Arthur Lowe Takes The Cloth In…
Bless Me Father, 1978
Bless Me Father marked something of a departure for Arthur Lowe taking him away from the middle class ‘bank manager’ type roles that he had become associated with and placing him in charg...
First Of The Summer Wine
First of the Summer Wine, 1988
This will reach it's 35th anniversary this year. Actually allowing for it's pilot it's already there.Roy Clarke’s prequel to the long running Last Of The Summer Wine por...
The Grumbleweeds Take A Tumble To TV….
The Grumbleweeds Radio Show, 1984
The Grumbleweeds formed in 1962, turning professional after an appearence on Oppurtunity knocks.They still enjoy success to this day, although the line up has changed thr...
The Two Ronnies – By The Sea
The Two Ronnies - By The Sea - 1982
"By The Sea" is an often forgotten short silent film, with sound effects and musical score from Ronnie Hazlehurst (famed BBC composer) starring Messrs Barker and Corbett, s...
Slinger’s Day
Slinger's Day - 1986
It's 36 years since the King of Saturday night TV Bruce Forsyth handed in the keys to his Supafare branch, leaving behind his only sitcom role.Originally as we saw in an earlier post t...
Just Good Friends
Just Good Friends, 1983
Another John Sullivan classic, his third for the BBC after Citizen Smith and Fools and Horses and this September it will be 40 years old!Just Good Friends ran for twenty two episode...
Last Of The Summer Wine – 1986 Christmas Special
Last Of The Summer Wine - Merry Christmas Father Christmas - 1986
Brian Wilde had left the series at the end of series 8 and we were introduced to Seymour Utterthwaite, Foggy's replacement in the New Year Spec...
The Young Ones
The Young Ones - 1982
Perhaps not so young as this show turned 40 earlier this monthPerceived by many at the time as the birth of alternative comedy The Young Ones was the cult BBC comedy classic that surp...
Blackadder Goes Forth
Blackadder Goes Forth - 1989
Blackadder goes Forth was the fourth and final series of Richard Curtis and Ben Elton's popular comedy. There would be one final outing for the character but that was 11 years aw...
Rat On The Road
Run VT Errol It's Rat On The Road, 1983
The saviour of TV AM, had first appeared in 1983, on the then ailing ITV breakfast show TV AM. Initially he featured in a slot called The Shedvision Show, allegedly bro...