ALAN BLEASDALE etched these BLACKSTUFF-lite tales of the eponymous Scouse kid (ANDREW SCHOFIELD) kicking in phone boxes and failing a trial for...
The first TV glimpse of Alan Bleasdale’s alienated, down-at-heel scouse youth Franny Scully, as he invites his mates to gatecrash his mum’s...
Which version's best? There's only one way to find out...
ANIMATED ECO-FINGER-POINTING creation
FUTURISTIC (FOR its time) escapades following the exploits of cyber-sleuths
ASPIC-PICKLED ASININE variety gadabout from a different pier each week.
YVETTE FIELDING'S most notable hour before coming clean about her Brave Skin Condition.
ARCHETYPAL "BITTERSWEET" comdram about a constantly hopeless boxer
STIRRING TREMBLE-LIPPED stoicism from the Second World War
VOLUMINOUS VICTORIAN pinafore parade courtesy of template BBC adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett tome.
VAGUELY-REMEMBERED SERIES based on Danny Kaye's Walter Mitty character
CZECH/BULGARIAN DRAMA defects to the west and gets dubbed for its troubles.
ANIMATED CAPRICE concerning a kid named Simon who moves into an apartment building, and one day becomes absent minded and presses the...
BAH BAH bah, bi-dooby-dooby-bah
SUPPOSED JAMES BOND pastiche, but if so, why was the eponymous squirrel dressed in Clouseau getup?
MINUTE DETAILS of Messherschmitts, hush-hush plots and assorted explosive devices in the Wednesday evening documentary slot after the news.
SPRAWLING EXERCISE in self-flagellation by a newly Birt-ised BBC
BARELY-BELIEVABLE QUIZ quackery hosted by a bristling MATTHEW KELLY.
THIS WAS HTV's attempt at reflecting the varied and exciting (it says here) Welsh music scene
RIDING THE 1970s home crafts (i.e. Britain is broke) boom like a hastily-put-together show possessed
FROM THE crime-addled mind of Lord TED "DIXON OF" WILLIS came this ropey historical number
NOT A single Pacino in sight for this corrupt cop spin-off series; instead, DAVID "BRIDGET LOVES" BIRNEY was the exposey good apple...
THESE ARE the people in your neighbourhood. In your neighbourhood.
Peter Jeffrey’s marriage to Zena Walker comes under strain as he eyes friend Nigel Stock’s carefree bachelor lifestyle with mounting envy. Written...
"WHAT DOES university mean?"
EXPECTED EXQUISITE dog-faced drollery from the rumbling northern ranconteur
BONKERS FRENCH space cartoon seen briefly on holiday weekdays
By Derek Mahon and Jennifer Johnston. Harsh and unsentimental study of the Troubles through the eyes of an eleven year old boy...
Glover and pals go boating.
By Peter Ransley. Eva Griffith and Cassie Stuart are two orphaned teenagers in care. With Jesse Birdsall.
THE BAY CITY ROLLERS Show.
FEMALE VENTRILOQUIST no longer with us who garned her own variety specials on the strength of the over-cute Lamp Chop
YET ANOTHER wretched mid-80s sitcom with woeful sit and even worse com.
FORGOTTEN SITCOMMAGE with DAVID "LUCKY FELLER" JASON
ULTIMATE ABOUT-NOTHING British sitcom
ALL-ENGLISH-LIFE IS here Sunday night village affair
DOE-EYED POST-WAR bittersweet comdram
TAKE COVER!
CRAPLY ANIMATED capers of footwear with predictable personalities
THIS IS more like it.
IT WAS the moment that changed British TV comedy forever: 10pm, February 24th 1956, when Associated-Rediffusion, in all their independent majesty, let...
AFFABLE, NOTHING-TOO-COMPLEX popular science effort
By Tony Perrin. In a deserted Potteries factory, closed for the mass holiday excursions of Wakes Week, young electrician Freddie Fletcher arrives...
WRETCHED SMALL-SCREEN half-sibling of HEIDI.
Frank O’Connor and Hugh Leonard’s dialogue-free study of the antics and hardships of two Trappist monks (Milo O’Shea and Jack MacGowran) in...
By Stephen Mulrine. Four students cause chaos working part-time in a factory. Together at last – Pierce Brosnan and Iain ‘Fingermouse’ Lauchlan.
ONLY A few episodes of this son-and-dad reunioncom wankery were shown over here, usually just after Children's ITV had finished.
LIKE THE above, ubiquitous for a while over there, rarely glimpsed if at all over here.
ONE OF those not-quite-toddler, not-quite-teenager programmes you'd get in the 4.20pm slot.
BOG-STANDARD CARTOON kid makes with the "special" chalk to create a magical black-background world of his own.
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