Eighties TV Season: End of Part One, Series 1 Episode 4
Regular readers will recollect that at the beginning of last year I started a series of posts on programmes which, borrowing a phrase from the world of Doctor Who, I christened orphaned episodes. By that I meant that they were not commercially available and had lost some of their episodes. It was a very interesting experience because I rather found that this took over my life: I had no idea how many random episodes of old shows are knocking about the internet, discovered many shows that I had no idea existed, and even following my rule that I only post about things which take my fancy, it became an engrossing project over a period of months. A similar thing is happening with this series of posts about 1980s shows. One of the reasons my posts are a bit sparse is that I'm going through an initial shortlist of shows on my hard drive and in my DVD collection, which is taking some time in itself. Take away all the shows that I think are great but either aren't actually from the eig...