JOE BROWN, sans Bruvvers, mugged his way through this outsize snakes and ladders game.
SUNDAY EVENING. The 1970s.
KEIR "2001" DULLEA starred in this bonkers effort about a space ark
CUNNINGLY SEARCHING for a rival to IT'S A KNOCKOUT during that strange period when Stuart Hall held dominion over the continent, Thames...
SPURIOUS SITCOM hastened out in the 4.45pm slot
ODDLY-THEMED ESPIONAGE quiz show for two teams of kids.
LAME RIP-OFF of A Question Of Sport (no, it's different, it's got three teams, see?) hosted by NICK OWEN
INCREDIBLY POPULAR at the time, virtually forgotten now.
ODD CARTOON kid of vaguely Hispanic origin battles evil green Queen Vandar and snivelling gnome-like henchman who want to "destroy all sport"...
BENT COPPERCOM which lingered for a while at the turn of the decade in spite of iffy plots, endless strikes and equally...
PRE-WIDE AWAKE CLUB shortlived Saturday morning effort.
TATTY MAGAZINE programme for kids in the quarter-to-five slot.
SPOOKEEE SPIN-OFF of Jackanory, as the likes of MARTIN "RINGS" JARVIS tell mildly hair-raising tales in pre-NATIONWIDE slot.
LIVE-ACTION SPIDEYFEST that's the best for our money simply because, being live-action, it looks completely ridiculous.
THE ORIGINAL cartoon of the "webbed wonder" of comic fame
THREE TEENAGE kids (a shiny new sixpence to whoever can remember their no doubt way-out names) have rattling adventures in the eponymous...
FOOTBALL-MAD SCOUSE tyke Harry (JOE GLADWIN) lived in a caravan with his hard-up Dad (GEOFFREY HINSLIFF) who just happened to be ex-football...
SHORTLIVED SITCOM with TIM "JEWEL IN THE CROWN" PIGOTT-SMITH as a Red Ken figure running the London borough of Southam and facing...
WARTIME UPS and downs of a down under nuclear family.
EX-PAT BRITCOM set on some remote island colony in the Med, the first thing to be written by DAVID NOBBS since PERRIN,...
THE RETURN of the inhaler-wielding, glove-toting, Shakespeare-spouting fop DCI George Bulman, still played by DON HENDERSON.
OBSCURE OZ version of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Except many years before that, of course.
YET MORE glossy glamour-heavy gluttony cooked up by LEW GRADE to sell to the Americans when they weren't looking.
STIFFLY-ANIMATED ADVENTURES of three superheroes who live in a volcano
WHEN PEOPLE start talking about "that FIREBALL XL5 show - the one with the parrot" it's this lesser-known effort they mean.
JAPANESE-DUBBED-TO-ENGLISH CAPERY about a 50 foot tall robot named Goldar
SEMI-ANIMATED MASKED geezer with invisible powers and special belt fights interplanetary crime with Jayce and Jan and Blip the monkey.
NORTHERNER FORCED by circumstance moves to the South of England looking for work.
A YEAR or so after AD-LIB in roughly the same timeslot with roughly the same rough-looking cast came this "helping you to...
SCRATCHY ANDERSONIA from before Gerry worked out how to make the strings look less like massive fuck-off copper wires.
A SORT of WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS on wheels
ALVIN STARDUST in glove and quiff presented this also-ran glam showcase with God on vibes and a heavy MIKE "CUE THE MUSIC"...
UNNECESSARY ENCORE for the old-as-hills brass-band-as-sitcom number
YET ANOTHER of those preachy ON THE MOVE-style BBC educational initiatives, aimed at teaching the unwashed masses about road safety.
INSUFFERABLE REPLACEMENT for the inoffensively irreplaceable A HANDFUL OF SONGS in ITV's lunchtime kiddies' slot.
ISLA ST CLAIR buggers off to some rural part of Scotland or something, sings some folk songs, and "investigates" the stories behind...
POST-PUNK MUSIC and "issues" show which roamed the provinces each week for mohicaned discussion and the new one from Magazine.
THUNDEROUSLY PO-FACED pickle penned by CARLA LANE with FELICITY KENDAL "struggling" as a single woman trying to fight "the system" i.e. men.
Here are three folk clearly up to something agreeable…but what?
ROTTEN BADLY-DRAWN romp
MASSIVE LUXURY Trans-Am train (complete with cocktail bar, swimming pool etc.) plays host to various thrilling incidents.
TEENAGE TRIBULATIONS from the early days of the Four
HISTORIANS OF punk rock remain blissfully unaware of the hapless BILL GRUNDY's twilight career on regional TV
PENELOPE KEITH is a building tycoon who shags an architect (CHRISTOPHER VILLIERS) while failing to erect much in the way of punchlines.
MINIMALIST "LEARN to swim" lessons with RON PICKERING
STALWART SITCOM written by Eric and starring Eric as 'Eric'
NINE-PART ADAPTATION by David Line of his best-selling children's thriller.
STARCHED SPIN-OFF of Z CARS
RICH FAMILY/POOR family satirecom
THE SO YOU THINK... format had been running on and off (mostly off) on the Beeb since 1965's So You Think You...
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