TV Cream
TV: J is for…
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5343Jackanory
RAMSHACKLE READING-IS-FUN RELIC.
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Jake Thackray and Songs
LANKY LACONIC Yorkshire yokel gets long-overdue opportunity for his own headlining effort
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James the Cat
UNBELIEVABLY TARDY travails of cut-out couldn't-be-arsed feline.
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James Whale Radio Show, The
TRANSFERRED FROM RADIO (God knows, or cares, where), this plucky and "controversial" show kept the original title, to heartbreakingly ironic effect
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230
Jamie
TRIPPY TEATIME childfantasy with the eponymous kid taking receipt of a magic rug.
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Jamie and the Magic Torch
JAMIE (OSMONDS blow-wave and flared turn-ups) and his dog, Wordsworth (Norfolk accent and woolly hat) are tucked in one peaceful suburban night...
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Jana of the Jungle
POSH FEMALE aristo gets lost in overgrown shrubbery, goes sub-Tarzan native and befriends jaguar called Ghost.
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Jane
Misguided schedule filling attempt to combine wartime nostalgia with nascent video technology which probably doesn't figure too prominently on GLYNIS BARBER's CV.
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451
Jangles
HAZEL "A PROBLEM MAN HAD NOT FORESEEN AS YET" O'CONNOR and JESSE "MARRRRCCUUUSSSSSSS!" BIRDSALL hang out down eponymous local discotheque
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248
Jason of Star Command
LONG-BANISHED LIVE action effort from the house of Filmation
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240
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
SPLENETIC CARTOONERY involving another space blerk
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234
Jem
YET MORE animated antics, this time featuring an all-American girl band fronted by Jenna who'd be transformed via holograph-projecting earrings into the...
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Jesus of Nazareth
GOSPEL ACCORDING To Lord Lew.
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Jetsons, The
RAUCOUS BUG-EYED rompery of the fourth dimension.
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240
Jewel in the Crown, The
ELEPHANTINE RAMBLE around the Raj
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309
Jigsaw
TOP DRAWER CLIVE DOIG-ery combining crossword-style quizzing with patented VISION ON pissing about.
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249
Jigsaw (II)
NOWT TO do with the above
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262
Jimbo and the Jet Set
DEEPLY IRRITATING animated aerial antipathy
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461
Joe
WATCH WITH MOTHER segment similar in style to MARY, MUNGO AND MIDGE concerning self-same kid whose father ran a roadside transport cafe.
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435
Joe 90
CEREBRAL DOWNER after the Supermarionation splendour of CAPTAIN SCARLET.
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5162
John Craven’s Newsround
THAT'S JOHN CRAVEN'S Newsround. Not the parade of non-threatening blandalikes in trendy haircuts who came afterwards.
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270
Joint Account
SITCOM COMMANDMENT #1: never put PETER EGAN in a situation where he cannot behave like a cad.
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Joke Machine, The
A MACHINE that told jokes. Old jokes. For kids.
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343
Joke’s a Joke, A
"PEOPLE SAY the funniest things!" out-and-aboutfest in the style of THAT'S LIFE! and GAME FOR A LAUGH.
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Jokers Wild
BARRY CRYER (with black hair!) fronted this spontaneous (in the same way that HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU is spontaneous) gagfest
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Jonny Briggs
"MY MOTHER..." "Who's a nurse!"
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328
Jonny Quest
MOUTHY MIDGET, son of Dr. Benton Quest, has various hung-go adventures
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490
Josie and the Pussycats
YET MORE animated jollies from the fastest working felt-tips in Hollywood
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341
Jossy’s Giants
JUMPERS-FOR-GOALPOSTS JAPERY
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245
Journey into the Life of John Lennon, A
BLACKSTUFF BOY BERNARD HILL as eponymous whinging Dr Winston O'Boogie
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214
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
CUMBERSOME RENDERING of the Jules Verne epic in earnest animated form
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221
Journey to the Unknown
BANKROLLED BY 20th Century Fox, this forerunner of the self-same's HOUSE OF HORROR made-for-telly tall tales had the works.
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Juice
BBC2 'POP' MUSIC extravaganza helmed by MAGENTA DEVINE
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Juke Box Jury
"HELLO THERE" quoth LORD DAVID JACOBS
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250
Juliet Bravo
UNLIKE DR WHO, was not the name of the person as well as the programme.
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366
Jungle Ted and the Lacy Button-Poppers
2D STOP-FRAME minimalist animation five-minuter parked just before HORSE IN THE HOUSE.
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Junior Showtime
CREAKY FLEAPIT of a show utilising old-time Music Hall format to showcase middle-class brats who'd been sent to piano lessons or owned...
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472
Just Amazing
HOW WRONG can a title be?
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Just Good Friends
"C'MON, PEN!"