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All posts tagged "Life’s unpalatable truths"
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6.0K5TV: M is for...Man Alive
UNREMITTINGLY GRIM this-is-real-life-so-you-better-get-used-to-it strand
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7.7K6TV: Q is for...Q.E.D.
MUCH LOVED BBC popular science series that seemed best served when stuck out after the NINE O'CLOCK NEWS.
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8.4K13TV: C is for...Coronation Street
FROM AN IDEA BY Tony Warren.
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4.2K5TV: W is for...
Wonder Years, The
"I DIDN'T realise it at the time, but it was at that moment my relationship with dad changed...utterly."
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2.1KA bit of businessPlay away!
One of the many benefits of upgrading TVC to this new site is that, whenever we're done cutting and pasting something from...
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5.5K3TV: F is for...
Family, The
DOCU-SOAP BEFORE they'd been invented, and indeed, the best one ever made.
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3.8K3TV: R is for...
Roots
MADE-FOR-TV MULTIPART marathon of a miniseries
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3.2KTV: P is for...
Play for Today
EVERYTHING AND the kitchen sink.
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14.4K29TV: T is for...
That’s Life!
AS NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS had it: "Bleeding bloody ESTHER bleeding bloody effing bloody RANTZEN bloody woman."
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2.5KTV: T is for...
Travelling Man, The
PRE-NEWS AT TEN drama of a midweek flavour.
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3.5K2TV: C is for...
Children’s Island
ANOTHER BATCH OF pretend wartime evacuees get their lives laid bare on the box
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2.4KTV: M is for...
Midnight is a Place
ORPHANED TYKE Lucas Bell (posh, of course) is watched over by bombastic guardian Sir Randolph Oakapple.
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2.6KTV: L is for...
Lord Tramp
ANOTHER SIGHTING of a tinker on the telly (see KIZZY)
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3.4K3TV: L is for...
Love Thy Neighbour
NOWADAYS THIS is shorthand for everything that was shit about the 1970s, but in reality there was worse to be had in...
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5.3KTV: F is for...First AIDS
CENTREPIECE OF week long, decade-defining, all-star, all-channel Aidsathon
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4.1K2TV: F is for...
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The
SUPREME ROSSITER-ITIS.
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3.8K2TV: W is for...
Walter
ONE OF those (now old chestnut) tales of a mentally handicapped kid experiencing the harsh realities of the world when his mum...
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3.8KTV: H is for...
Havoc
BIG FUCK-OFF bran tub of real-life disasters
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2.9K2TV: W is for...
World at War, The
COMES WITH a faintly ridiculous semi-mystical, hushed tones, doff-your-hat air nowadays
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3.3KTV: Y is for...
Your Life in Their Hands
SOFTLY-SPOKEN SURGEONS inform patients of the intricacies of kidney stone removal before performing the necessary operation and inviting the patient to come...
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4.8K6TV: D is for...
Dave Allen at Large
PREMIER LEAGUE sub-fingered foul-mouthed Catholic pope-baiter on a stool with tumbler and fag railed against the modern and ancient world alike in...
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8.0K12TV: O is for...
Our John Willie
GEORDIE GRIMNESS in the form of a Catherine Cookson adaptation
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5.1K3TV: O is for...
Orm and Cheep
CHUNKY CHROMAKEYED puppetry
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3.3KTV: S is for...
Seven Up
"WHAT DOES university mean?"
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3.8K3TV: L is for...
Law and Order
FOUR-WAY GRIM crime capers, with each hour-plus episode detailing, in sequence, the doings of a police inspector, a lawyer, a felon and...
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3.0KTV: E is for...
End of the Line
DOCUDRAMA-ANTHOLOGY OF employment (and lack of) in Irvine New Town.
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4.7K2TV: E is for...
Elephant
NORTHERN IRELAND. No dialogue. Someone gets shot. Then someone else.
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3.6KTV: K is for...
Kind of Loving, A
SO-SO ADAPTATION of the not-actually-that-good kitchen sink novel
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3.8KTV: X is for...
Xerxes
UNPRONOUNCEABLE IMPORT sneaked out on Thursday evenings as part of otherwise half-arsed early C4 yoof initiative.
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2.9KTV: S is for...
Sailor
NAUTICAL FLY-ON-CABIN-WALL doco.
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4.2KTV: N is for...
Near and Far
SCHOOLS' GEOGRAPHY show.
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4.6K6TV: I is for...
Indelible Evidence
CHARMLESS CRIMEWATCH roadtester shuttled out on BBC2
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3.8K5TV: A is for...
Apache
NIGHTMARE-INDUCING PRODUCTION, shown to kids in school assemblies to learn them of the dangers of arseing about with dangerous farming equipment.
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6.8K7TV: T is for...
Taggart
"LIFE'S NOT always a fairy-tale, Michael". JIM TAGGART, take a bow
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