1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 31 x 30 minute episodes Children’s novelist Barbara Euphan Todd created the character of Worzel Gummidge…
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1 9 5 3 (UK) 4 x 30 minute episodes This four-part children’s comedy from the BBC starred Frank Atkinson as the animated scarecrow Worzel. Written…
This early 1980s TV advertising campaign for the British Meat Marketing Board (who were clearly worried about the encroaching trend towards vegetarianism) presented cheeky cockney…
1 9 6 0 (USA) 6 x 30 minute episodes Wrangler was the 1960 summer replacement for The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford on NBC.…
1 9 7 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes A ferocious night in 1770 and another storm-lashed ship crashes into the deadly rocks at Dead…
1 9 9 5 (USA) 7 x 60 minute episodes This short-lived spring season CBS series starred Tom Conti (in his US television debut) as Charles…
1 9 9 6 – 1 9 9 7 (USA) 40 x 25 minute episodes Jim Henson Productions used live-action mixed with puppetry and computer…
1 9 6 7 (UK) 4 x 45 minute episodes The strange, fierce tale of the undying love between Heathcliff (Ian McShane) and Cathy (Angela Scoular)…
1 9 8 5 (USA) 13 x 25 minutes episodes Disney Studios, long the king of animation in motion pictures and TV specials, entered the Saturday…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This six-part BBC comedy series was set in the Happy Families leafy lanes of the…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 8 (UK) 37 x 50 minute episodes Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe (Jack Shepherd) was a calm and laconic…
1 9 9 2 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes This afternoon children’s comedy series from Yorkshire Television featured an intergalactic TV station (IGTV) and its…
1 9 9 3 – 2 0 0 2 (USA) 201 x 45 minute episodes “The truth is out there . . .” The X Files made…
1 9 9 2 – 1 9 9 6 (USA) 76 x 25 minute episodes Based on the Marvel Comic book, which first appeared in 1963,…
1 9 9 5 – 2 0 0 1 (USA) 134 x 60 minute episodes “In a time of ancient gods, warriors and kings, a land…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 7 (UK) 13 x 60 minute episodes William “Spider” Scott (Stephen Yardley) had a spare chromosome in his…
1 9 8 7 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on Wednesday 7 January 1987, this 12-part drama for youngsters was produced by Central Television.…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 19 x 25 minute episodes Premiering on Sunday 6 May 1956, ITV’s short-lived panel game Yakity-Yak would attract little support…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 34 x 30 minute episodes Former Confederate soldier Yancy Derringer (Jock Mahoney) was a stylishly-dressed bon…
1 9 7 6 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes This comedy, set at an American air force base in Lancashire during the Second World War,…