FOUR-WAY GRIM crime capers, with each hour-plus episode detailing, in sequence, the doings of a police inspector, a lawyer, a felon and...
NEVER SAW this one coming.
INSANELY COMPLICATED parlour game panel joust
SO SO thriller filler based on famed torture-proof creation of US writer Elleston Trevor
RAMBLING SATURDAY ramble through laughably watered-down Swinging Sixties
KURT RUSSELL dons statutory small screen Wild West outfit and steps out into the dust to look for his long lost sister.
TOOTHY BALDING-PERMED ventriloquist wields pathologically feeble green duck in a nappy on one hand and nasally-blocked orange "cheeky" monkey on the other.
Genial, Irish besweatered rocking chair maestro fronted this never-changing pleaser from "the BBC Television Theatre" for pretty much a quarter of a...
RAMBLING AND RUMBUSTIOUS DALLAS parody set in the boardroom of a large industrial company run by John Steed.
DOCUDRAMA-ANTHOLOGY OF employment (and lack of) in Irvine New Town.
THICKIE SUB-SHERIFF off of THE DUKES OF HAZARD moves to LA and teams up with obligatory I-Spy style black partner.
ANOTHER SUNDAY morning "improving" children's show from the Beeb
KENNETH MORE is ageing harassed scriptwriter living in alternative England 30 years after successful Nazi conquest.
MORE FROM THE fortuitously prolific pen of E. Nesbitt
TWO PARAMEDICS in LA County go around clearing up other people's mess and, indeed, other people.
POST-WOGAN WHIMSY with made-to-measure wiseguy kid
PERRY MASON fancies a bit of a rest and decides to serve out the rest of his 'tec tenure in a mobile...
HEADLINE VEHICLE for ubiquitous have-a-go merchants CHRIS SERLE and PAUL HEINEY moonlighting from THAT'S LIFE.
ANOTHER OF those nothing-ventured, nothing-won Sunday morning fillers.
CUT-OUT ANIMATION beloved of lunchtime schedulers
WEIRD SPEEDWAY freakery for kids done in a SWEENEY style but with PETER DUNCAN as the lead.
"MUM! THERE'S a gyppo on the telly!"
CANADIAN SOAPERY that became a regular Children's BBC post-school distraction.
REDOUBTABLE KIDS sitcom from the keep-smiling-through school of jokery.
SID AND Marty Krofft, the costumiers/puppeteers who designed the BANANA SPLITS and brought the world of HR PUFNSTUF to life, also exported...
MUCH PANTHER-ESQUE plot reheating came courtesy of this dreary selection of characters.
UNCLE PETER PURVES and his brainbox mate JACK STITES narrate junior motorcross time trial competitons on the muddiest courses in the land.
QUITE SIMPLY, one of the finest programmes ever ever made. The jewel in small screen's light entertainment crown, this was absolutely essential...
DECENT ENOUGH diminutive dosage courtesy
SATURDAY MORNING cartoon linking device featuring a talking pinball machine of that name which played pinball.
EDUCATIONAL KIDS' pot pourri
POST-NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE drama, but then they all were then.
WOEFUL BARGAIN bin laughless comedy
UBIQUITOUS KIDS' infotainment
RATHER SURPRISINGLY well-done cartoon (though very low-fi) series about a Yak and his friend Crow who had various unlikely adventures.
EARLY, UNDISTINGUISHED effort from Bill and Joe.
THRILLING STUFF from the Hanna-Barbera stable, in the GODZILLA vein.
BOTTOM HOLE arse-for-the-money drabcom.
SHORT-LIVED BLUE PETER spin-off
KIDS' DRAMABORE series set in either Australia or New Zealand
NOT A James Joyce in sight for this dubbed Mediterranean wonder.
...PLEASE! OH come on, cheer up.
INEVITABLE YET ill-advised spin-off from BEWITCHED.
FORGOTTEN GEM of a US TV movie
A SORT OF Flipper with actual flippers.
NAUTICAL FLY-ON-CABIN-WALL doco.
EARDRUM-BATTERING COMEDY OF the working class woman from RONALDs WOLFE and CHESNEY.
HIGH-FALUTIN' MACHINE-TOOTLIN' tribute to that most ubiquitous of 1960s freestanding studio sets, the Government Research Laboratory.
AS KICK START was to junior motorcycling, so PADDLES UP was to canoeing.
WORLD'S MOST famous sporter of the duffle coat until L. Gallagher.
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