Television

LA Law was a US TV series running from 1986 until 1994 and was devised by Steven Bocho (Hill Street Blues) The show was based on a firm of lawyers in LA and was a kind of precursor to Ally ...

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Laff-a-Lympics was a late 1970s American Hanna-Barbera cartoon. There were three teams - two *good* teams 'The Scooby Doobies' and 'The Yogi Yahooeys'. One of the Yogi Yahooeys members was 'Wally Gator' and there was the *evil* antagonists team 'The ...

I remember faking being ill to stay at home and watch this back in the 90s! It was about this puppet lamb called (appropriately) Lamb Chop and he used to misbehave. I think the woman who starred alongside him in ...

I remember that I loved 'Lame Ducks' but yet remember so little about it. Nobody I know remembers it. The only things I remember are that they had an old fashioned Cadbury's vending machine on the wall (the ...

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Lancer was a US cowboy TV show aired in the 70s. It starred Wayne Maunder and James Stacy, who were brothers helping their father (Andrew Duggan) keep his ranch. Maunder and Stacy both proved to be heart throbs to ...

Land of The Giants was an hour-long American science fiction program in which a spaceship crash lands into a world of giants. The program focused on the adventures of the crew getting spare parts for the spaceship 'Spindrift'. Made by ...

Land Of The Lost was a TV show on in the 70s, devised by brothers Sid and Marty Krofft. It featured a dad (Marshall) and his two kids (Will and Holly), who all go on a canoing trip. The greatest ...

I have to warn you all that this innocent piece of writing about the television programme Lassie may turn into more of a therapy session for me. My parents eventually banned me from watching this (the same also applied to ...

If your idea of funny is three old codgers hurtling out-of-control down a hill in a bath tub then Last of the Summer Wine was probably your favourite programme. And you would have been in good company, with Prince ...

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Laverne and Shirley were flat mates in a spin-off of Happy Days. They were friends of The Fonz "heeeey!", who occassionally made a guest appearance, and Laverne and Shirley sometimes appeared on Happy Days. They worked together, lived together and ...

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Leapfrog was an ITV Schools programme which began in March 1978 and made by ATV. Fred Harris was one of the presenters. As a five-year-old at the time, i used to be spooked by its weird and wonderful title sequence, ...

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Let's Pretend brings back memories of rushing home for lunch when I was at Primary School in the early to mid eighties. It was on the 12.10-12.30 slot and started off with the this funny worm like puppet being moved ...

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Lidsville was a Sid & Marty Kroft cartoon many have forgotten. Really trippy ...premise is protagonist (British teen male) falls into sinister magician's giant magic hat at a fair and lands in Lidsville, where the characters are all giant hats ...

Life Without George was a sit-come aired in the late 1980s. In it, an aerobic teacher called Jenny was involved in complicated relationship with an Estate Agent called Larry. I loved the episode where they play Trivial Pursuit and almost ...

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Even as a five year old I was struck how gorgeous Ayshea was. I also remember a fellow who went by the name of Raving Rupert who I think was a semi regular on the show. When Robert Calvert of ...

Little Big Time was a very strange programme which starred Freddy and the Dreamers. I really can't remember much more other than a large man who dressed in a banana costume (Stupid 'nana). He also played a policeman with a ...

"Little Blue, Little Blue, Why do they call you Little Blue? Playing in his bath one day as some of us do, he bit his mummy's fountain pen and broke it in two. The ink it squirted in the water ...

A classic show based on the real life of a girl and her family in the "Prairie days". The family comprised Laura Ingles, her parents and 2 sisters. They later adopted a boy called Albert and the Mum had another ...

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Lizzie Dripping was about a girl with a vivid imagination so no one believes her when she says she has seen a witch. Great adventures with Lizzie and the Witch . ...

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London’s Burning was a long running LWT produced and ITV broadcasted programme that followed the lives – both professional and personal – of the crew of the London Fire Brigade’s Blue Watch. They were situated at the fictitious station of ...

This was an american crime / detective series which aired during the early 70's on ABC. The main character was blind insurance investigator Mike Longstreet played by James Franciscus, he teamed up with his trusty guide dog 'Pax'. Bruce ...

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Look and Read was a TV series used in schools. We had to follow a story and read along with it, and every so often the teacher would pause the video and ask questions about it.The episodes I remember were ...

This was a comedy circa 1981, starring Paula Wilcox of Man About The House and No, Honestly fame. Her husband was in prison and it focused on her visits to him and the plans they were making for their life ...

Sunday afternoons when it was raining could be quite a boring time for kids in the 1980's, lots of black and white films. Booorrrriiinnngg!However, there was one series that was routinely played - Lost in Space! It was a kind ...

I remember the show called Lotsa Luck from when I was a teenager. I do not really remember Dom Deloise, but what comes to mind as extremely funny was his sister Olive and his brother-in-law Arthur and the Mom. I ...

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Love For Lydia, as the Mills & Boon-style DVD cover shown may suggest, was a highly romantic drama. It was set in the 1920s, when two young men competed for the love of a beautiful young aristoctratic girl. Lydia is ...

Love Hurts was a British TV series running from 1992-1994 on the BBC. It starred Adam Faith and Zoe Wanamaker. Tessa (Wanamaker) goes through a horrid break up from her married ex-lover/boss when he leaves her for a younger mistress. ...

Love Thy Neighbour was a 70's sitcom that would be banned today. It was a highly racist (but very well writen and funny) tale of a black couple and a white couple living side by side. They spent most of ...

Love, American Style was one of the coolest, hippest comedy shows about love, ever created in my opinion. There were a slew of celebrity guests in each episode that made all the problems we have with our love lives seem ...

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Loveable rogue Lovejoy (Ian McShane) was a charming antique dealer who frequently skirted on the wrong side of the law whilst obtaining or recovering antiques.Lovejoy was assisted by Tinker (old guy with a beret who looks startlingly like Wilfred in ...

Lucan was a show that had an "Incredible Hulk" like format. It concerned a young man raised by wolves, and the various abilities he'd acquired from such an upbringing. Lucan would help people in need whilst trying to find his ...

This 1970's American tv series was about a boy raised by wolves, who was discovered by hunters at the age of 10. He was named Lucan and was sent to a scientific institution to learn the ways of human ...

This was an ITV sitcom on in 1976, starring David Jason. Like Only Fools And Horses, Lucky Feller was set in South-East London, and David Jason played an underdog and loveable loser, who was always counting his blessings. There are ...

This was one of those five minute shows at the end of children's TV every day (for a while) in about 1979 I think. Ludwig was shaped like a large cut diamond with arms and legs and it had ...

Luke's Kingsom starred Oliver Tobias and I think it was shown on Sunday nights at about 11.00pm in the early Eighties. ...

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