piece isn’t usually counted as a ‘true’ Play for Today because it wasn’t billed as such, but...
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Scully’s New Year’s Eve
The first TV glimpse of Alan Bleasdale’s alienated, down-at-heel scouse youth Franny Scully, as he invites his mates to gatecrash his mum’s...
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4.4K2Play For Today
Scum
Which version's best? There's only one way to find out...
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3.1K2Play For Today
Nipper
By Barrie Keeffe. 13 year old John Fowler, with a dead father and a mum more interested in getting her end away...
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2.4KPlay For Today
Easy Go
A gang of Deptford street kids races against local dockers to retrieve a promising-looking abandoned barrel from the Thames. Devised by Brian...
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2.1KPlay For Today
Private Practice
By Peter Hankin. Respectable snob Priscilla Morgan is unduly worried about a visit from her daughter’s schoolfriend.
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3.5K1Play For Today
Speech Day
Kes with cups instead of, um, birds.
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5.7K3TV: G is for...
Good Health
BY THE KIDS, for the kids!
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4.2K4TV: B is for...
Break in the Sun
DRAMATISED SERIES BASED on a Bernard Ashley novel.
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2.9KTV: B is for...
Bunch of Fives, A
WRONGED SCHOOLKID decides to clear his name by writing about it, only evil staffroom bastards won't let him use the existing school...
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4.1K2TV: B is for...
Beat the Teacher
FROM THE DESK OF DOIG.
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3.3KTV: G is for...
Gruey
MORE TEATIME travails in same lineage and above average quality as BAD BOYES and WHO SIR ME SIR
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2.7KTV: M is for...
Moondial
AGAIN WITH the let's-give-the-kids-something-to-scare-them-shitless.
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3.6KTV: S is for...
Stookie
KID GANGS from the Clyde arse around a bit on obligatory patch of waste ground.
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