"ECCENTRIC" BITCHY old maid BARBARA WOODHOUSE found brief early 80s fame as a result of this semi-documentary poke around her dog owner...
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
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
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.
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
SCHMALTZY, SICKLY-SWEET, totally-80s lifecom
TEENAGE LOVE affair in the HELEN mould.
FLOATY YELLOW glasses in the sky and bah-baaahhh! (der-der-der-dooo-dooo) theme tune? Time for another appointment with, in the words of the BBC...
THANKLESS AND thankfully-forgotten squattercom
ON-THE-ROAD CB-RELATED crimefighters employing a truck and a helicopter to get their "man".
INTO THIS durable east-is-east effort came, from over the water, ELAINE STRITCH
VERY EIGHTIES kidsters Saturday morning miscellany
MORE ADOLESCENT quest malarkey
FIRST PROPER live-actioner from Supermationationer GERRY ANDERSON
JIVE-JOUSTING JAUNDICE-ATHON
POSSIBLY THE only instance of a Japanese-originated format crossing over to the west.
NOT A James Joyce in sight for this dubbed Mediterranean wonder.
KIDS' DRAMABORE series set in either Australia or New Zealand
ILL-ADVISED FORAY into sitcommery by STRATFORD "BARLOW" JOHNS
BEND AN EAR TO perhaps the most deceptive theme tune ever.
BEN BENISON, the mime artist who was succeeded in VISION ON by SYLVESTER McCOY, clears his throat by way of 13 quarter-hour...
"I NEVER seem to get it!"
SATIRE, EH, never as good as it blah blah blah.
Bumsqueaking sitcom starring JIM DAVIDSON as Jim London, a prejudiced Cockney waster of limited intelligence. Wonder how many others they approached?
ALL IS not going well at Wolverhampton electrical appliance factory Cockers Components Limited (spot the 1970s standard sitcom moniker-age).
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