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Friday People
The unstoppable rise of social media, paired with the bloated growth of British television to just shy of three million channels, has meant celebrities are now ten a penny. Once upon a time,...
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The Sky-Fi Music Show
It never ceases to astonish me that, in Britain during the mid-1980s, you weren’t strictly stuck with just BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4 for your viewing options. While most of the country soldiered on...
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The Substack is Active Again
A couple of years back, I launched a Substack account for Curious British Telly, a sort of digital attic where I could squirrel away peculiar odds and ends of vintage British television - those...
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The Critics View of The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids is one of the finest examples of British science fiction on television. The performances are less acted and more inhabited, the atmosphere coiled tighter than a rationed gas...
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Tongits: The Thrilling Filipino Card Game You Need to Try!
Are you ready for an electrifying card game that'll keep you on the edge of your seat? Look no further than Tongits, the pulse-pounding Filipino favorite that's taking the world by storm! This...
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Shades (1982)
If you were a fan of post-apocalyptic nuclear fiction in the first half of the 1980s, you were absolutely spoiled. From The Day After through to Threads and onto When the Wind Blows, it felt as though...
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Teletext: Without it your set's not with it
Teletext has always had a peculiar hold over me - a pixelated siren call from a bygone era of cathode-ray wonder. In those dim, pre-internet days, it was a digital portal into a wider world of up to...
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GameZone: Your Ultimate Destination for Online Gaming Excellence
GameZone: Your Ultimate Destination for Online Gaming ExcellenceIn the ever-expanding world of online gaming, finding a platform that offers both excitement and fairness can be a challenge. Enter...
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VHS and Betamax Tapes Appeal
When I first started digging through video tapes in 2016, the chances of securing collections of 1980s recordings via Ebay, Gumtree, Facebook Marketplace or kind donations were pretty decent. However,...
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Teetime and Claudia
I never thought I’d get to watch enough of Teetime and Claudia to write an article on it. Aside from one episode which was on YouTube - and half an episode I managed to dig up - it looked as though...
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Bursts of Gaelic Madness: Mag is Mog and Bzzz
I've seen some curious feats of British television in my time, but I'm not sure anything will beat the fever dream which is Darth Vader infused with the spirit of Sutekh from Pyramids of Mars fed...
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