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All posts tagged "1969"
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6.6K7TV: H is for...Holiday
EVER-RELIABLE EARLY evening winter warmer
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25.9K18TV: H is for...
Houseparty
TOO OFTEN are the ITV stations tarred with the 'eyes and teeth' brush of tawdry showbiz. Here was one independent afternoon banker...
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4.7K1TV: J is for...
Jokers Wild
BARRY CRYER (with black hair!) fronted this spontaneous (in the same way that HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU is spontaneous) gagfest
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11.2K13TV: O is for...
Open University
HAROLD WILSON'S "University Of The Air"
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6.1K13TV: D is for...
Department S/Jason King
ORIGINAL WAS a top MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE UK-style Bentleys and fist-fights spy thrillah
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7.2K5TV: D is for...
Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
HB'S TOP-RANKING baddie and his doggy in fruitless airborne pursuit of endlessly irritating pigeon with a satchel full of messages.
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5.3KTV: K is for...
Ken Dodd and the Diddymen
SUNDAY TEATIME timewastery with the titular buck-toothed tax dodger presiding over the puppet inhabitants of Knotty Ash.
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9.1K7TV: W is for...
Wacky Races
NO FURTHER explanation needed, surely?
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8.5K9TV: M is for...Mr and Mrs
NUPTIAL-ENDORSING NONSENSE which, were it still running today, David Cameron would've co-opted as party policy within seconds (SATIRE).
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4.3K2TV: D is for...
Doctor in the House
SLAPSTICK STETHOSCOPE SAGA
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5.6K12TV: M is for...
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
LOAD-BEARING LEVIATHAN of British comedy
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3.2K1TV: G is for...
Gnomes of Dulwich, The
GNOMES, EH? Now there's a subject for laugh-out-loud light entertainment.
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3.1KTV: G is for...
Girls About Town
PLAY AWAY'S JULIE STEVENS and DENISE COFFEY are two bored housewives looking for "additional" action. Derek Wilton - yikes! - obliges.
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2.5KTV: M is for...
My World…and Welcome to it
DROWSY DOMESTIC yankcom sitcom
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6.1K5TV: L is for...
Liver Birds, The
THIS HAS a lot to answer for, chiefly bequeathing Carla Lane upon the nation and her "daffy" "sassy" "Scouse" "wit".
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3.5K2TV: M is for...
Marine Boy
JAPANESE CARTOONERY featuring the eponymous unnamed briny-basher battling deadly "foes"
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3.4KTV: H is for...
Hark at Barker/His Lordship Entertains
IMPRESSIVE RONNIE B. cavalcade
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3.0KTV: F is for...
Flaxton Boys, The
GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER of every Sunday teatime period drama adaptation ever.
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2.8KTV: N is for...
New People, The
SATURDAY TEATIME American bollocks
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2.9KTV: O is for...
On the Rocks
TYNE-TEES SATIRISES itself with a kids' series about a regional-as-hell TV station broadcasting from a lighthouse to no-one.
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3.9K1TV: L is for...
Lift Off with Ayesha
Cheap and cheerful TOTP-baiting bonanza on t'other side
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10.8KTV: Z is for...
Zokko
SATURDAY MORNING cartoon linking device featuring a talking pinball machine of that name which played pinball.
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3.2K1TV: T is for...
Take Three Girls
...PLEASE! OH come on, cheer up.
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6.3K10TV: Q is for...
Q5/Q6/Q7 etc.
MILLIGAN MULLARKEY which bemused most (including the Beeb) but delighted enough to keep it being recommissioned despite the same things showing up...
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4.0K2TV: N is for...
Nationwide
"I DUNNO what a folly is. Bob, do you know what a folly is?"
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2.7KTV: I is for...
Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, The
FLEDGLING EFFORT from the boys at Euston Road
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5.7KTV: H is for...
Hadleigh
GERALD HARPER stalks the moors as eponymous lairy lord of the manor, before contriving to hitch up with HILARY DWYER and, well,...
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10.8K11TV: O is for...
On the Buses
SINGLE-HANDEDLY KEPT ITV in business in the early 70s
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3.0K1TV: A is for...
Anything You Can Do
A DEVOUTLY devolved kids' talent contest.
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