SIMPERING EXISTENTIAL meadering mutt with sideline in crimestopping can't be arsed staying in one place
THIS HAS a lot to answer for, chiefly bequeathing Carla Lane upon the nation and her "daffy" "sassy" "Scouse" "wit".
Long-running, unchanging schools' biology work-out
EEKING OUT the GOOD LIFE formula to its ultimate conclusion
A TEENAGE TINA HEATH of Blue Peter pregnancy fame dons a bad blue anorak and converses with one very scary witch
NUTS AND BOLTS knock-off of the bacofoil and plasterboard big screen classic
STULTIFYING SUMMER holiday morning yawnathon for inner city tykes
By Graham Williams. A dramatisation of a hot topic of the time – the flooding of the Thames. Done in almost exactly...
By Barry Collins. The arrival of a poet in a Yorkshire village arouses suspicion in local farmers, and sexual longing in farm...
THREE PLAYLETS courtesy of ALAN "COALHOUSE DOOR" PLATER
SEMINAL KIDS pursuit caper from pen of N.J. "DIXON" CRISP
By Neville Smith. Smith writes and stars as Christian Harvey, disc jockey and obsessive Elvis Presley fan, presenting his radio show when...
A dingy municipal hall in a nondescript northern town plays host to Pete (Ray Davies) a phenomenon, a true one-off of Herculean...
By Shirley Gee. In a black country historical museum, an unusual relationship develops between a lacemaker and a cleaner. With Victoria Burton...
NEW ORLEANS criminal insurance investigator gets blinded in the line of duty, but on he bloody well goes.
WHY DON'T you build yourself a word?
SONOROUSLY DULL chattery with DEREK "MR AND MRS" BATEY jawing with various D listers
SUB-STANDARD SORTIE from GET IT TOGETHER, were such a thing feasible, and with this being the 1970s it most certainly was. No...
MUSTY MAN ALIVERY with a doff of a whimsy-sized hat to ABOUT BRITAIN.
AXED-IN-A-FLASH AFFAIR pitched at you youngsters pissing about
SQUIRE DENIS of NORDEN helmed this assortment of archive clippage
ANNUAL INTERRUPTION to your favourite (or Live And Kicking) Saturday morning entertainment.
ANOTHER SIGHTING of a tinker on the telly (see KIZZY)
LEONARD ROSSITER and ALAN COREN, apart indefatigable, together...execrable.
A FURTHER HANDFUL of hokum from the great IRWIN ALLEN
ANOTHER ENDLESS epic for the summer holidays.
ANOTHER BBC thriller uncovering dark secrets in the Cretan underbelly
In the brave new enterprising world of 1990s British telly, deregulation-happy ITV companies gallop dizzily down the gangplank into a Europe that's...
LOVE, EXCITING and new. Come on board.
ROARING TWENTIES flapper and all-round femme fatale Lydia (MEL MARTIN) moves from man to man in this furious adaptation of the H...
Rare incursion into play for today from the Godfather of the original theatrical kitchen sink explosion, Arnold Wesker. Elizabeth Spriggs tries to...
By Malcolm Bradbury. Brummie couple Stephen Moore and Barbara Flynn court during the Suez crisis. 20 years later, against the backdrop of...
WORTHY DRAMATISATION of the comings and goings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
NOWADAYS THIS is shorthand for everything that was shit about the 1970s, but in reality there was worse to be had in...
THE gentle swish of a watercolour paintbrush, the chiming tinkle of an endlessly hummable signature tune
FORMICA AND flock wallpaper sitcommery by JACK ROSENTHAL
DAVID JASON lands his first comedy lead and hams it up enormously
ANOTHER TENANT OF THE ill-patronised unhallowed post-TV-am slot.
OUR FIRST glimpse of "Noely" in primetime
MASTERFUL FIVE-MINUTER, often trundled out in the hallowed pre-NATIONWIDE slot, featuring an ovoid eggy jewel thing out of which "things" came
A ONE-OFF and no mistake: futuristic lunar colony houses various emotionless, artificial humans grown from "prime slime" culture
GENTEEL SUNDAY morning stretchathon, with the be-leotarded Lynn in a bare studio thrusting and mulching.
NO RELATION to the above, here was some other Lynn, hailing from the Tyne-Tees weatherbeat
"YOUR WEDNESDAY night entertainment on BBC2 continues at 9pm with another helping of..."
"RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON will be in my dreams tonight!"
PROBABLY SHOWN in every school in the country at some point during the mid-80s.
NO-SHAGS-BARRED MELODRAMA of a Scots builder.
SAN FRANCISCO chief of police decides to do "things my own way" and employ the missus as sidekick.
By Hugh Whitemore. The governors of a public school find events taking a turn for the strange as they find themselves trapped...
In that blessed era that we're forced to refer to as The LateSeventiesToTheEarlyEighties, there was one disease that met all your tabloid...
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