BILL MAYNARD was your hapless odd-job man
LYNDA BELLINGHAM'S other half from Second Thoughts and Robbie Coltrane's other half from Cracker meet in the staff room of a Leeds...
NUMERICALLY-INEXPLICABLE opportunity for everyone from Ozzy Osborne to Bobby Ball to pick out their twelve personal platters that mattered
MUCH-MISSED master of tape-fiddling
WELL-REMEMBERED comedy edition of the usually straight and serious ITV PLAYHOUSE strand, co-written by JOHN "CLIFFY" RATZENBURGER.
Superb verge-of-megastardom knockabout
A SUPERLATIVE anthology of hour-long suspenseful playlets about well-tailored middle class types methodically doing each other in, THRILLER was a textbook example...
The man who did the whole Pandora's Box thing an entire 12 years before Dr Who (and in exactly the same Saturday...
EVER-RELIABLE EARLY evening winter warmer
SMALL SCREEN equivalent of the Galapagos Island tortoise.
THE MAN as far as TV science is concerned
IT WAS the moment that changed British TV comedy forever: 10pm, February 24th 1956, when Associated-Rediffusion, in all their independent majesty, let...
CHRONOLOGICALLY INSANE granting of weekly hour-long slot for Jonathan King
'RELAXED' (ie still frighteningly academic and formal) light entertainment counterpart to Brain Of Britain
SEDATELY BEARDED and unchallenged king of American FM-style "and to take us up to the 3am news, here's a couple of classic...
Seemingly never-ending 'improving' sci-fi saga of dubious scientific veracity
A TRIUMPHANT return to prime time Friday nights for redoubtable amusical pentheraphobe LES DAWSON.
ADMIRABLE attempt at pre-watershed sitcommery
So, inexorably to the history of those World Cup records. No doubt you'll have seen this dissected and deconstructed elsewhere in the...
WOP! SURREAL, frenetic, semi-improvised short stories for kids told with almost psychopathic conviction by one-time comedian and latterday hectoring soil-botherer TONY ROBINSON.
TV Cream's out of beta. Hurrah! To celebrate we've reopened the TVC sound library and dug out 10 of the most unusual...
TOO OFTEN are the ITV stations tarred with the 'eyes and teeth' brush of tawdry showbiz. Here was one independent afternoon banker...
MOSTLY TEDIOUS panel thing
EX-GERRY ANDERSON puppetmasters John Turner and Mary Read were responsible for this cumbersome palaver
DECENT ENOUGH aural prelude to sixth-form comedy fave of the day
FATHER ABRAHAM-predating joust for international recognition
In the brave new enterprising world of 1990s British telly, deregulation-happy ITV companies gallop dizzily down the gangplank into a Europe that's...
WE'RE NOT interested in any latterday lousy remake or stupid real-life roustabout; only the original, and superior, vintage is what matters
A fine comedy of class and ambition from the Mary Whitehouse-baiting David ‘Swizzlewick‘ Turner, set in the suburban ‘scampi belt’ of an...
By Robert Muller. Sandor Eles and Rosalie Crutchley play a Russian man and his mother, charged with carrying out the execution of...
By Shena Mackay. Four-and-a-half-foot petty thief Ian Trigger faces social prejudice and an uneasy romance on the run with girlfriend Anneke Willis.
John Finch’s adaptation of Huxley’s post-nuclear story of an impoverished, devil-worshipping land.
Hugh Leonard’s dialogue-free sequel to Silent Song, with Gerry Sullivan as a wet-behind-the-ears country priest contending with the earthier side of Dublin...
By Hugo Charteris. Derek Francis is an unscrupulous housemaster in a public school teeming with abuse and covert homosexuality.
By Patrick White. Hazel Hughes’ excessively charitable lifestyle brings her few friends.
At a sumptuous New Year’s Eve costume ball, a torrid relationship blossoms between Patrick Allen and Katherine Blake (the play’s co-writer Ursula...
Comic study by Brian Wright of the beleaguered relationship between redundant machinist George Baker and mysterious young girl Eileen Atkins.
John Betjeman tackles the intrigue and double-crossing prevalent in the world of the ecclesiastical heritage lobby. With Henry McGee, first shown as...
The first in a trilogy of wry courtroom satires from Jimmy O’Connor’s wife and former barrister Nemone Lethbridge, who’d represented the Kray...
Jack Woolgar is the ramshackle, tragicomic custodian of a municipal car park. An experiment with semi-silent comedy techniques from Paul Ableman, that...
The fortunes of two Irish immigrant labourers in the tiny community centred around London’s Paddington station. Sean Caffrey and Ray Mort star,...
Lyrical study by James Hanley of the lives of elderly Nora Nicholson, vicar Marius Goring and other rural community members, including Kenneth...
By Hugh Whitemore. The governors of a public school find events taking a turn for the strange as they find themselves trapped...
By Ernie Gebler. Irish girl Fionnuala Flanagan arrives in London and shacks up with northern bohemian artist Alan Dobie.
A lower-middle-class terraced house in a northern town, elderly Mrs Everton (Susan ‘Angels Are So Few’ Richard) receives a routine visit from...
The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey)....
Frank O’Connor and Hugh Leonard’s dialogue-free study of the antics and hardships of two Trappist monks (Milo O’Shea and Jack MacGowran) in...
An Edwardian teenager travels to Prussia to study German. Lodging at the house of Warren Mitchell, he becomes infatuated with his two...
Baroque goings-on at Graham Crowden’s exclusive organisation dedicated to the facilitation of illicit pleasures, exposed by ace reporter Jim Norton. Script by...
By series producer Peter Luke, with William Sansom. An uneasy love triangle develops between Norman Rodway, a pianist in a slightly shabby...
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