ODDIE ALERT!
ERSTWHILE LINE DRAWING and spaceman
WHAT DO you want if you don't want money?
By Rhys Adrian. Tony Britton is a businessman hounded by the failing economy and his increasingly hazardous extra-marital affair, getting slowly drunk...
DESPITE LATTERDAY APPROPRIATION BY lazy stand-ups, this is still a sleeping giant as far as fondly-remembered classics go
DON "MAGGIE" HENDERSON pulled on the string gloves, puffed on his inhaler and put down mending old clocks
WRONGED SCHOOLKID decides to clear his name by writing about it, only evil staffroom bastards won't let him use the existing school...
BEHEMOTH EXPORT from Stateside cataloguing antics of one Amos Burke
By Geoffrey Case. The romance of running a private bus company in 1920s Yorkshire is compared to the romance of the fictional...
AS PART OF THE "hip", "trendy" new ITV overnight schedules, on came a programme which featured STAN BOARDMAN, DUNCAN NORVELLE and BERNARD...
DOUBLE POST-PLAYBOARD entry for the eternally amusingly-monikered CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP
The phrase “bittersweet comedy” used to turn up in listings mags and continuity announcements with alarming regularity, usually accompanied by a presidential...
ULTRA CHEAPO lunchtime fare from the same stable as OSCAR THE RABBIT
UBER-OBSCURE ONE week only revival of the old Zokko/Outer Space-type links summer Saturday morning strand
Paul Thompson’s “bourgeois fantasy” about an imaginary fascist regime of the near future, and the tribulations of young dissidents in City Zone...
STANDARD ISSUE fresh faced, well-scrubbed and posh sounding family is "torn apart" by the English Civil War.
THROUGH-THE-MOTIONS SPIN-OFF from THE GENTLE TOUCH.
By David Turner. Thinly-veiled autobiographical story of playwright David Purser’s alcohol-fuelled personal hell, with Dinsdale Landen.
EARLY RUN-OUT for renaissance man and "handsome chap" JOHNNY BALL.
The handiwork of the seemingly ageless (and charisma-less) NIGEL REES.
An Edwardian teenager travels to Prussia to study German. Lodging at the house of Warren Mitchell, he becomes infatuated with his two...
MAYBE it’s the water? Maybe it’s the air? Maybe it’s the sunshine that gets in your hair? Maybe it’s the ladies and...
ANGLO/ANTIPODEAN CO-PRODUCTION, trotted out in that tantalising post-9pm-news not-too-adult-but-worth-staying-up-for-all-the-same slot.
"AH, WOULD THAT IT WERE."
ONE OF those American imports that lit up the dark recesses of late night ITV
EDWARD WOODWARD plays hard-as-fuck secret service "loose cannon" moping and snarling his way through Cold War Britain
MIDDLING-TO-MYOPIC CARTOON of curious origin
UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS DOCUMENTARY about crappy singer CK and his just as crap travelling roadshow
MOUTH-LESS STOP-MOTION surbitons later burned by creator Gordon Murray in fit of pique.
Tense drama during a space mission when astronaut Barry Foster loses his grip on reality while in orbit. Jeremy Kemp is Ground...
By Brian Clark. Another education-themed one-act play, shown on the same night as Gotcha! Comprehensive head Julian Curry finds himself defending his...
LONG-FORGOTTEN ROWAN Atkinson blueprint for the bonechilling Mr Bean
WILLIAM CONRAD PUFFED and chafed as the huge great big massive fat bastard private eye Frank Cannon, sweating it out and miraculously...
"TO BE HONEST," they would proclaim, "the fuss that is sometimes made when we're playing the theatres scares me. It's like The...
"IF HE DOESN'T BREAK EVEN, he breaks his phone."
OBSCURE-AS-EVER EDUCATIONAL shenanegains with cutout animation
OFF THE BACK OF two nationwide stocking filler longplayers, Henry VIII, Inspector Clouseau and Margo Leadbetter recite comic songs about sentient animals...
WRETCHED CRYOGENICALLY-FROZEN four-foot furball
EARLY ENTRY in the endless foreign import animation stable
BRACING BRINY cut-out chicanery
LATE PERIOD Andersoniana
NOT MUCH cop in itself, but included here due to its possibly unique format.
BUMPTIOUS BELGIUM PRODUCTION
UBIQUITOUS SCHOOL reading homework
GANGLING BRUMMIE rhyming raconteur
By Dominic Behan. Working class protestant life in Ulster circa 1920, during the formation of Home Rule. With Sam Kydd and Harry...
BOG STANDARD cartoon compilation hosted by TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR of GOODIES/GIDEON fame.
"CASEY JONES, steamin' an' a rollin'."
YOU'VE NO idea how glad we are that our Creamy timespan coincides with D*****'s lowest creative and commercial ebb.
Hugo Chateris’s tale of retired couple Leo Genn and Barbara Murray moving out from town into a country cottage, but coming up...
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