UK / BBC/RTE/FI3/ Eureka / 6x25m-e / 1996

Music: John Moore / Costume: Monique Perrot / Co-Executive Producer: Anna Home

Drama serial.  A young boy holidaying in Europe discovers that his long lost missing sister is living with gypsies.

JOE JEFFERS as Finn / SAMANTHA GLENN  as Sara / ANDREW LOVERN as Liam / JENNIFER COVILLAULT as Louise /  MICHELE PARENT as Fabiola / DOLLY VAN DEN as Marie 

UK / ITV / 1980's

Saturday morning show of the early 1980's attempting to emulate the success of TISWAS. Presented by Bill Oddie.

UK / BBC1 / x180m-e / 1980's

Saturday morning entertainment mixing music, cartoons, celebrity guests and fun & games. This was the successor to The Multi Coloured Swap Shop and was presented by DJ Mike Read, Sarah Greene and John Craven.

UK / BBC1 / 2001-continuing 

Another of the BBC's Saturday Morning kids entertainment shows, presented by Dani Behr and Joe Mace. On 21 September 2002 - the old presenters were replaced by Fearne Cotton and Simon Grant.

UK / BBC2 / x30m-e / 1969-

An anthology series of plays originally for schools television, they are generally extremely well made and often touch on controversial topics. Many have been given a grown ups repeat and literally  anybody who is anybody in British TV has either written for it or acted in it. Several entries are featured individually in the guide.

UK / LWT-19-SClub7-Steelhead / 1x50m-e / 1999 18 September Saturday 5.10pm

Writers: Paul Alexander, Simon Braithwaite, Paul Dornan, Kim Fuller, Georgia Pritchett / Director: Andrew Margetson

Comedy drama. Pop group S Club 7 travel through a time warp and find themselves in America in 1959. See also Miami 7 and LA7 and also Viva S Club. There was a quick 30 minute revised repeat Thursday 23 Sep 1999 at 4.35pm 

With:- RACHEL STEVENS / JO O'MEARA / HANNAH SPEARITT / TINA BARRETT / JON LEE / PAUL CATTERMOLE / BRADLEY McINTOSH / EAMON BEHRENS as Ricky / CHRIS DEIHL as Chuck / PAUL HAYES as Sheriff Bukovski / RENEE TOWNES as Shirelle / SHYLER WHITNEY as Rocket Girl

UK / BBC1-S Club Ltd / 1x50m-e / 1999 12 December Sunday 4.15pm

Writers: Kim Fuller, Georgia Pritchett / Design: Richard Lasselle /Executive Producer: Simon Fuller / Producers: Simon Fuller, Andrew Margetson, Stephen Brierley / Director: Andrew Margetson

Comedy drama. A special from the team behind Miami 7. The group S Club 7 are left stranded at a trailer park en route to Los Angeles. Soon Rachel has declared she is leaving the group because she is missing her boyfriend back in the UK. The shows were split into two for a quick repeat showing part one the following day (13 Dec 4.35pm) and part two (20 Dec 4.35pm)

With:- RACHEL STEVENS / TINA BARRETT / HANNAH SPEARITT / JO O'MEAR / PAUL CATTERMOLE / BRADLEY McINTOSH / JON LEE / SAGE SCHIATUE as Rose-Marie / SARA PILGREEN as Mary-Ann / TANNER PERKINS as Jimmy-Bob / JAY JOHNSTON as Ethan

USA / ABC-Hanna Barbera / x30m-e / 1969-72

Creators: Ken Ruby, Joe Spears / Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Spooky comedy drama animation. The tales of a group of teens and their Great Dane dog Scooby as they travelled around in their 'Mystery Machine' camper van getting involved in mysteries. At the villains unmasking he would always announce "If it wasn't for those pesky kids I would've gotten away with it". The show was originally going to be called The Mysterious Five but the title changed after the creators heard Frank Sinatra singing Strangers in the Night especially the Scoobie Doobie Doo fade out. A Live action version with Sarah Michelle Geller and Freddie Prinze Jr  was released in 2002 featuring a completely CGI Scooby. The gang have featured in many series (all basically the same). 

These have included:- 1969-72: Scooby Doo, Where Are You? / 1972-74: The New Scooby Doo Comedy Movies / 1976-77: The Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Hour / 1979-80: Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics / 1979-80: Scooby and Scrappy Doo / 1982-83: Scooby and Scrappy Doo Puppy Hour / 1985-86: Scooby's Mystery Funhouse / 2002: What's New Scooby Doo?

Voices:- DON MESSICK as Scooby Doo / CASEY KASEM as Shaggy / FRANK WELKER as Freddy / NICOLE JAFFE as Velma / HEATHER NORTH as Daphne  

UK / BBC / 160x30m-e / 1970-84

Producers: John Buttery, Tony Harrison, David Brown

Quiz. Various school teams do battle against each other in various clip driven movie based rounds. Presenters were Michael Rodd, Brian Trueman and Mark Curry. 

UK / BBC1 / 1x30m-e / 1990  29 December - Sat 10.00am

Writers: Trev Neal, Simon Hickson / Producer: David Mercer / Director: Peter Leslie 

Comedy.  A pantomimish special from the Going Live team, a skit on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. 

With:- SARAH GREENE as Sarah Scrooge  /  PHILIP SCHOFIELD as Phil Scratchit / EMMA FORBES as Mrs Scratchit / GORDON T. GOPHER as Tiny Gordon / ROWLAND RIVRON as  Jacob Marley /  NORMAN LOVETT as Ghost of Christmas Past / SUSIE BLAKE as Ghost of Christmas /  Present  / NORMSKI as Ghost of Christmas Future 

UK / Thames / 6x25m-e / 1990

Writer: David Joss Buckley / Novel: Blood Fued by Rosemary Sutcliff / Producer: Alan Horrox / Director: Agust Gudmundsson.

Period  drama serial. In ancient times Jestyn, a former English slave, and the Viking Thormod join forces to avenge the murder of Thormud's father.

With:- GRAHAM McGRATH as Jestyn / JANEK LESNIAK as Thormod

USA / Syndicated-Ziv / 155x25m-e / 1957-60 black and white

Producers: Ivan Tors, Leon Benson, John Florea / Music: Ray Llewellyn 

Action adventure series. Ex US Navy Frogman Mike Nelson gets involved in scrapes on his boat The Argonaut.

With:- LLOYD BRIDGES as Mike Nelson

UK / BBC1 / 12x30m-e / 1983/85  2 seasons   Wednesday 5.10pm

Writer: Chris Barlas / Executive Producer: Paul Stone / Director: Marilyn Fox 

Children's sitcom. Teenagers Sandy and George Shelton help their parents with the running of the Seaview hotel.

With:- YVETTE FIELDING as Sandy Shelton / AARON BROWN as George Shelton  / CHRIS HARGREAVES as  James  / MAGGIE OLLERENSHAW as Mrs Shelton / DAVID GOODERSON as Mr Shelton / LLOYD PETERS as Duncan  / CARLA ROGERSON as Petra / MARK JORDAN as Ian(Season 2)

UK /ABC / 6x30m-e / 1963 16 February - 23 March

Writer: John Lucarotti  / Producer: Kim Verrey / Director: Kim Mills 

Sci-fi adventure serial. Two scientists have an adventure in the city of Aegira. The same two lead characters also appear in City Beneath the Sea and Plateau of Fear.

With:- GERALD FLOOD as Mark Bannerman / STEWART GUIDOTTI as Peter Blake / PETER WILLIAMS as Captain Payne / RICHARD COLEMAN as Dr Deread / MURRAY HAYNE as Sanders 

UK / BBC1 / 7x30m-e / 1975

Writer/Producer: Dorothea Brooking / Novel: F.H. Burnett / Design: Guthrie Hutton / Costume: Cherry Campbell / Oboe Soloist: Malcolm Messiter

Period  drama serial. Orphan girl Mary Lennox goes to stay with her mmody uncle in Victorian Yorkshire, discovers a long neglected secret garden, sets about restoring it to its former glory as well as helping her Uncle's ill son Colin get better.

SARAH HOLLIS ANDREWS as Mary Lennox / RICHARD BEAUMONT as Basil Crawford / HOPE JOHNSTONE as Mrs Medlock / RICHARD WARNER as Dr Craven / JACQUELINE HOYLE as Martha / ANDREW HARRISON as Dicken / LORRAINE PETERS as Mrs Sowerby 

UK / ATV-ITC / 13x25m-e / 1969

Creator/Producer: Gerry Anderson / Music: Barry Gray / Special Effects: Derek Meddings

Supermarionation series that also utilised some live acting from Stanley Unwin as a priest investigating various spy capers in his role as an agent for B.I.S.H.O.P. Unwin only appeared in long shot whilst close up work was reserved for the puppets. Father Unwin also had a kind of partner in Agent Matthew whom was able to miniaturised.

Voices:- STANLEY UNWIN as Father Unwin / KEITH ALEXANDER as Yokel Matthew / GARY FILES as Agent Matthew / SYLVIA ANDERSON as Mrs Appleby / JEREMY WILKIN as The Bishop

USA / CBS-Filmation / 22x30m-e / 1975-78

Fantasy adventure series. Teacher Andrea Thomas, thanks to a magical amulet from Egypt, is able to transform herself in superheroine/goddess Isis.

With:- JOANNA CAMERON as Andrea / BRIAN CUTLER as Rick Mason / CARROLL as Renee / JOANNA PANG as Cindy Lee / ALBERT REED as Dr Barnes

USA / Nickelodeon/Viacom/Hallmark / 26x30m-e / 1996 2 Seasons

Creator: Thomas W. Lynch, Ken Lipman Lynch / Executive Producer: Thomas W. Lynch, John D. Lynch, Robert Halmi Jnr 

Sci-fi drama series. Adventures of a young girl with magical powers.

With:- LARISA OLEYNIK as  Alex Mack / DARRIS LOVE as Ray / MEREDITH BISHOP as  Annie / DORIAN COPINTO as Mum / MICHAEL BLAKLEY as Dad

UK / Central / 6x25m-e / 1987  16 Febuary - 23 March  

Writer: Helen Cresswell / Novel: Paul Lewis / Producer/Director: David Cobham 

Fantasy drama serial. A young girl discovers a village that has been 'lost in time' when she goes to stay with her Aunt in the country.

With:- MICHAEL HORDERN as Narrator / KATIE REYNOLDS as Polly Flint / EMILY RICHARD as Alice Flint / MALCOLM STORRY as Tom Flint  / SUSAN JAMESON as Aunt Em / DON HENDERSON as Old Mazy / BRENDA BRUCE as Granny Porter 

UK/AUSTRALIA / BBC1/ABC /  6x25m-e / 1999 5 January - 21 January Tuesday/Thursday 5.10pm

Writer: Al Hunter Ashton, Tim O'Mara / Novel: David McRobbie / Music: Mario Millo / Costume: Lorraine Verheven  / Producer: Josephine Ward / Director: Graeme Harper 

Twice weekly thriller serial. Two sisters are plunged into a nightmare world when they are forced into hiding with their parents after their father agrees to give evidence about a powerful drugs baron. An Australian co-production with half of the action taking place in Oz.

With:- KATIE BLAKE as Emma  / BECKY SIMPSON as Nicola / PETER O'BRIEN as Don / ANNE LOOBY as Lily  / VAUGHAN SEVILLE as Sam Foster / CHRISTOPHER SCOULAR as Graham Foster

USA / PBS-Children's Television Workshop / 3000+ x60m-e / 1969-

Creator: Joan Ganz Cooney

Pre school muppet series. Entertainment with a definate educational slant starring Jim Henson's muppets who, amongst the songs and sketches taught children basic numeracy and literacy from a (studio) Harlem back alley. Most of Hollywood's A list have guested on the show at one time or another as did some of Jim Henson's best known creations including Kermit, Miss Piggy and BibBird.

With:- BOB McGRATH as Bob / LORETTA LONG as Susan / ROSCOE ORMAN as Gordon (1) / MATT ROBINSON as Gordon (2) / NORTHERN J. CALLAWAY as David / WILL LEE as Mr Hooper / ALISON BARTLETT as Gina / EMILIO DELGADO as Luis / SONIA MANZANO as Maria / BILL McCUTCHEON as Uncle Wally / LILLIAS WHITE as Lillian

Voices:- JIM HENSON as Kermit/Bert / FRANK OZ as Big Bird/Miss Piggy  

UK / A-R/Thames / 64x25m-e / 1967(A-R)  1968-71(Thames)

Producer: Ronald Marriott 

Period crime drama series.  Stories of a detective living in Baker Street in 1920's London. Blake was much in the mould of Sherlock Holmes.

With:-  LAURENCE PAYNE as Sexton Blake / ROGER FOSS as Edward 'Tinker' Clark / DOROTHEA PHILLIPS as Mrs Bardell / ERNEST CLARK as Inspector Cutts / LEONARD SACHS as Inspector Van Steen

UK / ITV (Thames) / x30m-e / 1975

A spooky anthology series with opening and closing credits of a  suitably spooky nature,  an atmosphere was created in the show 
which communicated mystery as much as the storylines and acting. A pre Blake's 7 Gareth Thomas appeared in one playing a teacher at a school, who loses his temper with two boys who decide they want to take their revenge on him. Another  episode involved a white dress from the 19th century that was apparently cursed. 

UK / Granada / x20m-e / 1975

Producer: Muriel Young / Choreography: Theresa Scoble / Director: David Warwick

Teen music show hosted by the then top teen sensations The Bay City Rollers.

USA / Hanna Barbera / 26x20m-e / 1967

Executive Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Animated fantasy series. After discovering a magic ring a group of children are able to travel to the land of the Arabian Nights.

Australia / Barron / x30m-e / 1993

Executive Producer: Paul D. Barron / Producer: Gwenda Marsh, Barbi Taylor, Jan Tyrrell / Music: Greg Schultz 

Children's adventure series. 

With:- Clinton Voss as Kelvin Crump / Jodi Herbert as Julie / Heath Bergersen / Adam Briggs / Benjamin Chow / Joshua Crane / Heath Ledger / Igor Sas as Mr. Knowles / Jemma Thomson 

BBC1 / 13x25m / started 21 September 2004

UK / BBC / 2x35m-e / 1951 1- 8 November  Thursdays 5.10pm

Writer: Godfrey Harrison / Producer: Rex Tucker 

Comedy serial. Peter Blythe is assigned to the British Embassy in Nimbus, Belgonia, somewhere in Europe. 

With:- BARRY MacGREGOR as Peter Blythe / MICHAEL CROWDSON as Paul Melvin / JOHN LE MESURIER as Sir Alexander Blythe / PEGGY LIVESLY as Margot Francis / HUGO SCHUSTER as Prof Mahier 

UK / A-R / 13x25m-e /  1963  / 7 May - 30 July

Writer: Peter Hayes / Director: Marc Miller 

Scifi adventure series. A special organisation is set up to counteract anything that is threatening the Earth. Nicely adventurous typical early sixties fare of secret formulas, vital accelerator units and the like. There were four individual stories making up the series, 1. The Brain Machine (A 4 part story) / 2. The Man Who Shook The World (A 3 part story) / 4. The Elixir of Life (A 2 part story) / 4. The Q-Radiation (A 4 part story).

With:- MAX KIRBY as Sir Willoughby Dodd  / DAVID SUMMER as Dr Peter Chance / DEBORAH STANFORD as Anna Parsons / HAROLD KASKET as  The Baron / JACK MAY as Father Gabriel / PETER HALLIDAY as Dr John Quendon / RODNEY BEWES as Tom Batley 

USA / Sid and Marty Krofft / 24x20m-e / 1973-74

Executive Producers: Sid and Marty Krofft / Director: Bob Lally

Fantasy adventure series. A pair of Califonia kids have adventures with a sea monster they discover.

With:- BILL BARTY / JOHNNY WHITTAKER / SCOTT HOLDEN

UK / BBC1 'The Chronicles of Narnia' / 6x25m-e / 1990

Writer: Alan Seymour / Music: Geoffrey Burgon / Director:Alex Kirby 

Scifi adventure serial. The children enlist the help of a strange creature called Puddlegum in order to rescue a prince.

With:- DAVID THWAITES / CAMILLA POWER / MIKE EDMONDS / BARBARA KELLERMAN / TOM BAKER

UK / BBC / x25m-e / 1988

Writer: Valerie Georgeson / Story: Margaret Stuart Barry / Producer: Angela Beeching / Director: David Bell 

Fantasy comedy. Young Simon befriends a witch.

With:- HUGH POLLARD as Simon / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS as Witch / JOE GROSSI as Hopkins / JOAN SIMS as Lady Fox-Custard / SARAH WYNTER as Mum / C.J. ALLEN as Valdini 

Germany / DEFA / 3x25m-e / 1964 black and white

Director: Francesco Stefani / English translation: Peggy Miller

Fairy tale. A young prince searches for a magic tree for his girlfriend.

With:- CHARLES-HANS VOGT as Prince / CHRISTEL BODENSTEIN as Princess / ANTONY BILBOW as English Narrator

UK / ITV1 / 20x30m-e / 2002-2003 (First Episode 11 February 2002)

Comedy drama about King Arthur XXXII's knights.  Some of the knights' names read as puns (Sir Gestion, Sir Tificate, Sir Prano, Sir Real)

 With:- JASON THORPE as Sir Gadabout / WILL THEAKSTON as Will / TAMSIN EGERTON as Elenora / KIM WALL as King Arthur

UK / C5/Two Hats / x30m-e / 1998-99

Creator/Producer: Daniel Peacock / Producer: Georgia Dussand 

Teen music/sitcom. The exploits of an all girl English band stuck in America.

USA / ABC-Warner-DePasse Ent.-Paramount / x30m-e / 1994-99

Creators: Kim Bass, Gary Gilbert, Fred Shafferman / Executive Producers: Mert Rich, Brian Pollack, Leslie Ray, Suzanne De Passe, david Simon, Suzanna Coston, Irene Dreayer

Teen sitcom. Twin sisters Tamara and Tia are seperated at birth and adopted, 14 years later the pair are reunited. Their respective adoptive parents are both single and the quartet hit on the idea of moving in together.

With:- TAMERA MOWRY as Tamera Campbell / TIA MOWRY as Tia Landry / TIM REID as Ray Campbell / JACKEE HARRY as Lisa Landry / MARQUES HOUSTON as Roger Evans / BRITTANY MURPHY as Sarah (94-95) / DORIEN WILSON as Terence Winningham (95-96)

ITC-AZ Productions / x30m-e / 1974

Adventure series. 

Australia / Syndicated-Norfolk International / 91x25m-e / 1968-70

Executive Producers: JOhn McCallum, Bud Austin / Music: Eric Jupp / Producers: Lee Robinson, Dennis Hill

Adventure series. Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo, uses his brains to alert his best friend, the human Sonny, whenever anyone hits trouble in the outback area of Warratah National Park. See also revival show The New Adventures of Skippy.

With:- GARRY PARKHURST as Sonny Hammond / ED DEVEREAUX as Matt Hammond / LIZA GODDARD as Clarissa 'Clancy' Merrick / KEN JAMES as Mark Hammond / FRANK THRING as Dr Alexander Stark / TONY BONNER as Ranger  

UK / HTV /  7x25m-e / APRIL-MAY 1975

Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin / Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole / Producer: Leonard White / Director: Derek Clark 

Scifi drama serial. A trio of West Country teenagers find themselves helping a young alien boy who has been stranded on Earth. The serial made heavy use of such famous stone circle landmarks as Stonehenge, Avebury and Glastonbury Tor. A great website dedicated to the show can be found at http://www.juganet.com 

With:- MARK HARRISON as Sky / RICHARD SPIEGHT as Roy Briggs / STUART LOCK as Arby /  DAVID JACKSON as Sgt Simmons / PRUNELLA RANSOME as Susannah / CHERRALD BUTTERFIELD as Jane Vennor / AL MACKENZIE as Jed / ROBERT EDDISON as Goodchild 

Australia / 26x30m-e / 1994

Creators: Jeff Peck, Tony Morphett / Script Consultants: Cameron Clark, Esben Storm, Ray Boseley / Producers: Patricia Edgar, Margot McDonald

Drama series. Stories of three kids whose parents run a space tracking station deep in the Australian outback.

With:- PETRA JARED as Nikki Colbert / EMILY-JANE ROMIS as Maggie Colbert / ANNA MARIA MONTICELLI as Marie Colbert / ZBYCH TROFIMIUK as Mike Masters / STEVE JACOBS as Tony Masters / MARCO CHIAPPI as Christian / ROASLIND HAMMOND as Effie / PAUL SONKKILA as Frank Giles