TV Cream
All posts tagged "Mystical flummery"
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3.2KCream over BritainTV Cream’s Royal Wedding Album, vol. 3
The third and final slice from our knapsack of nuptials
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3.1KCream over Britain
TV Cream’s Royal Wedding Album, vol. 2
You can always trust the typing pool. Just days after we'd mentioned how TV Cream's very own Peg and Kathleen were already...
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3.5K4Cream over Britain
TV Cream’s Royal Wedding Album, vol. 1
We're dipping into our ottoman of listings paperwork to see how radio and telly covered Royal Weddings of the past.
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7.5K5TV: T is for...Timeslip
TATTY HALF-ARSED low budget DR WHO for kids that ran for six months non-stop then never came back.
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5.6K2TV: S is for...
Sky
DAVID BOWIE'S COKE-ADDLED mid '70s phase influenced many areas of popular culture, though perhaps the most unexpected change was wrought on the...
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6.1K9TV: D is for...
Dungeons and Dragons
CONVOLUTED CRAPOLA cartoonery
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5.3K5TV: H is for...
HR Pufnstuf
JACK WILD is Jimmy, owner of golden talking flute named Freddie much sought after by freaky gorgon Witchiepoo BILLIE HAYES.
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9.1K12TV: M is for...
Mysterious Cities of Gold
YET ANOTHER Spanish speciality served up over here in something like one thousands parts
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8.3K14TV: H is for...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
PISH TOY-FLOGGING sword and sorcery cartoon.
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5.3K7TV: O is for...
Omega Factor, The
CHIEFLY REMEMBERED for having starred LOUISE "DICKIE DAVIES HAIR" JAMESON fresh from DR WHO as leather-clad inarticulate Leela
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11.1K12TV: T is for...
Tales of the Unexpected
THE ONLY thing unexpected about them being, of course, the identity of the uber-celebrity playing the part of the doomed protagonist this...
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3.4KTV: R is for...
Raven
ALL YOUR usual HTV nonsense
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3.3KTV: R is for...
Robin of Sherwood
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NONNIER jazzed up with "mystical" overtones.
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2.6KTV: P is for...
Phoenix and the Carpet, The
YET ANOTHER case of rampant Nesbitism on the part of the BBC classic serials department
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2.9KTV: B is for...
Brave New World
HUXLEY GOES disco
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3.8KTV: P is for...
Penda’s Fen
PLAY FOR TODAY spin off.
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3.4KTV: C is for...
Children of the Dog Star
NEW ZEALAND export about a Tearaway Girl
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3.7KTV: C is for...
Changes, The
SUPREMELY PREPOSTEROUS supernatural kids twaddle
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3.1KTV: P is for...
Pardon My Genie
A HAPLESS young tyke going by the name of Hal Adden (do you see?) played by ELLIS JONES is cheerily polishing his...
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4.6K3TV: C is for...
Carrie’s War
UBIQUITOUS SCHOOL reading homework
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2.3KTV: T is for...
Tyrant King, The
MORE ADOLESCENT quest malarkey
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2.6KTV: T is for...
Time Express
GALLUMPHING SHORT-LIVED drama boasting a FANTASY ISLAND-type format
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2.8KTV: G is for...
Georgian House, The
JUST LIKE the way the Presidency of the EU rotates between different countries, so a script involving posh kids in a haunted...
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6.8KTV: G is for...
Gemini Factor, The
UPMARKET YARN for Children's ITV
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2.5KTV: M is for...
Mr Pye
FANTASTICAL NOODLINGS amongst the good folk of the Isle Of Sark
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3.8K2TV: M is for...
Mr Majeika
SUDDEN LATE wind for STANLEY BAXTER
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5.4K5TV: V is for...
Vicky the Viking
YOUNG BOY (yes, Vicky can be a boy's name too, like Lesley, or Stacy) warrior gains respect with his Norse chief dad...
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4.3K2TV: V is for...
Vice Versa
ATTENTUATED ATTEMPT to create a UK version of BIG JOHN LITTLE JOHN.
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2.7KTV: M is for...
Moondial
AGAIN WITH the let's-give-the-kids-something-to-scare-them-shitless.
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2.4KTV: M is for...
Moon Stallion
MEANDERING MOPERY serving up your usual BBC 70s kids drama courses of period costumers, suggestions of ghosts, evil relations, mystical artefacts and...
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2.4KTV: L is for...
Lord Mayor’s Show, The
ANNUAL INTERRUPTION to your favourite (or Live And Kicking) Saturday morning entertainment.
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5.0K4TV: M is for...Monkey
"IN THE days before Monkey, primal chaos reigned..." You said it.
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2.8KTV: L is for...
Lost Islands, The
ANOTHER ENDLESS epic for the summer holidays.
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4.4KTV: L is for...
Lizzie Dripping
A TEENAGE TINA HEATH of Blue Peter pregnancy fame dons a bad blue anorak and converses with one very scary witch
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3.8K2TV: F is for...
Fantasy Island
Fantasies included "having lunch with Charlie's Angels". Show included first comedy Sikh.
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2.8KTV: F is for...
Feathered Serpent, The
DREARY STUDIO-BOUND ancient Mexico-based romp through curses, secret passages and much shaking of sticks at angry Gods.
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3.2K2TV: W is for...
Who Pays the Ferryman?
HOORAY! AFTER a long long wait, we've finally reached another Beeb Mediterranean thriller from the late 1970s
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2.6KTV: W is for...
Witches and the Grinigog, The
SOME POSH children (naturally) go to visit a small village during the school holidays.
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2.7K1TV: F is for...
Fairytale Theatre
VARIATION ON textbook "anthology" format
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2.7KTV: M is for...
Magic Boomerang, The
ANTIPODEAN ANTIQUE no doubt burnt/drowned/disintegrated long ago
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3.2K1TV: M is for...
Maelstrom
IMPENETRABLE MELODRAMA out of the same school as 1983's THE WATERFALL
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3.1KTV: F is for...
Fantastic Journey
BIZARRO BERMUDA Triangle adventures with a shipwrecked crew in the aforementioned polygon
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5.3K10TV: M is for...
Medusa Touch, The
MORE GRADE expectations.
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3.5KTV: F is for...
Follyfoot
WITH EVEN MACCA going nuts for the natural world in the early 70s (see "Ram" "Wings Wild Life" and numerous other pastoral...
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2.6KTV: D is for...
Dreamstone
CARTOON CONFUSION about a wizard in charge of titular rock which controls children's dreams.
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3.4KTV: H is for...
Heggarty Haggarty
SMOOTH-TONGUED SORCERESS sat about chanting while "Broom" did domestic chores and "Black Cat" grudgingly supplied endless whiskers for making spells.
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3.5KTV: O is for...
One Game, The
MIDWEEK MELODRAMA about a whiskery bloke who sets up a company designing Dungeons And Dragons games.
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3.2KTV: O is for...
Owl Service, The
FOWL PLAY from the North.
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3.5KTV: L is for...
Little Big Time
FREDDIE "DREAMERS" GARRITTY marshalled this music/talent/adventure show with audience participation.
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4.3KTV: L is for...
Ligmalion
ONLY IN the 1980s.
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