FIRST TV show to think that thunderously self-important po-faced analysis of politics would go down a treat at Sunday lunchtime.
IN BLOODY DEED.
CAMERA-SHY JOURNO sits in empty studio and talks about how, while fellow journos are pissed-up burnt-out rabble-rousing ne'er-do-wells, the profession of journalism...
A LATE and low-key entry in the considerable Postgate canon
QUITE.
THE TYPE of prissy early TV parlour game in which the host was referred to as "Chairman".
Now probably self-deleted from El Tel's memory banks
GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOUR rematch for heroes of scratchy 60s forerunner
NOEL’S Blue Jam-style post-Whirly Wheelgate ‘soft launch’ reinvention with a low-key top-of-the-week start-of-the-evening game show based on… well, nobody was quite sure...
NEEDN'T-HAVE-BOTHERED YOOFY show from the earliest days of Channel Four.
VOLKSWAGEN "WITH a mind of its own" (hmmm, sounds familiar...) and a gang of motorbikes have various minimalist highway adventures.
RUMBUSTIOUS ROARATHON from pretend working man's establishment somewhere in the north of England
JAMES BOLAM laid the memory of THE LIKELY LADS to rest with this grisly 1920s depression-quest.
DAVID "HELLO THERE" JACOBS talks to various Suez-era celebs
DRS MIRIAM STOPPARD and ROB "FUN AND GAMES" BUCKMAN host an early-evening medical chat show.
VERBOSE VOYAGES in a double-breasted suit.
KIDS' CAPERY featuring two chopper pilots Chuck Martin (KEN TOBEY) and Pete 'PT' Moore (CRAIG HILL).
IRON CURTAIN-PULLING impishness involving a 15-year-old girl called Julia
EARNEST TEEN magazine of the kind that multiplied around the late 70s
ATTEMPTING TO stretch his musical scope beyond ol' Durham town, ROGER WHITTAKER sang and hosted this lunchtime music'n'quiz engagement
UNEASY - OK, shite - cross between the HARDY BOYS and WAR GAMES.
VARIOUS COMEDY skits instructing kids on how to cheat/succeed/get up to mischief at school.
PAST-YOUR-BEDTIME BARBATHON
"MICK JAGGER visiting a laundrette? It would probably be something…like this…"
HOORAY! AFTER a long long wait, we've finally reached another Beeb Mediterranean thriller from the late 1970s
ANOTHER KIDS' comedy putative pilot from Thames, another crasher.
Presented by the magnificently named RICHARD CARTRIDGE in conjunction with ULRIKA JONSSON
WOO! PUBLIC access!
BRIAN "IT'S IN THERE!" MOORE fronted this self-explanatory yet ultimately disposable celebrity-endorsed battle of the sporting greats.
EARLY EVENING Cluedo-based antics with first EDWARD WOODWARD then JON P'TWEE as chairman.
EARLY MASTERPIECE from DAVID "ONE FOOT" RENWICK and ANDREW "2.4" MARSHALL
INVENTED, IT says here, by EAMONN ANDREWS.
FULL TITLE was, as everyone knows, the unfortunately ironic "Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And...
ANTISOCIALLY-TIMED SATURDAY morning child rambunctions
FIRST-RUN LYNDA LA PLANTE-ation had the wives of three cons who die in a botched heist doing the next planned job themselves.
FALTERING ATTEMPT to Anglicise HART TO HART
SLIGHTLY SURREAL yet totally unfunny sitcom starring ROBIN DRISCOLL and DAVID SIBLEY as two losers who spent all their time in a...
MANY A first viewing of MIDNIGHT COWBOY's Florida daydream sequence will have been ruined by childhood exposure to TONY SOPER's Britnature miscellany
SUBLIME SIMPERING nonsense that began as an animated campaign to promote North Sea oil.
FLOWER IN THE DIRT of much that was daytime.
THAT'S LIFER CHRIS SERLE stoically presided over this fantastic Sunday lunchtime BBC classic clips round-up
WEIRD DEATH thing about a couple's funeral in a society where no-one cops it except by agreement.
TIM "SON OF EDWARD" WOODWARD and NICHOLAS "BROTHER OF GEMMA" JONES lead dull canter through life in the Royal Flying Corps during...
CHIRPY, GAP-TOOTHED scouser JIMMY TARBUCK waffled chummily through this tatty provincial gamblo-general knowledge quiz.
LITTLE-KNOWN H-B short about Winnie the Witch who can't do anything right.
FEMALE VERSION of SECRET ARMY
NOT REALLY.
SOME POSH children (naturally) go to visit a small village during the school holidays.
INAUSPICIOUS ROLE for rarely-popular Scots actress KATE 'COPSTICK' COPSTICK as a masked android/alien/robot/who cares thing given simple puzzles to solve by her...
"TIME CAME to grow a bit, grow a bit, grow a bit."
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