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Arena: Masters of the Canvas
Back in late 1991, I experienced my first taste of live wrestling at the King's Lynn Corn Exchange. However, rather than the WWF being in town, it was British Wrestling (yes, I'm capitalising that). A...
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Lame Ducks
Some people take to life like a duck to water. Their lives are full of social and professional successes and the only way, for them, is up. But not everyone’s life is an effortless triumph. The world...
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Men of the World
Men, as we all know, have a tendency to strut, pontificate and make silly tits of themselves. It’s a misguided attempt to keep the embers of patriarchy flickering when all it really does is fan the...
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A Small Problem
A short stature is not one that tends to be celebrated in our society. There’s a tendency to ridicule those who don’t conform to specific measurements and an unfair labelling of them as weak and...
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Come Back Mrs Noah
Space is the final frontier and it’s one that has fascinated humans since they first crawled out of the primordial soup and cocked their eyes towards the Milky Way. This obsession has led to a pop...
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Facebook Page is Back
Just a quick update to let you know that the Facebook page for Curious British Telly is back up and running. It's over at https://www.facebook.com/Curious-British-Telly-189602922694736 so please head...
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Over to You
I may have written rather extensively on long forgotten children's television programmes, but it's impossible for me to know everything. And, when it comes to schools programmes, I'm barely even...
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British TV Comedies You Can't Remember - Vol. 1
Having not covered enough curiously forgotten comedies in the last year, I've decided to start up a regular series of articles that will take bitesize looks at little known British TV comedies. After...
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Lord Tramp
It’s comforting to dream about the all the possibilities that a sudden windfall could bring. One moment you’re struggling to stave off the wrong end of your overdraft and the next, well, it’s whatever...
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Dramarama: A Couple of Charlies
Children's television can be a powerful format, one which holds no punches and holds up the grim reality of life as a child to the camera. Shows such as Grange Hill, Byker Grove and the somewhat...
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Facebook Page
Just another quick reminder that there's now a Facebook page for Curious British Telly, so please head over to www.facebook.com/CuriousBritishTelly for quick updates, general television trivia and the...
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British TV Comedies You Can't Remember - Vol. 2
Welcome to the latest edition of British TV Comedies You Can't Remember where my nefarious aim is to get you scratching your head at the lack of recognition on offer. Maybe these comedies are forgotten...
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The London Weekend Show
The heartbeat of youth culture in the 21st century is the internet; it's a luxury that previous generations could have only dreamed of. This isn't to say they lacked the necessary cultural harbingers,...
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Curious British Telly Fanzine Issue 2 is Here!
It's been three months since the first issue of the Curious British Telly fanzine landed, so it's about time for issue two. And it's now here! And, better yet, there's an extra four pages (for the same...
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L for Lester
The ordeal of learning to drive is a harrowing one for even the most confident individual. For a whole hour there’s the risk of slamming your foot on the wrong pedal and spinning out of control into a...
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S&M
We improvise almost continuously throughout the day whether it be stirring a cup of tea with a screwdriver in lieu of a spoon or thinking up an excuse on the spot when confronted by an angry partner...
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Ragtime Episodes Have Appeared Online!
The vast majority of television programmes are, unfortunately, out of reach for many of us. Collecting dust in the archives, these slices of cultural interest remain shrouded in mystery. All that...
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What Did the Readers of Look-in Think of Television in the Mid-1980s?
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s and 80s should instantly recognise Look-in. Marketed as the 'Junior TV Times' it provided a wealth of features on everything that a youngster should be interested in....
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Free E-Book - Today Only!
Just a quick post to let you know that the e-book of The Curiosities of British Children's TV is currently available for zero pounds and zero pence over on Amazon until the end of the day. So, click...
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The Cult of Digging Through Old Video Tapes
I've been searching through piles of old video tapes and uploading them to YouTube for about three years now. The objective of scouring this redundant technology is very simple: I want to find old...
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