STRICTLY RATIONED pre-home entertainment system helpings of Walt's supposedly greatest hits, reserved initially for Christmas but later to become a schmaltzy schedule...
It wasn’t all revolutionary iconoclasm within the walls of the Play for Today strand. Take this sedate and uncharacteristically old fashioned drawing...
NERYS HUGHES singlehandedly rids the Welsh valleys of all known diseases.
JACK WARNER singlehandedly rids England of all known criminals.
By Charles Wood. Angela Down is a rape victim whom no-one will take seriously.
VERY EAGER "Hey! Let's make stuff!" bazaar for holiday mornings, presented by tomboyish SHEELAGH GILBEY, supposed "Editor" of the "Do It supplement"...
TOP NOTCH TEETH-CUTTING playground for Messrs IDLE, JONES and PALIN, with DAVID JASON and DENISE COFFEY along for the ride.
"THEY SURELY DO!"
SLAPSTICK STETHOSCOPE SAGA
DOUGLAS ADAMS-PENNED Dutch cartoon of Doolittlesque Snuggles MD
"NO NO, that's not his name, it's just the name of the programme." Bollocks to that.
By Richard Harris. Black comedy set in a near-future Britain where euthenasia is both legal and common. Leonard Rossiter is under emotional...
WILLY FOG might have been testing the limits of literary credibility somewhat
PAUL COIA hosted this lunchtime quiz effort based on pointlessly elaborate mid-80s Beeb project to celebrate the 900th anniversary of The Domesday...
UNASHAMEDLY TACKY science-is-fun endeavour
By Rachel Billington. A young wife tries to cope with her abusive husband, with Susan Fleetwood and Christopher Godwin.
ONE-OFF TRY-OUT kids comedy affair with ELAINE STRITCH and others doing WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?-style suggestions-from-the-audience improv.
Gurning, Roland Rat-voiced ON THE BUSES Blakey (STEPHEN LEWIS) goes off the buses to start new life in Costa Del Sol devoting...
TUESDAY NIGHT 8pm sitcommery from otherwise sublime pen of ESMONDE and LARBEY, here way below par.
COMFORTABLE-AS-SLIPPERS UBER-SWISH (summed up by classy brass-led theme) sitcom
THE SILVER-HAIRED MIC-WIELDER was king of the ITV nighttime schedules even before they went 24-hour.
By James Duthie. Gerrard Kelly and Sylvestra le Touzel star in an across-the-divides Scottish teenage romance. With Gregor Fisher.
OOH, TOPICAL.
Experimental codswallop.
Dennis Potter on... Dennis Potter. And sex.
FLIMSY FAMOUS FIVERY on a London bus
"GOOD EVENING folks!"
CORNBALL COMEDY detective dallyings with a wacky assortment of teenage horror characters, eg teen vampire, teen werewolf, teen mummy (how that worked...
POSH KID alert!
Ultra right-on com from Jeremy Isaacs-patrolled C4 (i.e. not funny)
In 1971, eager, slightly gauche twentysomething journo William (Bill Nighy) leaves Nottingham for a tenure on a Fleet Street tabloid. After a...
CARTOON CONFUSION about a wizard in charge of titular rock which controls children's dreams.
1950S-SET PUBLIC school nostalgiathon
SPRAWLING EDWARDIAN household powerplay
"JUST SOME GOOD OL' BOYS."
POST-BLUE PETER green chequered trouser era PETER DUNCAN daredevil portfolio
CONVOLUTED CRAPOLA cartoonery
PROTO-ON THE BUSES rubbish (literally) comedy
"OOH AMY!" "Oh David!"
SOUTHFORK MAY have been Wogan's favourite Wednesday night residence, but this was his Friday evening fancy and no mistake.
BLUSTERING PERIOD ROMP based on school library staple.
Typically woeful attempt at pop-fest by junior C4
By Peter Prince. Pop Musician Paul Nicholas is left literally holding the baby when his wife walks out. With Tom Conti, Amanda...
A gang of Deptford street kids races against local dockers to retrieve a promising-looking abandoned barrel from the Thames. Devised by Brian...
Nuclear wasteathon with BOB PECK
Patricia Hayes is homeless in Hackney.
Future telly drama overlord ANDREW DAVIES was responsible for unleashing The Worst Girl in the World on an unsuspecting public.
BROWBEATINGLY PLAY-IT-SAFE dramatisation done on crappy videotape of hush-hush liaison between King Edward VIII (EDWARD FOX) and - oh no! - divorced...
ANOTHER OF those nothing-ventured, nothing-won Sunday morning fillers.
By John Harvey Flint. Robert Lang’s dull life takes a turn for the dramatic after he reluctantly takes on the role of...
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