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ITV 59 - All Your ITV Favourites (And The Gingerbread Girl) Part Eight:...
You'd think, what with everyone always waffling on about pylons and experimental medicines and MURDERS SCARECROWS and folky pagan synths and Hole Hearted by Extreme and all of that other 'sinister...
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ITV 59 - All Your ITV Favourites (And Mike & Angelo) Part Nine: TV-am AND...
Baaaa! Baaaa! B'baaaaa (DUM DUM DUM)! Well, Independent Television Fans, it seems that this archive-scouring expedition through the electronically generated polystyrene chips that used to be wedged...
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ITV 59 - All Your ITV Favourites (And Eammon Holmes' Country Christmas...
Yes, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, especially if you’ve absolutely no interest in base sarcasm with occasional factual accuracy about old-skool ITV presentation techniques but have still...
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The Nation's Not-Quite-As-Favourite
Some time ago, I had an idea for a book about comedy on Radio 1.Well, it wasn't really a book at first. Initially it was just a list of transmission dates for all those Radio 1 comedy shows I'd once...
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"My Experts Tell Me That It's OK"
I've been mildly obsessed with Ding Dong, George Harrison's Big Ben-based ostensible New Year's anthem which staggered limply into the lower reaches of the top forty early in 1975 (making him the first...
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ITV 59 - All Your ITV Favourites (And Roland's Countdown To Christmas):...
Merry Christmas! If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may well remember that, earlier in the year, we ran a special series of articles looking at ITV's inter-programme iconography of years gone...
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Wound Up And Ready To Play
There are few dilemmas greater than that faced by the young viewer who wants to watch something that they are simultaneously terrified of. And nowhere was this dilemma more profound and troubling than...
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"Am I Waking You Up?"
On 21st June 1971, three young men were dragged before a court over a cartoon.This was the trial on obscenity charges and conspiracy to deprave and corrupt of the editors of Oz, a dazzlingly-designed...
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Well At Least It's Free
Well At Least It's Free was my first ever 'proper' book, an anthology collecting over two hundred pages' worth of highlights from my various and numerous pieces of writing for fanzines, websites, DVD...
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I'm Proud Of The BBC
Yes, it's Election Time again! And you can bet your last packet of Mint Rolos that over the coming months, politicians of every hue, stripe, and angle of fatuous side parting will be taking every...
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That Sight, Those Sounds...
In this age of YouTube, Deluxe Edition reissues with bonus DVDs, and endless round-the-clock repeats of Top Of The Pops 2, it's difficult to convey just how exciting BBC's Sounds Of The Sixties seemed...
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Take A Giant Step
Over the years, without anyone ever asking or probably even wanting me to, I've no doubt given several wildly conflicting accounts of where and how my interest in sixties music started. If you listen...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
As we've already discussed at some considerable real-Nesmith-hatted length here, the BBC didn't in fact commence their early eighties repeats of The Monkees with the actual first episode, Royal Flush,...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
Watching The Fierce Flowers again - which isn't easy, as the DVDs have been out of print for quite some time - the first thing you notice is that each episode of Battle Of The Planets originally opened...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
Roger Finn thundering through the 'Broom Cupboard' and telling a departing Andy Crane live on air that he'd done a "bloody good job". Caron Keating more or less having an orgasm whilst getting a...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
When we last left The Fierce Flowers, Princess was still trapped inside a now-miniaturised Fierce Flower, and G-Force were wrestling with the moral complications of weighing up the need to set the...
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TV Tea
It's not normally the done thing around here to just post a load of photos with very little context or explanation, as, frankly, we're more about Buzzfax than Buzzfeed. But just recently, whilst...
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"...And This Is Our Two Hundredth Edition!"
Well, it looks like this is the two hundredth post on this blog. And to celebrate, I've put together something rather special...Back in the sixties and seventies, especially in the throes of the...
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Doctor Who Fan Wars, 1964 Style
Although there's a lot to be said for the simpler, less media-intensive times in which the likes of Doctor Who, Monty Python and The Kinks put in their earliest appearances, the unfortunate flipside to...
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All The Fun Of The Flares
If there ever was a happy medium between the ha ha ha ha look at the big telly like they used to have in school shhhhhhhh fingers on lips!! work night out lol abba are so retro banality of I Love The...
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