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How the Internet Gave Us Access to Obscure Television
Up until the late-1990s, if you missed something on television then it was unlikely you were going to see it again any time soon. Even if you had - and I understand younger readers' horror at this...
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Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy
Infidelity is a dangerous art to practice and one that comes pre-loaded with a weapons-grade risk. Nonetheless, it’s a perennial indulgence that mankind has been keen to nourish. A common joke, in the...
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The Memory… Kinda Lingers
G Neil Martin celebrates one of TV comedy’s finest double albumsIt ended, in a way that didn’t really befit it at all, in a dusky power station, full of sinuous pipes, and shadows and angry gas and...
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50 British TV Comedies From the 1980s You Forgot About
We all know who the big hitters of British TV comedy were in the 1980s. Shows such as Only Fools and Horses, Minder and Spitting Image still elicit mass devotion all these years on. But there was so...
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London is Drowning
London is Drowning concerns itself with an unprecedented disaster that even human ingenuity is unable to stem the tide of. It is, however, far removed from the very real disaster that coronavirus is....
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Not With a Bang
Post-apocalyptic narratives have a tendency to be indebted to a catastrophic event. Popular choices range from deadly pandemics through to nuclear attacks and the emergence of zombie killers. These...
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18/08/1986 - Lets Pretend: The Singer Who Lost His Voice
One of my favourite television programmes as a pre-schooler was ITV's lunchtime children's programme Let's Pretend. With a firm footing in the world of imagination, Let's Pretend demonstrated how the...
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A Chock-a-Block Mug?!
In what can only be described as a ridiculous pursuit, I recently Googled "Chock-a-Block merchandise" in the hope that it would somehow reveal that there was indeed a 1982 Chock-a-Block annual. But it...
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A Curious BBC Engineering Test from 1987
Neil Miles is a man who, much like myself, enjoys delving through piles of old videotapes in search of long forgotten footage. And his excellent YouTube channel recently delivered an intriguing slice...
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Curious British Telly Fanzine Issue 3 Has Landed!
Time flies when you're furloughed and in the middle of yet another lockdown, so it's no surprise that the launch date for issue 3 of the Curious British Telly fanzine is here. Yes, that's right, to...
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International Shipping Now Available for the Fanzine
I'm now happy, after learning that someone has been sending the fanzine onto a relative in Thailand and it arriving in one piece, to offer international shipping on the Curious British Telly fanzine....
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The Curious British Telly Fanzine is Here!
As the title suggests, the Curious British Telly fanzine is here! A nod to the world of old school fanzines and a physical extension of this very blog, the Curious British Telly fanzine contains...
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Puddle Lane
Magic is, as we all know, an illusion. But it’s a distracting illusion and one that we all wish was real. That’s why it’s perfect for the world of fiction. Anything is possible when the shackles of...
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Pie in the Sky
There’s something ridiculously satisfying about a pie. Crisp, flaky pastry giving way to thick gravy which envelops the senses alongside juicy morsels of meat is unbeatable. Vegetarian pies are just as...
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Hold Tight
The thrills available to a schoolchild are limited and boredom is almost always staring them in the face. All the real excitement in life comes a few years later, mostly upon admittance to pubs. But...
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Curious British Telly Fanzine Issue 4 is Out Now!
Three months have passed, so it's time for another issue of the Curious British Telly fanzine. And, as per before, you're guaranteed to find a curious selection of essays, reviews, meanderings and...
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Book Review: See-Saw Annual (1983)
See-Saw, the early afternoon children's slot on BBC1, was an important element in my earliest understandings regarding television and how it worked. It was here that, following on from lunch (and the...
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Curious British Telly Fanzine Issue 5 - Out Now!
Last Christmas, I gave you my fanzine, but the very next year, I gave you another. Yes, that's right, a whole year on from issue one of the Curious British Telly fanzine, it's time to unleash issue...
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159 British Children's TV Shows From the 1980s You Forgot About
The 1980s was an innovative and exciting time for British children's television. Technology was slowly starting to make its mark felt, pop music was exploding like never before and the dawn of Channel...
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Trouble in Mind Coming to Forces TV
Back in 1996, as a fledgling teenager, I was flicking through the channels on Sky when I stumbled across (on UK Gold, I think) a little programme called Robin's Nest. It wasn't a series I'd heard of...
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