Television

This was the very first Doctor who spin off. It was transmitted as a one off episode on the 28th of December 1981. It starred two of the most popular Doctor Who companions, Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and ...

This was a remarkable pair of linked TV dramas that were the swansong of playwright Dennis Potter, who wrote them when he was dying of pancreatic cancer. He struggled to get them finished before he passed away, but died before ...

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"Sometimes tears and sorrow are all the things you've got, just when you think you're all by yourself you're not!" So the theme tune went.This was the story of two divorcees, Kate and Allie (hence the title) who shared a ...

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Kenny Everet was something that my dad used to watch, and that I was allowed to watch too if it didn't get too rude.It featured many characters, all performed by Kenny, like Cupid Stunt - a blonde woman who hosted ...

Peter Purves introduced Kick Start, the show where blokes on motorbikes negotiated various obstacles that looked impossible for a man+bike combination. I remember logs, steep steps, near vertical drops, and a beam that was about a millimetre wide. It was ...

I have vague memories of a kids film which aired on channel 4 during the summer holidays between 1986-88. It had a group of kids who explore an old house/school can't remember much else about it but any help identifying ...

The kids from Degrassi Street was exactly what it was called. A bunch of kids from Canada ( I think) just dealing with all the problems growing up brings your way. It was very cheaply made as I recall, but ...

King Arthur and the Knights of Justice was a kids animated TV show from 1992. It was about an American football team, the New York Knights, and their star quarterback Arthur King.Each episode the team would go back in time ...

This was a cartoon about King Kong that was originally from the 1960's but was repeated in the 1970's. One of the characters was called Doctor Hoo (not to be confused with the Time Lord)I still remember the theme, it ...

King Rollo was a chidren's cartoon TV and book character from the 1970's and 80's. The TV programme was first shown in 1979.It’s one of my fondest remembered TV programmes. Maybe because it hit me at around the age of ...

Des Kinvig played by Tony Haygarth is the repair man with very little in the way of work ethic. Kinvig's friend Jim, a part-time UFO nut, discovers that Des has been visited by aliens and is jelous. Is ...

This was a modernised TV adaptation of the book The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden, aired in the late-70s on BBC television after school. It was a young traveller girl (then known as gypsies) who, after being orphaned, is adopted by ...

Your heart pounding, you crouched down behind a wall. Holding your digital watch to your mouth you pressed one of the buttons and whispered ‘KITT, come get me buddy!’ OK, so in reality you weren’t Michael Knight, you were nine ...

I could spend this entire page being really mean about Knightmare: how terrible it was, how it should never have been successful, and how no child in their right mind should have wanted to take part. However, if I did ...

Can anyone remember a children's tv show featuring a giant pumpkin? It was late 60's or very early 70's. I think it was based on the childrens story called 'knock three times'. I remember the pumpkin moving slowly through the ...

This was the spin-off from Dallas as Gary was another son of Jock and Miss Ellie Ewing. Gary had left home years ago not wanting to be part of the Ewing Empire. He married young and Lucy Ewing was his ...

Kojak was a television drama series that starred Telly Savalas as the bald-headed titular hero, a detective who loved sucking down lolipops. His catchline was "Who loves ya, baby?" There is a recent modern-film remake starring Ving Rhames as Kojak. ...

Kolchak was a 1970's TV series that starred Darren Mcgavin as a struggling journalist in an ill fitting white suit and white pork pie hat. In the pilot episode he stumbled upon a real vampire whilst investigating a series ...

This was a Western/Kung fu series which ran from 1972 1975. The main character was Kwai Change Caine who was played by David Caradine. I am not sure if he left or got banished from the Shoalin temple, but he ...

Airing towards the end of the 80s, KYTV was the TV offshoot of the fantastic radio sketch show "Radio Active". It was based around a fictional TV station, and lampooned the cheap production values found in the developing satellite TV ...