Television

I Didn't Know You Cared was a sitcom set in Yorkshire. It featured very dour northern humour and starred Liz Smith and Robin Bailey as Uncle Mort. ...

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I think this was written by the talented Carla Lane of Bread fame. It was set in a drying out unit for alcoholics and was ironically funny. I found myself crying with laughter at the antics of the ...

I, Claudius was probably the finest drama series ever put on TV. It was more of a play performed before TV cameras than an actual TV series. It covered the rule of Roman emperors Augustus (Brian Blessed's finest hour), Tiberius ...

Sitcom of two bungling idiot carpenters. It was, I believe a classic at the time. I wish there would be reruns of this. It was on television around the middle of 1960's. ...

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This was a black comedy series starring Adrian Edmonson (of The Young Ones and Bottom fame), Richard Briers and Imelda Staunton. Richard played an ageing father who was a bit batty and eccentric and obsessed with TV ads. Adrian played ...

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The format for this show was amazingly simple - get a former Blue Peter presenter to interview a celebrity for 30 minutes and get schoolkids to ask a couple of sensible questions i.e. what's your favourite colour Mr Sinatra? Unfortunately, ...

Highly bizarre, surrealist series of six TV plays, that aired on BBC2 throughout 1978. Starring John Wells, John Fortune, Carl Davis and Madeline Smith, it was produced by Ian Keill and directed by Andrew Gosling. The same team had ...

As the title suggests, this was a Private Investigator that was only an inch tall! He lived in a barrel around a St. Bernard's neck and solved crimes with the help of his pretty and slim female assistant and butch ...

Does anyone remember Incredible Games? It used to be on BBC2 in the 90's. Each week a group of kids had to work their way through various levels on which there were different strategy games. One of ...

Inspector Gadget was a policeman who appeared to either be half man, half robot, or just have loads of clothes with gadgets in. I was never sure.With his cry of "Go Go Gadget Somethings", something would pop out of ...

Starring the late great John Thaw, Inspector Morse ran for many years and repeats are still shown today. Set in and around Oxford, Thaw - who was only ever known as Morse in the show (no first name was ...

I don't know if I'm correct but it's about this guy from out of space who can be invisible, somebody help me please if you remember this tv series lol! ...

This series was based around the struggle of two timeless, feuding sorcerers - the noble Rothgo (Ron Moody) and the evil Belor (Pamela Salem).Each character aimed to obtain possession of the Nidus, a magical object of limitless power. The Nidus ...

Crime in the big US City was never going to get the better of Chief Ironside in his seventies wheelchair. Completely PC program before it's time with an ethnic assistant and the physically challenged detective. However Ironside did not have ...

Issi No Ho was a little cartoon panda that had adventures. He was named Issi No Ho by the children that found him because he was in a crate that read 'This Side Up Use No Hooks' the crate was ...

This was a kids' animation from 1975, except it wasn't actually animated! It was simply a series of still pictures narrated by a male actor, about a magical panda who had been discovered on some waste ground by a group ...

Very un-PC comedy about an odd collection of entertainers travelling the East in a bid to cheer up the troops (during WWII presumably). Best bit was at the end when the Punkawallah was singing 'Land of hope & Glory' and ...

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It's a Knockout was a late 70s gameshow in which adults got to run around firing water cannons, wear big suits, jump over bouncy castles and fight each other using big foam weapons. A bit like a real war, ...

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It's a Royal Knockout is often shown as part of these '100 worst moments in TV', usually by people who are bigger snobs than the Royal Family! This was a charity event organised by Prince Edward and had celebrity teams ...

My favorite memory of "It's Garry Shandling's Show" was the song, and the big head that came out dancing at the beginning.My son who was about 2 or 3 at the time used to run out the room every time ...

Around 1977/78, the BBC thought it would be a cost-saving device to get school drama clubs to appear on TV with a collection of their own sketches. Good idea in theory, if you have some good writers in school drama ...

It's The Wolf was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon which followed after Outer Space and Motor Mouse on Saturday mornings in the 70's. It's The Wolf featured a sheep dog's tireless efforts to stop the wolf from stealing his flock. ...

I remember that Jason Batemen was in It's Your Move and it was an American sitcom about a teenage boy waging a psychological war against his mother's new husband - his stepdad.Batemen and his stepfather would spend each episode trying ...

Medieval knight with trusty serf Girth travelling and having adventures. Ivanhoe played by Roger Moore. ...

Psssh-ti-cooff, psssh-ti-cooff, psssh-ti-cooff…as you already know that’s the unmistakeable sound of Ivor the Engine making his way along the track as part of his job with the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company. A friendly little train, Ivor has the ...