SHORT-LIVED SUNDAY night God slot support feature.
LATE-PERIOD COLD War production-line thriller set in a US air force base in the UK.
ANNA RAEBURN-INSPIRED sitcommery starring MAUREEN LIPMAN as usual playing herself, i.e. externally strong, confident woman but internally a babbling mess.
AMIABLE ENOUGH cartoon serial about a bowler-hatted, moustachioed detective (and some sort of police constable sidekick).
LEVIATHAN OF post-lunch shoestring scheduling and sanctuary for many a sneaky school skive.
25-MINUTE GUNG-HO adventures of Ernest Laverdure and Michel Tanguy, young strapping pilots in the French air force.
AUSSIE KIDS Molly (AMEILA FRID - the original Cody Willis in NEIGHBOURS) and Spike (GARY PERAZZO) holiday on a Greek island, where...
MORE OLD black and white stuff which strayed far into the colour era.
SCI-FI COMEDY outing, little remembered now, with IAN HENDRY as the quixotic space traveller, and RONALD LACEY as Sam Chopanza.
DIMLY-RECALLED KIDS series from the arse-end of the 60s about a group of kids in an English town who decided to write...
WHAT NOW GET OUT OF THAT was to BBC1 evenings, THE ADVENTURE GAME was to BBC2 teatime.
DREADFUL HALF-ARSED cheapo kids' drama-workshop-on-screen string of semi-improvised (hence title) sketches and bollocks, the most notable thing being when cast regular DUNCAN...
CREEPY. KOOKY. And altogether, er, ooky.
DISABLED WOMAN falls victim to a new automated, computer-controlled house, which seems strangely sinister, and...yeah, you guessed it.
Inspired by a couple of tunes somebody has added to the TV Cream Spotify playlist, plus watching The Spy Who Loved Me...
To celebrate reaching a half-century of graphical archivery, here’s that official new Countryfile presenting line-up in full:
Hello, I’m Norris McWhirter, and I’ve just popped out from a meeting of the Freedom Association to tell you that TV Cream...
Commercially manufactured noises have already been dealt with. What about those non-musical, non-vocal sounds that should be recognised for somehow forever embodying an...
Greetings! Wogan here. Unfortunately I am not my usual, full-chested, stout-lipped soul. I have had a brush with the law. Well, the...
It seems some of those much-hyped and secretly-wished-for “rogue elements” ((C) The Daily Express, The Daily Mail et al) slipped into Saturday’s...
It seems some of those much-hyped and secretly-wished-for “rogue elements” ((C) The Daily Express, The Daily Mail et al) slipped into Saturday’s anti-G20...
In 1985 That’s Life! was in its imperial phase. It had an immovable berth in Michael Grade’s aromatic Sunday night line-up of...
Here's a lovely test post!
BBC Parliament has spent the evening reliving events from precisely 30 years ago, when Donald MacCormick stood on a gantry high up...
BBC Parliament has spent the evening reliving events from precisely 30 years ago, when Donald MacCormick stood on a gantry high up...
KNIGHT RIDER on two wheels.
TWO VICTORIAN boys carelessly leave baby sister (Adelaide) in an orphanage in Georgian-era Brighton, in the hands of a boffiny, know-all boy...
POST-BLUE PETER but pre-Crufts, PETER "NATIONAL POWER" PURVES and NIGEL STARMER-SMITH helmed this dreary kids sports magazine
BLARNEY BEDECKED ultra-2D cartoonery attempt to hammer home "don't drop crisp bags" message by stealth
JUST-AFTER-LUNCHTIME SPROGS show
CHRIS TARRANT'S uvular midlands thwack narrated a different "look at life" film each week.
NOISY SKETCHATHON for kids with a "parents eh? Cuh!" theme
KID GANGS from the Clyde arse around a bit on obligatory patch of waste ground.
TWO MANKY men shout at each other, first in black and white, then in colour.
YOUNG 'UNS lunchtime stories and songs miscellany
WELL-MEANING EURO-BONDING co-production
IN NO way related to any Barrymore business, this was a boggling drama
SUB-PUNKY THEME tune introduced educational wank for 16 plusses.
PAUL MICHAEL "RUNNING MAN" GLAZER and DAVID "SIX FIFTY FIVE SPECIAL" SOUL
ONE-OFF DOCUMENTARY about pub entertainers for A-R the previous year gave way to this pub entertainment miscellany
RETARDED FUTURE British community indulges in an annual gathering where the village folk swear and throw vegetables at each other.
KIDS CHARADES programme presented by the mighty BERNARD CRIBBINS.
ROLE-REVERSAL SPACE drama set on a planet where the women were in charge a la The Worm That Turned
IN TRUTH the only thing worth saluting about this jumped-up jumpsuitery were the commendably non-unrealistic visual effects and models of Sir MAT...
US FILM magazine, a sort of yank CLAPPERBOARD
ONE-OFF SCI-FI kids sitcom by GRAY "WICKED WILLIE BOOKS" JOLLIFFE about a bunch of alien robots
SHUFFLING SMALL SCREEN version of ALAN AYCKBOURN's salty ensemble drama following a mithering middle class quartet through three Christmases...
DOLEFUL LOOK-AT-THIS "local people with a story to tell" effort showcasing regionalia in as lumpen a manner possible
YET A further kids' quiz show needlessly complicated by a cumbersome "space" theme.
OFFICE POLITICKING over-easy.
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