PHILISTINES!!!

How could they have left out Out Of Town, Falcon Island, Newsround Extra, The Song And The Story, Duncan Dares, Larry The Lamb, Dr Finlay's Casebook, Mr Pastry, The Space Sentinels, Paddles Up!, Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, This Week Next Week, that thing where the House Of Commons turns into a big crocodile, Bob's Full House, or that thing with Jayne McDonald???

Whoops!


Forgot to include Blake's 7. Sorry!

I think that thing where The House of Commons turns into a big crocodile is one of the funkiest things on TV (the opening sequence that is, not the pompfest of a programme which ensues afterwards).

"On The Record"? No, that's quite good actually.

And what about:

The Clive James Show
Clarkson
Star For A Night
Stars In Their Eyes
Big Break
Seinfeld

>The BFI Middle 100.
>
>The British Film Institute has announced its list of the most resoundingly average television broadcast in Britain over the past 50 years.
>
>A broad panel of television experts, including Marcus Plantin, Baz Bamigboye, Dick Fiddy and Eamonn Holmes, registered their choices and the final 100 are printed here for the first time.
>
>Not bad, but not very good either, these are the hundred programmes that really made Britain sit up and say, “Oh, I'll watch it if it's on.”
>
>
>1 Sunday Grandstand
>2 That's Life
>3 Go With Noakes
>4 60 Minutes
>5 It'll Be Alright On The Night 3
>6 One By One
>7 Ask The Family
>8 Time Team
>9 Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds
>10 U.F.O.
>11 Rhodes Around Britain
>12 Do They Mean Us?
>13 Kickstart
>14 Maisie Raine
>15 It Ain't Half Hot Mum
>16 Going For Gold
>17 Return Of The Saint
>18 A Round With Alliss
>19 Harry Hill
>20 A Touch Of Frost
>21 Who Dares Wins
>22 The Chinese Detective
>23 Last Of The Summer Wine
>24 The 11 O' Clock Show
>25 The 6 O' Clock Show
>26 When Animals Attack 2
>27 What A Carry On!
>28 Pie In The Sky
>29 How Do They Do That?
>30 Filthy, Rich and Catflap
>31 Sykes
>32 Auf Wiedersehen Pet Series 2
>33 Fast Forward
>34 Chance In A Million
>35 The Goodies
>36 Tucker's Luck
>37 Wacaday
>38 In At The Deep End
>39 This Morning With Richard Not Judy
>40 Doctor Snuggles
>41 Fairly Secret Army
>42 Emmerdale Farm
>43 The Two Ronnies
>44 Driving School
>45 Film 83
>46 Catchword
>47 The Good Old Days
>48 The 8.15 From Manchester
>49 Naked Video
>50 Aspel & Co
>51 The Gentle Touch
>52 Highway
>53 The Hitman and Her
>54 Dear John…
>55 Child's Play
>56 Streetmate
>57 An Audience With Bob Monkhouse
>58 Juliet Bravo
>59 Lovejoy
>60 Dee Time
>61 Alas Smith And Jones
>62 By The Sword Divided
>63 The Roxy
>64 Record Breakers
>65 Sports Review Of The Year 1976
>66 Hold Down A Chord
>67 Angels
>68 The Clothes Show
>69 A Question of Sport
>70 Tomorrow's World Innovation Awards 1981
>71 The Victorian Kitchen Garden
>72 The Perishers
>73 There's A Lot Of It About
>74 Jack High
>75 Wildtrack
>76 Johnny Ball Reveals All
>77 To The Manor Born
>78 Seaview
>79 The Lenny Henry Show
>80 Keep It In The Family
>81 Canned Carrott
>82 Only When I Laugh
>83 Telly Addicts
>84 Stanley Baxter's Christmas Annual
>85 Karaoke
>86 No Limits
>87 Countdown
>88 Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
>89 My Music
>90 Crown Court
>91 Harry Enfield and Chums
>92 The New Avengers
>93 Graham's Gang
>94 The Pyramid Game
>95 Chip's Comic
>96 Pebble Mill at One
>97 Clapperboard
>98 Sean's Show
>99 The Champions
>100 We Are The Champions
>

Harry Hill!?

Bad boy, dirty boy, in your bed!

How could any of you overlook "Howard's Way" - the most relentlessly average TV show ever, which was never good yet never crossed the line into being actually bad?

FACT: Cindy Shelley, who was in HW, was in loads of Young Ones episodes because she was Ben Elton's girlfriend. She was also in Tenko, which some people claim was quite good, though I never rated it myself. She has not been in anything for ages and may have given up acting.

And there was Castles, which pitched for the HW level, but was axed after 1 series. And Strike It Rich (drama series) which was however quite bad in places.

The various thrillers written by Michael J Bird:
- Who Pays The Ferryman?
- Maelstrom
- that other one he did, forgotten the name

Or do some of you want to argue they were really good, actually?

"Call Me Mister" (Robert Banks Stewart effort from '86, ran fro 1 series). Or would you say that was bad? I can't rememeber that well.

Has Bergerac been named yet? I would say that was average. It was never that exciting or interesting, but it was watchable.

How could I forget:

"Keep It In The Family"
...and, more recently...
"My Family"

In fact anything with the word family in the title.

>"Call Me Mister" (Robert Banks Stewart effort from '86, ran fro 1 series). Or would you say that was bad? I can't rememeber that well.
>
Call Me Mister Managed 2 series ( honest ) . The first was superb Middle of the Road Banks-Stewart fest . With Precious Matthews from Grange hill as a singer in it ....the shower scene stuck in the memory...:¬}

The first( ie expensive) series of Lovejoy was actually VERY good , only when they massacred the budget and got whimsical did fall on its arse .

"The first( ie expensive) series of Lovejoy was actually VERY good"

True. It started out in 1985, same season as Strike It Rich and Howard's Way. Then they left it for about 5 years before giving it another go.

>The BFI Middle 100.
>
>The British Film Institute has announced its list of the most resoundingly average television broadcast in Britain over the past 50 years.
>
>A broad panel of television experts, including Marcus Plantin, Baz Bamigboye, Dick Fiddy


Oh, have a go at Fiddy by all means, after all he wouldn't help out the Corpses over that Python business, but don't have a go at the BFI's TV officer, Veronica Taylor, 'cos she's lovely.