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TV: P is for…
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230Packet of Three
ONE OF THOSE self-styled comedy showcases that did nothing of the sort.
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165
Pacman’s Adventures in Pac Land
EARLY ATTEMPT at computer game crossover that should have ensured it never happened again.
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154
Paddington
WORLD'S MOST famous sporter of the duffle coat until L. Gallagher.
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206
Paddles Up
AS KICK START was to junior motorcycling, so PADDLES UP was to canoeing.
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259
Pages from Ceefax
THE BEEB'S screensaver.
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223
Paint Along with Nancy
STILL RETAINS a sizeable cult following to this day.
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2413
Pallisers, The
MASSIVE OVERDOSE of Anthony Trollope historama
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2031
Paper Lads, The
CHARMLESS CHILDREN'S soap about paper rounds.
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1784
Paperplay
REDOUBTABLE LUNCHTIME ten-minuter
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1924
Paradise Club, The
BULLMAN AND DIRTY DEN - together at last!
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158
Paradise Island
BILL "GAFFER/FROGGIT" MAYNARD and WILLIAM FRANKLYN find themselves shipwrecked on a south sea island that looks suspiciously like a set. Laughs in...
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1771
Paradise Postponed
JOHN MORTIMER swaps a swig of BAILEY for a hefty helping of post-war decline-and-fall histrionics adapted from his own novel and layered...
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1871
Paramount City
COMIC SHOWCASE at name-donating London nightspot
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167
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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36410
Parkinson
ONCE UPON a long ago, this was the finest chat show of them all
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167
Partners
DEREK WARING and MILLICENT "TW3" MARTIN are the estranged owners of a bathroom furniture factory. Is their relationship destined to go, hey,...
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150
Partridge Family, The
SUGAR-COATED DISPATCHES from the picket-fenced permanently-sunny perimeters of the eponymous bird-named brood
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158
Pass the Buck
BRIEF BUT not brief enough Wednesday night quizzer
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128
Pathfinders
A TRIPTYCH of Sunday night monochrome sci-fi escapades
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276
Paul Daniels Magic Show, The
THE NATION'S number one syrup-sporting sorceror
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162
Paul Hogan Show, The
RED-FACED ANTIPODEAN roisterer
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60212
Paulus the Wood Gnome
MITTEL-EUROPEAN GNOMIC adventures of Paulus
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474
Pebble Mill at One
IMPERIAL LUNCHEON appointment and always a highlight of any school skive
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183
Penda’s Fen
PLAY FOR TODAY spin off.
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290
Pennies From Heaven
PSYCHOLOGICAL HOT shoe shuffle from the predictably barbed pen of DENNIS POTTER
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132
Penny Crayon
PESTERING CBBC business, based on suggestion of GOING LIVE competition winner
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151
Pennywise/Bazaar
WELL-MEANING BUT effortlessly patronising daytimers
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139
Perfect Strangers
SHORT-ARSED MISERABLIST batchelor finds out he has a wayward cousin from comedy made-up backward East European island of Mypos.
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150
Perils of PC Penrose, The
EARLY OUTING for PAUL GREENWOOD as a local town bobby ingenue.
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2588
Perils of Penelope Pitstop, The
"HAYULP!"
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186
Perishers, The
MODEST PRE-NATIONWIDE cartoonery with various crap kids (Marlon, Maisie, the little one, the one with the hat) and their dog Wellington Boot,...
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158
Persuaders!, The
TWO "HILARIOUSLY" (hence the exclamation mark) mismatched crimefighters
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265
Peter Cook & Co
ONE-OFF "COMEBACK" for posh whiskery waster, aided and abetted by others, which flopped.
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162
Petrocelli
HARD-TALKIN' HARD-DRINKIN' Italianamerican lawyer (BARRY NEWMAN), married to SUSAN HOWARD, does a sort of more violent Perry Mason routine
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146
Petticoat Junction
RAMBLING RURAL odyssey in an Ordinary Sleepy Hotel in Hooterville.
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155
Peyton Place
STUBBORN SCHEDULE whelk.
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153
Philomena
ESCAPDES OF a cartoon blue cat in a farmyard.
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131
Phoenix and the Carpet, The
YET ANOTHER case of rampant Nesbitism on the part of the BBC classic serials department
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136
Phoenix Five
MORE UNWANTED flotsam washed up from Down Under
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235
Photograph, A
It’s not every day a suave Radio 3 radio presenter (John Stride) is sent a photo of what appears to be two...
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210
Photograph, A
It’s not every day a suave Radio 3 radio presenter (John Stride) is sent a photo of what appears to be two...
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221
Pickersgill People
WHIMSICAL DRAMA by MIKE STOTT set in and around a fictional Lancashire town.
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62314
Picture Box
NO-NONSENSE BRAN TUB of films from around the world
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286
Pie in the Sky
"PIE SHIP to pieman!"
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2772
Pigeon Street
THEY NEVER learned how to do hands properly, did they?
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140
Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, The
AN ODD (and rather depressing, frankly) feature-length stop-motion cartoon about a kindly old inventor bloke
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163
Pink Medicine Show, The
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE of a Friday night as written and performed by DR. CHRIS BEETLES and DR. ROB BUCKMAN with LYNDA "PRESTON" BELLINGHAM.
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710Pink Panther Show, The
LET'S GET the order right here.
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126
Pinny’s House
FINAL PRODUCTION from the worksheds of OLIVER POSTGATE and PETER FIRMIN
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8915
Pipkins
LUNCHTIME, NEW Year’s Day, 1973, and what do we find? “This is Mr. Pipkin’s workshop. Come on in and look around. See...