ONE OF THOSE self-styled comedy showcases that did nothing of the sort.
EARLY ATTEMPT at computer game crossover that should have ensured it never happened again.
WORLD'S MOST famous sporter of the duffle coat until L. Gallagher.
AS KICK START was to junior motorcycling, so PADDLES UP was to canoeing.
THE BEEB'S screensaver.
STILL RETAINS a sizeable cult following to this day.
MASSIVE OVERDOSE of Anthony Trollope historama
CHARMLESS CHILDREN'S soap about paper rounds.
REDOUBTABLE LUNCHTIME ten-minuter
BULLMAN AND DIRTY DEN - together at last!
BILL "GAFFER/FROGGIT" MAYNARD and WILLIAM FRANKLYN find themselves shipwrecked on a south sea island that looks suspiciously like a set. Laughs in...
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...
COMIC SHOWCASE at name-donating London nightspot
A HAPLESS young tyke going by the name of Hal Adden (do you see?) played by ELLIS JONES is cheerily polishing his...
ONCE UPON a long ago, this was the finest chat show of them all
DEREK WARING and MILLICENT "TW3" MARTIN are the estranged owners of a bathroom furniture factory. Is their relationship destined to go, hey,...
SUGAR-COATED DISPATCHES from the picket-fenced permanently-sunny perimeters of the eponymous bird-named brood
BRIEF BUT not brief enough Wednesday night quizzer
A TRIPTYCH of Sunday night monochrome sci-fi escapades
THE NATION'S number one syrup-sporting sorceror
RED-FACED ANTIPODEAN roisterer
MITTEL-EUROPEAN GNOMIC adventures of Paulus
IMPERIAL LUNCHEON appointment and always a highlight of any school skive
PLAY FOR TODAY spin off.
PSYCHOLOGICAL HOT shoe shuffle from the predictably barbed pen of DENNIS POTTER
PESTERING CBBC business, based on suggestion of GOING LIVE competition winner
WELL-MEANING BUT effortlessly patronising daytimers
SHORT-ARSED MISERABLIST batchelor finds out he has a wayward cousin from comedy made-up backward East European island of Mypos.
EARLY OUTING for PAUL GREENWOOD as a local town bobby ingenue.
"HAYULP!"
MODEST PRE-NATIONWIDE cartoonery with various crap kids (Marlon, Maisie, the little one, the one with the hat) and their dog Wellington Boot,...
TWO "HILARIOUSLY" (hence the exclamation mark) mismatched crimefighters
ONE-OFF "COMEBACK" for posh whiskery waster, aided and abetted by others, which flopped.
HARD-TALKIN' HARD-DRINKIN' Italianamerican lawyer (BARRY NEWMAN), married to SUSAN HOWARD, does a sort of more violent Perry Mason routine
RAMBLING RURAL odyssey in an Ordinary Sleepy Hotel in Hooterville.
STUBBORN SCHEDULE whelk.
ESCAPDES OF a cartoon blue cat in a farmyard.
YET ANOTHER case of rampant Nesbitism on the part of the BBC classic serials department
MORE UNWANTED flotsam washed up from Down Under
It’s not every day a suave Radio 3 radio presenter (John Stride) is sent a photo of what appears to be two...
It’s not every day a suave Radio 3 radio presenter (John Stride) is sent a photo of what appears to be two...
WHIMSICAL DRAMA by MIKE STOTT set in and around a fictional Lancashire town.
NO-NONSENSE BRAN TUB of films from around the world
"PIE SHIP to pieman!"
THEY NEVER learned how to do hands properly, did they?
AN ODD (and rather depressing, frankly) feature-length stop-motion cartoon about a kindly old inventor bloke
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE of a Friday night as written and performed by DR. CHRIS BEETLES and DR. ROB BUCKMAN with LYNDA "PRESTON" BELLINGHAM.
LET'S GET the order right here.
FINAL PRODUCTION from the worksheds of OLIVER POSTGATE and PETER FIRMIN
LUNCHTIME, NEW Year’s Day, 1973, and what do we find? “This is Mr. Pipkin’s workshop. Come on in and look around. See...