DOCUDRAMA-ANTHOLOGY OF employment (and lack of) in Irvine New Town.
THICKIE SUB-SHERIFF off of THE DUKES OF HAZARD moves to LA and teams up with obligatory I-Spy style black partner.
ANOTHER SUNDAY morning "improving" children's show from the Beeb
ON THE ROPES and on the way out vehicle for the Dickster
IN NO WAY RELATED to the above, this way lies - yikes - satire, courtesy of (already) creaky moniker-sharing threesome JOHNS WELLS,...
KENNETH MORE is ageing harassed scriptwriter living in alternative England 30 years after successful Nazi conquest.
ARCHETYPAL GROUNDBREAKING-THEN, what's-all-the-fuss-about-now affair.
WE-WERE-THERE-FIRST STATES-SIDE sitcommery
EARTHY ATTEMPT to popularise earthy Professional Northern earthiness
PETER TILBURY, pen merchant of SHELLEY, steps in front of the camera to do his own words
MORE FROM THE fortuitously prolific pen of E. Nesbitt
PETER BOWLES, playing himself, retires to the rural west coast of Ireland.
TWO PARAMEDICS in LA County go around clearing up other people's mess and, indeed, other people.
POST-WOGAN WHIMSY with made-to-measure wiseguy kid
BANISH FROM YOUR MIND the current sex-in-the-shit-sheds kaboodle.
MAVERICK IMPRESARIO KEN CAMPBELL's foray into educational TV produced this oddity.
SUBLIME SUNDAY AFTERNOON comedy from Andrew Marshall and David Renwick
PERRY MASON fancies a bit of a rest and decides to serve out the rest of his 'tec tenure in a mobile...
HEADLINE VEHICLE for ubiquitous have-a-go merchants CHRIS SERLE and PAUL HEINEY moonlighting from THAT'S LIFE.
SADLY, THIS is what the majority of people remember Rod Hull for.
ON-THE-CHEAP JACKANORY-MEETS-PLAY AWAY effort.
BEDPAN-WIELDING BEDROCK of early ITV schedules.
"THERE HE is, look!"
BEARDED BUMPKIN MICHAEL ROSEN leads kids in song, poem, story, poem and music ministravaganza with an "all nationalities/races etc. inclusive" spin.
POOOOOOWWWEEEEEEE! MINIMALIST single rising tone theme heralded start of this minimalist hands-only-visible chemistry show.
NORTHERN IRELAND. No dialogue. Someone gets shot. Then someone else.
BY THIS POINT THE home computer boom of ver 80s was collapsing fast.
SEMINAL SHORT horror film of indeterminate Spanish origin.
POST-AUF WIEDERSEHEN, PET angling antics of a Friday night.
NOT THE same Eddie as him above; rather his dad, and Queen Victoria's replacement.
ANOTHER OF those nothing-ventured, nothing-won Sunday morning fillers.
STOP THAT sniggering.
NONSENSE MONSTER mithering.
RARE CHARACTER study for EDWARD "THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR" MULHARE.
DENIS LAWSON was your self-same self-obsessed local DJ with a big mouth and even bigger ego
CUT-OUT ANIMATION beloved of lunchtime schedulers
WEIRD SPEEDWAY freakery for kids done in a SWEENEY style but with PETER DUNCAN as the lead.
MINDER RIP-OFF with characters called King and Castle behaving like the king and the castle on a chessboard.
ORIGIN UNCERTAIN for this bunch of tales involving crime-cracking youths
SO-SO ADAPTATION of the not-actually-that-good kitchen sink novel
"MUM! THERE'S a gyppo on the telly!"
UTTERLY BAFFLING childathon charting the fortunes of boring posh teenager.
CANADIAN SOAPERY that became a regular Children's BBC post-school distraction.
REDOUBTABLE KIDS sitcom from the keep-smiling-through school of jokery.
JAMES HAZELDINE gets placed in charge of various delinquents.
HAVEN'T HAD one of these for a while: another totalitarian sci-fi futuristic runaround.
SID AND Marty Krofft, the costumiers/puppeteers who designed the BANANA SPLITS and brought the world of HR PUFNSTUF to life, also exported...
DAVID CARRADINE, short of tongue and long of mumbling, loafs around 19th Century America partaking of much wandering and standing still while...
MUCH PANTHER-ESQUE plot reheating came courtesy of this dreary selection of characters.
NIGEL "QUATERMASS" KNEALE'S one attempt at comedy, perhaps wisely.
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