27 Aug 72
The Perry and Sherry showLate Night Line-Up Clive James’s debut column
03 Sep 72
Wood Lane’s wonder boysOlympic Games, Munich, Week 1 Auntie goes to Munich VBM merges 03 Sep & 10 Sep content
10 Sep 72
Mood change at MunichOlympic Games, Munich, Week 2
17 Sep 72
Blockbuster in a mistIf Britain Had Fallen Storm over England
24 Sep 72
Compassion in transitThe Block
01 Oct 72
Confusing the issuesWorld in Action
08 Oct 72
Dodging the big oneWar and Peace Overture to War and Peace
15 Oct 72
Bananas with the DuchessThe Duchess of Malfi
22 Oct 72
Cuddling up with TolstoyWar and Peace Tolstoy makes TV History
29 Oct 72
Heroes and hardwareColditz
05 Nov 72
Eating your interviewerLate Night Line-up
12 Nov 72
Hitler turned hoodThe Gangster Show
19 Nov 72
The Great Weariness bogyFilm 72
26 Nov 72
Rattigan revisitedThe General’s Day
03 Dec 72
Lobbing match over a cat’s-cradleSomething to Say Knickers
10 Dec 72
[exists but orig. title unknown]Miss World Liberating Miss World Obs issue missing, VBM version temp subst
17 Dec 72
Observer issue missing
24 Dec 72
Observer issue missing
31 Dec 72
Observer issue missing
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07 Jan 73
Bad for bizAt Last the 1973 Show A Living Legend
14 Jan 73
The search for HitlerReal Time
21 Jan 73
Soap-operatic splendourTwo Old Dears
28 Jan 73
When life begins at fiftyKisses at Fifty
04 Feb 73
Redeeming appearancesZ-Cars
11 Feb 73
Authority and control(News programme policy) Several illegible lines
18 Feb 73
Potter’s wheels within wheelsOnly Make Believe
25 Feb 73
Jokers at workOmnibus
04 Mar 73
Exaltation on iceWorld Figure-Skating Championships
11 Mar 73
Keeping the weenies quietTop of the Pops Likely Lads
18 Mar 73
Pins and needlesThe Question of Ulster
25 Mar 73
Home fires dampenerThe Maltese Falcon
01 Apr 73
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
08 Apr 73
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
15 Apr 73
Caught on the hop by FrostShow of the Week
22 Apr 73
Call for the swordsmenPot Black
29 Apr 73
Olivier’s Great JourneyLong Day’s Journey Into Night
06 May 73
Nixon through the night skyRichard Nixon Nixon on the skids
13 May 73
It’s Carry On CommentatorThe U-Boat War Harry Commentator
20 May 73
Banging the door openOpen Door
27 May 73
Allsop in wild New York CityThe World About Us
03 Jun 73
Nut week’s flying startBBC News
10 Jun 73
It certainly can be bad, Sport!Reporter At Large
17 Jun 73
Caught by the throatZ-Cars Eddie Waring Communicates
24 Jun 73
Don’t miss the busSam
01 Jul 73
[exists but orig. title unknown]Miss TV Times 73 Kinds of freedom Observer issue missg, VBM temp subst
08 Jul 73
[exists but orig. title unknown]Panorama Blue-bloods on parade Obs issue missg, VBM 08 & 22 Jul temp subst
15 Jul 73
Observer issue missing
22 Jul 73
[exists but orig. title unknown]Panorama Blue-bloods on parade Obs issue missg, VBM 08 & 22 Jul temp subst
29 Jul 73
Observer issue missing
05 Aug 73
Observer issue missing
12 Aug 73
Observer issue missing
19 Aug 73
[exists but orig. title unknown]Hadleigh Squire Hadleigh Observer issue missg, VBM temp subst
26 Aug 73
[Francis Matthews letter](Letter from Francis Matthews) Observer issue missing
02 Sep 73
Donny, Spike and all thatTop of the Pops
09 Sep 73
Two sides to the truthMastermind
16 Sep 73
Moonbase blast-offStar Trek Drained crystals
23 Sep 73
Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Love Girl’The Love Girl and the Innocent
30 Sep 73
Magnus Polo’s travelsChina
07 Oct 73
With Whicker in a gay worldShow of the Week
14 Oct 73
The phantom PhantomsMidweek
21 Oct 73
Fighting it out in a sandy seaThis Week
28 Oct 73
Bus-ride to ArmageddonNews Extra
04 Nov 73
The Borneo bomberEastward with Attenborough
11 Nov 73
The way the war was won?The Way the War was Won
18 Nov 73
Steeplechase to the altarThe Frost Show Anne and Mark get married
25 Nov 73
The jolly SwastikaTarget Tirpitz
02 Dec 73
The miracle of Sir HughCudlipp and be Damned Just call me ‘Captain’
09 Dec 73
The golden crumpetThe Golden Bowl
16 Dec 73
Happiness is Flynn-shapedScaramouche
23 Dec 73
A distinct shortage of juiceThe Two Ronnies
30 Dec 73
Anything for a laughCasino Royale
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06 Jan 74
Cleo in CuckoolandThe Languages of Animals
13 Jan 74
Through dune and wadiHoliday 74 Earthshrinker
20 Jan 74
Medicine man called GellerOthello The bending of the spoons
27 Jan 74
Rugby-watcher’s sob-storyFrost’s Weekly
03 Feb 74
It really is fantastic!All Good Men More like it
10 Feb 74
Facilitated to deathNationwide
17 Feb 74
The Merchant of MillerThe Merchant of Venice A pound of flash
24 Feb 74
Earnest and the ElectionThe Importance of being Earnest
03 Mar 74
[Election Special, part](General Election coverage) Page scan incomplete
10 Mar 74
Kahn goes Boom!Midweek Hermie
17 Mar 74
Children of the Holy WarWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Fortune is a woman
24 Mar 74
[No column submitted]
Clive James filming in Paris
31 Mar 74
Enter the ChancellorThe Brothers
07 Apr 74
Supercharged SuffragettesThe Pallisers
14 Apr 74
Facing our WaterlooEurovision Song Contest What Katie did
21 Apr 74
Real — but artificialThe Family
28 Apr 74
Barbarity to childrenBaa Baa, Black Sheep
05 May 74
Noddy and the lunch-breaksSuccess Story Noddy gets it on
12 May 74
Some Final thoughtsCup Final Knock-Out
19 May 74
O Lord, preserve usStars on Sunday Why Viola, thou art updated!
26 May 74
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment, USA
02 Jun 74
Consolations from America(Television Advertising)
09 Jun 74
Over-dumb about YogaThe Roots of Yoga Wisdom of the East
16 Jun 74
Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in(World Cup coverage)
23 Jun 74
Black horror showIdi Amin — A Portrait
30 Jun 74
So much for StradivariusThe Tommy Cooper Hour
07 Jul 74
One minute of irrelevant silenceWorld Cup
14 Jul 74
That old sinking sensationLove from A to Z Hi! I’m Liza
21 Jul 74
Morecambe, Mercer and WiseAndré Previn Meets...
28 Jul 74
Checked and double checkedNews at Ten
04 Aug 74
Sir Lew and the serpent of old NileAntony and Cleopatra
11 Aug 74
Plugged out of the action(Nixon) Exit Tricky Dick
18 Aug 74
From Ulster to the OsmondsOmnibus at the Proms Hot lolly
25 Aug 74
Fuzz on the screenJustice Rough justice
01 Sep 74
Cops and sopranosKojak
08 Sep 74
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
15 Sep 74
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
22 Sep 74
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
29 Sep 74
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
06 Oct 74
I’d just like to say...Panorama The Hawk walks
13 Oct 74
The Night of the MachinesElection 74 Bob’s wonderful machines
20 Oct 74
Bees with PhDsSurvival
27 Oct 74
For the rest of their livesStill in a Class of Their Own
03 Nov 74
Taking it below the chinWorld Heavyweight Boxing Championship
10 Nov 74
Fighting over foodHorizon Several illegible lines
17 Nov 74
In praise of the lordMonty Python‘s Flying Circus Lord Longford rides again
24 Nov 74
The wind machineThe Weather Machine
01 Dec 74
The way Miss World endsMiss World
08 Dec 74
Blood, toil, tears — and BurtonWalk with Destiny
15 Dec 74
Knocked out by AliParkinson Pink predominates
22 Dec 74
Pole-axedNotorious Woman Chopin snuffs it
29 Dec 74
Christmas treatsFor This Christmas Only
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05 Jan 75
Drama of JFK’s finest hourOpportunity Knocks
12 Jan 75
This is impossibleMission: Impossible Mission Unspeakable
19 Jan 75
Taking the week’s pulseRussell Harty
26 Jan 75
A lesson in great actingSix Million Dollar Man
02 Feb 75
In case you haven’t heardAkenfield The Turkey in Winter
09 Feb 75
Getting Mrs T into focusMidweek Thatcher takes command
16 Feb 75
Gloriana to the rescueMidweek
23 Feb 75
Children in the melting-potPanorama Many illegible lines
02 Mar 75
It’s all over, IngmarSix Scenes From A Marriage The higher trash
09 Mar 75
Savaged by dog-loversSecond House
16 Mar 75
Fired into operatic orbitWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
23 Mar 75
Hungry worldThe Face of Famine
30 Mar 75
Wishing you welcomeLate Call
06 Apr 75
The agony of VietnamPope Paul’s Easter Mass
13 Apr 75
Royal bubble-bathEdward the Seventh
20 Apr 75
Suffering the Budget’s birth-pangs(Budget coverage)
27 Apr 75
The main thing about Main
04 May 75
Fleeing and surviving
11 May 75
Playing up the plump side Killer ants
18 May 75
The need to be everybody What is a television critic?
25 May 75
The Great Re-tread Show
01 Jun 75
Formula for soap opera
08 Jun 75
In the land of Timbuctoo
15 Jun 75
A burning passion Problem Children
22 Jun 75
Bombing the bombshell image Biggest bitch in Fleet Street
29 Jun 75
Here is the tennis situation
06 Jul 75
Beware of the dogs Rancid coils
13 Jul 75
Mankind’s perfect pet
20 Jul 75
Bognor, here we come! Several lines illegible
27 Jul 75
Plugging the new patronage
03 Aug 75
Banging on about books
10 Aug 75
[No edition this week]
Observer not published
17 Aug 75
Reality and the Bomb
24 Aug 75
12 years of grief The hard taskmasters
31 Aug 75
Cosmological hokum
07 Sep 75
Ski-ing down Everest
14 Sep 75
The perfect butler
21 Sep 75
[No column submitted]
Clive James in Italy
28 Sep 75
Margot My Way
05 Oct 75
Playing the language game Language games
12 Oct 75
The sandwich-man Very Peter Hall
19 Oct 75
Deep in a married mess
26 Oct 75
[No column submitted]
Clive James on tour
02 Nov 75
[No column submitted]
Clive James on tour
09 Nov 75
[No column submitted]
Clive James on tour
16 Nov 75
[No column submitted]
Clive James on tour
23 Nov 75
O for a glimpse of my friends!
30 Nov 75
The prisoners on our conscience Many lines illegible
07 Dec 75
Pounded by psychic energy
14 Dec 75
Week of the Rats
21 Dec 75
Gymnastic kitsch
28 Dec 75
A touch of menace
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04 Jan 76
The Burke and Burr Laugh-in
11 Jan 76
Coward’s tinsel classic
18 Jan 76
Lenny the lecturer
25 Jan 76
A Cambridge generation Schmlittering prizes
01 Feb 76
The comic truth A Muggeridge fragment
08 Feb 76
Set and match to Miss MacLaine
15 Feb 76
Unintelligibühlity Unintelligibühl
22 Feb 76
Feeling disconnected Standing at the window
29 Feb 76
Silly songs and fine follies
07 Mar 76
This awkward problem of freedom Solzhenitsyn warns the West
14 Mar 76
The man from Spandau Hitler’s Faults
21 Mar 76
Prize performance
28 Mar 76
[No column submitted]
Clive James in Australia
04 Apr 76
[No column submitted]
Clive James in Australia
11 Apr 76
[No column submitted]
Clive James in Australia
18 Apr 76
[No column submitted]
Clive James in Australia
25 Apr 76
Bronsonised
02 May 76
Writing by numbers The QB VII travesty
09 May 76
Wotting not
16 May 76
Stationary kicks
23 May 76
Klonged on the head Cant-struck
30 May 76
The Reaper
06 Jun 76
Blowing a Bloomsbury Hoggart on class
13 Jun 76
Windy Phenomenon Larger than life
20 Jun 76
Hardware heroes March of the androids
27 Jun 76
Matter of black and white
04 Jul 76
Serving at 140 mph
11 Jul 76
Flash to Dr Who Mutiny in the Furnace Room
18 Jul 76
Horsiness and homage
25 Jul 76
Frank & David & Alan & Ron
01 Aug 76
Olympic absolutes Onward to Montreal
08 Aug 76
Paean to the military qualities
15 Aug 76
Thoughts of Idi and Adolf
22 Aug 76
A load of burst balloons
29 Aug 76
Blood, Bron and black-outs
05 Sep 76
The rebellion that can’t be stopped
12 Sep 76
Back to ‘The Brothers’
19 Sep 76
Wet lips
26 Sep 76
Speaking personally
03 Oct 76
The Britting of Rod
10 Oct 76
[No column submitted]
Clive James on tour
17 Oct 76
[No column submitted]
Clive James on tour
24 Oct 76
[No column submitted]
Clive James on tour
31 Oct 76
[No column submitted]
Clive James on tour
07 Nov 76
Wisdom of the East
14 Nov 76
David and the machines The Weld this Week
21 Nov 76
Sir Oswald’s Whoppers The Truly Strong Man
28 Nov 76
Patrick and the lute Patrick’s invisible lute
05 Dec 76
A load of punk
12 Dec 76
Last of the Romans
19 Dec 76
Dish of Southern fried turkey Over the Tarp
26 Dec 76
[No edition this week]
Observer not published
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02 Jan 77
And now ... Supermind! Supermind, Superbody
09 Jan 77
Hero of Our Time
16 Jan 77
Charlie’s brainless angels
23 Jan 77
Holy Moses
30 Jan 77
Matter of rape
06 Feb 77
Hailsham’s royal hoorays Rings a bell
13 Feb 77
Cloth-cap heroes
20 Feb 77
[exists but orig. title unknown] Wini und Wolf Obs review section missg, TCB temp subst
27 Feb 77
Moses hits the dirt Moses hits the dirt
06 Mar 77
Bumpy landings
13 Mar 77
Beyond a joke
20 Mar 77
Odour situation Odour situation
27 Mar 77
The fallible Pope
03 Apr 77
The fallible critic
10 Apr 77
The Grade Gospel The Lew Testament
17 Apr 77
Roots of our time Roots of our time
24 Apr 77
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in USSR
01 May 77
Princely postures
08 May 77
A lot of slop-over My daughter Tricia
15 May 77
The Son-in-Law
22 May 77
The terrifying truth
29 May 77
Mass of offences The Red Sandwich
05 Jun 77
Hail to the Hall
12 Jun 77
This Great Dace
19 Jun 77
My fall from grais
26 Jun 77
Release Bukovsky!
03 Jul 77
Harry’s Wmbldn
10 Jul 77
Taking a shufti
17 Jul 77
Thalassa pottahs
24 Jul 77
Ransom and the owl
31 Jul 77
Digesting Japan A load of chunk
07 Aug 77
Bamber’s Gospel
14 Aug 77
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
21 Aug 77
Lament for Elvis
28 Aug 77
Woman’s Lab Woman’s Lab
04 Sep 77
Bonjour twistesse Bonjour twistesse
11 Sep 77
The mind-grind
18 Sep 77
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
25 Sep 77
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
02 Oct 77
Nicola Karenina
09 Oct 77
Heaven help we Heaven help we
16 Oct 77
Water on the brain Nershment
23 Oct 77
Champagne and subtlety
30 Oct 77
The smell of seaweed
06 Nov 77
Pulling the plugs A boy forever
13 Nov 77
Hammer and kisses
20 Nov 77
Waffen waffle
27 Nov 77
The amazing Mark
04 Dec 77
[No edition this week]
Observer not published due to strike
11 Dec 77
Chastity pants Chastity pants
18 Dec 77
High-born ladies
25 Dec 77
[No edition this week]
Observer not published
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01 Jan 78
Tellie’s olde rubbishe Olde rubbishe
08 Jan 78
Soap opera parable Doors
15 Jan 78
Rose Bowl battle
22 Jan 78
The Arts! The Best! Melly’s golden stream
29 Jan 78
Stand by for gunge Good hang TCB merges some 29 Jan with 26 Feb content
05 Feb 78
Top of the pops
12 Feb 78
Mao and Miao-yu
19 Feb 78
Bad jokes, blind eyes
26 Feb 78
Visions for Nelly Good hang TCB merges some 29 Jan with 26 Feb content
05 Mar 78
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in Japan
12 Mar 78
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in Japan
19 Mar 78
Swamped by the samurai
26 Mar 78
Better than nothing
02 Apr 78
That sinking feeling Tragic finish
09 Apr 78
Case of Torynitskyn Personal freedom
16 Apr 78
Rumpled Rumpole
23 Apr 78
Talking horse sense
30 Apr 78
The Bad Old Sounds Not by any means full
07 May 78
Mere mortal Mans
14 May 78
[No edition this week]
Observer not published due to strike
21 May 78
Plantagenet Place
28 May 78
Mr Most fires his Revolver
04 Jun 78
Ballroom baloney
11 Jun 78
Chewing the sporran Chewing the sporran
18 Jun 78
Lad from Stratford
25 Jun 78
They’re Going MAD! Something of themselves
02 Jul 78
Wonderful Wmln
09 Jul 78
Desperate about Dan
16 Jul 78
Liberated Sisters Unbearable suffrage
23 Jul 78
Carry on Creating Carry on creating
30 Jul 78
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
06 Aug 78
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
13 Aug 78
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
20 Aug 78
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
27 Aug 78
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
03 Sep 78
[exists but orig. title unknown] Green beef Obs review section missg, TCB temp subst
10 Sep 78
Road to Auschwitz Holocaust
17 Sep 78
Boredom enigma Manganese nodules
24 Sep 78
The Pinter sisters
01 Oct 78
Horowitz in his heaven
08 Oct 78
Wuthering Depths Wuthering depths
15 Oct 78
Our bionic hero
22 Oct 78
Achtung! OTRAG!
29 Oct 78
Wilde and Whistler Show Wilde and Whistler
05 Nov 78
A case of the jitters Voyage of the Beagle
12 Nov 78
Blood and guts Blood and guts
19 Nov 78
Tearful occasion Howareowebees
26 Nov 78
Getting away with murder Dr Beckman’s apparatus
03 Dec 78
Existentialist actor Jean-Paul Kean
10 Dec 78
The fantastic voyage Island of the stud tortoises
17 Dec 78
Disco dementia The flying feet of Frankie Foo
24 Dec 78
Alpine idiocies
31 Dec 78
Sound of Julie Underneath her wimple
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07 Jan 79
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in Rome
14 Jan 79
Banker Barkworth
21 Jan 79
Freezing situation Freezing fog situation
28 Jan 79
Gorgeous variety Life on earth
04 Feb 79
Crumbling Crowd Exploring the Medium
11 Feb 79
Enoch’s answer
18 Feb 79
The true artists
25 Feb 79
For good measure No credit for Puccini
04 Mar 79
Squirrel Nuttgens
11 Mar 79
Belfast dreamer Kodswallop
18 Mar 79
The sorry Serpent
25 Mar 79
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in USA
01 Apr 79
You gonna know! You gonna know!
08 Apr 79
Sense of justice
15 Apr 79
O’er col and cwm That’s right, yeah
22 Apr 79
Of Bach and Berg
29 Apr 79
Super-snookers
06 May 79
Swingomania Busy old night
13 May 79
Lashings of style Zorba the Hun
20 May 79
Football funnies
27 May 79
The great Lenya
03 Jun 79
Undying Hope While there’s Hope
10 Jun 79
The Great Hwan
17 Jun 79
Votes for Babs
24 Jun 79
The work of Satan Not the chief
01 Jul 79
Days of Dan Carpenter the Rain King
08 Jul 79
Last British Hope Immaculate length of Borg
15 Jul 79
Baebius lives! Baebius lives!
22 Jul 79
Nucular Gold
29 Jul 79
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
05 Aug 79
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
12 Aug 79
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
19 Aug 79
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
26 Aug 79
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
02 Sep 79
Great stone! I’m a star!
09 Sep 79
Hail and farewell
16 Sep 79
Plonking purgatory Plonking
23 Sep 79
The genuine jogger Joggers
30 Sep 79
West wins through Black dog
07 Oct 79
Marginally better
14 Oct 79
Carry on Trekkies! Negative, Captain
21 Oct 79
Harold and Harry Really terrible
28 Oct 79
Monster’s return
04 Nov 79
Sorry, Quaterfans! Maging a moggery
11 Nov 79
Lord, deliver us Mother of Shirley Williams
18 Nov 79
Beauty and the Beeb Miss World and Mrs Mao
25 Nov 79
Getting in a panic
02 Dec 79
All the Anthonys All the Anthonys
09 Dec 79
In deepest Dallas Out to lernch
16 Dec 79
Dashing downhill Quite slim indeed
23 Dec 79
St Vitus’s gospel St Vitus’s gospel
30 Dec 79
Santa and the Seed Santa and the Seed
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06 Jan 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
13 Jan 80
School for scandal
20 Jan 80
Cultural divisions
27 Jan 80
In the doghouse Scoop it!
03 Feb 80
Question of quality
10 Feb 80
Blake’s balderdash Face your dog
17 Feb 80
Power-house Frank Ultimately and forever
24 Feb 80
The British Miracle Cold gold
02 Mar 80
The washed-up cat Washed-up cat
09 Mar 80
Woodhouse walkies Woodhouse walkies
16 Mar 80
Beautiful bear-hug Tanya talks Russian
23 Mar 80
Shadows in Ulster Three famous, three high
30 Mar 80
God help Europe Your brain’s got it wrong
06 Apr 80
Flashing frost-bite Nude bathing in Britain
13 Apr 80
Master of the world
20 Apr 80
So long, Jeanne-Paul Moral imagination
27 Apr 80
Armless in China All fingers and toes
04 May 80
Blitzed by the ATS Oodnadatta Fats
11 May 80
Going with a bang How do you feel?
18 May 80
The girls — and Len
25 May 80
Cutting a fine caper Master stroke
01 Jun 80
JR bites the dust Someone shart JR
08 Jun 80
Chaos situations Idi in exile
15 Jun 80
Football fanaticism
22 Jun 80
This sporting life
29 Jun 80
Bouncing raindrops Hrry Crpntr
06 Jul 80
That little bit extra Borg’s little bit extra
13 Jul 80
What a gentleman!
20 Jul 80
Rampant Dallasitis Big-time Sue
27 Jul 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
03 Aug 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
10 Aug 80
Back to Rameses There is no death
17 Aug 80
Donging the gong You tested the gyroscope?
24 Aug 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
31 Aug 80
Cash of the Day A horse called Sanyo Music Centre
07 Sep 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in USA
14 Sep 80
Lethal frivolities This false peace
21 Sep 80
Deep-sea spaghetti Bottom of the sea
28 Sep 80
The master builder Bouquet of barbed haggis
05 Oct 80
Torture by Telethon Thank you, wow
12 Oct 80
High-speed maggots Fast maggots
19 Oct 80
Heart of the matter Donor kebab
26 Oct 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
02 Nov 80
Mary and the facts Very lovely salver
09 Nov 80
Night of the blues Good lug
16 Nov 80
The talking ducks I am a tropical fish
23 Nov 80
Taming Rod’s tiger Not psychic myself
30 Nov 80
Heroes on wheels Back in showbiz
07 Dec 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
14 Dec 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
21 Dec 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
28 Dec 80
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
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04 Jan 81
Pumping out pulp
11 Jan 81
Womb with a view Yes sir, that’s my foetus
18 Jan 81
Auschwitz nightmare While the music lasts
25 Jan 81
Heavy with Snow Snow job
01 Feb 81
Mass in the crevasse Mass in the crevasse
08 Feb 81
Robin and the bullets Ferry funny
15 Feb 81
Turning bright yellow Paint it yellow
22 Feb 81
Bomb-happy Colonels The Colonels are nuts
01 Mar 81
On the Charles trail Wedding announcement
08 Mar 81
An admirable Adriana Bovis and Basil
15 Mar 81
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in New York
22 Mar 81
The Whacky World Whacky world of weather
29 Mar 81
Exporting our secrets Beastly to everybody
05 Apr 81
Fingers on the trigger
12 Apr 81
English as she is sung Actual flow
19 Apr 81
Fun ride in space Hail Columbia!
26 Apr 81
The Grand Inquisitors Steve doesn’t smoke
03 May 81
The Chinese connection Ho ho!
10 May 81
From Levin to Leakey
17 May 81
Instant horror
24 May 81
No joking matter No kidding
31 May 81
Snap judgments Three dots for suspense
07 Jun 81
Just good friends Two goals down
14 Jun 81
Prejudicial fury Forbidden kiss
21 Jun 81
Satirical shots
28 Jun 81
The SS criminals Them again
05 Jul 81
Dan’s winning lob Dan’s winning lob
12 Jul 81
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in New York
19 Jul 81
The riot reports Heavenly pink light
26 Jul 81
Mr Bellini’s Britain
02 Aug 81
The Day the World Watched Wedding of the century
09 Aug 81
Load of Bagwash The Bagwash speaks
16 Aug 81
Amok in the Med Lindi’s built-in barbecue
23 Aug 81
To have or have not Ideological intervention, man
30 Aug 81
[No column submitted]
Clive James on holiday
06 Sep 81
Strong medicine
13 Sep 81
To hell with him Speer checks out
20 Sep 81
The wasp way Hot pistils
27 Sep 81
Flights of fancy
04 Oct 81
Blinding flashes Blinding white flash
11 Oct 81
Revolting jokes
18 Oct 81
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in Las Vegas
25 Oct 81
[No column submitted]
Clive James on assignment in Las Vegas
01 Nov 81
The nose trick Borgias on my mind
08 Nov 81
[No column submitted]
Clive James in Australia
15 Nov 81
[No column submitted]
Clive James in Australia
22 Nov 81
Fanatic devotion A man called insipid
29 Nov 81
Unsubtle signals Signals from the void
06 Dec 81
Grotto-Blotto More Borgias
13 Dec 81
Agitprop artists
20 Dec 81
Dance of gold Midwinter night’s dream
27 Dec 81
[No edition this week]
Observer not published
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03 Jan 82
Walkies out West
10 Jan 82
A man of iron Man of Marshmallow
17 Jan 82
The ultimate sin Nobody understands all
24 Jan 82
Hamming it up
31 Jan 82
Ding dong bats Rebarbative reverberations
07 Feb 82
The wrong note Guardians of party orthodoxy
14 Feb 82
The railway trio Terms of reference
21 Feb 82
Sent to sleep Spirit of Bishop’s Stortford
28 Feb 82
Marvels of Minder Make mine Minder
07 Mar 82
Better than ever Rumpole recollects
14 Mar 82
Hill Street Joys Ernest Hemingway Schopenhauer
21 Mar 82
Brilliant banality Stop treading on the rug !
28 Mar 82
India to Hillhead One last look Clive James’s farewell column
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