Billy Bean and his friend Yoo-Hoo the cuckoo operate a machine, which features such devices as a windmill, a Dorset-Faucet and a cartoonerator which draws magic pictures.
Comedic stories of a gluttonous, lazy, deceitful, self-important and conceited schoolboy that was all the rage in the 1950s.
Big band, big sound and big big personality - with a rousing call of "Wakey-Wakey" Billy Cotton introduced an inexhaustible 50 minutes of non-stop music, dancing and comedy in the essential weekend variety revue that was a stalwart of BBC programming for 12 years.
Adapted from the highly successful novel/play/film by successful writing team Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, this version of Billy Liar was updated by them to make it more relevant to the early 1970s.
Short-lived domestic sitcom starring the old crooner himself in an unfamiliar role
Better...stronger...faster...Jaime Sommers is The Bionic Woman
This NBC reimagining of the 1970s mega-hit series starring British actress Michelle Ryan as a young woman whose life is saved by the implementation of enhanced bionics was short lived. NBC missed a trick in not giving it a fair chance to fully develop...
Sitcom in which sisters Sharon and Tracey are left alone to fend for themselves following each of their husband's imprisonment for armed robbery. As if that wasn't bad enough, they also have to contend with nosey next door neighbour, Dorien.
Set in a small Yorkshire town where everybody knows everybody else's business, 'A Bit Of A Do' gave another British comedy writer the chance to poke fun at one of the country's favourite preoccupations - class distinction.
Sharp, funny, surreal and intelligent comedy sketches written and performed by renowned duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.