All posts tagged "Sally James"

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  It's Saturday Night

  37. Kamikaze Mastermind

    Also beginning in 1983 and faring better than Just Amazing! was the series dubbed “The Kamikaze Mastermind”. Like the Yorkshire Television vehicle, Ultra...

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  It's Saturday Night

  22. The Habitat-bean-bag-hessian-wallpaper brigade

  Central Television’s OTT was on the search for new, cutting-edge talent to augment the team of Tarrant, Gorman, Henry and Carolgees. Chris Tarrant came...

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  It's Saturday Night

  21. A new style of lunatic humour

  The success of Game For A Laugh and the corresponding demise of The Generation Game meant that, by the start of 1982, the BBC...

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  Never Too Young To Rock

  The best movie release of glam rock's annus mirrorballis of 1975 was this delirious sci-fi oddity.

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  Radio 4: The Programmes

  Trumpton Riots

  SUBLIME filling of the popular-cultural no-man's-land between Christmas Day and New Year's Day with a set of short but charming mini-documentaries on...

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  Saturday mornings

  Tiswas

  THE TITAN of Saturday morning television. Its shadow fell over everything else that followed in the much-prized but frequently 'difficult' Saturday slot.

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  Tiswas

  "THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT!"

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  Six Fifty-Five Special

  ABSOLUTELY SOD-ALL to do with Pete Murray

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  Saturday Scene

  IT WASN'T all TISWAS and SIX FIFTY-FIVE SPECIAL for the lovely SALLY JAMES.

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  TV: U is for...

  Ultra Quiz

  POSSIBLY THE only instance of a Japanese-originated format crossing over to the west.