Television

A Bit of a Do was a British comedy drama based on the books by David Nobbs. The show starred David Jason and was on 3 in 1989. The show was set in a Yorkshire town. ...

If you don’t already love the comedy that Fry and Laurie have brought to the world, then you should - for no other reason than the incredible ‘non-offensive’ swear words they have created. Who couldn’t find a use for ‘pim-hole’ ...

A Boy Called David was the start of a series of documentaries by Desmond Wilcox telling the story of a baby boy left in the jungle to die because he was born with a disease that ate away his face. ...

This was a children's BBC television drama about a London schoolgirl who has a pretty grim home-life as her single mother is shacked up with a miserable boyfriend who has no time for his step-daughter. She enjoys drama classes at ...

This was aimed at teenagers and was possibly ITV's 70s precursor to the BBC's Grange Hill. It starred Lesley Manville and Jamie Foreman, who were teenage kids (fifth-formers) who ran a school magazine and the drama all centred on their ...

One of the earliest Australian programmes which was chiefly about a veterinary surgeon's office in the outback in Australia. It was rather good for a programme of its time! ...

This was a spin off of The Cosby Show when daughter Denise went off to college. She only lasted one season (I believe) but the show continued after that focusing on the other characters mainly "D'wayne" and "Whitley". Not a ...

A classic wartime drama series from Granada TV, following the Ashton family in Liverpool as they faced up to the trials, struggles, hardships and tragedy of life during World War Two. ...

Laura (Judi Dench) is still unmarried at thirty-seven. Her sister Helen (Susan Penhaligon) would like to see her 'married off', so she tries a spot of matchmaking. She introduces Laura to Mike (Michael Williams) at a party. Laura and Mike don't ...

This was a yearly spooky drama that went out every Christmas from about 1972 to 1978. One episode was called 'Stigma' about a mother who bled to death and was aired on the 28th of December 1977. Another episode was called ...

Based on books by R L Delderfield and set in Cornwall the A Horseman Riding By stories followed a family through the ages encompassing war and the changing times. Real nostalgia time! The main character, Paul Craddock buys a large ...

Comedy sketch show - best bit was Rik Mayall's spoof brummie journalist 'Kevin Turvey', who did a short piece every week about local non-events. (Kevin later went on to bring out his own video of the best bits from the ...

Superior Welsh police drama starring Philip Madoc, that was the Welsh equivalent of 'Taggart'. Gritty and hard-hitting, a pilot episode was run in '91 which led to the much-acclaimed Channel 5 series from '94 to '04. The series thus covered ...

First broadcast c1972. Hosted by David Vine with teams captained by Cliff Morgan and Henry Cooper. Much more amusing then than now as Henry and Cliff got laughs by making jokes against themselves rather than scoring points off each other ...

David Jason starred in this 1977 ITV sitcom as Peter Barnes, a "Mr Average" character always complaining about the way the world is and doing his level best to fight red tape and bureaucracy, often to the dismay of his ...

A Small Problem was a comedy program that ran sadly for just one series on BBC2 in 1987, starring Christopher Ryan (Mike from 'The Young Ones'). People under a certain height are forced to live in a 'ghetto', South of the ...

Stephen Daker (Peter Davison) is a young, idealistic doctor who starts a new job with the Student Health Service at Lowlands University. He finds himself working alongside eccentric Dr Jock McCannon (Graham Crowden), self-obsessed Dr Bob Buzzard (David Troughton) and ...

A Woman Of Substance was a 1983 television mini-serial based on the book by Barbara Taylor Bradford. I have strong memories of this series as part of it was actually filmed in my childhood hometown - Richmond, North Yorkshire. The ...

Sweetie, darlings! Originating from a sketch in Jennifer Saunders' show with comedy partner Dawn French, Ab Fab as it's affectionately known, first came to BBC TV in 1992, charting the shameless, hedonistic misadventures of PR guru Edina Monsoon (Saunders), her ...

Tim Conway played Ace Crawford, a private detective/investigator... a not very good private detective/investigator. In one episode they were in the bar where they hang out and a pretty lady accidentally broke her pearl necklace so she put the pearls in ...

In common with a number of other series from that time Ace of Wands was an adventure series with a fantasy element. It starred Michael Mackenzie as Tarot, a performing magician with some psychic powers. He was assisted in his ...

I used to enjoy watching that show as a kid. Every episode had a different "emergency" happening. There was a blonde guy and dark haired guy--I think I recall having a little TV crush on the darker haired guy! ...

This show was made sometime in the 90s and was set in Noire York and its about this guy who was framed for murder by a serial killer ...

After Henry was a sitcom about a widowed woman played by Prunella Scales. She lived in a big house with her gossiping, meddling mother and pain-in-the-neck daughter. It used to be on a weeknight evening. My stepmum said the mother ...

After MASH was a spin-off tv show. It started the very next season after M.A.S.H. 4077 ended. In it, Potter, Klinger, and Father Mulcahy work at a hospital in Missouri. It lasted barely over one year. ...

Australian mini series created in the 1970's starring Jon English. The storyline was about the struggles of prisoners who were transported to Australia.The story began in Ireland in 1798 where the Mulvane family lived. Mary, the eldest daughter committed ...

Maureen Lipman starred as Jane, a Jewish agony aunt, whose own life could have been taken from the pages of her own advice column. ...

Airline was about an injured former R.A.F. pilot played by Roy Marsden. He started his own airline by buying used and out of commision R.A.F. aeroplanes and re-commissioning them to be a personal line carrying items and returning items to ...

Airwolf was a frighteningly powerful combat helicopter bristling with guns that was stolen by test pilot Stringfellow Hawke. Hawke stole Airwolf and hid it in the desert so that he could negotiate with the government to get them to find ...

I think Mel Smith is possibly one of the funniest people on earth. Griff Rhys Jones is, however, the opposite. He's funny, but not in a comedy sort of way. I can't really describe how un-funny I find him, aside ...

A very short-lived attempt by ITV to rival Eastenders, as far as I can recall. It fell flat on its face after a few months. If the word "flop" had not existed, it would have been invented to describe Albion Market. ...

Can anyone help me with this - there was a documentary aired on UK terrestrial TV (maybe BBC2 or possibly Channel 4) about a homeless alcoholic woman who had lived on the streets of London for years. She had managed ...

Have you ever noticed how much stuff there is in the world? If you haven’t, take my word for it – there’s a lot. But I’m not the first to notice this; in 1988, Alexei Sayle was so overcome by ...

A family sci-fi comedy from 1986 starring ALF, a small furry alien from the planet Melmac. ALF (Alien Life Form) turns up one day out of the blue after crash-landing his spaceship into the Tanner family's garage. Although ALF misses his ...

Alias Smith and Jones was a western TV series cast in the mold of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The plot was simple, two outlaws were trying to go straight in order to get a pardon from the governer of ...

One of the lesser known cartoons from the Cosgrove Hall stable (makers of, among other things, Danger Mouse). Alias featured an alien who ended up shipwrecked in medieval England, playing court jester to a barmy king. My personal favourites: Geordie ...

Alice was the name of the US sitcom first shown in 1976 and was named after its lead character Alice Hyatt. The sitcom Alice was actually based on the 1975 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and followed the life ...

Alien Nation was a movie - made to a tv show. A huge ship of very human looking aliens lands in California. They are escaped slaves and begin a life in LA. They dink sour milk to get drunk, Salt ...