BASICALLY, THE bits between the programmes which turned into programmes.
GROUNDBREAKY ETHNOSLEUTH twatter
WELCOME TO SATURDAY lunchtime
THE THING IS, you've got this computer, right, which "makes" this comic (somehow)
More weirdness from that mid-'80s period when CITV tried to steal a march on its freshly-Broom-Cupboarded-up rival by commissioning the first thing...
THE BEEB WERE scraping below the bottom of the barrel here
ADAPTED FROM John Wyndham books that nobody read
Unusual move into historical drama from Jim Allen, but still true to his Trotskyite roots and belief in basing drama on solid...
CHIPS-OF-THE-AIR-'EM-UP
GENTEEL KIDS' music and "antics" show with PETER WEAR and the do-you-see ennamed JUSTIN CASE.
MORE BENIGN surrealism from the boys at Cosgrove-Hall
"OI, CHURCHILL! Can you save me money on my quality drama output?"
NUTS-AND-BOLTS ROUND-UP of the week's big screen business
GRISLY MOVIE NEWS (but, crucially, not reviews) show linking clips of Lethal Weapon II, Die Hard II and other exciting films that...
W. Stephen Gilbert’s first broadcast work was the winner of a BBC playwriting competition, but it’s a play far from the sort...
TOOTING POPULAR FRONT. ROBERT LINDSAY.
BELOW THE WAVES carry-on from the PATHFINDERS team
SURPRISINGLY LONG-RUNNING Beeb mainstay going out on primetime BBC1 north of Hadrian's Wall and BBC2 below.
PROTRACTED PERAMBULATION by and about the world's finest antiquated artefacts
HANDIWORK OF ROY "LAST OF" CLARKE
TEARDROP-SHAPED TOOTLING
CELLULOID-CENTRED ROUND-UP anchored by dapper CHRIS KELLY
IN PUNISHMENT for her GAME FOR A LAUGH crimes, SARAH KENNEDY was forced to present this tedious sub-THIS IS YOUR LIFE effort
Trilogy of one-act plays adapted by Bill Craig from short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, all dealing with the way the Scottish...
YET ANOTHER PERIOD COCK-UP
BELT-AND-BRACES HORROR business dressed up as child's fare
ROBIN "DOCTOR" NEDWELL did little in this tale of ambitious genius Harry Lumsden
FROM BEHIND an oil tanker-sized desk, from within a imperially-dark blue set
DINNER-JACKETED CARNIVAL of wryly-cued clippage, awards and A-list star turns, flawlessly fronted by everyone's second favourite ageing Antipodean (after Helen Daniels).
EX-GERRY ANDERSON puppetmasters John Turner and Mary Read were responsible for this cumbersome palaver
DEMENTED DOOMED toffs talking shop-cum-"happening" which knew Foucault about postmodernism and, indeed, good telly.
ARCHERS PARODY with the Walter Gabriel character (WILLIE RUSHTON) as the local yokel.
BRIEF COMDRAM with JOAN SIMS, NORMAN RODWAY and others "getting by" in the struggling old school seaside resort of Cocklesea.
DEATHLY DULL "adventures" of animated puppet twins Robin and Rosie
MORE COLD WAR kicks for kids
Here's the urbane MICHAEL DENISON as the urbane Captain Aubrey Percival, former Naval officer turned spook being run by CALLAN-esque mean bastard...
SUPERLATIVE RECREATION of famed Nazi uber-jail
A CHUBBY DEPRESSED MEL SMITH works for the complaints department of British Rail
AUNTIE FINALLY works out how to broadcast more than just black and white stuff and sticks a load of "now" bands in...
POSH KID looks into a mirror and finds she can step back into time to exchange pleasantries with Posh Victorian Kid.
BRACE YOURSELVES.
By Robin Chapman. Plumber’s mates become embroiled in plans for a workers’ revolt in Manchester.
Laugh, you buggers, laugh!
KEEPING THE OLD SCHOOL of British comedy in pocket for the best part of decade was this does-what-it-says stand-upathon
"THAT'S RIGHT! I'm coming!"
LAUNCHED ON Christmas Day 1985 by NOEL EDMONDS
NOTABLE BRITISH funnypeople revisit the places and faces of their formative years
YOU ARE HERE.
BLINK AND YOU'LL miss it Friday night sitcommery with ROGER "MATHSCORE" SLOMAN and SHARON DUCE getting in a lather over the linoleum.
GACKY, TWATTY comedy which unleashed both CHRIS BARRIE and HALE AND PACE onto our screens.
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