Provocative documentaries about forbidden culture, from the days when Channel 4 was still a credible and daring broadcaster.
Tag: British TV
Britcoms Down Under
The odd world of Australian continuations of British TV sitcoms that had already run out of steam back home.
The Kick In The Teeth Of Daytime TV Advertising
Awful aspirationalism, guilt-tripping grifters and insults to even the most undeveloped of intelligence – British TV advertising on daytime TV is a bombardment of dreadfulness.
Continental Pleasures For Adults Only: Shock Treatment And The Thrills Of Late Night TV In The 1970s
A controversial French paranoid classic, the search for nudity on late-night television and the accidental discovery of world cinema: memories of the 1970s.
This Was Their Lives: TV’s Sycophantic Celebrity Biographies
A selection of classic episodes from the UK edition of This Is Your Life.
Beware Of Mr Shark: Ted Rogers’ Toothless Jaws Cash-In
The host of 3-2-1 battles killer sharks on a comedy record.
Enter The Real World In 3D
British TV’s first unsuccessful attempt to conquer the third dimension.
The Lovers And The Underrated Charms Of The 1970s Sit Com Film Adaptation
The movies based on British sit-coms of the 1970s are better than you might have been led to believe.
Portrait Of A Grumpy Old Man: The Quatermass Conclusion
Nigel Kneale’s final outing for Professor Quatermass is a bitterly misanthropic attack on youth and society by a man who felt himself above it all.
The Solarnauts – Britain’s Lost Sci-Fi Show
The trashy but fun pilot for a 1967 space opera TV series is well worth a look.
Out Of The Unknown – The Pioneering British Science Fiction TV Series
The classic and literary BBC sci-fi series from the 1960s.
Kate Bush On Swap Shop
The collision of a serious artist and Saturday morning TV phone-ins.