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ARCHIVE TV ADVENT CALENDAR DAY FIFTEEN: 15 December 1986
Must admit, I’ve no idea how I’ve no memory of this programme – I will have been exactly the right age and audience for it – but this one is new to me. It’s the final episode of long-forgotten Bill Oddie Children’s ITV vehicle From The Top. The premise: Lloyds Bank employee William Worthington grows…
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ARCHIVE TV ADVENT CALENDAR DAY SIX: 6 December 1968
First regular episode of The Old Campaigner (BBC-1). Terry-Thomas stars as high-powered salesman/scoundrel F.J., who insists that his advancing years are no barrier to cross-continental caddery. (Video is the Comedy Playhouse pilot, but still. In this episode Derek Fowlds plays F.J.’s youthful charge.) FULL BROADCAST HISTORY Fri 30th Jun 1967, 19:30 (BBC-1)Comedy Playhouse: The Old…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (95-91)
In which an instantly successful programme takes a sixteen-year run-up to a second series, and a crime drama becomes a BBC staple due to people not liking football enough. Firstly, huge thanks to everyone who’d shared word of this project on Twitter. Any time I’ve previously embarked any large data-based article, it always came with…
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