Television

This was a children's programme that was on TV-AM and hosted by Timmy Mallett. It had games like 'Mallett's Mallet' and 'Drop Your Toast' where Timmy would read out a viewer's name in hope that they would be so ...

Wagon Train was a series about the early settlers on the Oregon Trail of the 1880'. The hour long drama followed the stories of those who travelled by Wagon Train from St. Joseph, Missouri to California and ran on NBC ...

This was an American cartoon from the 1970's about a family and the father was voiced by the late Tom Bosley who was also in Happy Days.I can still remember the theme tune, 'wait til your father gets, until your ...

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home was an animated US series produced by Hanna-Barbera, it was about an American family with teenage kids and was the first prime-time animated series to run for more than one season (the next being ...

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Warship included stories set aboard H.M.S Hero - a Royal Navy destroyer in the mid 70's. ...

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Watching was a TV show on 3 in the 80's. It's about Malcolm who lives with his domineering mother and was accompanied on his birdwatching trips by scouser Brenda, who was forced to ride in his sidecar. The series followed ...

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This was a kids show in the late 80's/early 90's about an alien who comes to earth.When he gets to Earth he meets a boy here and becomes friends but there are other aliens out to catch him.The alien (WATT) ...

This French animation was first shown in the late 70s on ITV. The main character in Wattoo Wattoo was a super bird of the same name, who spent his time trying to sort out the problems of the silly geese ...

We are the champions was the childrens' version of Superstars. Teams of windswept schoolchildren would compete against each other on a bleak playing field somewhere in a selection of events more akin to dog agility. the world is a poorer ...

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This was hosted by Craig Charles on the BBC circa 1984, who later starred in Red Dwarf and is currently getting it on with Liz McDonald at The Rover's Return! This kids' factual programme focused on the music industry, including ...

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads is my favourite TV programme ever. It follows on from the original series called "The Likely Lads" which ended with Terry joining the army. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads starts when he returns ...

This quite good quiz show ran from the 1980s to the early 21st century. It was first presented by Nicky Campbell, John Leslie and Bradley Walsh. Contestants had to spin the 'Wheel of Fortune' which, when spun, used to ...

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"When The Boat Comes In" was a terrific tale about Jack Ford and the Seaton family in Tyneside, set between the end of WW1 and the Spanish Civil War, told across four superb series.The story told how the soldiers returning ...

When Things Were Rotten was an American sitcom of the late 70's or early 80's. It was basically a spoof of Robin Hood. ...

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Whew! was a US gameshow from 1979. Gosh, I barely remember it but it had arcade-like consoles with pictures of people or something and you had to move/guess fast. ...

This was on in the early 60's. All I can really remember was it was about a helicopter piloted by two guys called Chuck and P.T. Were they cops or something? Would love to know if anybody else remembers ...

White Horses was a serial in the early seventies if I remember right, which followed the adventures of a family in the country that kept horses. I think it was French and dubbed over in English. I think Saturday mornings ...

Does any body remember an American TV series from the 80's called Whiz Kids? It was about a bunch of computer literate, geeky kids who rode around on bikes solving crimes using their portable computers. I think it was pretty ...

Rather worryingly my prime memory of "Who Dares, Wins.." is of a naked Tony Robinson (better known then as Baldric in Blackadder). In fact, Tony appeard to spend large chunks of this sketch show naked, along with his more regularly ...

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Who's The Boss was an American sitcom about a live-in rugged male housekeeper (Tony Danza) and his daughter (Alyssa Miliano) who works for an Ad Exec. She was a single mother with a son and had an interfering mother who ...

Whodunnit? was a Thames Television panel game show where 3 celebrities had to solve a murder mystery. The show ran from 1972 - 78 and was hosted first by Edward Woodward, and then Jon Pertwee. A 15-minute act was performed in ...

Barry Morse featured as the idiotic U.S. president in Whoops Apocalypse. It also included John Cleese as the Assassin L'Acrobat and Alexi Sayle too, I think. This was a little known gem from the late 70's. I remember Cleese disguised ...

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Why Don’t You? was a TELEVISION PROGRAMME (remember that, it’s important) designed to – erm – encourage children to do something creative or active rather than watching TELEVISION PROGRAMMES all day. And to do this they encouraged children to watch ...

Widget the World Watcher was a cute cartoon, designed to teach conservation, and good morals.Widget was a purple space alien, able to shift to various forms at will, for the purpose of saving and/or improving the world. He had a ...

This ITV mini-series was based around four widows of East End villians, the women lost their husbands while they were attempting to rob a security van in London until it caught fire. A fourth woman was enlisted to help ...

Wil Cwac Cwac was a cartoon about a cute little mischievous Welsh duckling. He wore a little blue neckerchief. God I loved him! Made by a Welsh company. ...

Before the terrible Will Smith film this is the original TV version of a pair of cowboy/government agents. It's full of gadgets, James Bond style.It aired on CBS between September 17, 1965 and April 4, 1969.It was brought forward at ...

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With the exception of ‘Oooh, Matron’ Kenneth Williams' voice was probably never put to better use than as the characters from the original series of Willo the Wisp. The name of the cartoon comes from ‘will-o’-the-wisp’; the lamp-like flickering light ...

Jimmy Tarbuck (Lisa's Dad) hosted this gameshow, where contestants used to bet their points on the multipe choice questions. The four possible answers would be in evens (1-1), 2-1, 3-1, 5-1, 10-1. Depending on whether you chose the right answer ...