HIGH-FALUTIN' MACHINE-TOOTLIN' tribute to that most ubiquitous of 1960s freestanding studio sets, the Government Research Laboratory.
KEITH WATERHOUSE and WILLIS HALL-penned palaver for DIANA DORS
DOZEY BOFFIN with big head is nabbed.
SPACE NONSENSE about an intergalactic dustman.
MILLIGAN MULLARKEY which bemused most (including the Beeb) but delighted enough to keep it being recommissioned despite the same things showing up...
WAIT! IT gets worse, for here's ARTHUR MULLARD and QUEENIE WATTS living it up in a down-at-heel caravan park.
THE TIME had come for him to leave.
STILL RETAINS a sizeable cult following to this day.
AS KICK START was to junior motorcycling, so PADDLES UP was to canoeing.
WORLD'S MOST famous sporter of the duffle coat until L. Gallagher.
EARLY ATTEMPT at computer game crossover that should have ensured it never happened again.
SPIFFY, A fastidious cat, shares a flat with Fleabag, a slobby dog.
THANKFULLY FORGOTTEN but still rotten comedy
A MYSTERY entity is on collision course with the Earth.
SCHOOLS' GEOGRAPHY show.
"I DUNNO what a folly is. Bob, do you know what a folly is?"
FORMED IN 1936 as a propaganda maker, the NFBC has carried on providing state-subsidised films in Canada (both short and feature length)...
WISELY BINNING off any lingering trace of CARLA "COW GRIEF" LANE, here was WENDY "RIA" CRAIG devoting herself to the titular vocation...
Blatant porn dressed up as mystical quackery.
SCOUSE-SCHLEPPED Saturday morning contradiction in terms.
UMPTEENTH BOTTOM-OF-THE-BARREL business
INEVITABLE ROLE-REVERSAL spin
BETTER EFFORT, this time with PIP DONAGHY as the unseen psycho.
WAFER-THIN (APPROPRIATELY) Wells-baiting update
FRESH FROM ruling the known world BRIAN BLESSED settled his sticky paws upon no less a target than the known universe.
FLEDGLING EFFORT from the boys at Euston Road
ROY KINNEAR again, this time as a professional worrier, hypochondriac and towering bore.
MORE PASTIME hard sell, here taking the shape of a giant castor oil dose of "home activities" comprising gardening, DIY, cooking and...
CHARMLESS CRIMEWATCH roadtester shuttled out on BBC2
RAGGED SITCOM - literally - with ROY KINNEAR and BRIAN MURPHY dressing down for the occasion as street entertainer escapologist and assistant.
PREPOSTEROUS MAGUFFINISM with the emphasis on guff.
KEITH CHATFIELD'S JACKANORIED tales of the escapades of children Sally and Andrew Martin and a magical, talking panda
ULTRA-OBSCURE PLACEMENT for post-BLUE PETER JUDD
Time’s up.
IN THE words of KENNETH WILLIAMS: "It's MATTHEW KELLY isn't it?! Game for a laugh!"
SAN FRANCISCO chief of police decides to do "things my own way" and employ the missus as sidekick.
NO-SHAGS-BARRED MELODRAMA of a Scots builder.
PROBABLY SHOWN in every school in the country at some point during the mid-80s.
"RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON will be in my dreams tonight!"
ROTTEN SPIN on the above, as a forest ranger (now there's a readymade hero figure for you) and his boring family somehow...
OVER HERE we had the PG Tips chimps ("You hum it son, I'll play it").
BRIAN DRAKE (do you see?), who is JOHN DUTTINE, finds himself playing mother hen to bunch of mildewing misfits including LORRAINE CHASE,...
"ALL RIGHT, which one of you bitches is my mother?"
BEFUDDLED BUFFOON driving instructor BRIAN MURPHY, playing himself, struggles to teach residents of A Quirky West Country Town the difference between mirror,...
AMERICAN EXPORTED choice of viewing to the Nine O'clock News.
STALWART OF that post-Corrie "bathos but pathos" comedy slot.
WHAT RICHES lie ahead of us.
POSH FEMALE aristo gets lost in overgrown shrubbery, goes sub-Tarzan native and befriends jaguar called Ghost.
JAMIE (OSMONDS blow-wave and flared turn-ups) and his dog, Wordsworth (Norfolk accent and woolly hat) are tucked in one peaceful suburban night...
TRIPPY TEATIME childfantasy with the eponymous kid taking receipt of a magic rug.
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