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...

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...

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...
TV Am superstar Roland Rat in his first TV series Rat On the road

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...