SHABBY SITCOM made during the Three Day Week, and it showed.
Raucous goings-on and underhand gamesmanship aplenty in Brian Glover’s tale of a victory-hungry English team at the Europen Black Pudding Festival in...
By Sean McCarthy. Tensions flare during a prolonged power cut. With Miriam Margolyes.
THE MAN as far as TV science is concerned
SUPREMELY IFFY spin-off from seminal WELLES/COTTON/cuckoo-clock flick
SPOOF INVESTIGATIVE reportery with a heavy dose of ROGER COOK-chiding
EARLY SUNDAY morning Christathon where audience were invited to join in, but only if equipped with "a bible, some bread, and a...
ORIGINALLY HOSTED by television's most ill-at-ease presenter
CUE EXTENDED cymbal roll
THAT OLD "successful corporate banker from the city (ROLAND HINES) who packs up and moves to the English countryside with his brother...
DOG-EARED CASSOCK-RIPPER
THE END of the world, Sheffield-style.
Second go-round for ex-con turned writer James O’Connor. Tony Selby plays a convicted murderer reflecting on his life and circumstances in his...
Third outing for Peter Terson’s trio of mining idiots-at-large from The Fishing Party – Art (Brian Glover), Ern (Ray Mort) and Abe...
INITIALLY DON MOSS, then ventriloquist RAY "LORD CHARLES" ALAN, fronted this wordy afternoon quizfest
A POST-TISWAS LENNY HENRY, pre-US TRACEY ULLMAN and, well, DAVID COPPERFIELD club together for a three-way averagefest of songs and sketches and...
MIDDLING MID-EVENING middlebrow stalwart
By Penelope Mortimer. Couple Hywel Bennett and Caroline Mortimer are rocked by the arrival of an old flame of Mortimer’s. With Fulton...
A SUPERLATIVE anthology of hour-long suspenseful playlets about well-tailored middle class types methodically doing each other in, THRILLER was a textbook example...
Harrowing and immensely popular look at NHS hospital life from the patient’s point of view, written by Trevor Griffiths after reading a...
THE JEWEL in the popular Anderson crown
UP IN ARMS bastardisation of the Gerry Anderson stringathon
EARDRUM-RATTLING ENSEMBLE of busily-animated animal superheroes
SUNDAY TEATIMERY featuring KEITH CHEGWIN and future squeeze MAGGIE PHILBIN visiting places of interest in a GO WITH NOAKES kind of way,...
"TICKLE ON THE WHAT?"
ZEITGEIST-BOTTLING DOCUMENTARY
EAR-SPLITTING BIGOTCOM
GALLUMPHING SHORT-LIVED drama boasting a FANTASY ISLAND-type format
ONE OF the many "side projects" essayed by NOEL EDMONDS during his 1980s besweatered behelicopted heyday.
MORE PSYCHEDELIC tomfoolery from the house of the Poseidon king.
TATTY HALF-ARSED low budget DR WHO for kids that ran for six months non-stop then never came back.
Infamous "blokes trapped in an office block with a computer which tries to kill them" escapade with JOHN TAYLOR.
FAIRLY ROUTINE irritating puppet-plus-annoyed-presenter kid show
ALEC GUINNESS unearths a mole in the British Secret Service very very slowly
OR, MORE properly, "HERGEEEEEEE'S ADVENTUUUUUUURES OF TINTIIIIIN!!!"
By Beryl Bainbridge. Two ‘singles’, Rosemary Leach and Michael Gambon, are ‘introduced’ to each other by well-meaning friends, but the encounter doesn’t...
By Brian Thompson. Paul Daneman and Anne ‘Onedin Line’ Stallybrass star as a biology professor and his lab technician in a southern...
THE TITAN of Saturday morning television. Its shadow fell over everything else that followed in the much-prized but frequently 'difficult' Saturday slot.
"THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT!"
LARDY LA cop rompery with the epicurean WILLIAM SHATNER
PUNNING TITLE and YES, MINISTER-type theme concealed ultra gentle aristocom
By Shena Mackay. Four-and-a-half-foot petty thief Ian Trigger faces social prejudice and an uneasy romance on the run with girlfriend Anneke Willis.
RACING DRIVER plus spouse plus wisecracking mother-in-law type Gertie Growler go up against different evil opponents each week
OBSCURE SHOW for boys
THRICE-ADAPTED SCHOOL library legend and lunchtime "reading club" fave.
ONE OF those offbeat half-remembered cartoons produced by Rankin/Bass in conjunction with British cartoon studio Halas And Batchelo
CREAKY BUT fondly remembered ITV kids sci-fi staple
James Chase is a factory-working teenager in desperate love with Janina Faye. Tony Selby, Charles Lamb and Joss Ackland feature. Words by...
What does technology mean to you?
"WELL, IT worked in rehearsal..."
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