RUMPUS-ROUSING MILLIGANISM
VERY FIRST comedy sketch show to appear on the new network
WELL, WHO wouldn't?
EARLY VEHICLE for CLIVE "GRANDAD" DUNN.
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PAPER puppetry.
JUNGLE QUACKERY in the Wameru Study Centre.
In brief, "A rich Texan family faces all kinds of trouble."
PRE-STARDOM BURT REYNOLDS uses nosey gossip to track down filth in Santa Luisa, California.
Misfortunes of a comical door-to-door pedler (Barry Foster) told in the humorous cut-and-paste style of films like A Hard Day’s Night, with...
By Wilson John Haire. Examined the Belfast Troubles through the eyes of a young girl missing her AWOL father, and counting the...
IN TRUTH, one big long prelude to infinitely superior THE PRISONER
SMASHING WWII bomb disposal expert saga with ANTHONY "BRIDESHEAD" ANDREWS and MAURICE ROEVES heading a team of sappers clearing up Adolf's mess...
"CRUMBS!"
THEY HADN'T done one for a while (see THE APHRODITE INHERITANCE), so it was high time the Beeb packed its flip-flops and...
HB'S TOP-RANKING baddie and his doggy in fruitless airborne pursuit of endlessly irritating pigeon with a satchel full of messages.
NEXT LINK IN THE Micro chain
PREMIER LEAGUE sub-fingered foul-mouthed Catholic pope-baiter on a stool with tumbler and fag railed against the modern and ancient world alike in...
YES, YOU read that right.
A TRIUMPHANT return to prime time Friday nights for redoubtable amusical pentheraphobe LES DAWSON.
JOHN DUTTINE dons a raggedy beard and eye patch to battle rattling rubber penis-plants walking on stems.
POST-FAWLTY TOWERS runaround for ANDREW SACHS
LESS THAN whelming drama effort with DENNIS LAWSON
JANET STREET PORTER plus walking mid life crisis/Australian 'Dragon' Darryn Lyons and former Daily Star shite hawk Joe Mott cajoled a raft...
Adaptation of the melancholc fantasy from author of Peter Pan JM Barrie, with a group of guests (including Frank Finlay and Stratford...
MISH-MASH OF teencentric comedy sketches aimed at the 13-plus set
THE LATE, great RALPH BATES was the eponymous hero, dumped via mantlepiece-mounted letter by his wife and forced to take solace in...
FLOUNDERING DRAGCOM starring PEBBLE MILL staples Dr. Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Brackett
By Willy Russell. A delinquent suspended from an urban school gets a job on a farm, which he really enjoys until events...
FIRST GLIMPSE of the great Beadlebum in this A-Z
By Alma Cullen. Jennie Linden plays a single mum and mature student at a Scottish university, continually at odds with the mindless...
FONDLY-RECALLED GENTLE introduction to flans with the primary-school teacher charm of Delia, who sometimes went all exotic on us (spaghetti) but always...
UNHINGED OZ half-hourathon boasting your usual chisel-featured bloke and shapely woman assistant in fitted leather suit.
"A GOLDEN EAGLE Production for London Weekend Television" Ah dear.
ORIGINAL WAS a top MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE UK-style Bentleys and fist-fights spy thrillah
MOUTHORGAN-THEMED TALES of speech-impaired dog deputy sheriff and tussles with Muskie (a muskrat), Vince (short-sighted mole) and racoon amusingly named Ty Coon.
TITANIC UPHILL STRUGGLE between two equally unimpressive vocations jostling perilously inside the one man
FRENCH MEDIEVAL adventure yarn.
By Howard Brenton. Two struggling expeditions in the Kalahari are contrasted. In 1983, Cherie Lunghi and Mick Ford; in 1848, Tom and...
More tragicomedy of manners from Julia Jones. Lancashire housewife Rhoda Lewis’ obsession strains relationships with family, friends and husband Reginald Marsh.
Adapted by David Edgar from his epic RSC stage production (the original draft of which ran to five hours in length), Edgar’s...
CROSS-DRESSING ENTENDRE purveyor who virtually owned TV in the 70s thanks to sub-Benny Hill knock-off characters comprising bucktoothed vicar, flirty woman, bover...
PISTOL-PACKING MASKED MARAUDER who demanded "your money or your life" decision-making from coach-bound rich folk.
THE GREAT and the good settle down in a beige-toned boudoir set to ruminate upon the small screen highlights of the last...
DAPPER, ARCHIVE-DIPPING return to BBC1 for a rejuvenated BRUCIE
WIDOWED MILLIONAIRE adopts two black kids, Willis and Arnold (GARY COLEMAN, purveyor of wisecrackery and "brave" illness-baiting stance), to go with ever-superfluous...
A CONTRADICTION in terms, surely?
CHRISTMAS TELLY staple for the entire late seventies
ALIEN DIMENSION terrorises sleepy rural village via a secret space research lab.
Small-time London boxing promoter Dinny Matthews (John Thaw) is disillusioned. He has seven fighters, “all tryers”, but none of them share his...
FARFLUNG OUTPOST of a pre-BLANK Terence of Wogan empire, wherein our host would take time out of his Sunday afternoon post-prandial repose...
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