Television

H.R Pufnstuf was a children's TV show originally broadcast in the United States from 1969 to 1971. H.R Pufnstuf was the mayor of Living Island, which one day had a boy wash up onto the island called Jimmy. Jimmy had ...

James Hadleigh was the suave, sophisticated country squire of Melford Park who always championed the underdog (and drove a classy white Monteverdi 3.75l). Hadleigh (Gerald Harper) had previously been seen as the proprietor of a country newspaper in the Yorkshire ...

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I first remember seeing Hale and Pace in their "The Management" guise on the Ben Elton-hosted "Friday Night Live". For some reason ITV seemed to think a series of 3 minute interludes on a late night ultra-PC "Alternative Comedy" Channel ...

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Circa 1980. The Hammer House of Horror story titles included were "Children of the Full Moon" starring Diana Dors and spookie werewolf kids, "Charlie Boy" starring Angela Bruce and a murderous African fetish, "Witching Time" starring Jon Finch and an ...

Watched this a child in the early 80s and got scared to death with every episode! A spin-off from the Hammer horror films, this series offered a one-hour story each week with a spooky/supernatural theme. Many well-known actors and actresses ...

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Happy days was an all-time great American sit-com. It was set in the 50s and kind of cheesy but that is what I loved about it. The Happy days theme tune was enough to get me watching, "Sunday, Monday, happy days, ...

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Judge Milton Hardcastle (Brian Keith) was retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court, but he hadn't quit the fight for justice. In 20 years on the bench he had seen scores of criminals walk free thanks to legal loopholes. Now ...

The Harlem Globetrotters was a cartoon from the early 70s. It was about a basketball team from New York (hence Harlem) who were also crimefighters.There is an actual basketball team called the Harlem Globetrotters, who were set up in ...

This was a BBC mini-series starring Hywel Bennett and Aneirin Hughes as a pair of unpleasant Welsh C.I.D. men. The show did nothing to improve people's opinion of Welsh TV drama, and was grossly inferior to that other (superb) Welsh ...

US Sitcom starring Barbara Eden as Stella Johnson, single mother to teenager Dee Johnson. It told a story about the adventures of this family in a fictional town in Ohio. Stella was a liberated woman, much to the ...

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Husband and wife team Jonathan and Jennifer Hart become private detectives. They have a male house-keeper called Max and a cute dog called Freeway!They have lots of adventures fighting crime,and obviously everything always turned out well in the end! ...

Have I Got News for you is a topical news quiz show shown originally on BBC 2 in 1990 and then in 1998 it changed to BBC 1. The show has two great captains in Paul Merton and Ian Hislop ...

Hawaii Five-O was the name of the special police unit investigating the most serious crimes in... er... Hawaii. Five-O's leader was tough guy Steve McGarrett whose arch nemesis was the evil Wo Fat, a Chinese agent who always managed to evade ...

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It's been claimed that Conan the Barbarian was the inspiration behind He-Man, however, the former failed to take off in toy form due to its links with the violent, certainly not child-friendly, film, starring Arnold Scwarzenegger. He-Man was altogether more ...

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Heartbeat was set in the 1960s and revolved around a group of police officers in the North Yorkshire town of Ashfordly. The series was based on the Constable books written by Peter Walker under the pen-name Nicholas Rhea. The show ...

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Hector the Dog and Zsazsa the Cat lived in a house together (in France I think) next door to Kiki the Frog. The stories usually revolved around Hector and Zsazsa wandering around the garden while Kiki peered over the wall.Hector's ...

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Heidi was a film about an orphan girl (Heidi) in Switzerland who is made to go and live with her grandad in the mountains. At first Heidi doesn't feel happy with her new life but soon comes round after befriending ...

TV show on BBC 2 during the 80's. It only ran for 1 series as it had a bad time-slot.Hello Mum featured Helen Lederer, Clive Mantle & another bloke, in a sitcom/sketch show.The best bits were the regular pointless one-liners ...

I loved this cartoon! Each week the stressed out head keeper of the Wonderland Zoo (Mr Peevley)and his lardy sidekick would be chasing an invisible motorbike ridden by three bears...lol.There was an afroed hippy bear in a fringed waistcoat, a ...

Helping Henry was a kids' sci-fi programme on Channel 4 throughout the 80s. Anyone remember it? It was about aliens that travelled through the universe disguised as dining chairs! After a visit to our planet, where a boy called Stephen ...

Henry's Cat was an animated show of the 80s about a daydreaming yellow cat with a nasal voice called 'Henry's Cat' (the cat owned by Henry 9 to 5, an unseen commuter) and his best friend, a light blue, hyperactive ...

Who remembers the BBC children's television programme "The Double Deckers" with Melvyn Hayes et al. It has developed a cult following now and has it's own website. There was a very chubby kid amongst them, who was forever eating! They ...

This was a kids cartoon from the late 80s, early 90s and I can still remember the theme song... 'In a magic place, there's a thief and he's caught in a chase, and no matter how fast he goes he ...

US Sitcom starring Lucille Ball who played character Lucy Carter. The show featured her real life son and daughter and Uncle Harry was played by Gayle Gordon. The sitcom aired between 1968 & 1974 and was hugely popular, this was ...

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A rubbish Australian variety show hosted by Daryl Summers and a puppet called Ozzie Ostrich. Started in the early 70s and probably still runs today. Each episode ran for 2 hours but they always seemed like they'd never end. They ...

This was a kiddie's show constructed to inspire kids to take up hobbies/interests and it featured several of these in each show. It had a very original format, if a little bizarre, as it involved the young male presenter cross-dressing ...

UK sitcom set in a typical British holiday camp of the 50s and 60s called Maplins. The characters included Ted Bovis (Paul Shane) the vulgar comic, his understudy Spike, Barry and Yvonne the arrogant dance teachers, dippy chalet maid Peggy ...

Hickory House was just a normal house, where everything was alive, stimulated children's imaginations and was educational and fun.Humphrey Cushion and Dust Mop starred alongside human presenters such as Amanda Barrie (Alma in Coronation Street), Alan Rothwell and Louise Hall-Taylor.Hickory ...

As a young teenage girl, I remember being absolutely glued to the TV each week when "The High Chaparral" was on. And no, it was not just because Mark Slade, who played Billy "Blue" Cannon was rather cute!The weekly adventures ...

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Highway was ITV's response to Songs of Praise. Sir Harry Secombe ploughed the lengths of the country and depths of taste with his south Wales tenor voice visiting many locations in song and meeting lots of "interesting" people on his ...

In Highway To Heaven, Michael Landon played Jonathon, an Angel sent down on probation from Heaven. He teamed up with Mark, an ex-cop played by Victor French and together they travelled around helping people in trouble and tackling all kinds ...

Created by Steve Bocho, Hill Street Blues was the forerunner to all of the American cop shows we know and love today. Featuring a large cast of realistically flawed characters, intelligent but messy storylines, and a mix of drama with ...

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The genius of Douglas Adams brought to the small screen by the beeb. Never mind the special effects, bask in the script. ...

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