All posts tagged "Charles Gray"

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  Porterhouse Blue

  ALL-IN academic decadence satire-cum-farce (sat-arce?) from the ever-deviant pen of TOM SHARPE, as adapted for the telly by MALCOLM BRADBURY, who knows...

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  Thriller

  A SUPERLATIVE anthology of hour-long suspenseful playlets about well-tailored middle class types methodically doing each other in, THRILLER was a textbook example...

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  BBC Television Shakespeare, The

  HERE WAS a prime cut of your actual Public Service Broadcasting with a capital "p", illuminated in red with a filigreed gold...

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  Radio 4: The Programmes

  Psychedelic Spy, The

  AUSTIN POWERS-purloined tongue-in-cheek pastiche of all things sixties, agenty and secret

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  Churchill’s People

  "OI, CHURCHILL! Can you save me money on my quality drama output?"

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  Shock Treatment

  Richard O’Brien’s minimalist pseudo-sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1976) stuck Brad and Janet in a world of small town domestic...

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  Man in the Moon

  Nice waferlight space parody with an impossibly chirpy Kenneth More fired from his job in cold research for failure to catch any...

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  Play For Today

  Play Not-Quite-For Today: Series One

  Notebooks out, completists!

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  Rawhide

  DEFINITIVE TAKE on the telly Western