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Jack & Jeremy's Police 4 (9/95)
Late night comedian Jack Dee sends up Crimewatch type series
with this supposedly "live" special intended to promote the police. As
if. Norman Lovett, the original "Holly," makes an appearance, as well as
Spacecop
2010, about an oversexed cop in the future.
Jack and Jeremy's Real Lives (11/96)
Jack Dee co-stars and co-writes this series each week chronicling what
he and Jeremy Hardy "really" get up to in their spare time. The first episode
reveals they are English aristocrats, which absurdly turns every movie
cliche about the upper classes on their head in a hilarious series of events.
Other episodes reveal their careers as aspiring Serious Writers, restaurateurs,
consumer watchdogs, and other less likely occupations. Often brilliant
stuff, delivered with a completely straight face.
Jack & The Beanstalk (7/99)
If you’ve ever wanted to know what a traditional English pantomime
is like, look no further than this feature-length ITV special. This all-star
version of the classic story was filmed in a live theater (with a few too
many audience reaction shots, I found them distracting) with songs, men
in drag, and the usual bad jokes. Paul Merton
is the narrator, Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly)
is Jack, Adrian Edmondson his mother, with Griff Rhys-Jones, Denise van
Outen, Julie Walters, and Julian Clary. The script was by Simon Nye (Men
Behaving Badly).
Jack Dee's Happy Hour (1/02)
Jack, the cynical "hard man of comedy," is a great dead-pan stand-up
and the BBC has made good use of him in this series which he describes
as "neither happy, nor an hour." Instead, each week he gives the
audience a bit of topical comedy, some animated segments have Jack dealing
with life's little frustrations, he takes (and mocks) dumb questions from
different parts of the country, goes on a field trip (an S&M party
was one stop), and then brings on a celebrity each week who must endure
a three minute roast by Jack in order to earn 30 seconds of BBC-1 prime
time in which they can shamelessly promote anything they want. It's
incredible who will turn up just to get on television. Prior to this
season going out, Dee won the Celebrity Big Brother where he spent
a week in a wired house for Comic Relief and raised over eight million
pounds for charity.
Jack Dee's Saturday Night (5/96)
A variety program hosted by former latenight comic Jack Dee, now slowly
reforming himself as a more "mainstream" presenter. Saturday Night
is like a hip, young Ed Sullivan with a host who can do stand-up. The acts
aren't bad either: Stomp, Robert Palmer, Meat Loaf, Lee Evans, and the
Chinese State Circus among others.
Jack Dee's Sunday Service (1/98)
The stand-up comic (and beer spokesman) continues moving more into
the mainstream with this collection of stand-up and sketches, with weekly
appearances by American comic Rich Hall. One running gag is having little
egg representatives of British celebrities and seeing which one blows up
first when placed in a microwave.
Jackie Mason: The People's Champion (3/00)
A rather odd debate on ITV, hosted by an odd fellow, Jackie Mason (yes,
the American Jewish comic who had a short-lived series on ABC several years
ago). In front of a live participation audience, he looks at privacy in
journalism by using various famous and infamous members of his audience
as examples. I suppose he could be viewed as a "neutral observer" to Britain's
tabloid journalism-saturated culture (admittedly, America is just as bad
- although on TV instead of in the papers) although I don't know what really
qualifies him to run a debate on this topic, other than he too is a celebrity.
But some good points are brought up and Mason won't let folks off the hook
just because of some moral relativism on their part.
Jack of Hearts (5/00)
Keith Allen (The Life and Crimes of William
Palmer) stars in this BBC drama series about a streetwise parole
officer who follows his girlfriend and her daughter from London to Wales.
On the job, Jack is a first-rate case officer, dealing with co-workers
and tough guys, but at home his relationship is often on the rocks, and
it doesn't help the girlfriend's father (Andrew Sachs, Fawlty Towers'
Manuel) distrusts him and tries to drive a wedge between them.
Jake's Progress (3/96)
The GBH team of writer Alan Bleasdale
and star Robert Lindsay are reunited in
this five-part mini-series about a dysfunctional family (would Lindsay
be in any other kind?) whose son Jake seems to have watched The Shining
a few too many times. Though the supernatural is only hinted at, Lindsay
does have his fortune told in the first episode: he'll die shortly after
having an affair. Not soon afterwards, a pretty young immigrant arrives
in his life. The trouble with this series is it moves at a dead-slow pace
telling us everything there is to know about every character, even if we
aren't interested. At 90 minutes per episode too, it's a bit of a long
haul just to make it through each part. I'm afraid this hasn't captured
my interest as other earlier Bleasdale/Lindsay efforts have done.
Jam (11/04)
Frequent Lee & Herring collaborators
Peter Baynham and Kevin Eldon (World of Pub)
co-wrote and star respectively in this clever BBC anarchic sketch comedy
series.
Jamaica Inn (6/14)
This
three part BBC adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel set in
Cornwall in the 18th Century caused a huge stink in Britain when
viewers complained in the thousands about not being able to understand
the actors due to excessive mumbling. Though the Cornish accents are
pretty strong throughout, it is only Sean Harris as Mary's cruel uncle
Joss who gives in to muttering some of his lines, but he's no worse
than some of the asides Popeye the Sailor used to throw out in his
early cartoons. Besides, every TV in the world is now equipped with
subtitles, there's no reason for viewers to get so cranky if they can't
understand every word spoken, just turn on the captioning! Jessica
Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) plays the heroine Mary, sent to the
desolate inn on the Cornish moors after her parents die, to be looked
after by her aunt (Joanna Whalley) and uncle. It's not long before Mary
(who thinks smugglers killed her father and has a pathological hatred
of them) discovers that smuggling might be going on right under her
nose. Matthew McNulty plays her uncle's brother, a horse thief that
Mary takes a shine too, despite her best efforts. In the nearby village
is a friendly vicar (Ben Daniels) and his assistant (Shirley Henderson)
that Mary tries to turn to for assistance, but who is the criminal
mastermind in charge of the smuggling ring?
Jane Hall (4/08)
Writer Sally
Wainwright (At Home With the Braithwaites) again teams up with
actress Sarah Smart in this ITV comedy/drama series about a middle-England girl who becomes a London
bus driver. She has a posh boyfriend and odd flatmates, and manages to
get into situations (her bus is hijacked by female escaped convicts in
one episode) that only seem to happen on television. Jane is extremely
messed up and can't choose which man she wants, or who she even wants to be.
Jasper Carrott: Back To The Front (9/99)
Carrott returns to his stand-up roots (after years of doing The
Detectives with Robert Powell) in this BBC series.
Jeffrey Archer -- The Truth (1/04)
Best-selling novelist Lord Archer almost became mayor of London but
ended up instead in prison for perjury, and his rise and fall is archly
satirized in this TV movie. Set in the future, Archer (Damien Lewis)
tells his life story to a biographer where he manages to insert himself
into key moments of recent British history and of course always ends up
the hero. One might think the "kick `em while they're down" mentality
on display here is a bit harsh, even for the British, but Archer was such
a smug bastard that his downfall pleased nearly everyone. And who
knows, maybe he will make a comeback!
Jeeves and Wooster (5/90)
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie star
as the famous P.G. Wodehouse characters. Contrary to popular perception,
this was produced by ITV not the BBC.
(1/92)
In the new season, an episode concerns Bertie's aunt again trying to
get him hitched, and an apparent scam involving a necklace. It was more
than worth it to see Bertie completely embarrass his meddling aunt in front
of a room full of police inspectors.
Jekyll (4/08)
Steven
Moffat (Coupling) wrote this mini-series update of the Jekyll &
Hyde legend featuring a stand-out performance by James Nesbitt (Cold
Feet) as the two-faced psychopath. At first the women in the story
appear to be afterthoughts but as the mystery of Jekyll's origins is
slowly uncovered, some startling revelations are uncovered. Moffat has
already won two Hugo Awards for his writing on Doctor Who.
Jennifer Saunders: Laughing at the 90s (11/11)
Cancer
survivor Jennifer Saunders, her blonde hair growing out again,
presented this Channel 4 retrospective about the state of British
comedy 20 years ago. She interviews a lot of the big names at the time
and there are plenty of clips, alas blown up to fit widescreen, which
means they are cropped top and bottom and a bit grainy--my pet peeve of
the 21st Century. Captions mistakenly keep crediting a majority of BBC2
shows as having run on BBC1--hey, I remember these shows! Saunders
begins by chatting with her husband Ade Edmondson who talks about doing Bottom with Rik Mayall. What's scary is with his bald head, dress
jacket and plastic rimmed eye glasses, he's a dead ringer for a
filmmaker I know here in Seattle. She also reminisces with her former
partner Dawn French about their various triumphs both together and
separately in Absolutely Fabulous and The Vicar of Dibley. Also:
Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer who brought their surreal brand of humor
to television, which continues to this day with their panel show Shooting Stars. David Baddiel was part of a double act that was so
famous in its day they sold out Wembley Stadium--for a comedy show.
Paul Whitehouse on The Fast Show, and finishes off with Patsy
herself, Joanna Lumley, still glamorous as ever. The program makes
some good points about how the politically correct 80s gave way to a
more free-form type of comedy that was allowed to be more experimental,
as well as having characters, both male and female, doing outrageous
things on screen. All in all, a good decade.
Jericho (9/16)
The building
of a 19th Century railroad viaduct in rural Yorkshire and the shanty
town that houses the navvies who are contracted to build it are the
focus in this ITV drama series. Young penniless widow Annie (Jessica
Raine) brings her two small children to the town and sets up lodging
and gets involved with the mysterious Johnny Jackson (Hans Matheson).
The foreman dies in an accident (Annie's son was responsible, but she
and Johnny bury the body), so an American (Clarke Peters) takes over.
Financing problems threaten the project, the dream of Charles Blackwood
(Daniel Rigby), but then it turns out that Johnny is his long-lost
brother and the rightful heir. It's not Downton Abbey, but I enjoy these costume serials.
Jerry Springer - The Opera (3/05)
BBC broadcast of the hit West End musical in London that was co-written
and directed by Stewart Lee of Lee & Herring fame (Fist
of Fun, This Morning With Richard
Not Judy). Despite much controversy before its January 2005
transmission (the Beeb even ran two disclaimers warning viewers), the world
did not come to an end afterwards. Starring former "Starsky &
Hutch" actor David Soul as Jerry Springer, the first half of the show comes
across as a typical episode of his talk show, albeit all sung. But
Act I ends with Jerry getting shot and then things really jump into hyperdrive
with a storyline that has more in common with "Dogma" than merely mocking
American white trash TV viewers. It is really incredible even reduced
to being seen on television rather than live on stage.
The Jesus File (9/99)
Tony Robinson (the former "Baldrick" now best known for presenting
the archeological series Time Team) is
the host of this ITV historical look at Jesus, using the somewhat odd conceit
that what if modern computerized "files" had been kept on Jesus by the
authorities as he went through his life? But there's plenty of location
footage showing the places he would have visited, as well as scholars discussing
various aspects of his life.
JK Rowling - A Year In The Life (1/09)
James
Runcie gets to follow the world famous "Harry Potter" writer as she
finishes (he films her typing the last page!) and launches the last
book in the series, and profiles her life and times in this ITV
documentary special.
Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon (1/98)
Lumley's Grandfather was an ambassador to India and in the 1930s undertook
a long journey to Bhutan on a diplomatic mission. Sixty years later, Lumley
and a cousin retrace their steps via foot, burro, and occasional car. Modern
footage is intercut with black and white film made on the original trip,
with most the route, not surprisingly, very unchanged. Lumley, despite
her glamorous persona, isn't afraid to rough it (particularly after spending
a week alone on a desert island for a documentary four years ago), and
maintains a stiff upper lip throughout, regardless of the hardships.
Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey (11/11)
Glossy
and informative ITV1 travel documentary about Greece hosted by the
always glamorous Lumley, who shuttles us around various landmarks
around the nation and its many islands, as well as meeting inhabitants
along the way in this four-part series.
The Job Lot (6/13)
It took
three writers to create this listless ITV sitcom (which debuted the
same night as the far superior Vicious) starring Russell Tovey as a
worker drone in a job centre. It's filled with annoying characters
being annoying, and not in an amusing way. Bleah!
Jo Brand Goes Back to Bedlam (9/95)
Comediennes Jo Brand (a former nurse), and Hattie Hayridge (Red
Dwarf's Holly) spend a night in the now-deserted famous mental hospital.
An installment of the BBC-2 series, States of Mind, there is a message
here about mental illness and some of Brand's experience in dealing with
it, but most of the program is taken up with touring the enormous dark
and abandoned corridors of Bedlam. Brand is willing to make humorous, if
informative, quips, but Hayridge looks as if she's rather be anywhere else.
Jo Brand's Great Wall of Comedy (11/13)
UK
Gold brings a number of celebrities together to talk about classic TV
comedy, with clips, interviews, and even some messing about in the
studio in front of a live audience. The perfect show for a nostalgia
channel like UK Gold.
Jo Brand's Hot Potatoes (3/03)
Celebrity panel show featuring two teams who are given topics and then
humorously debate their merits (for example: the 70s were a worse decade
than the 80s). The audience then votes on which team has made the
best case, or typically, the most jokes.
Jobs For The Boys (1/98)
Comedians Hale and Pace defect to the BBC
with this three part documentary series as the duo spend six months attempting
jobs most people take a lifetime to learn. In the first episode, they train
to be on a top league polo team, going from complete novices on horses
to within a gnat's whisker of winning a championship game. Next, they are
taken on by a major fashion designer and must come up with clothes for
his spring collection. Again, they manage to put together designs and clothes
which pass muster on the big day in front of the press. Finally, they have
to make a toilet paper commercial for a real client. They spent nearly
half a million pounds on a spot which ultimately did run on British TV.
How much of a "fix" was in is hard to say, but it's nice to see "light
entertainers" taken seriously in roles other than just comedians on TV.
Joe Maddison's War (10/10)
The
late Alan Plater wrote this nice ITV1 TV movie wartime reminiscence
about a boring middle-aged shipbuilder in Liverpool named Joe (Kevin
Whately). It's 1940 and Joe has just seen his daughter married and his
son off to fight the war when his wife leaves him unexpectedly. The
government is looking to form a Home Guard, to perform defensive
functions so that younger soldiers can be used in combat. (A similar
concept, though played for laughs, was the 1970s sitcom Dad's Army.)
Joe convinces his buddy Harry (Robson Green) to join up to the Home
Guard which is run by the local chemist (Derek Jacobi). Both Joe and
Harry were veterans of the trenches of WWI, and the ghosts of that war
haunt them even as they participate on the home front of the new one.
Joe eventually gets a girlfriend, a widow, and with her help he
develops confidence and becomes the unofficial spokesman for the men in
his unit. Newsreel footage takes us through the milestones in the war,
as we see Joe face responsibility and build a new life for himself.
HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" also had a character that also had just come
back from the trenches in WWI. Both dramas show the impact that war
had on the soldiers who fought, and in Joe Maddison's War, the irony
that they had supposedly fought "the war to end all wars" is not lost.
Joe has to watch his son fly over 50 combat missions over Germany when
the odds were each time that one plane out of 25 wouldn't come back.
With Britain commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of
Britain, Joe Maddison showed us one aspect of life on the home front.
Johnny and the Bomb (4/07)
Children's
drama series based on the Terry Pratchett novel about contemporary
council estate kids going back in time to WWII London in order to
correct history when an unexploded bomb is scheduled to destroy their
street (and Johnny's grandmother).
The Johnny Miller Show (5/96)
This extended advertisement showed up on latenight TV and is a direct
parody of The Late Show With David Letterman. Ostensibly an ad for
Miller Beer, all the familiar Letterman gags are here including remotes,
stupid pet tricks, even the set. Now keep in mind, except for screenings
on satellite television, no one in Britain has ever seen Letterman's show
or can appreciate just how clever this is. Yet this was made exclusively
for the UK market. Totally bizarre.
Johnny Vaughan Tonight (1/03)
Late-night chat show with former Big Breakfast presenter Vaughan,
that first runs on BBC Choice and then repeated a few hours later on BBC-1.
Vaughan tends to talk over his guests, eager to make his points, and not
always listening to what they are saying. Maybe that works early
in the morning but traditionally, evening talk shows have been a bit more
heavy weight.
John Session's Tall Tales (8/91)
Essentially a series of one-man shows that tell a story. The best is
"The Glory and the Dream," about an American couple going to Stratford
to discover Shakespeare. Very engaging. In "Don Juan in Cornwall," Sessions
gets to trot out his Sean Connery impersonation as well as parody Bergerac.
Jonathan Creek (9/97)
BBC mystery series starring Alan Davies as the title character, a brilliant,
eccentric inventor who devises illusions for his magician boss (Buffy
the Vampire Slayer's Anthony Head with an American accent!). Caroline
Quentin (Men Behaving Badly) is a novelist
who gets involved with solving crimes and finds herself first competing
with, but then being attracted to, Creek who manages to work out whodunnit
and howtheydunnit every time. A barely recognizable Colin Baker plays the
murder victim in the first episode. A clever, funny series with great chemistry
from the leads. Read my article about the
series.
(1/03)
For Christmas 2001, the BBC made a special two hour movie, unfortunately
replacing Caroline Quentin with Julia Sawalha (Absolutely
Fabulous) as another female foil for the brilliant sleuth Creek.
In "Satan's Chimney," an actress (Mary Tamm, continuing the tradition of
all former Doctor Who actors appearing in this series either ending
up being the corpse or guilty of murder) dies in an "impossible" crime,
which only Creek can solve. Writer David Renwick (One
Foot In The Grave) normally writes brilliant, clever scripts, but
poor research on his part reveals an enormous misstatement about "fundamentalist
Lutherans." Say what? That's a bit like fundamentalist Unitarians,
isn't it? One could almost pick another popular American religion
out of a hat and come up with one a bit more right wing than Lutheranism.
I howled when I heard that one.
(6/13)
The
first new mystery for the eccentric magician/detective Creek (Alan
Davies) in years, has many shocking revelations of what he's been up to
since we last saw him. For starters, he's now a successful advertising
executive married to Sarah Alexander. But he can't resist the
closed-door mystery involving the death of a satirist he admired,
abetted by blogger Joey (Sheridan Smith) and DS Gideon Pryke (Rik
Mayall), now bound to a wheelchair but still livening up the
situation. At 90 minutes, the special has a few too many mysteries for
its own good, but it's nice to see this popular character return to
form again.
Jonathan Meades on France (2/12)
The
noted writer takes on the nation across the Channel which opens each
part with him announcing that all French cliches will not be part of
the BBC series. Instead, he focuses on architecture (his favorite
topic), though mostly on how the French got it wrong, and indicts the
entire country for its lapses in the post-colonial period and inability
to assimilate different cultures. He obviously has affection for
France, and isn’t above pointing out where the British have gone wrong
either, but it’s an illuminating look at this unique European culture.
Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex (3/13)
Essex,
a county just east of London is to Britain what the Jersey Shore is to
the United States. At least that's its reputation, which commentator
Jonathan Meades is happy to dispel, at least when not knocking somewhat
questionable architectural decisions which are his bread and butter.
Like all of Meades' films for the BBC, impeccably shot, narrated and
informative.
Joe's Palace (1/09)
The
super talented writer/director Stephen Poliakoff (Shooting The Past)
tells the tale of the friendship between a reclusive billionaire
(Michael Gambon) and Joe, the working class young man who is hired to
be the doorman on one of his unused properties in this BBC TV movie. A
wily MP (Rupert Penry-Jones, Spooks) uses the place for his liaisons
with various mistresses, taking advantage of Joe's good nature. Gambon
has spent his life trying to learn if there are any skeletons in his
family's closet and eventually a friend of Joe's is able to supply the
necessary (and chilling) truth that connects the father with the
Nazis. As with all of Poliakoff's productions, it's the quiet moments
that really make them memorable, he clearly imagines how the entire
thing will look and feel before it is ever written or performed.
Julie Walters Is An Alien...In Miami (1/98)
A continuing British trend is to unleash some celebrity in a job they
aren't qualified for (usually abroad) and see how they handle it. In this
case, Julie Walters spends a month in Miami being, variously, a beach cop,
animal control expert, and real estate agent for mansions. At one point,
as she walks into a multi-million dollar house, she exclaims her surprise
at the size of the interior by saying, "It's like the TARDIS!"
The Jump (1/99)
The loss of innocence is the theme as a sheltered housewife has her
world fall down around her when her businessman husband is sent to prison
for 18 years for a brutal gang robbery he claims he didn't commit. With
his life threatened in prison by mobsters, she promises to help get him
out (a "jump" is a prison break) in this four-part ITV thriller. But the
more she discovers about his business interests, the more truth she uncovers
about his sordid activities she knew nothing about. Jonathan Cake, last
seen in Mosley, is excellent as her slimeball
husband, who is more ruthless than anyone could have suspected.
The Jury (11/11)
Peter
Morgan ("The Queen") wrote this five-part ITV drama series shown in a
single week that takes us through a retrial of a murder suspect mostly
from the point of view of the jurors. We get to meet them as
characters and see how their normal lives are suddenly interrupted for
this trial. This creates a number of subplots, all the while driven by
the mystery of the suspect's guilt or innocence (though we aren't
really given enough information before the verdict to decide
ourselves). The first series went out 2002 starring Gerald Butler; the
second was in 2011 with Julie Walters as the defense barrister.
Just a Gigalo (5/93)
Tony Slattery (This Is David Harper, as well as numerous appearances
on Whose Line Is It Anyway?) stars as a schoolteacher who through
a series of wacky events that never seem to occur in real life, ends up
a "gigalo," escorting old ladies, when all he really wants to do is go
out with the beautiful Natalie (Rowena King, Full Stretch was her
first series last year, about a limousine service). Slattery lives with
his hasn't-had-a-date-in-four-years younger brother who invariably gets
him involved with a date-from-hell just when he wants to go out with Natalie.
It's okay, as long as you accept the silly bits.
Just A Minute (6/12)
The
very long running BBC radio panel show (hosted, as always, by Nicholas
Parsons) which has made a catchphrase out of its simple rules for
talking for one minute on a subject "without repetition, hesitation or
deviation," made its way finally to television in 2012 to celebrate its
anniversary. Paul Merton is one of the best performers at this format,
with newbies like Russell Tovey slowly coaxed out into giving it their
best shot.
Just Good Friends (9/96)
Another 80s relic from the BBC vault, this sitcom chronicles a couple
whose flame hasn't quite extinguished after an affair five years earlier.
Just Henry (2/12)
Life in post-war Britain is shown through the eyes of a young man whose
father died during the London blitz. He loves going to the movies
and has an interest in photography, but is unmotivated by school until
a inspirational teacher (Barbara Flynn) intervenes. Henry is
forced to collaborate on a project with another boy whose father
scandalously deserted during the war, marking the family with
shame. At first Henry has nothing but contempt for him but then
discovers the life--and death--of his own father is not what it seemed
in this BBC TV Movie. Things get laid on a bit thick near the
end, like Henry’s mum going into labor immediately after they are
kidnapped, and the rather plodding way the police reacted to real
villains in the 1950s. Dean Andrews (Ashes to Ashes) continues to escape typecasting as a bastard by playing another sympathetic father figure like he did in Marchlands. Just Henry is a nicely mounted period coming-of-age movie with winning performances by the entire cast.
Justice In Wonderland (3/01)
A very clever dramatization of the famous Hamilton versus Al Fayad
libel trial where a former member of parliament (played here by Charles
Dance) sued the Harrod's owner for claiming Al Fayad had paid him for asking
questions in the House. Al Fayad seems a very dodgy customer, particularly
his allegations about Diana's and his son Dodi's death, but the evidence
against Hamilton is too damning and he loses big time. As Oscar Wilde
discovered a century ago, you shouldn't sue people for libel when what
they are saying is true.
Just William (3/11)
Yes, it's for kids but this new BBC adaptation of Just William
has a delightful charm and a great cast. Daniel Roche is a superb
child actor and really knows how to play mischievous school boys, as
seen in Outnumbered and Little Crackers.
Rebecca Front plays his mum, while Warren Clarke and Caroline Quentin
are a nouveau riche couple with a spoiled daughter named Violet
Elizabeth. William is forced by his mum to have a playdate with
Violet--ick, girls--and she knows that by threatening to cry she has
him wrapped around her little finger. But Violet is a good sport too,
and on a day out with William and his gang proves able to rough and
tumble and get dirty with the best of them, and not rat them out either
when they get caught. Simon Nye wrote the scripts based on the books
by Richmal Crompton which spanned decades but Nye settled for a nice
1950s period piece. The BBC cleverly scheduled Just William
for an entire week in the early afternoon during the Christmas school break when
it's target audience would be hungry for an entertaining romp. Who
knows, they might even check out the books.
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