PAUL COIA hosted this lunchtime quiz effort based on pointlessly elaborate mid-80s Beeb project to celebrate the 900th anniversary of The Domesday...
AHOY THERE! STILGOE on the starboard bow!
POSH KID alert!
MUCH-TRUMPETED “prestige” adaptation of the venerable Blytonian underage derring-do saga
TATTY HALF-ARSED low budget DR WHO for kids that ran for six months non-stop then never came back.
EARLY ENTRY in the 1970s Children's Telly Fantasy Catalogue.
WELCOME READER, bold but fair/in search of truths about KNIGHTMARE
IT'S THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, school's out... so why not draw the curtains so there's no light on the telly and tune in...
All the underage poacher-thwarting antics worthy of the initials CFF.
The soup-to-nuts of educational broadcasting in five integrated modules.
By Peter Hankin. Respectable snob Priscilla Morgan is unduly worried about a visit from her daughter’s schoolfriend.
HAIRY TINKER who can't speak but who's really an 11th Century magician (and who's really GEOFFREY BAYLDON) tries to escape from some...
YET MORE 1970s MYSTICO-QUACKERY
POSH KID looks into a mirror and finds she can step back into time to exchange pleasantries with Posh Victorian Kid.
FUSTY PERIOD-SWAPPING kids drama
SUPREMELY PREPOSTEROUS supernatural kids twaddle
ANNA SEWELL'S Victorio-horse catalogue had fuck all to do with these "adventures" featuring WILLIAM LUCAS.
BELT-AND-BRACES HORROR business dressed up as child's fare
BAFFLING KIDS DRAMA about a public schoolboy (just for a change)
FROM THE DESK OF DOIG.
THRICE-ADAPTED SCHOOL library legend and lunchtime "reading club" fave.
CREAKY BUT fondly remembered ITV kids sci-fi staple
PASTORAL PIDDLING of the kind beloved of the Beeb's kids department throughout the 80s.
MORE ADOLESCENT quest malarkey
COMEDY PLAY for kids written by FAY WELDON
BEND AN EAR TO perhaps the most deceptive theme tune ever.
JUST LIKE the way the Presidency of the EU rotates between different countries, so a script involving posh kids in a haunted...
BRIEF BUT BRILLIANT comdram
ORPHANED TYKE Lucas Bell (posh, of course) is watched over by bombastic guardian Sir Randolph Oakapple.
ATTENTUATED ATTEMPT to create a UK version of BIG JOHN LITTLE JOHN.
IN A brave attempt to push kids-costume-drama conventions to a dangerous extreme, this languid effort (based on book by Ray Brown) opted...
MEANDERING MOPERY serving up your usual BBC 70s kids drama courses of period costumers, suggestions of ghosts, evil relations, mystical artefacts and...
WHY DON'T you build yourself a word?
STULTIFYING SUMMER holiday morning yawnathon for inner city tykes
A TEENAGE TINA HEATH of Blue Peter pregnancy fame dons a bad blue anorak and converses with one very scary witch
ANOTHER KIDS' comedy putative pilot from Thames, another crasher.
Kids drama involving a posh girl in a large mansion where shenanigans are going down.
TOOK TURNS with FAX to plug gap between end of children's programmes and the news until Erinsborough beckoned.
SOME POSH children (naturally) go to visit a small village during the school holidays.
EXCEPT IT was mostly the Hardy Boys who appeared after those odd close-up-of-manhole-cover titles.
EPONYMOUS CANINE is Patty, a spaniel (or maybe a bloodhound) whose dreams always come true and the bunch of children who own...
ABSOLUTE ARCHETYPAL posh-kids-in-peril effort
"NOBODY" WAS the eponymous spook in this, ITV's proto-RENTAGHOST palaver.
FOWL PLAY from the North.
MORE FROM THE fortuitously prolific pen of E. Nesbitt
MAVERICK IMPRESARIO KEN CAMPBELL's foray into educational TV produced this oddity.
UTTERLY BAFFLING childathon charting the fortunes of boring posh teenager.
A SORT OF Flipper with actual flippers.
OIK'S DRAMA set in local kids radio station called Radio Phoenix and written in part by FRENCH and SAUNDERS.
DOZEY BOFFIN with big head is nabbed.
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