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All posts tagged "ITV"
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6.1K6TV: G is for...Galloping Gourmet, The
Very much a cross between George Hamilton and Robert Carrier.
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7.7K10TV: O is for...
O’Connor, Tom
WE'VE BEEN treated to a succession of vehicles for Scouse stand-up and self-styled "Mr Clean" Tom O'Connor down the years.
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6.9K19TV: M is for...
Murder, She Wrote
TEA-AND-SLIPPERS SLEUTHERY, best taken over doilies and Darjeeling, if not Lucozade and egg soldiers.
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5.6K6TV: L is for...
Land of the Giants
DOWNSIZED DERRING-DO from the Infernomeister
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5.2K3TV: S is for...Sweeney, The
"I SOMETIMES hate this bastard place."
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9.4K14TV: H is for...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
PISH TOY-FLOGGING sword and sorcery cartoon.
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8.9K19TV: M is for...
Mind Your Language
"PLEASE, LET us have no racialism!"
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6.4K8TV: D is for...
Dangermouse
"CRUMBS!"
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4.1KTV: N is for...
No, That’s Me Over Here!
ACE-TITLED SURBUBACOM with RONNIE CORBETT (playing a character called Ronnie) married to ROSEMARY LEACH
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11.1K7TV: O is for...
Once Upon A Time… Man
WELL-REMEMBERED if pretentiously-titled Gallic historicals.
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11.7K6TV: K is for...Krypton Factor, The
SUPERLATIVE GREY CELLS weeknight workout, hosted by the unflappable Uncle GORDON BURNS in a quest to find "the UK's superperson".
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5.9K7TV: I is for...
Inspector Gadget
EXECREABLE ECCENTRIC with show-off retractable limb assortment and punchable face.
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10.6KTV: G is for...
Good Morning Britain
Main, indeed for a time only, plank in ITV's half-built semi-bodged creaking edifice of a breakfast television service
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9.3K22TV: A is for...
Avengers, The
THE FORMAT might have been through the mill countless times, but when it got itself sorted, this was close to the best...
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7.5K8TV: A is for...
After Henry
SYBIL FAWLTY lives one floor below the snooty one off PLEASE, SIR! and one floor above someone who looks and sounds like...
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9.3K4TV: O is for...
On Safari
INSIPID CARDBOARD jungle-set mincing with the rotund campmeister’s rotund campmeister, CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS. The actual content is thankfully lost in the mists of...
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7.4K5TV: W is for...
Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, The
RUMBUSTIOUS ROARATHON from pretend working man's establishment somewhere in the north of England
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11.7K14TV: M is for...
Man About the House
NEITHER AGE nor any number of middling Martin Clunes-based rehashes shall wither the legend of Robin Tripp
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9.1K7TV: S is for...Sale of the Century
IT CAME from Norwich.
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4.4KTV: R is for...
Raffles
CRAVAT-SPORTING CREEPERY of the yowser roisterer shafer-me-lad kind.
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5.2K1TV: 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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9.2K9TV: M is for...Mr and Mrs
NUPTIAL-ENDORSING NONSENSE which, were it still running today, David Cameron would've co-opted as party policy within seconds (SATIRE).
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4.8K1TV: 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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4.6K2TV: D is for...
Doctor in the House
SLAPSTICK STETHOSCOPE SAGA
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10.4K12TV: N is for...
Nearest and Dearest
GRANADA'S BIGGEST-SELLING situation comedy.
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8.9K3TV: J is for...
James the Cat
UNBELIEVABLY TARDY travails of cut-out couldn't-be-arsed feline.
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7.9KTV: 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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12.2K12TV: 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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6.2K3TV: G is for...
Good Health
BY THE KIDS, for the kids!
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10.4K8TV: G is for...Give us a Clue
The ultimate in parlour game riddle-me-ree telly
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7.5K11TV: M is for...Muppet Show, The
MULTI-AWARD WINNING gloves-with-eyes
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7.7KTV: S is for...
Six O’Clock Show, The
ASPEL-HELMED LONDON-ONLY weekend-starting magazine
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10.2K6TV: 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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4.5K3TV: T is for...
Terrahawks
MORE OR less the only Gerryatrics of note from the 80s and the only outing for, ahem, Supermacromation aka glorified glove puppetry.
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2.9KTV: G is for...
Good Companions, The
SONG AND DANCE retooling of JB Priestley yarn
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4.9K4TV: T is for...
That’s My Dog!
DEREK "NEW Faces" Hobson hosted this dogathon of a programme, boasting Yorkshire terriers heeling, going over little see-saws and so on.
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2.9KTV: G is for...
Goober and the Ghost Chasers
WILL AND JOE need a new hit and fast.
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4.6K5TV: G is for...
Goliath Awaits
BAFFLING MINI-SERIES about the discovery of a mini-society living in a cruise liner on the bottom of the sea since World War...
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3.9KTV: T is for...That’s My Boy
AND BY a quirk of fuck-you fate, here's more Mollie.
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3.0KTV: T is for...
There Comes a Time…
ANDREW SACHS contracts a previously unknown fatal illness and dies slowly, while JUDY "GOOD COMPANIONS" CORNWELL looks on. Sitcom.
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4.4K4TV: T is for...
There’s Something Wrong in Paradise
ABSOLUTELY DIRE musical comedy vehicle for evergreen band KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS
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3.9K1TV: G is for...
Going Out
EARLY SIGHTING of Professor Phil Redmond's obsession with Telling It How It Is
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3.2KTV: G is for...
Glamour Girls, The
DAVID "PERRIN" NOBBS-penned laugh-light effort about marketing men and (hey!) women.
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3.2K1TV: T is for...
Thick as Thieves
SHABBY SITCOM made during the Three Day Week, and it showed.
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3.2KTV: T is for...
Take Your Pick
THIS IS more like it; a TAKE-monikered effort with a bit of class, namely MICHAEL MILES proffering the titular conundrum between "money"...
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2.9KTV: G is for...
Goodnight and God Bless
DONALD "SPOONER" CHURCHILL mugs and frugs to high heaven as a HUGHIE GREEN-esque shagging, cheating bastard game show host.
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4.4K3TV: G is for...
Girls on Top
IN THE Kensington sky.
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3.3KTV: G is for...
Girls About Town
PLAY AWAY'S JULIE STEVENS and DENISE COFFEY are two bored housewives looking for "additional" action. Derek Wilton - yikes! - obliges.
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2.8KTV: G is for...
Goodbye Again
ROTTEN PETE'N'DUD roustabout done for the third channel purely for a) Lew Grade money b) to give Lew Grade something else to...
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3.8K1TV: G is for...
Get Smart
TOP HOLE Bond spoofery by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry
OFF THE TELLY
TVC ON REDBUBBLE!
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