Television

Was a WW II show about a group of pilots in the south pacific, shown on TV between 1976 and 1978. It was based on the experiences of United States Marine Corps aviator, Pappy Boyington and his World War II ...

In Baby Boom, Diane Keaton stars as the ultra professional career woman who ends up as the sole guardian of a distant relative's baby. Initially she assumes she will be able to juggle both baby and job - she's super ...

30 minute programme - 2 x 15 min approx cartoons. Baggy Pants, who looks for all the world like Charlie Chaplin reincarnated as a cat for whatever reason doing Chaplinesque things - pretty unfunny all-in-all. The second cartoon was the ...

Fascinating, and always ever so slightly scary – Bagpuss was one of the most watched children’s TV programmes of a generation. Basically, if you don’t remember Bagpuss you weren’t a child of the 70’s or 80’s. Simple as. Each programme began ...

Bailey's Comets was a 1973 DePatie-Freleng cartoon series which ran on both Saturday and Sunday mornings on CBS from 1973 to 1975. It was similar to the 1968-1970 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series 'Wacky Races' but the characters were on roller skates ...

Thomas Banacek (played by George Peppard) was a Polish freelance insurance investigator in Boston. He enjoyed a well-to-do lifestyle, funded by his ability to solve 'impossible' cases where items were lost or stolen in extremely unusual circumstances. There was also ...

Tra la laaa, laaa la la laaaaa, One banana two banana three banana four....... etc. I was actually quite scared of the Banana Splits. Especially Bingo, the gorilla with big teeth. (*shudder). The other three were Fleegle-a beagle, Snorky-an elephant and Drooper-a ...

‘This is 29 Acacia Road, and this is Eric, a schoolboy who leads an amazing double life. For when Eric eats a banana an amazing transformation occurs. Eric is Bananaman, ever alert for the call to action.’Never the most stylish ...

Barbapapa's - weird blobs that could transform into anything! ...

I seem to remember that Barlow and Barlow At Large was a follow on from "Softly, Softly" and was about a private detective who was played by Stratford Johns after leaving the force ...

Barnaby the Bear's my name. Never call me Jack or James. Barnaby was sung and narrated by Brian Cant I think? I remember a little bear skipping through a forest singing this song. Animated a bit like The Herbs. It ...

As the name suggests, Barrier Reef was an Aussie adventure series from 1971-1972 which was based around a group of marine biologists researching the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland in their boat, 'New Endeavor'.They had the usual ...

Barriers is a British children's television series, created and written by William Corlett, and made by Tyne Tees Television for ITV between 1981 and 1982. The only thing I remember about this programme is the car crash during the opening ...

 Basil Brush is a fictional red fox, best known for his appearances on daytime British children's television. He is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet, but has also been depicted in animated cartoon shorts and comic strips. The character has ...

Batfink was a very poorly animated but very entertaining cartoon from the people who brought you "Roger Ramjet".Each episode lasted about 5 minutes and featured a superhero man-sized bat with metal wings "they cannot harm me, my wings are like ...

You can find this on DVD now, but I watched it regularly. It preceeded "Volton" and Power Rangers, and was clearly the prototype. It was a Japanese cartoon about 5 teenagers with special powers to protect their world. There was ...

Ah, Battlestar Galactica. I remember my mum taking me to see the movie at the cinema. I was a very small boy at the time. Being a small boy, I loved muffet, the robot Dagget. They couldn't have brought together ...

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  You've been at work. After a hard day you arrive home to discover that your front lawn has been freshly dug up by the most stereotypical builder you've ever come across in your life, who is now claiming that the ...

This was a kids entertainment and learning show produced partly by The Jim Henson Company of The Muppets and Sesame Street fame. Using the character of the big blue bear, the programme taught young kids some valuable life lessons (like ...

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Beauty and the Beast was a TV series from 1987 in which the creator, Ron Koslow, adapts the classic fairytale in a modern environment. Vincent was the 'beast' who lived in an underground world with other outcasts, and Catherine was the ...

This was a comedy/magazine kids' programme on ITV around 1983. There was the curious phenomenon of The Sacred Schooldinner guarded in the school basement of Fully Comprehensive School by a Brummie schoolboy-puppet! It would include news items and interviews with ...

TV series about an orphaned boy called Sebastian and his large white dog, Belle, possibly a pyrannean mountain dog. It was first shown on Nickelodeon in 1984 and continued showing until 1990. The name 'Belle and Sebastian' was later ...

This was a sitcom about an American butler who always saved the day for the family he worked for. He was a kind of 'Jeeves' character who instinctively knew when something was right. I seem to remember that he was more ...

As with all good leads in cop shows, Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac was an almost broken man when we first met him. Recovering from a bad marriage break-up, alcoholism and a busted up leg (due to an argument with a ...

My husband will be delighted if somebody out there other than him recalls a story called Bernard & The Genie, starring Alan Cummins and Lenny Henry. It was written by Richard Curtis - the man behind many great British rom-coms.The ...

This guy called Bernard had a watch that could stop time, helped him out in loads of different situations ...

This was one of those Postman Pat type animated cartoons, where it's actually models walking around the screen. It was about a machine, called Bertha, that could make absolutely loads of different things. The theme tune went something like....... ahem...... "Bertha, lovely ...

Classic show shown on Channel Four in the late-80s/early-90s. Betty's Bunch was a short (13 episodes) TV drama/adventure series from New Zealand, produced in 1989. Tthe story revolved around four foster kids living with Betty. Though things weren't easy for ...

When I was a child, if I wasn’t spending my time hopping about in the wind with an umbrella trying to be Mary Poppins, I was standing in front of the mirror wiggling my nose and trying to be Samantha ...

This was a show that came on very early Saturdays, around 6 am. It was a childrens show that dealt with what we today would call diversity. I remember that every sketch was done twice, once in English, once in ...

B/W puppet show from the late 60's possibly sunday afternoons featuring a black puppet character with a bone through his nose who would chant "Big Chief Bilbo getting very cross". Any ideas anyone? Thanks.. ...