Ostensibly a fast-paced succession of celebrity-lampooning sketches and songs performed by a young team of impressionists, the sheer consistent lack of quality...
EARLY COMEDY sketch kaboodle
RUEFULLY RECALLED by many a kid as the first long-term replacement (see just about anything beginning with the word "Saturday" and FUN...
RIK "I WAS PAUL SQUIRES!" MAYALL ruled the late-Sunday, pre-Bragg ITV slot in this harsh, tasteless and often fantastic politicom
DEFINITIVE GLAM movie, miles better than Slade In Flame AND Stardust.
PRE-CAMBRIAN SITCOMMERY
YOU DON'T mess with a hit, runs the old showbiz lore.
SATURDAY TEATIME American bollocks
SHODDINESS INCARNATE made bearable by the gantry of gripe that was the "celebrity panel"
YET MORE animated jollies from the fastest working felt-tips in Hollywood
MOUTHY MIDGET, son of Dr. Benton Quest, has various hung-go adventures
"PEOPLE SAY the funniest things!" out-and-aboutfest in the style of THAT'S LIFE! and GAME FOR A LAUGH.
YET MORE animated antics, this time featuring an all-American girl band fronted by Jenna who'd be transformed via holograph-projecting earrings into the...
A MACHINE that told jokes. Old jokes. For kids.
CUMBERSOME RENDERING of the Jules Verne epic in earnest animated form
BANKROLLED BY 20th Century Fox, this forerunner of the self-same's HOUSE OF HORROR made-for-telly tall tales had the works.
SPLENETIC CARTOONERY involving another space blerk
ELEPHANTINE RAMBLE around the Raj
2D STOP-FRAME minimalist animation five-minuter parked just before HORSE IN THE HOUSE.
CEREBRAL DOWNER after the Supermarionation splendour of CAPTAIN SCARLET.
HAZEL "A PROBLEM MAN HAD NOT FORESEEN AS YET" O'CONNOR and JESSE "MARRRRCCUUUSSSSSSS!" BIRDSALL hang out down eponymous local discotheque
CREAKY FLEAPIT of a show utilising old-time Music Hall format to showcase middle-class brats who'd been sent to piano lessons or owned...
HOW WRONG can a title be?
NEVER-BEFORE-OR-AGAIN CRAZED combination of ERIC SYKES, JOHNNY SPEIGHT and WILLIAM G. STEWART
SHE'S BACK! Execrable sitcommage with HYLDA BAKER
POST-APOCALYPTIC SITCOM with JOSIE LAWRENCE
ESP-BASED SELF-CONTAINED yarns with people travelling back to Krakatoa or the holocaust and forward into the future by means of juddery-camera visions.
MIDWEEK MELODRAMA about a whiskery bloke who sets up a company designing Dungeons And Dragons games.
TYNE-TEES SATIRISES itself with a kids' series about a regional-as-hell TV station broadcasting from a lighthouse to no-one.
PETER DAVIDSON'S first gig after getting smothered to death by Peri's breastage in DR WHO.
ENDLESSLY REPEATED French animation epic purporting to make plain the workings of the human body through cheery-faced cartoonery.
"NOBODY" WAS the eponymous spook in this, ITV's proto-RENTAGHOST palaver.
SUNDAY NIGHT sitcomage both featuring and penned by Yank grande dame ELAINE STRITCH
FAR-FETCHED, FURTHER-FLUNG one-off snubbed by evil bastard US networks.
EVER-CHANGING TITLE of sub-religious "Why can't we all just get along?"-ery in the form of a kindly bearded man in a studio...
FOUL-MOUTHED, KIDNEY-KNUCKLING ex-con TOM BELL gets "out" of nick and goes on the trail of the bloke who done grassed him up.
ROTTEN SATURDAY rowdy runtathon and brief regional replacement for the "irresponsible" TISWAS
WELL, WE know THIS one existed
MORE CHROMAKEYED black velvet marionettage for summer holiday mornings
CHUNKY CHROMAKEYED puppetry
KIDS' SPINOFF from CRANE featuring SAM KYDD as the titular blarney-peddling hoodlum-pounding scruff.
FOWL PLAY from the North.
NOW THIS is what we call obscure.
ADULT TISWAS
LUGBURIOUS LUNCHTIME fare for kids fronted by a cartoon seagull, whose chief job was to fill in the wearied viewer on the...
PAPERFOLDY SHOW similar to the later ART OF...
ARCH SATIRE on power games in the PR department of a large corporation and one most-literate series ever to grace the screen.
DEFINITIVE SMALL-SCREEN sleuthathon saddling JEREMY BRETT, for good or ill (the latter, as it turned out) with the role of a lifetime.
L! I! N! G! O! ran the sub-Ottawan theme tune to this half-remembered, half-arsed bingo-based Thursday night quiz
ROTTEN REPLACEMENT for PIPKINS
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