TV Cream
TV: O is for…
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3197O’Connor, Tom
WE'VE BEEN treated to a succession of vehicles for Scouse stand-up and self-styled "Mr Clean" Tom O'Connor down the years.
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Object Z
A MYSTERY entity is on collision course with the Earth.
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186
Odd Man Out
THANKFULLY FORGOTTEN but still rotten comedy
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872Odd One Out
PAUL DANIELS haunted this grim quiz
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Oddball Couple, The
SPIFFY, A fastidious cat, shares a flat with Fleabag, a slobby dog.
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Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt!
BILL MAYNARD was your hapless odd-job man
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157
Oh, Happy Band!
PLANS FOR a new airport in a northern province are opposed by HARRY WORTH and...his brass band.
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213
Oil Strike North
DRAMATISED DIVERSIONS of the go-ahead blokes on the then new and exciting recession-beating world of North Sea Oil rigs.
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305
Old Grey Whistle Test, The
PRIDED ITSELF on being the only place on television you'd be likely to see the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, which was probably...
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1931
Old Men at the Zoo, The
The brilliance of Troy Kennedy Martin's TV drama is known to all, or at least it darn well should be.
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Omega Factor, The
CHIEFLY REMEMBERED for having starred LOUISE "DICKIE DAVIES HAIR" JAMESON fresh from DR WHO as leather-clad inarticulate Leela
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On Safari
INSIPID CARDBOARD jungle-set mincing with the rotund campmeister’s rotund campmeister, CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS. The actual content is thankfully lost in the mists of...
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On the Buses
SINGLE-HANDEDLY KEPT ITV in business in the early 70s
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On The Move
BOB HOSKINS is an illiterate removals man
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170
On the Rocks
TYNE-TEES SATIRISES itself with a kids' series about a regional-as-hell TV station broadcasting from a lighthouse to no-one.
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185
On the Up
ON THE UP was a pretty typical BBC sitcom, albeit one broadcast at the fag end of the Corporation's love for conventional...
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2524
On the Waterfront
"LARD! LOTS of lovely lard!"
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181
Once Upon a Time…
PETER DAVIDSON'S first gig after getting smothered to death by Peri's breastage in DR WHO.
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Once Upon A Time… Man
WELL-REMEMBERED if pretentiously-titled Gallic historicals.
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197
Once Upon A Time…Life
ENDLESSLY REPEATED French animation epic purporting to make plain the workings of the human body through cheery-faced cartoonery.
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172
One by One
ROB "WHO?" HEYLAND starred as stupidly named "zoo vet" practicing in 1960s backwater of Britain where no-one had seen an elephant before.
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287
One Day in the Life of Television
THE BRITISH Film Institute's attempt to get a snapshot of What We Watch, and an absolutely stunning one at that.
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185
One Game, The
MIDWEEK MELODRAMA about a whiskery bloke who sets up a company designing Dungeons And Dragons games.
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One Man and his Dog
CANINE AND company for the wind-hewn, welly-bound well-to-do.
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154
One Step Beyond
ESP-BASED SELF-CONTAINED yarns with people travelling back to Krakatoa or the holocaust and forward into the future by means of juddery-camera visions.
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127
One Summer
WILLY RUSSELL-PENNED did-you-see-that-on-the-telly-last-night? playground-bothering Channel 4 play
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140
One-Upmanship
SKITS AND spoofery adapted from STEPHEN POTTER's 1950s titular "guides" to modern living
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191
Onedin Line, The
TITANIC NAUTICAL saga which steamed through BBC1 Sunday nights for nigh on a decade.
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Only Fools and Horses
"BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH".
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418
Only When I Laugh
Three patients spend four years in hospital even though there's absolutely nothing bloody well wrong with them.
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Open Air
YOU'RE OFF school - again - with an upset tummy.
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302Open All Hours
TIGHT-ARSED STUTTERING grocercom
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Open College
BASICALLY, THE Open University for anyone not predispoed to a particle accelerator.
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Open University
HAROLD WILSON'S "University Of The Air"
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Opportunity Knocks
FANFARE FOR the common man, woman, child, four-piece close-harmony crooners, assorted domestic pets and muscle-bound mincers.
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146
Optimist, The
REALLY, REALLY shitcom
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201
Organisation, The
ARCH SATIRE on power games in the PR department of a large corporation and one most-literate series ever to grace the screen.
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192
Origami
PAPERFOLDY SHOW similar to the later ART OF...
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141
Orion
ANOTHER BLOODY sci-fi musical (see FACE LIFT).
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147
Orlando
KIDS' SPINOFF from CRANE featuring SAM KYDD as the titular blarney-peddling hoodlum-pounding scruff.
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191
Orm and Cheep
CHUNKY CHROMAKEYED puppetry
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156
Oscar
MORE CHROMAKEYED black velvet marionettage for summer holiday mornings
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425
Oskar, Kina and the Laser
NOW THIS is what we call obscure.
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212
Other ‘Arf, The
WELL, WE know THIS one existed
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Other One, The
PIDDLING TITFER scripted by the Esmonde-Larbey GOOD LIFE dream team had RICHARD BRIERS and MICHAEL GAMBON
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Other Side of Midnight, The
IT WAS the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
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Otherworld
SUMMER HOLIDAY fare, c. 10am weekdays.
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224
OTT/Saturday Stayback
ADULT TISWAS
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238
Our Backyard
LUGBURIOUS LUNCHTIME fare for kids fronted by a cartoon seagull, whose chief job was to fill in the wearied viewer on the...
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Our John Willie
GEORDIE GRIMNESS in the form of a Catherine Cookson adaptation