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401,033 | 7,743,887 | 516,955 | 8 | Tara King - Traitor ? | Like Philip Levene before him , Jeremy Burnham was an actor ( he appeared in the ' Avengers ' episode ' The Town Of No Return ' ) who switched to writing . He penned five of the 32 Thorson adventures , all of them good , of which this is one . Tara has been assigned to try and break the security of the War Room - an un... |
401,359 | 7,743,887 | 62,578 | 8 | A Big Hand For The Little People ! | Scientists may not approve ( I don't think it was aimed at them anyway ! ) but in the U . K . in 1969 ' Land Of The Giants ' was a smash hit . At school on Monday mornings , the number one talking point in the playground was the latest episode of ' Land ' . I would try to steer the conversation towards the ongoing saga... |
400,636 | 7,743,887 | 516,960 | 8 | Coughs & Sneezes Spread ( Deadly ) Diseases ! | This episode opens with a classic ' Avengers ' teaser - Harley Street doctor Camrose ( Hamilton Dyce ) opens his mail , and is perplexed to find an empty envelope addressed to him . Only it is not as empty as it seems - inside is a microscopic germ , a distillation of the common cold . In mere seconds , Camrose has lit... |
401,253 | 7,743,887 | 726,244 | 8 | Hitler's Back - Cosmic ! | Created by Roger Price , ' The Tomorrow People ' was one of several I . T . V . sci-fi shows that attempted to rival ' Dr . Who ' . For the uninitiated , the T . P . are a group of youngsters - the next stage in human evolution - possessed of telepathic powers , like Tim Kring's ' Heroes ' only minus the tedium . The f... |
401,060 | 7,743,887 | 959,711 | 8 | In Praise Of Older Doctors | Paul Collier lands a job as a ' television doctor ' - dispensing medical advice to breakfast television viewers . His popularity makes him an instant celebrity , and soon he is knee deep in fan mail from adoring women . His colleagues , particularly Snell , are disgusted , not to say incredibly jealous . A bitter argum... |
401,581 | 7,743,887 | 516,843 | 8 | The Ultimate In Camouflage ! | As ' The Avengers ' series developed , a little repertory company was formed of performers who would appear in the show time and time again , mostly playing villains . The roster included Peter Jeffrey , Julian Glover , Peter Wyngarde , Patrick Cargill , Garfield Morgan , William Franklyn , Patrick Allen and Peter Bowl... |
401,641 | 7,743,887 | 78,579 | 8 | James Bond In Outer Space | I . T . V . started with at a disadvantage with ' Buck Rogers ' in the autumn of 1980 - they didn't have the rights to the pilot episode ' Awakening ' , so they began with ' Planet Of The Slave Girls ' and hoped for the best . They needn't have worried . ' Buck ' was a smash-hit in Britain , its ratings outstripping th... |
401,583 | 7,743,887 | 294,079 | 8 | Ladies and Gentle-men . . . | When ' Hancock's Half-Hour ' ended in 1960 , Ray Galton and Alan Simpson expressed interest in writing for a comedian they had long admired - Frankie Howerd . But Tom Sloan , the B . B . C . ' s head of comedy , told them to forget the idea as he was no longer popular . To prove his point , he produced graphs showing t... |
401,018 | 7,743,887 | 213,372 | 8 | The Show That Made Con-Men Tremble ! | ' Braden's Week ' was a popular Saturday night consumer affairs show . After being seen in a margarine commercial for commercial television , Bernard Braden was fired by the B . B . C . , the show handed over to co-presenter Esther Rantzen , and renamed ' That's Life ! ' . Bob Wellings ( of ' Nationwide ' fame ) and Ge... |
400,693 | 7,743,887 | 65,012 | 8 | Where There's A Will | By the late ' 60's / early ' 70's , the hey-day of British comedy films was well and truly over . Though they continued to be made , their chief inspiration was television . Alongside the numerous ' On The Buses ' and ' Steptoe & Son ' spin-offs were remakes of past glories . ' Some Will , Some Won't ' was based on the... |
400,763 | 7,743,887 | 264,962 | 8 | Let's Get The Network Together ! | Bruce Forsyth's decision to quit ' The Generation Game ' at the height of its popularity probably earned him more criticism than anything he had ever done before , including leaving his wife for a younger woman , hostess Anthea Redfern . He rightly felt the show to be getting stale , and wanted to move on before it det... |
401,545 | 7,743,887 | 297,503 | 8 | Brilliant Billy ! | Billy Dainty ( yes , that was his real name ) won this show on the strength of a show stopping appearance at the previous year's Royal Variety Performance , whereby he reduced The Queen Mother to tears of laughter . Famed for his ' eccentric dancing ' , he was a marvellous physical comedian , vocalist , not to mention ... |
401,256 | 7,743,887 | 956,509 | 8 | Bounder Bowles At Large | Trevor Mountjoy ( George Cole ) , successful estate agent , is happily married to the lovely Mary ( Rosalind Ayres ) . He goes home one day to find a drink waiting for him , and senses something is wrong . The couple's idyllic lifestyle has been shattered . Mary's freeloading brother Howard ( Peter Bowles ) has been re... |
401,512 | 7,743,887 | 798,276 | 8 | Hello . Is that Interpol ? | ' The Two Ronnies ' was perhaps not the most imaginative title for a series starring two men with the first name of ' Ronnie ' , but we'll let that pass . Following a pair of one-off shows - ' The Ronnie Barker Yearbook ' ( with special guest star Ronnie Corbett ) and ' Ronnie Corbett In Bed ' ( with special guest star... |
400,890 | 7,743,887 | 62,207 | 8 | How did you know she was a school teacher ? | Following a successful diamond robbery in London , criminal mastermind Paul Clifton ( Stanley Baker ) decides to pull off the crime of the century - the theft of three million pounds from a train heading from Glasgow to London . He tries to join forces with other gangs , but they object to the money going to Switzerlan... |
400,958 | 7,743,887 | 131,168 | 8 | Ah , there you are | This was Ronnie Barker's second sitcom ( his first being the comedy anthology series ' The Ronnie Barker Playhouse ' ) . It cast him as ' Lord Rustless ' , the doddery old buffoon ( based on the comedian Fred Emney ) who lives at Chrome Hall , grows mustard and cress for a living , and seems to be fond of women and hav... |
401,417 | 7,743,887 | 77,020 | 8 | Pronounced ' azell | ' Hazell ' was the creation of Gordon Williams and Terry Venables ( yes , that Terry Venables ! ) . A sort of Cockney version of ' Philip Marlowe ' , James Hazell looked cool driving around ' 70's London in his Triumph Stag . His main adversary was Detective-Inspector ' Choc ' Minty , a hard-faced Scotsman who acted as... |
401,694 | 7,743,887 | 131,158 | 8 | The best way to get people off the dole is to stop giving it to them ! | One year after ' The Young Ones ' and ' The Comic Strip Presents ' launched a new wave of British comedians on an unsuspecting world , Granada T . V . brought out ' Alfresco ' . Despite starring Ben Elton , Stephen Fry , Hugh Laurie , Robbie Coltrane , Emma Thompson and Siobhan Redmond , it doesn't seemed to have burne... |
400,794 | 7,743,887 | 699,342 | 8 | Shelley's Watergate ! | Shelley has to come up with a sales campaign for a new range of Instant Paella . The stuff proves hard to market as it is virtually tasteless . In a meeting , he inadvertently insults his boss Cyril ( John Barron ) , not realising the comment has been captured on tape . When a colleague tells him this , he is horrified... |
400,919 | 7,743,887 | 344,703 | 8 | Desert Island Movies | I . T . V . ' s ' Play It Again ' was a popular daytime show in which celebrities picked clips from their favourite films , and explained what they meant to them . Amongst those taking part were Dick Emery , Alun Armstrong , Dave Prowse ( of ' Star Wars ' fame ) , Larry Grayson , Joan Bakewell , Derek Jacobi and , in h... |
400,830 | 7,743,887 | 164,284 | 8 | No-one Sez It Better Than Les | After coming to prominence on ' Opportunity Knocks ' in the late ' 60's , Les Dawson was given his own show by Yorkshire Television , which combined sketches , stand-up and music and ran well into the ' 70's . Given that Les ' comic persona was that of a misanthrope , it seemed strange to see him in a show with dancing... |
400,737 | 7,743,887 | 699,345 | 8 | He came in a meteor and they can't find the antidote ! | When Shelley fails to come home one night after working behind the bar of ' The Victory ' , Mrs . Hawkins tells Fran not to worry . " Wherever he is , he won't be with a woman ! " . But that's just where he is - in bed with the sexy Angie . They have not had sex though . Shelley goes home and comes clean with Fran . Sh... |
401,517 | 7,743,887 | 164,270 | 8 | Thick as thieves ! | ' Mr . Big ' started out as a one-off ' Comedy Playhouse ' broadcast in 1974 . It proved popular enough to warrant not only one series , but two . The late Peter Jones , best remembered as ' Mr . Fenner ' in ' The Rag Trade ' , played ' Eddie ' , a would-be mastermind who dreamt of pulling off the ultimate crime , henc... |
400,723 | 7,743,887 | 199,192 | 8 | Smile . . . You're on Candid Camera ! | Created by America's Allen Funt , ' Candid Camera ' was exported to Britain in 1960 , with Bob Monkhouse as host . The best remembered prank was the ' car-with-no-engine ' , perpetrated by arch-joker Jonathan Routh . My earliest memory , though , is the ' 70's version , hosted by its producer , the late Peter Dulay , w... |
401,479 | 7,743,887 | 1,162,603 | 8 | After The Funeral | Else has finally passed on , leaving Alf alone in the world . Well , not quite alone . After the funeral , he - along with Rita , Marigold , Arthur , Mr & Mrs . Johnson , a rabbi , an old lady and landlady Mrs . Hollingbery - return to the Garnett's flat for tea . Her death means that half of Alf's pension is now gone ... |
400,808 | 7,743,887 | 296,443 | 8 | Streakers are cowards . If they were brave , they'd walk ! | Likable Liverpuddlian comic Tom O'Connor came to prominence on Granada's ' The Comedians ' , and like Charlie Williams and Jim Bowen , progressed to game shows and variety specials such as ' London Night Out ' and ' Wednesday At Eight ' . His humour was mainly observational , often cleverly pointing out the differences... |
400,632 | 7,743,887 | 1,420,338 | 8 | Reggie's Return | Like many , when I heard the B . B . C . was proposing to remake ' The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin ' ( which ran from 1976-78 ) , I was horrified . We have become used to bad Hollywood remakes ( particularly sci-fi ones , which drench themselves in C . G . I . in a futile effort to conceal their lack of originality ... |
400,842 | 7,743,887 | 196,303 | 8 | This is ' What's on Next ? ' . Write to your M . P . about it ! | ' What's on Next ? ' was a quick-fire comedy sketch show which originally went out in the old ' Opportunity Knocks ! ' slot of 6 . 45 P . M . on Monday nights . As Gwynplaine F . MacIntyre has noted , it was highly derivative of the hit U . S . show ' Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ' , with comedians poking their heads out ... |
400,933 | 7,743,887 | 71,613 | 8 | Blakey-By-The-Sea | When you watch a Reg Varney film , you shouldn't expect Fellini . The third and last cinematic outing for Stan Butler and co . came out at the end of 1973 , several months after the television series had ended . Stan and Jack are ( finally ) dismissed from the bus depot and finish up at a surprisingly sunny looking hol... |
401,340 | 7,743,887 | 756,706 | 8 | Flawed Yet Fascinating | This was basically three programmes in one ; a ' Goodies ' reunion special ( wasn't it great to see Bill , Tim and Graeme in their old office again ? ) , a documentary tracing the history of ' The Goodies ' television series , and an ' I Love The ' 70's ' style nostalgia fest . The first two were fine , but the third w... |
400,868 | 7,743,887 | 956,742 | 8 | Off To Brighton ! | The Gang are shopping for their impending trip to Brighton . Witnessing Sharon being propositioned by a randy supermarket manager , Eric loses his cool and rushes to her defence . Sharon is so impressed at his gallantry she reinstates their relationship . The Gang are thrilled . At Brighton , they have a whale of a tim... |
400,837 | 7,743,887 | 86,673 | 8 | Britain's Answer to ' Westworld ' ? | Sometimes its possible to create a wonderful television series , and still contrive a mighty flop . Such was the case with ' Bootle Saddles ' , a series that poked gentle fun at British Wild West enthusiasts . Men from all walks of life - bank managers , solicitors , doctors - who choose to spend their weekends dressed... |
400,847 | 7,743,887 | 956,747 | 8 | Last Tango In Fenn Street | Having been to see Ken Russell's ' The Music Lovers ' , Eric and Sharon go back to the Duffy family flat . Eric is feeling romantically inclined , but when Sharon spurns his advances they row . Dennis turns up , telling them Frankie is in hospital , having bayoneted himself in the foot . While visiting him , Eric meets... |
400,733 | 7,743,887 | 918,015 | 8 | If that's a Scientologist , I'll serve him with chips ! | Shelley's attempts to prepare a dinner party meet with continual interruptions ; first , a Jehovah's Witness rings the doorbell and refuses to go away , then an elderly neighbour called Mrs . Ratcliffe asks him to fix her shelf . Mrs . Ratcliffe is , unfortunately , senile , and thinks that all the women at that addres... |
401,172 | 7,743,887 | 800,478 | 8 | The Price Of Love | Mr . Cromwell has a new secretary - the sexy Miss Patricia Knightley . The whole school falls under her spell , in particular Mr . Price , who is reminded of a girl from the Valleys called ' Blodwyn ' . Each time he claps eyes on her , he hears a Welsh male voice choir singing ' All Through The Night ' . So he tries to... |
400,749 | 7,743,887 | 595,648 | 8 | Watching the spies go by ! | Hancock is standing idly on a street corner when a policeman strolls up . Tony chats about the inclement British weather ( for which he blames atom bomb testing ) . The policeman has observed Hancock on the same street corner every day for weeks , and wonders what he is up to . Hancock claims to be merely ' people-spot... |
400,731 | 7,743,887 | 166,033 | 8 | To be or not to be - that's what I want to know ! | Anglia Television is chiefly remembered today for ' Roald Dahl's Tales Of The Unexpected ' , ' The World Of Survival ' and ' Sale Of The Century ' ( " Now From Norwich - Its The Quiz Of The Week ! " ) hosted by the one and only Nicholas Parsons . In 1977 , the station forayed into the realm of sitcoms with ' Backs To T... |
400,888 | 7,743,887 | 86,703 | 8 | Britain's Answer To ' Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ' ? | On a Sky One retro programme ( ' T . V . Years ' ) a while back , disc jockey Mark Radcliffe said : " The only thing I can remember about ' Duty Free ' is that it was bloody awful . " . Peter Kay was not impressed either : " I hear they're going to ban ' Duty Free ' next year . They should have banned it after the firs... |
401,432 | 7,743,887 | 58,018 | 8 | Harmless Slapstick From More Innocent Times | To me the films of Jerry Lewis are guilty cinematic pleasures up ( or should that be down ? ) there along with the ' Airport ' disaster movies , Britain's ' Confessions Of ' series , and the Dean Martin ' Matt Helm ' pictures . Whenever one aired on U . K . television in the ' 70's , it was like a Royal Wedding , ' Liv... |
401,251 | 7,743,887 | 595,646 | 8 | You are not Uncle Bunny ! | The first episode of Tony Hancock's ill-fated A . T . V . series . A London department store has had a window broken , so an assistant is told to move out stock in case people try to make off with it . Hancock , passing by , is shocked to see what appears to be a woman undressing in full view of the public . Of course ... |
401,052 | 7,743,887 | 71,207 | 8 | Benny's Sketchbook ! | British cinemas in the ' 70's were full of features based on popular television sitcoms such as ' Bless This House ' , ' Please Sir ! ' , and , of course ' On The Buses ' . When Benny Hill was asked by Thames to make a movie , he opted for a compilation of his top-rated sketch show . He had probably been inspired by ' ... |
401,670 | 7,743,887 | 956,732 | 8 | I Was Wellington's Boot ! | Arriving at ' The Dolls ' House ' boutique , Duffy is horrified to see the supposedly gay Mr . Winters flirting with Sharon , as well as chasing her round the shop . Winters is only joking , but Eric feels genuinely insulted . Over a burger and chips at a café , they have a row , and he storms off . Sharon then gets fr... |
400,848 | 7,743,887 | 956,728 | 8 | I'm a decorator ! | Having been sacked by the G . P . O . , Peter Craven is working alongside Duffy and Batch as an interior decorator . Their first job is to paint a block of flats , owned by Mr . Stringer , a man so miserable as to give Rigsby from ' Rising Damp ' a run for his money . Meanwhile , Dennis has left home , and when he cann... |
400,752 | 7,743,887 | 710,106 | 8 | Hello , Dotty ! | Harold has fallen asleep while waiting for his father to come home . An unusually well dressed Albert steps in out of the pouring rain , and reveals he has been to see a spiritualist called Madame Fontana . Harold laughs at his father's gullibility : " Its some old boiler doing a Mike Yarwood ! " . To prove it is all t... |
401,193 | 7,743,887 | 77,069 | 8 | Simon In The ' 70's | When Ian Ogilvy was announced as the new ' Saint ' back in 1977 , I remember thinking : " Good casting . " . The series appeared the following year in a peak-time slot on Sunday evening and right away you could tell it wasn't going to work . The original ' Saint ' was still turning up on various I . T . V . regions in ... |
401,655 | 7,743,887 | 77,061 | 8 | I go see proper doctor for the eyes . I go see chiropodist ! | Rob Buckman and Chris Beetles were doctors who switched to writing radio comedy , progressing into television with episodes of the final run of ' Doctor On The Go ' , then landing their own sketch show , created by , written and starring themselves . Made by London Weekend Television , ' The Pink Medicine Show ' owed a... |
401,564 | 7,743,887 | 67,528 | 8 | And you can get it ' On The Buses ' , upstairs or down inside . . . | Those who regard the ' 70's as ' the decade that taste forgot ' cite the success of ' On The Buses ' in spurious defence of their views . " It was the most popular film of 1971 ! " , they rage , " Everyone in Britain then must have been stupid ! " . Er , no . It came out at a bad time for British cinema . Big American ... |
400,668 | 7,743,887 | 828,938 | 8 | Want a bit of cake ? | Stan is engaged to Sally , a clippie who happens to be Blakey's niece . The inspector isn't too happy about the situation . Inviting her home for tea , Stan tries to create a good impression by wearing the kipper tie Sally has bought him - but it makes him look like a twerp . Sally aggravates Mrs . Butler by continuall... |
401,528 | 7,743,887 | 967,888 | 8 | Exit Mike Upchat , Enter . . . Er . . . Mike Upchat ? | Broadcast in 1977 , ' The Upchat Line ' was a witty and sophisticated Thames sitcom which starred the King Midas of ' 70's telly - John Alderton - as an incorrigible liar with a way with the ladies . It proved a hit with viewers , and a second series was commissioned . But a public falling out between the actor and wri... |
401,519 | 7,743,887 | 71,014 | 8 | Permission To Change Channels , Sir ! | ' My Old Man ' was an edition of ' Seven Of One ' , shown on BBC-2 on / 73 . Ronnie Barker starred as former engine driver ' Sam Cobbett ' , a cantankerous old codger turfed out of his house in Ironmonger Row by the council , and who moves in with his daughter Doris ( Ann Beach ) and her grumpy husband Arthur ( the lat... |
401,287 | 7,743,887 | 275,830 | 8 | Dawson's Half-Hour ? | Imagine , if you will , that Tony Hancock had not died in 1968 . Furthermore , that he had re-teamed in 1975 with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson , and Kenneth Williams to make a new series of ' Hancock's Half-Hour ' for Yorkshire Television . If you can imagine all that , you should then have a rough idea of what ' Dawson... |
401,194 | 7,743,887 | 71,033 | 8 | When The World Went Ape ! | ' Battle For The Planet Of The Apes ' in 1973 was the last in the series of motion pictures inspired by Pierre Boulle's novel ' Monkey Planet ' . Arthur P . Jacobs , the producer , had been planning a spin-off show for some time , but his sad death that year meant the idea had to be bequeathed to others . The series be... |
401,404 | 7,743,887 | 591,051 | 8 | Strictly Goodies Dancing ! | When The Penelope Fay Dancing Team are doped just prior to the finals of the B . B . C . ' s ' Come Dancing ' , Miss Fay asks the Goodies to replace them . There's a snag - they can't dance . Graeme rigs up some special ' dancing suits ' - suits that dance by remote control . The Goodies soon pull level with Miss Fay's... |
401,349 | 7,743,887 | 591,046 | 8 | Where It All Began | Using money left to him by his late Aunt , Tim Brooke-Taylor sets up an agency comprised of himself , his friends Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie , whose motto is ' we do anything , anytime ' . They are summoned to the Tower Of London , where a dreadful crisis has occurred . In the words of the Chief Beefeater : " someone... |
401,078 | 7,743,887 | 209,789 | 8 | The Mad Scientist Show ! | What did I . T . V . used to show in the bad old days before it became obsessed with soap ? The answer - sitcoms , U . S . imports , nature documentaries of the ' Survival ' variety , and shows such as ' Don't Ask Me ' . It was science for the masses ( some would say ' dumbed down ' science , and it probably was ) , bu... |
401,372 | 7,743,887 | 591,040 | 8 | Monsters don't exist ! | The Goodies save a man who is about to throw himself off a bridge . He is the keeper of the Monster House at the London Zoo , and is depressed because he doesn't have a monster to exhibit . So the Goodies set off for Scotland to capture the Loch Ness Monster . . . An enjoyably daft start to the second season . Scotland... |
401,408 | 7,743,887 | 70,986 | 8 | I ' ate you , Senor ! | My memories of this show are hazy to say the least . I recall that the ' T . V . Times ' did a special feature to tie-in with the opening episode . Written in the form of diary extracts , it told of the events leading up to the first transmitted episode - how Inspector Cyril Blake retired from the Luxton bus company af... |
400,653 | 7,743,887 | 344,034 | 8 | Fun In The Sun With Marty | Picture the scene : Marty is on a holiday flight to Spain . Wearing sunglasses and with a white towel over his head , he thinks he looks cool . On his way to the john , he picks up a toy sub-machine gun a kid has dropped . Before he can return it the plane hits an air pocket and Marty is propelled into the cockpit , wh... |
401,318 | 7,743,887 | 803,374 | 8 | Mr . Hedges is a sexual pervert ! | Having failed to interest 5C in art , Hedges attempts to teach them Shakespeare , beginning with ' Romeo & Juliet ' . Frankie would rather they read Mickey Spillane instead . One person keen to act out the love scenes in the play with her teacher is Maureen Bullock , who is hopelessly infatuated with him . After refere... |
401,011 | 7,743,887 | 590,994 | 8 | Well , I'll Be Hornswoggled ! | The Goodies are asked by Major Cheeseberger of the U . S . Army to dispose of a large drum of tomato soup . After trying ( and failing ) in this task , they decide the simplest way to get rid of it is to eat the stuff . It looks like no tomato soup they've seen before - its green , for one thing , and tastes foul . The... |
400,861 | 7,743,887 | 590,995 | 8 | Art For Art's Sake | The Goodies attend an auction at Sothebys . Patriotic Tim is horrified to see a gang of rich Americans eyeing up a priceless Valesquez . Determined that the painting should stay on British soil , he joins in the bidding , which eventually escalates to ludicrous proportions . Having successfully bought the painting , th... |
401,225 | 7,743,887 | 706,313 | 8 | The Alien With the Child In His Eyes ! | ' Alpha Child ' opens with one of the most shocking scenes ( well , it was back in 1975 ) ever broadcast on television . Cynthia Crawford ( Cyd Hayman ) gives birth , the first child ever born on Moonbase Alpha . The Alphans are naturally thrilled . Then she starts screaming . In mere seconds , the newly-born baby has ... |
401,418 | 7,743,887 | 63,534 | 8 | I Saw This Movie Once . . . | Surely this was one of Mike Myers ' favourite movies from his childhood ? ' Salt & Pepper ' was produced by its stars Sammy Davis Jr . and Peter Lawford . ' Charles Salt ' and ' Christopher Pepper ' are owners of a seedy Soho nightclub who get into trouble when a beautiful Chinese agent dies in Salt's dressing room . T... |
401,221 | 7,743,887 | 706,314 | 8 | The Woman With Two Brains | A mysterious phenomenon ( what ' Red Dwarf ' would term a ' swirly-thing alert ' ! ) engulfs the Moon , splitting it into two . Personnel are duplicated , with the exception of Regina Kesslann ( Judy Geeson ) who babbles incessantly about Alan and Koenig being dead , and talks as though she is back on Earth . Shocked a... |
401,311 | 7,743,887 | 590,989 | 8 | The Commercialisation Of Camelot ! | One year before ' Monty Python ' get hold of the King Arthur legend , ' The Goodies ' gave us their take on it ( well , sort of ) . Tim receives a letter from his Uncle King Arthur ( real name : Arthur King ) , who thinks he is the King Arthur of legend . Married to Queen Doris , he ( along with Uncle Sir Lancelot ) li... |
401,072 | 7,743,887 | 803,385 | 8 | Get Your Hair Cut ! | The latest directive from Cromwell's office is that the boys have their hair cut short and the girls wear longer skirts . The children are lined up in the playground so that the teachers - including Potter - can conduct army-style inspections . Seeing this as an affront to their civil liberties , 5C - led by Terry Stri... |
401,357 | 7,743,887 | 590,990 | 8 | The Goodies In The Club | The Minister For Trade & Domestic Affairs wants the Goodies to recover compromising photos of her taken at the Playgirl Club . Tim goes undercover in drag . The Club is a veritable den of iniquity , with strip shows , saunas , massage rooms and displays of openly uninhibited behaviour . When Tim fails to report back , ... |
400,986 | 7,743,887 | 803,383 | 8 | Before ' Rocky ' , There Was . . . ' Duffy ' ! | Mr . Hedges is given the duties of Sports Master , and sets about attempting to teach 5C boxing . He isn't very good at it though , and Duffy almost decks him . Duffy turns down the chance to represent Fenn Street School in a forthcoming inter-school boxing match . He does not want nor need the adulation of others . So... |
401,169 | 7,743,887 | 803,380 | 8 | Home Time | Doris Ewell has married Mr . Sibley , but has no time for a honeymoon as she is snowed under with work . But her new husband has a surprise for her - he has booked a week in Tunisia . Potter , meanwhile , is bragging about how rock-solid his marriage to Ruby is . He is therefore astonished when a note on his kitchen ta... |
401,131 | 7,743,887 | 224,848 | 8 | The Joke's On Us | Millions watched this every Sunday evening ( including myself ) , mainly to laugh at the clips of horrible foreign programmes such as ' Endurance ' , ' Ultra Quiz ' and ' The Price Is Right ' . Back in the early ' 80's , we could safely laugh in the knowledge that our television was the best in the world . Clive made a... |
401,350 | 7,743,887 | 590,982 | 8 | In my day , you couldn't ride until you'd been born ! | Tim visits his great ( and fabulously rich ) Uncle Butcher at Tally-Ho Towers . Scenting money in the air , Bill and Graeme go with him . Uncle Butcher looks like Jimmy Edwards , walks side-saddle and is obsessed by fox hunting . During a hunt , he drops dead , so the Goodies mount his head on a wall in the study . Tim... |
401,091 | 7,743,887 | 591,032 | 8 | When Bill Became Randy ! | The British Pop Charts are in a shocking state , being full of salacious rubbish aimed at sex-mad teenagers . Sensing a gap in the market for wholesome family entertainers , The Goodies audition for top impresario Isabel Chintz ( Barbara Mitchell ) , under the name ' The Cherubs ' . She hates them , so they go on the t... |
401,012 | 7,743,887 | 591,018 | 8 | Look ! I'm Beautiful ! | Tim has been putting on weight , and resembles a Christmas pudding on legs , so he tries to slim with the help of Radio 2 D . J . Terry Wogan's ' Fight The Flab ' campaign . Housewives are taken to an exclusive health farm and put through a strict regimen of exercise and starvation by smirking attendants . When Tim ret... |
401,355 | 7,743,887 | 591,014 | 8 | Who Has Short Hair And Goes Round Hitting People ? | The police recruit the Goodies to help them change their image . Tim , Graeme and Bill become ' hippy ' policemen - wearing sunglasses , handing out flowers , and generally being nice to people . But the new image doesn't sit too well with Commissioner Butcher - he has the Goodies arrested , and put on trial . . . The ... |
401,452 | 7,743,887 | 81,946 | 8 | Sing A Soppy Song In Voices So Pathetic . . . ! | ' Three Of A Kind ' crept into B . B . C . - 1's schedules in 1981 with very little fanfare , yet by the time of its third season two years later it was firmly established as one of the most popular comedy sketch shows on the air . Other than Lenny Henry ( familiar to viewers because of ' New Faces ' , ' The Fosters ' ... |
401,100 | 7,743,887 | 617,038 | 8 | Robert or Roberta ? | Robert , a young orphan , lives in the country with his puritanical Aunt , Belle Weston . She treats him as though he were a girl . He is kept away from school , made to wear Shirley Temple-type clothes , forced to play with dolls , and referred to at all times as ' Roberta ' . Whenever he misbehaves , he receives hars... |
401,105 | 7,743,887 | 617,039 | 8 | Death In Paradise | My copy of this episode lists the title as ' One On An Island ' . Where the desert came from I have no idea . Possibly it was used on different prints . It was based on a story by Donald E . Westlake , who as ' Richard Stark ' wrote the classic crime novel ' Point Blank ' and its numerous sequels . Brandon De Wilde is ... |
401,657 | 7,743,887 | 184,292 | 8 | He Was , Of Course , Extremely Dead . . . | Created by Tim Heald , Simon Bognor was an agent of a special investigations department of the Board Of Trade . If a newspaper editor was murdered or some bounders tried to kill a champion poodle or steal the formula for a new type of honey , Bognor was , despite being a bit dim , the man to sort it out . The poor man'... |
401,108 | 7,743,887 | 617,045 | 8 | Dreams Of Death | Opportunist Greg Richards is in a posh London restaurant with model Sue Tarleton . He wants her to pose for nude photographs , but she refuses . A nervous waitress warns Sue not to leave until 10 P . M . , and then to take a taxi home . Sue ignores the advice . Shortly afterwards , she is killed when scaffolding collap... |
400,964 | 7,743,887 | 617,041 | 8 | A Rose By Any Other Name | Steven Miller is puzzled to receive an invitation to a costume party from a man he has never met . Taking his vintage Bugatti into the countryside , he asks for directions to Meachum Hall , but the old man wanders off without answering . Miller finds the drive full of old cars , much like his own . Changing into a ' Je... |
401,259 | 7,743,887 | 281,287 | 8 | Terror In The Countryside | The final season of ' Out Of The Unknown ' , again produced by Alan Bromley , eschewed the science fiction for which the show was renowned , concentrating instead on supernatural tales . Bromley's reasoning was that , in the aftermath of the Apollo moon landings , science fiction was no longer thrilling . He had appare... |
401,045 | 7,743,887 | 612,732 | 8 | When the chips are down , send for Alexander The Great ! | Glen A . Larson was a humble scriptwriter back in 1968 , he went on to create or co-create ' Alias Smith & Jones ' , ' Knight Rider ' , ' Magnum P . I . ' , ' The Fall Guy ' , and the original ( and best ) ' Battlestar Galactica ' . This was one of his early scripts . Willard Knox , an S . I . A . agent , is arrested b... |
401,347 | 7,743,887 | 68,636 | 8 | This Film Made The Headmaster Blush ! | Over the years , many television comedians have tried to make the jump into movies , with varying degrees of success . Morecambe & Wise made three vehicles , but never seemed to find the right one . Peter Cook and Dudley Moore fared somewhat better with ' Bedazzled ' ( 1967 ) , but went downhill from there . More recen... |
400,826 | 7,743,887 | 469,592 | 8 | The Joy Of Six | This half-hour documentary was screened by Channel 4 following a repeat of the final ' Prisoner ' episode ( ' Fall Out ' ) in 1984 , and has never been rerun by the station or made available on D . V . D . This is strange , seeing how it features interviews with many of the people responsible for the show , such as pro... |
401,385 | 7,743,887 | 61,452 | 8 | They Used To Say A Good Spy Was A Pure Spy ! | ' Casino Royale ' holds the distinction of being the very first James Bond film ever to play on British television . It went out on Boxing Day 1973 , and I can remember being thoroughly confused by the thing . The plot kept jumping about from one place to another , a female character ( ' Lady Fiona ' ) who started out ... |
401,409 | 7,743,887 | 824,931 | 8 | Its good , innit ! | One of the reasons for the failure of the I . T . V . series ' Director's Commentary ' was that in taking the rise out of ' 70's television it was hardly doing anything new . Rod Hull got there first with the children's show ' Emu's Broadcasting Company ' , and its childish spoofs hit the bullseye far more often than R... |
401,412 | 7,743,887 | 71,061 | 8 | What Was In The Tis-Tub ? | Well , which did you prefer ? ' Multi-Coloured Swap Shop ' or ' Tiswas ' ? To tell the truth , I never watched a complete edition of either , preferring to channel surf , but of the two , ' Tiswas ' was clearly the best . Its also the only programme I've ever liked with Chris Tarrant in . The Hee-Heeing Blonde One led ... |
401,143 | 7,743,887 | 675,791 | 8 | Sister Maureen ? | 5C are thrilled to learn that Bobby Charlton is coming to the school . All except for Maureen , that is . Dismayed at Mr . Hedges ' impending marriage to Penny , she plans on becoming a nun . After Sharon spots her entering a convent with a suitcase , Mr . Hedges goes to see Monsignor Sopwith , to try and persuade him ... |
400,979 | 7,743,887 | 675,785 | 8 | Who Were You With Last Night ? | Following a wild party , Mr . Hedges wakes up half-naked in a strange bed , and with a dreadful hang-over . He is in for a shock - the bed belongs to Connie Eversleigh , mother of Sharon . Hedges manages to get to Fenn Street School , but spends the day in a terrible state , unable to focus on the lessons . Some time l... |
401,298 | 7,743,887 | 205,654 | 8 | I'm legless and I'm helpless , hysterical and breathless . . . | This programme makes me wish I'd never paid my licence fee ! said one disgruntled viewer when this was first transmitted . Made by the same team behind ' A Kick Up The Eighties ' ; ' Laugh ? ' gave Robbie Coltrane one of his first series . Amongst the characters he played were smarmy quiz master ' Ted Todgers ' ( hos... |
401,231 | 7,743,887 | 909,868 | 8 | I thought the moon was on fire ! | ' Chalk & Cheese ' was a Thames sitcom that reunited ' Some Mothers Do Ave Em ' producer Michael Mills with its star Michael Crawford . It was penned by Alex Shearer , whose other credits include the Peter Davison show ' Sink Or Swim ' and ' No Job For A Lady ' starring Penelope Keith , and which grew out of a one-off ... |
401,008 | 7,743,887 | 30,824 | 8 | I had my mouth all set for apple pie ! | Stan and Ollie turn up in Switzerland , of all places . Stan thinks that they will be able to sell mouse traps to the Swiss because there are more mice there than anywhere else in the world . The owner of a cheese factory offers to buy their stock , but pays with counterfeit money . Thinking they are rich , Stan and Ol... |
400,648 | 7,743,887 | 337,780 | 8 | Before ' K . 9 . ' There Was ' K . T ' . | Mild-mannered inventor Robert Sommerby lives in the country with his Aunt Millie , and a number of robots , one of which - ' Katie ' ( K . T . ) - is silver , talks like one of ' The Gumbies ' from ' Monty Python ' , and keeps leaving his arm behind on buses . The others could pass for human , though , such as Eric ( w... |
401,306 | 7,743,887 | 641,198 | 8 | A Little Case Of Kidnapping | This Stanley Greenberg penned episode has a disturbing opening sequence in which a young boy playing alone in woods is kidnapped . McGill is hired by Hornsby ( Michael Goodliffe ) , an ambitious politician , to find the boy , Stephen . Hornsby's interest in the boy's disappearance baffles Mac . McGill's investigations ... |
400,638 | 7,743,887 | 641,214 | 8 | The Lad Most Likely To Kill Himself ! | Richard Bradford cites this as ' Suitcase ' ' worst episode . He is of course entitled to his view , but it is not one that I share , even though it is basically a retread of ' Sweet Sue ' . Rodney Bewes , fresh from the hit B . B . C . sitcom sitcom ' The Likely Lads ' ( in which he played ' Bob Ferris ' ) , plays ' T... |
400,757 | 7,743,887 | 555,203 | 8 | Dawson Gets Plastered ! | It had to happen . Les is in hospital after his motorbike - which he calls ' Gladys ' - collides with a car . After the doctor ( Richard Morant ) and the stretcher bearer ( Gordon Rollings ) argue over the diagnosis , Les ' leg is encased in plaster and he is given a bed . He saved from the ordeal of having to listen t... |
400,634 | 7,743,887 | 641,210 | 8 | I want to see me daughter ! | Millionaire Chester Farson ( Gordon Gostelow ) dies from heart failure . Eldest son Gerald ( Terance Alexander ) keeps news of his death a secret , hiring Gray to impersonate the old man to avoid paying death duties to the Government . He neglects to tell sister Jane ( Justine Lord ) about the deception , instructing h... |
401,252 | 7,743,887 | 555,207 | 8 | Which way is this train going ? | The final episode of ' Dawsons Weekly ' sees Les boarding a sleeper train to Scotland , equipped with skis . He asks the attendant ( Kenny Lynch ) where he can find ' crumpet ' . Alone in the dining car , he is approached by a mysterious , beautiful woman ( Sue Lloyd ) who , not to put too fine a point on it , offers h... |
400,789 | 7,743,887 | 555,206 | 8 | I've been shot ! | Les is fed up with being so skint he can only afford to eat Baked Beans ( and having to eat them cold as he cannot pay his fuel bills ) so he changes his agent . He turns up at the agency wearing ridiculously flamboyant clothes , but the only acting job he gets offered is at the Giggleswick Repertory Company . It consi... |
401,577 | 7,743,887 | 500,258 | 8 | There's Something Suspicious About A Man Who Keeps His Booze Under Lock & Key ! | The negative response to the new B . B . C . series ' Ashes To Ashes ' ( good , but not a patch on ' Life On Mars ' ) has revived in this reviewer memories of when the fourth series of the sci-fi drama ' Blake's 7 ' aired . Like ' A . T . A . ' , Year 4 was initially met with hostility from fans . It was the first to l... |
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