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Mentioned this elsewhere but worth going into this with a little more depth. This is an eight episode series, which IMO is one of the best dramas that the BBC ever made. Starring Jack Hedly, filmed in beautiful Crete using local actors and some top British talent. The plot Alan Haldane during...

Roy Thinnes stars as David Vincent, trying to warn the authorities of an alien invasion in this 60's American classic. The first series was very good, with fast paced stories, fantastic music and some real clever concepts. The UFO design was simplistic but effective, there was some cool...

Great series, one of my all time favourite shows. Preferred the later series with Leonard Nimoy, and then Lynda Day George joining the regulars, Peter Graves, Greg Morris et al. Still like the Landau and Bain episodes, but they're a little far fetched. Still good though.

Wow, how could I forget this band. Brilliant! Loved all their stuff. David Byrne is a genius. Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison were all tremendous too.

One of many Brit bands that made it big Stateside but not at home. Lead man Cy Curnin did some writing I think for Tina Turner. Boy George of Culture Club once stated his liking for The Fixx. Nine albums so far, all very enjoyable, neat modern rock.

Canada's finest, Martha well known for Echo Beach of course, but had so many more great songs over eight albums.

Got to be one of the all time biggest bands ever. I discovered them really early on a year or two before their breakthrough album . Michael Stipe's vocal delivery was always intriguing. The quality of their work dipped a bit around the tenth album, but they ended with three top albums. Hope one...

Love this band , right from the early "Big Music" days, to the folky album of Fisherman's blues to the recent WB Yates inspired work and the most recent Johnny Cash styled work. Mike Scott is the genius behind them with a new album due out this year.

No one has mentioned those terrific puppet shows of the 60's. Don't we all love them? Recently bought the DVD of Stingray, really enjoying it. Humanoid underwater civilization hostile to man, why not?

This is a fascinating group, I've been a fan for a couple of decades. It's difficult to pigeon hole them. Very dark, but not heavy, a dark electro dance sort of progressive avant garde band formed by ex XTC man Barry Andrews. They are really clever lyrically. Now we sadly know that cancer is a...

This was a tremendous band that had nine critically acclaimed albums but no hits. It happens! No one has seriously claimed their work was anything other than genius but fame eluded them. " I can't relax because I haven't done a thing. And I can't do a thing because I can't relax" INDEPENDENCE DAY

This is an interesting six part series written by Dr Who respected figures Terrace Dicks and Barry Letts. Set on the moon, it concerns the lives of the scientific community working in the European moonbase. It's very realistic looking and is a serious attempt to show life of an early lunar...

Big fan of her from the late seventies. An amazing voice, plus a truly weird fashion style, only had five albums out in thirty or so years. I was so pleased to discover only last year her mid -noughties cd " Shadows and Dust", which had an amazing song about Dracula called Insect Eater. "...

What can you say about The Fall!? Thirty studio albums of weird brilliance that defy description. You either love them, can't understand them, or if you're REALLY REALLY unlucky not heard of them. Smith is the only ever present member, the usual form is that he gets a band around him, records a...

Any fans of Siouxsie and the Banshees? So many great albums, love them all. Hopefully she's not retired, I'm getting stressed out waiting for another masterpiece!

Barry Newman in the ultimate car chase film, basically a car chase for 90 minutes, also with Cleavon Little as a blind DJ guiding on the run Kowalski across the States as the nations cops give chase. The ending is still perplexing, I'll not give it away, but I presume the actual " vanishing" at...

Jack Dee's finest work IMO. Stars as Rick Spleen, an on the way down comedian reduced to advert work, corporate functions and tacky game shows. Sean Power as Marty his gag writer, Rasmus Hardiker as Ben , his daughter's lazy freeloading boyfriend. The disturbed cafe owner Michael is another good...

This is a oft forgotten ITC series. Dwarfed of course by other ITC classics but not bad nevertheless. Steve Forrest plays John Mannering, an American cattle baron hence his nickname, but spends his time involved in the dodgy world of art deals, tracking pieces of art, breaking smuggling rings...

A 70's kitsch Sci fi fluff! It's just been rereleased on DVD and described as a sex comedy. So perhaps I should put this in Britcoms , or Brit/Germancoms. Gareth Thomas's appearance makes it sort of interesting. Lisa Harrow is good, and fans of Space 1999 series two will notice that elements of...

This is an acquired taste. Anarchic student comedy from Rick Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planer. Followed by Filthy Rich and Catflap and Bottom. All anarchic Britcoms. I don't know if any of these made it overseas but I doubt it.