WAIT! IT gets worse, for here's ARTHUR MULLARD and QUEENIE WATTS living it up in a down-at-heel caravan park.
PRODUCED IN both "national" and "regional opt-out" flavours, this pre-school programme cropped up everywhere from Norwich to Nebraska, customised to suit the...
THAT WOBBLY felt-tip animation technique patented by Godfrey and co. was called "boiling"
UPDATED 1960s sitcommery painting the nefarious world of the media in big, fuck-off-obvious strokes.
By Rose Tremain. Exiled white South African writer Jack Shephard clashes with his Jamaican landlady in London. Michael Kitchen plays his gay...
SHAMELESS STUFF from our favourite tatmeister.
MADE-FOR-TV MULTIPART marathon of a miniseries
THE TIME had come for him to leave.
REDOUBTABLY AIMLESS sitcom providing a crust for off-duty GOODIE TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR
AN ITV alternative to TOP OF THE POPS? Surely it could never work?
The original outing for John Mortimer's bellicose bailiff
EVER-RELIABLE COURTROOM sparring from JOHN MORTIMER
ENJOYABLE EARTHY nuts-and-bolts kids quizzery
EYEBROW RAISING (and, at the Beeb, hackles raising) gritty children's serial
RICHARD MADELEY would often double your agony on those precious days off by appearing twice.
STRING-POWERED ANTICS for early-morning kiddies' telly.
ARTICULAR AVUNCULARISMS twice-weekly at 8.30pm
LONG-RUNNING PREDECESSOR of the above, and the one that made Russ a household name.
COLD WAR-MOCKING adult education affair wherein TANYA FEIFER taught eager proto-Glasnostians the Cyrillic alphabet
ERIC IDLE and Not The Unofficial Python NEIL INNES churned out dozens of these Temazepam-smeared post-Liberty Bell bonanzas
BI-LINGUAL WELSH sketch effort anglicised by the Beeb for a wider audience.
PRE-WIDE AWAKE CLUB shortlived Saturday morning effort.
NAUTICAL FLY-ON-CABIN-WALL doco.
"IT'S A FUNNY old game," vouchsafed JIMMY GREAVES practically every week on this Saturday lunchtime soccer drone-fest.
ROGER MOORE tours famous back projection blue screens of the world.
IT CAME from Norwich.
A SORT OF Flipper with actual flippers.
FORGOTTEN GEM of a US TV movie
EARLY ENTRY in that most benighted of dramatic genres, the post-apocalyptic "bunch of raggle-taggle survivors shout at each other in the wasteland...
WEIRD, HALF-REMEMBERED educational oddity.
SUNDAY NIGHT ROY MARSDEN/RAY LONNEN vehicle.
WOBBLY FRIDGE magnet letters and tadgerish geometric cartoons began this pretentious sci-fi supernatuum about two elemental agents...
IF DEMPSEY AND MAKEPEACE and CATS EYES hadn't already proved that us Brits are pretty poor at this fast-paced, action-packed crime show...
BILL ODDIE again.
SCRABBLING AROUND for yet another Saturday teatime placement, John Birt settled upon this charmless formula tosh
POST-SATURDAY SCENE, pre-TISWAS morning miscellany for London-bound kids.
ANOTHER WOEFULLY misguided effort from the regions (see SIN ON SATURDAY) to fill the 10.30pm slot when Parky, Carrott and Wogan were...
EPIC EPICUREAN jawathon live from the South Bank boasting the tremulous troika of CLIVE JAMES, JANET-STREET PORTER and RUSSELL HARTY
By Brian Clark. Stockbroker Peter Barkworth is made redundant but goes ahead with his planned Christmas party anyway, bringing a different air...
IT WASN'T all TISWAS and SIX FIFTY-FIVE SPECIAL for the lovely SALLY JAMES.
LITTLE SEEN and even less watched contemporary of BBC1's SATURDAY SUPERSTORE had TOMMY BOYD and ISLA ST CLAIR sitting together awkwardly at...
AND AGAIN with the Boydster.
NO BREAKDANCERS or bodypoppers, please.
YANKCENTRIC DETECTIVE yarns in REMINGTON STEELE vein
Dennis Potter's Model World.
DESPITE HAVING a Beebed-up version of Pink Floyd's 'Time' for the theme, accompanied by a cartoon elephant jumping on a triangle, this...
IF YOU ignore THE FLINTSTONES, which we find easy to do, probably *the* flagship H-B show.
ZEITGEIST-NON-SURFING Animator’s Cramp-occasioning high-concept Hanna-Barbera overreach, puzzlingly counter-topically sandwiched between 1976 Quebec Olympics and 1980 Moscow Olympics. Key selling point was...
FINEST COMEDY BBC Scotland ever managed to cobble together
Memory-test quizzery in old-fashioned ties-for-the-boys, sit-up-straight, desks 'n' buzzers extravaganza.
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