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Keeping Down with the Joneses
Romany Jones was a cursed show, possibly because it took the Romany name in vain. Writers Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe (the other Two Ronnies) devised the show when it was still riding high with the continuing success of On the Buses.
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Excited about Apathy
Thanks to the canonical status of the BBC’s Wednesday Play and Play for Today strands, people have a selective memory when it comes to the single play. We tend to remember two particular types of drama whenever the form is mentioned as something now gone that British Television used to do…
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Stone-cold Chills
A quick confession: I approached this DVD release through a haze of other people’s nostalgia. It’s a seven-part chiller from 1977 which is often fondly remembered by fans of TV horror, but I was just six when it was originally broadcast and so failed to catch it on original transmission.
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Pathfinders in Space Competition
Thanks to Network DVD we’re pleased to offer you the chance to win some DVD box sets Read more
Nuns On the Run
Andrew Davies has carved out such a niche in the last couple of decades for sexed-up literary adaptations that it’s easy to overlook a prolific CV that stretches back to the 1960s. But there are probably only two series among his pre-1990s work that stand out for attention among the various one-off plays and adaptations…
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