Sunday, November 26, 2006

TV Programmes from my yoof















This weekend's posts very much have the focus of film and history. So I'll change the focus to television programming. Or more to the point my recollection of one's of my youth.


  • Benny Hill

  • Candid Camera

  • Star Trek

  • V

  • The Invaders

  • Man-imal

  • Only Fools and Horses

  • The Dick Emery Show

  • Morcambe and Wise

  • The Two Ronnies

  • Some Mothers Do Ave Them

  • Street Hawk

  • Knight Rider

  • Buck Rogers

  • CHiPs

  • 3-2-1

  • Pot Black

  • Wrestling on a Saturday afternoon

  • Happy Days

  • The Dukes of Hazzard

  • The Sweeny

  • Dallas

  • Dynasty

  • Miss World (when it was acceptable. Damn the P.C. brigade!!)

  • Eurovision

  • Ren and Stimpy

  • Eurotrash

  • Twin Peaks

  • Beauty and the Beast (the TV show with Linda Hamilton)

  • Top of the Pops

  • The Gaffer

  • The Professionals

  • Minder

  • Tales of the Unexpected

  • Hammer House of Horror

  • Sapphire and Steel

  • Wogan

  • Sale of the Century

  • Bullseye

  • Northern Exposure

  • Tiswas

  • Timmy Mallet

  • Noel Edmonds Breakfast Show

  • Blankety Blank

  • Grange Hill

  • Renta-Ghost

  • Play School

  • Tony Hart

  • Story Time

  • Night Caller

  • Blue Peter

  • Jim'll Fix It

  • Record Breakers

  • Baywatch

  • Its a Knockout

  • Monkey

  • The Water Margin

  • Metal Mickey

  • Alf

  • Open All Hours

  • Are you Being Served?






Thats as much as I can think of.....at the moment




Some on relfection are utter crap now but others are pure genius. British programming should really inject some more of this sort of thing. Come on BBC, go back to your roots and make British telly good again.

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