David Battley Archives | Memorable TV

The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes: The Absent-Minded Coterie (S2EP5 ITV 26 Feb 1973, Charles Gray)

The Absent-Minded Coterie: Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters. Cast: Charles Gray (Valmont), Suzanne Neve (Miss Mackail), Barry Linehan (Inspector Hale), George Howe...

TV1 year ago

BBC-3 (BBC Satire, John Bird, John Fortune)

Satirical sketch series BBC-3 was very in the vein of That Was The Week That Was and Not So Much a Programme… The shows were a...

TV2 years ago

Relative Strangers (Channel 4 Sitcom, Matthew Kelly, Mark Farmer)

In sitcom Relative Strangers middle aged layabout Fitz (Matthew Kelly) is shocked when John (Mark Farmer) the teenage son he didn’t know he had turns up...

Episodes2 years ago

Comedy Playhouse: For Richer…For Poorer (BBC One 25 Jun 1975, Harry H. Corbett)

For Richer… For Poorer was another typical Johnny Speight scripted comedy shown as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. Harry H. Corbett was Bert, a highly...

Movies3 years ago

Krull (1983, Lysette Anthony, Liam Neeson)

Krull is a visually striking yet overblown sword-and-sorcery fantasy that borrows brazenly and ineptly from similar sagas, from King Arthur to Star Wars. Ken Marshall is...

TV5 years ago

Don’t Rock The Boat (ITV 1982-1983, Nigel Davenport, Sheila White)

In Sitcom Don’t Rock The Boat fiftysomething widower Jack Hoxton, who runs his own boatyard, falls in love with and marries Dixie, a former magician’s assistant...

TV5 years ago

Thicker Than Water (ITV 1981, Joss Ackland, Peter Denyer)

Sitcom Thicker Than Water saw widower Joseph Lockwood having trouble with his two bachelor sons. There was a pilot called Where There’s Brass. production details UK...

TV5 years ago

That’s Your Funeral (BBC-1 1971, Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley)

Sitcom That’s Your Funeral detailed the misadventures of a pair of undertakers, Basil Bulstrode and Emmanuel Holroyd. The series began life as a Comedy Playhouse edition...

Beiderbecke Tapes James Bolam Barbara Flynn

TV5 years ago

Beiderbecke Tapes, The (ITV 1987, James Bolam, Barbara Flynn)

Comedy drama The Beiderbecke Tapes was part two of the Beiderbecke trilogy. Jill and Trevor are now living together in this second serial (following the six...

TV5 years ago

The Climber (BBC-1 1983, Robin Nedwell, David Battley)

Sitcom The Climber focused on Harry Lumsden, a humble bakery worker, who when he adds up the results wrong of an IQ test, mistakenly thinks he...

Memorable TV

Memorable TV

David Battley

The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes: The Absent-Minded Coterie (S2EP5 ITV 26 Feb 1973, Charles Gray)

BBC-3 (BBC Satire, John Bird, John Fortune)

Relative Strangers (Channel 4 Sitcom, Matthew Kelly, Mark Farmer)

Comedy Playhouse: For Richer…For Poorer (BBC One 25 Jun 1975, Harry H. Corbett)

Krull (1983, Lysette Anthony, Liam Neeson)

Don’t Rock The Boat (ITV 1982-1983, Nigel Davenport, Sheila White)

Thicker Than Water (ITV 1981, Joss Ackland, Peter Denyer)

That’s Your Funeral (BBC-1 1971, Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley)

Beiderbecke Tapes, The (ITV 1987, James Bolam, Barbara Flynn)

The Climber (BBC-1 1983, Robin Nedwell, David Battley)

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