PRE-WIDE AWAKE CLUB shortlived Saturday morning effort.
NAUTICAL FLY-ON-CABIN-WALL doco.
"IT'S A FUNNY old game," vouchsafed JIMMY GREAVES practically every week on this Saturday lunchtime soccer drone-fest.
ROGER MOORE tours famous back projection blue screens of the world.
IT CAME from Norwich.
A SORT OF Flipper with actual flippers.
FORGOTTEN GEM of a US TV movie
EARLY ENTRY in that most benighted of dramatic genres, the post-apocalyptic "bunch of raggle-taggle survivors shout at each other in the wasteland...
WEIRD, HALF-REMEMBERED educational oddity.
SUNDAY NIGHT ROY MARSDEN/RAY LONNEN vehicle.
WOBBLY FRIDGE magnet letters and tadgerish geometric cartoons began this pretentious sci-fi supernatuum about two elemental agents...
IF DEMPSEY AND MAKEPEACE and CATS EYES hadn't already proved that us Brits are pretty poor at this fast-paced, action-packed crime show...
BILL ODDIE again.
SCRABBLING AROUND for yet another Saturday teatime placement, John Birt settled upon this charmless formula tosh
POST-SATURDAY SCENE, pre-TISWAS morning miscellany for London-bound kids.
ANOTHER WOEFULLY misguided effort from the regions (see SIN ON SATURDAY) to fill the 10.30pm slot when Parky, Carrott and Wogan were...
EPIC EPICUREAN jawathon live from the South Bank boasting the tremulous troika of CLIVE JAMES, JANET-STREET PORTER and RUSSELL HARTY
IT WASN'T all TISWAS and SIX FIFTY-FIVE SPECIAL for the lovely SALLY JAMES.
LITTLE SEEN and even less watched contemporary of BBC1's SATURDAY SUPERSTORE had TOMMY BOYD and ISLA ST CLAIR sitting together awkwardly at...
AND AGAIN with the Boydster.
NO BREAKDANCERS or bodypoppers, please.
YANKCENTRIC DETECTIVE yarns in REMINGTON STEELE vein
DESPITE HAVING a Beebed-up version of Pink Floyd's 'Time' for the theme, accompanied by a cartoon elephant jumping on a triangle, this...
IF YOU ignore THE FLINTSTONES, which we find easy to do, probably *the* flagship H-B show.
ZEITGEIST-NON-SURFING Animator’s Cramp-occasioning high-concept Hanna-Barbera overreach, puzzlingly counter-topically sandwiched between 1976 Quebec Olympics and 1980 Moscow Olympics. Key selling point was...
FINEST COMEDY BBC Scotland ever managed to cobble together
Memory-test quizzery in old-fashioned ties-for-the-boys, sit-up-straight, desks 'n' buzzers extravaganza.
ALAN BLEASDALE etched these BLACKSTUFF-lite tales of the eponymous Scouse kid (ANDREW SCHOFIELD) kicking in phone boxes and failing a trial for...
ANIMATED ECO-FINGER-POINTING creation
FUTURISTIC (FOR its time) escapades following the exploits of cyber-sleuths
ASPIC-PICKLED ASININE variety gadabout from a different pier each week.
YVETTE FIELDING'S most notable hour before coming clean about her Brave Skin Condition.
ARCHETYPAL "BITTERSWEET" comdram about a constantly hopeless boxer
STIRRING TREMBLE-LIPPED stoicism from the Second World War
VOLUMINOUS VICTORIAN pinafore parade courtesy of template BBC adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett tome.
VAGUELY-REMEMBERED SERIES based on Danny Kaye's Walter Mitty character
CZECH/BULGARIAN DRAMA defects to the west and gets dubbed for its troubles.
ANIMATED CAPRICE concerning a kid named Simon who moves into an apartment building, and one day becomes absent minded and presses the...
BAH BAH bah, bi-dooby-dooby-bah
SUPPOSED JAMES BOND pastiche, but if so, why was the eponymous squirrel dressed in Clouseau getup?
MINUTE DETAILS of Messherschmitts, hush-hush plots and assorted explosive devices in the Wednesday evening documentary slot after the news.
SPRAWLING EXERCISE in self-flagellation by a newly Birt-ised BBC
BARELY-BELIEVABLE QUIZ quackery hosted by a bristling MATTHEW KELLY.
THIS WAS HTV's attempt at reflecting the varied and exciting (it says here) Welsh music scene
RIDING THE 1970s home crafts (i.e. Britain is broke) boom like a hastily-put-together show possessed
FROM THE crime-addled mind of Lord TED "DIXON OF" WILLIS came this ropey historical number
NOT A single Pacino in sight for this corrupt cop spin-off series; instead, DAVID "BRIDGET LOVES" BIRNEY was the exposey good apple...
THESE ARE the people in your neighbourhood. In your neighbourhood.
"WHAT DOES university mean?"
EXPECTED EXQUISITE dog-faced drollery from the rumbling northern ranconteur
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