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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 9: 310-306
Remember when they used to have that big list with all stuff you remembered on it? Well here's a bit more of it! Yes, it's time for another instalment of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things Ever, and for...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 10: 305-301
Looking for a nostalgic antidote to what's proving to be a rather grim time for innocent whimsical past-remembering fun? Then get a load of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, a very long list of...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 11: 300-296
Welcome back my friends to the list of nostalgic stuff that you'd never get Russell Kane making jokes about that never ends. Or at least feels like it doesn't. We're still only about a sixth of the way...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 12: 295-291
Yes, it's time for more from The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, the gigantic list of evocative stuff from yesteryear that's now so obscure that it's forgotten to remember Spangles. It will remember...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 13: 290-286
Hello, and welcome to the latest instalment of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, and this time, before the witticisms about pre-cert videos and classroom crazes get underway, we're starting with an...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 14: 285-281
Hello, and welcome to yet another selection from the great big list of nostalgic stuff that sees your Bagpuss and raises you Oscar In Rubbidge. And once again we're taking a stroll down Hazy Memory...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 15: 280-276
More from The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, the great big overlong list of several hundred things that nobody ever seems to remember - more than likely because there's not really that much point in...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 16: 275-271
And we're back with more of The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! - the list that makes Robert Webb's A Load Of Tedious Observations About Clips From Really Obvious Films look like something on BBC3 that...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 17: 270-266
Welcome, one and all, to more highlights from The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER!, the list that sees that clumsily edited Back To The Future on ITV3 that actually ends up looking more racially dubious...
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The 350 Most Nostalgic Things EVER! Part 18: 265-261
Hello, and welcome to a post that you probably won't get to read, as all signs point towards the likelihood that, by the end of the week, David Cameron's already worryingly amorphous 'opt-in' scheme...
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It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part One: Breakin' Down The...
Let's face it, pretty much everyone in the known universe is doingĀ their own heavily annotated from-the-start Doctor Who rewatch nowadays. And probably everyone in E-Space too.And yes, as you've...
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Top Of The Box
Top Of The Box is the story behind every single released by BBC Records And Tapes, from Every Loser Wins to Awesome Dood!. Between 1970 and 1990, BBC Records And Tapes released almost three hundred...
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Listen With TV 'Girl' (Test Card)
Between 1969 and 1973, BBC Records And Tapes released a couple of dozen LPs on their short-lived 'Roundabout' imprint. Specifically aimed towards younger listeners, and presumably named in honour of a...
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How Do You Do!
Some of you, if you've been following my ramblings for a while, might well be aware that I have a keen interest in 'lost' programmes from the sixties, seventies and even the eighties. Most of you,...
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The Essential Saturday-Before-Christmas Survival Guide (In Eight Easy Steps!)
Round about now, youāll start seeing newspaper columnists offering their own personal ātipsā for āsurvivingā the Festive Season. Usually these will involve ingesting specific herbal remedies and...
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Christmas With Children's BBC: Watch - The Nativity
Watching TV in school was a week-brightening treat at any time of the year, but especially so in the run-up to Christmas. While in those days the gap between the first week of September and the last...
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Christmas With Children's BBC: Rentasanta
Rentasanta, the little-seen Christmas Special of long-running Children's BBC slapstick mayhem-driven sitcom Rentaghost, is a little bit more than just a Christmas Special. Although this was really...
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Christmas With Children's BBC: Bod's Present
Bod's Present, the twelfth episode of much-inaccurately recalled Watch With Mother show Bod, probably hasn't been on anyone's Christmas List for a long time. Until recently, it was one of only five of...
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Christmas With Children's BBC: Play School, Christmas Eve 1970
In some ways, it's something approaching a Christmas Miracle that the edition of Play School that was transmittedĀ on 24th December 1970 actually still exists at all. It's not only the only surviving...
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The World Of David Bowie
I've been thinking all day about what to write about David Bowie. Not so much because I'm short of anything to say, but because, well, everyone else is doing deep and serious and the bigĀ outpourings of...
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