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73124‘Allo ‘Allo!
THAT EXCLAMATION mark says it all.
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713
1990
A futuristic dystopian britain provides the setting for a hard-bitten "and-the-moral-is" fantasy runaround,
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734123-2-1
HAND JIVER extraordinaire TED ROGERS flipped his wrists throughout this hour-long Spanish-derived mystery quiz
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2131
3-2-1…Contact!
US SEMI-ED kid's show.
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2321
4 Computer Buffs
AGAIN WITH THE home computers.
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191
4 What It’s Worth
VINTAGE WORTHINESS from Four's fledgling days
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2794
4-Tel on View
NOOOO! YOU don't want to give something that's supposed to be a far more sleek and with-it rival to Ceefax a name...
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357
60 70 80 Show, The
ROY HUDD was your ringleader for this half-remembered Sunday matins showcase for old folk, featuring tea-dances and darning.
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1741
A for Andromeda
EPONYMOUS FEMO-BOT spawned by malevolent machine made of giant spinning tape loops and teleprinters proceeds to run (slowly) amok in a Top...
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3169
A-Team, The
A REDUNDANT entry, really. What's to say?
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285
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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209
Abricadigance
"DON'T, DON'T, DON'T give up the day job," sang Rich. Why not, asked the viewing several.
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252
Absurd Person Singular
SHUFFLING SMALL SCREEN version of ALAN AYCKBOURN's salty ensemble drama following a mithering middle class quartet through three Christmases...
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4375
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The
Woah, woah, steady on there, TVC! Bit outside the usual remit, this, isn't it?
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2592
Ace of Wands
JIM-MORRISON-ALIKE BOY magician Tarot (MICHAEL MACKENZIE) has adventures through history, for which read cheap studio set representing pyramid, cheap studio set representing...
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279
Ad-Lib
DREADFUL HALF-ARSED cheapo kids' drama-workshop-on-screen string of semi-improvised (hence title) sketches and bollocks, the most notable thing being when cast regular DUNCAN...
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217
Adam
DISABLED WOMAN falls victim to a new automated, computer-controlled house, which seems strangely sinister, and...yeah, you guessed it.
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410Adam Adamant Lives!
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY GENTLEMAN charmer in preposterous cape and cane combo (GERALD HARPER) gets frozen in a block of ice and thawed out in...
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2481
Addams Family, The
CREEPY. KOOKY. And altogether, er, ooky.
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5887
Adrian Mole, The Secret Diary/Growing Pains of
DECADE-ENHANCING COFFEE table staple by SUE TOWNSEND adapted reasonably, if rather needlessly, for the screen
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3803
Adventure Game, The
WHAT NOW GET OUT OF THAT was to BBC1 evenings, THE ADVENTURE GAME was to BBC2 teatime.
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3836
Adventure Weekly
DIMLY-RECALLED KIDS series from the arse-end of the 60s about a group of kids in an English town who decided to write...
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2502
Adventures of Don Quick, The
SCI-FI COMEDY outing, little remembered now, with IAN HENDRY as the quixotic space traveller, and RONALD LACEY as Sam Chopanza.
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2575
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The
MORE OLD black and white stuff which strayed far into the colour era.
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197
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
DEFINITIVE SMALL-SCREEN sleuthathon saddling JEREMY BRETT, for good or ill (the latter, as it turned out) with the role of a lifetime.
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2931
Adventures on Kythera
AUSSIE KIDS Molly (AMEILA FRID - the original Cody Willis in NEIGHBOURS) and Spike (GARY PERAZZO) holiday on a Greek island, where...
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3435
Aeronauts, The
25-MINUTE GUNG-HO adventures of Ernest Laverdure and Michel Tanguy, young strapping pilots in the French air force.
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282
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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3611
Afternoon Plus
LEVIATHAN OF post-lunch shoestring scheduling and sanctuary for many a sneaky school skive.
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3524
Agaton Sax
AMIABLE ENOUGH cartoon serial about a bowler-hatted, moustachioed detective (and some sort of police constable sidekick).
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227
Agony
ANNA RAEBURN-INSPIRED sitcommery starring MAUREEN LIPMAN as usual playing herself, i.e. externally strong, confident woman but internally a babbling mess.
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185
Airbase
LATE-PERIOD COLD War production-line thriller set in a US air force base in the UK.
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214
Airport Chaplain
SHORT-LIVED SUNDAY night God slot support feature.
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188
Airwolf
NIFTY BLACK futurocopter saga with none-more-eighties JAN MICHAEL-VINCENT as cello-playing loner maverick Stringfellow Hawke,
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2401
Albert Carter, Q.O.S.O.
ROY KINNEAR was your jovial accident-prone street sweeper in one of those 1970s silents in the PLANK/RHUBARB mould.
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3566
Albion Market
IT HAD a fantastic theme tune, if you watched closely sometimes you could see the back of Granada's studios, and DAVID "SCIENCE...
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2362
Album, The
RUN-OF-THE-MILL HOBBY/COLLECTING magazine (see MADABOUT) employing ex-mime artist ADRIAN "JIGSAW" HEDLEY
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197
Alcock and Gander
NO CHEAP innuendo suggested by that title, no way.
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187
ALF
NONE MORE 80s puppet sitcom with eponymous "Alien Life Form"
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2304
Alfie Atkins
SWEDISH ADVENTURES of a bald cartoon boy and his bald cartoon dad.
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2202
Alfresco
GRAB BAG alterno revue, late in slot and long of trouser.
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2491
Ali Bongo’s Cartoon Carnival
A TWO-PRONGED, double-content pre-GRANDSTAND bonanza from P. Daniels' late "magic consultant".
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2332
Alias Smith and Jones
BBC2 SLIPPED off its tight waistcoat and cummerbund with this endless Butch and Sundance-style banditathon
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1902
Alias the Jester
LATE ERA Cosgrove-Hall spectacular
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165
Alice
BOUGHT AS a job lot by cash-strapped infant Channel 4 and flung out after COUNTDOWN.
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2182
Aliens in the Family
WEIRD DRAMA about a teenage girl who goes to stay with her dad and stepfamily for the summer.
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179
All at Number 20
Maureen Lipman is back.
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189
All Clued Up
WORD GAME (as they so often were) favoured mainly by senior citizens (both watching at home and playing in the studio).
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259
All Creatures Great and Small
Driving-through-the-Dales-in-a-lovely-old-car with Hardy and Timothy sharing a joke.
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265All Gas and Gaiters
VAPOURS-IN-THE-VESTRY PALAVER fronted by DEREK NIMMO, here beginning long service as TV's resident clerical buffoon.