EDUCATIONAL SERIES featuring a talking, poorly-operated puppet skeleton
ACTUALLY CALLED THE NEW ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN.
"I DIDN'T realise it at the time, but it was at that moment my relationship with dad changed...utterly."
Shite.
PRIMARY SCHOOL afternoon maths frolics with Plymouth's finest CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP
MISERABLE BASTARD MICHAEL PARKINSON of all people did this series about some old-fashioned Yorkshire dog-things called John Wooley, Elton and Gaylord.
BASIC ALPHABET and sentence tuition
HERE'S A weird one.
COMES WITH a faintly ridiculous semi-mystical, hushed tones, doff-your-hat air nowadays
THE QUARTERPIPE! ENDOES!
ITV'S ANSWER to GRANDSTAND, of course.
One of those dreary, '70s-originating annual televised events that somehow forgot to stop happening around 1983.
DAVID "RAPIDLY LOSING HIS KID LICENCE" JENSEN hosted this bizarre geographical quiz from atop a crane-mounted armchair which floated over the studio,...
JON P'TWEE was your thick-but-loveable scarecrow
THAT TELL-TALE exclamation mark heralds another patronising educational strand from the Beeb
Play by George Salverson. A man is made redundant but can’t bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of...
UNPRONOUNCEABLE IMPORT sneaked out on Thursday evenings as part of otherwise half-arsed early C4 yoof initiative.
Lame alphabet-oriented word effort with GEORGE MARSHALL.
RATHER SURPRISINGLY well-done cartoon (though very low-fi) series about a Yak and his friend Crow who had various unlikely adventures.
By Colin Welland. Young boy Joseph Reynolds loses his dad in an IRA bomb blast and moves out to his uncle’s remote...
CORRUSCATING COMMONS satirecom
MORE SELF-INDULGENT than LYNN MARSHALL on the subject of "Hatha" yoga.
UBIQUITOUS KIDS' infotainment
GHASTLY ATTEMPT to introduce family comedy to a peaktime Saturday audience
MORE YOUNG persons stuff, this time a string of variety-esque affairs masterminded by ROGER "TOMORROW PEOPLE" PRICE
WOEFUL BARGAIN bin laughless comedy
YET ANOTHER load of You Have Been Watching lummoxery from David Croft
NOTICE HOW all these "YOU..." shows have bloody exclamation marks in.
EXTREMELY ROTTEN ITV sitcom that managed to stink up the schedules for four years.
NOT THAT there was anything very young about them.
TATTIEST, NOISIEST, hammiest and blusteriest thing BBC2 has ever shown.
SPIELBERG to-punch-beating putative Conan Doyle prequel franchise in time-honoured Sunday Classics-aping ITV ‘family drama’ slot, with lanky youngster GUY HENRY doing the...
By John Wain and Robert Smith. Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies...
Friday, 17th April 1981 PICK OF THE DAY 4.40pm SWAP SHOP STAR AWARDS, BBC1 On BBC4 recently we’ve seen the debut of...
Friday, 5th April 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 8.00pm TREASURE HUNT, CHANNEL 4 It’s Good Friday, and here’s something suitably festive –...
Friday, 24th April 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 5.30pm THE TUBE, CHANNEL 4 It’s perhaps not surprising, but discussions about The Tube...
Friday, 10th April 1992 PICK OF THE DAY 8.00pm BRUCE’S GUEST NIGHT, BBC1 Drown your sorrows the day after the election with...
Friday, 7th August 1970 PICK OF THE DAY 5.20pm TWO D’S AND A DOG, ITV We think of spin-offs as a modern...
Friday, 24th August 1979 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, BBC1 It’s prime Carol Drinkwater and pre-Calum Buchanan...
Friday, 12th August 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 8.30pm SUMMER HARTY, BBC1 Wither the eccentric? Leaving to one side the eponymous presenter’s...
Friday, 15th August 1997 PICK OF THE DAY 10pm ROOM 101, BBC2 Here’s a genuine curiosity – a programme that can be...
Friday, 26th December 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 6.45pm BLANKETY BLANK, BBC1 From start to finish, it was a brilliant Boxing Night...
Friday, 24th December 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 8.40pm CHRISTMAS WITH TERRY AND JUNE, BBC1 Featuring our heroes on baubles in the...
Friday, 12th December 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 5.35pm MASTERTEAM, BBC1 Let’s play! It’s the quarter-finals of the teatime pub quiz-team Olympiad,...
Friday, 18th December 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm VICTORIA WOOD: AS SEEN ON TV SPECIAL, BBC2 “This special is a temporary...
Friday, 4th December 1992 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm DOCTOR WHO, BBC2 Back in the 1990s, you had to get your Who...
Friday, 18th February 1977 PICK OF THE DAY 7.05pm INDOORS OUTDOORS, BBC2 It seems a long time since you got presenters called Val...
Friday, 5th February 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm FAMILY FORTUNES, ITV The mighty Monkhouse boots up Mr Babbage once more to...
Friday, 27th February 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 7.30pm FIRST AIDS, ITV The centrepiece of this week’s momentous all-channel crusade to prevent the nation from...
Friday, 9th February 1990 PICK OF THE DAY 9.00pm COLIN’S SANDWICH, BBC2 It didn’t exactly help that it was heralded in some quarters...
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