Television

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Sale of the Century was a hugely popular gameshow from the late 70s / early 80s presented by Nicholas Parsons (from Norwich!). Contestants could 'buy' hugely discounted prizes with the money they won and prizes included top of the range ...

Sally and Jake started out as a segment in the show Rainbow and later graduated to it's own show. Sally and Jake used to be part of the ITV dinner time schedules. Sally and Jake was a kids TV show ...

U.S. children's afternoon TV drama which was produced in 1974. The story was based around two brothers who lost their parents during a hurricane and was adopted by their rescuer. They went to live with Clancy in Cove ...

This was a TV show in the late 70s about a scrap man in the USA, who built a spaceship called Salvage 1 to retrieve the lunar buggies and scrap space stuff on the moon left over from the Apollo ...

Sam was a TV series first aired in 1973 starring Mark McManus as Sam Wilson. It was so popular it knocked Coronation Street off the top rating. ...

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Samurai Pizza Cats ran on Channel Four in the UK during the mid 1990s.It is a Japanese Manga cartoon and in typical Nippon fashion, the show was wacky!It tells the story of three pizza delivery cats, who were also secretly ...

Junk dealer Fred Sanford was Norman Lear's black counterpart to Archie Bunker. The gravel-voiced widower hurled outrageous one-liners at his Bible-toting sister-in-law, Esther; cooked up get-rich-quick schemes with buddies Grady (who got his own spin-off series) and Bubba; and feigned ...

Sci-fi scary TV that was ahead of its time. David McCallum & Joanna Lumley starred as the two Mulder & Scully type psychic detectives solving mysteries with a creepy twist.I particularly remember one episode where people were trapped inside a ...

This was a children's TV show in the 60s and 70s. Hoppity was a wooden puppet with one leg shorter than the other (poor thing). That didn't stop him singing though, with the theme tune going along the lines of, ...

I vaguely remember Sara and Hoppity as a child back in the 60's. I think it was on saturday mornings with Alan Taylor presenting.Sara and Hoppity was a puppet show with a girl called Sarah and a naughty toy called ...

Not to be confused with the Welsh sitcom of the same name, this was a short-lived cartoon series set on the distant planet of Climatica, in which anthropomorphised 'weather' characters in the form of raindrops, sun rays, clouds etc. were ...

This live children's television programme was ITV's rival to the bbc's Swap-Shop and was presented by Bill Oddie (from the Goodies) and assorted kids. The show was broadcast on saturday mornings during the summer & autumn of 1978 and ...

During the late eighties, I spent many a Saturday and Friday night watching Saturday Night Live (at one point it was Friday Night Live) through a blurred vision thanks to a great night out or even a great night in! ...

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Scarecrow and Mrs King was a hugely entertaining show starring Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5) and Kate Jackson (the smart one out of Charlie's Angels) as a secret agent and, I kid you not, a divorced housewife who manages to get ...

I'm going back now to the late 60s/early 70s and remember being scared witless by the ghostly cry of a little girl who, I think, had recently died by falling from a swing that was attached to a tree. All I can ...

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Scooby DOOO!!!!! Where ARE yoooouuuuu? Probably cowering in a vat somewhere I reckon, or in the kitchen making a 3ft tall sandwich, the cheeky rascal.Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Velma and Daphne (phwoar!) went around to various places and investigated ...

Screen Test was a film quiz based panel game in the early/mid 1970s for children presented by the Tomorrow's World presenter Michael Rodd. There were 4 panelists and the contestants had to watch a series of film clips and answer ...

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Scully was a fantastic TV series first shown in 1984. It was an Alan Bleasdale masterpiece. Scully was a schoolboy played by Andrew Scofield who was obsessed with football and kept seeing Kenny Dalgliesh everywhere. Amazing humour and fantastic characters. ...

Seaview was a kids comedy drama from 1983 shown on the BBC. It was set in a Blackpool B&B and starred a young Yvette Fielding. I've looked everywhere to see a clip or even a full episode of it, but ...

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Secret Valley was an Australian childrens TV series from 1980 about a group of kids who ran a holiday camp in Bildarra called 'Secret Valley'. The kids had to contend with a rival gang, led by Spider McGlurk, as ...

One of the most popular TV shows of the 90s. The comedy series basically follows the lives of a group of friends, one of whom is stand-up comic Jerry Seinfeld who always has something funny to say.His friends include George ...

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On 10 November 2009, Sesame Street celebrated 40 years on our televisions with the start of their latest series. Proof then, surely, that children still get enjoyment from TV programmes with an element of education in them (Blue Peter's another ...

Seven Of One was a mini-series of one-off plays in the early 1970s, all starring the late, great Ronnie Barker in the lead role. While most of them passed into television history with barely a murmur - two caught the ...

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Sez Les is a British comedy sketch show which starred Les Dawson. The show ran from 1969 to 1976.  Two regular characters were Cissie and Ada, performed by Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough (who joined as a cast member from series four ...

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Shadows was a childrens' supernatural drama series in which there was a different story each week. I remember one episode where all these pictures and paintings were gliding down the stairs (spooky!). Another episode dealt with the 'Green Man', Wiccan/Druidic ...

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Childrens TV Show of the mid 1970s. Featuring the popular (at the time) pop group Bay City Rollers. The name of the show comes from one of The Bay City Rollers' many hits. Shang-A-Lang featured pop stars of the day ...

This was my fave cartoon! Sharky was a large, big-nosed pink shark who wore a Humphrey Bogart-style Fedora hat, and George was his younger, blue and yellow sidekick fish. Together they used to ride sea horses like they were real ...

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I remember it being about a ring in two halves, when the two teens, Chuck and Nancy, find two ancient rings. They lock them together to spell the name SHAZZAN, which results in them being transported back in time to ...

While your kid brother was running around in his pants shouting "By the power of Grayskull", for the girls there was She-Ra. Sporting the kind of outfit (a red leotard with long white sleeves, matching boots and a black belt) ...

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Shelley was a sitcom about the trials and tribulations of a bachelor. Hywel Bennett starred as the main character, Shelley, and his dead-pan, world-weary delivery was excellent. It was well written and had some excellent one-liners from the anti-establishment, postgraduate ...

I remember the opening titles of The Shillingbury Tales and I loved the music. I have a vague memory of lovely voices singing and countryside, a bit similiar to the opening titles from the Vicar of Dibley! I was about ...