TV: W is for…

W.E.B.

WELL-MEANING (OR not, depending on your allegiances) spin-off from top film Network, about a fictional TV station and all the bribery, baseness,...

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Wackers, The

INSUFFERABLE SCOUSE-BASED "adult" sitcom

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Wacky Races

NO FURTHER explanation needed, surely?

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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

WHAT THE SIMPSONS once did for the Clinton decade, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home did for Nixon-era America.

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Wake Up London

ON SUNDAY Mornings, after TV-AM's eggcups faded into the ether, viewers in the London area were treated to this five minute oddity.

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Wall Game, The

ONE OF the lamest ideas for a kids' show before Dick and Dom revived ASK THE FAMILY.

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Wally Gator

EARLY, UNDISTINGUISHED effort from Bill and Joe.

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Walter

ONE OF those (now old chestnut) tales of a mentally handicapped kid experiencing the harsh realities of the world when his mum...

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War Game, The

MICHAEL ASPEL announces the end of the world while a boy's face catches fire and a bloke's cabbages get squashed.

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Warship

BRINY QUASI-SOAP set aboard pretend HMS Hero

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Washington – Behind Closed Doors

MAMMOTH NIXON rehashing, with JASON ROBARDS as the crooked nutter Richard Monckton (names changed for legal purposes)

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GENERAL STUDIES for kids.

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Water Margin, The

PRE-DATING MONKEY, here came 108 plucky knights brought back from the dead to battle nastiness in the Orient

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Waterfall, The

"IT'S BEAUTIFUL!" quoth Jane of Malcolm's crappy card trick at the start of this minimal MARGARET DRABBLE adaptation.

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Waterfront

JACK THOMPSON loafs around a depression-era shipping union as WARREN "GARNETT" MITCHELL invents satire in a tin-roofed music hall.

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Waterloo Bridge Handicap, The

ANOTHER OF those PLANK-esque short Britcom films

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Wattoo Wattoo: Superbird

FRENCH-DERIVED CARTOON about a bunch of greedy, untidy, irritable geese the Zwas

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We are the Champions

PE COMPETITION overseen by stern-but-fair RON PICKERING and the noisiest thing ever on children's television.

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We Got It Made

RANK SITCOMMAGE from across the pond.

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We Love TV

GLORIA HUNNIFORD brings you this undemanding TV-based Friday at 8:30pm celebrity quiz show

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We’ll Meet Again

FRIDAY NIGHT snail's pace-drama about US Air Force men stationed in rural England shires.

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We’ll Tell You a Story

"IF YOU like to sing songs and you like to hear rhymes…"

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We’ll Think of Something

UNSYMPATHETICALLY SLOW sitcom from the light channel

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We’re Going Places

SORRY, THAT title's fooling no-one.

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Weaver’s Green

EARLY FAILURE of a location soap, a sort of "real life" CAMBERWICK GREEN, and one of the first to use portable video...

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Wednesday at Eight

BRIAN ROGERS-SATURATED variety show

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Weekend World

FIRST TV show to think that thunderously self-important po-faced analysis of politics would go down a treat at Sunday lunchtime.

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Welcome Back, Kotter!

IN BLOODY DEED.

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What the Papers Say

CAMERA-SHY JOURNO sits in empty studio and talks about how, while fellow journos are pissed-up burnt-out rabble-rousing ne'er-do-wells, the profession of journalism...

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What-a-Mess!

A LATE and low-key entry in the considerable Postgate canon

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What’s Happening?

QUITE.

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What’s My Line?

THE TYPE of prissy early TV parlour game in which the host was referred to as "Chairman".

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What’s On Wogan

Now probably self-deleted from El Tel's memory banks

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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOUR rematch for heroes of scratchy 60s forerunner

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Whatever Next!

NOEL’S Blue Jam-style post-Whirly Wheelgate ‘soft launch’ reinvention with a low-key top-of-the-week start-of-the-evening game show based on… well, nobody was quite sure...

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