The Clangers

Kids TV
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The Clangers, 1969 All grown up! This post, originally featured back in 2015, was put together by my 10 year old daughter who has now grown up!If any readers have kids that have favourite Kids shows old fr...

Sapphire And Steel

Drama
Sapphire And Steel - 1979 Proving that good sci - fi was not just the domain of the BBC, this atmospheric at times even creepy series was a huge hit for ITV.The brainchild of Peter J. Hammond, who came up ...

This Is Your Life

Entertainment
This Is Your Life, 1955 This Is Your Life, the show famous for it's big red book, was the British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same name.Looking back this was...

Roobarb

Kids TV
Roobarb, 1974 Many years ago in a time before even neighbours, there used to be a short slot at the end of children's television, just before the evening news.Over the years this saw some interesting littl...

Blake’s 7

Drama
Blake's 7, 1978 As with many sci-fi programs, Blake's 7 has gained cult status among TV fans.  Produced for the BBC, with a more adult audience in mind (it went out Monday evenings) it ran for four series....

Game Of Thrones

USA in the UK
Game Of Thrones, 2011 Every now and then a piece of TV launches onto screens and just hits the spot becoming a global phenonomin.  That's exactly what happened with Game Of Thrones.Game Of Thrones is an Am...
The Doctor, Ian and Susan find themselves in danger in the keys of marinus

The Keys Of Marinus, 1964

Dr Who
Story number five for William Hartnell's original Doctor and the second to be written by Dalek creator Terry Nation, he would only write one more non - Dalek story for Doctor Who and that would not be for eleve...