‘A charade in two acts’ from the always-reliable Stewart Parker (his first televised work) making a wry, poignant farce out of the...
LIKE A PETULANT BOOMERANG this keeps coming back
PAUL COIA RAMMED THIS briefly semi-popular BBC Scotland 5pm answer to Countdown amidships with the catchy catchphrase "Cryptic clue coming up. Letter......
UMBRELLA TITLE for several H-B cartoons
HAIRY TINKER who can't speak but who's really an 11th Century magician (and who's really GEOFFREY BAYLDON) tries to escape from some...
By Derek Lister. Trade union secretary Jimmy Jewel, caught up in an industrial dispute at a London hospital, has flashbacks to his...
YET ANOTHER pot pourri effort from Messrs William and Joe
ELONGATION OF MAGPIE via original shortlived spin-off called Ace Reports
YAWNSOME MID-AFTERNOON serial about some 1930s toffs in a country house.
EMERGING BLEARILY FROM THE DOCU-SOAP ERA, BBC1 staggered into the new dawn - soon to be dubbed 'reality TV' - with this...
"HELLO CELEBRITIES!"
Sectarian divisions in Ulster – a long-running source of material for The Wednesday Play – gets its first treatment here, in an...
TAKE A WORD. Change a letter. Er, do it again.
METALLURGY-FRIENDLY DATING MUNDANITY shoved out on a newly-born E4 and fronted by Melanie Hill.
RUBBISH MIDWEEK sitcom fodder
"HELLO, IT'S ANNEKA FROM THE CHALLENGE PROGRAMME!"
TEXTBOOK RELIC that someone hung around for decades
THREE BORING FOLK crash land in the Himalayas and, naturally, inherit secret powers.
TEXTBOOK EARLY CHANNEL 4 attempt at homegrown "alternative" "comedy".
By Robert Holman. School leaver Martyn Hesford joins the army.
SUPREMELY PREPOSTEROUS supernatural kids twaddle
IN THE BEGINNING there was AMERICAN FOOTBALL on a Sunday teatime
By Antonia Fraser. Below and above stairs relations in a Scottish manor house, presided over by Martin Jarvis.
ULTRA-VIOLENT BLOODFEST following exploits of titular ex-con porn peddler
MULTI-AVERAGE VEHICLE for a by now decidedly knackered-looking Chachi off of HAPPY DAYS
"ONCE UPON a time, there were three beautiful girls who went to the Police Academy"
PART OF London Weekend Television's late eighties foray into upmarket drama
KEITH "HAPPY APPLE" WATERHOUSE revives the NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH cricket fanatic diplomats as present day bumbling retirees, who proceed to become...
DEFTLY OBSCURE late-night women only (how daring!) blabathon
DISEMBARK, IF you will, upon the verdant shores of Gaul
GAME SHOW WITH (good grief) schools taking part.
By Patrick White. Hazel Hughes’ excessively charitable lifestyle brings her few friends.
FIRST IN a double whammy of Keith
Sub-Pinball Wizard fanfare was the cue for our man to bound, literally, onto camera, do a little skip and go "Yessss!" by...
SMUG BACK-SLAPATHON from Hat Trick executives-to-be
ONE OF THE EERIEST programmes ever.
Scottish country dancing, militant style.
SOME BOYS keep the shrunken head of 'Chico', a sort of shamen, in their tree house.
By John Elliot. A man is strangely reluctant to help police when his wife is murdered.
Dramatisation by John Elliot and Joel Carlson of the trial of 37 black countrymen from South West Africa, prosecuted for terrorism by...
SUNDAY-NIGHT DOWNER guaranteed to send you rushing into the arms of your algebra homework.
ANNUAL TIN-RATTLE from Television Centre
MISLEADINGLY invigoratingly-titled Kiwi-instigated saga of turn-of-the-century Blyton-esque youngsters in pinstripes and straw hats. Much derring-do revolved around sub-Fawlty morali-comic attempts to help...
MORE POSH KIDS piss about in the snow in Olde Rural Englande.
NEW ZEALAND export about a Tearaway Girl
YET MORE 1970s MYSTICO-QUACKERY
By Michael O’Neill and Jeremy Seabrook. The passengers caught up in an airline hijack drama sweat it out, among them Georgina Hale...
NOT A misprint, but a weirdo drama
CUE THE pigeons.
ANOTHER BATCH OF pretend wartime evacuees get their lives laid bare on the box
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