"MY MOTHER..." "Who's a nurse!"
CEREBRAL DOWNER after the Supermarionation splendour of CAPTAIN SCARLET.
TOP DRAWER CLIVE DOIG-ery combining crossword-style quizzing with patented VISION ON pissing about.
LONG-BANISHED LIVE action effort from the house of Filmation
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?
WATCH WITH MOTHER segment similar in style to MARY, MUNGO AND MIDGE concerning self-same kid whose father ran a roadside transport cafe.
NEVER-BEFORE-OR-AGAIN CRAZED combination of ERIC SYKES, JOHNNY SPEIGHT and WILLIAM G. STEWART
HEAD-TURNING HORROR-FI drama
WEIRD, FRANTIC Welsh sitcom set in a small radio station, taped twice - once in Welsh, once in English.
SUE LAWLEY sits in a 1989 studio "reading" made-up daily news bulletins from 1939 written and recorded in 1989 but produced as...
ANOTHER PROTO-SOAP venture from a still CORONATION STREET-reeling Beeb.
FROM OUT OF JEREMY ISAACS' much-in-evidence arch lever file marked "minorities" sprung this fondly remembered C4 ensemble fixture.
SHE'S BACK! Execrable sitcommage with HYLDA BAKER
FROSTIE'S SECOND coming after the Beeb axed TW3.
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.
WILLY RUSSELL-PENNED did-you-see-that-on-the-telly-last-night? playground-bothering Channel 4 play
SKITS AND spoofery adapted from STEPHEN POTTER's 1950s titular "guides" to modern living
TYNE-TEES SATIRISES itself with a kids' series about a regional-as-hell TV station broadcasting from a lighthouse to no-one.
ROB "WHO?" HEYLAND starred as stupidly named "zoo vet" practicing in 1960s backwater of Britain where no-one had seen an elephant before.
REALLY, REALLY shitcom
TITANIC NAUTICAL saga which steamed through BBC1 Sunday nights for nigh on a decade.
PETER DAVIDSON'S first gig after getting smothered to death by Peri's breastage in DR WHO.
BOB HOSKINS is an illiterate removals man
DRAMATISED DIVERSIONS of the go-ahead blokes on the then new and exciting recession-beating world of North Sea Oil rigs.
PLANS FOR a new airport in a northern province are opposed by HARRY WORTH and...his brass band.
ON THE UP was a pretty typical BBC sitcom, albeit one broadcast at the fag end of the Corporation's love for conventional...
"LARD! LOTS of lovely lard!"
BASICALLY, THE Open University for anyone not predispoed to a particle accelerator.
THE BRITISH Film Institute's attempt to get a snapshot of What We Watch, and an absolutely stunning one at that.
ENDLESSLY REPEATED French animation epic purporting to make plain the workings of the human body through cheery-faced cartoonery.
ROY KINNEAR does befuddled barber.
"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.
Chaotic middle England provincial family has to depend upon solitary bedrock for survival. Could it be the ditzy housewife? Could it be,...
NORDIC SAGA with cutouts and painted backcloths in the style of IVOR THE ENGINE.
THE HANDIWORK of "political prisoner" and professional criminal JONATHAN KING
ABSOLUTELY SOD-ALL to do with Pete Murray
HOMESPUN SUB-SPINNERS folkie quartet THE HOUGHTON WEAVERS in matching home-knit and beards
LEGENDARY UNSALVAGEABLE sitcom disaster which for a long time held the record for fastest "schedule shunt": from 7pm on a Friday for...
PETER DAVIDSON puts on a northern accent and lives in a houseboat for this on-a-budget sitcommery shown at the very same time...
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
GEORDIE GRIMNESS in the form of a Catherine Cookson adaptation
SUMMER HOLIDAY fare, c. 10am weekdays.
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