While the BBC was pulling up the drawbridge on traditional sketch show talent, the crop of comedians at ITV weren’t...
In 1990, the BBC managed to trade in one master game show host for another. Bob Monkhouse had been presiding over...
1984 was a year of change in front of the camera. Simon Cadell was replaced in BBC1’s Saturday evening nostalgic sitcom Hi-de-Hi! by...
Friday, 26th December 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 6.45pm BLANKETY BLANK, BBC1 From start to finish, it was a brilliant Boxing Night...
Friday, 19th November 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm DEMOB, ITV Hyped up as the next big hit comedy drama that wasn’t...
Friday, 7th September 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm BLANKETY BLANK, BBC1 “Please don’t fiddle with the controls on your set. Just...
Friday, 17th May 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 6.30pm TONIGHT WITH JONATHAN ROSS, CHANNEL 4 It seems so long ago now, but...
Friday, 15th March 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WOGAN, BBC1 And it’s our last visit of the week to the verdant...
A TRIUMPHANT return to prime time Friday nights for redoubtable amusical pentheraphobe LES DAWSON.
BARRY CRYER (with black hair!) fronted this spontaneous (in the same way that HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU is spontaneous) gagfest
By the mid seventies Radio 2 was already turning into a rest home for dwindling nightclub acts and those intriguingly billed 'all-round...
"ON THE PANEL, six of the finest showbusiness minds in the country. Sadly that was last week, so here are half a...
THREE PLAYLETS courtesy of ALAN "COALHOUSE DOOR" PLATER
EXPECTED EXQUISITE dog-faced drollery from the rumbling northern ranconteur
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