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Saint & Greavsie Episode Recovered from VHS
This week, I was sent a few VHS tapes dating back to the early 1990s. Usually, I'm only fussed about old recordings dating from the early to mid-1980s. But these tapes all had something interesting on,...
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A Tale of Digging Through Old Video Tapes
There they were in my hands, two video tapes packed full of video recordings of children’s programmes from the mid-1980s. I was going to be reunited with Mop & Smiff, Bric-a-Brac and Hokey Cokey....
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Pusoy Dos Ranking: Suit Hierarchies of Every Version
Pusoy Dos Ranking: Suit Hierarchies of Every VersionWhen you first learn Pusoy Dos, thePusoy Dos ranking system can be surprisingly confusing.Most card games like poker or blackjack have a universal...
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03/12/1984 - Let's Pretend: The Broom and the Vacuum Cleaner
To my utter delight, another couple of Let's Pretendepisodes have recently popped on YouTube, so it's time to dissect one of these in a way that most people would consider utter madness. This...
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Mop & Smiff: When Pets Became Television Stars
One of the earliest programmes I featured on Curious British Telly was Mop and Smiff, a BBC preschooler's show from the mid-1980s. The reason it featured so early on was because, back when I was first...
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New Article in Best of British
Yes, I’ve managed to secure another printed article and, as ever, it’s an absolute thrill to announce it. It’s in the October 2026 edition of Best of British and it’s all about the launch of the full...
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Scragtag: The Scruffy Cat Who Hosted Children’s TV
Yes, it's time for another Curious British Telly video and today it's Scragtag: The Scruffy Cat Who Hosted Children’s TV. I didn’t watch Scragtag and his Teatime Telly when it initially aired in the...
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Video: Whatever Happened to Erasmus Microman?
The time has finally come for Curious British Telly videos. It's an idea I've toyed with over the years, but always put off as it felt more exposing than simply writing away fairly anonymously. And...
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Get Set Go
The very first programme featured on Curious British Telly was Sebastian the Incredible Drawing Dog, which had a young Michael Barrymore at the heart and centre of it. It aired a few months before the...
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Paperback Version of 172 Forgotten British Children's TV Shows From The 1980s
After a few weeks of fiddling with margins and tabs in Word documents, wrestling with anxiety over font sizes and being driven up the wall by Amazon, the paperback version of 172 Forgotten British...
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New E-Book: 172 Forgotten British Children's TV Shows From The 1980s
Yes, I have a new e-book out: 172 Forgotten British Children's TV Shows From The 1980s.As you can probably guess from the title, it's an almost-encyclopaedic look at forgotten British children's...
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Standing Room Only Episode Turns Up
England, predictably, crashed out of the World Cup this week in their trademark blaze of tactical insanity and, well, an inability to win which is entrenched in their DNA. But it's not all bad news for...
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Stop-Go Episode Emerges on YouTube
Stop-Go is one of those vintage, forgotten programmes which has proved frustratingly elusive for me over the years. Part of the See-Saw lunchtime children's schedule, Stop-Go ran for two series and...
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Inside Greenwich Cablevision News
Greenwich Cablevision was Britain's first cable television channel and launched in 1972, but it only ran as a full service until 1974. However, this was far from the end for Greenwich Cablevision. It...
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Archive Tape Digging: April 2026
There's no need to rummage in the dirt on all fours to dig up the past. Instead, you can exhume dusty old videotapes from the comfort of your sofa. It's one of my favourite past times, but the...
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Help Save Britain’s Forgotten TV!
Yes, it’s that time of year again: the annual plea for readers of Curious British Telly to donate their old video tapes. For those new here, the purpose of this is simple. I dig through these dusty...
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The Curious State of British Television
I’ve been busy on the Curious British Telly Substack this week. Normally, I don’t mess about with cross-promoting across my various platforms, but a couple of these pieces have turned out exactly as I...
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The Books of Curious British Telly
Just a quick reminder, for those newly arrived at Curious British Telly, that there are two Curious British Telly books to be found on Amazon.Both The Curiosities of British Children’s Television and...
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First Impressions: Monkey Business
The number of obscure, forgotten British television shows from the distant past still boggles my mind. I've been writing Curious British Telly for close to 15 years and I'm still being knocked sideways...
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Reservations (1985)
The path to manhood is a troublesome one, particularly when the male ego weighs heavy on your shoulders. And there's no beating about the bush: sex is crucial in reaching true manhood. Social...
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