TV: S is for…

Solo

THUNDEROUSLY PO-FACED pickle penned by CARLA LANE with FELICITY KENDAL "struggling" as a single woman trying to fight "the system" i.e. men.

4.0K

4

Solo One

DUSTILY-REMEMBERED STAPLE of Granada's school holiday morning schedules, featuring PAUL CRONIN as Aussie motorbike cop Gary Hogan, spun-off from MATLOCK POLICE.

8.2K

7

Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em!

OH LOOK, there's a retarded man hanging over a cliff.

2.8K

2

Something Else

POST-PUNK MUSIC and "issues" show which roamed the provinces each week for mohicaned discussion and the new one from Magazine.

3.1K

2

Song and the Story, The

ISLA ST CLAIR buggers off to some rural part of Scotland or something, sings some folk songs, and "investigates" the stories behind...

2.9K

Songbook

INSUFFERABLE REPLACEMENT for the inoffensively irreplaceable A HANDFUL OF SONGS in ITV's lunchtime kiddies' slot.

10.5K

9

Songs of Praise

PARISHONAL POW-WOW showcasing abnormally packed congregations doled up to the nines singing in an exaggerated fashion.

9.2K

8

Sons and Daughters

AFTERNOON STRIPPED Aussie cut-price DYNASTY tomfoolery from the melodrama meister Reg Grundy.

8.7K

12

Sooty Show, The

VARIOUSLY MONIKERED capers of orange, verbally-challenged, water pistol-toting magic bear-cum-hand puppet possessed by extreme powers of endurance.

5.5K

6

Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You!

YET ANOTHER of those preachy ON THE MOVE-style BBC educational initiatives, aimed at teaching the unwashed masses about road safety.

7.1K

12

Sorry!

PERENIALLY KNOCKED yet persistently nifty sitcom warhorse blessed with one of the greatest TV themes ever

3.7K

1

Sounding Brass

UNNECESSARY ENCORE for the old-as-hills brass-band-as-sitcom number

2.5K

Sounds Like Music

OH DEAR LORD.

4.8K

1

South Bank Show, The

JAUNDICED JUGGERNAUT of "It's The Arts" franchise-fulfilling, regulator-appeasing slurry

3.9K

2

South of the Border

NORTHERNER FORCED by circumstance moves to the South of England looking for work.

2.5K

Space Ghost

SEMI-ANIMATED MASKED geezer with invisible powers and special belt fights interplanetary crime with Jayce and Jan and Blip the monkey.

2.3K

Space Giants

JAPANESE-DUBBED-TO-ENGLISH CAPERY about a 50 foot tall robot named Goldar

2.8K

Space Patrol

WHEN PEOPLE start talking about "that FIREBALL XL5 show - the one with the parrot" it's this lesser-known effort they mean.

2.3K

Space Sentinels

STIFFLY-ANIMATED ADVENTURES of three superheroes who live in a volcano

10.7K

13

Space: 1999

GERRY ANDERSON thinks he can better STAR TREK

8.4K

Special Branch

TOUGH-NOSED, HARD-PERMED, tight-trousered cop shop series which graduated from studio-bound videotaped vaudeville to all-on-film out-and-out shouting.

2.3K

Speed Buggy

THREE TEENAGE kids (a shiny new sixpence to whoever can remember their no doubt way-out names) have rattling adventures in the eponymous...

2.4K

Spider-Man

THE ORIGINAL cartoon of the "webbed wonder" of comic fame

3.5K

2

Spider-Man (II)

LIVE-ACTION SPIDEYFEST that's the best for our money simply because, being live-action, it looks completely ridiculous.

3.0K

Spine Chillers

SPOOKEEE SPIN-OFF of Jackanory, as the likes of MARTIN "RINGS" JARVIS tell mildly hair-raising tales in pre-NATIONWIDE slot.

6.8K

10

Spitting Image

FOREVER ERRONEOUSLY referred to with a superfluous "S" at the end of the programme's title

5.9K

2

Splash

TATTY MAGAZINE programme for kids in the quarter-to-five slot.

3.5K

Spooner’s Patch

BENT COPPERCOM which lingered for a while at the turn of the decade in spite of iffy plots, endless strikes and equally...

3.2K

1

Sport AM

GNOMIC CELTIC ANCHORMAN BOB SYMONDS was your genial host for this Monday night third-rate sportsfest.

3.1K

2

Sport Billy

ODD CARTOON kid of vaguely Hispanic origin battles evil green Queen Vandar and snivelling gnome-like henchman who want to "destroy all sport"...

2.7K

Sporting Chance

INCREDIBLY POPULAR at the time, virtually forgotten now.

5.0K

4

Sporting Triangles

LAME RIP-OFF of A Question Of Sport (no, it's different, it's got three teams, see?) hosted by NICK OWEN

3.9K

1

Sportsview/Sportsnight/Midweek Sports Special

ALL UNDER the banner of the "weekly review of sport", these "sturdy" vehicles rounded up the action for the football-deprived midweek pundit.

4.3K

4

Spy Force

SECOND WORLD war adventures of a bunch of characters played by actors who seemed to star in every other Australian film and...

3.0K

1

Spytrap

ODDLY-THEMED ESPIONAGE quiz show for two teams of kids.

5.0K

1

Square Leopard, The

SPURIOUS SITCOM hastened out in the 4.45pm slot

2.7K

Square One

JOE BROWN, sans Bruvvers, mugged his way through this outsize snakes and ladders game.

4.4K

10

Squirrels, The

OFFICE POLITICKING over-easy.

10.0K

11

Stab in the Dark, A

LATE-NIGHT satire and politicised comment monologuery which, by our reckoning, marked the last knockings of old school 'but seriously now, unemployment eh?'...

3.6K

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