The Line: ‘Gentlemen, kindly include me out.’ Who Said It: Samuel Goldwyn The Setup: The tyrannical studio boss, known for such Goldwynisms as: ‘I’ll give you...
Another of our look at classic episodes from the golden age of TV. On its surface, Wiseguy was just one more action show created by Stephen...
The Goodies, at least according to its fans, is the greatest forgotten TV comedy classic of the seventies. That’s arguable, I suppose, but it was long...
In “The Zanti Misfits,” our military forces have cordoned off a California ghost town awaiting the arrival of a spacecraft from the planet Zanti. The leaders...
Tiswas which ran from 1974-1982 was an anarchic children’s TV show featuring presenters throwing buckets of custard at each other. Some parents thought it was beyond...
Enormously successful comedy duo Peter Brough and Archie Andrews had been entertaining radio listeners for over a decade when they made the jump to telly. Brough...
Only Fools And Horses was first televised on BBC-1 on September 8, 1981 when Derek “Del Boy” Trotter was introduced trying to flog one-legged turkeys from...
In Charade, made in 1963, near the end of Cary Grant’s movie career, a smitten Regina Lampert, played by Audrey Hepburn, confronts Grant’s Peter Joshua. Lampert:...
What was it all about? A sketch show starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. The title was a bit of a giveaway really. When was it...
The actors and actresses at Ealing Studios may not have threatened MGM and Paramount in the glamour-and-gloss stakes, but their unforgettable portrayals of English toffs, cockneys,...
At least that’s the way it could have been, had Gary Cooper realized the monumental epic the film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s bestseller Gone with the...
Robert Lindsay is the Afghan coat-wearing, beret sporting Wolfie Smith, the Che Guevara of South London who banged on about “power to the people” while not...
Classic 70’s Legal shenanigans with the brilliant Leo McKern as gruff barrister Horace Rumpole. Rumpole of the Bailey was a huge hit both at home and...
The Man From UNCLE was a spy serial inspired by James Bond, about agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement saving the world from...
The Royal was an ITV drama commission and was inspired by its sister programme Heartbeat. The lowdown: This nostalgic family drama is set in the swinging...