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All posts tagged "Family friendly terrestrials-and-tribulations"
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7.1K2TV: I is for...Invaders, The
CHIRPY APOCALYPSE CAPERS
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5.7K3TV: F is for...Friends in Space
WELL-REMEMBERED comedy edition of the usually straight and serious ITV PLAYHOUSE strand, co-written by JOHN "CLIFFY" RATZENBURGER.
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5.9K8TV: S is for...
Sky at Night, The
SMALL SCREEN equivalent of the Galapagos Island tortoise.
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3.4KDr WhoA bit of Fry and quarry
Word reaches TV Cream that Stephen Fry's Dr Who script, which seems to have been in various states of conjecture and completion...
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2.3KTV: P is for...
Powers of Matthew Star, The
TRIVIAL TALE OF an alien prince (as in BENJI) sent to Earth with guardian (LOU GOSSETT) to engage in plenty of sub-Superman...
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2.6KTV: P is for...
Project UFO
NOT UFO, mind; instead, a keep-watching-the-skies spookarama that always began with a UFO "visitation" on a hick redneck Southern town.
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4.2K3TV: D is for...
Doctor Who
"NO NO, that's not his name, it's just the name of the programme." Bollocks to that.
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2.9KTV: P is for...
Phoenix Five
MORE UNWANTED flotsam washed up from Down Under
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4.5K1TV: P is for...
Pie in the Sky
"PIE SHIP to pieman!"
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6.0KTV: B is for...Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
ERSTWHILE LINE DRAWING and spaceman
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3.9K3TV: B is for...
Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
ONE OF HANNA-BARBERA's rare live action adventures, concerning a mutt, a kooky flying disc-shaped robot "guardian" of the Black Hole school of...
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4.1K4TV: C is for...
Captain Zep – Space Detective
NOT MUCH cop in itself, but included here due to its possibly unique format.
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4.1K4TV: B is for...
Battlestar Galactica
GOD TOOK a back seat for this Star Wars re-hash
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4.0K5TV: T is for...
Tomorrow People, The
CREAKY BUT fondly remembered ITV kids sci-fi staple
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4.1K3TV: T is for...
Terrahawks
MORE OR less the only Gerryatrics of note from the 80s and the only outing for, ahem, Supermacromation aka glorified glove puppetry.
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2.4KTV: M is for...
Me and Meep
QUIRKY KID sci-finery
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2.8K1TV: M is for...
Mork and Mindy
OVER-LIT, OVER-LOUD and over-egged spin-off
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3.4K2TV: M is for...
Moonbase 3
SO-SO SAGA of permanently ailing, low budget third moon settlement with a pan-European crew
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3.4K1TV: L is for...
Lost in Space
A FURTHER HANDFUL of hokum from the great IRWIN ALLEN
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3.8K1TV: L is for...
Luna
A ONE-OFF and no mistake: futuristic lunar colony houses various emotionless, artificial humans grown from "prime slime" culture
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2.9KTV: M is for...
Man Dog
MORE FUTURISTIC folly, this time involving space rebel types hooking up with present day kids and, well, transplanting their dying leader's mind...
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3.4K3TV: M is for...
Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury’s The
MISBEGOTTEN HOTCH-POTCH of 70s production values and 50s plotlines
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5.7K4TV: M is for...
Maths-In-A-Box
This was ostensibly a "comedy adventure series" dealing with slightly more basic concepts and starring two bog-standard kids who find a mysterious...
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3.3KTV: F is for...
Fireball XL5
RICKETY ANDERSON Supermarionation saga
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6.1K10TV: H is for...
Helping Henry
BAFFLING EARLY C4 kids show (weren't they all?)
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2.7KTV: W is for...
Wondermaths
PRIMARY SCHOOL afternoon maths frolics with Plymouth's finest CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP
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3.8K1TV: O is for...
Otherworld
SUMMER HOLIDAY fare, c. 10am weekdays.
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3.4KTV: K is for...
Kinvig
NIGEL "QUATERMASS" KNEALE'S one attempt at comedy, perhaps wisely.
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3.4K1TV: A is for...
ALF
NONE MORE 80s puppet sitcom with eponymous "Alien Life Form"
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