Television

The BBC television series, Paddington, produced by Michael Bond and animation company FilmFair, was first broadcast in 1975 - after the Paddington books began and the Paddington Bear toy created. Paddington, in case you don't know him, was found by ...

I remember this show in the 1970's during the day time as I loved painting and drawing and she was like a female version of Tony Hart and Rolf Harris. She would usually paint from life and it would be ...

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Basically there were two hand-glove puppet spiders called Itsy and Bitsy that were the stars of the show. Paperplay, produced by Thames TV in 1979, had a few minute slot on childrens' hour and it was on TV when Play ...

A children's show that was aired on BBC1 on Saturday mornings, starting in 1992. It was introduced by the BBC to combat falling ratings of Going Live!. The show focused on Mercator, an old alien prince with very long eyebrows ...

Pardon My Genie was broadcast on ITV on Monday afternoons. Hugh Paddick (later to appear in an episode of Black Adder the Third, as an actor/playwright, alongside Kenneth Connor) played the genie, who created havoc for his master Hal (played ...

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Still going strong even today, Michael Parkinson has been interviewing the world's rich and famous on his chat show for many years. Billy Connolly always seems to be on each new series! ...

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Paulus The Wood Gnome was a kiddies TV programme form the late 60's early 70's. It featured a little wooden gnome called Paulus, a witch called Eucalypta and an owl which I think was Eohoberoe or some such spelling. I ...

PC Pinkerton was an animated television show of the late 80s about a moustached, jovial policeman (the titular character) who never gets cross and looks like Freddie Mercury.All the stories were set in the fictional village of Cleybourne, and featuredthe ...

Peak Practice was a British drama series from the 1990's - although it ran until 2002 - about a GP surgery in Cardale (a made-up place in the peak district), and the doctors who worked there. .It starred Kevin Whately ...

Pebble Mill At One was for many kids a sign that you were off school sick with your mum insisting you watched this before Bod or Mary Mungo and Midge (the Flumps come in to my head too) came on. ...

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Pennies From Heaven was a seminal Dennis Potter drama featuring Bob Hoskins as a salesman prone to bursting into song. Ground-breaking at the time for its use of miming to old songs. Remade as a film with Steve Martin in ...

Penny Crayon was a children's television series that was produced for the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1989.Penny Crayon was a schoolgirl who loved drawing. Wherever she went, she always carried her magic crayons. With these, whatever she drew ...

In Pennywise, two old Scottish Wifies in pinnies came on at lunchtime telling us how to knit carrier bags from old ones (I can still do that) and generally taught us how to save that extra farthing. Way,way before their ...

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Perfect Strangers was a US sitcom in which a 'regular American guy' finds himself having to share his apartment with 'Balki'- a goat-herder from the island of Meepose who turned up on his doorstep one day out of the blue ...

Penelope Pitstop was an heiress from the American South. Her guardian, one Sylvester Sneakley was secretly the Hooded Claw, intent on bumping her off so that her could inherit her fortune. The claw and his sidekicks, the Bully brothers tried ...

Petrocelli was a crime solving series in which Petrocelli was a lawyer solving his cases. He lived in a static caravan with his wife Donna. They lived in the caravan because they were building a house on the land.When he ...

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This was one of the 'Watch With Mother' offerings in the 60's (along with Bill and Ben the flower pot men) - on Wednesdays I think. There was a woman reading stories from a big book with a string puppet ...

This television programme was aired on Granada television during the 1960's & 70's. Presented by Alan Rothwell, the programme was directed towards schools, covering a range of topics from around the world.The opening credits had a silver with ...

Picture Pages was hosted by Bill Cosby on Nickelodeon, and was shown in between other shows since it only lasted 10 minutes. Bill Cosby drew pictures with a big marker that looked like a bee in the children's activity ...

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‘If you lived in Pigeon Street, Here are the people you could meet, Here are the people who would say, Hello, goodbye, hello, goodbye every day. If you lived in Pigeon Street, Here are the people you could meet, Here are the people who would share The ...

Pinky and The Brain was a cartoon about two lab mice, trapped in a cage. One was a genius (Brain) and the other, not quite as bright (Pinky). Each night Brain would hatch a new plan to take over the ...

US children's TV show Pinwheel was a puppet show with a couple of human presenters that ran from 1979 to 1989.The hosts of the show were two humans called Jake and Kim but most other characters in the show were ...

A neurotic hare called Hartley, a childlike monkey called Topov, an operatic ostrich diva called Octavia and a Brummie pig called, imaginatively, 'Pig' living together in some kind of shop.It was always manic until a deep voice would say "It's ...

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I think Brian Cant is one cool bloke. He presented, along with a few others, Playaway for yonks. It was like a comedy show for kids. It had jokes, sketches, in fact everything that kids don't have ...

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If the mention of the name Hamble still brings you out in a cold sweat then you are probably one of the huge number of children whose early years were shaped by the long-running and truly iconic Play School.Not only ...

Bruce Forsyth? Genius in my opinion.The programme used to start with Bruce sillouetted in the middle of the stage, and as the lights came up, he'd look all surprised and walk down the stairs to the front of the stage ...

Playdays was a children's TV show focusing on a playbus going round and stopping at different stops. There were a variety of presenters and each stop was home to a different character, including Peggy Patch. ...

Please Sir! was comedy program set in Fen Street school. It featured the problematic class 3c, with John Alderton as Mr Hedges. ...

Sunday afternoons after lunch (or sometimes during or before…) Pobs TV programme was on in our network TV area and was great! My brother and I used to watch it because we found Pob’s strange way of talking hilarious. Supposedly ...

Throwing a sickie from school in 70s Birmingham used to become a surreal event at about 3.20pm. For it was at this time that the powers-that-beeb at Pebble Mill (RIP) deemed it appropriate to treat us to the Welsh language ...

This was a childrens programme from Watch With Mother on around the mid-60s. It featured several characters, but mainly Mr & Mrs Pogle, Pippin and Tog. I also remember a witch and a hedgehog which was called hedgepig, and there ...

Barry Took was the first presenter of Points of View that I remember. Maybe he was the first EVER one, I really don't know.But anyway, P.O.V. was a programme that featured nothing but the views of the TV viewers. ...

Poldark was a great historical television series about Ross Poldark and his wife Demelza and their families and was based on the novels by Winston Graham. Ross was played by Robin Ellis and Demelza by Angharad Rees. Ross returned from ...

My first recollection of the Police Squad! team was in the Naked Gun series of films. Off the back of their success the BBC decided to air the show, made 6 years earlier. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker ...

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Police Woman was a run-of-the-mill U.S police program with Angie Dickenson. ...

Does anyone remember the Popeye cartoons that were shown just before the news (or weather forecast) on TV-AM in the 80's?While I didn't like Popeye or the other characters, it had a strange allure that made me watch it nonetheless! ...