Television

Anthony Valentine starred as Raffles the "Gentleman Thief" in this Edwardian set gentle drama. He would steal Lady Lavinia's diamond jewelery and return to the dinner party or theatre performance seemingly easily. He only stole from those who could afford ...

Rag, Tag and Bobtail was a children's program in the late 50s early 60s which used to be on on Thursday lunchtimes. Other days were programs like Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, and the Woodentops. I can't remember Rag and ...

Ragdolly Anna was Anne Wood's experiment with new ways of storytelling on television which were influenced by her own daughter's love for a special rag doll. These experiments led Anne to adapt the book 'Ragdolly Anna' by Jean Kenward into ...

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"Up above the streets and houses, rainbow flying high. Everyone can see it falling over the sky. Paint the whole world with a rainbow…." Maybe not word perfect, but it's enough to bring those happy memories of lunchtime Rainbow viewing ...

Most Children's toys and characters start with a TV series and then the merchandising starts! However, with Rainbow Brite, it started as merchandise first!Rainbow Brite was created in 1983 by Hallmark Cards, but she didn't make her TV debut in ...

A secondary character on the Sooty Show, in the black and White Harry Corbett days.Ramsbottom was a snake who spoke in a rich Yorkshire dialect. He had the habit of telling rather convoluted stories and ditties. Best thing ...

OK so I'm way too young to have seen this the first time around but most of the stuff I like came out way before I was born and I certainly like this! Story goes there were two private eyes, ...

Great opening with Jeeps flying over sand dunes with machine guns mounted on them. ...

This was a kids' drama from 1980 about a mathematical genius, who is sent to a special school to nurture his talent. But the talent scouts, who are supporting him and running the school have more sinister intentions, as it ...

Rawhide was a television series about a cattle drive with Eric Fleming as Gill Favour who was the boss. He unfortunately got killed making an episode - a wagon overturned on him whilst he was crossing a river, so I ...

This was a kids' pop music show. I think the producers had a pretty low budget as they would have acts on it that were unsuccessfull or just plain rubbish. However, the kids on the show always seemed to be ...

The programme started at 10 minutes to 6 on a friday night, the presenter wore a collar and tie, I think his name was Brian? His catchphrase was something like, "Welcome to Ready Steady Go, the weekend starts here" It ...

Watching Record Breakers as a child I could never make my mind up as to whether Norris McWhirter was the most amazing or the most boring man on the planet. I wondered whether he was able to keep his awesome ...

"This is an SOS distress call from the mining ship Red Dwarf." The crew are dead, killed by a radiation leak. The only survivors are Dave Lister, who was in suspended animation during the disaster, and his pregnant cat, who was ...

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Remington Steele was Pierce Brosnan before James Bond - he was the archetypal private detective - suave, sophisticated and self assured, who always had a pretty girl to add the necessary glamour and love interest - a definite prequel to ...

This was a Canadian series about mounted police.  The song is just great that is sung at the beginning.  It was probably aired in the 50's in black and white - of course. ...

‘If your mansion house needs haunting just call... Rentaghost! We've got spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools at Rentaghost! Hear the Phantom of the Opera sing a haunting melody. Remember what you see is not a mystery, But... Rentaghost!’ In ...

Rescue 911 was a kind of fly on the wall documentary which told stories about the American public having accidents and paramedics saving them. It was hosted by William Shatner and it was a good programme because it used to ...

Return To Eden was first shown in 1983 and starred Rebecca Gilling as Stephanie Harper, James Reyne as Greg Marsden and Wendy Hughes as Jilly Stewart. It was a three-part mini-series shown first on Sky, before later being shown on ...

This was a UK music TV show, that ran on ITV, but just for 8 episodes - one series.This programme was intended to be the antidote to the anodyne and family friendly Top of the Pops. It features live bands, ...

Rhoda was a window dresser at a store in America. She appeared in this comedy with her crazy sister and her Mum plus her husband (I think ex). There was also doorman who she used to talk to through her ...

A mini-series based on the Irwin Shaw book of the same name involving a one-eyed baddie Falconetti, a bad boy who looked REALLY good (the gorgeous Nick Nolte) and his brother who harboured political aspirations, Rudy (I think this was ...

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Michael Palin and Terry Jones (Monty Python) teamed up in the seventies to produce this series of 9 comedies. The comedies were spoofs of adventure stories found in dated boys' annuals and each episode was a different story.The first was ...

Leonard Rossiter starred as Rigsby, the landlord. Rigsby was prone to moaning, bigotry, and constantly fawning after Miss Jones. Along with students Alan (Richard Beckinsale) and Phillip (Don Warrington) Rigsby was ridiculed as he entertained us. ...

Captain Grey and his riverboat escapades along the Mississippi. An American tv series from the fifties.Riverboat" had a short life in Britain. It was on air for less than a year. The main character was a riverboat captain with every ...

There was a TERRIFYING road safety advert that used to run on TV c.1975, in which real cars used to suddenly grow ferocious snarling faces and demonic eyes. Real-life footage was blended with cartoon imagery (in those days a fairly ...

This was a kids' show aired on ITV around 5pm midweek in 1975. A mad scientist called Robert Sommerby lived in the countryside with his aunt. He had designed his own robots, who were all fatally flawed in their own ...

Roberto the Frog was a legend of my youth who seems to have been forgotten. Whenever I mention him to friends down the pub I get funny looks, but he did exist. I was quite young and there has been some ...

Michael Praed starred as the most handsome Robin 'The Hooded One' Hood ever. This was a modern day tale of Robin and his merry men. The role of Robin was finally taken over by Jason Connery. ...

Robin was a chef who came from another comedy show Man about the house. Robin marries Vickie whose father doesn't approve of her choice of husband. They set up their own restaurant "Robin's Nest" with Vickie's Dad as the other ...

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Who remembers Rock Follies with Julie Covington and Rula Lenska? ...

The trials and tribulations of a all-girl trio trying to make it big in the seedy world of the UK pop scene. Starred Julie "Dont-cry-for-me-Argentina" Covington, Rula "Don't-cry-for-me-Dennis-Waterman" Lenska and another woman who (rather like the drummer from Bros) ...

The futuristic adventures of the legendary outlaw and his Merry Men in outer space. It was originally a Canadian animated television series, placing the characters and conflicts of the classic Robin Hood legend in a futuristic, setting - although they ...

Under-rated cop series set in Merseyside. Rockliffe was a scruffy, grumpy old git with a crack team of policemen and women working for him.Needless to say that they always got their criminal. Particularly loved Joe McGann in it as the ...

This was a kids' TV drama shown on the BBC circa 1975, based on the book A Pair Of Jesus Boots by Sylvia Sherry. It was set in the grim hard times of 1970s Liverpool and featured a boy called ...

Rod, Jane and Freddie was a spin off to Rainbow, It had the three singers and dancers doing different shows. It didn't feature any of the Rainbow crew from what I can remember, so I dont think it was that good. ...

This was an ITV children's show, shown in the late 90's. It combined puppetry with live actors. I remember finding the show side splittingly funny! ...

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Long before Kenny Rogers achieved pop and country superstardom, he was a member of the late '60s group The First Edition, which had five top 40 hits, including "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" and "Just Dropped in (To ...

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Romper Room was a TV show run like a playgroup - all the four year old children sat around and Miss Rosayln would play games and sing them a song - #I'm a little tea cup# etc. Then the kids ...

I know what you’re thinking: ‘Aha, shouldn’t that be ‘Roobarb and Custard’? Well, no actually! Everybody nostalgically refers to it as Roobarb and Custard, but a quick look at the opening titles reveals that in the early days the programme ...