Frank Thornton – TV Cream

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“I received a letter from Joe Maplin this morning…”

By way of a tribute to David Croft, here’s a bit of Hi-De-Hi at its best (for it was often thus), in...

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Jane

Misguided schedule filling attempt to combine wartime nostalgia with nascent video technology which probably doesn't figure too prominently on GLYNIS BARBER's CV.

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Magic Christian, The

A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...

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Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, The

1970, and voters face an unedifying choice between a tired old Labour government and a slightly prannyish Tory challenger in a political...

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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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Steptoe And Son Ride Again

The second outing for the lads is more of a straight out farce. Harold cripples their horse Hercules by driving his cart...

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Three Musketeers, The

The Salkind brothers made this version starring Michael ‘Logan’ York as D’Artagnan, Richard ‘Island Son’ Chamberlain as Aramis, Frank ‘turkeys’ Finlay as...

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