FIVE MINUTE cartoon fillers featuring recidivist wooden fish swimming in a river with swishy cellophane plants.
ONCE MORE unto the Grade.
NOT TO BE confused with the indoors-outdoors KITCHEN GARDEN.
BIZARRO BERMUDA Triangle adventures with a shipwrecked crew in the aforementioned polygon
PRE-EMPTING ROLF and his giant marker pens, here was SIR DEREK GRIFFITHS as manager, commissionaire, Reg the projectionist, Doreen the usherette and,...
IMPRESSIVE RONNIE B. cavalcade
EXCEPT IT was mostly the Hardy Boys who appeared after those odd close-up-of-manhole-cover titles.
"BUT IT'S got pipes in!"
FRIGHTFUL FRIDAY evening non-comedy
MULTI-WHEELED FUTURISTIC private dickery
CHILDCENTRIC FIFTEEN minute afternoon filler.
HARRY SECOMBE buys a Senior Citizen's Railcard
BRIAN ROGERS-SATURATED variety show
EARLY FAILURE of a location soap, a sort of "real life" CAMBERWICK GREEN, and one of the first to use portable video...
FRIDAY NIGHT snail's pace-drama about US Air Force men stationed in rural England shires.
UNSYMPATHETICALLY SLOW sitcom from the light channel
"IF YOU like to sing songs and you like to hear rhymes…"
GLORIA HUNNIFORD brings you this undemanding TV-based Friday at 8:30pm celebrity quiz show
MORE PERIOD PALAVER.
STEAM ENGINE stoics down Wessex way
THAT PERENNIAL children's comedy staple
OUTDOORSY CANUCK intrepidities as GRAYDON GOULD and a mollycoddling bunch of lads (plus token girl) with no school to go to indulge...
EPONYMOUS CANINE is Patty, a spaniel (or maybe a bloodhound) whose dreams always come true and the bunch of children who own...
FIRST ALL-BLACK cast sitcom for the UK
"FLICK THROUGH the pages of a book," urged RAINBOW splinter-group Rod and Freddy in the theme.
FRIDAY EVENING serial soaper set in the high-ranking executive world - a sort of BROTHERS shifted up half a class.
CORONATION STREET-BRUISER
MORE GRADE expectations.
GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER of every Sunday teatime period drama adaptation ever.
GERRY ANDERSON marionette hokum
WITH EVEN MACCA going nuts for the natural world in the early 70s (see "Ram" "Wings Wild Life" and numerous other pastoral...
AN ETERNALLY EVER-NAFF home counties C&W craze ran amok in the early 80s
UPMARKET RIDDLE-ME-REE business doled out in weekly 45 minute doses.
EUSTON FILMS EPIC of five South London bruvvers
DIANE "RINGS ON THEIR FINGERS" KEEN was the eponymous "dame" taking over Lancastrian local paper The Ramsden Reminder, in process battling to...
NOTHING TO do with DR WHO's laughing cavalier turned lamentable klutz.
TEN-MINUTE MID-AFTERNOON morsel.
MEDIOCRE MUPPET goings-on with cavorting mythology well to the fore.
POST-MAGPIE BUBBLE-PERMED Leo Sayeralike MICK ROBERTSON found himself fronting this Friday evening activity magazine
BARRY JACKSON doled out pathos and bathos
ABSOLUTE ARCHETYPAL posh-kids-in-peril effort
SLEEPY WESTCOUNTRY-ONLY hour-long replacement for TISWAS
WAS THERE NO WAY to keep the lesser talented Oddie off the screen in the mid-80s? No.
CARTOON CONFUSION about a wizard in charge of titular rock which controls children's dreams.
1950S-SET PUBLIC school nostalgiathon
THE ONE stain on Brucie's CV.
TUESDAY NIGHT 8pm sitcommery from otherwise sublime pen of ESMONDE and LARBEY, here way below par.
PROTO-ON THE BUSES rubbish (literally) comedy
FLIMSY FAMOUS FIVERY on a London bus
Lamentable look-how-much-fun-we're-having wankery
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