Sad news from our Northern desk: one of the country's most iconic bits of telly signage has been "retired". Yup, the giant...
IT HAD a fantastic theme tune, if you watched closely sometimes you could see the back of Granada's studios, and DAVID "SCIENCE...
FROM AN IDEA BY Tony Warren.
TIGHT-ARSED STUTTERING grocercom
Not all British films were produced in the Home Counties. Even by the standards of most of the companies listed here, Mancunian...
The grimmest, bleakest, and most often misquoted Caine film of the lot gets a look-in for its peerless use of locations as...
THUNDEROUSLY WORTHLESS Scouse shitecom
THORA HIRD, as usual playing herself, is an undertaker in a bluff, gruff, "take me as you find me" Lancashire funeral firm...
By Rita May. A mini-Watergate scandal erupts before local elections in south Yorkshire when a motorway extension is slated to be built...
In the late-’70s Liverpool of fast-rising unemployment, a gang of tar layers strike out in an old transit for a job laying...
This Willy Russell musical ensemble piece isn’t usually counted as a ‘true’ Play for Today because it wasn’t billed as such, but...
GRANADA'S BIGGEST-SELLING situation comedy.
Alan Bennett makes his first contribution to Play for Today with some autobiographical sketches of the fag end of family life. ‘Mam’...
Bill Maynard has it away
GROTTY KIDS grimeathon serial
WHIMSICAL DRAMA by MIKE STOTT set in and around a fictional Lancashire town.
WELL-REMEMBERED RETINUE of dramatised revelries
TOP RANK DEMENTED Lancashire-set era-spanning lampoon-sitcom
"SHAKE 'ANDS!"
ABSOLUTE POLAR opposite of BREAD
RIGHT, FORGET ALL THE BOLLOCKS post-1990.
KEITH "HAPPY APPLE" WATERHOUSE adapted his own novel for this sitcom
MUCH LIKE the vogue for programmes beginning with a fulsome TAKE (see above), so programmes opening business with a terse THAT'S are...
SIX SERVINGS of ALAN PLATER.
CHIPPER CHICANERY from north of the border
PROTO-ON THE BUSES rubbish (literally) comedy
A Yorkshire schools' morning stalwart.
IFFY SCOUSE povertycom which earned its spurs by dint of not being BREAD.
ALAN BLEASDALE etched these BLACKSTUFF-lite tales of the eponymous Scouse kid (ANDREW SCHOFIELD) kicking in phone boxes and failing a trial for...
THE RETURN of the inhaler-wielding, glove-toting, Shakespeare-spouting fop DCI George Bulman, still played by DON HENDERSON.
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