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Channel 5 – To the Manor Born Britain’s Best Loved Comedy (2024)

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Channel 5 – To the Manor Born: Britain’s Best Loved Comedy (2024)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.21 GB


Between 1979 and 1981, up to 24 million viewers were glued to their TV sets for a sitcom that followed the fortunes of upper-class widow Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith) after she was forced to sell her manor house to self-made grocer Richard DeVere (Peter Bowles). [Read more…]

Channel 5 – Controversially 1972 That Was the Year that Was (2023)

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Channel 5 – Controversially 1972: That Was the Year that Was (2023)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.62 GB


Controversies, scandals and shocks in TV, film, music and politics, when a royal reunion proved divisive, Uri Geller demonstrated his fork-bending talents, and Cosmopolitan magazine was launched. [Read more…]

Channel 5 – Controversially 1988: That Was the Year that Was (2023)

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Channel 5 – Controversially 1988: That Was the Year that Was (2023)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.61 GB


Jan Leeming narrates a look at controversies, scandals and surprises in TV, film, music and politics in 1988, including Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses igniting a literary and religious firestorm and Ian Paisley daring to heckle the Pope. [Read more…]

Channel 5 – Controversially 1990 That Was the Year that Was (2023)

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Channel 5 – Controversially 1990: That Was the Year that Was (2023)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.38 GB


Jan Leeming narrates a look at controversies, scandals and surprises in TV, film, music and politics from 1990, when Mark Fowler rocked Walford with a dramatic return to EastEnders and a sitcom about Adolf Hitler was pulled off air after just one episode. [Read more…]