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Posts Tagged ‘bbc schools diamond’
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October 29, 2009Posted in Lazy YouTube Embeds |
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And The Winner Is…
October 22, 2009…well it was a very close-run thing, but just edging half a point ahead (and actually due to his specialist subject rather than his expert knowledge of the Large Hadron Particle Collider) is A Ben Baker Of Keighley – congratulations on becoming the Out On Blue Six Telly Addicts Champion Of Champions 2009. And here [...]
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Tags: 1986, a bit fo fry & laurie, adam monroe, alain carazze, alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb, ananda shankar, ant jones on saturday superstore, ‘oops, ‘uncle’, “we’re back!”, bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, ben baker, bottom, brenda off rising damp, camberwick green, captain snort, children of fire mountain, chris hughes, chu-eeze, dan quayle in space, desmond off lost, dexter, doctor who, dougal, dylan, e’s dead chief!, elephant stone, elle bishop, ethan i. rom (i’m an other), eve myles, eve myles tits, falcon island, fatboy slim is jerk, gabriel gray, garreth f hirons, gaz top, gene hunt, gordon honeycombe, gordon murray, hartley hare, heroes, hey it’s my birthday too!, hoofer doofer, hurley, interstellar overdrive, janet dibley, jaymi bantok, life on mars, little ted, lost, matilda mother, max headroom, michael parkinson, mickey murphy the baker, monty python’s flying circus, mr rusty, nathan petrelli, nicholas lyndhurst, nightingales, noel dressed as a caterpillar in all-star record breakers in 1978, noel edmonds, noel’s addicts, parky, patrick troughton, peter hazel the postman, peter petrelli, phil pope, pig, pink floyd, pipkins, play school, porkpie, rik & ade, rising damp, roland rat, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, rubovia, russell t. davies, see emily play, slim john, spitting image, stanley unwin, stephen salmon, strom, suede, syd barrett, sylar, TEH DRUGZ DRISCOLL!, telly addicts, the charles collingwood auditions were not going well, the dalek masterplan, the delegates, the goodies, the krankies, the lost islands, the magic roundabout, the secret service, the stone roses, the tomorrow people, tomorrow’s world, topov, tortoise, trumpton, tv ''slim charles'' (wire), tv squash, vetoed stylophone, why was max headroom in the opening titles for about six years after he stopped being on tv?, windy miller, xtc, yorkshire tv chevron, zebedee
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Telly Addicts: The Answers!
October 12, 2009
Yes at last… it’s the answers that at least seven of you have been waiting for!
Round 1
1. Eve Myles’ Tits from Torchwood
2. Strain 138 of the Shanti Virus from Heroes (honestly, why did so many of you confidently state it was the Sonic Screwdriver?)
3. The objects next to the Music Box from Camberwick Green
4. Gene [...]
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Tags: "ah i remember doing this bit - walking across the yard...", "dexter! de-e-e-ex-ter! here he come an' he wan' go home", "ding a dong we're from poland/when you hit a roland/make sure it is with cricket bat bat bat", "don't splash little noel-y", "eh? doctor who? what's he talking about?", "here is a box... a musical box... wound up and ready to play", "house/house/grumpy man/flouts convention when he can", "i didn't allow camberwick green in my studio", "it's telly addicts ma", "say yes paul", "wanna be a fly upon your wall/wanna be a fly-y!", "what do you think this is hamuel? some sort of pigsty??", 1986, adam monroe, alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb, alfresco, annie cartwright, anyone want a spare copy of manuel's good food guide?, based on the novel by alan driscoll, bbc schools diamond, binful of alan on the '45 ("hey!" - herring), brenda off rising damp, camberwick green, captain jack, caroline mabilia, children of fire mountain, chris skelton, clarke peters, deleg, dexter, didn't he play one of the ones that went 'blind' (ie every single bloody character) in little house on the prairie?, dobbin, doctor who, dougal, driscoll (alan) holdings ltd, dylan, e's dead chief!, elle bishop, empty entry sheet marked 'd. maclaine', eve myles tits, facon island, falcon island, fawlty towers, fred harris singing penny lane with little ted as the fireman, gabriel gray, gaz top, gene hunt, gordon honeycombe, GRR GRR OBLIVION BOYS, gyrocopter escapes from alan driscoll, hartley hare, hazel the macwitch, here come the... delegates! delegates! diddle-a-diddle-a-diddle-a, heroes, hey it's my birthday too!, house, how the fuck did candyland find their way into a tag??, hurley, i won't get up noel i can't, i'm ronnie corbett and i'm very very sorry, in the house of bam-boo! (THUNK-A-DUNK-DUNK), janet dibley, jaymi bantok, john barrowman, john barrowman can have sex with a photocopier, john barrowman escapes in a gyrocopter, just another manic monday/i wish it was sunday/cause that's my fun day/my watch the lost islands day, life on mars, little ted, lost, max headroom, max headroom's even less successful third single, michael mcdonald was not on cd:uk, michael parkinson, monty python's flying circus, mr benn, mr claypole, mr davenport, mr rusty, nathan petrelli, nicholas lyndhurst, nightingales, noel dressed as a caterpillar in all-star record breakers in 1978, noel edmonds, noel edmonds wearing shirts that look like a tv turned on its side and having bad reception, noel gives blood, noel's addicts, noel's got a new raleigh, noel's house party, nookie bear, not affiliated with noel edmonds the television presenter or telly addicts the game show, not quite free nelson mandela, NOT THE SONIC SCREWDRIVER, or is he just channeling sylar's ability to work a photocopier?, parky, patrick troughton, peter petrelli, pig, pipkins, play school, porkpie, rentaghost, rising damp, roger waters... 45! roger whittaker... 45! roger de courcey... 45!, roland rat, roland rat - the series, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, roland rat tries to escape in a gyrocopter but still gets hit with a cricket bat, rubovia, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, skin roland rat alive and shout hooray, slim john, spitting image, stanley unwin, stephen salmon, sylar, tat whalley, TEH TELLY ADDICTS DRISCOLL!, the 'hurley bird', the answer to number three is mac and me, the delegates, the goodies, the krankies, the lost islands, the magic roundabout, the noel edmonds saturday roadshow, the secret service, the tomorrow people, the torchwood one would write itself, the wire, this is... eve myles tits, topov, torchwood, tortoise, tros y gareg means over the stones/we'll go over them with griff rhys jones/till we come to the land of 'uncle' and then we'll punch him until he cries, trumpton, tv 'clown' (test card) consults lawyers, tv 'bubbles' (wire), tv 'clown' (test card), tv 'prop joe' (wire), tv 'thirteen' (house), tv 'ziggy' (wire), tv-am, where is jaymi bantok?, where's alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb when you need him?, whitey sale!, whither an inappropriate scheduling of jagged edge?, whoever reported this blog for containing 'inappropriate content' can fuck off, why does noel look suspiciously more well-drawn than the others?, why was max headroom in the opening titles for about six years after he stopped being on tv?, zebedee, zephon
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Diamond Life
June 25, 2009As the post below this one, about the peculiarities of BBC children’s continuity, has proved to be the most widely critically acclaimed Out On Blue Six rambling since that one about The Beatles thwarting plans to ‘rob’ Penny Lane, it’s well worth shamelessly capitalising on this by doing the odd occasional further diversion into the [...]
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Tags: "SCHOCH HORROR - MUSIC TIME TO BE REPEATED", "the op-en u-ni-ver-si-ty - it will kill a-gaaaaain!", 'politically correct brigade :(' sez "HURRAH FOR PEARLY WHITE MINSTRELS", as seen on tv 'grimleys', bart, bawrence follows shortly, bbc pie chart, bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, benny hill, creedence clearwater revival, dc follies at bay: that gopher meets a dog that isn't darrell's dog it's just a dog that darrell has access to follows shortly, doctor who, dr andy durrant says "too fast", fatty fudge doing that thing where he used to have about fifty tongues at once, gene hunt demands installation of bbc schools 'oops chart, glam goose, GRR GRR MATHS IN A BOX, harry palmer has sixty seconds to stop big ted from releasing the 'formula', i like it when benny hill blacks up and tells sexist jokes, impressed with henry woolf (and that 'charlie' thing), john cura, johnny rotten, kate thornton, kate thornton remembering parma violets exploding, michael parkinson, national treasure andrew sachs, not affiliated with 'ruby' the band with that woman out of silverfish in them, parky, patrick troughton, pelvis parsley, play school, programmes for schools and colleges, quatermass, quatermass and the programmes for schools and colleges, remember the days of the old nationwide theme, richard wilson drives past bbc schools 'planet' and fails to believe it, rod hull & emu, ruby, sam tyler, soft machine, space school, take a new look at BEATLES follows shortly, telesnaps, the birds eye teddy boys, the grimleys, the late late breakfast show has been cancelled... BY THATCHER, the open university, the patrick mower auditions were not going well, tros y gareg means over the stones/we'll go over them with griff rhys jones/till we come to the land of 'uncle' and then we'll punch him until he cries, tv 'clown' (test card) consults lawyers, tv 'girl' (test card) consults the gaping chasm of lava-spewing evil, waltham green east wapping carpet cleaning rodent and boggit extermination association, whither those two cartoon birds in hats?, why no telesnaps of eve myles tits?
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Back In Spangles
April 14, 2009Spangles. Bagpuss. Spacehoppers. Slade. Rainbow. That episode of Grange Hill where Tucker did something.
All of these things, and so much more more besides, once seemed so nostalgically evocative, even as early as the mid-eighties (when ‘nostalgia’ supposedly began and ended with Jonathan Ross saying “cor them toy space rockets eh?”), but more recently have become like popular cultural Kryptonite. [...]
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Tags: "ah i remember doing this bit - walking across the yard...", "it's the queen's jubilee/we're having cake for tea/and crisps and things/send her bananas/fish and pyjamas etc", 'oops, andrew collins, bagpuss, bawrence, bawrence consults a look-in annual, bbc schools diamond, bbc sporting themes, bungle, cheggers, cheggers plays pop, eli culbertson, frank skinner on room 101, geoffrey, george, george best, grange hill, grange hill summer special 1986, GRR GRR OSCAR KINA AND THE LASER, humphrey cushion, i like it when benny hill blacks up and tells sexist jokes, i love the seventies, i remember punk rock, it's a knockout!, it's spelt 'roobarb' and no 'and custard', john craven wearing shirts that look like they have the tunes wrapper printed on them, jonathan miller presents the body in question, jonathan ross, mick robertson wearing shirts with rainbows on them, noddy holder, noel edmonds wearing shirts that look like a tv turned on its side and having bad reception, rainbow, red riding can fuck off, remembering kate thornton's spangles, sam tyler, slade, space dust, spacehoppers, spangles, steve berry's outpost gallifrey avatar, stuart maconie consults his lawyer, supermousse, superstars, swap shop, TEH SEVENTIES DRISCOLL, texan bars, the generation game, the grimleys, the patrick mower auditions were not going well, the phantom flan flinger, the right kind of the wrong kind of nostalgia, the rotters club, they were called bloody tooty frooties and tooty minties alright?!, tiswas, tucker jenkins, what the fuck was that gorillaz parody all about??, zippy
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“…And That’s Easter – On BBC North East & Cumbria!”
April 9, 2009Everyone knows all about the much-lamented (especially by nutcases foaming at the mouth about how the ‘politically correct brigade : (‘ won’t let them use their hosepipe on their Benny Hill golliwogs because of something to do with LWT startup sequences) eccentricities of the erstwhile ITV regions – the Anglia Knight, the Yorkshire Chevron, the [...]
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Tags: doctor who, gene hunt, life on mars, 'oops, nele morrissey, patrick troughton, bbc globe, granada, bbc schools diamond, yorkshire tv chevron, IDEANTS!, thom yorke's decathlon, bbc1, victor pemberton's the slide, victor pemberton's the swings, victor pemberton's those sort of rocket climbing frame things, what's gonna happen to test card face?, sam tyler, anglia knight, jason king, benny hill, the test card, 'politically correct brigade :(' sez "HURRAH FOR BBC BALLOON", not from the collection of matthew gulliver, thames television, bbc middle of sodding nowhere, what time's r.3 on then?, bbc south, fury from the deep, what time's spytrap on then?, department s, 13th floor elevators, bbc east anglia, itv2, bbc midlands, what no bbc wales?, tros y gareg means over the stones/we'll go over them with griff rhys jones/till we come to the land of 'uncle' and then we'll punch him until he cries, what time's celebrity foreigner-patronising plus... behind the scenes 2 on then?, what time's disco 2 on then?, what time's 'the weather mutts' on then?, ha ha stupid 'weather cat' said a woman phoned in to say a hurricane was coming and it wasn't except it was!!1, bbc yorkshire NO GULLIVERS, keep britain tidy, bbc northern ireland, vt engineers, tv 'clown' (test card), "STEP-FORWARD-DOCTOR-WHO" - "By the stars! How did they know my name?", the wicker man, billie piper, bbc scotland, "is it bbc keighley ben?", bbc cube, i liked it when noah bennett looked through the '2'
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The Ninety Fifth Annual Out On Blue Six Gala Academy Tribute Special Salute To… Through A Glass Darkly!
March 6, 2009Join us this evening on Radio Out On Blue Six for a special charity all-star tribute to Through A Glass Darkly! Yes, the seminal 1978 ‘lyrical adventure’ by Peter Howell & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop will be performed in full, in its original twenty six movements, by a cast of celebrity friends of Out On [...]
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Tags: "...and that's saturday - on BBC1!", 'dinners', 1997 tc raymond award (biggest leaf), alain carazze sez: "ou est le, alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb, andrea corr, andrew collins, bawrence, bbc records and tapes, bbc schools diamond, bbc video 'star' music, clannad, david mitchell, dc follies, denim, denim take over, dick mills, doctor who, eastenders (when it was good), enya, eve myles tits, fr david, from the collection of matthew gulliver, gene hunt, girls aloud reading the news about jem roberts, glam goose, graham linehan, greg grunberg, GRR GRR WHERE IS SOME BLOODY ALBUM NOBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT INCLUDING THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT?, harpo corr, hugh laurie, IDEANTS!, jaymi bantok, jem roberts, jerry, jim steinman, john barrowman, jonathan ross, kate thornton, kryten, matt parkman, meatloaf, michael parkinson, mike lindup, nathan petrelli, neil hannon stealing snakes, nele morrissey, pac man, parky, parky's magic piano, peter egan, peter howell, phil cool drinking citrus spring, por favor?", porkpie, radiophonic workshop, richard clayderman, ricky hervaid, roger limb, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, RTD must go!, rusty egan, ryan paris, sendhil, sharon corr, simon may, stephen o'brien, tc raymond, that cat that looks like graham linehan, the boy from space, the corrs, the grimleys, the man corr, the tripods, the woofits, through a glass darkly, tom, vanilla, vetoed stylophone, whither david monrow and the early music consort of london play the radiophonic music of david cain?, who is 'the peppipam'?, zx spectrum
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Free This Way Up – Now 23% Free-er!
February 15, 2009After being away for frankly far too long, superlative long-running purveyor of ’sideways looks’ at the latest happenings in cult television This Way Up is back at last with its blockbusting 22nd issue, containing features on The Sarah Jane Adventures, Merlin and Arthur C. Clarke, as well as my own thoughts on series two of Heroes [...]
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Tags: "eh? doctor who? what's he talking about?", "green noah demon tree evil fingers can't catch me!", "it's alexander's flute!", 'dinners', 'oops, adam monroe, alec christie, andy pandy, anyone got the box of delights theme single?, bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, beaus, catherine tate, celation, codename: icarus, daleks, dania ramirez tits, doctor who, flowerpot men, foxy-faced charles, gearon, gene hunt, george harrison, heroes, john barrowman, life of brian, life on mars, live from mars, malpha, matt parkman, monty python's flying circus, MOONDIAL IS RUBBISH, nathan petrelli, nick berry, rag tag and bobtail, russell's rateometer, sam tyler, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, sentreal, terry nation, the box of delights, the children of green knowe, the dalek masterplan, the delegates, the enchanted castle, the moon stallion, the phoenix and the carpet, the sarah jane adventures, this way up, time bandits, trantis, tv cream, warrien, watch with mother, withnail & i, zephon
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“I’m Avin’ ‘Oops!”
January 29, 2009
“Slurp! Sloo!” – Gene Hunt, yesterday.
Posted in 'Genre' Television, Current Affairs, Dragged From The Archives, Interactive Fun, Sociocultural Ponderings |
Tags: "i'm 'avin grits!", "it's called deely boppers guv", "now for a slap-up feed!", "they've made 'oops nuclear! now it's personal...", 'oops, alex drake, ananda shankar, annie cartwright, ashes to ashes, bbc schools diamond, chris skelton, denim, fatty fudge doing that thing where he used to have about fifty tongues at once, gene hunt, glam goose, heinz haunted house, knorr mysteries of the deep, life on mars usa, noodle doodle came to town AND I CALLED HIM A NANCY BOY FAIRY FOR MESSING ABOUT WITH 'OOPS!, ray carling, rubbish ending, sam tyler, sir alan potato, slurp! sloo!, TEH SEVENTIES DRISCOLL, that bloke who was always in the background, whatever did happen to denim take over?, whoever reported this blog for containing 'inappropriate content' can fuck off
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Is This Christmas Music? Part Twelve – New Kids On The Block ‘Merry Merry Christmas’
December 20, 2008Christmas is, as Louise Hall-Taylor announces at the conclusion of The Nativity, “a time of celebration”. Clap Your Hands was the name of one of one of the tracks on Happy Mondays’ Madchester Rave On EP, which sat a couple of places below Band Aid II and Jason Donovan over the Christmas of 1989. Happy [...]
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Tags: "aw gee!", 'canned goods', band aid ii, bbc schools diamond, bring chocolate rolls to him pa-ru-pa-pum-pum, bros at the circus, bros en diskwission, bros in 2 summer, Christmas!, clap your hands and be cheery (CLAPYOURHANDS), danny wood, do they know it's christmas?, doctor who, donnie wahlberg, gilbert the alien, happy mondays, inspiral carpets, jason donovan, jennifer aniston, jordan knight, kate thornton, l'il joe mcintyre, louise hall-taylor, madchester rave on ep, MIKE HOLLOWAY IS ANGRY, mister umberto carr, music time, my donkey walk my donkey talk my donkey eat with a knife and fork, new kids on the block, noel edmonds, peter egan, phil cornwell, postman pat, probably andy crane, saint etienne, spitting image, stock aitken waterman, stuart hall, telly addicts, the charlatans, the waitresses, top of the pops, watch, william hartnell
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