Category: Thought Vomit
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Twenty
There’s been the memory of a sitcom tickling at the inside of my head for a few years now, and I could never remember the title, and it was hard to Google because I was convinced someone else wrote it. Taking The Floor starred Barbara Durkin and Matthew Cottle as a pair of ballroom dancers.…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Nineteen
I can’t ever decide if I like pun titles for sitcoms, but this one is a doozy. Sadie, It’s Cold Outside was written by Jack Rosenthal, and aired in the spring of 1975 on ITV. What’s that? You want to unwrap the foil of a delicious sitcom treat that stars both David Jason AND Richard…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Eighteen
Sue Towsend, the creator of Adrian Mole, also co-created a sitcom with Carole Hayman. The Refuge ran for two series of seven episode on Channel Four in 1987-88. The US remake of the various incarnations of Reggie Perrin was called Reggie, and only lasted six episodes. This theme tune can’t have helped matters. David Nobbs…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Seventeen
It will come as no surprise that there’s a lack of sitcoms beginning with the letter Q. That’s Queenie’s Castle, created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. It starred Diana Dors, and ran for three series on ITV at the start of the 70s. So it’s inevitable that the treats behind today’s door are a…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Sixteen
Pardon The Expression, but what’s behind door 16 today? Well, it’s the sitcom with Arthur Lowe that was a spin-off from Coronation Street (of all places). Made by Granada for ITV, it ran for two series and 36 episodes. Another Lowe vehicle, this time for the BBC at the end of the seventies, Potter was…
