Television

The battlestar has finally found earth and has to raise the technology levels, without being spotted before the Cylons invade. Lorne Greene's back and Dick Van Dyke's son's is there too. ...

Galaxy high was a cartoon based on the asteroid Flotor, where there were students from different plants at high school. Two earth teens called Aimee and Doyle became exchange students and ended up in space. There were all different types ...

One of Not the Nine O’Clock News' parody sketches featured a man who comes home from work to find his wife has had her head cut off. He starts screaming and wailing with grief until he is approached by a ...

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This was a Scottish soap circa 1980 and was set in a Scottish village in between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As a forerunner for Take The High Road (which replaced it in 1980), and later Monarch Of The Glen, Garnock Way ...

This starred the fella with the curly hair out of Alias, Smith & Jones (is it Ben Murphy ??). He could turn invisible for a short period of time by pressing the button on some kind of digitial watch ...

If I remember this correctly Gems was a weekday ITV show based on the drama arising out of a fashion studio and the big shoulder designs of the mid 80s. Most of what I can remember was set in the ...

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Gentle Ben involved a young boy called Mark who was best mates with a big bear called Ben. The late 1960s programme always started with Mark on a big boat thing with his dad whizzing through the swamps! Ben the ...

Geordie Racer was a TV series which was part of kids educational show Words and Pictures. I used to read the books at school then it was a treat to watch the video. It was about a Geordie lad who ...

George and Mildred was a 70's sitcom about a middle aged couple called , rather unsurprisingly, George and Mildred. Mildred definitely wore the pants in that household.Then there was the annoying neighbours... The Fourmiles, Geoffrey, Anne, Tristran and later on ...

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Get Fresh was a bit like Ghost Train, and like it was shown on Saturday mornings. It was a kids' TV show from the late-80s, broadcast from a spaceship-come-dustbin 'Millennium Dustbin' and hosted by a curious green, snotty monster called ...

TV show for kids in the 60s? What as the Bladderwat? ...

TV producer, Muriel Young, came up with the idea for a new TV pop music programme to follow on from her successful shows, Lift Off with Ayshea, the Bay City Rollers Shang-a-lang and The Arrows TV show.  Named Get it ...

Get Some In was a Conscription/National Service Sit-com based at an RAF base. Starring Tony Selby as the bullying NCO and Robert Lindsay and then Karl Howman as his nemisis. All the usual characters you would expect in an Esmonde ...

Get Stuffed was a late night five or ten minute show, presented by students who cooked on a budget. Pretty wild and wacky, especially the title sequence! ...

Get Your Own Back was a game show on CBBC.The premise was that children could get revenge on adults like their parents (or even teachers) by gunging them at the end of the show (depending if the child got the ...

Ghost Story was the 70's horror series aired on US television between 1972 & 1973. The name of the programme was later changed to Circle of Fear. Each spooky episode was originally introduced by Sebastian Cabot who played ...

Ghost Train was a children's television programme shown on CiTV in 1991. It was a bit like Get Fresh and it had a sheep in a shell suit as one of the presenters! It featured a game called "Skull" which ...

I have vague memories going back many, many years of a programme that scared the hell out of me as a child. All I can remember is the ghostly cry of a child who had recently(?) died in an accident involving ...

Ghostwatch was a one-off, halloween-night BBC TV show , presented by Sarah Greene, Mike Smith and Michael Parkinson. Ghostwatch was supposed to be a light-hearted investigation in to the supernatural at the 'most haunted house in britain' but things didn't ...

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This, I believe, was based on a Japanese manga called Tetsujin 28-go. Gigantor was set in the "future" year of 2000, where a boy named Jimmy is the nephew of Dr. Bob Brilliant and lives with him on an island. ...

Gilligan's Island was a show about a charter tour boat that gets off course because of a storm and ends up on a deserted island. Gilligan was the first mate, then there was the skipper,the millionaire and his wife, the ...

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A funny and popular comedy show starring four female leads: Ruby Wax, Tracey Ullman, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as a group of women who shared a flat together . ...

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Give Us a Clue was that show where you had to convey the name of something by acting it out, in a manor akin to cherades.There was a girls team and a boys team, and they had to compete against ...

Gladiators was an ITV game show which appeared in 1992 and in which contestants of varying physical abilities were pitted against the show's very own Gladiators (most of whom were professional athletes). In various games they would try and obtain ...

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Godzilla was an cartoon made by Hanna-Barbera in conjunction with a Japanese company in the late 1970’s and played on UK TV well into the mid-80’s.Of course the series took part in Japan – where their love of Monsters and ...

Going For A Song was an antique's show where a panel had to guess the price of antiques. I know Arthur Negus was on this show. ...

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I'd still be wearing my clothes, including my shoes. The multichange CD player would be on though it would have come to a halt having played over 6 hours of music through the night. My bedroom light would be on ...

"Going out" was a Southern Television, series about kids leaving school and falling in love. It aired in 1981 It was by writer by Phil "Grange Hill" Redmond and was very popular. As one review put it: "The series showed the normal ...

Norman Stanley Fletcher sings that he's "Going straight, I am, straight as an arro".Ronnie Barker reprises his role as NSF from Porridge and many comical japes arise in his attempts to clean up his act. His erstwhile wife and daughter ...

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Goodnight Sweetheart is a British science fiction time travel sitcom, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, and produced by the BBC. The sitcom is about the life of Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life through ...

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This was a kids' comedy show about the adventures of a gang of English suburban youths between (five boys and one girl) 1977-79. Some of the plots were quite funny and most seemed to be based around the boys excluding ...

Grandad was quite possibly a spin off TV show from his No. 1 hit single of the same name. Clive Dunn takes up the role of a bumbling caretaker of a community centre aided by two children (one female, one ...

Grandstand really started in the 60s. A typical afternoon in the Football/Rugby season would consist of: The Gillette Fight of The Week from USA - this was a recording of the contest broadcast in America the previous Saturday -, Horse ...