Television

I watched M.A.S.H. religiously with my father. I loved Klingers wardrobe of fab woman's clothes and Hawkeye's laugh! I loved his smile and his compassion for all and the pranks that he and BJ would play on Burns.The saddest day ...

M-M-M-MASK!! Ah, what a great theme tune, rhyming "Lead the mission" with "X-Ray vision". Genius.In the UK M.A.S.K was shown mainly as part of the Saturday Breakfast TV kids slot "The Wide Awake Club", in a slot that in retrospect ...

M*A*S*H was a TV show based around the Korean war in the 1950's. It starred Alan Alda in the main role of Captain Hawkeye Pearce, the chief surgeon of the 4077th mobile army surgical hospital.The series ran for longer than ...

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Weekly American TV series from 1985 that made science if not sexy then definitely cool.MacGyver was a sort of agent that worked for the Phoenix Foundation and always got himself into sticky situations usually involving evil communist countries (hey the ...

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Everyday, Mumfie the elephant would run to his post box hoping to find an adventure in a parcel... until he realised adventures don't come neatly wrapped. He decides to venture into the woods, which was a good thing as he ...

The Magic Boomerang was a TV series about a boy with a 'magic boomerang'. When he threw the boomerang, time stopped. Does anybody else remember this series from the 60's ? ...

The moustache. The Hawaiian shirts. The chest hair. That description could be none other than the magnificent Tom Selleck playing Magnum P.I. (of course, minus the Hawaiian shirt that could also just be a description of Tom Selleck in ...

Blue Peter with adverts, basically...The set was basic and sparse, there were models to make (and grave warnings not to use those scissors, get an adult to do it properly), the charity appeals and even the badges!ITV knew Blue Peter ...

Maid Marian was a classic children's comedy that reversed the tale of Robin Hood to make Maid Marian the head of the merry men. The stories focused around the merry gang and sometimes the villagers uprising against King John and ...

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Mama's Family was a spinoff from the Carol Burnett Show. It featured a hard-headed Grandmother named Thelma Harper ("Mama") who lived with her live-in son, Vinton and daughter-in-law Naomi and nephew Bubba in Raytown, Missouri. Not quite an area considered ...

One of my favourite comedy series of the 1970s was Man About The House. My favourite girl in this series was Jo, played by Sally Thomsett. I now have all the MATH dvds and watch them often. Any other Man ...

I’m not sure what the most dreamy thing about television heartthrob Richard O’Sullivan was (and I’m not being sarcastic – I remember having a bit of a crush on him when I was glued to the television watching him as ...

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Manhunt featured a female French resistance fighter called Nina, a male British soldier named Vincent and another bloke who never did much. They were always on a seemingly endless esacape mission during the Second World War. I think Vincent was ...

Dr. Jonathan Chase could change into different animals. He fought crime with a woman detective. The morphs were awesome ! Big pulsing veins on his hands made me feel queasy. ...

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Marine Boy was an animated series from the late 1960s. It was produced in Japan and dubbed to English. Marine Boy worked for Ocean Patrol whose job it is to keep the world's oceans safe. Together with Piper and Bolton, ...

Married with Children was a comedy about the lives of Al Bundy, a former high school football player turned salesman of women's shoes and his wife, Peggy was a tarty housewife known for her large red hairdo, 60s clothes and ...

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was a truly bizarre primetime soap opera spoof that aired Monday thru Friday from 1976 to 1979.I was only 7 yrs old when it started and I have vague memories of watching it with my parents. ...

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It was about a very middle-class little girl (Mary) and her dog (Mungo) who walked around with what I think was a mouse (Midge) on his head! I can clearly remember is that they always went into a lift, when ...

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Was the Mastermind chair possibly the most famous chair on British television? I can’t think of another show where removing a chair would collapse the entire concept of the show; but in Mastermind it would have done. The programme ...

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Up against the other crimebuster shows of the time (Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Airwolf, Manimal), Matt Houston's oil-rich Texan playboy had his work cut out to keep viewers gripped. However I seem to remember he had rather a swanky penthouse, ...

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I seem to remember being quite unsettled by the original Max Headroom film. I think it was a Channel 4 project, set "20 minutes into the future", and was actually rather a sharp satire on consumerism and broadcast media. In ...

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Dennis Weaver played an American small town sheriff, Sam McCloud, who moved to New York after trying to track down an escaped criminal only to be associated with a reporter, who convinces him to join the NYPD police department to ...

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This ITV comedy, from 1984-1988, starred Richard O'Sullivan and Tim Brooke-Taylor. It was mainly about (Richard O'Sullivan) trying to juggle his job running an advertising agency and bringing up his teenage daughter on his own after being widowed. Brooke-Taylor was ...

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This comedy starred Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton as husband and wife. Fred was a working class plumber and was always showing up his wife who had delusions of grandeur!! Think it was screened in the 1960's, very funny. ...

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Unbeknownst to many of his fans, Metal Mickey was actually already a minor showbiz personality before his eponymously titled series was first broadcast. In 1978 he released a novelty record, ‘Lollipop’, on the EMI label and on the back of ...

Best known as the programme responsible for springboarding S Club 7 into chart-topping fame, this sitcom-come-drama-come-musical par-tay first shown on Children's BBC in April 1999 saw the group (Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Hannah Spearitt, Bradley McIntosh, Jo O'Meara, Jon Lee ...

Miami Vice is an American crime drama TV series that ran from 1984 to 1989 on NBC for five seasons.  The series starred Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson in the middle of the 80s, with very bad taste pastel suits (with rolled up ...

Michael Bentine's Potty Time was a mad programme from 1973 aimed at the entire family. Michael Bentine would talk to these tiny figures and they quite often had funny accents (some I think were Scottish). They were like tiny two-inch ...

Wow! Remember the days when almost anything educational could get on TV – irrelevant of how entertaining it was? These days it’s entertainment, entertainment, entertainment (And no education!). Well in the same days as Open University programmes and the ...

I will admit it. I had an imaginary friend when I was a pre-schooler. It wasn't a boy or girl my own age, however; it was a mouse. Not just any mouse though: my pretend pal was none other than Mighty Mouse, ...