Television

T J Hooker was an American cop show in the same vein as Miami Vice. William Shatner stars as Sgt. T.J. Hooker, a veteran cop who rejected a detective's badge to return to the streets and train young recruits in ...

T-Bag was a children's television program from the 1980's about a witch called T-Bag (short for Tallulah Bag I think). T-Bag's nephew was called T-Shirt!In each episode there was a girl who used to have to complete a task ...

Tabitha was the daughter of Darren and Samantha Stevens from the TV show Bewitched. The spin-off TV show followed the life of Tabitha in her early 20's as she learned to deal with being a witch in the 80's. I ...

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This was a science programme aired on the BBC on Saturday mornings around 1977, mainly aimed at kids, but it was suitable for any age group as it had a rather direct style and didn't patronise the viewer. It focused ...

For a generation, Take Hart gave rise to three things: Morph, The Gallery, and an overwhelming urge to smudge anything you'd drawn using chalk, charcoal or soft pencil with your thumb in an attempt to get the nice blending effect ...

Take Part was a TV show which aired in the 90's, where they made puppets and did other crafts and encouraged kids at home to make them too. They used Javex jugs and other household recyclables. The credits had huge ...

This series always reminded me of a scottish Emmerdale. Set in the Highlands this small village community had one little shop (Blair's Store) and most of the residents were either related to the owners of the 'Big House' or worked ...

Television series from the late 60' to the early 70's. This show was based around three single girls (Liza Goddard, Susan Jameson and Angela Down) living and sharing a flat in London in the swinging sixties and glam seventies.Series ...

This tv show came to our screens in 1982 & was the third series of the originally named series 'Take Three Girls' which was aired between 1969 & 1971. It was based around three single girls living in London ...

Tale Spin was a Disney series from the 90s, that featured several characters from The Jungle Book. The only thing was, they were all pilots! (Well, Louie owned a cafe, but the rest were pilots). This show was ...

This was a children's TV program from 1985 - 1987 and starred Tony Robinson. It was on at 4pm and lasting ten minutes. Every story was told at from the backyard of a house in England, Tony Robinson did all ...

60' / 70's childrens tv programme, narrated by the brilliant Johnny Morris (Animal Magic fame)(bristol zoo). Johnny narrated the voices of ratty, hammy, owl, etc, and was set on a riverbank but filmed in a studio (before modern technology) - ...

Between March 1979 and May 1988 nine series of a ‘twist in the tail/tale’ British television programme aired. Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected began life as an adaptation of 25 of the author’s short stories from his collections Someone ...

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In the mid to late 1960's, Ron Ely played the part of Tarzan, on the 'small screen'. The Tarzan trade mark 'jungle call' used was, still, that of Johnny Weissmuller, who played the literary hero in the movies. Cheetah, Tarzan's ...

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Taxi was a TV series set in a New York City taxi company, and ran from 1978 - 1983. It was an ensemble cast show, but the main character seemed to be Alex, played by Judd Hirsch. Many of the ...

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Teddy Edward was on TV through the 1970s. The show was based on books by Patrick and Mollie Matthews, and followed the adventures of a stuffed toy teddy called Edward. Off he'd go with his little brown suitcase on holidays ...

Heroes in a half shell, Turtle Power.In the UK, this was renamed to HERO turtles, whereas in every other country on earth it was NINJA turtles.It featured Leonardo, Donatello, Raphaelle and Michaelangelo as four turtles who fell into the sewer, ...

Two families pitted against each other to find out who knew the most (otherwise) useless knowledge about television - such as "What is the opening lyric in the Only Fools And Horses theme tune"? (Do you know?) Hosted by Noel ...

This 90s quiz was exclusive to and was shown on UK Gold in the 90s. Tellystack was hosted by Paul Ross and three contestants has to answers question on television shows old and new. For each question you got right, ...

Tenko was a superb drama about a group of British women who were captured by the Japanese during the 2nd World War and were imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp. The story was about their lives inside the ...

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Terrahawks was Jerry Anderson's last puppet series in the 80's and sadly neglected by most people, which is a shame because with an exeption of one ore two childish elements it is basically as good as Captain Scarlet or Stingray.The ...

I remember Terry and June pretty fondly, which may come as a surprise to anybody younger who has only seen it in a modern context and would be perfectly within their rights to look aghast at me and say ‘What? ...

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That Girl starred Marlo Thomas (Danny's daughter) as a young, aspiring actress, Ann Marie and Ted Bessell as her Newsweek magazine writer-boyfriend, the All-American, cleancut Donald Hollinger. While their longterm relationship was unbelievably chaste, it was also endearing and romantic, ...

Esther Rantzen fronted That's Life, the BBC's consumer affairs program from the 70s through to the early 90s. The show was a mixture of serious consumer issues and humourous features such as photos of oddly-shaped vegetables and a dog that ...

When a young, well-to-do couple, Angie and Dr Robert Price, decide to hire a cleaner, along comes Ida Willis (Mollie Sugden). This friendly, working class woman is hired and Angie gets on great with her. During their first cup of ...

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"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, ...

The pitch meeting for The Adventure Game must have been an interesting one. ‘So, there’s a planet called Arg, on which the Argonds live. They’re dragons, but they can shapeshift into anything they like. The ruler of Arg is Rangdo, ...

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This adaption of the 1877 novel by Anna Sewell ran for 52 episodes in the 1970s and featured a Doctor and his children who got involved in all sorts of adventures. Somehow, their horse Black Beauty always got involved and ...

A spin-off from The Herbs starring Parsley the Lion and some of his old Herb friends. In The Adventures of Parsley, each episode was reduced to 5 minutes and normally involved Parsley the Lion and Dill the Dog getting up ...

Every summer holiday in the early to mid 70s they'd show this TV series (along with White Horses and Belle and Sebastian). As with most programmes, the theme tune was the most memorable thing - da,da,da,da- da,da, dum, dur, ...

This cartoon programme was shown during the 90's. It put the blue hedgehog to shame with catch phrases such as "you better believe it" and "up, over and gone". Dr "Robotnik" had 2 robot henchmen Grounder and Scratch. Everything was ...

The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin was an animated television series based on Teddy Ruxpin that came out in 1986 and ran for 65 episodes.Teddy Ruxpin the toy came first of course, and was an electronic toy from the 1980's. Fascinating ...

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The Amazing Adventures of Morph an animated childrens TV series from 1980 narrated by Tony Hart, the TV artist. The Amazing Adventures of Morph was all about a shape-shifting brown blob of plasticine called Morph, who lived in a box.There ...

The Amazing Spiderman was the TV movie from 1977 in which Spiderman appeared on the TV screen for the very first time. The film is about the adventures of freelance photographer Peter Parker, who, after being bitten by a radioactive ...

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The Andy Williams Show was a real family variety show running from 1957 until 1971 with appearances from many famous star guests. The Andy Williams Show was responsible for introducing us to The Osmonds of 'Crazy Horses' fame ...

The Animaniacs were created in the 30s, but they used to run riot so they locked the Warner siblings in the water tower for many years. And then in the 90s, Yakko, Wakko and Dot escape.I loved Animaniacs, and still ...

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At the time when the UK were getting into Monty Python and the The Goodies, Aunty Jack roared on to Australian screens on her big, black bike. A unique programme, not just in Oz, but globally. How many shows have ...

The Avengers was a classic, sexy TV series which introduced Emma Peel (played by Diana Rigg) in black leather and a laconic male sidekick in a bowler called John Steed. Fabulously ridiculous spy stories every week, always with big fight ...