Telly Addicts: Round 6

Yes folks, it’s time for the super-tricky quickfire round, with twenty five questions designed to fox even the addicts-est of Telly Addicts. See how many you can get right, or failing that, see how many you can get wrong…
1. Who or what was Slim John?
2. What was the only record owned by ‘Radio Goodies’?
3. What was [...]

Telly Addicts: Round 5

…and it’s the Hang On That One Was Never In Telly Addicts It’s Been ‘Borrowed’ From Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Round. Here are four characters from ten long-running programmes with millions of characters – can you put them in the correct order in which they first appeared on screen?
The Magic [...]

Telly Addicts: Round 4

And it’s Sing The Sig. Here are the themes from four obscure TV shows, played on the Non-Vetoed Stylophone and punctuated by special guest star, Phillip Glenister from TV’s Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar). But which is which out of Children Of Fire Mountain, The Krankies’ Joke Machine, Falcon Island and Hey, It’s My Birthday Too!? [...]

A Million Myles

Last week’s five-part Torchwood extravaganza may well have been totally unexpectedly astonishingly good (even if they did kill off Ianto for no good reason, and the ending was so annoyingly poor it would have shamed the producers of Life On Mars), and may well have finished up threatening to dethrone the ratings-toppings ’supersoaps’, but perhaps the [...]

Back In Spangles

Spangles. 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. [...]

“…And That’s Easter – On BBC North East & Cumbria!”

Everyone 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 [...]

Life On Mars – The Ultra-Rare Spinoff Singles (And Album)

Regular readers of these pages will have already seen the following amazing charity shop find – the 1973 Life On Mars spinoff album Simm Something Simple by The John Simm Band.

Side 1 – Life On Mars; Solving A Rape In The Past; I’m Hands Christian Anderson; Motown Medley; Handbags And Gladrags; I Disown My Country
Side [...]

Little ‘Red Riding’ Good (No, That Doesn’t Work)

The 11 O’Clock Show. Seaquest DSV. The Brass Eye Special. The Ace Of Wands story Sisters Deadly. That one where Doctor Who fought a talking cactus. Yes sir, I’ve sat through some bad TV over the years. From Los Dos Bros to Natural Lies, from Manimal to Thompson, from Ring My Bell to CP & [...]

Five Things I Hate About [CITATION NEEDED]

The rather fab Red Scharlach has recently been featuring one of those blog ‘meme’ things, based around responding to five things that someone automatically associated with you; hence in her case it was ‘drawing/art’, ‘gin’, ‘yummy bits of food’, ‘good-looking men’ and ‘your amazing ability to predict even the most insane of plot twists’.
Intrigued, I [...]

Free This Way Up – Now 23% Free-er!

After 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 [...]