We’ve covered Doomwatch before – the unlikely hit BBC TV programme about the exciting adventures of a Government department which aired for three series in the early 70s. Such a huge hit was the TV show, that […]
Next of Kin is a 21 year old sitcom with a charmingly macabre premise. Starring sitcom stalwarts Penelope Keith and William Gaunt it is one of very few comedy programmes with a central premise concerning […]
The Ginger Tree was a unique programme in the history of television – made in 1989 it was the very first drama ever shot in HD. I have written about this in the past, when […]
Doomwatch finally comes to DVD for the first time in all of its remaining glory. A victim of the cultural vandalism of the 1970s when the BBC happily wiped loads of their programmes because they needed […]
The Children of Green Knowe is quite, quite lovely. It’s the sort of beautifully measured terribly middle class family fare adapted from classic children’s literature which the BBC excelled at during the 1980s. The final […]