"OOH AMY!" "Oh David!"
THE END of the world, Sheffield-style.
THE SMELL of a Friday night.
"WE'RE RESPECTABLE PEOPLE, not the London School of Economics!"
GEOFFREY PALMER more or less exported Jimmy off of FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN into Harry Truscott
AN OFFICE, somewhere in Television Centre in the early 1980s.
ANTISOCIALLY-TIMED SATURDAY morning child rambunctions
NONE-MORE-80S SUBURBACOM
"THEY SURELY DO!"
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...
"HEEEEEY!"
UNBELIEVABLY TARDY travails of cut-out couldn't-be-arsed feline.
LAST CALL for LEONARD ROSSITER
PRE-NEWS AT TEN drama of a midweek flavour.
LATE, UNLAMENTED entry in the POSTGATE/FIRMIN oeuvre
FROM THE DESK OF DOIG.
TOTALLY HOPELESS attempt by the fledgling channel to get a "funky" version of WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS on the go.
ALAN COREN in a mauve blazer dribbles at the mouth over triple word scores.
RISIBLY BAD regional cartoon woefulness starring a "crafty cat" and a "slow but loveable" dog.
ONE OF the many "side projects" essayed by NOEL EDMONDS during his 1980s besweatered behelicopted heyday.
Infamous "blokes trapped in an office block with a computer which tries to kill them" escapade with JOHN TAYLOR.
DOG-EARED CASSOCK-RIPPER
ABSOLUTELY DIRE musical comedy vehicle for evergreen band KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS
WEIRD SITCOMSKETCH thing about an alien invasion of the made-up town of Middleford
EARLY RUN-OUT for your blueprint Barrymore
FEEBLE HACKERY for JOHN THAW as eponymous investigative journo, filmed immediately after end of THE SWEENEY but stuck on shelf for years...
WE'LL PASS on both, if you don't mind.
WAS THERE no seminal US TV lovable rogue safe from cartoon enshrinement?
IF WOODSTOCK was a defining moment of the 60s, Montreux had a similar impact on the 80s, but for entirely different reasons.
UNTROUBLING UNCTIONS from a MARTI CAINE trying to make everyone forget about her cabaret credentials and instead concentrate on her acting acumen.
SPRIGHTLY SPINSTER gets invited to a weekend in the country
TOOK TURNS with FAX to plug gap between end of children's programmes and the news until Erinsborough beckoned.
"WHERE DO BIRDS GO TO DIE?" "Was ration Britain a better Britain?"
TWO POST-RONNIES roustabouts for BARKER of middling spectacle (ho ho).
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...
"WATCH ME on the video," went the wholly unrelated theme: not the best warning of what was to come
THUNDEROUSLY DREADFUL cat and dog cartoon double-header
RANK SITCOMMAGE from across the pond.
ANDESCENTRIC NATURETHON known for much footage of eponymous bird and those two-foot purple centipedes, besides introducing dreaded 80s parping panpipe fad.
BARGAIN BIN trio of plays shot on cheapola video equipment and themed on the same.
Ultra right-on com from Jeremy Isaacs-patrolled C4 (i.e. not funny)
THE ONE stain on Brucie's CV.
POST-BLUE PETER green chequered trouser era PETER DUNCAN daredevil portfolio
STAGE ONE of the long and winding Tarrant.
NEO-PERRINITE PALAVER penned by David Nobbs
DAVID "RAPIDLY LOSING HIS KID LICENCE" JENSEN hosted this bizarre geographical quiz from atop a crane-mounted armchair which floated over the studio,...
TOM VERNON was the rotund, bearded gastronaut
NERYS HUGHES singlehandedly rids the Welsh valleys of all known diseases.
NEXT LINK IN THE Micro chain
ELEPHANTINE RAMBLE around the Raj
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