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A six part thriller series from the BBC, in many ways a homage to Hitchcock. Writing by Michael J Bird, author of Aphrodite Inheritance and Who Pays The Ferryman. Set in Norway and about a Catherine Durrell who unexpectedly is left a property in Norway by someone she has never met or even head...

This was a chat show with a difference. It was open ended. Each week a number of guests plus the host would sit around and chat about anything for however long they wished, usually it went on for hours. Started about 23.30 and was usually still on at 02.00 , or even longer. Here Oliver Reed...

Channel Four sketch show recorded in front of studio audience. Launched the tv career of Rory McGrath, and also producer and director Jimmy Mulville, and songwriter Philip Pope. Both Mulville and Pope acted in this and had various acting roles elsewhere, but are both now mainly behind the...

Two entities with this title. The six part tv series in 1982 and the movie in '86. Both great fun. Here the legendary Peter Cook in the movie.

1979 saw a wonderful version of Stevenson's Kidnapped, a thirteen part serial shown on ITV, I think on Sunday nights. Great cast including ,David McCallum, Patrick Allen, Frank Windsor, Patrick McGee ,Ewen Solon and Ekkehardt Belle as Davy Balfour.

Often thought of as just a jolly fun band, but musically they were top notch with some wonderfully catchy tunes and great lyrics, and they're still going.

Before their brilliant Inside no.9 series, and after League of Gentlemen ( created with Mark Gattis), Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton gave us the dark and weird Psychoville. Labelled as a psychological horror sit-com, with Dawn French and Imelda Staunton along with Shearsmith and Pemberton...

Less well known than Hitchhikers is Adams creation, Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency. Two books, the first one, titled as above, the second, The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul. The third book, The Salmon Of Doubt , not completed due to Adams untimely death. Harry Enfield starred as Dirk...

Children's horror/mystery series, three series of twenty five minute episodes , twenty episodes in total. Stories about ghosts and other weird happenings. Good cast , and available on DVD with some on youtube.

Far and away the best Irwin Allen show IMO. Though like his others it deteriorated towards the end of its run. The first season was very good. No magic FX , but amazing sets, giant tables and telephones and doors and of course safety pins to get the illusion of the little people lost in this...

This has hit me hard. My musical idol is gone. My teens were spent listening to chart bands,big popular stuff like Genesis,Bowie, and the like. But The Fall transformed my tastes to the way out, neo - punk, new wave that I still adore today. I can't believe he's gone. 32 incredible studio...

I've just ordered the series on DVD, look forward to getting it soon. Don't know a lot about it. Any good episodes I should watch first? I stumbled on this in an unusual way. Heard of it of course but never tried it. However in my cd collection for twenty years has been the Cabaret Voltaire...

A reboot of the 70's classic that originally starred Gordon Jackson , Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins. This was quite a faithful update, plenty of action ,partly written by Brian Clemens as the original was. Edward Woodward in the role of chief of CI5, previously filled by Jackson. Woodward's...

Two veteran British actors or stature, Graham Crowden and Stephanie Cole have fun chewing the scenery as two curmudgeonly pensioners determined to wreak havoc in a retirement home in this 90's sitcom. Hopefully when I get to this stage of my life it'll be just as fun!

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ITV's answer to Dads Army, set in the 1950's, RAF comedy with Tony Selby and Robert Lindsay. Written by the team that created The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles. Not very PC with Selby's Corporal Marsh calling RAF cadets Pansies and Pouffhouse, very 70's.

Starring Geoffrey Palmer and written by David Nobbs, the creator of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. This is not a direct spin off but is sort of. Remember Palmer's Uncle Jimmy character and his project to set up a secret army for when the balloon went up? Well this is about that army,but...

Ben Elton's latest comedy creation. David Mitchell as William Shakespeare a struggling playwright in a homage to the Bard. Clever and funny tales showing the genesis of all those famous plays, or not! Of course not, but very enjoyable. Also with Harry Enfield and Paula " man about the house" Wilcox.

Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy in cult American comedy. Used to be on in the small hours in U.K. but got a good audience. The husband from hell married to the wife from hell with bratish children, one of which was played by young Christina Applegate.

You may know of BBC 's Radio 4 Desert Island Discs show where celebs imagine they're on a desert island and have to nominate eight pieces of music to accompany them on said island. Well lets do desert island cult/classic tv. Nominate eight single episodes of tv that you'd take with you on the...