Author: Simon Dunn
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David Letterman On The Jon Stewart Show
On the 23rd June 1995, David Letterman appeared on the very last edition of The Jon Stewart Show, being a great guest in what looks like an early version of the Top Gear set. Here’s the whole of that final show. Some background. The show began as a 30 minute talk show on MTV, airing…
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What’s The Opposite Of A Tractor?
Have you ever been tractor fishing in the bath? Or course not, that would be daft. As would trying to figure out the opposite of those things. A pointless folly. So don’t listen, don’t share, and certainly don’t enjoy.
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Hardwicke House Tapes Destroyed
Let’s begin in the middle. On Thursday 9th July 1987, The Stage’s Television Today had this front page headline. So, how did we get here? How did we get to the point where Central insiders were telling the papers that the Independent Broadcasting Authority had ordered them to wipe the tapes of a sitcom? Why…
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Peter Sellers And Spike Milligan Came This Close To Making A 70s Sitcom
Two facts crop up in everything I’ve read about the sitcom The Melting Pot. One, that the pilot was only ever broadcast once, and two, that a full series of six episodes was later filmed and never shown on TV. According to some sources, Milligan thinks this was because the scripts weren’t good enough, and…
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Mr Bean’s Limited Potential On Radio
Considering that it went on to win the Rose D’Or, be watched by upwards of 18 million people, and spawned two movies that have grossed half a billion dollars between them, Mr Bean arrived on our screens with a relative whisper. The first mention of the show appears in this article about Paul Bown, star…
