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TV: F is for…
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159F Troop
JUST HOW DID all those tribes of native American Indians live so peacefully alongside the bluff lovable old coves of the 19th...
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F.A.C.T.S
"FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION Coaching, Tactics and Skills" is what it stood for.
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Face Lift
THE PREMISE: in 2074, we're all going to be idle proles.
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Face the Music
REDOUBTABLE CROTCHET'N'QUAVER quizzery.
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Face to Face
A GRUMPY JOHN FREEMAN (never seen) pelts doomed celebrities (in selfless close-up) with prurient questions about whether they cried as a child...
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Fainthearted Feminist, The
PROFESSIONAL RED and sirer of luvvies LYNN REDGRAVE took centrestage in this Guardian-derived sitcom
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Fairly Secret Army
GEOFFREY PALMER more or less exported Jimmy off of FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN into Harry Truscott
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Fairytale Theatre
VARIATION ON textbook "anthology" format
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Falcon Crest
PREPOSTEROUS VINEYARD vagaries courtesy of shameless DALLAS rip off relocated to Napa, er, Tuscany Valley.
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221
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The
SUPREME ROSSITER-ITIS.
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2022
Fall Guy, The
HE WAS, as he kept telling us, the unknown stuntman
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Fame
FOLLOWING ALAN PARKER'S shouty 1980 big screen sweatband-and-leggings bonanza, here came more high-kicking high-falutin' histrionics from life at New York's School For...
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Fame Game, The
BASICALLY THE latest new NEW FACES since the last one, with ex-GIDEON TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR and ex-celebrity STAN "JEEEEMANS!" BOARDMAN introducing shit stand-ups...
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1.1K5Family Fortunes
YEAH YEAH, "turkey" and all that, but there was much more to it than that.
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Family, The
DOCU-SOAP BEFORE they'd been invented, and indeed, the best one ever made.
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Famous Five, The
MUCH-TRUMPETED “prestige” adaptation of the venerable Blytonian underage derring-do saga
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Fancy Wanders
GURNEY SLADE-ESQUE gumption from pen of Sid Green, with DAVE KING and JOE MARCELL as the eponymous vagrants living mostly inside their...
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Fangface
"HE'S NOT your average teenage kid - unless you call a kid who turns into a wacky werewolf average!"
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158
Fantastic Journey
BIZARRO BERMUDA Triangle adventures with a shipwrecked crew in the aforementioned polygon
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121
Fantastic Voyage
THIS, ON the other hand, was an animated knock-off of the Racquel Welch-baiting original film
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1952
Fantasy Island
Fantasies included "having lunch with Charlie's Angels". Show included first comedy Sikh.
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Farmhouse Kitchen
NOT TO BE confused with the indoors-outdoors KITCHEN GARDEN.
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156
Farrington of the F.O.
AVERAGE AMBASSADORCOM with ANGELA "MR TYLER!" THORNE as the eponymous Foreign Office consul
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1864
Fast Forward
"WATCH ME on the video," went the wholly unrelated theme: not the best warning of what was to come
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Fat Man in the Kitchen
TOM VERNON was the rotund, bearded gastronaut
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Father, Dear Father
MIDDLE CLASS MITHERING from put-upon pater PATRICK CARGILL
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Fawlty Towers
LITTLE-KNOWN TRY-OUT for ANDREW "MEET THE MAGOONS" SACHS.
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Fax
"WHERE DO BIRDS GO TO DIE?" "Was ration Britain a better Britain?"
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165
Feather and Father Gang, The
FORTIES CRIME capers, kind of spun off from the The Sting, with Harold Gould (white-haired chap from the film) as a reformed...
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Feathered Serpent, The
DREARY STUDIO-BOUND ancient Mexico-based romp through curses, secret passages and much shaking of sticks at angry Gods.
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170
Fell Tiger
NEAR-PROTOTYPE FOR the soon-to-follow HOWARD'S WAY
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Fenn Street Gang, The
ALL YOUR PLEASE, SIR! favourites brought back for your viewing pleasure via inconsequential, delinquent ex-pupil spin-off.
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Fergus the Fish
FIVE MINUTE cartoon fillers featuring recidivist wooden fish swimming in a river with swishy cellophane plants.
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Fifteen to One
WILLIAM G STEWART moved seamlessly from ITV sitcom producer and PRICE IS RIGHT pink tracksuit-wearing warm-up ubergrupenfuehrer to high spec quizmaster on...
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Fighter Pilot
WORKMANLIKE DOCO following exploits of several RAF recruits, plucked from daily life just like you and me.
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263
Film Buff of the Year
ROTTEN CELLULOID anal marathon
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Film Fun
PRE-EMPTING ROLF and his giant marker pens, here was SIR DEREK GRIFFITHS as manager, commissionaire, Reg the projectionist, Doreen the usherette and,...
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Filthy, Rich and Catflap
ENERVATING ELTONIANA starring three quarters of the Young Ones as a trio of South London losers
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Finders Keepers
AHOY THERE! STILGOE on the starboard bow!
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2061
Fine Romance, A
BEST DESCRIBED as MAY TO DECEMBER minus that programme's calendar-themed-age-difference twist.
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Fingerbobs
CHEAPO HIPPY puppetahon courtesy of one-man creative maelstrom (see MAELSTROM) RICK JONES, aka Yoffy.
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Fireball XL5
RICKETY ANDERSON Supermarionation saga
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253First AIDS
CENTREPIECE OF week long, decade-defining, all-star, all-channel Aidsathon
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First Class
TOOK TURNS with FAX to plug gap between end of children's programmes and the news until Erinsborough beckoned.
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First Post
PLAYGROUP POINTS OF VIEW
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170
Five Magic Minutes
300 SECONDS OF shazam shambolics
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Five to Eleven
"AS I SAT at my small kitchen table this morning, a thought formed in my mind: what price the peace of one...
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195
Flambards
ONCE MORE UNTO Edwardian England for another bout of tears'n'trauma drawing room dramatics.
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141
Flamingo Road
WELCOME TO the Florida swamps where ambitious politician Fielding Carlyle (MARK HARMON) jousts with his scheming political wife Constance (MORGAN FAIRCHILD in...
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Flashing Blade, The
FORGET YOUR WILLY FOGG and DOGTANIAN: this was most definitely the right kind of poorly-dubbed European export.