Television

Odd Man Out was a sitcom starring John Inman (Are You Being Served?). He inherits his Father's Rock Factory in Littlehampton, and runs it along side his sister played by Josephine Tewson (Clarence, Keeping Up Appearances). A very good series ...

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Oh Brother! was a farcical but gentle comedy which first appeared on UK television in 1968. The 19 half hour episodes usually involved clerical mix-ups in an English cathedral. The show was a vehicle for typecast Derek Nimmo. Lots of ...

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Oh Happy Band was a sitcom about a brass band, set in a sleepy English village called Nettlebridge, circa 1981. There was one episode where, under their band leader Harry Worth, they tried to get into the Guinness Book Of ...

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Selwyn Froggitt was played by Bill Maynard in "Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt" - a rather inept bloke who just couldn't get anything right. ...

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Old Gey Whistle Test was the best ever music show. Presented by "Whispering" Bob Harris, it had a really cool theme tune accompanied by a graphic made of stars which looked like a man kicking a football.The show ran for ...

On the Buses was a comedy about bus drivers. One of the main characters in On the Buses was Blakey the bus inspector who was always trying to catch out Stan, another bus driver.Blakey was still living at home with ...

On The Move was a 1970's adult literacy programme about two removal men, one of whom had problems reading and writing. Bob Hoskins played one of the men and the On The Move title appeared on the side of their ...

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One by One was the TV dramatisation of the novels by David Taylor, that centred on the career of Zoo Veterinary Surgeon, Donald. Having read all the novels, my recollection is that the series remained relatively faithfull to the original ...

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Comedy series written by David Renwick and starring Richard Wilson as grumpy pensioner Victor Meldrew and Annette Crosbie as long-suffering wife Margaret. Somehow Victor would always get involved in some kind of calamity that usually wasn't his fault and in trying ...

This was a very groundbreaking gay current affairs show screened during the first six months of Channel 4's infancy in 1983. Most of the show was set in a club/bar where various members of the gay cmmunity discussed their everyday ...

It is perhaps unique to the UK that a programme showing a dog rounding up sheep could be one of the most popular TV programmes in the 1980’s. In the late 70’s and early 80’s The Sheep dog trials, as ...

One Summer was a TV drama written by Willy Russell in 1983 and told the story of two schoolboys from Liverpool called Icky and Billy who ran away to North Wales. However, it's not long before their past catches up ...

Del Boy falling through the bar. Del and Rodney dressed up as Batman and Robin. The attempt at chandelier cleaning. The inflatable dolls. Del reluctantly hand gliding. Rodney having to pretend to be 14 after Del entered his painting in ...

Only When I Laugh was a sitcom set in a hospital ward and starred James Bowlam (Likely Lads,Beiderbecke Affair, When the Boat comes In), Peter Bowles (To The Manor Born etc), and Richard Wilson (One Foot In the Grave).The ...

A less-incident-filled setting you’d be hard pushed to find than this small grocer’s shop in Yorkshire – but the lack of action is what helped make BBC’s Open All Hours as amusing as it was. Apart from the eccentric customers ...

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Long before 24 hour Television, from the late 1970’s all the way through to the early 1990’s, if you happened to get up in the middle of the night, or at the crack of dawn, there is every chance you ...

Hughie Green presented the talent show Opportunity Knocks from 1956 through to 1977. Thousands of hopefulls auditioned for the show and of those who appeared on the show only a few ever went on to become famous such as Les ...

I saw Oprah a few times when I was younger. It just seemed to be a talk show at first, but after watching a little further, it descended in to a "how great everything is" show.I watched a few ...

Orm and Cheep was a kids TV programme aimed at pre-schoolers. The programme was of the same era and style as Finger Mouse. In Orm and Cheep there were puppets which were slightly creepy! It focussed on a worm called ...

Oscar The Rabbit was voiced by Lance Percival. Oscar himself was a white rabbit and his adventures revolved around avoiding Gnasher - a dragon who was always trying to catch him to add Oscar to his pot for dinner. ...

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Out Of This World was a TV show based around a young girl called Evie who had the power to stop time. When she put her 2 forefingers together, everything stood still as if it was frozen and she could ...

Anyone remember the brilliant Jack Hargreaves (later of original HOW tv childrens programme) in a series called Out Of Town?As a young lad listening to Jack telling tales of the countryside, showing you how to make everything from a fishing ...

Outer Space was a children's Saturday morning show (pre Swap Shop), which was based around the controls of a space craft. During the programme they would show various animated cartoons (one of these was an animated series was called Vida ...

This was an adult version of Tiswas and featured most of the cast and an assortment of lovely, well-endowed young ladies! Over The Top ran from 1981-1982 and featured sketches and silly quizzes involving the unfortunate adult audience. Sex was ...