Airing at the tail-end of the hottest summer in living memory, The Cedar Tree was one of those budget-friendly programmes (like Emmerdale Farm) which livened up the early afternoon on ITV for housewives, perennial students, the steadfastly unemployable and kids bunking off school. Also like Emmerdale Farm its reach very definitely exceeded its grasp, with …

“…there’s a huge, monster gorilla that’s constantly growing to outlandish proportions, loose in the streets!” “It’s King Kong!” Is it? No? You’d be forgiven to think I was referring to the 1933 classic starring an oversized hairy primate. I don’t blame you and neither would Herman Cohen, the man who wrote and produced Konga, released …

“I must say, I am getting a little tired of young chaps like you being brought before me on charges of this sort,” says a lenient but unimpressed judge to three bored youths in 1962 teen drama Some People, following their court summons for dangerous driving.  It’s a scene which every generation is familiar with; …