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Who's On, Wogan?
Wogan, the BBC's flagship early evening chat show, was a regular fixture on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 1982 and 1992. Doctor Who, their occasionally flagship early evening family adventure...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part One
"Sylvester Stallone's the new Mister Who!".It was with those words, uttered by a classmate who was obsessed with being the 'first' with the latest showbiz news despite apparently never quite...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Two
Episode One of Time And The Rani is, so a lot of fans would have you believe, Where It All Went Wrong For Doctor Who. Actually, one or two of them say it's Paradise Towers Episode Two, but let's not...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Three
When you get past the pre-credits sequence and the new opening titles and actually start watching Time And The Rani, the first thing you notice is that it looks good. And this is no mean feat when you...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Four
While Time And The Rani was being broadcast, Children's BBC how-it-works show for under-tens Corners suddenly picked up a couple of million extra viewers. This was largely down to the fact that the...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Five
Whether you like or dislike the Sylvester McCoy era of Doctor Who, it's important to remember that it wasn't alone. In the mid to late eighties, TV was awash with dramatically updated takes on old...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Six
Although Look-In wasn't really in the habit of covering BBC shows, it's fair to say that late eighties Doctor Who would have benefitted from its support. BEEB, the BBC's rival to the self-styled...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Seven
Those of you who are familiar with the works of the comedian Richard Herring will probably be aware of Me1 vs. Me2 Snooker, the notorious podcast in which he relentlessly plays against himself on the...
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Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Eight
In case you hadn't realised where this terrifyingly overlong series of articles got its name from, it's the final misquoted proverb in the final scene of Time And The Rani. To the accompaniment of one...
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Diggin' The Dankworths
George Martin. Joe Meek. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Nowadays you'll find cheerleaders for just about every once-overlooked Brit-based sonic pioneer of the pre-Rubber Soul era, and rightly so. Even...
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It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Three: Su-Su-Su-Subotksy!
In between the second series of Doctor Who and its baffling obsession with ants, and the third series with its deployment of 'Mods' in all the wrong places, The Doctor and company made a slight detour...
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Orbiter X
You don't really tend to get very many people talking about archive BBC radio sci-fi. In fairness, that's probably because there's never really been that much of it to talk about.Well, in fairness,...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 1: 350-346
We asked for your suggestions for the Most Nostalgic Things EVER! And you sent them in. In their hundreds. And with no discernible way of turning any of them into anything resembling a chart, or a...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 2: 345-341
Time for the second part of our epic trawl through the official list of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, and due to an R Tape Loading Error on our Nostalgia Supercomputer The Commodore BoglinTM,...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 3: 340-336
On with the list of the 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, and it looks like we'll have to insert a few coins into The Commodore BoglinTM to get the next five up on the screen...340. Track & Field...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 4: 335-331
More from the great big list of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, none of which Peter Kay remembers. And in any case, there's too many of them for him to do that...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 5: 330-326
Remember when each of these instalments counting down the official list of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! used to start with a joke about Nostalgia Supercomputer The Commodore BoglinTM? Yes, of...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 6: 325-321
Hey you! Yes, you! Do YOU remember this sort of blocky blue Teletext dog that used to have very slow adventures just before Countdown came on? Probably not, as according to the official list of The 350...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 7: 320-316
Time for yet another instalment of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, our laugh-a-minute look back at things that were big in the 'eighties', along with poverty-instigated inner-city unrest,...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 8: 315-311
Another instalment of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! - the increasingly yet also not actually increasingly lengthy trawl through the definitive list of obsolete cultural ephemera that nobody ever...
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