STEVE HATCHER reveals more of his eclectic television playlist.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 19th 2025.

This week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER once again to continue our series of conversations about some of his eclectic television viewing choices.

Steve has a life long love of television and – like many archive TV fans - is always adding to the mix that makes up his own personal TV schedule based around some of the archive channels, things he finds on the Tube that is You, and his own extensive DVD and Blu-Ray collection which means that he is constantly exploring the fascinating and more obscure corners of the television archives and finding new and often forgotten series to talk to us about.

This week he will mostly be introducing us to several sitcoms, some of which you will have heard of, a couple of which you may actually remember watching, but nevertheless all of them are largely forgotten by the viewing public at large.

So over the course of this week’s show we have a natter that includes the GEOFFREY PALMER-led Channel Four series FAIRLY SECRET ARMY, a kind of not really spinoff from THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN written by David Nobbs; we’ll blow the dust of the once hugely popular ITV hit that was THE ARTHUR HAYNES SHOW, and we’ll also take a peek at the BBC 2 delight that was HOW DO YOU WANT ME? which featured DYLAN MORAN alongside FRANK FINLAY and two actors who left us far too soon, CHARLOTTE COLEMAN and EMMA CHAMBERS.

And just to keep things balanced towards the broader and perhaps more dramatic regions of the television spectrum, we will also touch upon the 1960s BBC drama anthology series DETECTIVE which ran for three series across five years in the latter part of the 1960s and, across its 45 episodes, introduced a whole range of detectives to the viewing audience, many of which were neither SHERLOCK HOLMES nor MAIGRET, despite the programmes often being introduced on screen by RUPERT DAVIES himself.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.