DEFINITIVE TAKE on the telly Western
COMMERCIAL CHIP off the CHEGGERS block.
WHAT RICHARD O'SULLIVAN was to Friday night telly in the 80s.
FORMER TOMORROW'S WORLDLING MICHAEL "SCREEN TEST" RODD defected to link up with SUE JAY to front ITV's typically flashier rival pop science...
LONG-RUNNING PROMOTIONAL campaign for the Guinness family and, for most of its existence, the only place you'd see 80-year-olds on children's telly.
OVERLIT OVERLOUD American kidaventures starring five urban under-12s who separated out into the usual archetypes
Alan Garner, author of supernatural ITV hit series The Owl Service adapts his own obscure, semi-mystical novel detailing the lives of three...
Left-wing vicar Donald Harron rubs the local community up the wrong way
TRUE-LIFE ESPIONAGE yarn adapted for the small screen by masterful TROY "EDGE OF..." KENNEDY MARTIN.
HIRSUTE NON-HYSTERICS from MATTHEW KELLY
By David Cregan. Patrick Troughton is a GP whose grown-up children are in no hurry to leave home.
By Philip Martin. Nuclear paranoid Anthony Brown troops his family (including wife Sheila Hancock) into their shelter in the garden for a...
DITZY WOMAN names detective agency after a bloke that doesn't exist
DALLAS FOR primary schools, in that it ran and ran and ran, everybody ended up bored with it, nobody could remember why...
Grizzled reporters grizzle.
Hugh Leonard’s dialogue-free sequel to Silent Song, with Gerry Sullivan as a wet-behind-the-ears country priest contending with the earthier side of Dublin...
HANNA AND BARBERA venture into live action, but this appalling Antipodean Dynasty rip-off was no Banana Splits.
GLAM SVENGALI MICKIE MOST produced this punk-pop show, notably fronted by a (as usual) glum bastard PETER COOK laughably pretending to be...
IN THE tradition of THE PLANK, this was also written and directed by the redoubtable ERIC SYKES.
NOW THERE'S a title to toy with.
RUN-OF-THE-MILL CIRCUS clownery with veteran wig-side-flap-raiser CHARLIE CAIROLI
A strange entry in the Play for Today canon from John Osborne, the ‘father of kitchen sink drama’, following the efforts of...
FETED - AND ultimately fated - come-and-have-a-go drop-in centre for viewers seeking to take programme-makers "to task".
DIANE KEEN and MARTIN JARVIS are a clean-cut coupla young aw-gee-shucks-now lovebirds for whom nuptials are on the cards
BONKERS CRIME serial featuring Quick Yankee Ted McKeever (LARRY PENNELL) and Slow Southerner Jim Buckley (KEN CURTIS)
PALIN-JONES BRAINSTORMERY brilliance.
THAT KNACKERED-SOUNDING piano theme was your welcome
JOHN GODBER penned this adaptation of one of his "hilarious" Hull Truck Company stage plays, Bouncers.
ABSOLUTE premier division fuck-wittery
CAR MAINTENANCE series set in what was supposedly a (curiously studio-like) garage.
BOB "RENTAGHOST" BLOCK-scripted sci-fi weirdoid adventures of Robert Sommerby (JOHN CLIVE), a James Burke type bloke with frizzy hair, who built robots
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NONNIER jazzed up with "mystical" overtones.
Recently-separated thirtysomething metropolitan script editor Norah (Anna Cropper) moves into a remote Vale of Evesham cottage reluctantly inherited from her ex. Various...
RICHARD "BEANS! Beans! Chunky chicken!" O'SULLIVAN gets bored of lying ABOUT THE HOUSE and opens a restaurant with TESSA WYATT.
ENDLESS FRENCH cartoon, often found filling in summer weekday mornings
ALARMING SPIN-OFF of The Three Stooges
TONSIL-TRILLING "EXPOSE" of the music business following the fortunes of girl band (sorry, it's the 70s - "group") The Little Ladies.
SO HOW many young careers of the time staked their hopes on this thrown-together educational band?
OR SIT IN sour-faced sod-it silence.
PREEMPTING THE keenness of all VT editors to stick a pumping soundtrack of the day behind anything recorded, albeit in a more...
FUTURISTIC CARTOON CAPERS relocating the Robin Hood legend lock, stock and barrel into some bizarre world where everyone wears jet packs and...
RIIIIING! RIIIIING!
BILL-BAITING FRIDAY night coppering, focusing on seven wet-behind-the-ears trainee detectives
PREVIOUSLY JUST "Rocky and his Friends"
GROTTY KIDS grimeathon serial
TOUSLED RAINBOW trio tootlers spin off with a quickly-forgotten "musical play" set around some misjudged theme - eg "Wobblyworld" where everyone was...
Baroque goings-on at Graham Crowden’s exclusive organisation dedicated to the facilitation of illicit pleasures, exposed by ace reporter Jim Norton. Script by...
SOMETHING AMUSING about that name, hmmm?
RAPPING RODENT jumps previously sinking ship of TV-am for primetime Saturday evening slottage just before DR WHO.
UNASSUMING NAIF waif LIZA GODDARD dwells in unassuming English sitcom village
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