Cultural highlights of 1982
TV shows: UK
New shows
Boys from the Blackstuff (BBC), social comedy drama
Cheers (Channel Four), American sitcom
Countdown (Yorkshire for Channel Four), game show; weekdays at 4.30pm
(from 2 November)
A Kind of Loving (Granada/ITV), 10-part social drama series, Sundays at
9pm
Points of View (BBC1), viewer feedback; Wednesdays at 8.45pm
St Elsewhere
Smiley's People (BBC), spy drama
Wogan (BBC1), chat show, Saturdays at 10.00pm
Continuing
3-2-1 (Yorkshire/ITV), game show; Fridays at 8.00pm
The Benny Hill Show (Thames/ITV), comedy; Wednesdays at 8pm
Blankety Blank (BBC1), game show; Saturdays at 6.55pm
Coronation Street (Granada/ITV), soap; Mondays and Wednesdays at
7.30pm (all year).
This is Your Life (Thames/ITV), biography; Wednesdays at 7pm
Top of the Pops (BBC1), pop music; Thursdays at 7.25pm
The Two Ronnies (BBC), comedy; Saturdays at 8.05pm
Film
In a British Film Institute decennial poll, film critics again vote Orson Welles' Citizen
Kane the best film of all time for the third time. Jean Renoir's La Rθgle du Jeu is again
second. Akiro Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Gene Kelly/Stanley
Donan's Singin' in the Rain share third place. Federico Fellini's 8½
comes fifth. See the full list
here.
Chronomedia 1982
