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All posts tagged "Middle class types looking stressed"
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4.5K4Dr WhoWho, What, When
Dr Who is back this weekend, and TV Cream is adopting its default setting of celebrating the series without actually talking about...
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10.5K27TV: B is for...Butterflies
The phrase “bittersweet comedy” used to turn up in listings mags and continuity announcements with alarming regularity, usually accompanied by a presidential...
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3.0KTime CapsuleMurder Game, The
BIG BUDGET LOW KEY play-along-at-home TV whodunnerin, parachuted into Saturday night primetime and promptly chuted further and further back in the schedule...
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7.8K8TV: S is for...
Singing Detective, The
THE PINNACLE of Potterism.
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3.3K1Dr Who
Writer of Blackadder: Back & Forth pens Dr Who story
More details have emerged about the script Richard Curtis is writing for the next series of Dr Who. At a press conference...
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4.7KTV: M is for...
Mastermind
THAT FAMOUS theme tune was called "Impending Menace"
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After Henry
SYBIL FAWLTY lives one floor below the snooty one off PLEASE, SIR! and one floor above someone who looks and sounds like...
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5.2K1TV: T is for...
Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way
"ECCENTRIC" BITCHY old maid BARBARA WOODHOUSE found brief early 80s fame as a result of this semi-documentary poke around her dog owner...
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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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2.6KPlay For TodayWho’s Who
A departure from Mike Leigh, centring on the social mores among a firm of stockbrokers. Obsequious junior partner Alan (Richard Kane) is...
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Abigail’s Party
Get ready to miss the point, Mr Lawson!
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Country Party, The
Brian Clark’s sequel to 1975’s The Saturday Party. Peter Barkworth has recovered from his redundancy, and now owns a country restaurant. When...
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
By Beryl Bainbridge. Two ‘singles’, Rosemary Leach and Michael Gambon, are ‘introduced’ to each other by well-meaning friends, but the encounter doesn’t...
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Saturday Party, The
By Brian Clark. Stockbroker Peter Barkworth is made redundant but goes ahead with his planned Christmas party anyway, bringing a different air...
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