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Thursday, 15 October 2026

More Half-Recalled Sixties and Seventies TV

More Half-recalled TV from when I was a kid dragged up like partly-eaten waffles through the mists of time! Without googling can you expand? 

Kodiak: Canadian bear country Cop ranger?

Man Alive: adult news like Panorama? Yawn!

Nationwide: more News? Regional? Double Yawn! 

Highway: holy stuff with singing Harry Secombe? Not for me.

Songs of Praise: even more Sunday evening Holy Harry?

Morph: Vision On's Wallace?

Casey Jones: a happy steam train driver?

Astronut: cartoon alien with TV aerial who befriends an ordinary Joe?

Going for a Song: Arthur Negus antiques roadshow?

Dill Death Do Us Part: scouse git was said a lot. Pipe smoking politics. Cherie Blair's Dad?

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: early safe American Dad?

Please Sir: Seventies classroom mayhem with lots of denim and lipstick?

Fenn Street Gang: Please Sir in the street?

Lotus Eaters: Greek ex-pat soap yarn?

Man at the Top: a big Truckin' boss?

The Baron: a cop show?

Man About House: Dick Turpin in a flat?

The Lovers: Godber with girls?

Film Review: Barry Norman's movie talk?

Clapperboard: Kids movie talk?

Screen Test: kids movie quiz?

Krypton Factor: assault course show in the cold North of England?

It's a Knockout: Krypton Factor and Eurovision mixed together somewhere Continental?

Flying Doctors: was this the same as Woobinda?

Galloping Gourmet: chef who grabbed an audience member to eat? 

Omnibus: arty farty stuff?

Arena: even more arty farty stuff?

Belle and Sebastian: french boy with his huge Dulux dog living in the snow?

Wag: about a dog that thinks it's human?

Can anyone add anything? Without googling! 

2 comments:

  1. lewis P morley10/15/2026 10:25 pm

    No Googling as ordered, Sah!
    29 titles, I remember 17 of them.
    How about adding
    The Freewheelers and Time Slip.
    Ten Town and Skippy and The Stranger and Barrier Reef? (All Aussie exports I saw on UK telly as a kid)

    ...and do any Moonbasers remember Robinson Crusoe or Captain Stepos?

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  2. I recognize Kodiak. It was about an Alaskan State Trooper, and starred Clint Walker I think. Short lived, but I liked it.
    Jim D.
    Henderson NV

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