Author: Simon Dunn
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A Pinch Of Snuff With Hale And Pace
What I like about trawling through old newspaper clippings, sifting through the grit to find some gold, is when you learn something new. Like this, for example, the ITV version of Daziel and Pascoe, starring Hale and Pace. A Pinch Of Snuff ran for three episodes in 1994, was based on the novel by Reginald…
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Hale And Pace Junctions
Here’s a couple of junctions for Hale And Pace. This first one is from 1998, when the show was on every Thursday night. Could have sworn it was only ever broadcast on Sundays. Then there this one, from the Yorkshire region, when they clearly hadn’t sold any adverts.
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Clips And Ladders
We’ve looked at the sitcom Snakes And Ladders before, written as it was by the brilliant Marks And Gran, and co-starring Adrian Edmondson. Here’s how the first episode of the series was reviewed by James Green in The Stage, on the 12th October 1989 (just a few days before the writers’ other sitcom, Birds Of…
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George, Mildred, Brian, And Yootha
Here’s a brief interview, believed to be their last, with Brian and Yootha as they promote their movie in Jersey.
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Torqueing About Brass Eye
So, to begin. Brass Eye was originally going to air on Tuesday 19th November 1996, between an episode of Drop The Dead Donkey, and Northern Exposure. As can be seen in this listing from the Crawley News. There wasn’t very much fanfare. When the show didn’t appear, it was replaced by Whose Line Is It…
