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Member	Item		Review/Comment
TheJudge 1st Oct 2015		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	cpt: When you open a comment box, look at the 'chain' icon at the top of the box (to the left of the YouTube icon). If you click on that, it'll give you fields to enter 1) any text and 2) the url of the page you want to link to. Then you just click on 'Insert' and it'll put it in the comment box.
TheJudge 14th Sep 2015		TV The Galloping Gourmet (1968 - 1972)	This series was shown as a filler on BBC TV in the early 70s. His more recent series (where he'd gone over to healthier cuisine) was shown in mid-afternoon slots in some ITV regions in the 90s.
TheJudge 18th Jul 2015		TV Grandstand (1958 - 2007)	No, the wrestling was on World Of Sport on ITV.
TheJudge 27th Jun 2015		TV The Water Margin (1977)	Oh how I remember my school-friends and me forever quoting the line from the opening: "Do not despise the snake for having no horns; for who is to say it will not become a dragon."
TheJudge 27th Jun 2015		TV The Benny Hill Show (1955 - 1989)	Not a 'rewritten' version of The Ballad Of Irving at all. It follows a fairly similar story-line, perhaps, but the suggestion in your comment that Hill plagiarised is pretty wide of the mark.
TheJudge 25th Jun 2015		TV The New Avengers (1976 - 1977)	RIP John Steed: BBC
TheJudge 25th Jun 2015		TV The Avengers (1961 - 1969)	RIP John Steed: BBC
TheJudge 25th Jun 2015		TV Tiswas (1974 - 1982)	The first series (possibly the first two?) were shown in the English Midlands only (it was made by ATV, the local ITV franchise holder). Tarrant was there from the beginning, but his main co-presenter was John Asher. They were joined by three other ATV 'personalities': Peter Tomlinson (who was a senior announcer), Terry Thomas (who presented the station's angling programme) and Trevor East, who was Head of Sports programming). East was constantly mocked for his support of Derby County FC (odd, because at that time, 'The Rams' were one of England's top clubs). There's debate about exactly what 'TISWAS' stood for (apart from 'absolutely anything', of course!). The usual formulation at the time was 'Today Is Saturday - Watch And Smile'.
TheJudge 24th Jun 2015		TV The Fantastic Four [1967-1968] (1967 - 1968)	I remember it.
TheJudge 24th Jun 2015		TV The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop (1969 - 1970)	Come on , henry, spell it right! It's "Hey-ulp!!" ;-)
TheJudge 23rd Jun 2015		TV Top Cat (1961 - 1962)	Some of us have never been able to hear the theme (the closing theme in particular) without hearing that ruddy jump resulting from the edit. The BBC were often very silly about this; an edition of Down Your Way once had to refer to it coming from "a car factory in Dagenham" throughout, because they weren't allowed to use the word 'Ford'.
TheJudge 22nd Jun 2015		TV The Big Match (1968 - 1992)	I haven't been able to find an answer, but I've asked at a broadcasting history forum I'm on and I'll pass any info on as I get it. PS: "Brian Moore's head looks uncannily like London Planetarium" (See Side 1 Track 5 here).
TheJudge 22nd Jun 2015		TV The Big Match (1968 - 1992)	Because of the regionalised nature of ITV (which should never have been abandoned in my view), most parts of Englandandwales had their own programmes of this sort: Granada had The Kick-Off Match, ATV had Star Soccer, but I can't remember what the other ones were called... "Pictures are from Tyne-Tees Television, the commentator is Kenneth Wolstenholme, and Newcastle are in the striped shirts" Each region had its own main commentator as well: Kenneth Wolstenholme in the NE, John Helm in Yorkshire, Gerald Sinstadt in the NW, Hugh Johns in the midlands, Gerry Harrison in the east, Martin Tyler (I think) in the south, and Bob Symonds in Wales.
TheJudge 7th Jun 2015		TV The Goodies (1970 - 1982)	The standard varied, as it always will do in a long-running series, but at its best it was unmissable. The famous South Africa episode (in which Bill falls foul of South Africa's 'Apart-height' laws) was actually a mind-opener for me at the age of about 13, as it made me realise that discriminating against anyone on the grounds of any physical characteristic or attribute was what social scientists call 'bloody stupid'. The episode embedded below was responsible for a man on Humberside literally dying of laughter when it was shown.
TheJudge 3rd Jun 2015		TV The Tomorrow People (1973 - 1979)	It was a big favourite of mine too, deltic, at least up to about series 3. It was one of my first major disillusionments when I realised that I was never going to be a Tomorrow Person. As you hinted, the show suffered from a very limited budget, but that title sequence was something special (and Dudley Simpson never wrote a better theme than this one!): [YouTube Video] There's also a video of guitarist Steve Dell doing an acoustic guitar version of it which is just fantastic: (Not embedded as not strictly relevant)
TheJudge 3rd Jun 2015		TV It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974 - 1981)	The ironic thing about it is that Michael Bates, who played Rangi Ram, was brought up in India and was fluent in Hindi before he was fluent in English.