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^ PROGRAMME TITLE, ‘A’   [article postpositioned] DATE COLUMN TITLE (OBSERVER), LINK
A Class by Himself17 Sep 72Blockbuster in a mist
Abide With Me28 Nov 76Patrick and the lute
Academy Awards, The 20 Apr 80
05 Apr 81		 So long, Jeanne-Paul
Fingers on the trigger
According to Hoyle16 Jan 77Charlie’s brainless angels
Accursed Kings, The16 Jun 74Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in
Achilles Heel25 Mar 73Home fires dampener
Act of Rape30 Jan 77Matter of rape
Actor’s Life For Me, An05 Apr 81Fingers on the trigger
Adventures of Don Quixote, The14 Jan 73The search for Hitler
After Dinner Game, The19 Jan 75Taking the week’s pulse
After Julius29 Apr 79Super-snookers
After That, This19 Jan 75Taking the week’s pulse
After the Awards29 Mar 81Exporting our secrets
After the Parcel Exploded01 Sep 74Cops and sopranos
Age of Uncertainty, The 16 Jan 77
30 Jan 77
13 Mar 77		 Charlie’s brainless angels
Matter of rape
Beyond a joke
Agony and the Ecstasy, The28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Aida10 Jan 82A man of iron
Ain’t Many Angels13 Apr 80Master of the world
Airline24 Jan 82Hamming it up
Airport02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Akenfield02 Feb 75In case you haven’t heard
Aladdin on Ice26 Jan 75A lesson in great acting
Albert Speer13 Sep 81To hell with him
Albion in the Orient01 Oct 78Horowitz in his heaven
Alexa14 Mar 82Hill Street Joys
Alias Smith and Jones11 Mar 73Keeping the weenies quiet
All Good Men03 Feb 74It really is fantastic!
All in a Day04 Feb 73Redeeming appearances
All You Need Is Love 06 Mar 77
13 Mar 77
17 Apr 77
29 May 77		 Bumpy landings
Beyond a joke
Roots of our time
Mass of offences
All’s Well That Ends Well11 Jan 81Womb with a view
Almost a Sickness23 Jun 74Black horror show
Alpha Beta06 Jan 74Cleo in Cuckooland
Alternative 326 Jun 77Release Bukovsky!
America Salutes Jimmy Carter13 Mar 77Beyond a joke
America 19 Nov 72
03 Dec 72
11 Feb 73
25 Aug 74		 The Great Weariness bogy
Lobbing match over a cat’s-cradle
Authority and control
Fuzz on the screen
American Short Stories18 Feb 79The true artists
American TV 01 Apr 79
22 Mar 81		 You gonna know!
The Whacky World
Americans, The23 Apr 78Talking horse sense
Anchors Aweigh23 Dec 73A distinct shortage of juice
André Previn Meets... 21 Jul 74
28 Jul 74		 Morecambe, Mercer and Wise
Checked and double checked
André Previn’s Christmas Music Night29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Angels 07 Sep 75
14 Sep 75
28 Sep 75
23 Nov 75
12 Dec 76
16 Apr 78
07 Oct 79		 Ski-ing down Everest
The perfect butler
Margot My Way
O for a glimpse of my friends!
Last of the Romans
Rumpled Rumpole
Marginally better
Angola — Spring 197613 Jun 76Windy Phenomenon
Anna Karenina 02 Oct 77
30 Oct 77		 Nicola Karenina
The smell of seaweed
Anno Domini 08 Jun 75
14 Dec 75
14 Nov 76		 In the land of Timbuctoo
Week of the Rats
David and the machines
Another Bouquet 16 Jan 77
13 Feb 77
20 Feb 77		 Charlie’s brainless angels
Cloth-cap heroes
Wini und Wolf
Antony and Cleopatra 04 Aug 74
17 May 81		 Sir Lew and the serpent of old Nile
Instant horror
Anywhere but England05 Nov 72Eating your interviewer
Aphrodite Inheritance, The28 Jan 79Gorgeous variety
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project20 Jul 75Bognor, here we come!
Apple Cart, The26 Jan 75A lesson in great acting
Appointment, The20 May 73Banging the door open
Aquarius 14 Oct 73
21 Apr 74
19 May 74
20 Oct 74
27 Oct 74
03 Nov 74
10 Nov 74
02 Feb 75
12 Oct 75
07 Dec 75
08 Feb 76
28 Nov 76
24 Jul 77		 The phantom Phantoms
Real — but artificial
O Lord, preserve us
Bees with PhDs
For the rest of their lives
Taking it below the chin
Fighting over food
In case you haven’t heard
The sandwich-man
Pounded by psychic energy
Set and match to Miss MacLaine
Patrick and the lute
Ransom and the owl
Archaeology of the Bible Lands, The23 Jan 77Holy Moses
Are We Really Going to be Rich?09 Apr 78Case of Torynitskyn
Are You Being Served?27 Nov 77The amazing Mark
Arena 05 Oct 75
12 Oct 75
23 Nov 75
08 Feb 76
26 Jun 77
22 Jan 78
12 Feb 78
23 Apr 78
28 May 78
18 Mar 79
01 Apr 79
07 Feb 82
28 Mar 82		 Playing the language game
The sandwich-man
O for a glimpse of my friends!
Set and match to Miss MacLaine
Release Bukovsky!
The Arts! The Best!
Mao and Miao-yu
Talking horse sense
Mr Most fires his Revolver
The sorry Serpent
You gonna know!
The wrong note
India to Hillhead
Arena: Cinema23 Jan 77Holy Moses
Arlecchio04 Sep 77Bonjour twistesse
Arms and the Man10 May 81From Levin to Leakey
Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World14 Sep 80Lethal frivolities
Arts of Chinese Communism, The18 Nov 79Beauty and the Beeb
Arturo Ui21 Jan 73Soap-operatic splendour
As the Japanese Like It01 Jun 80JR bites the dust
Ascent of Man, The13 May 73It’s Carry On Commentator
Ascot19 Jun 77My fall from grais
Ashes of Atlantis, The12 Nov 72Hitler turned hood
Ask a Silly Answer24 Jul 77Ransom and the owl
At Last the 1973 Show07 Jan 73Bad for biz
Attila the Hun13 May 79Lashings of style
Auden Landscape, The07 Mar 82Better than ever
Auschwitz17 Aug 75Reality and the Bomb
Australian Television04 Jan 81Pumping out pulp
^ PROGRAMME TITLE, ‘B’   [article postpositioned] DATE COLUMN TITLE (OBSERVER), LINK
Baa Baa, Black Sheep28 Apr 74Barbarity to children
Baby Talk26 Apr 81The Grand Inquisitors
Babylon25 Jan 81Heavy with Snow
Back Page, The16 Apr 78Rumpled Rumpole
Badminton Horse Trials 23 Apr 78
29 Apr 79		 Talking horse sense
Super-snookers
Ballad of Henry Ford, The14 Oct 73The phantom Phantoms
Ballroom Dancing Championships04 Jun 78Ballroom baloney
Bankrupt, The03 Dec 72Lobbing match over a cat’s-cradle
Banzai!09 Dec 73The golden crumpet
Bar Mitzvah Boy19 Sep 76Wet lips
Barbara of the House of Grebe15 Jun 75A burning passion
Barbara Woodhouse Goes to Beverly Hills03 Jan 82Walkies out West
Barbara’'s World of Horses and Ponies01 Nov 81The nose trick
Barber of Seville, The28 Nov 76Patrick and the lute
Barbican, The07 Mar 82Better than ever
Barbra23 Dec 73A distinct shortage of juice
Barlow 03 Feb 74
10 Feb 74
12 Jan 75		 It really is fantastic!
Facilitated to death
This is impossible
Barney Miller22 Jun 80This sporting life
Barry Humphries Show, The02 Oct 77Nicola Karenina
Barry Norman on Broadway24 May 81No joking matter
Battle of Britain, The21 Sep 80Deep-sea spaghetti
Battle of the Bulge, The31 Dec 78Sound of Julie
Battle of the Somme, The04 Jul 76Serving at 140 mph
Battlestar Galactica 05 Oct 80
02 Nov 80		 Torture by Telethon
Mary and the facts
Bavarian Night05 Apr 81Fingers on the trigger
Bayreuth30 May 76The Reaper
BBC News 03 Jun 73
06 Apr 75
22 Feb 76
19 Nov 78
22 Jul 79		 Nut week’s flying start
The agony of Vietnam
Feeling disconnected
Tearful occasion
Nucular Gold
BBC News Extra07 Apr 74Supercharged Suffragettes
BC27 Feb 77Moses hits the dirt
Before the Monsoon23 Dec 79St Vitus’s gospel
Behind the Front19 Feb 78Bad jokes, blind eyes
Bell, The 17 Jan 82
31 Jan 82		 The ultimate sin
Ding dong bats
Bellamy’s Backyard Safari26 Jul 81Mr Bellini’s Britain
Beloved Enemy15 Feb 81Turning bright yellow
Ben Hall 13 Jul 75
14 Sep 75
05 Oct 75		 Mankind’s perfect pet
The perfect butler
Playing the language game
Beneath the Pennines17 Sep 78Boredom enigma
Ben-Hur30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Benny Hill Show, The 30 Dec 73
25 Apr 76
29 Apr 79		 Anything for a laugh
Bronsonised
Super-snookers
Benny Lynch30 May 76The Reaper
Bernini02 Apr 78That sinking feeling
Bert D’Angelo18 Jul 76Horsiness and homage
Beryl’s Lot20 Jan 74Medicine man called Geller
Best in the Ballroom24 Feb 74Earnest and the Election
Best of Abba, The16 Oct 77Water on the brain
Best of Benny Hill, The01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Best of British19 Oct 80Heart of the matter
Best of Friends, The16 Mar 80Beautiful bear-hug
Best of Not Only But Also, The29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Best of Stanley Baxter, The01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Best Sellers: A Testimony of Two Men23 Jul 78Carry on Creating
Best Years?, The03 Apr 77The fallible critic
Betjeman in Australia 17 Sep 72
08 Oct 72		 Blockbuster in a mist
Dodging the big one
Betjeman’s Britain31 Aug 80Cash of the Day
Better than the Movies19 Nov 72The Great Weariness bogy
Between the Wars20 May 73Banging the door open
Big Bands21 Apr 74Real — but artificial
Big Blonde21 Jun 81Satirical shots
Big Time, The 12 Dec 76
18 Dec 77
06 Jul 80
20 Jul 80		 Last of the Romans
High-born ladies
That little bit extra
Rampant Dallasitis
Bill Brand 11 Jul 76
13 Jun 76
22 Aug 76		 Flash to Dr Who
Windy Phenomenon
A load of burst balloons
Billion Dollar Bubble14 Nov 76David and the machines
Billy Smart’s Circus29 Apr 73Olivier’s Great Journey
Billy 20 Nov 77
18 Nov 79		 Waffen waffle
Beauty and the Beeb
Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Bionic Woman, The21 May 78Plantagenet Place
Birthday Celebration09 Mar 75Savaged by dog-lovers
Black and White Minstrel Show, The04 Nov 73The Borneo bomber
Blake’s Seven 29 Jan 78
10 Feb 80
13 Dec 81		 Stand by for gunge
Blake’s balderdash
Agitprop artists
Blankety Blank 01 Apr 79
28 Oct 79		 You gonna know!
Monster’s return
Blind Ambition27 Jan 80In the doghouse
Blind Love01 May 77Princely postures
Blitz on Britain21 Sep 80Deep-sea spaghetti
Block, The24 Sep 72Compassion in transit
Blood Donor, The29 Aug 76Blood, Bron and black-outs
Blood Money 13 Sep 81
11 Oct 81		 To hell with him
Revolting jokes
Bloody Ivory23 Sep 79The genuine jogger
Bloody Kids30 Mar 80God help Europe
Blue Peter28 Sep 75Margot My Way
Blue Remembered Hills04 Feb 79Crumbling Crowd
Boat Race, The12 Apr 81English as she is sung
Bob Hope at the London Palladium03 Jun 79Undying Hope
Bob Hope Golf Classic, The04 Oct 81Blinding flashes
Body in Question, The 12 Nov 78
19 Nov 78		 Blood and guts
Tearful occasion
Bogeyman - Prophet - Guardian (Schoenberg)03 Nov 74Taking it below the chin
Bombers17 Jun 79Votes for Babs
Book Programme, The 11 Nov 73
27 Oct 74
28 Sep 75
05 Oct 75
14 Dec 75
28 Nov 76
13 Nov 77
22 Apr 79
11 May 80		 The way the war was won?
For the rest of their lives
Margot My Way
Playing the language game
Week of the Rats
Patrick and the lute
Hammer and kisses
Of Bach and Berg
Going with a bang
Borg29 Jun 80Bouncing raindrops
Borgias, The 01 Nov 81
06 Dec 81		 The nose trick
Grotto-Blotto
Boris Godunov13 Nov 77Hammer and kisses
Botanic Man19 Nov 78Tearful occasion
Bouquet of Barbed Wire 01 Feb 76
15 Feb 76		 The comic truth
Unintelligibühlity
Bread or Blood 03 May 81
10 May 81		 The Chinese connection
From Levin to Leakey
Breakdown22 Feb 76Feeling disconnected
Breath26 Jan 75A lesson in great acting
Brecht and Co.02 Sep 79Great stone!
Breeze Anstey01 Oct 72Confusing the issues
Brideshead Revisited 01 Nov 81
22 Nov 81
03 Jan 82		 The nose trick
Fanatic devotion
Walkies out West
Bridge on the River Kwai, The29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Brief Encounter11 Jan 76Coward’s tinsel classic
Brinsworth Tribute Show, The09 Mar 80Woodhouse walkies
Britain’s Strongest Man02 Nov 80Mary and the facts
British Academy Awards, The 19 Mar 78
27 Mar 77		 Swamped by the samurai
The fallible Pope
British Grand Prix28 Jul 74Checked and double checked
British Greats, The31 Aug 80Cash of the Day
British Open17 Jul 77Thalassa pottahs
British Rock and Pop Awards, The15 Apr 79O’er col and cwm
British Screen Awards, The21 Mar 76Prize performance
Broken Bridge, The07 Jul 74One minute of irrelevant silence
Bronowski Memorial Lecture, The15 Jan 78Rose Bowl battle
Brontës of Haworth, The07 Oct 73With Whicker in a gay world
Bronx Is Burning, The01 Oct 72Confusing the issues
Brothers, The 21 Jan 73
10 Feb 74
31 Mar 74
13 Apr 75
04 May 75
29 Jun 75
14 Mar 76
01 Feb 76
15 Feb 76
25 Apr 76
12 Sep 76
21 Nov 76		 Soap-operatic splendour
Facilitated to death
Enter the Chancellor
Royal bubble-bath
Fleeing and surviving
Here is the tennis situation
The man from Spandau
The comic truth
Unintelligibühlity
Bronsonised
Back to ‘The Brothers’
Sir Oswald’s Whoppers
Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night15 Oct 78Our bionic hero
Buccaneer06 Jul 80That little bit extra
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century05 Oct 80Torture by Telethon
Buddy Can You Spare A Dime30 Mar 75Wishing you welcome
Budget coverage20 Apr 75Suffering the Budget’s birth-pangs
Bukovsky26 Jun 77Release Bukovsky!
Burke Special, The25 Apr 76Bronsonised
But Seriously — It’s Sheila Hancock10 Dec 72Liberating Miss World
Byron01 Nov 81The nose trick
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Cakes and Ale24 Nov 74The wind machine
Call My Bluff 09 Dec 73
06 Jan 74
08 Aug 76		 The golden crumpet
Cleo in Cuckooland
Paean to the military qualities
Callan ... Wet Job06 Sep 81Strong medicine
Callas14 Jan 79Banker Barkworth
Cambodia: Year One14 Sep 80Lethal frivolities
Camelot06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
Camera10 Jun 79The Great Hwan
Camerons, The21 Oct 79Harold and Harry
Camille25 Apr 76Bronsonised
Campaign Report06 Oct 74I’d just like to say...
Can’t Be Bad If It’s Sport, Sport10 Jun 73It certainly can be bad, Sport!
Cannabis17 Aug 75Reality and the Bomb
Cannon 11 May 75
16 May 76
07 Aug 77		 Playing up the plump side
Stationary kicks
Bamber’s Gospel
Capriccio27 Mar 77The fallible Pope
Carefree31 Dec 78Sound of Julie
Caretaker, The14 Jun 81Prejudicial fury
Carmen Jones08 Apr 79Sense of justice
Carmen 07 May 78
08 Apr 79		 Mere mortal Mans
Sense of justice
Carol’s Story15 Jun 75A burning passion
Carry On Christmas30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
Case Against Dogs, The06 Jul 75Beware of the dogs
Case of Eliza Armstrong, The27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
Case of Yolande McShane, The28 Aug 77Woman’s Lab
Casino Royale30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
Cassandra Crossing, The04 Oct 81Blinding flashes
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof19 Dec 76Dish of Southern fried turkey
Catholics21 Apr 74Real — but artificial
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The20 May 73Banging the door open
Caught In Time22 Jan 78The Arts! The Best!
Celebrity Squares28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Centennial03 Jun 79Undying Hope
Centre Play21 Jul 74Morecambe, Mercer and Wise
Chancellor of the Exchequer, The03 Apr 77The fallible critic
Change of Direction09 Mar 80Woodhouse walkies
Changeling, The27 Jan 74Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
Changes, The27 Jun 76Matter of black and white
Chaos Supersedes Ensa31 Aug 80Cash of the Day
Charade31 Dec 78Sound of Julie
Charades18 Dec 77High-born ladies
Charles Darwin Lived Here10 Jun 73It certainly can be bad, Sport!
Charlie Muffin16 Dec 79Dashing downhill
Charlie’s Angels 16 Jan 77
06 Nov 77
03 Dec 78
09 Mar 80		 Charlie’s brainless angels
Pulling the plugs
Existentialist actor
Woodhouse walkies
Chastity, Poverty and Obedience01 Jun 75Formula for soap opera
Checkmate08 Jun 75In the land of Timbuctoo
Checkpoint Berlin09 Aug 81Load of Bagwash
Child Of Our Time, A17 Apr 77Roots of our time
Children in Crossfire17 Mar 74Children of the Holy War
China 30 Sep 73
07 Oct 73
23 Mar 80		 Magnus Polo’s travels
With Whicker in a gay world
Shadows in Ulster
China Entertains12 Feb 78Mao and Miao-yu
Chinese Detective, The03 May 81The Chinese connection
Chinese Way, The12 Feb 78Mao and Miao-yu
Chink in the Wall, A31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Christians, The 07 Aug 77
21 Aug 77
17 Aug 80		 Bamber’s Gospel
Lament for Elvis
Donging the gong
Christmas Music from Lincoln30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
Christmas Showtime Soecial24 Dec 78Alpine idiocies
Christmas with Eric and Ernie30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Christmas with The Osmonds01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Chronicle 16 Feb 75
02 May 76
13 Feb 77
24 Jan 82		 Gloriana to the rescue
Writing by numbers
Cloth-cap heroes
Hamming it up
Churchill and the Generals30 Sep 79West wins through
Churchill’s People 12 Jan 75
02 Feb 75
27 Apr 75		 This is impossible
In case you haven’t heard
The main thing about Main
Cider with Rosie27 May 73Allsop in wild New York City
Cilla 13 Jan 74
22 Feb 76		 Through dune and wadi
Feeling disconnected
Cinderella on Ice20 Jan 74Medicine man called Geller
Cinema10 Jun 73It certainly can be bad, Sport!
Circuit Eleven Miami02 Sep 79Great stone!
Circus World Championships25 Feb 79For good measure
Citadel, The03 Jun 73Nut week’s flying start
City of Dreams05 Jun 77Hail to the Hall
Clayhanger 25 Jan 76
15 Feb 76
27 Jun 76		 A Cambridge generation
Unintelligibühlity
Matter of black and white
Cleo Laine02 Jun 74Consolations from America
Cleopatra 06 Jan 74
30 Dec 79		 Cleo in Cuckooland
Santa and the Seed
Cliff13 Dec 81Agitprop artists
Clone Affair, The20 May 79Football funnies
Close19 Jul 81The riot reports
Clouds of Glory23 Jul 78Carry on Creating
Cold Harbour30 Apr 78The Bad Old Sounds
Colditz 29 Oct 72
13 Jan 74		 Heroes and hardware
Through dune and wadi
Collision Course15 Aug 76Thoughts of Idi and Adolf
Columbo 27 Jan 74
12 Jan 75		 Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
This is impossible
Come Dancing 18 Feb 73
17 Feb 74
24 Feb 74
31 Mar 74
23 Mar 75
16 May 76
20 Jun 76
03 Apr 77		 Potter’s wheels within wheels
The Merchant of Miller
Earnest and the Election
Enter the Chancellor
Hungry world
Stationary kicks
Hardware heroes
The fallible critic
Come On, Cousins!16 Mar 80Beautiful bear-hug
Comedy of Errors, The23 Apr 78Talking horse sense
Comedy Playhouse 04 Feb 73
14 Jul 74		 Redeeming appearances
That old sinking sensation
Commanders, The 26 Nov 72
03 Dec 72		 Rattigan revisited
Lobbing match over a cat’s-cradle
Company and Co.10 Feb 80Blake’s balderdash
Condominium: When the Hurricane Struck23 Aug 81To have or have not
Confrontation at Clay Cross13 Jan 74Through dune and wadi
Conjugal Rights21 Jan 73Soap-operatic splendour
Connections22 Oct 78Achtung! OTRAG!
Conservative Party Political Broadcast 20 Jun 76
01 May 77
09 Apr 78
11 Jun 78		 Hardware heroes
Princely postures
Case of Torynitskyn
Chewing the sporran
Controversy 24 Sep 72
08 Oct 72
09 Sep 73
16 Sep 73		 Compassion in transit
Dodging the big one
Two sides to the truth
Moonbase blast-off
Convictions14 Jul 74That old sinking sensation
Cooper — Just Like That24 Sep 78The Pinter sisters
Coronation Street 04 Nov 73
20 Oct 74
08 Jun 80		 The Borneo bomber
Bees with PhDs
Chaos situations
Cosi fan tutte22 Apr 79Of Bach and Berg
Cosmos 28 Jun 81
19 Jul 81		 The SS criminals
The riot reports
Couch, The30 Jun 74So much for Stradivarius
Country Girl, The03 Nov 74Taking it below the chin
Country Matters 11 Feb 73
18 Mar 73		 Authority and control
Pins and needles
Country Party, The01 May 77Princely postures
Country Wife, The20 Feb 77Wini and Wolf
Cover08 Feb 81Robin and the bullets
Coverage of Anne & Mark wedding18 Nov 73Steeplechase to the altar
Craven Arms27 Aug 72The Perry and Sherry show
Cream in my Coffee09 Nov 80Night of the blues
Creditors, The15 Oct 72Bananas with the Duchess
Crest of a Wave24 Sep 78The Pinter sisters
Crime and Punishment03 Jun 79Undying Hope
Crime of Captain Colyhurst, The03 May 81The Chinese connection
Crisis at The Observer19 Oct 75Deep in a married mess
Crossley Carpets Tennis Trophy, The22 Jun 80This sporting life
Crossroads20 May 79Football funnies
Crosstalk04 Feb 73Redeeming appearances
Crucible, The26 Apr 81The Grand Inquisitors
Crufts19 Feb 78Bad jokes, blind eyes
Cuckoo Waltz, The13 Feb 77Cloth-cap heroes
Cudlipp and be Damned02 Dec 73The miracle of Sir Hugh
Cup Final13 May 73It’s Carry On Commentator
Cup Final Grandstand09 May 76Wotting not
Cup Final Knock-Out12 May 74Some Final thoughts
Cupid’s Darts12 Apr 81English as she is sung
Custer31 Dec 78Sound of Julie
Cut and Thrust14 Oct 73The phantom Phantoms
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Dad‘s Army 22 Dec 74
06 Jun 76		 Pole-axed
Blowing a Bloomsbury
Daft as a brush28 Sep 75Margot My Way
Dallas 24 Sep 78
09 Dec 79
09 Mar 80
13 Apr 80
20 Jul 80
30 Nov 80
19 Apr 81
06 Dec 81
10 Jan 82		 The Pinter sisters
In deepest Dallas
Woodhouse walkies
Master of the world
Rampant Dallasitis
Heroes on wheels
Fun ride in space
Grotto-Blotto
A man of iron
Dance Month 21 May 78
04 Jun 78
29 Jun 80		 Plantagenet Place
Ballroom baloney
Bouncing raindrops
Danger — Take Two a Day28 Oct 73Bus-ride to Armageddon
Dangerous Knowledge06 Jun 76Blowing a Bloomsbury
Daphne Laureola22 Jan 78The Arts! The Best!
Dark Star01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
David Copperfield22 Dec 74Pole-axed
David Essex16 Oct 77Water on the brain
David Frost’s Global Village 18 Mar 79
22 Apr 79		 The sorry Serpent
Of Bach and Berg
David Munrow04 Jul 76Serving at 140 mph
David Nixon Show, The08 Jun 75In the land of Timbuctoo
Day in the Life of the World, A17 Jul 77Thalassa pottahs
Day of Celebration, A12 Jun 77This Great Dace
Day of the Triffids, The13 Sep 81To hell with him
Days of Hope14 Sep 75The perfect butler
Dead of Night12 Nov 72Hitler turned hood
Dear Love12 May 74Some Final thoughts
Death of Adolf Hitler, The14 Jan 73The search for Hitler
Death of an Informer22 Feb 76Feeling disconnected
Death of Glory, The16 Sep 73Moonbase blast-off
Decision — Steel01 Feb 76The comic truth
Decision for Europe17 Jun 79Votes for Babs
Deep Concern, The17 Jun 79Votes for Babs
Defence of the United States, The 13 Sep 81
20 Sep 81
04 Oct 81		 To hell with him
The wasp way
Blinding flashes
Degas08 Feb 81Robin and the bullets
Degree of Uncertainty11 Mar 79Belfast dreamer
Der Rosenkavalier22 Jul 79Nucular Gold
Design for Living13 May 79Lashings of style
Destination America04 Jul 76Serving at 140 mph
Destiny05 Feb 78Top of the pops
Devenish24 Jul 77Ransom and the owl
Devil’s Crown, The 21 May 78
09 Jul 78		 Plantagenet Place
Desperate about Dan
Diamonds Are Forever31 Dec 78Sound of Julie
Diamonds13 Sep 81To hell with him
Diana04 Nov 73The Borneo bomber
Dick Cavett Magic Show, The30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Dick Emery 30 Dec 73
29 Dec 74		 Anything for a laugh
Christmas treats
Dickens of London12 Dec 76Last of the Romans
Did You See...? 25 Jan 81
24 May 81
31 Jan 82		 Heavy with Snow
No joking matter
Ding dong bats
Die Entführung aus dem Serail 03 Jun 73
06 Sep 81		 Nut week’s flying start
Strong medicine
Dieppe 194227 Aug 72The Perry and Sherry show
Dietrich07 Jan 73Bad for biz
Dimbleby Lecture, The 27 Oct 74
25 Nov 79		 For the rest of their lives
Getting in a panic
Dirty Dozen, The01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Disappearance of Aimee, The23 Jan 77Holy Moses
Disappearing World 17 Nov 74
01 Dec 74
08 Dec 74
30 Jan 77		 In praise of the lord
The way Miss World ends
Blood, toil, tears — and Burton
Matter of rape
Discovering English Churches21 Oct 79Harold and Harry
Discovery 09 May 76
16 May 76
23 May 76		 Wotting not
Stationary kicks
Klonged on the head
Disraeli24 Sep 78The Pinter sisters
Divorce His, Divorce Hers01 Jul 73Kinds of freedom
Do As I Say30 Jan 77Matter of rape
Do the Thing Properly22 Apr 79Of Bach and Berg
Do You Remember Vietnam?08 Oct 78Wuthering Depths
Doctor Who11 Jul 76Flash to Dr Who
Doctor Zhivago04 Jan 81Pumping out pulp
Don’t Ask Me29 Jun 75Here is the tennis situation
Don’t Quote Me 18 May 75
22 Jun 75
28 May 78		 The need to be everybody
Bombing the bombshell image
Mr Most fires his Revolver
Don’t Shoot the Ref!29 Aug 76Blood, Bron and black-outs
Doors29 Jan 78Stand by for gunge
Doran’s Box25 Jan 76A Cambridge generation
Double Dare31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
Dr Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery05 Jan 75Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Dragon’s Opponent, The14 Oct 73The phantom Phantoms
Dream of Loving, A11 May 75Playing up the plump side
Dream, The21 May 78Plantagenet Place
Dreams of Leaving20 Jan 80Cultural divisions
Duchess of Duke Street, The 12 Sep 76
03 Oct 76		 Back to ‘The Brothers’
The Britting of Rod
Duchess of Malfi, The15 Oct 72Bananas with the Duchess
Dummy Run27 Jan 74Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
Dummy13 Nov 77Hammer and kisses
Dunkirk08 Jun 80Chaos situations
Dylan12 Nov 78Blood and guts
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Eagle and the Bear, The20 Sep 81The wasp way
Eagle Has Landed, The06 Sep 81Strong medicine
Earl Wild15 Feb 76Unintelligibühlity
Early Life of Stephen Hind, The22 Dec 74Pole-axed
East 103rd Street21 Feb 82Sent to sleep
East of Eden27 Sep 81Flights of fancy
Eastward with Attenborough 28 Oct 73
04 Nov 73		 Bus-ride to Armageddon
The Borneo bomber
Economics of the Real World23 Mar 75Hungry world
Edinburgh Military Tattoo, The02 Sep 73Donny, Spike and all that
Edith Evans11 Mar 73Keeping the weenies quiet
Editors, The 27 Jun 76
04 Jul 76
26 Jul 81
09 Aug 81		 Matter of black and white
Serving at 140 mph
Mr Bellini’s Britain
Load of Bagwash
Edward and Mrs Simpson 12 Nov 78
03 Dec 78
24 Dec 78		 Blood and guts
Existentialist actor
Alpine idiocies
Edward the Seventh 13 Apr 75
27 Apr 75
25 May 75
15 Jun 75
29 Jun 75
06 Jul 75		 Royal bubble-bath
The main thing about Main
The Great Re-tread Show
A burning passion
Here is the tennis situation
Beware of the dogs
Edwardians, The 26 Nov 72
03 Dec 72		 Rattigan revisited
Lobbing match over a cat’s-cradle
Ego Hugo28 Oct 73Bus-ride to Armageddon
El Cid 31 Dec 78
03 Jan 82		 Sound of Julie
Walkies out West
Eleanor and Franklin11 Jul 76Flash to Dr Who
Eleanor Marx30 Jan 77Matter of rape
Election 7413 Oct 74The Night of the Machines
Election coverage06 May 79Swingomania
Electra27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
Electric Folk31 Mar 74Enter the Chancellor
Eleventh Hour: The Boundary27 Jul 75Plugging the new patronage
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Masterclass26 Jul 81Mr Bellini’s Britain
Eliza Armstrong 10 Nov 74
17 Nov 74		 Fighting over food
In praise of the lord
Elkie & Co.23 Jul 78Carry on Creating
Ellery Queen18 Jan 76Lenny the lecturer
Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye To Norma Jean And Other Things09 Dec 73The golden crumpet
Elvis — Loving You21 Aug 77Lament for Elvis
Elvis Lives16 Aug 81Amok in the Med
Enclosed18 Mar 73Pins and needles
Energy Crunch, The24 Jun 73Don’t miss the bus
England v West Germany16 Mar 75Fired into operatic orbit
Englishman’s Castle, An18 Jun 78Lad from Stratford
Enigma Variations04 Jun 78Ballroom baloney
Enigma, The17 Feb 80Power-house Frank
Eurogala10 Jun 79The Great Hwan
Europa25 Nov 73The jolly Swastika
European Champions’ Cup Final01 Jun 75Formula for soap opera
European Figure Skating11 Feb 73Authority and control
European Football Championship, The22 Jun 80This sporting life
Eurovision Song Contest, The 14 Apr 74
30 Mar 75
15 May 77
30 Apr 78
12 Apr 81		 Facing our Waterloo
Wishing you welcome
The Son-in-Law
The Bad Old Sounds
English as she is sung
Eustace and Hilda11 Dec 77Chastity pants
Evening Standard Drama Awards08 Feb 76Set and match to Miss MacLaine
Everest Unmasked15 Apr 79O’er col and cwm
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour18 Nov 79Beauty and the Beeb
Everyday Miracle, An11 Jan 81Womb with a view
Everyman 22 May 77
03 Jul 77
09 Oct 77		 The terrifying truth
Harry’s Wmbldn
Heaven help we
Executioner, The20 Apr 80So long, Jeanne-Paul
Explorers, The04 Jul 76Serving at 140 mph
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FA Cup Final, The 20 May 79
18 May 80		 Football funnies
The girls — and Len
Face of Famine, The23 Mar 75Hungry world
Face the Music 07 Dec 75
28 Nov 76		 Pounded by psychic energy
Patrick and the lute
Face The Press16 Aug 81Amok in the Med
Face to Face08 Aug 76Paean to the military qualities
Face Your Image17 Nov 74In praise of the lord
Faces of Communism21 May 78Plantagenet Place
Fair Share of What Little We Have, A25 Jan 76A Cambridge generation
Fairies01 Oct 78Horowitz in his heaven
Falcon Crest07 Mar 82Better than ever
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The19 Sep 76Wet lips
Falstaff07 May 78Mere mortal Mans
Fame27 Sep 81Flights of fancy
Family Affair, A20 May 79Football funnies
Family, The 21 Apr 74
23 Jun 74		 Real — but artificial
Black horror show
Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth, The04 Mar 79Squirrel Nuttgens
Famous Journey, A23 Dec 79St Vitus’s gospel
Fanfare07 Jan 73Bad for biz
Fantasy Island15 Oct 78Our bionic hero
Father Brown06 Oct 74I’d just like to say...
Fathers and Families 06 Feb 77
13 Feb 77		 Hailsham’s royal hoorays
Cloth-cap heroes
Fawlty Towers 05 Oct 75
01 Feb 76
08 Mar 81		 Playing the language game
The comic truth
An admirable Adriana
Fear On Trial19 Dec 76Dish of Southern fried turkey
Fearless Frank08 Oct 78Wuthering Depths
Federico Fellini05 May 74Noddy and the lunch-breaks
Feeling His Way13 Jul 75Mankind’s perfect pet
Ferry Ride Away, A26 Jul 81Mr Bellini’s Britain
Festival 7707 Aug 77Bamber’s Gospel
Few of Our Favourite Things, A24 Dec 78Alpine idiocies
Fidel Castro Speaks19 Jun 77My fall from grais
Fidelio23 Oct 77Champagne and subtlety
Fifties, The20 May 79Football funnies
Fiftieth Academy Awards, The09 Apr 78Case of Torynitskyn
Fifty-First Hollywood Academy Awards, The15 Apr 79O’er col and cwm
Fight Against Slavery, The 23 Mar 75
17 Apr 77		 Hungry world
Roots of our time
Fighter Pilot 13 Sep 81
20 Sep 81		 To hell with him
The wasp way
Film 72 24 Sep 72
19 Nov 72		 Compassion in transit
The Great Weariness bogy
Film 8228 Feb 82Marvels of Minder
Film Night12 Oct 75The sandwich-man
Final Solution: Auschwitz, The24 Aug 7512 years of grief
Fire in the Sky, A13 May 79Lashings of style
Fires of Friendship12 Jun 77This Great Dace
Firing Line04 Mar 73Exaltation on ice
First Night of the Proms03 Aug 75Banging on about books
Fishing Race, The04 Feb 79Crumbling Crowd
Five Easy Pieces02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Flame and the Arrow, The23 Aug 81To have or have not
Flame Trees of Thika, The06 Sep 81Strong medicine
Flamingo Road 23 Aug 81
06 Sep 81
27 Sep 81
06 Dec 81		 To have or have not
Strong medicine
Flights of fancy
Grotto-Blotto
Flash Gordon11 Jul 76Flash to Dr Who
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Flickers21 Sep 80Deep-sea spaghetti
Flight of the Condor, The14 Mar 82Hill Street Joys
Fly, The16 Sep 73Moonbase blast-off
Flying Dutchman, The27 Feb 77Moses hits the dirt
Flying Machines of Ken Wallis, The18 May 80The girls — and Len
Flying Prince of Wildlife28 Dec 75A touch of menace
For Adults Only10 Jul 77Taking a shufti
For Sylvia, or the Air Show25 Feb 73Jokers at work
For the Sake of Appearance06 May 73Nixon through the night sky
For This Christmas Only29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Forged Papers07 Mar 82Better than ever
Forgive Our Foolish Ways19 Oct 80Heart of the matter
Forties Revisited, The31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
Forty Years08 Aug 76Paean to the military qualities
Foundation, The 04 Sep 77
09 Jul 78
01 Oct 78		 Bonjour twistesse
Desperate about Dan
Horowitz in his heaven
Four Beauties, The22 Dec 74Pole-axed
Four Corners of the Marketplace31 Mar 74Enter the Chancellor
Fox, The30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
Fox13 Apr 80Master of the world
Français, si vous saviez23 Nov 80Taming Rod’s tiger
Frank Sinatra — The First Forty Years17 Feb 80Power-house Frank
Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack25 May 80Cutting a fine caper
Freddie Starr Show, The22 Feb 76Feeling disconnected
Frederick Ashton23 Sep 79The genuine jogger
Free to Choose02 Mar 80The washed-up cat
French Connection, The31 Dec 78Sound of Julie
French Grand Prix, The08 Jul 79Last British Hope
Friday Night ... Saturday Morning 07 Oct 79
21 Oct 79		 Marginally better
Harold and Harry
Frontier25 May 80Cutting a fine caper
Frost Interview, The 06 Oct 74
20 Oct 74		 I’d just like to say...
Bees with PhDs
Frost Programme, The 04 Mar 73
26 Jun 77
03 Jul 77
10 Jul 77		 Exaltation on ice
Release Bukovsky!
Harry’s Wmbldn
Taking a shufti
Frost Show, The18 Nov 73Steeplechase to the altar
Frost’s Weekly27 Jan 74Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
Frost 25 Mar 73
17 Nov 74
29 Dec 74		 Home fires dampener
In praise of the lord
Christmas treats
Full Circle12 May 74Some Final thoughts
Full House 29 Oct 72
05 Nov 72		 Heroes and hardware
Eating your interviewer
Future Goes Boom!, The10 Mar 74Kahn goes Boom!
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Gala Performance06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
Galileo13 Jul 80What a gentleman!
Gangster Show, The12 Nov 72Hitler turned hood
Gangsters29 Jan 78Stand by for gunge
Gates of Eden27 Apr 80Armless in China
Gemini Man, The07 Nov 76Wisdom of the East
General Election coverage03 Mar 74[Election Special, part]
General’s Day, The26 Nov 72Rattigan revisited
Generation Game, The28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Gentle Folk27 Jan 80In the doghouse
George Formby Story, The07 Feb 82The wrong note
Getaway20 Oct 74Bees with PhDs
Ghost Hunters, The07 Dec 75Pounded by psychic energy
Ghosts31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
Gianni Schicchi06 Jun 76Blowing a Bloomsbury
Gift from Nessus, A02 Mar 80The washed-up cat
Girl in a Broken Mirror05 Oct 75Playing the language game
Girl Most Likely To..., The31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
Girls of Slender Means, The 11 May 75
18 May 75
22 Aug 76		 Playing up the plump side
The need to be everybody
A load of burst balloons
Glazebrook Touch, The08 Mar 81An admirable Adriana
Glittering Prizes, The 25 Jan 76
01 Feb 76
08 Feb 76
29 Feb 76		 A Cambridge generation
The comic truth
Set and match to Miss MacLaine
Silly songs and fine follies
Globe Theatre: Smog10 Nov 74Fighting over food
Glory Guys, The07 Aug 77Bamber’s Gospel
Glory That Remains, The07 Jul 74One minute of irrelevant silence
Go Tell The Spartans24 Jan 82Hamming it up
Go-Between, The30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
God That Fled, The09 Aug 81Load of Bagwash
Going Straight26 Mar 78Better than nothing
Golden Bowl, The09 Dec 73The golden crumpet
Golden Gala16 Jul 78Liberated Sisters
Golden Girls of Gowrie Beach, The29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery, The18 Jul 76Horsiness and homage
Golf: The Open20 Jul 80Rampant Dallasitis
Gone With The Wind03 Jan 82Walkies out West
Good Afternoon05 May 74Noddy and the lunch-breaks
Good Human Story, A24 Jul 77Ransom and the owl
Good Life, The 21 Dec 75
27 Apr 75		 Gymnastic kitsch
The main thing about Main
Good Soldier, The19 Apr 81Fun ride in space
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The25 Apr 76Bronsonised
Goodbye Darling... 31 May 81
07 Jun 81		 Snap judgments
Just good friends
Goodbye Gutenberg19 Oct 80Heart of the matter
Goodbye Longfellow Road20 Mar 77Odour situation
Gossip from the Forest22 Jul 79Nucular Gold
Grace Kennedy01 Feb 81Mass in the crevasse
Grand National, The06 Apr 80Flashing frost-bite
Grand Prix 07 Oct 79
24 May 81
07 Jun 81
20 Sep 81		 Marginally better
No joking matter
Just good friends
The wasp way
Grandstand 13 Apr 75
28 Dec 75
15 Jan 78
29 Jan 78
02 Apr 78
25 Jun 78
21 Jan 79		 Royal bubble-bath
A touch of menace
Rose Bowl battle
Stand by for gunge
That sinking feeling
They’re Going MAD!
Freezing situation
Grandstand: England v. Scotland03 Jun 79Undying Hope
Grapevine03 Jul 77Harry’s Wmbldn
Grease Monkey01 Feb 76The comic truth
Great American Picure Show, The11 Jul 76Flash to Dr Who
Great Big Groovy Horse28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Great Dictator, The09 Mar 75Savaged by dog-lovers
Great Egg Race, The04 Feb 79Crumbling Crowd
Great Race, The29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Great Railway Journeys of the World09 Nov 80Night of the blues
Greatest Story Ever Told, The22 Apr 79Of Bach and Berg
Greeks, The28 Sep 80The master builder
Guilty or Innocent16 Jan 77Charlie’s brainless angels
Guinea Pig Club, The10 Jun 79The Great Hwan
Guns of Navarone, The01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Gymnastics: World Championships13 Nov 77Hammer and kisses
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Hadleigh 19 Aug 73
14 Mar 76
09 May 76
06 Jun 76		 Squire Hadley
The man from Spandau
Wotting not
Blowing a Bloomsbury
Haggard Falcon, The25 Aug 74Fuzz on the screen
Half Million Pound Magic Carpet, The02 Sep 79Great stone!
Hamlet 01 Oct 72
01 Jun 80		 Confusing the issues
JR bites the dust
Hammer and Sickle13 Nov 77Hammer and kisses
Hammer and Thistle21 Aug 77Lament for Elvis
Happy being Happy16 Dec 73Happiness is Flynn-shaped
Happy New Year, A04 Jan 81Pumping out pulp
Hard Labour18 Mar 73Pins and needles
Hard Times 30 Oct 77
06 Nov 77		 The smell of seaweed
Pulling the plugs
Harold and Maude30 Oct 77The smell of seaweed
Headmaster 27 Feb 77
20 Mar 77		 Moses hits the dirt
Odour situation
Heartbreak House22 May 77The terrifying truth
Hearts and Minds21 Mar 76Prize performance
Hedda Gabler29 Oct 72Heroes and hardware
Heil Caesar27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
Helen — A Woman of Today21 Oct 73Fighting it out in a sandy sea
Helen Reddy15 Jun 75A burning passion
Hell07 Dec 75Pounded by psychic energy
Henry IV, Part 116 Dec 79Dashing downhill
Henry IV, Part 223 Dec 79St Vitus’s gospel
Henry VIII28 Jun 81The SS criminals
Heroes of Rock ’n’ Roll12 Oct 80High-speed maggots
Heroes10 May 81From Levin to Leakey
Hi-De-Hi!08 Mar 81An admirable Adriana
High Kampf02 Sep 73Donny, Spike and all that
Hill Street Blues14 Mar 82Hill Street Joys
Hindsight10 May 81From Levin to Leakey
History Man, The 11 Jan 81
01 Feb 81		 Womb with a view
Mass in the crevasse
Hitler — A Film From Germany02 Sep 79Great stone!
Hockney At Work03 May 81The Chinese connection
Holding On13 Feb 77Cloth-cap heroes
Holiday 7413 Jan 74Through dune and wadi
Holiday with Strings01 Sep 74Cops and sopranos
Hollywood Nights25 May 80Cutting a fine caper
Hollywood: The Dream Factory03 Jun 73Nut week’s flying start
Hollywood 13 Jan 80
10 Feb 80		 School for scandal
Blake’s balderdash
Holocaust10 Sep 78Road to Auschwitz
Home James24 Sep 72Compassion in transit
Home Like Ours, A13 Jun 76Windy Phenomenon
Home Sweet Home21 Mar 82Brilliant banality
Honeymoon in the Sky16 Mar 75Fired into operatic orbit
Horizon 18 Mar 73
20 May 73
21 Oct 73
28 Oct 73
11 Nov 73
27 Jan 74
30 Jun 74
21 Jul 74
10 Nov 74
29 Dec 74
12 Jan 75
19 Jan 75
02 Mar 75
11 May 75
15 Jun 75
03 Aug 75
21 Mar 76
09 May 76
30 May 76
20 Jun 76
05 Dec 76
19 Dec 76
24 Jul 77
16 Oct 77
09 Apr 78
17 Sep 78
26 Nov 78
27 May 79
16 Mar 80
21 Sep 80
12 Oct 80
16 Nov 80
15 Feb 81
29 Mar 81
19 Apr 81		 Pins and needles
Banging the door open
Fighting it out in a sandy sea
Bus-ride to Armageddon
The way the war was won?
Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
So much for Stradivarius
Morecambe, Mercer and Wise
Fighting over food
Christmas treats
This is impossible
Taking the week’s pulse
It’s all over, Ingmar
Playing up the plump side
A burning passion
Banging on about books
Prize performance
Wotting not
The Reaper
Hardware heroes
A load of punk
Dish of Southern fried turkey
Ransom and the owl
Water on the brain
Case of Torynitskyn
Boredom enigma
Getting away with murder
The great Lenya
Beautiful bear-hug
Deep-sea spaghetti
High-speed maggots
The talking ducks
Turning bright yellow
Exporting our secrets
Fun ride in space
Horowitz01 Oct 78Horowitz in his heaven
Horse of the Year Show, The14 Oct 73The phantom Phantoms
Horses in our Blood20 Mar 77Odour situation
Hot Champagne and First Night Nerves28 Feb 82Marvels of Minder
House on the Hill, The26 Jan 75A lesson in great acting
House on the Klong, The23 May 76Klonged on the head
How Green Was My Valley25 Jan 76A Cambridge generation
How the War Ended01 Jun 75Formula for soap opera
How the West Was Won30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
HRH The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer02 Aug 81The Day the World Watched
Hudson Report, The01 Dec 74The way Miss World ends
Hunting of Force Z, The03 Jul 77Harry’s Wmbldn
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I Am A Dancer29 Jun 80Bouncing raindrops
I Have Seen Yesterday10 Aug 80Back to Rameses
I Know What I Meant14 Jul 74That old sinking sensation
I’m a Dreamer, Montreal11 Mar 79Belfast dreamer
I, Claudius 26 Sep 76
03 Oct 76
14 Nov 76
21 Nov 76
12 Dec 76
24 Jul 77		 Speaking personally
The Britting of Rod
David and the machines
Sir Oswald’s Whoppers
Last of the Romans
Ransom and the owl
Ice Station Zebra29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Idi Amin — A Portrait23 Jun 74Black horror show
If Britain Had Fallen17 Sep 72Blockbuster in a mist
If You Knew Susie29 Aug 76Blood, Bron and black-outs
Ike28 Oct 79Monster’s return
Imagine a City Called Berlin09 Mar 75Savaged by dog-lovers
Imitation Game, The27 Apr 80Armless in China
Immigrants, The12 Dec 76Last of the Romans
Importance of being Earnest, The24 Feb 74Earnest and the Election
In Evidence29 Jun 80Bouncing raindrops
In Evidence — The Bomb09 Nov 80Night of the blues
In Praise of Love21 Mar 76Prize performance
In the Looking Glass05 Feb 78Top of the pops
In This Your Honour04 Jan 81Pumping out pulp
In Vision 16 Jun 74
12 Jan 75		 Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in
This is impossible
Incredible Hulk, The03 Sep 78Green beef
Incredible Robert Baldick, The08 Oct 72Dodging the big one
Inheritors, The25 Aug 74Fuzz on the screen
Insect Man, The15 Oct 72Bananas with the Duchess
Inside a Multinational22 Jun 80This sporting life
Inside Medicine29 Aug 76Blood, Bron and black-outs
Inside Story 09 Feb 75
18 May 75
01 Jun 75
09 May 76
22 Aug 76
20 Mar 77
10 Aug 80		 Getting Mrs T into focus
The need to be everybody
Formula for soap opera
Wotting not
A load of burst balloons
Odour situation
Back to Rameses
Inside the News 22 Dec 74
19 Oct 75		 Pole-axed
Deep in a married mess
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT10 Feb 80Blake’s balderdash
Intent to Murder<23 Jun 74Black horror show
International Athletics 08 Jul 79
13 Sep 81		 Last British Hope
To hell with him
International Curling02 Sep 79Great stone!
International Football: Scotland v. England28 May 78Mr Most fires his Revolver
International Golf: The US Open28 Jun 81The SS criminals
International Gymnastics21 Dec 75Gymnastic kitsch
International Horse of the Year Show27 Jul 75Plugging the new patronage
International Motor Racing27 Jul 75Plugging the new patronage
International Rugby Union26 Mar 78Better than nothing
International Show Jumping07 Oct 79Marginally better
International Snooker07 Feb 82The wrong note
International Tennis23 Nov 80Taming Rod’s tiger
Intimate Strangers27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
Into the Unknown 07 Dec 75
14 Dec 75		 Pounded by psychic energy
Week of the Rats
Inventing of America, The04 Jan 76The Burke and Burr Laugh-in
Invitation to the Dance14 Sep 80Lethal frivolities
Ironside 07 Jan 73
25 Mar 73
27 May 73
25 Aug 74
25 Jan 81		 Bad for biz
Home fires dampener
Allsop in wild New York City
Fuzz on the screen
Heavy with Snow
Is Seeing Believing?20 Jan 74Medicine man called Geller
Isadora28 Feb 82Marvels of Minder
It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum06 Jan 74Cleo in Cuckooland
It’ll Be Alright on the Night15 Jun 80Football fanaticism
It’s a Christmas Knockout28 Dec 75A touch of menace
It’s a Knockout 17 Jun 73
05 Jun 77		 Caught by the throat
Hail to the Hall
It’s About Time29 Apr 79Super-snookers
It’s Childsplay08 Aug 76Paean to the military qualities
Italian Grand Prix, The16 Sep 79Plonking purgatory
Italian Way, The27 Apr 75The main thing about Main
ITN Story17 Jul 77Thalassa pottahs
ITV Playhouse07 May 78Mere mortal Mans
ITV, This Is Your Life26 Sep 76Speaking personally
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Jack Charlton — The Boss05 May 74Noddy and the lunch-breaks
Jack Point04 Nov 73The Borneo bomber
Jailhouse Rock12 Oct 80High-speed maggots
Jane Eyre07 Oct 73With Whicker in a gay world
Jane Fonda03 Sep 78Green beef
Japanese Experience, The21 Apr 74Real — but artificial
Jennie 27 Oct 74
03 Nov 74
24 Nov 74
08 Dec 74		 For the rest of their lives
Taking it below the chin
The wind machine
Blood, toil, tears — and Burton
Jesus Christ Superstar22 Apr 79Of Bach and Berg
Jesus of Nazareth 10 Apr 77
17 Apr 77
22 Apr 79		 The Grade Gospel
Roots of our time
Of Bach and Berg
Jeux Sans Frontières17 Aug 80Donging the gong
Jim’ll Fix It17 May 81Instant horror
Jimmy Carter07 Nov 76Wisdom of the East
Joby19 Jan 75Taking the week’s pulse
Joey15 Dec 74Knocked out by Ali
John Curry Spectacular, The02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
John Keats21 Jun 81Satirical shots
Johnny Carson11 Oct 81Revolting jokes
Johnny Go Home27 Jul 75Plugging the new patronage
Jonathan Miller Directs17 May 81Instant horror
Joris Ivens’s China12 Feb 78Mao and Miao-yu
Journey Through the Human Body20 May 79Football funnies
Judas Goat25 Mar 73Home fires dampener
Julia and Dick in Covent Garden21 Jul 74Morecambe, Mercer and Wise
Julie Andrews and Jackie Gleason Together01 Sep 74Cops and sopranos
Julius Caesar18 Feb 79The true artists
Jumping for the Jelly-Beans27 May 73Allsop in wild New York City
Just a Nimmo 08 Feb 76
13 Feb 77		 Set and match to Miss MacLaine
Cloth-cap heroes
Just a Year25 Apr 76Bronsonised
Just for Today02 Mar 80The washed-up cat
Just William06 Mar 77Bumpy landings
Justice25 Aug 74Fuzz on the screen
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Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance27 May 73Allsop in wild New York City
Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner, The22 Feb 81Bomb-happy Colonels
Kate Bush in Concert12 Oct 80High-speed maggots
Kean03 Dec 78Existentialist actor
Kennedy’s Been Shot28 Nov 76Patrick and the lute
Kenny Everett New Year’s Daze Show, The04 Jan 81Pumping out pulp
Kenny Everett Video Show, The 16 Jul 78
25 Feb 79
30 Mar 80		 Liberated Sisters
For good measure
God help Europe
Key to the Universe, The06 Feb 77Hailsham’s royal hoorays
Kilnsey Show, The08 Mar 81An admirable Adriana
Kilvert’s Diary30 Oct 77The smell of seaweed
Kind of Freedom, A01 Jul 73Kinds of freedom
King08 Apr 79Sense of justice
King Lear30 Mar 75Wishing you welcome
King Oedipus03 Dec 72Lobbing match over a cat’s-cradle
King of Kings02 Apr 78That sinking feeling
Kinks In Concert, The18 Mar 73Pins and needles
Kismet02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Kisses at Fifty28 Jan 73When life begins at fifty
Kissinger and Frost04 Nov 79Sorry, Quaterfans!
Kissinger on Communism22 Jan 78The Arts! The Best!
Kissinger Years, The07 Nov 76Wisdom of the East
Kitty: Return to Auschwitz11 Nov 79Lord, deliver us
Knot’s Landing20 Jul 80Rampant Dallasitis
Knowledge, The30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Kojak 01 Sep 74
16 Mar 75
31 Aug 75		 Cops and sopranos
Fired into operatic orbit
Cosmological hokum
Kossoff and Company10 Jul 77Taking a shufti
Krypton Factor, The11 Sep 77The mind-grind
Kula — a Reason for Giving30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
Kung Fu17 Jan 82The ultimate sin
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht: A Salute27 May 79The great Lenya
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La Bohème04 Jan 76The Burke and Burr Laugh-in
La Grande Illusion02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
La Valse21 May 78Plantagenet Place
Labour Party Conference 09 Oct 77
01 Feb 81
04 Oct 81		 Heaven help we
Mass in the crevasse
Blinding flashes
Labour Party Political Broadcast 06 Apr 75
20 Nov 77
23 Sep 79
20 Sep 81
21 Mar 82		 The agony of Vietnam
Waffen waffle
The genuine jogger
The wasp way
Brilliant banality
Ladies from Hell31 Aug 80Cash of the Day
Lady Caroline Lamb01 Oct 78Horowitz in his heaven
Lady of the Camellias19 Dec 76Dish of Southern fried turkey
Land of Green Ginger21 Jan 73Soap-operatic splendour
Landseer07 Jun 81Just good friends
Langrishe, Go Down 24 Sep 78
21 Sep 80		 The Pinter sisters
Deep-sea spaghetti
Languages of Animals, The06 Jan 74Cleo in Cuckooland
Larger Than Life12 Jan 75This is impossible
Last Act, The13 Jul 75Mankind’s perfect pet
Last Hours Before Morning18 Jul 76Horsiness and homage
Last Night Another Soldier...09 Dec 73The golden crumpet
Last Summer26 Jun 77Release Bukovsky!
Late Call30 Mar 75Wishing you welcome
Late Night Extra15 Aug 76Thoughts of Idi and Adolf
Late Night Line-Up 27 Aug 72
17 Sep 72
24 Sep 72
01 Oct 72
05 Nov 72		 The Perry and Sherry show
Blockbuster in a mist
Compassion in transit
Confusing the issues
Eating your interviewer
Late Night News02 Apr 78That sinking feeling
Laurence Olivier Presents: The Best Play of the Year 19__12 Dec 76Last of the Romans
Law and Order30 Apr 78The Bad Old Sounds
Lawrence Durrell’s Egypt16 Apr 78Rumpled Rumpole
Lawrence of Arabia28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Leap in the Dark25 Mar 73Home fires dampener
Leda and the Swan04 Jun 78Ballroom baloney
Leeds — United03 Nov 74Taking it below the chin
Legacy, A13 Apr 75Royal bubble-bath
Legend of Walks Far Woman, The31 Aug 80Cash of the Day
Les Dawson14 Feb 82The railway trio
Les Noces21 May 78Plantagenet Place
Let It Be30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Letter from Francis Matthews26 Aug 73[Francis Matthews letter]
Levin Interviews, The 08 Jun 80
10 May 81
28 Jun 81		 Chaos situations
From Levin to Leakey
The SS criminals
Liberace’s Valentine Night Special17 Feb 80Power-house Frank
Liberal Party Political Broadcast02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Library of Congress, The28 Jan 79Gorgeous variety
Licking Hitler15 Jan 78Rose Bowl battle
Life and Times of Lloyd George, The 19 Apr 81
26 Apr 81		 Fun ride in space
The Grand Inquisitors
Life Game, The21 Oct 73Fighting it out in a sandy sea
Life on Earth 28 Jan 79
11 Mar 79		 Gorgeous variety
Belfast dreamer
Lifestyle22 Dec 74Pole-axed
Likely Lads, The29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Likes of... Lord Hailsham, The03 Aug 75Banging on about books
Likes of... Uri Geller, The17 Aug 75Reality and the Bomb
Lillie 01 Oct 78
29 Oct 78
24 Dec 78		 Horowitz in his heaven
Wilde and Whistler Show
Alpine idiocies
Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The25 Apr 76Bronsonised
LingaLongaMax01 Oct 78Horowitz in his heaven
Lion in Winter, The28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Lion03 May 81The Chinese connection
Little and Largest Show on Earth, The01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Little House on the Prairie27 Apr 75The main thing about Main
Little More, Please, A12 Oct 75The sandwich-man
Little Outing, A23 Oct 77Champagne and subtlety
Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, A17 Jun 73Caught by the throat
Live from the Proms17 Sep 78Boredom enigma
Lively Arts, The 28 Nov 76
16 Jan 77
01 May 77
29 May 77
01 Jan 78		 Patrick and the lute
Charlie’s brainless angels
Princely postures
Mass of offences
Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Living in the Past26 Feb 78Visions for Nelly
Living Wall, The16 Jun 74Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in
Lloyd George14 Jan 73The search for Hitler
Lohengrin17 Dec 78Disco dementia
London Heathrow29 May 77Mass of offences
London Weekend Show, The16 Apr 78Rumpled Rumpole
Lonely Man’s Lover, The20 Jan 74Medicine man called Geller
Long Day’s Journey Into Night29 Apr 73Olivier’s Great Journey
Long Search, The09 Oct 77Heaven help we
Longest Day, The01 Jun 75Formula for soap opera
Look Stranger22 Aug 76A load of burst balloons
Looking for Clancy 15 Jun 75
29 Jun 75		 A burning passion
Here is the tennis situation
Looking In12 Nov 72Hitler turned hood
Lord Mayot‘s Banquet, The17 Nov 74In praise of the lord
Lord Mountbatten Remembers02 Nov 80Mary and the facts
Lord Peter Wimsey19 May 74O Lord, preserve us
Loretta31 May 81Snap judgments
Lost Boys, The09 Mar 80Woodhouse walkies
Lot of Happiness, A20 Dec 81Dance of gold
Lou Grant 20 Apr 80
22 Jun 80
14 Sep 80
11 Oct 81		 So long, Jeanne-Paul
This sporting life
Lethal frivolities
Revolting jokes
Love Among the Artists 22 Jun 80
13 Jul 80		 This sporting life
What a gentleman!
Love for Lydia02 Oct 77Nicola Karenina
Love from A to Z14 Jul 74That old sinking sensation
Love Girl and the Innocent, The23 Sep 73Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Love Girl’
Love On A Gunboat09 Jan 77Hero of Our Time
Love School, The 26 Jan 75
09 Feb 75		 A lesson in great acting
Getting Mrs T into focus
Love Story 07 Jan 73
11 Feb 73
25 Feb 73		 Bad for biz
Authority and control
Jokers at work
Love’s Labour’s Lost21 Dec 75Gymnastic kitsch
Lover, The16 Jan 77Charlie’s brainless angels
Lucrezia Borgia06 Apr 80Flashing frost-bite
Luigi Nono08 Oct 78Wuthering Depths
Luke’s Kingdom25 Apr 76Bronsonised
Lulu22 Apr 79Of Bach and Berg
Lust for Life29 Oct 78Wilde and Whistler Show
Lynda Carter Encore05 Oct 80Torture by Telethon
Lynda Carter Special, The27 Jan 80In the doghouse
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M.A.S.H17 Jun 73Caught by the throat
Macbeth11 Dec 77Chastity pants
Mackenzie 14 Sep 80
21 Sep 80
28 Sep 80
30 Nov 80		 Lethal frivolities
Deep-sea spaghetti
The master builder
Heroes on wheels
Madame Bovary 28 Sep 75
05 Oct 75		 Margot My Way
Playing the language game
Madame Butterfly12 Dec 76Last of the Romans
Madness, The25 Jul 76Frank & David & Alan & Ron
Magic Flute, The28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Magic of Dance, The11 Nov 79Lord, deliver us
Main Chance, The27 Apr 75The main thing about Main
Main Event, The02 Feb 75In case you haven’t heard
Mainstream 14 Oct 79
28 Oct 79
09 Dec 79		 Carry on Trekkies!
Monster’s return
In deepest Dallas
Making ‘The Shining’12 Oct 80High-speed maggots
Making Faces05 Oct 75Playing the language game
Making of Mankind, The 10 May 81
14 Jun 81		 From Levin to Leakey
Prejudicial fury
Male Menopause, The18 May 75The need to be everybody
Malice Aforethought08 Apr 79Sense of justice
Mallens, The01 Jul 79Days of Dan
Maltese Falcon, The25 Mar 73Home fires dampener
Man Above Men25 Mar 73Home fires dampener
Man Alive 15 Oct 72
29 Oct 72
26 Nov 72
10 Dec 72
04 Feb 73
25 Mar 73
15 Apr 73
22 Apr 73
27 May 73
21 Apr 74
09 Jun 74
23 Jun 74
07 Jul 74
21 Jul 74
28 Jul 74
01 Dec 74
26 Jan 75
16 Feb 75
06 Apr 75
09 May 76
06 Mar 77
13 Mar 77
21 May 78
04 Feb 79
13 Jan 80
27 Jan 80
15 Feb 81
08 Mar 81
22 Mar 81
03 May 81		 Bananas with the Duchess
Heroes and hardware
Rattigan revisited
Liberating Miss World
Redeeming appearances
Home fires dampener
Caught on the hop by Frost
Call for the swordsmen
Allsop in wild New York City
Real — but artificial
Over-dumb about Yoga
Black horror show
One minute of irrelevant silence
Morecambe, Mercer and Wise
Checked and double checked
The way Miss World ends
A lesson in great acting
Gloriana to the rescue
The agony of Vietnam
Wotting not
Bumpy landings
Beyond a joke
Plantagenet Place
Crumbling Crowd
School for scandal
In the doghouse
Turning bright yellow
An admirable Adriana
The Whacky World
The Chinese connection
Man Alive Report, The25 Apr 76Bronsonised
Man Called Intrepid, A13 Apr 80Master of the world
Man For All Seasons, A02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Man from Atlantis16 Oct 77Water on the brain
Man of Iron10 Jan 82A man of iron
Man of Marble10 Jan 82A man of iron
Man Who Skied Down Everest, The07 Sep 75Ski-ing down Everest
Man Without a Star13 May 79Lashings of style
Mangling of the Middle Class, The29 Jun 75Here is the tennis situation
Manon21 Mar 82Brilliant banality
Manon Lescaut27 Apr 80Armless in China
Marcus-Nelson Murders, The01 Sep 74Cops and sopranos
Marie Curie28 Aug 77Woman’s Lab
Mark Phillips27 Nov 77The amazing Mark
Marriage Counsellor, The16 Apr 78Rumpled Rumpole
Marriage Guidance22 May 77The terrifying truth
Marti31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
Martian Chronicles, The 17 Aug 80
31 Aug 80		 Donging the gong
Cash of the Day
Masque of the Red Death, The18 Jan 76Lenny the lecturer
Mass of the Nativity, The29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Master Game, The15 Jan 78Rose Bowl battle
Mastermind 01 Oct 72
12 Nov 72
19 Nov 72
09 Sep 73
29 Dec 74
28 Dec 75
02 Jan 77
04 Sep 77
06 Nov 77
07 Oct 79
18 Nov 79		 Confusing the issues
Hitler turned hood
The Great Weariness bogy
Two sides to the truth
Christmas treats
A touch of menace
And now ... Supermind!
Bonjour twistesse
Pulling the plugs
Marginally better
Beauty and the Beeb
Mastermind International13 Apr 80Master of the world
Masters of Modern Sculpture06 Sep 81Strong medicine
Match of the Day 30 Dec 73
22 Feb 76
21 Jan 79
31 Aug 80		 Anything for a laugh
Feeling disconnected
Freezing situation
Cash of the Day
Matteotti Affair, The02 Jun 74Consolations from America
Max’s Holiday Hour01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Max31 Mar 74Enter the Chancellor
Mayor of Casterbridge, The19 Feb 78Bad jokes, blind eyes
McCartney13 May 73It’s Carry On Commentator
McCloud11 Aug 74Plugged out of the action
Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf10 Dec 78The fantastic voyage
Measure for Measure25 Feb 79For good measure
Medical Express06 Sep 81Strong medicine
Medusa Touch, The07 Feb 82The wrong note
Melting Pot, The15 Jun 75A burning passion
Memory of Justice, The14 Nov 76David and the machines
Men of Ideas 22 Jan 78
05 Feb 78		 The Arts! The Best!
Top of the pops
Menace29 Apr 73Olivier’s Great Journey
Merchant of Venice, The17 Feb 74The Merchant of Miller
Merry Christmas, Fred, from the Crosbys28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Metro-Land 04 Mar 73
27 May 73		 Exaltation on ice
Allsop in wild New York City
Mexican Madness26 Feb 78Visions for Nelly
Michael Fish21 Jan 79Freezing situation
Microbes and Men 06 Oct 74
27 Oct 74		 I’d just like to say...
For the rest of their lives
Middle-of-the-road Roadshow for All the Family, The02 Sep 73Donny, Spike and all that
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A20 Dec 81Dance of gold
Midweek 17 Sep 72
24 Sep 72
01 Oct 72
10 Dec 72
15 Apr 73
27 May 73
02 Sep 73
14 Oct 73
25 Nov 73
10 Mar 74
07 Apr 74
11 Aug 74
20 Oct 74
17 Nov 74
09 Feb 75
16 Feb 75
01 Jun 75		 Blockbuster in a mist
Compassion in transit
Confusing the issues
Liberating Miss World
Caught on the hop by Frost
Allsop in wild New York City
Donny, Spike and all that
The phantom Phantoms
The jolly Swastika
Kahn goes Boom!
Supercharged Suffragettes
Plugged out of the action
Bees with PhDs
In praise of the lord
Getting Mrs T into focus
Gloriana to the rescue
Formula for soap opera
Mighty Continent, The24 Nov 74The wind machine
Mike Yarwood’s Christmas Show01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Mike Yarwood29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Mill, The24 Sep 72Compassion in transit
Milligan in Spring20 May 73Banging the door open
Milligan in Summer02 Sep 73Donny, Spike and all that
Millionairess, The08 Oct 72Dodging the big one
Minder 17 Jan 82
28 Feb 82		 The ultimate sin
Marvels of Minder
Mini, The02 Sep 79Great stone!
Mini15 Jun 75A burning passion
Miracle Workers, The14 Sep 80Lethal frivolities
Misanthrope, The03 Feb 80Question of quality
Miss England 197809 Apr 78Case of Torynitskyn
Miss England, Miss Scotland and Miss Wales18 Mar 73Pins and needles
Miss Great Britain 197217 Sep 72Blockbuster in a mist
Miss Great Britain 198018 May 80The girls — and Len
Miss Great Britain02 Sep 73Donny, Spike and all that
Miss London 197309 Dec 73The golden crumpet
Miss TV Times 7301 Jul 73Kinds of freedom
Miss United Kingdom 09 Sep 79
31 Aug 80		 Hail and farewell
Cash of the Day
Miss Universe07 Aug 77Bamber’s Gospel
Miss World 197210 Dec 72Liberating Miss World
Miss World 197401 Dec 74The way Miss World ends
Miss World 197523 Nov 75O for a glimpse of my friends!
Miss World 197621 Nov 76Sir Oswald’s Whoppers
Miss World 197720 Nov 77Waffen waffle
Miss World 197819 Nov 78Tearful occasion
Miss World 197918 Nov 79Beauty and the Beeb
Miss World 198016 Nov 80The talking ducks
Miss World 198122 Nov 81Fanatic devotion
Missiles of October, The05 Jan 75Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Mission: Impossible12 Jan 75This is impossible
Modern Times30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
Money Programme, The 14 Mar 76
13 Nov 77		 The man from Spandau
Hammer and kisses
Moneychangers, The29 Jan 78Stand by for gunge
Montaillou10 Aug 80Back to Rameses
Month in the Country, A 21 May 78
04 Jun 78		 Plantagenet Place
Ballroom baloney
Monty Python’s Flying Circus 12 Nov 72
21 Jan 73
10 Nov 74
17 Nov 74		 Hitler turned hood
Soap-operatic splendour
Fighting over food
In praise of the lord
Moods of Love14 Jul 74That old sinking sensation
Moonbase 3 16 Sep 73
21 Oct 73		 Moonbase blast-off
Fighting it out in a sandy sea
Moonies, The10 Feb 80Blake’s balderdash
Moonwalk One28 Jul 74Checked and double checked
Morecambe and Wise 30 Dec 73
28 Dec 75
02 Jan 77
01 Jan 78
31 Dec 78
21 Sep 80		 Anything for a laugh
A touch of menace
And now ... Supermind!
Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Sound of Julie
Deep-sea spaghetti
Morecambe and Wise at the BBC14 Jan 79Banker Barkworth
Mork and Mindy31 Aug 80Cash of the Day
Moscow State Circus06 Feb 77Hailsham’s royal hoorays
Moses — The Lawgiver 23 Jan 77
30 Jan 77
27 Feb 77		 Holy Moses
Matter of rape
Moses hits the dirt
Most Magnificent and Expensive Diversion, The02 Sep 73Donny, Spike and all that
Most Valuable Englishman Ever, The24 Jan 82Hamming it up
Motor Racing at Silverstone26 Mar 78Better than nothing
Mourning Becomes Elektra06 Sep 81Strong medicine
Movie Quiz, The02 Jun 74Consolations from America
Movie Showcase10 Feb 80Blake’s balderdash
Mrs Ackland’s Ghosts19 Jan 75Taking the week’s pulse
Mrs Warren’s Profession08 Oct 72Dodging the big one
Much Maligned Monarch, A25 Apr 76Bronsonised
Muck and Brass24 Jan 82Hamming it up
Muggeridge Ancient and Modern22 Mar 81The Whacky World
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop18 Feb 79The true artists
Multi-Racial Britain23 Jul 78Carry on Creating
Muppet Show, The 30 Jan 77
17 Jul 77
16 Apr 78
18 Feb 79		 Matter of rape
Thalassa pottahs
Rumpled Rumpole
The true artists
Murder at the Wedding22 Jul 79Nucular Gold
Murder in Texas13 Sep 81To hell with him
Murder Most English22 May 77The terrifying truth
Murphy’s Stroke25 May 80Cutting a fine caper
Must Wear Tights01 Oct 78Horowitz in his heaven
My Fair Lady30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
My Father Hokusai11 Mar 73Keeping the weenies quiet
My Wife Next Door24 Sep 72Compassion in transit
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Naked Civil Servant, The21 Dec 75Gymnastic kitsch
Naked Jungle, The11 May 75Playing up the plump side
Nancy Mitford08 Jun 80Chaos situations
Nancy02 Dec 79All the Anthonys
Napoleon and Love17 Mar 74Children of the Holy War
National Skating Association Centenary Gala, The08 Apr 79Sense of justice
Nationwide 17 Sep 72
28 Oct 73
10 Feb 74
16 Jun 74
14 Dec 75
14 Mar 76
15 Feb 76
16 Jan 77
27 Feb 77
06 Mar 77
20 Mar 77
03 Apr 77
01 May 77
12 Jun 77
16 Oct 77
30 Oct 77
20 Nov 77
27 Nov 77
26 Feb 78
23 Jul 78
03 Jun 79
16 Sep 79
11 Nov 79
09 Dec 79
02 Mar 80
13 Jul 80
20 Jul 80
25 Jan 81
01 Feb 81
15 Feb 81
01 Mar 81
22 Mar 81
02 Aug 81
10 Jan 82
21 Feb 82		 Blockbuster in a mist
Bus-ride to Armageddon
Facilitated to death
Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in
Week of the Rats
The man from Spandau
Unintelligibühlity
Charlie’s brainless angels
Moses hits the dirt
Bumpy landings
Odour situation
The fallible critic
Princely postures
This Great Dace
Water on the brain
The smell of seaweed
Waffen waffle
The amazing Mark
Visions for Nelly
Carry on Creating
Undying Hope
Plonking purgatory
Lord, deliver us
In deepest Dallas
The washed-up cat
What a gentleman!
Rampant Dallasitis
Heavy with Snow
Mass in the crevasse
Turning bright yellow
On the Charles trail
The Whacky World
The Day the World Watched
A man of iron
Sent to sleep
Nearly a Happy Ending08 Jun 80Chaos situations
Nearly Man, The 13 Jul 75
07 Dec 75
21 Dec 75		 Mankind’s perfect pet
Pounded by psychic energy
Gymnastic kitsch
New Avengers, The07 Nov 76Wisdom of the East
News07 Aug 77Bamber’s Gospel
News at Ten 19 Nov 72
06 Jan 74
13 Jan 74
20 Jan 74
24 Feb 74
28 Jul 74
11 Aug 74
01 Dec 74
09 Feb 75
06 Apr 75
04 May 75
18 May 75
22 Jun 75
31 Aug 75
15 Feb 76
13 Jun 76
20 Nov 77
25 Jun 78
27 May 79
15 Jul 79
22 Jul 79
18 Nov 79
06 Apr 80
15 Jun 80
31 Aug 80
21 Sep 80
29 Mar 81
05 Apr 81
12 Apr 81
07 Feb 82		 The Great Weariness bogy
Cleo in Cuckooland
Through dune and wadi
Medicine man called Geller
Earnest and the Election
Checked and double checked
Plugged out of the action
The way Miss World ends
Getting Mrs T into focus
The agony of Vietnam
Fleeing and surviving
The need to be everybody
Bombing the bombshell image
Cosmological hokum
Unintelligibühlity
Windy Phenomenon
Waffen waffle
They’re Going MAD!
The great Lenya
Baebius lives!
Nucular Gold
Beauty and the Beeb
Flashing frost-bite
Football fanaticism
Cash of the Day
Deep-sea spaghetti
Exporting our secrets
Fingers on the trigger
English as she is sung
The wrong note
News Extra 28 Oct 73
09 Feb 75
22 Jun 75
31 Aug 75		 Bus-ride to Armageddon
Getting Mrs T into focus
Bombing the bombshell image
Cosmological hokum
News Headlines12 Oct 80High-speed maggots
News programme policy11 Feb 73Authority and control
News Review 09 Mar 75
25 May 75		 Savaged by dog-lovers
The Great Re-tread Show
Newsday 15 Feb 76
14 Mar 76
20 Jun 76
03 Oct 76
25 Jun 78		 Unintelligibühlity
The man from Spandau
Hardware heroes
The Britting of Rod
They’re Going MAD!
Newsnight 03 Feb 80
06 Apr 80
20 Apr 80
11 May 80
15 Jun 80
31 Aug 80
02 Nov 80
09 Nov 80
22 Mar 81
26 Jul 81
29 Nov 81
07 Feb 82
28 Mar 82		 Question of quality
Flashing frost-bite
So long, Jeanne-Paul
Going with a bang
Football fanaticism
Cash of the Day
Mary and the facts
Night of the blues
The Whacky World
Mr Bellini’s Britain
Unsubtle signals
The wrong note
India to Hillhead
Newsround Extra20 Jul 75Bognor, here we come!
Newsweek21 Oct 79Harold and Harry
Nicest Man in the World, The23 May 76Klonged on the head
Nicol Williamson10 Mar 74Kahn goes Boom!
Night and Day31 Mar 74Enter the Chancellor
Night Visitor, The25 Jan 81Heavy with Snow
Nimmo in Australia05 Jan 75Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Nina22 Oct 78Achtung! OTRAG!
Nine O’Clock News, The 19 Nov 72
18 Jan 76
09 May 76
18 Jul 76
06 Nov 77
18 May 80
01 Jun 80
08 Jun 80
25 Jan 81		 The Great Weariness bogy
Lenny the lecturer
Wotting not
Horsiness and homage
Pulling the plugs
The girls — and Len
JR bites the dust
Chaos situations
Heavy with Snow
Nineteen Eighty-Four07 Aug 77Bamber’s Gospel
Nixon Interviews, The 08 May 77
29 May 77		 A lot of slop-over
Mass of offences
Nixon11 Aug 74Plugged out of the action
No Man’s Land08 Oct 78Wuthering Depths
No Maps on My Taps29 Jun 80Bouncing raindrops
Norma23 Jan 77Holy Moses
Norman Conquests, The23 Oct 77Champagne and subtlety
Not the Nine O’Clock News 28 Oct 79
02 Nov 80
30 Nov 80
07 Feb 82		 Monster’s return
Mary and the facts
Heroes on wheels
The wrong note
Notorious Woman 17 Nov 74
01 Dec 74
08 Dec 74
22 Dec 74		 In praise of the lord
The way Miss World ends
Blood, toil, tears — and Burton
Pole-axed
Now Is Too Late14 Mar 76The man from Spandau
Nurse of the Year09 May 76Wotting not
Nutcracker, The13 Nov 77Hammer and kisses
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy, The25 Jun 78They’re Going MAD!
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Odd Couple, The30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
Oil Strike North31 Aug 75Cosmological hokum
Old Crowd, The04 Feb 79Crumbling Crowd
Old Grey Whistle Test, The 01 May 77
29 Apr 73
13 May 73
17 Jun 73
14 Jul 74
29 Dec 74
04 Jan 81		 Princely postures
Olivier’s Great Journey
It’s Carry On Commentator
Caught by the throat
That old sinking sensation
Christmas treats
Pumping out pulp
Olga15 Apr 73Caught on the hop by Frost
Olympic Games 25 Jul 76
01 Aug 76		 Frank & David & Alan & Ron
Olympic absolutes
Olympic Games, Munich, Week 103 Sep 72Wood Lane’s wonder boys
Olympic Games, Munich, Week 210 Sep 72Mood change at Munich
Olympic Grandstand15 Feb 76Unintelligibühlity
Omnibus 03 Dec 72
25 Feb 73
10 Jun 73
14 Oct 73
21 Jul 74
03 Nov 74
29 Dec 74
09 Mar 75
13 Apr 75
25 May 75
12 Oct 75
16 May 76
27 Jun 76
04 Jul 76
13 Feb 77
06 Mar 77
10 Jul 77
29 Oct 78
18 Feb 79
18 Mar 79
01 Apr 79
20 May 79
27 May 79
23 Mar 80
12 Apr 81
26 Apr 81
17 Jan 82		 Lobbing match over a cat’s-cradle
Jokers at work
It certainly can be bad, Sport!
The phantom Phantoms
Morecambe, Mercer and Wise
Taking it below the chin
Christmas treats
Savaged by dog-lovers
Royal bubble-bath
The Great Re-tread Show
The sandwich-man
Stationary kicks
Matter of black and white
Serving at 140 mph
Cloth-cap heroes
Bumpy landings
Taking a shufti
Wilde and Whistler Show
The true artists
The sorry Serpent
You gonna know!
Football funnies
The great Lenya
Shadows in Ulster
English as she is sung
The Grand Inquisitors
The ultimate sin
Omnibus at the Proms18 Aug 74From Ulster to the Osmonds
On Tour with The Osmonds21 Apr 74Real — but artificial
Once in a Lifetime28 Jan 79Gorgeous variety
Once Upon A Time ... Is Now18 Dec 77High-born ladies
One Day at a Time27 Nov 77The amazing Mark
One Fine Day25 Feb 79For good measure
One Man’s China19 Nov 72The Great Weariness bogy
One Man’s Week06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
One Pair of Eyes 25 Feb 73
06 May 73
08 Jul 73
22 Jul 73
28 Oct 73
20 Oct 74		 Jokers at work
Nixon through the night sky
Blue-bloods on parade
Blue-bloods on parade
Bus-ride to Armageddon
Bees with PhDs
One Way Ticket to Hualampong27 Sep 81Flights of fancy
Onegin28 Nov 76Patrick and the lute
Only a Game29 Mar 81Exporting our secrets
Only in America06 Jul 80That little bit extra
Only Make Believe18 Feb 73Potter’s wheels within wheels
Only on Sunday22 Jun 75Bombing the bombshell image
Open Door 15 Apr 73
20 May 73
25 May 75
07 Mar 76		 Caught on the hop by Frost
Banging the door open
The Great Re-tread Show
This awkward problem of freedom
Open Secret22 Mar 81The Whacky World
Open University02 Mar 80The washed-up cat
Operation Magic Carpet11 Mar 73Keeping the weenies quiet
Opinion 23 Jan 77
27 Feb 77		 Holy Moses
Moses hits the dirt
Oppenheimer 02 Nov 80
09 Nov 80
30 Nov 80		 Mary and the facts
Night of the blues
Heroes on wheels
Opportunity Knocks05 Jan 75Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Orde Wingate 25 Jul 76
08 Aug 76		 Frank & David & Alan & Ron
Paean to the military qualities
Orders from Above30 Nov 75The prisoners on our conscience
Oscar Peterson Invites13 Mar 77Beyond a joke
Osmonds, The18 Aug 74From Ulster to the Osmonds
Othello 20 Jan 74
11 Oct 81		 Medicine man called Geller
Revolting jokes
Other Half of the Sky, The14 Sep 75The perfect butler
Other One, The27 Nov 77The amazing Mark
Other Voices 28 Aug 77
11 Sep 77		 Woman’s Lab
The mind-grind
OTT 17 Jan 82
31 Jan 82
14 Feb 82		 The ultimate sin
Ding dong bats
The railway trio
Our People14 Jan 79Banker Barkworth
Out of the Box01 Oct 72Confusing the issues
Out03 Sep 78Green beef
Outcasts on the China Seas15 Jul 79Baebius lives!
Owen MD29 Apr 73Olivier’s Great Journey
Owner Occupied31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
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Palestine 02 Jul 78
16 Jul 78		 Wonderful Wmln
Liberated Sisters
Pallisers, The 03 Feb 74
07 Apr 74
21 Apr 74
16 Jun 74
03 Nov 74		 It really is fantastic!
Supercharged Suffragettes
Real — but artificial
Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in
Taking it below the chin
Pam Ayres16 Oct 77Water on the brain
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman27 Apr 80Armless in China
Panorama 15 Oct 72
19 Nov 72
22 Apr 73
27 May 73
08 Jul 73
22 Jul 73
28 Oct 73
10 Feb 74
31 Mar 74
28 Apr 74
12 May 74
23 Jun 74
07 Jul 74
14 Jul 74
06 Oct 74
27 Oct 74
10 Nov 74
08 Dec 74
22 Dec 74
19 Jan 75
26 Jan 75
23 Feb 75
16 Mar 75
13 Apr 75
06 Jul 75
28 Sep 75
19 Oct 75
11 Jan 76
08 Feb 76
21 Mar 76
09 May 76
01 Aug 76
19 Sep 76
14 Nov 76
12 Dec 76
19 Dec 76
03 Apr 77
06 Feb 77
06 Mar 77
19 Jun 77
17 Jul 77
05 Feb 78
19 Feb 78
23 Apr 78
28 May 78
02 Jul 78
17 Sep 78
22 Oct 78
29 Oct 78
18 Feb 79
24 Jun 79
15 Jul 79
23 Sep 79
30 Sep 79
14 Oct 79
04 Nov 79
20 Jan 80
11 May 80
08 Jun 80
22 Jun 80
20 Jul 80
21 Sep 80
19 Oct 80
18 Jan 81
01 Feb 81
27 Sep 81
04 Oct 81
14 Feb 82
21 Feb 82		 Bananas with the Duchess
The Great Weariness bogy
Call for the swordsmen
Allsop in wild New York City
Blue-bloods on parade
Blue-bloods on parade
Bus-ride to Armageddon
Facilitated to death
Enter the Chancellor
Barbarity to children
Some Final thoughts
Black horror show
One minute of irrelevant silence
That old sinking sensation
I’d just like to say...
For the rest of their lives
Fighting over food
Blood, toil, tears — and Burton
Pole-axed
Taking the week’s pulse
A lesson in great acting
Children in the melting-pot
Fired into operatic orbit
Royal bubble-bath
Beware of the dogs
Margot My Way
Deep in a married mess
Coward’s tinsel classic
Set and match to Miss MacLaine
Prize performance
Wotting not
Olympic absolutes
Wet lips
David and the machines
Last of the Romans
Dish of Southern fried turkey
The fallible critic
Hailsham’s royal hoorays
Bumpy landings
My fall from grais
Thalassa pottahs
Top of the pops
Bad jokes, blind eyes
Talking horse sense
Mr Most fires his Revolver
Wonderful Wmln
Boredom enigma
Achtung! OTRAG!
Wilde and Whistler Show
The true artists
The work of Satan
Baebius lives!
The genuine jogger
West wins through
Carry on Trekkies!
Sorry, Quaterfans!
Cultural divisions
Going with a bang
Chaos situations
This sporting life
Rampant Dallasitis
Deep-sea spaghetti
Heart of the matter
Auschwitz nightmare
Mass in the crevasse
Flights of fancy
Blinding flashes
The railway trio
Sent to sleep
Panorama: Solzhenitsyn07 Mar 76This awkward problem of freedom
Paper Chase, The17 Jun 79Votes for Babs
Papillon04 Jan 81Pumping out pulp
Parkinson 04 Mar 73
15 Dec 74
02 Feb 75
16 Feb 75
05 Oct 75
28 Dec 75
22 Feb 76
09 Oct 77
05 Feb 78
30 Dec 79
28 Sep 80
04 Jan 81
25 Jan 81		 Exaltation on ice
Knocked out by Ali
In case you haven’t heard
Gloriana to the rescue
Playing the language game
A touch of menace
Feeling disconnected
Heaven help we
Top of the pops
Santa and the Seed
The master builder
Pumping out pulp
Heavy with Snow
Parkinson Christmas: Morecambe and Wise29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Parliamentarians, The11 Feb 79Enoch’s answer
Parting Shots From Animals09 Mar 80Woodhouse walkies
Partners08 Feb 81Robin and the bullets
Party Political Broadcast 15 Apr 73
13 May 73		 Caught on the hop by Frost
It’s Carry On Commentator
Party politics and the media27 Sep 81Flights of fancy
Passage to England14 Dec 75Week of the Rats
Passing of Leviathan, The13 Jul 75Mankind’s perfect pet
Passion for Churches, A15 Dec 74Knocked out by Ali
Pathfinders25 Aug 74Fuzz on the screen
Patrick Moore’s World Premiere16 Mar 75Fired into operatic orbit
Pattern of Beauty, The09 May 76Wotting not
Patterns of Faith06 Mar 77Bumpy landings
Pearcross Girls, The18 Mar 73Pins and needles
Pebble Mill at One05 Apr 81Fingers on the trigger
Peer Gynt08 Oct 72Dodging the big one
Penmarric21 Oct 79Harold and Harry
Pennies From Heaven19 Mar 78Swamped by the samurai
People and Politics27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
People from the Forest24 May 81No joking matter
Perry Como’s Olde Englishe Christmas01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Personal Pleasures24 May 81No joking matter
Personal Report11 Sep 77The mind-grind
Peter Cook & Co.21 Sep 80Deep-sea spaghetti
Peter Jay Interview, The17 Aug 75Reality and the Bomb
Phantom of the Opera, The03 Jun 73Nut week’s flying start
Philby, Burgess and Maclean05 Jun 77Hail to the Hall
Philpott File, The 20 May 73
27 May 73
03 Jun 73
07 Apr 74
12 Oct 75
11 Jul 76
17 Jul 77
31 Jul 77
04 May 80		 Banging the door open
Allsop in wild New York City
Nut week’s flying start
Supercharged Suffragettes
The sandwich-man
Flash to Dr Who
Thalassa pottahs
Digesting Japan
Blitzed by the ATS
Phoenix Too Frequent, A19 Nov 72The Great Weariness bogy
Picture of Dorian Gray, The26 Sep 76Speaking personally
Picture of Katherine Mansfield, A 06 May 73
03 Jun 73
04 May 75		 Nixon through the night sky
Nut week’s flying start
Fleeing and surviving
Picture of Tom Keating, A08 May 77A lot of slop-over
Pilger in Australia02 May 76Writing by numbers
Pilger 05 Jan 75
19 Jan 75
26 Sep 76		 Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Taking the week’s pulse
Speaking personally
Pilots at Sea13 Jul 75Mankind’s perfect pet
Pink Floyd20 Jan 80Cultural divisions
Pirate, The09 Sep 79Hail and farewell
Place in History, A28 Apr 74Barbarity to children
Plaintiffs and Defendants19 Oct 75Deep in a married mess
Platform One 02 Dec 79
15 Jun 80
17 May 81
14 Jun 81		 All the Anthonys
Football fanaticism
Instant horror
Prejudicial fury
Play of the Month21 Jan 79Freezing situation
Play’s The Thing, The02 Sep 73Donny, Spike and all that
Playing for Time18 Jan 81Auschwitz nightmare
Pleasure at Her Majesty’s02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Point Blank06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
Point in Time, A25 Feb 73Jokers at work
Poisoning of Charles Bravo, The 22 Jun 75
29 Jun 75
06 Jul 75		 Bombing the bombshell image
Here is the tennis situation
Beware of the dogs
Poisoning of Michigan, The27 Mar 77The fallible Pope
Poldark12 Oct 75The sandwich-man
Police Woman03 Aug 75Banging on about books
Police24 Jan 82Hamming it up
Pope Paul’s Easter Mass06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
Porridge 28 Dec 75
06 Jun 76
24 Jan 82		 A touch of menace
Blowing a Bloomsbury
Hamming it up
Portrait 28 Aug 77
11 Sep 77		 Woman’s Lab
The mind-grind
Portrait of a ‘Terrorist’22 Apr 79Of Bach and Berg
Poseidon Adventure, The30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Pot Black 25 Mar 73
22 Apr 73
03 Jun 73
05 May 74
20 Jun 76
27 Apr 80		 Home fires dampener
Call for the swordsmen
Nut week’s flying start
Noddy and the lunch-breaks
Hardware heroes
Armless in China
Power Without Glory17 Apr 77Roots of our time
Preludes01 Sep 74Cops and sopranos
Prepare to Meet Thy Boom04 May 75Fleeing and surviving
President Carter23 Sep 79The genuine jogger
President’s Son of a Bitch, The05 Oct 80Torture by Telethon
Preview07 Feb 82The wrong note
Price of Violence, The19 Nov 72The Great Weariness bogy
Pride and Prejudice03 Feb 80Question of quality
Prime Minister on Prime Ministers, A13 Nov 77Hammer and kisses
Prince Charles, Pilot Royal28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Prince for Our Time, A02 Aug 81The Day the World Watched
Prince Regent 09 Sep 79
28 Oct 79		 Hail and farewell
Monster’s return
Private Affairs01 Jun 75Formula for soap opera
Private Lives02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Private Schulz24 May 81No joking matter
Professional Foul08 Jan 78Soap opera parable
Professionals, The29 Jan 78Stand by for gunge
Promised Land, The09 Sep 73Two sides to the truth
Propaganda With Facts15 Jan 78Rose Bowl battle
Prostitute I Am — Common I’m Not16 Aug 81Amok in the Med
Public School 16 Sep 79
20 Jan 80
03 Feb 80
09 Mar 80		 Plonking purgatory
Cultural divisions
Question of quality
Woodhouse walkies
Public's Right to Know, The10 Mar 74Kahn goes Boom!
Punch Review28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Pursuit of Power, The31 May 81Snap judgments
Pye Television Awards, The28 May 78Mr Most fires his Revolver
Pygmalion26 Jan 75A lesson in great acting
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Q630 Nov 75The prisoners on our conscience
Q726 Feb 78Visions for Nelly
Q829 Apr 79Super-snookers
Q922 Jun 80This sporting life
QB VII02 May 76Writing by numbers
Quatermass 28 Oct 79
04 Nov 79		 Monster’s return
Sorry, Quaterfans!
Queen’s Garden, The18 Jul 76Horsiness and homage
Queen’s Silver Jubilee Appeal, The01 May 77Princely postures
Queen’s Silver Jubilee Gala, The05 Jun 77Hail to the Hall
Queen, The28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Question of Broadcasting, The15 May 77The Son-in-Law
Question of Faith, The30 Oct 77The smell of seaweed
Question of Ulster, The18 Mar 73Pins and needles
Question Time 28 Oct 79
15 Jun 80
02 Nov 80
08 Feb 81
07 Jun 81
20 Dec 81
21 Feb 82		 Monster’s return
Football fanaticism
Mary and the facts
Robin and the bullets
Just good friends
Dance of gold
Sent to sleep
Quiet as a Nun16 Apr 78Rumpled Rumpole
Quiller07 Sep 75Ski-ing down Everest
Quite a Family04 Nov 73The Borneo bomber
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Rabbit Pie Day16 Nov 80The talking ducks
Race for the Double Helix, The14 Jul 74That old sinking sensation
Race11 Sep 77The mind-grind
Ragazza, The30 Apr 78The Bad Old Sounds
Railway Children, The28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Rain on the Roof02 Nov 80Mary and the facts
Rather Reassuring Programme, The31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
Ravel21 Apr 74Real — but artificial
Read All About It 29 Jun 75
03 Aug 75
25 Jan 76
28 Nov 76		 Here is the tennis situation
Banging on about books
A Cambridge generation
Patrick and the lute
Ready When You Are, Mr de Mille16 Aug 81Amok in the Med
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill18 Jan 76Lenny the lecturer
Real Thing, The 23 Mar 80
30 Mar 80		 Shadows in Ulster
God help Europe
Real Time 14 Jan 73
21 Oct 73		 The search for Hitler
Fighting it out in a sandy sea
Really, Raquel05 May 74Noddy and the lunch-breaks
Rear Column, The20 Apr 80So long, Jeanne-Paul
Rebecca11 Feb 79Enoch’s answer
Red Alert 10 Jul 77
17 Jun 79		 Taking a shufti
Votes for Babs
Red Roses For Me13 Apr 80Master of the world
Rembrandt18 Jul 76Horsiness and homage
Remember All The Good Things06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
Remembering the Thirties01 Aug 76Olympic absolutes
Reporter At Large10 Jun 73It certainly can be bad, Sport!
Reporters, The15 Oct 72Bananas with the Duchess
Reports Action10 Jul 77Taking a shufti
Restless Eye, The01 Feb 81Mass in the crevasse
Return of Ulysses, The31 Aug 75Cosmological hokum
Return to the River Kwai29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Revivalist, The06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
Revolting Women 27 Sep 81
11 Oct 81		 Flights of fancy
Revolting jokes
Revolver28 May 78Mr Most fires his Revolver
Rex Whistler05 Oct 80Torture by Telethon
Rhythm on Two23 Jul 78Carry on Creating
Rich Man, Poor Man 18 Jul 76
25 Jul 76
22 May 77		 Horsiness and homage
Frank & David & Alan & Ron
The terrifying truth
Richard II17 Dec 78Disco dementia
Richard Nixon06 May 73Nixon through the night sky
Richard’s Things23 Aug 81To have or have not
Right Royal Company24 May 81No joking matter
Right to Live, the Right to Die, The23 Nov 75O for a glimpse of my friends!
Rigoletto16 Aug 81Amok in the Med
Ring of Bright Water and Beyond16 Sep 79Plonking purgatory
Rio Bravo06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
Ripping Yarns 23 Oct 77
28 Oct 79		 Champagne and subtlety
Monster’s return
Rise and Fall of DDT, The18 Aug 74From Ulster to the Osmonds
Rise of Mao Tsetung, The19 Sep 76Wet lips
Roadshow Disco 07 Oct 79
14 Oct 79		 Marginally better
Carry on Trekkies!
Robbie21 Aug 77Lament for Elvis
Robe, The06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
Robert Kee’s Ireland18 Jan 81Auschwitz nightmare
Robin Hood07 Dec 75Pounded by psychic energy
Robin’s Nest13 Feb 77Cloth-cap heroes
Robinson Crusoe05 Jan 75Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Robinson’s Travels 11 Sep 77
23 Dec 79		 The mind-grind
St Vitus’s gospel
Rock Around the Clock12 Oct 80High-speed maggots
Rock Athlete25 May 80Cutting a fine caper
Rock Follies 29 Feb 76
08 May 77		 Silly songs and fine follies
A lot of slop-over
Rock Follies of 7711 Dec 77Chastity pants
Rockford Files, The 16 Oct 77
11 Feb 79		 Water on the brain
Enoch’s answer
Rockstage31 May 81Snap judgments
Rod Stewart31 May 81Snap judgments
Rod the Mod Has Come of Age03 Oct 76The Britting of Rod
Rodeo Girl06 Mar 77Bumpy landings
Rogue Male26 Sep 76Speaking personally
Romance 13 Mar 77
27 Mar 77		 Beyond a joke
The fallible Pope
Romantic v. Classic Art17 Jun 73Caught by the throat
Romeo and Juliet10 Dec 78The fantastic voyage
Romer’s Egypt27 Sep 81Flights of fancy
Roots 17 Apr 77
08 May 77		 Roots of our time
A lot of slop-over
Roots of Yoga, The09 Jun 74Over-dumb about Yoga
Roses of Eyam, The17 Jun 73Caught by the throat
Rothschild and his Red Gold, A21 Apr 74Real — but artificial
Rough Justice 07 Aug 77
04 Sep 77		 Bamber’s Gospel
Bonjour twistesse
Roussos Phenomenon, The13 Jun 76Windy Phenomenon
Roustabout31 Aug 80Cash of the Day
Royal Appointment14 Dec 75Week of the Rats
Royal Festival Hall09 May 76Wotting not
Royal Fireworks, The02 Aug 81The Day the World Watched
Royal Heritage01 May 77Princely postures
Royal International Horse Show, The 18 Jul 76
24 Jul 77		 Horsiness and homage
Ransom and the owl
Royal Pursuit, A11 Jul 76Flash to Dr Who
Royal Tournament, The22 Jul 79Nucular Gold
Royal Variety Performance, The 12 Nov 72
21 Nov 76
19 Nov 78
30 Nov 80		 Hitler turned hood
Sir Oswald’s Whoppers
Tearful occasion
Heroes on wheels
Royal Windsor Big-Top05 Jun 77Hail to the Hall
Rubens03 Jul 77Harry’s Wmbldn
Rugby Special 27 Jan 74
09 Mar 75		 Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
Savaged by dog-lovers
Rule Britannia 26 Jul 81
23 Aug 81		 Mr Bellini’s Britain
To have or have not
Rumpole of the Bailey 21 Dec 75
16 Apr 78
24 Jun 79		 Gymnastic kitsch
Rumpled Rumpole
The work of Satan
Runaway, The25 Nov 73The jolly Swastika
Rural Rides08 Oct 72Dodging the big one
Rush19 Jul 81The riot reports
Russell Harty 19 Jan 75
02 Oct 77
23 Nov 80
01 Feb 81		 Taking the week’s pulse
Nicola Karenina
Taming Rod’s tiger
Mass in the crevasse
Russian — Language and People16 Mar 80Beautiful bear-hug
Russian Week13 Nov 77Hammer and kisses
Rutles, The02 Apr 78That sinking feeling
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’S Wonderful05 Jan 75Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Saboteurs of Telemark, The04 Mar 73Exaltation on ice
Sadie It’s Cold Outside27 Apr 75The main thing about Main
Sailor 08 Aug 76
22 Aug 76		 Paean to the military qualities
A load of burst balloons
Salome15 May 77The Son-in-Law
Salute to Fred Astaire03 Jan 82Walkies out West
Sam 17 Jun 73
24 Jun 73		 Caught by the throat
Don’t miss the bus
Samson et Dalila10 Jan 82A man of iron
Samurai19 Mar 78Swamped by the samurai
Sand Pebbles, The03 Jun 73Nut week’s flying start
Saturday Night at the Mill15 Jun 80Football fanaticism
Saturday, Sunday, Monday08 Jan 78Soap opera parable
Savage Bees, The03 Jan 82Walkies out West
Scaramouche16 Dec 73Happiness is Flynn-shaped
Scenario: The Peace Game11 May 75Playing up the plump side
School for Scandal, The23 Feb 75Children in the melting-pot
School Play18 Nov 79Beauty and the Beeb
Scoop15 Oct 72Bananas with the Duchess
Scott Trial, The04 May 75Fleeing and surviving
Scum29 Jan 78Stand by for gunge
Seagull Island16 Aug 81Amok in the Med
Seagull, The12 Feb 78Mao and Miao-yu
Search for Life16 Jun 74Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in
Seaside Special 25 Jul 76
07 Aug 77		 Frank & David & Alan & Ron
Bamber’s Gospel
Second Chance 01 Feb 81
08 Mar 81		 Mass in the crevasse
An admirable Adriana
Second House 14 Oct 73
27 Oct 74
09 Mar 75
17 Aug 75
07 Dec 75
14 Mar 76
06 Jun 76
25 Jul 76		 The phantom Phantoms
For the rest of their lives
Savaged by dog-lovers
Reality and the Bomb
Pounded by psychic energy
The man from Spandau
Blowing a Bloomsbury
Frank & David & Alan & Ron
Secret Orchards02 Mar 80The washed-up cat
Secret War, The09 Jan 77Hero of Our Time
Secret War of Dr Jones, The09 Jan 77Hero of Our Time
Secrets of Sleep, The23 Jun 74Black horror show
See You Sunday19 May 74O Lord, preserve us
Selling of Las Vegas, The01 Dec 74The way Miss World ends
Send In The Girls19 Mar 78Swamped by the samurai
Serpent Son, The 11 Mar 79
18 Mar 79		 Belfast dreamer
The sorry Serpent
Serpico 13 Feb 77
27 Feb 77		 Cloth-cap heroes
Moses hits the dirt
Seven Black Years, The04 May 75Fleeing and surviving
Seven Faces of Woman23 Jun 74Black horror show
Seven Seas to Calais25 Feb 79For good measure
Sez Les12 Nov 72Hitler turned hood
Shadow Line, The04 Jul 76Serving at 140 mph
Shadows of Light12 Oct 80High-speed maggots
Shadows on our Skin23 Mar 80Shadows in Ulster
Shah of Iran, The22 Jun 75Bombing the bombshell image
Shakespeare in Perspective 25 Feb 79
16 Dec 79		 For good measure
Dashing downhill
Shakespeare in Perspective: Hamlet01 Jun 80JR bites the dust
Shakespeare or Bust14 Jan 73The search for Hitler
Shattered Dream, The23 Aug 81To have or have not
Ship That Never Sailed, The28 Jul 74Checked and double checked
Shirley MacLaine08 Feb 76Set and match to Miss MacLaine
Shirley Williams in Conversation21 Oct 79Harold and Harry
Shock of the New, The 05 Oct 80
16 Nov 80		 Torture by Telethon
The talking ducks
Shoestring 30 Nov 80
06 Sep 81
17 Jan 82		 Heroes on wheels
Strong medicine
The ultimate sin
Shogun Inheritance, The06 Dec 81Grotto-Blotto
Shooting the Chandelier30 Oct 77The smell of seaweed
Shoulder to Shoulder 07 Apr 74
21 Apr 74
12 May 74		 Supercharged Suffragettes
Real — but artificial
Some Final thoughts
Show of the Week 25 Feb 73
15 Apr 73
07 Oct 73		 Jokers at work
Caught on the hop by Frost
With Whicker in a gay world
Showjumping from Hickstead 21 Jul 74
31 Aug 80		 Morecambe, Mercer and Wise
Cash of the Day
Shuttlecock16 May 76Stationary kicks
Sight and Sound in Concert16 Oct 77Water on the brain
Sign of the Pagan09 May 76Wotting not
Silent Running01 Jan 78Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Silver Tassie, The13 Apr 80Master of the world
Silverstone 7520 Apr 75Suffering the Budget’s birth-pangs
Sitting on a Fortune09 Dec 73The golden crumpet
Six Days of Justice04 May 75Fleeing and surviving
Six Faces 08 Oct 72
15 Oct 72		 Dodging the big one
Bananas with the Duchess
Six from Colditz10 Feb 74Facilitated to death
Six Million Dollar Man, The 26 Jan 75
16 Mar 75
20 Jun 76
10 Apr 77
15 Oct 78		 A lesson in great acting
Fired into operatic orbit
Hardware heroes
The Grade Gospel
Our bionic hero
Six Scenes From A Marriage02 Mar 75It’s all over, Ingmar
Skateboard Kings17 Sep 78Boredom enigma
Ski Sunday 26 Feb 78
24 Dec 78
21 Jan 79
16 Dec 79
11 Jan 81
08 Feb 81
24 Jan 82		 Visions for Nelly
Alpine idiocies
Freezing situation
Dashing downhill
Womb with a view
Robin and the bullets
Hamming it up
Sky at Night, The 10 Jun 73
03 Aug 75
14 Dec 75
02 Nov 80
19 Apr 81		 It certainly can be bad, Sport!
Banging on about books
Week of the Rats
Mary and the facts
Fun ride in space
Small City Garden, A17 Jul 77Thalassa pottahs
Snooker19 Jan 75Taking the week’s pulse
Snowdon on Camera31 May 81Snap judgments
Sodom and Gomorrah03 Jun 73Nut week’s flying start
Softly, Softly 17 Sep 72
08 Oct 72
04 Feb 73
16 Sep 73
06 Oct 74
27 Oct 74
17 Nov 74
31 Aug 75
12 Sep 76		 Blockbuster in a mist
Dodging the big one
Redeeming appearances
Moonbase blast-off
I’d just like to say...
For the rest of their lives
In praise of the lord
Cosmological hokum
Back to ‘The Brothers’
Soho After Dark07 Oct 79Marginally better
Solo01 Feb 81Mass in the crevasse
Solomon and Sheba02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em19 Nov 78Tearful occasion
Something Else 23 Sep 79
14 Oct 79		 The genuine jogger
Carry on Trekkies!
Something to Say03 Dec 72Lobbing match over a cat’s-cradle
Something’s Wrong01 Oct 78Horowitz in his heaven
Song at Twilight11 Feb 73Authority and control
Song for Europe, A 29 Feb 76
30 Mar 80
28 Mar 82		 Silly songs and fine follies
God help Europe
India to Hillhead
Song of Songs, The 03 Jun 73
24 Jun 73		 Nut week’s flying start
Don’t miss the bus
Sound of Music, The31 Dec 78Sound of Julie
South Bank Show, The 22 Jan 78
19 Feb 78
02 Apr 78
30 Apr 78
25 Jun 78
04 Mar 79
03 Jun 79
09 Dec 79
16 Dec 79
23 Dec 79
09 Mar 80
13 Apr 80
01 Jun 80
15 Jun 80
22 Feb 81
03 May 81
09 Aug 81
13 Dec 81
14 Feb 82		 The Arts! The Best!
Bad jokes, blind eyes
That sinking feeling
The Bad Old Sounds
They’re Going MAD!
Squirrel Nuttgens
Undying Hope
In deepest Dallas
Dashing downhill
St Vitus’s gospel
Woodhouse walkies
Master of the world
JR bites the dust
Football fanaticism
Bomb-happy Colonels
The Chinese connection
Load of Bagwash
Agitprop artists
The railway trio
Space 199930 Nov 75The prisoners on our conscience
Spaceships of the Mind09 Jul 78Desperate about Dan
Spearhead09 Aug 81Load of Bagwash
Special London Bridge Special, The18 Mar 73Pins and needles
Spectacular Britain05 Jan 75Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Spend, Spend, Spend20 Mar 77Odour situation
Spirit of ’76 16 May 76
23 May 76
30 May 76		 Stationary kicks
Klonged on the head
The Reaper
Spirit of Asia20 Jan 80Cultural divisions
Spirit of the Age21 Dec 75Gymnastic kitsch
Spitfire MII 43421 Sep 80Deep-sea spaghetti
Spitfire!16 May 76Stationary kicks
Spongers, The29 Jan 78Stand by for gunge
Sporting Superstars06 Jan 74Cleo in Cuckooland
Sports Review of 197514 Dec 75Week of the Rats
Sports Review of 197916 Dec 79Dashing downhill
Sports Special26 Jul 81Mr Bellini’s Britain
Sportsnight 13 May 73
05 May 74
23 Mar 75
08 May 77
16 Dec 79
08 Feb 81		 It’s Carry On Commentator
Noddy and the lunch-breaks
Hungry world
A lot of slop-over
Dashing downhill
Robin and the bullets
Sportsnight Special: England v. Brazil23 Apr 78Talking horse sense
Springhill04 Nov 73The Borneo bomber
Sprout07 Jul 74One minute of irrelevant silence
Spy Trap 16 Sep 73
21 Oct 73
23 Dec 73
04 May 75		 Moonbase blast-off
Fighting it out in a sandy sea
A distinct shortage of juice
Fleeing and surviving
SS28 Jun 81The SS criminals
St Matthew Passion, The22 Apr 79Of Bach and Berg
Stalin17 Sep 78Boredom enigma
Standard, The16 Apr 78Rumpled Rumpole
Stanley Baxter Big Picture Show, The30 Dec 73Anything for a laugh
Stanley Baxter’s Christmas Box02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Star is Born, A07 Jan 73Bad for biz
Star Trek 16 Sep 73
25 May 75
16 May 76
14 Oct 79		 Moonbase blast-off
The Great Re-tread Show
Stationary kicks
Carry on Trekkies!
Star-Maker, The10 Jan 82A man of iron
Stars on Sunday 19 May 74
14 Nov 76		 O Lord, preserve us
David and the machines
Stars on Sunday23 Jan 77Holy Moses
State of Emergency07 Dec 75Pounded by psychic energy
State of the Nation 20 Feb 77
15 Jul 79		 Wini und Wolf
Baebius lives!
Stavisky25 May 75The Great Re-tread Show
Stay With Me Till Morning13 Sep 81To hell with him
Steadfast Tin Soldier, The04 Nov 73The Borneo bomber
Steeleye Span In Concert15 Apr 73Caught on the hop by Frost
Stella Artois Grass Court Championships, The 22 Jun 80
14 Jun 81		 This sporting life
Prejudicial fury
Still in a Class of Their Own27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
Sting, The30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Stop to Think20 Jun 76Hardware heroes
Story of Ruth Ellis, The03 Jul 77Harry’s Wmbldn
Strauss Family, The26 Nov 72Rattigan revisited
Streetcar Named Desire, A10 May 81From Levin to Leakey
Stronger Than The Sun23 Oct 77Champagne and subtlety
Subject of Struggle, A01 Oct 72Confusing the issues
Success Story 28 Apr 74
05 May 74
12 May 74
19 May 74
03 Aug 75		 Barbarity to children
Noddy and the lunch-breaks
Some Final thoughts
O Lord, preserve us
Banging on about books
Suez 195602 Dec 79All the Anthonys
Summer of 7626 Sep 76Speaking personally
Summer of 7603 Oct 76The Britting of Rod
Sun is God, The22 Dec 74Pole-axed
Sunday Debate, The25 Mar 73Home fires dampener
Sunday Night at the London Palladium16 Dec 73Happiness is Flynn-shaped
Sunset Across the Bay23 Feb 75Children in the melting-pot
Sunshine in Brixton25 Apr 76Bronsonised
Supermind02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Supernatural07 Aug 77Bamber’s Gospel
Superstars 23 Nov 75
02 Jan 77
21 Jan 79		 O for a glimpse of my friends!
And now ... Supermind!
Freezing situation
Survival 20 Oct 74
25 Apr 76
28 Oct 79		 Bees with PhDs
Bronsonised
Monster’s return
Survival Special09 Jan 77Hero of Our Time
Survivors 20 Apr 75
04 May 75		 Suffering the Budget’s birth-pangs
Fleeing and surviving
Swan Lake31 Aug 80Cash of the Day
Sweeney, The 05 Jan 75
16 Mar 75		 Drama of JFK’s finest hour
Fired into operatic orbit
Sweeney 203 Jan 82Walkies out West
Swing Time31 Dec 78Sound of Julie
Sydney Opera House, The30 Sep 73Magnus Polo’s travels
Sykes27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
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Tales of Hoffmann, The11 Jan 81Womb with a view
Talk-in10 Dec 72Liberating Miss World
Tamarind Seed, The30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Taming of the Shrew, The26 Nov 72Rattigan revisited
Target Tirpitz25 Nov 73The jolly Swastika
Task Force01 Dec 74The way Miss World ends
Taste for Adventure 09 Feb 75
16 Mar 75		 Getting Mrs T into focus
Fired into operatic orbit
Taste of Britain, A27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
Taxi22 Jun 80This sporting life
Team, The27 May 73Allsop in wild New York City
Telethon05 Oct 80Torture by Telethon
Television Advertising02 Jun 74Consolations from America
Telford’s Change 14 Jan 79
04 Mar 79		 Banker Barkworth
Squirrel Nuttgens
Telling It Like It Is27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
Tempest, The02 Mar 80The washed-up cat
Ten Years On09 Sep 73Two sides to the truth
Tennis 8114 Jun 81Prejudicial fury
Tennis to Win10 Jun 79The Great Hwan
Terra Firma15 Feb 76Unintelligibühlity
Test Cricket17 Jul 77Thalassa pottahs
Testament of Youth 11 Nov 79
02 Dec 79		 Lord, deliver us
All the Anthonys
Thérèse Raquin 16 Mar 80
23 Mar 80
30 Mar 80		 Beautiful bear-hug
Shadows in Ulster
God help Europe
Thames at Six 20 Nov 77
23 Jul 78		 Waffen waffle
Carry on Creating
Thames News02 Aug 81The Day the World Watched
Thames Report 22 Jun 80
06 Jul 80		 This sporting life
That little bit extra
Thames Royal River Pageant and Fireworks, The12 Jun 77This Great Dace
Thank You, Comrades24 Dec 78Alpine idiocies
Thank You, Ron04 Nov 73The Borneo bomber
That Monday Morning Feeling 13 May 73
20 May 73		 It’s Carry On Commentator
Banging the door open
That’s Life 03 Jun 73
21 Mar 82		 Nut week’s flying start
Brilliant banality
That'’s The Way It Was21 Aug 77Lament for Elvis
The World Cup coverage11 Jun 78Chewing the sporran
These 25 Years17 Jul 77Thalassa pottahs
Thick as Thieves30 Jun 74So much for Stradivarius
Thinking Man as Hero, A 22 Apr 73
29 Apr 73		 Call for the swordsmen
Olivier’s Great Journey
Third Testament, A01 Feb 76The comic truth
Thirties Revisited, The01 Sep 74Cops and sopranos
This is Waugh 15 Aug 76
22 Aug 76
29 Aug 76		 Thoughts of Idi and Adolf
A load of burst balloons
Blood, Bron and black-outs
This Is Your Life 31 Dec 78
30 Dec 79		 Sound of Julie
Santa and the Seed
This Week 06 May 73
21 Oct 73
10 Nov 74
16 Feb 75
22 Feb 76
09 May 76
16 May 76
20 Jun 76
05 Sep 76
02 Jan 77
09 Jan 77
19 Feb 78
28 May 78		 Nixon through the night sky
Fighting it out in a sandy sea
Fighting over food
Gloriana to the rescue
Feeling disconnected
Wotting not
Stationary kicks
Hardware heroes
The rebellion that can’t be stopped
And now ... Supermind!
Hero of Our Time
Bad jokes, blind eyes
Mr Most fires his Revolver
This Year, Next Year13 Feb 77Cloth-cap heroes
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Three Days in Szczecin26 Sep 76Speaking personally
Three Piece Suite13 Mar 77Beyond a joke
Three’s One10 Jun 73It certainly can be bad, Sport!
Through the Night 07 Dec 75
07 Aug 77		 Pounded by psychic energy
Bamber’s Gospel
Till Tomorrow01 Sep 74Cops and sopranos
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 16 Sep 79
30 Sep 79
07 Oct 79
11 Oct 81		 Plonking purgatory
West wins through
Marginally better
Revolting jokes
'Tis Pity She’s a Whore11 May 80Going with a bang
Tiswas18 Feb 79The true artists
Tito Gobbi’s Tuscan Summer05 Sep 76The rebellion that can’t be stopped
To Die — To Live17 Aug 75Reality and the Bomb
To the Manor Born 28 Oct 79
06 Dec 81		 Monster’s return
Grotto-Blotto
Today 21 Jul 74
14 Mar 76
05 Dec 76		 Morecambe, Mercer and Wise
The man from Spandau
A load of punk
Together At Last tour with Pete Atkin23 Nov 75O for a glimpse of my friends!
Tom Thumb28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Tomkinson’s Schooldays11 Jan 76Coward’s tinsel classic
Tommy Cooper Hour, The30 Jun 74So much for Stradivarius
Tomorrow’s World 01 May 77
16 Sep 79
19 Apr 81		 Princely postures
Plonking purgatory
Fun ride in space
Tonight 12 Oct 75
21 Mar 76
27 Jun 76
26 Sep 76
07 Nov 76
21 Nov 76
28 Nov 76
05 Dec 76
12 Dec 76
03 Apr 77
01 May 77
12 Jun 77
19 Jun 77
03 Jul 77
16 Oct 77
15 Jan 78
18 Jun 78
17 Jun 79		 The sandwich-man
Prize performance
Matter of black and white
Speaking personally
Wisdom of the East
Sir Oswald’s Whoppers
Patrick and the lute
A load of punk
Last of the Romans
The fallible critic
Princely postures
This Great Dace
My fall from grais
Harry’s Wmbldn
Water on the brain
Rose Bowl battle
Lad from Stratford
Votes for Babs
Tonight with Danny La Rue29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Too Good to be True25 Feb 79For good measure
Top of the Hill25 Nov 79Getting in a panic
Top of the Pops 11 Mar 73
02 Sep 73
01 May 77
28 May 78
26 Nov 78
14 Jan 79
13 Jan 80
22 Mar 81		 Keeping the weenies quiet
Donny, Spike and all that
Princely postures
Mr Most fires his Revolver
Getting away with murder
Banker Barkworth
School for scandal
The Whacky World
Top of the Year07 Jan 73Bad for biz
Tora! Tora! Tora!02 Jan 77And now ... Supermind!
Tosca in Tokyo14 Oct 79Carry on Trekkies!
Total Eclipse15 Apr 73Caught on the hop by Frost
Town Like Alice, A21 Jun 81Satirical shots
Town Like New Orleans, A23 Aug 81To have or have not
Training at the Peking Circus12 Feb 78Mao and Miao-yu
Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way 27 Jan 80
09 Mar 80
16 Mar 80		 In the doghouse
Woodhouse walkies
Beautiful bear-hug
Treachery Game, The25 Jan 81Heavy with Snow
Treasures of Porto Santo, The27 Nov 77The amazing Mark
Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, The16 Jun 74Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in
Triangle 11 Jan 81
08 Feb 81
15 Feb 81		 Womb with a view
Robin and the bullets
Turning bright yellow
Tribal Eye, The 08 Jun 75
15 Jun 75
06 Jul 75		 In the land of Timbuctoo
A burning passion
Beware of the dogs
Trilby01 Feb 76The comic truth
Troubles, The18 Jan 81Auschwitz nightmare
True Grit29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Tuesday Documentary20 Jan 74Medicine man called Geller
TV Eye 14 Jan 79
15 Jul 79
27 Apr 80
15 Feb 81
22 Mar 81
05 Apr 81
28 Jun 81
21 Feb 82		 Banker Barkworth
Baebius lives!
Armless in China
Turning bright yellow
The Whacky World
Fingers on the trigger
The SS criminals
Sent to sleep
Twelfth Night19 May 74O Lord, preserve us
Twenty Years On11 Feb 79Enoch’s answer
Twiggs 06 Oct 74
04 May 75
23 Nov 75
07 Dec 75		 I’d just like to say...
Fleeing and surviving
O for a glimpse of my friends!
Pounded by psychic energy
Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler, The04 May 75Fleeing and surviving
Two Old Dears21 Jan 73Soap-operatic splendour
Two Ronnies, The 23 Dec 73
20 Nov 77
01 Jan 78
31 Dec 78		 A distinct shortage of juice
Waffen waffle
Tellie’s olde rubbishe
Sound of Julie
Two’s Company14 Sep 75The perfect butler
Tycoon01 Oct 78Horowitz in his heaven
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U-Boat War, The13 May 73It’s Carry On Commentator
UK Disco Championships19 Oct 80Heart of the matter
Ulster — Five Long Years18 Aug 74From Ulster to the Osmonds
Ulysses02 Apr 78That sinking feeling
Unanswered Question, The18 Jan 76Lenny the lecturer
Undefeated, The29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Under the Weather 26 Jul 81
09 Aug 81		 Mr Bellini’s Britain
Load of Bagwash
Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The 28 Jul 74
13 Jul 75
13 Jun 76		 Checked and double checked
Mankind’s perfect pet
Windy Phenomenon
United Kingdom13 Dec 81Agitprop artists
United States Open Golf Championship, The22 Jun 80This sporting life
Unity Dam12 Feb 78Mao and Miao-yu
Unity29 Mar 81Exporting our secrets
Unlucky Australians, The30 Sep 73Magnus Polo’s travels
Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The04 Feb 73Redeeming appearances
Unsettled Peace, The27 Oct 74For the rest of their lives
Up and Under27 Jan 74Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
Upchat Line, The09 Oct 77Heaven help we
Upstairs, Downstairs14 Sep 75The perfect butler
US Open Tennis Championships, The20 Sep 81The wasp way
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Van der Valk 17 Sep 72
11 Sep 77		 Blockbuster in a mist
The mind-grind
Vanishing Hedgerows, The27 Aug 72The Perry and Sherry show
Velvet Glove, The30 Jan 77Matter of rape
Venturers, The 12 Jan 75
19 Jan 75
26 Jan 75
09 Mar 75		 This is impossible
Taking the week’s pulse
A lesson in great acting
Savaged by dog-lovers
Very Like A Whale17 Feb 80Power-house Frank
Victims of Apartheid29 Oct 78Wilde and Whistler Show
Victor Borge10 Nov 74Fighting over food
Vienna 190020 Jan 74Medicine man called Geller
Vienna: The Mask of Gold08 May 77A lot of slop-over
Village Hall28 Jul 74Checked and double checked
Violins of Saint Jacques, The28 Nov 76Patrick and the lute
Voyage of Charles Darwin, The 05 Nov 78
19 Nov 78
10 Dec 78		 A case of the jitters
Tearful occasion
The fantastic voyage
Voyage Round My Father, A07 Mar 82Better than ever
Voysey Inheritance, The11 Feb 79Enoch’s answer
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Walk with Destiny08 Dec 74Blood, toil, tears — and Burton
War and Peace 01 Oct 72
08 Oct 72
22 Oct 72
11 Feb 73		 Confusing the issues
Dodging the big one
Cuddling up with Tolstoy
Authority and control
War Lord, The11 Oct 81Revolting jokes
War on Crime19 Jul 81The riot reports
War School, The13 Jan 80School for scandal
War That Never Ended, The09 Mar 75Savaged by dog-lovers
Warship 10 Jun 73
27 Oct 74
11 Jan 76		 It certainly can be bad, Sport!
For the rest of their lives
Coward’s tinsel classic
Wartime Screen, A04 May 75Fleeing and surviving
Was it ‘Before Hindsight’?19 Feb 78Bad jokes, blind eyes
Washington: Behind Closed Doors08 Jan 78Soap opera parable
Watch This Space10 Feb 80Blake’s balderdash
Water Margin, The 03 Oct 76
07 Nov 76		 The Britting of Rod
Wisdom of the East
Watercress Girl, The24 Sep 72Compassion in transit
Waterfall, The 16 Nov 80
23 Nov 80
30 Nov 80		 The talking ducks
Taming Rod’s tiger
Heroes on wheels
Way Out West29 Dec 74Christmas treats
Way the War was Won, The11 Nov 73The way the war was won?
Way We Live, The23 Mar 75Hungry world
We Call Them Killers18 Aug 74From Ulster to the Osmonds
We’ll Meet Again14 Mar 82Hill Street Joys
We, The Accused21 Sep 80Deep-sea spaghetti
Weather Machine, The24 Nov 74The wind machine
Web, The10 Dec 72Liberating Miss World
Wednesday Love11 May 75Playing up the plump side
Week With Svetlana, A14 Mar 82Hill Street Joys
Weekend in Vermont10 Apr 77The Grade Gospel
Weekend World 05 Nov 72
19 Oct 80
02 Nov 80
01 Feb 81
07 Jun 81		 Eating your interviewer
Heart of the matter
Mary and the facts
Mass in the crevasse
Just good friends
What Choice For Your Child Now?09 Jan 77Hero of Our Time
What Do You Think Of It So Far?05 Sep 76The rebellion that can’t be stopped
What is Jazz?28 Jul 74Checked and double checked
What On Earth Are We Doing?31 Mar 74Enter the Chancellor
What the Papers Say 07 Jul 74
12 Sep 76
09 Mar 80		 One minute of irrelevant silence
Back to ‘The Brothers’
Woodhouse walkies
What’s It All About?13 Jan 74Through dune and wadi
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 11 Mar 73
06 Jan 74
10 Feb 74
17 Mar 74
15 Dec 74
16 Mar 75		 Keeping the weenies quiet
Cleo in Cuckooland
Facilitated to death
Children of the Holy War
Knocked out by Ali
Fired into operatic orbit
Wheels 11 Jun 78
18 Jun 78		 Chewing the sporran
Lad from Stratford
When Johnny Comes Marching Home25 Mar 73Home fires dampener
When the Boat Comes In 15 Feb 76
13 Feb 77		 Unintelligibühlity
Cloth-cap heroes
Where Eagles Dare30 Dec 79Santa and the Seed
Where It Matters14 Jun 81Prejudicial fury
Where Karpov is King13 Nov 77Hammer and kisses
Where We Live Now 25 Feb 79
04 Mar 79		 For good measure
Squirrel Nuttgens
Whicker 28 Jul 74
30 May 76
20 Jun 76		 Checked and double checked
The Reaper
Hardware heroes
Whicker Down Under23 May 76Klonged on the head
Whicker Way Out West07 Oct 73With Whicker in a gay world
Whicker’s South Seas11 Mar 73Keeping the weenies quiet
Whicker’s World: California20 Apr 80So long, Jeanne-Paul
Whicker’s World: Vienna28 Sep 75Margot My Way
Whicker’s World 11 Sep 77
18 May 80		 The mind-grind
The girls — and Len
White Bird Passes, The27 Apr 80Armless in China
White Rhodesia31 Jul 77Digesting Japan
White Tribe of Africa, The14 Jan 79Banker Barkworth
Who is Buying Up Britain?10 Nov 74Fighting over food
Who Needs a Conductor?24 Jun 73Don’t miss the bus
Who Said That?08 Aug 76Paean to the military qualities
Who Says It Could Never Happen Here25 Jan 76A Cambridge generation
Whoops Baghdad28 Jan 73When life begins at fifty
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?06 Apr 80Flashing frost-bite
Wilde Alliance29 Jan 78Stand by for gunge
Wildlife on One 16 Jan 77
24 Jul 77
15 Feb 81
20 Sep 81		 Charlie’s brainless angels
Ransom and the owl
Turning bright yellow
The wasp way
Will Shakespeare 18 Jun 78
23 Jul 78		 Lad from Stratford
Carry on Creating
William Cowper in Olney17 Aug 80Donging the gong
Wimbledon 07 Jul 74
29 Jun 75
06 Jul 75
04 Jul 76
03 Jul 77
02 Jul 78
08 Jul 79
29 Jun 80
06 Jul 80
13 Jul 80
28 Jun 81
05 Jul 81		 One minute of irrelevant silence
Here is the tennis situation
Beware of the dogs
Serving at 140 mph
Harry’s Wmbldn
Wonderful Wmln
Last British Hope
Bouncing raindrops
That little bit extra
What a gentleman!
The SS criminals
Dan’s winning lob
Wimbledon 7809 Jul 78Desperate about Dan
Wimbledon coverage01 Jul 79Days of Dan
Wind and the Lion, The15 Jun 80Football fanaticism
Wings 16 Jan 77
13 Feb 77		 Charlie’s brainless angels
Cloth-cap heroes
Wings of the Dove, The15 Apr 79O’er col and cwm
Wings Over the World15 Apr 79O’er col and cwm
Winifred Wagner20 Feb 77Wini und Wolf
Winslow Boy, The23 Jan 77Holy Moses
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years13 Sep 81To hell with him
Winter Olympic Games coverage24 Feb 80The British Miracle
Winter’s Journey, A26 Nov 78Getting away with murder
Winter’s Tale, The15 Feb 81Turning bright yellow
Within These Walls 27 Jan 74
12 Sep 76		 Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
Back to ‘The Brothers’
Wizard of Oz, The28 Dec 75A touch of menace
Wodehouse Playhouse27 Apr 75The main thing about Main
Wolcott25 Jan 81Heavy with Snow
Women in Captivity01 Jul 79Days of Dan
Women of Courage10 Aug 80Back to Rameses
Wonder Woman 22 Jun 80
16 Jul 78		 This sporting life
Liberated Sisters
Wonderful Amy11 May 75Playing up the plump side
Wood and Walters 31 Jan 82
14 Feb 82		 Ding dong bats
The railway trio
Wooldridge View, The 08 Jul 79
22 Jul 79		 Last British Hope
Nucular Gold
Word of Mouth08 Aug 76Paean to the military qualities
Word, The 20 May 79
03 Jun 79		 Football funnies
Undying Hope
World About Us, The 25 Mar 73
27 May 73
06 Jan 74
27 Jan 74
07 Apr 74
28 Jul 74
18 Aug 74
08 Dec 74
09 Mar 75
30 Mar 75
31 Aug 75
21 Dec 75
04 Jul 76
25 Jul 76
05 Jun 77
09 Oct 77
16 Oct 77
15 Oct 78
29 Oct 78
26 Nov 78
21 Sep 80
01 Feb 81
22 Feb 81
20 Sep 81
14 Mar 82		 Home fires dampener
Allsop in wild New York City
Cleo in Cuckooland
Rugby-watcher’s sob-story
Supercharged Suffragettes
Checked and double checked
From Ulster to the Osmonds
Blood, toil, tears — and Burton
Savaged by dog-lovers
Wishing you welcome
Cosmological hokum
Gymnastic kitsch
Serving at 140 mph
Frank & David & Alan & Ron
Hail to the Hall
Heaven help we
Water on the brain
Our bionic hero
Wilde and Whistler Show
Getting away with murder
Deep-sea spaghetti
Mass in the crevasse
Bomb-happy Colonels
The wasp way
Hill Street Joys
World Amateur Latin-American Championships20 Apr 75Suffering the Budget’s birth-pangs
World At War, The 04 Nov 73
25 Nov 73
06 Jan 74
24 Feb 74
31 Mar 74
21 Apr 74
15 Aug 76		 The Borneo bomber
The jolly Swastika
Cleo in Cuckooland
Earnest and the Election
Enter the Chancellor
Real — but artificial
Thoughts of Idi and Adolf
World Championship Darts18 Feb 79The true artists
World Championship Snooker 29 Apr 79
26 Apr 81		 Super-snookers
The Grand Inquisitors
World Chess Championships, The11 Oct 81Revolting jokes
World Cinema25 Nov 73The jolly Swastika
World Cup 30 Jun 74
07 Jul 74
14 Jul 74
04 Jun 78		 So much for Stradivarius
One minute of irrelevant silence
That old sinking sensation
Ballroom baloney
World Cup coverage16 Jun 74Kick-off at the World Cup sleep-in
World Cup Grandstand07 Jun 81Just good friends
World Disco Dancing Championships, The 17 Dec 78
23 Dec 79		 Disco dementia
St Vitus’s gospel
World Figure Skating Championships, The 04 Mar 73
06 Mar 77
21 Mar 82		 Exaltation on ice
Bumpy landings
Brilliant banality
World Freestyle Dancin’ Championships, The20 Dec 81Dance of gold
World Gymnastics05 Nov 78A case of the jitters
World Heavyweight Boxing Championship03 Nov 74Taking it below the chin
World in a Box, The29 Aug 76Blood, Bron and black-outs
World in Action 17 Sep 72
01 Oct 72
08 Oct 72
15 Oct 72
26 Nov 72
10 Dec 72
18 Mar 73
22 Apr 73
06 May 73
13 May 73
20 May 73
27 May 73
17 Jun 73
24 Feb 74
10 Nov 74
26 Jan 75
09 Feb 75
23 Mar 75
27 Apr 75
18 May 75
06 Jul 75
13 Mar 77
03 Apr 77
31 Jul 77
09 Oct 77
26 Nov 78
20 Jan 80
30 Mar 80
08 Jun 80		 Blockbuster in a mist
Confusing the issues
Dodging the big one
Bananas with the Duchess
Rattigan revisited
Liberating Miss World
Pins and needles
Call for the swordsmen
Nixon through the night sky
It’s Carry On Commentator
Banging the door open
Allsop in wild New York City
Caught by the throat
Earnest and the Election
Fighting over food
A lesson in great acting
Getting Mrs T into focus
Hungry world
The main thing about Main
The need to be everybody
Beware of the dogs
Beyond a joke
The fallible critic
Digesting Japan
Heaven help we
Getting away with murder
Cultural divisions
God help Europe
Chaos situations
World of Hugh M. Hefner, The03 Feb 74It really is fantastic!
World of Liberace, The02 Sep 73Donny, Spike and all that
World of Percussion, A15 Jun 75A burning passion
World of Sport 01 Jan 78
25 Jun 78
25 Feb 79
23 Dec 79
27 Apr 80
08 Jun 80
19 Oct 80
30 Nov 80		 Tellie’s olde rubbishe
They’re Going MAD!
For good measure
St Vitus’s gospel
Armless in China
Chaos situations
Heart of the matter
Heroes on wheels
World of the Eleventh Duke, The08 Jul 73Blue-bloods on parade
World Professional Snooker Championship, The 27 Apr 80
04 May 80		 Armless in China
Blitzed by the ATS
World Snooker07 May 78Mere mortal Mans
World Table Tennis Championships, The03 Apr 77The fallible critic
World’s Worst Air-Crash, The23 Feb 75Children in the melting-pot
Worldwide 10 Nov 74
16 May 76		 Fighting over food
Stationary kicks
Worldwide: China Today06 Oct 74I’d just like to say...
Writers and Places23 Mar 80Shadows in Ulster
Writing on the Wall, The10 Apr 77The Grade Gospel
Writing’s on the Wall, The17 Feb 74The Merchant of Miller
Wuthering Heights 30 Dec 73
01 Oct 78
08 Oct 78		 Anything for a laugh
Horowitz in his heaven
Wuthering Depths
Wynford 25 Aug 74
01 Sep 74		 Fuzz on the screen
Cops and sopranos
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XYY Man, The28 Aug 77Woman’s Lab
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Year of the Torturer, The16 Dec 73Happiness is Flynn-shaped
Year She Came in, The06 Feb 77Hailsham’s royal hoorays
Year Zero04 Nov 79Sorry, Quaterfans!
Yesterday’s Witness 02 Sep 73
13 Jul 75
24 Jun 79		 Donny, Spike and all that
Mankind’s perfect pet
The work of Satan
You Never Can Tell06 Nov 77Pulling the plugs
You Were Never Lovelier20 Nov 77Waffen waffle
You’ll Never Get Rich29 Jun 80Bouncing raindrops
You’re On Your Own16 Mar 75Fired into operatic orbit
Young Joe13 Jul 80What a gentleman!
Young Man and the Lion, The17 Jul 77Thalassa pottahs
Young Scientists of the Year17 Feb 74The Merchant of Miller
Youngblood Hawke04 Mar 79Squirrel Nuttgens
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Z-Cars 17 Sep 72
08 Oct 72
04 Feb 73
17 Jun 73
13 Jan 74
16 Mar 75
03 Sep 78		 Blockbuster in a mist
Dodging the big one
Redeeming appearances
Caught by the throat
Through dune and wadi
Fired into operatic orbit
Green Beef
Zone of Occupation06 Dec 81Grotto-Blotto
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1,000 Plane Raid, The07 Jul 74One minute of irrelevant silence
199016 Oct 77Water on the brain
2001: A Space Odyssey03 Jan 82Walkies out West
20th-Century Fox Presents06 Apr 75The agony of Vietnam
25 Years Ago — ‘Tonight’21 Feb 82Sent to sleep
3-2-128 Oct 79Monster’s return
40 Minutes22 Nov 81Fanatic devotion
4th M/F. Sh. Flat07 Jan 73Bad for biz
50 Years of Music12 Nov 72Hitler turned hood
6 O’Clock Show, The17 Jan 82The ultimate sin
79 Park Avenue04 Jun 78Ballroom baloney
84 Charing Cross Road24 Jul 77Ransom and the owl
Updated 19th June 2024