By Tony Parker. Gruelling tale of a group therapy session for six ostensibly hopeless men variously sentenced to life imprisonment, and the...
IT'S THE FALKSTER again
MILTON KEYNES-BAITING drama about a new town which controls its citizens via a bizarre daily soap.
THE PINNACLE of Potterism.
UBIQUITOUSLY HALF-REMEMBERED dubbed film
QUARTET OF big-haired, big-suited losers meet in none-more-late-80s "sit" venue of a singles bar and proceed to chase each other's affections in...
PETER DAVIDSON puts on a northern accent and lives in a houseboat for this on-a-budget sitcommery shown at the very same time...
Simon Raven’s dramatisation of the political machinations among university grandees debating whether a prestigious new college building should be a traditional chapel...
JAUNTY MEDIEVAL goings-on from the CAPTAIN PUGWASH stable of slaked cut-out capers.
LEGENDARY UNSALVAGEABLE sitcom disaster which for a long time held the record for fastest "schedule shunt": from 7pm on a Friday for...
HOMESPUN SUB-SPINNERS folkie quartet THE HOUGHTON WEAVERS in matching home-knit and beards
EPITOME OF CHEAPO look-at-this pointy telly.
ABSOLUTELY SOD-ALL to do with Pete Murray
GENTLEMEN, WE have the technology. We can rebuild him.
ASPEL-HELMED LONDON-ONLY weekend-starting magazine
KEITH MITCHELL romps and bollocks his way through Renaissance England
59 AND a half minutes too long, more like.
SNOW-SKIMMING flag-slaloming Alpine ITC misfire landing on Saturday afternoons like Eddie The Eagle Edwards after a particularly clip show come-hithering jump. Steve ‘Son...
FREAKO OLD maid duo host teach-yourself silent communication class by turning the sound off and saying things.
Semi-comic look by Michael O’Neill and Jeremy Seabrook at the effects of American-style corporate culture on a lower-middle-class provincial family. In the...
AUSTRALIA'S MOST exported show (to 128 countries at last count).
DAVID BOWIE'S COKE-ADDLED mid '70s phase influenced many areas of popular culture, though perhaps the most unexpected change was wrought on the...
SMALL SCREEN equivalent of the Galapagos Island tortoise.
ROTTEN PLAYTHING cooked up by HUGHIE GREENE as a replacement for DOUBLE YOUR MONEY
By John Byrne. First of a semi-autobiographical trilogy from the writer of Tutti Frutti, detailing the tribulations of a young man with...
IN THE near-ish future everyone under five foot high is hunted down, for satirical comedy purposes.
THE DEPTHS to which mankind can sink was effectively summed up in this schmaltzcom
KIDS COMEDY vehicle for once-loved bowler-hatted weirdo FREDDIE "PARROT FACE" DAVIES
MOONLIGHTING FROM pulling rubbery faces and dressing up as comedy punks on NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS, MEL SMITH did this uncomfortable...
NOT MUCH to add about this twiddly blue gnome franchise
At a sumptuous New Year’s Eve costume ball, a torrid relationship blossoms between Patrick Allen and Katherine Blake (the play’s co-writer Ursula...
RETROSPECTIVELY REVERED northerly proto-punk music and "lifestyle" rabbleathon
THE SO YOU THINK... format had been running on and off (mostly off) on the Beeb since 1965's So You Think You...
NOISY SHOUTY roustabout ostensibly cocking a "snook" at "teacher" but in reality a lazily-themed kids' gameshow ripping off CRACKERJACK
RICH FAMILY/POOR family satirecom
Russian dissident tapes Top of the Pops. Big trub all round!
STARCHED SPIN-OFF of Z CARS
NINE-PART ADAPTATION by David Line of his best-selling children's thriller.
A play we haven't seen, but we do have it on good authority that it's a pile of shit.
THUNDEROUSLY PO-FACED pickle penned by CARLA LANE with FELICITY KENDAL "struggling" as a single woman trying to fight "the system" i.e. men.
DUSTILY-REMEMBERED STAPLE of Granada's school holiday morning schedules, featuring PAUL CRONIN as Aussie motorbike cop Gary Hogan, spun-off from MATLOCK POLICE.
OH LOOK, there's a retarded man hanging over a cliff.
POST-PUNK MUSIC and "issues" show which roamed the provinces each week for mohicaned discussion and the new one from Magazine.
ISLA ST CLAIR buggers off to some rural part of Scotland or something, sings some folk songs, and "investigates" the stories behind...
Willis Hall’s Golden Gordon-ish tale of defiant football manager Colin Blakely (who ‘once played for England’) in terminal decline. Also with Peter...
INSUFFERABLE REPLACEMENT for the inoffensively irreplaceable A HANDFUL OF SONGS in ITV's lunchtime kiddies' slot.
PARISHONAL POW-WOW showcasing abnormally packed congregations doled up to the nines singing in an exaggerated fashion.
AFTERNOON STRIPPED Aussie cut-price DYNASTY tomfoolery from the melodrama meister Reg Grundy.
VARIOUSLY MONIKERED capers of orange, verbally-challenged, water pistol-toting magic bear-cum-hand puppet possessed by extreme powers of endurance.
By Carol Bunyan. Cheeky office post boy Nicholas Ball invites co-worker Meg Davies round to his place during the lunch hour, but...
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