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All posts tagged "ITV"
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3.3KTV: H is for...Horse in the House
Kids drama involving a posh girl in a large mansion where shenanigans are going down.
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3.7K2TV: M is for...
Marine Boy
JAPANESE CARTOONERY featuring the eponymous unnamed briny-basher battling deadly "foes"
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3.2KTV: H is for...
Hitman
QUITE POSSIBLY the dullest quiz show of all time.
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4.0K8TV: M is for...
Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury’s The
MISBEGOTTEN HOTCH-POTCH of 70s production values and 50s plotlines
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2.8KTV: M is for...
Mallens, The
OLDE ENGLISH cobblers from another Catherine Cookson bodiceboiler
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4.9KTV: F is for...
Flying Start
NORTH WEST-ONLY business-oriented "gameshow" made by Granada in the 80s and therefore, as dictated by the Broadcasting Act, presented by TONY WILSON.
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3.4KTV: F is for...
Five Magic Minutes
300 SECONDS OF shazam shambolics
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3.4KTV: F is for...
First Post
PLAYGROUP POINTS OF VIEW
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3.2KTV: H is for...
Home James
JIM "CAMERON" DAVIDSON is still Jim London
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7.2K3TV: M is for...
Magpie
BLUE-PETER-BEATING ITV kids' magazine
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9.8K9TV: F is for...
Fun Factory
YET ANOTHER in the many summer replacements for TISWAS, as feeble as that show was mighty.
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3.7KTV: W is for...
Who’s Next?
WOO! PUBLIC access!
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4.2K2TV: F is for...
Fun Food Factory, The
HALF HOUR Saturday morning effort piloted by Nanette Newman.
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3.7K1TV: W is for...
Who’s the Greatest?
BRIAN "IT'S IN THERE!" MOORE fronted this self-explanatory yet ultimately disposable celebrity-endorsed battle of the sporting greats.
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3.5K1TV: F is for...
Funnybone
SENT TO EARTH to make Cannon and Ball and Little and Large appear talented, the putative stars of this shambles were CHEESE...
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3.5K1TV: W is for...
Widows
FIRST-RUN LYNDA LA PLANTE-ation had the wives of three cons who die in a botched heist doing the next planned job themselves.
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2.8KTV: W is for...
Wilde Alliance
FALTERING ATTEMPT to Anglicise HART TO HART
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8.4K7TV: 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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5.8K1TV: H is for...
Hazell
MEAN-STREETS SAAAAHF LANDAN PI
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5.4K2TV: W is for...
Whose Baby?
INVENTED, IT says here, by EAMONN ANDREWS.
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3.0KTV: 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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4.1K2TV: F is for...
Fantasy Island
Fantasies included "having lunch with Charlie's Angels". Show included first comedy Sikh.
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4.9K3TV: W is for...
What’s Happening?
QUITE.
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3.0KTV: F is for...
Fantastic Voyage
THIS, ON the other hand, was an animated knock-off of the Racquel Welch-baiting original film
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3.0KTV: F is for...
Feathered Serpent, The
DREARY STUDIO-BOUND ancient Mexico-based romp through curses, secret passages and much shaking of sticks at angry Gods.
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5.8K7TV: M is for...
Make Me Laugh
LOUSY TEATIME tripe marshalled into mithersome existence by BERNIE WINTERS
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4.2K3TV: F is for...
Fangface
"HE'S NOT your average teenage kid - unless you call a kid who turns into a wacky werewolf average!"
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3.5KTV: F is for...
Fancy Wanders
GURNEY SLADE-ESQUE gumption from pen of Sid Green, with DAVE KING and JOE MARCELL as the eponymous vagrants living mostly inside their...
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4.5K1TV: M is for...
Manhunt
ROISTERING RESISTANCE tales from World War Two France
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2.6K1TV: W is for...
Wish Me Luck
FEMALE VERSION of SECRET ARMY
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4.0KTV: W is for...Winner Takes All
CHIRPY, GAP-TOOTHED scouser JIMMY TARBUCK waffled chummily through this tatty provincial gamblo-general knowledge quiz.
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4.7K2TV: M is for...
Magic Micro Mission
UNLIKELY ENTRY in the 1980s parade of home computer shows
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3.3K1TV: M is for...
Magic Circle
ALI BONGO anchored this kids magicarama "aided and abetted" by hopeless puppet cat in a fez, Ali Cat
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3.9K3TV: W is for...
Whoops Apocalypse
EARLY MASTERPIECE from DAVID "ONE FOOT" RENWICK and ANDREW "2.4" MARSHALL
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4.1K3TV: W is for...
Whodunnit?
EARLY EVENING Cluedo-based antics with first EDWARD WOODWARD then JON P'TWEE as chairman.
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3.1KTV: M is for...
Man from Atlantis
"DO NOT follow me. I am going to the main airlock."
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6.0K12TV: W is for...
Who Do You Do?
"MICK JAGGER visiting a laundrette? It would probably be something…like this…"
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4.3K2TV: F is for...
Falcon Crest
PREPOSTEROUS VINEYARD vagaries courtesy of shameless DALLAS rip off relocated to Napa, er, Tuscany Valley.
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2.8KTV: W is for...
Witches and the Grinigog, The
SOME POSH children (naturally) go to visit a small village during the school holidays.
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2.9K1TV: F is for...
Fairytale Theatre
VARIATION ON textbook "anthology" format
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4.5K2TV: F is for...
Fall Guy, The
HE WAS, as he kept telling us, the unknown stuntman
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2.3K1TV: W is for...
Wonder Why
EDUCATIONAL SERIES featuring a talking, poorly-operated puppet skeleton
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3.1KTV: M is for...
Masquerade
HEAVENS, IT'S been all of, what, 11 entries since we last mentioned Glen?
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3.4K3TV: W is for...
Wonder Woman
ACTUALLY CALLED THE NEW ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN.
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4.1K2TV: F is for...
Fine Romance, A
BEST DESCRIBED as MAY TO DECEMBER minus that programme's calendar-themed-age-difference twist.
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3.4K1TV: F is for...
Fenn Street Gang, The
ALL YOUR PLEASE, SIR! favourites brought back for your viewing pleasure via inconsequential, delinquent ex-pupil spin-off.
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2.9KTV: W is for...
What the Papers Say
CAMERA-SHY JOURNO sits in empty studio and talks about how, while fellow journos are pissed-up burnt-out rabble-rousing ne'er-do-wells, the profession of journalism...
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2.8KTV: M is for...Maggie and Her
JULIA MACKENSIE, playing herself, is a divorced teacher living next door to IRENE HANDL, also playing herself. Neither can leave well alone.
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3.5KTV: F is for...
Fireball XL5
RICKETY ANDERSON Supermarionation saga
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5.8KTV: F is for...First AIDS
CENTREPIECE OF week long, decade-defining, all-star, all-channel Aidsathon
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