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All posts tagged "People looking at old things"
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7.0K1TV: L is for...Look, Stranger!
MUSTY MAN ALIVERY with a doff of a whimsy-sized hat to ABOUT BRITAIN.
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8.8K1TV: D is for...Domesday Detectives, The
PAUL COIA hosted this lunchtime quiz effort based on pointlessly elaborate mid-80s Beeb project to celebrate the 900th anniversary of The Domesday...
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12.5K14TV: Y is for...You’re Only Young Twice
EXTREMELY ROTTEN ITV sitcom that managed to stink up the schedules for four years.
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5.3K3TV: U is for...Upstairs, Downstairs
THE IMPERIAL Leather of costume soap combining the best and worst of rich people and their servants with lots of dressing up
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7.1K1TV: A is for...
Ascent of Man, The
A COUPLE of billion years squashed into 13 episodes and a cross-hatched jacket with leather elbow patches.
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6.5K11TV: G is for...
Golden Girls, The
ASSORTED WRINKLED, weathered and washed-up embodiments of better days get trundled out once a week for seven years in the name of...
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5.7KTV: T is for...
Treasure Houses
A PRE-BLUE PETER MARK CURRY moonlights from MAKE 'EM LAUGH
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2.9K1TV: C is for...
Comic Roots
NOTABLE BRITISH funnypeople revisit the places and faces of their formative years
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4.3KTV: T is for...
Tottering Tales
BIZARRO VARIATION on the perennial children's serial theme of "kids help residents of a stately home to stop it being pulled down",...
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2.7KTV: C is for...
Civilisation
PROTRACTED PERAMBULATION by and about the world's finest antiquated artefacts
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4.3K2TV: T is for...Time of Your Life, The
ONE OF the many "side projects" essayed by NOEL EDMONDS during his 1980s besweatered behelicopted heyday.
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2.8K1TV: G is for...
God’s Wonderful Railway
STEAM-SATURATED TRAINSPOTTING tribulations
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2.6KTV: G is for...
Going for a Song
POOTER-ISH POTTERY riddleathon chaired in glory days by MAX ROBERTSON, with ARTHUR NEGUS permanently installed to one side on ribald-dispensing duties.
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5.0K2TV: G is for...
Grandad
WHO'S THAT walking down the street?
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4.9K5TV: G is for...
Gran
GRIZZLED GRIM stop motion gadabout
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2.5KTV: M is for...
Mighty Moments from World History
BEFORE THEY discovered they could buy in decent comedy from abroad, ver Four made do with homegrown efforts like this
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3.9K3TV: V is for...
Voyagers!
RUBBISH PSEUDO-EDUCATIONAL time travellry with some fuckers called Phineas Bogg (ha!) and Jeffrey Jones
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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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3.5KTV: V is for...
Vintage Quiz
ANOTHER AFTERNOON vehicle for the redoubtable FRED "GAMBIT" DINENAGE.
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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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4.4K2TV: L is for...
Looks Familiar
SQUIRE DENIS of NORDEN helmed this assortment of archive clippage
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3.6KTV: L is for...
Living in the Past
EEKING OUT the GOOD LIFE formula to its ultimate conclusion
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6.4K3TV: W is for...
Where Are They Now?
DAVID "HELLO THERE" JACOBS talks to various Suez-era celebs
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5.0K2TV: W is for...
Whose Baby?
INVENTED, IT says here, by EAMONN ANDREWS.
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3.8K6TV: M is for...
Make ‘Em Laugh
SOME HOPE.
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3.9K2TV: W is for...
Windmill
THAT'S LIFER CHRIS SERLE stoically presided over this fantastic Sunday lunchtime BBC classic clips round-up
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3.2K3TV: M is for...
Magic Ball, The
EARLY SHOT as cut-out cartoonery from the MR BENN mob
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2.6K1TV: W is for...
We’ll Meet Again
FRIDAY NIGHT snail's pace-drama about US Air Force men stationed in rural England shires.
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3.3KTV: W is for...
We Love TV
GLORIA HUNNIFORD brings you this undemanding TV-based Friday at 8:30pm celebrity quiz show
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3.0KTV: F is for...
Fred Dibnah – Steeplejack
LOVABLE OLD-ENGLISHERY with Bolton's late lamented Dibbers
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6.2KTV: H is for...
House for the Future, A
GRAVY-LUMPENING SUNDAY lunchtime fare
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5.4K5TV: H is for...
How We Used To Live
A Yorkshire schools' morning stalwart.
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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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3.7K1TV: N is for...
News 39
SUE LAWLEY sits in a 1989 studio "reading" made-up daily news bulletins from 1939 written and recorded in 1989 but produced as...
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3.3KTV: I is for...
It’s My Pleasure
DES LYNAM extended the eponymous salutation to a parade of rum and rusty small screen relics
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3.9K1TV: V is for...
Valley of the Dinosaurs
THRILLING STUFF from the Hanna-Barbera stable, in the GODZILLA vein.
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6.5K3TV: A is for...
All Our Yesterdays
NETWORKED SEPIA-DRENCHED homily to Better Times.
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5.2K6TV: S is for...
Stop, Look and Listen
CHRIS TARRANT'S uvular midlands thwack narrated a different "look at life" film each week.
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4.8K1TV: A is for...
About Britain
DOLEFUL LOOK-AT-THIS "local people with a story to tell" effort showcasing regionalia in as lumpen a manner possible
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3.9K2TV: S is for...
Six English Towns/Six More English Towns/Another Bloody Six English Towns
EPITOME OF CHEAPO look-at-this pointy telly.
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