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5 Rare Retro TV Shows Crying out for a DVD Release
You see them TV archives over at all the major broadcasters? Yeah, there's a right load of gold in them thar hills in the form of unbelievably good TV, but most of it lays there like an unwanted jumper...
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Beggar My Neighbour
Genre:SitcomChannel:BBC1 Transmission: 24/05/1966 - 26/03/1968Reg Varney, now there was a salt of the earth fellow and perhaps best known for being the first ever human man person to use an ATM in the...
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Rockliffe's Folly
Genre: DramaChannel: BBC1Transmission: 02/11/1988 - 14/12/1988If you've ever spent more than a millisecond living and working in an urban environment then we'd bet our bottom shilling that you ain't...
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Dark Season
Genre: Children'sChannel: BBC1Transmission: 14/11/1991 - 19/12/1991Oh, children, you tiny little people, you certainly encumber us adults with your precarious antics and devil may care attitudes!But...
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2 Episodes of British TV That Prove It's Currently Amazing!
There's plenty of successful British TV shows out there at the moment; you only have to take a look at the boundless spread round the globe of Sherlock, Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife for evidence...
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Wolcott Blu-Ray Review
In somewhat of an about turn from our usual backwards outlook on the world we're actually tackling some of that contemporary technology nonsense.Yes, we're gonna be dealing with one of them new fangled...
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5 Unsung Heroes of British TV
Sure, there's plenty of well known names in the British TV industry who've been recognised with award after award, but are these the only deserving people in the industry?! Definitely not, for our fair...
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5 Doctor Who Serials to Get You Addicted to the Classic Era
Written by Louise MacGregorSo, we’re hurtling quickly towards a new season of Doctor Who, with Peter Capaldi’s second outing in the Tardis due out in less than two weeks. Season nine will, confusingly,...
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5 of the Best British Comedy Sketches You Don't Remember
When we're not drowning our sorrows over "what we coulda been, man!" in the deepest depths of gin hell, we're more than likely to be found lamenting the death of the great British sketch show.Yeah, we...
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Downton Abbey Cleans up on TV Memorabilia Goldmine Ebay
We ain't half had a few curious emails come spilling through our e-letterbox in our time, but we was absolutely gobsmacked to recently discover a press release in our inbox. Real life people...
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Paddington Green
Genre: DocusoapChannel: BBC1Transmission: 28/12/1998 - 24/07/2001Humanity thrives upon communities coming together and co-operating in order to advance society and preserve our sometimes feckless ways....
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Codename Icarus
Genre: Children'sChannel: BBC1Transmission: 08/12/1981 - 22/12/1981Science is a magnificent enterprise which has helped us develop new technologies, make exhilarating postulations about the universe...
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Win a Lazarus and Dingwall DVD!
It's an exciting time for Curious British Telly as we're launching our first ever competition! And it's the kind of competition where you can win stuff! And the stuff's shiny!Yes, that's right, up for...
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9 Best Peep Show Episodes
Series 9 of Peep Show is here and the writers, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, have finally decided that these will be the final six adventures for Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Usborne. Forever. Until, of...
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Alfonso Bonzo
Genre: Children'sChannel: BBC1Transmission: 04/01/1990 - 08/02/1990When you're a kid, mastering the art of swapping is pretty essential. After all, there's always something your mate's got that you...
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LifeSpam: My Child is French
Genre: ComedyChannel: BBC3Transmission: 23/01/2009 There's always a kid at school who's got at least two webbed fingers. It's a fairly minor quirk of evolution and completely innocuous, but it becomes...
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Aliens in the Family
Genre: ChildrensChannel: BBC1Transmission: 18/11/1987 - 23/11/1987Humans are born a right immature bunch. Not only are we incontinent, but we cry almost non-stop and we can't do much more apart from...
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Time Riders
Genre: ChildrensChannel: ITVTransmission: 16/10/1991 - 06/11/1991Do we love the idea of time travel? Of course we bleeding well do! In fact, since 1986 - when we first encountered Doctor Who - we've...
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Breakfast Serials
Genre: ChildrensChannel: BBC1Transmission: 22/09/1990 - 29/12/1990Waking up in the morning is a frightful affair, but this is tempered somewhat by that delicious breakfast which is seductively lurking...
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On the Trail of Fat Tulip's Garden
You may have noticed, on these pages, that I've got a certain fondness obsession with revisiting the TV shows which coloured my most early years. Now, it's all very well and good to research and write...
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