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Well, I do think it was mis-represented as satire on the Daily Mail website where the title "Brush with Basil that charmed Chairman Mao... the five greatest celebrity travel programmes of all time" immediately piqued my interest. Entering the article and seeing a picture of Michael Portillo, I genui...

Did "Great British Railway Journeys: From Uxbridge To Hillingdon" really not give it away?

Not being from London, no ! ;-)

Aha! My fault for not reading the rest of the article and realizing it was a parody...

But then, a pretty pointless bit of writing...

Surely this is incorrect ? Basil Brush went to China in 1973 and interviewed Chairman Mao ? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9264267/CRAIG-BROWN-Brush-Basil-charmed-Chairman-best-celebrity-travel-programmes.html I have never heard anything about this before and find no details beyond of th...

http://www.cashaw.co.uk/20200930_213917.jpg Just reading about how the BBC is planning to re-instate it's red button service and thought I should check ! Here in Sweden the national broadcaster is still providing Teletext service. I would love to imagine that SVT has a room of ICL mainframes provid...

Wow, I had actually missed this. Was it not reported heavily in the media ?

At least in the 70's and 80's he was a massive presence on screen (in many ways).

Around 10 years ago it was a staple on the New Years Eve TV schedule here in Sweden. But for one reason or another it seems to have been dropped since then... They still show the same, ancient Donald Duck cartoon on Christmas eve, which is a bit of a tradition for them... The catchphrase "Some proce...

Corinne Skinner-Carter and Rudolph Walker both appeared as husband and wife in a 1993 episode of Lovejoy and then cropped up again as the separated couple Audrey and Patrick Trueman in Eastenders. Dianne Parish was also in the episode of Lovejoy and related to them in some way during their Eastender...

I remember being relatively impressed at the time. We only had one set of glasses in the family, so there was much grabbing and arguing with my sisters on who would get them. For some reason I missed the film on the following Sunday afternoon. I got the impression at the time that they were thinking...

In the 1980's it seemed that every show Yorkshire TV put out included Keith Barron. Will be missed.

I remember watching it, I don't remember much about the scheduling but I do remember what seemed like hours of a camera shot pointing through a gate and down a long road in the shimmering sun, awaiting his arrival. I seem to remember some live footage of his car driving towards Cape Town and his spe...

I was thinking the same thing, at the tender age of 3-4, the adults in my life were my parents, the local playgroup leaders and the likes of Brian Cant and Chloe Ashcroft. To me, there was no real distinction to a "real" adult and one on TV. They were all people teaching me and part of my early awar...

I used to enjoy watching the mammoth India series Mahabharat on C4 on Saturday lunchtimes in the 80's. They had massive use of eye-watering CSO effects, but this often meant that in the same scene with the same characters they would switch from film to VT and back again, or in some cases overlap the...

I remember driving home the day before she died and there was a piece on R5 Live criticizing her meddling in international affairs with all the landmine issues she was raising. I can't remember the exact context. There had also been months of the newspapers moaning about Dodi and Al Fayad etc.. I th...

Interesting that they are held on Shibaden tapes... I wonder why they did that...

I remember a news item back in the 80's about an old woman who had videoed and archived the 9 o'clock news everyday since 1980. I wonder what happened to her collection, I am sure there were others who did the same.

and what is the "exceptionally rare" video format that Nationwide is on ?

I read this today but I am a little confused, hasn't all we have of Tiswas already been digitized ? Also Shang-a-Lang which on saw on Gplus in the late 90's.. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38131911 Although some other sites have cocked an eyebrow about wanting to see Derek Batey's "Mr a...

The Glen Campbell song "Rhinestone Cowboy" contains the line "There's been a load of compromisin' On the road to my horizon..." which I as an 8 year old in the late 70's interpreted that Mr Campbell had just taken delivery of a brand new Talbot Horizon car, as had my father at the time. I still can'...

Hancock's Half Hour

I remember when "Father Ted" started on C4, they ran a number of trailers which focused on the zany/slapstick element of the show and I decided that it wasn't for me and missed the first series. It was only when friends started talking about it and I watched it and realized what a total gem it was !...

I always loved the original 80's version of the "A Question of Sport" theme tune but hated it's replacement. Equally the "Antiques Roadshow" Brandenburg Concerto theme was wonderful and was replaced by some overly pretentious classical piece. In the 80's they did seem to like re-engineering perfectl...

What a bizarre title sequence... It is also obvious that he has been up there for hours gripping onto the castle's turret !

I am not sure if BBC Wales/Cymru still do this, but at least until the mid-90's then they would always throw up the BBC Wales globe at junctions. It always looked very amateurish and they would always manage to catch a few frames or even a few seconds of the national globe. I've got a few examples o...

I was doing a scan of the SW bands a few months back and was surprised that they were still there ! The one I heard most recently was apparently transmitting from Cuba, the numbers were in Spanish. This was received on an old cassette deck in my kitchen, no fancy aerials or anything. Apparently when...

Things they'll never put back in the Bonds for various reasons: - 1954 Climax! Casino Royale: the last minutes at the end. (The program was originally transmitted in colour, but it doesn't look like there's much chance of chroma dots.) Was it colour ? It was on CBS and they were still smarting afte...

Having recently (finally) upgraded to HD and Bluray, I took the plunge to check out some of the Bond films which have been remastered onto Bluray. In this regards, the first Bond (Dr. No), the quality, colour and definition was amazing. It looked like it had just been filmed yesterday. And there-in ...

Yep,we get exactly the same advert...that guy has one Hell of a lot of alimony to pay... Indeed, doing a quick Youtube, I found some adverts he did on 2009 for the Scandinavian electronic supplier "Elgigantan" where he moans that he is having to advertise washing machines due to his latest divorce ...

As a side, there is currently some optician's advert being shown here in Sweden (possibly Specsavers ?) which features John Cleese doing his Fawlty Towers routine of bashing his non-starting car with a tree branch. Due to lack of glasses he whacks a police car by mistake. Is this based on a UK TV ad...

Well he did compose "King's Road", the rather excellent theme tune to "Why Don't You...?"

Looking at the titles they want to "remake", I am wondering if their eyes are on the American market who seem to have an unnatural fondness for AYBS and Keeping Up Appearances etc.... I am not sure how a modern AYBS would work these days, department stores like Gracebrother's don't really exist in t...