By Graeme Reid. Kenneth Branagh is the young Billy Martin, suffering life in a poor working class Belfast family under his oppressive...
SHORT ANIMATED series of Czech extraction
NEOLITHIC SWOTATHON
A new series for teenagers
“NOW FOR SOMETHING BIG IN GREECE… BBC POTATOES!”: The glory years of TOTP at Christmas IT’S 25 DECEMBER. It’s 1400 hours Greenwich...
BIG DEAL at the time.
FORGOTTEN LINE on the scrappy first page of DAVID JASON's CV.
MIDDLE OF the road panel game.
IFFY JACKANORY-STYLE stills-plus-narration tales of various pixies/woodland creatures, led by posh, top-hatted Topper.
BIZARRO VARIATION on the perennial children's serial theme of "kids help residents of a stately home to stop it being pulled down",...
LATE, UNLAMENTED entry in the POSTGATE/FIRMIN oeuvre
OLD-TIMEY ADVENTURE serial reworked as late-70s conspiracy thriller - for kids!
A comic look at popular notions of disability and “rights” from Good Life scripters John Esmonde and Bob Larbey. In a Hounslow...
HANDS UP WHO needs to go to the toilet. Haha, you've just lost £34,000.
SWASHBUCKLY REPTILE with a hat is assisted by dog sidekick Dum Dum.
ONE OF those functional but nevertheless well-remembered series that BBC2 showed in the run-up to colour broadcasting
"ECCENTRIC" BITCHY old maid BARBARA WOODHOUSE found brief early 80s fame as a result of this semi-documentary poke around her dog owner...
Le Mesurier - busted!
TOTALLY HOPELESS attempt by the fledgling channel to get a "funky" version of WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS on the go.
ROBOTS IN disguise.
CHIPPER CHILDREN'S ITV claymation
UNILLUSTRIOUS BUT HIGHLY-POLISHED "adult" debut of one-time C4 pornographer-in-chief ANDI PETERS
FUSTY PERIOD-SWAPPING kids drama
PRE-NEWS AT TEN drama of a midweek flavour.
A PRE-BLUE PETER MARK CURRY moonlights from MAKE 'EM LAUGH
"HAS ANYONE seen a clue, a pink clue?!"
WORTHY ADAPTATION of the book Minnow on the Say
Jack Hawkins is the eponymous Old Tory bigwig whose bluff, traditional values are brought crashing round him one fateful night. With Ian...
Clever old grotesquely wealthy Felix Dennis (KEVIN ‘Brother of Keith’ ALLEN), branded the biggest dum dum of the three underground magazine editors...
PERENNIAL TARGET for "cuh?!" criticism
SHORT-LIVED SATURDAY night "people show" from the South Bank
MODERN DAY Chaucerian slapstick
Odd tale by David Halliwell of a hippyish youth breaking into a middle-aged couple’s house and their subsequent relationship with him, niftily...
AS DEREK Griffiths sang in LOOK AND READ's The Boy From Space, "space goes on... forever." And so did this epic UK/US/Australian...
LAST CALL for LEONARD ROSSITER
"NOT THE Tropic of Cancer, or the Tropic of Capricorn, but our very own little English Tropic..."
GOD AWFUL clergycom
TOP BOARDROOM soapfest with sub-DALLAS "black gold" backstory.
T! T! V! Teatime Television!
A DIZZYING ASSORTMENT of yoof-orientated crazed oddities
SAINTED SEMI-ALTERNOPOP show of a Friday evening live from Tyne Tees
GRANGE HILL continued.
By John Bill. Bernard Hill plays a scouse talent scout who discovers unemployed alternative comedian Max Hafler in a working men’s club...
STOUT COUPLING of the great CLIVE DOIG and local newsreader made good ROB CURLING, involving a sort of wet, three-way, 3D Othello...
SHORT-ARSED SNIVELLING baldie Turtle (JOHN LANDRY) is the brains of a petty crime partnership
SPURIOUSLY WEIRD US comedy drama
BREAK-THROUGH SERIES for EMMA THOMPSON and ROBBIE COLTRANE
PRESENTED BY a post-TV-AM ANNE DIAMOND
US-DERIVED TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED-esque capery
SPIN-OFF FROM DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET
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