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Mr T Fancy Dress Costume 6 Jun 2012 | 06:00 pm
If you spent any of your formative years during the Eighties then I’m pretty sure you would have been a fan of The A Team. The crack commando unit falsely imprisoned for a crime they did not commit (r...
An Episode A Day Keeps The Daleks Away 30 Apr 2012 | 10:33 pm
Things have been a little slow around these parts just lately, and for that I can only apologise. Unfortunately the day job has been taking its toll on updating the website. However, if you are a Doc...
Whitney Houston 1963-2012 14 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am
It came as quite a shock when I happened to read this morning that Whitney Houston had died. I think because I saw it on a Google Alert e-mail my first reaction was “it must be a hoax” but no, a brief...
Quantum Leap 19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
Quantum Leap was a science fiction TV series that first aired in the US in 1989, so I guess it only just qualifies as a subject for this site, but I feel it deserves a space here as I have good memori...
Smiths Salt ‘n’ Shake Crisps 17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
Smith’s Salt ‘n’ Shake Crisps! Could there ever be a more British idea for a packet of crisps? The crisps that you salt yourself. OK, at the end of the day all they were was regular old salted crisps...
The Farmer Says 14 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
When I was about 7 or 8 I had a friend who happened to have a younger sister of toddler age. One day whilst playing over at his house, his sister came in clutching her “The Farmer Says” toy. I had nev...
Telebugs 12 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
The Telebugs was a cartoon shown as part of the after school children’s programming on ITV. It was about a group of three flying robots who would come to the aid of people in distress, and because the...
Bob Holness 1928-2012 10 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
It is with great sadness that I must mourn the passing of another TV legend from my youth. Bob Holness, the genial host of Eighties teens quiz Blockbusters passed away peacefully in his sleep on 6th J...
I like Quality Street and I like Roses… 11 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
…but which is better? There’s only one way to find out! Fight! Sorry, channelling Harry Hill there for a bit. I wrote this week about the annual Christmas tradition of the big tin of chocolates, and...
