Cheap and cheerful TOTP-baiting bonanza on t'other side
DEFECTING TO ITV in hope of big money, or at least better guests than Our Kid, the fractious fox instead found himself...
TWO FOR the price of none!
MITTEL-EUROPEAN PROFUNDITY
GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOUR rematch for heroes of scratchy 60s forerunner
ESOTERIC, I.E. IFFY "animal living with human family" ITV situationism starring a baby elephant.
ONLY IN the 1980s.
NEITHER YOUR gung-ho RICHARD GREENE nonsense nor your mystical MICHAEL PRAED codswallop
BARELY-BELIEVABLE QUIZ quackery hosted by a bristling MATTHEW KELLY.
SPRAWLING EXERCISE in self-flagellation by a newly Birt-ised BBC
MINUTE DETAILS of Messherschmitts, hush-hush plots and assorted explosive devices in the Wednesday evening documentary slot after the news.
BAH BAH bah, bi-dooby-dooby-bah
ANIMATED CAPRICE concerning a kid named Simon who moves into an apartment building, and one day becomes absent minded and presses the...
BONKERS FRENCH space cartoon seen briefly on holiday weekdays
TAKE COVER!
ONLY A few episodes of this son-and-dad reunioncom wankery were shown over here, usually just after Children's ITV had finished.
ASPIC-PICKLED ASININE variety gadabout from a different pier each week.
FUTURISTIC (FOR its time) escapades following the exploits of cyber-sleuths
ANIMATED ECO-FINGER-POINTING creation
ALAN BLEASDALE etched these BLACKSTUFF-lite tales of the eponymous Scouse kid (ANDREW SCHOFIELD) kicking in phone boxes and failing a trial for...
YANKCENTRIC DETECTIVE yarns in REMINGTON STEELE vein
LIKE THE above, ubiquitous for a while over there, rarely glimpsed if at all over here.
ONE OF those not-quite-toddler, not-quite-teenager programmes you'd get in the 4.20pm slot.
BOG-STANDARD CARTOON kid makes with the "special" chalk to create a magical black-background world of his own.
LITTLE SEEN and even less watched contemporary of BBC1's SATURDAY SUPERSTORE had TOMMY BOYD and ISLA ST CLAIR sitting together awkwardly at...
IT WASN'T all TISWAS and SIX FIFTY-FIVE SPECIAL for the lovely SALLY JAMES.
EPIC EPICUREAN jawathon live from the South Bank boasting the tremulous troika of CLIVE JAMES, JANET-STREET PORTER and RUSSELL HARTY
POST-SATURDAY SCENE, pre-TISWAS morning miscellany for London-bound kids.
SCRABBLING AROUND for yet another Saturday teatime placement, John Birt settled upon this charmless formula tosh
BILL ODDIE again.
IF DEMPSEY AND MAKEPEACE and CATS EYES hadn't already proved that us Brits are pretty poor at this fast-paced, action-packed crime show...
FOUR-WAY GRIM crime capers, with each hour-plus episode detailing, in sequence, the doings of a police inspector, a lawyer, a felon and...
NEVER SAW this one coming.
WE'D WELCOME THEM.
FUNNY HOW anything with the word "laugh" in the title singularly fails to elicit much in the way of such reaction among...
THOSE DEPENDABLE boys down at Euston Road had two pops at this
THE SAINTED BERNARD CRIBBINS took the reins for this short-lived rural rumpus
INSANELY COMPLICATED parlour game panel joust
SO SO thriller filler based on famed torture-proof creation of US writer Elleston Trevor
WEEKDAY AFTERNOON siestathon hosted by LORD BOB MONKHOUSE
RAMBLING SATURDAY ramble through laughably watered-down Swinging Sixties
KURT RUSSELL dons statutory small screen Wild West outfit and steps out into the dust to look for his long lost sister.
… He said it after playing Orville’s Song on Pick Of The Pops. Yes, Alan Freeman, music lovers. Whether you adored him...
Nominations for our musical stepladder have dried up, understandably, so in a shameless attempt to revitalise interest, there is now a Spotify...
VERY MUCH old school cod liver oil-esque educationalism with doddery old ventriloquist TERRY HALL and eponymous mangy cat, both of who had...
GENERATION GAME-SLAUGHTERING, hysteria-mongering, surprise-springing, staircase-shimmying, Beadlebum-annointing ogre of Saturday nights.
TOOTHY BALDING-PERMED ventriloquist wields pathologically feeble green duck in a nappy on one hand and nasally-blocked orange "cheeky" monkey on the other.
Genial, Irish besweatered rocking chair maestro fronted this never-changing pleaser from "the BBC Television Theatre" for pretty much a quarter of a...
RAMBLING AND RUMBUSTIOUS DALLAS parody set in the boardroom of a large industrial company run by John Steed.
WEIRD ONE-OFF for kids which waxed lyrical about the bygone age of the seaside pier.
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