Television

C.A.B. was a British Children's comedy drama series produced by Thames Television for Children's ITV. The programme focused on two children, Colin Freshwater and Franny Barnes, who were looking after an old junk shop but strange things kept happening and ...

Japanese manga about 3 sisters who become superwomen/robbers at night. ...

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Glenn Ford played the local sherriff. I think it was aired in the UK in 1971 or 1972 ...

Cagney and Lacey was a cool series about two American female cops. One was married with kids and the other was single. They were partners and the show followed their police careers as well as their personal life. ...

The whole show was about a singing sensation called The California Raisins. They kind of had like one of those Mo-Town groups in the 60's and 70's. They were dark, purple looking and had soulful voices. ...

Calimero was a cartoon from 1972 that always came on Cartoon Cavalcade or it might have been on for 5mins about 5.20pm before Crossroads. It was about a little black duck, or at least I think it was a duck, ...

Call My Bluff was a long running gameshow. There were two teams of contestants, with three celebrities on each team. The aim of the game was for each team in turn to give three definitions to a word, but only ...

Call My Bluff was necessary viewing if you were an intellectual-type interested in learning the derivation of words now deemed superflouous in modern day society.I liked it because it had a bell in it that went "PINNNNNGGGG!"Robert Robinson presented this ...

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Played by Edward Woodward, Callan was a British Top Agent working for the S.I.S who had a snout called Lonely. ...

Candid Camera is a long-running television series, created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially appeared on radio as Candid Microphone in the 1940s. After a series of theatrical film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone, Funt's concept came to television ...

Frank Cannon, private investigator, was played by William Conrad. At the end of every episode, he cooked a meal for his clients. The series was a Quinn Martin production. ...

Comedians Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball burst on to British TV screens in 1978 on Bruce Forsyth's Big Night. The former welders from Oldham soon rose to fame and became big stars with their own TV show Cannon and Ball. ...

Capital City was an innovative series for its time following the ups and downs of the city boys in both their personal and working lives. Introducing a very young sexy Douglas Hodge as one of the main hearthrobs! ...

Despite Hanna-Barbera Productions having a lot of bigger cartoon names in its stable (The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, The Jetsons, Wacky Races and Scooby Doo to name just a few) Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels was by far ...

Captain Planet was a superhero who could be summoned by five teenager helpers known as the Planeteers. Together, the quintet of Planeteers would attempt to prevent environmental disasters and educate others about environmental responsibility.Each of the Planeteers had a ring ...

Captain Scarlett! Dum, dum dum du-dum! “Stand By for action!”Every Saturday Morning Captain Scarlet was beamed into my child sized consciousness, and it’s been etched there ever since.It was first broadcast in 1967, but was played regularly right up until the late ...

Captain Zep - Super Space Detective!Constructed as part drama and part quiz game, Captain Zep featured mysteries that would be solved by the child audience in the studio, along with a write-in competition for viewers. The series was also notable ...

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This was a kids' wartime drama shown on the BBC at teatime in 1975. It involved a young girl called Carrie and her younger brother, who are sent to Druid's Bottom in Wales as evacuees. They stay with a pious ...

Carson's Law was set in the 1950's and was an Australian Law Practice Series. Starred Loraine Bailey. ...

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Australian television series about bandits set in the Victorian Gold Rush days of the 1850's. It was an Australian production which was aired in the UK on Sunday Lunchtimes during the mid 1970's.Bushrangers Sam Cash and Joe Brady were ...

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Casualty started with the same "ooh, he's climbing a ladder with a fence underneath it...maybe he'll fall off the ladder onto the fence" plot as it still does now.Always had Charlie in it too. He didn't have the annoying kid ...

Catchphrase is another of those game shows (I’m thinking of Family Fortunes, Bullseye etc.) where its viewers could often be found in an apoplexy of rage, yelling ‘But it’s SO EASY! Why CAN’T you get it? How can you possibly ...

It's Sunday afternoon in the early 1970s, the TV is warming up ready for Catweazle!Catweazle was a medieval wizard who managed to jump into the 20th century via a castle moat while being pursued by knights, presumably to try him ...

Celebrity Squares was based on the game 'noughts and crosses' and was presented by Bob Monkhouse.Celebrities sat in a 3 x 3 grid and answered questions for the contestants, gaining a nought or cross for them.The idea of the game ...

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This Program was great! Anneka Rice whizzing about helping people and setting tasks in a small amount of time. That big blue and yellow truck, the funny sound man and Anneka's Jeep all stick in my mind! ...

I was going through a girly horsey phase and fell in love with Champion the beautiful and clever horse, Ricky the boy and Rebel the dog. Tried to never miss an episode and can still sing the theme song thirty ...

Chance in a Million was TV series starring Brenda Blethyn and Simon Callow as the unluckiest couple in history. Tom Chance was a man who experienced the most unlikely conicidences on a regular basis to hilarious comic effect.The only detail ...

The Changes TV series was first shown in 1975. It starts with everyone turning against technology - they smash their TV sets, cars, etc. The main character is a girl called Nicky, who gets separated from her parents during an ...

Scott Baio of Happy Days fame starred as a male nanny / house-keeper with a wise head and the ability to say just the right thing the children needed to hear.Charles in Charge was, in my opinion, nothing special and ...

Charlie Brown, the American cartoon character who fails in almost everything he does. He always keeps an enthusiasm that things might go okay, but they never do. In fact, often his misfortune is orchestrated or taken advantage of by his ...

So, which angel were you? Sabrina, (Kate Jackson) the smart one? Kelly (Jaclyn Smith), the sexy, sassy brunette? Or Jill, (Farah Fawcett) the dim blonde one with the flick that spawned a million hairstyles (later to be replaced by Cheryl ...

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Cheers was a bar run by Sam Malone which was virtually home to the majority of its patrons. It was an American sitcom that EVERYONE on earth knows the themetune for. It sort of goes....(piano noise) Dannnn, da da da ...

Comic genius, Lenny Henry, was finally given his own sitcom between 1993-1996. Chef! was about an arrogant, bombastic chef and his relationships with his work colleagues and long-suffering girlfriend Janice. Obviously, Lenny had the main part as the chef, Gareth ...

Cheggers Plays Pop was the kids TV quizshow fronted by everyone's favourite presenter Keith Chegwin. Two teams of children dressed in red or yellow outfits would battle it out with music and trivia questions and I seem to remember they ...

Chelmsford 123 was a brilliant comedy set in Chelmsford during the Roman invasion. Full of cringeworthy puns and corny jokes it is still one of my favourite comedies.The main characters were Badvoc (Rory McGrath, you'll probably know him best ...

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Child's Play was a hilarious program presented by Michael Aspel. It basically comprised short film clips of young children answering heavyweight philosophical questions in "their own words".The children were usually aged between 5 and 8 which, of course, made for ...

This 1970's television drama was broadcast on ITV network and was only 7 episodes long.The story was set in Wiltshire and was based around a small village which had stone circles. Astrophysicist, Adam Brake and his son Matthew move ...