‘underground, overground…’

To mark 50 glorious years since the first of 12 pitch-perfect episodes of John Cleese and Connie Booth’s hilarious sitcom, Fawlty Towers , hit our TV screens, we pick out five favourite guest stars who checked in and made life miserable for the hotel’s hapless owner

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

If you watched any children’s TV during the school holidays between 1985 and 1992, you would have quickly become familiar with the career of Timmy Mallett, the host of TV-am’s Wacaday. Essentially a w

THE GERRY ANDERSON STORY

It’s time to wrap up our rewatch of the second series of Fortean TV. And to think the unthinkable: are the zany graphics, Fanthorpe’s gnomic utterances and the surface level treatment of both the seri

Although associated with the 1960s, Pick of the Pops began in 1955 on the BBC Light Programme. The 4 October listing in the Radio Times reads: “Presented by Franklin Engelmann in which Jingle (assiste