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A Proper Function of Government Burnside has to report that Donald Hopkins, close friend of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Science Adviser is in Vienna, when he should be on a fishing holiday in Scotland. Could he defecting? Meantime President Lutara, an African leader has executed a British...

The final Gerry Anderson tv show with puppets until Terrahawks. The Secret Service is either regarded as a hidden gem, or a rare Anderson flop. Comedian Stanley Unwin stars in the flesh, and voices a puppet of himself in a weird mix of live action and supermarionation. 13 episodes about a...

Opening episode of a show that is a must for any Callan fans. The Director of Operations of the S.I.S. has to mount a rescue operation of Norwegian scientists who have crashed 30 miles inside Russia. Neil Burnside the director (D-ops) fails to convince his masters that this mission is madness...

New Zealand is famous for the number of sheep it has, an incredible number of both black and white sheep. The ratio of sheep per capita is extraordinary. But why do the white sheep in New Zealand eat more than the black ones? Answer;

Outside a room on the wall are three numbered light switches that operate three light bulbs inside the room. The door is solid with no window in it. Is it possible to identify which switch operates each bulb ? You may only enter the room ONCE after doing whatever you want with the switches and...

Michael Garibaldi, head of B5 security, here returns as a hologram in season4 finale -The Deconstruction Of Falling Stars. This episode was a last minute replacement for the original season finale for the 4th series, that was moved to end series 5 after the show was unexpectedly granted a fifth...

The dark hearted telepathic Bester of PsyCorp played by Trek's Walter Koenig.

Two great characters, usually at each other's throats, but in season 5 things changed.

When Kosh is revealed, but every race sees something different, so is it really Kosh ?

After John Alderton and Pauline Collins did No Honestly for a season, next came Yes Honestly with Liza Goddard and Donal Donnelly. Probably not quite as good, but not bad. Goddard in splendid effervescent manic form.

This was a lovely romantic comedy with John Alderton of Please Sir fame , and Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine). Worth checking out.

Maureen Lipman made her name in this LWT comedy series. Quite funny, good cast including Simon Williams.

Dom Joly's latest hidden camera show on ITV. Very funny it is too. Here playing an idiot ferry captain.

Another of those non U.S. Sci Fi shows that few remember or even know about, like Star Cops or Moonbase3. This was the product of an unusual collaboration of Manx and German production. I never knew that there was any tv or film production of Manx origin, the islands population must be about...

After Brian Clemens superb Thriller series ended in '76, two years later Thames and Southern ITV regions gave us this series. A serial format, each story made up of a number of twenty five minute episodes. One of the best is the first one, Rachel In Danger, with Blakes7 actor Stephen Greif in a...

From 1975, BBC six part serial.

Recommend this four part serial available on DVD starring James Warwick ( from Dr Who Earthshock) and Maurice Roeves (Caves Of Androzani) and written by Robert Holmes, based on a novel by David Wiltshire. Strange goings on , on an remote Scottish Island. Murders where the bodies are mutilated.

Bullman a tough grisly cop first appeared in the 70's series The XYY Man as support to Stephen Yardley's 'Spider' Scott', a cat burglar involved in various adventures. Don Henderson's Sgt Bullman then given his own series that ran for four series, "Strangers", four cops from different parts of...

Loved this as a kid, still do really.