A new year generally means a new season of TV programmes, and in 1982, TV Times was looking to the skies for inspiration with Roy Marsden starring in a new series, the post-WW2 drama ‘Airline’.
Elsewhere, Lee Majors had traded in the six-million dollar man for a leading role in ‘The Fall Guy’ and ‘Tiswas’ had moved into a late Saturday night slot with the rise of spin-off show ‘OTT’ featuring Chris Tarrant and Lenny Henry as well as then unknows such as Alexei Sayle and Helen Atkinson-Wood. The magazine was also running a second part of the Elizabeth Taylor story, extracted from Kitty Kelley’s biography.
The amateur scribes were at it too, with Mrs Powell of Brighton writing in to TV Timers or complain that, “I cannot understand why Bruce Forsyth has four girls to help him in ‘Play Your Cards Right’. In a time when we are all being told to tighten our belts, surely one girl would be enough? I am 70 and I could do that job easily on my own.” More words of wisdom from the letters page can be found here.
