UK / Channel 4 – IBT / 1x60m-e / Thursday 1 September 1983 @ 10.30pm Executive Producer: David Tereshchuk / Director: John Longley Very typical early...
UK BBC2 / 10x30m-e / 1981 and 1984 Script Editor: Laurie Rowley / Producers: Tom Gutteridge (season 1), Colin Gilbert (season 2) Sketch based series starring...
UK / BBC1 / 1x35m-e / 1981 31 December Thursday 11.20pm Producer: Sean Hardie / Director: Rod Natkiel A New Years Eve sketch and music show...
Drama serial Wolcott, which played over three successive nights was a surprisingly glossy and often violent tale of black policeman Winston Wolcott (George William Harris) who...
Satirical thriller serial. BBC radio crime correspondent George Cragge tries to track down a serial killer who is targeting bank managers, the killer kept Cragge informed...
Off the wall comedy programme about a group of students, The Young Ones was more than a showcase for the emerging ‘alternative’ comedy scene. The Young...
Period Children’s comedy drama. A faithful rendering of the Oscar Wilde short story The Canterville Ghost about an American family in Victorian times moving into a...
Comedy series How To Be A Little S*d detailed episodes in the life of a couple coping with a new baby. The twist being that the...
In Filthy, Rich and Catflap, something of a misfire from the normally spot on giants of British alternative comedy Rik Mayall plays Richie Rich who is...
In The Black Seal it is 1498 and Edmund hatches a plot to dethrone the King with the help of the seven most evil men in...
The Itch of The Golden Nit is a wonderfully slice of animation that has actually been put together by kids (given a helping hand by Aardman...
Narrated by Simon Callow, Rik Mayall: Lord Of Misrule salutes Rik Mayall and celebrates his part in the UK’s comedy history, using rare and unseen archive...
Another in our occasional series focusing on classic moments from the TV archives. This time out it’s anarchic 1980’s sitcom The Young Ones, in this classic...
The Comic Strip’s tour de force with Peter Richardson as Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill in a warped Hollywood take on the miners’ strike. In order...