Early BBC sitcom Dear Dotty, which was shown fortnightly, focused on Dotty Binns, a dogsbody at a woman’s magazine who would like nothing better than to...
Comedy documentary Tony Blair Rock Star reveals how politics’ gain was pop music’s loss by reconstructing the attempts of a teenage Tony Blair to make it...
Tom Brown’s Schooldays is the classical television adaptation of the timeless Thomas Hughes’s novel. Starring Stephen Fry as the progressive and inspirational headmaster Dr Arnold, the...
In sitcom Dead Ernest middle aged Ernest Springer (Andrew Sachs) is a very happy man. He’s just won a fortune on the football pools. Out comes...
This, the second television incarnation of Charlie Chan, was in animated form, produced by Hanna Barbera, and shown on Saturdays its first season. The clever detective...
Alan Thicke was right when he proclaimed in his song that it takes “diff’rent strokes to move the world.” In the case of the hit 1978-86...
Sitcom Dave’s Kingdom detailed episodes (often fantasy based) in the life of Dave King and usually set in his apartment. This was Dave King’s return to...
If Loving You Is Wrong follows the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors...
Short-lived ’80s sitcom or cheesy Cleveland heavy-metal band? Actually, “Slap Maxwell” was both, but for our purposes, let’s focus on Slap the sitcom. The show starred...
Family period drama serial Blackhearts in Battersea took us back to early nineteenth century Battersea where the rightful Duke finds himself cheated out of his inheritance....