Category: Thought Vomit
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Fifteen
Oh how I wish that there was a clip of the one-off sitcom Of Mycenae And Men, starring Diana Dors and Annette Crosbie. Alas not. Instead we find within the foil wrappings Old Boy Network, which had this theme tune. It was written by Clement & La Frenais, and as you can see, it starred…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Fourteen
Opening doors on this calendar has a habit of reminding me of sitcoms I had forgotten, not because they were no good, and not because I didn’t watch them (the opposite actually), but because my brain is small and full of Seinfeld quotes. So it is with The Naked Truth, which I saw on The…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Thirteen
Is it possible for a sitcom to exist for two long season in the US, and never be heard of ever again? It is possible for a sitcom that ran for two years on NBC as a lead in to The Golden Girls to have virtually nothing written about it anywhere? Why yes. Welcome to…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Twelve
Hidden behind the little door today is not Twenty Twelve, the sitcom about the Olympics that spawned W1A, but The News At Twelve, a CITV show from 1988, about a boy who delivers a news bulletin to an imaginary audience. Shame there’s no clippage to share. Also within is the chocolate goodness isan Andrew Norriss…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Eleven
We’ve mentioned Spanner’s Eleven already, so what are we going to find hidden and wrapped up neatly in the calendar today? Why, it’s Kappatoo, a Children’s ITV sci-fi sitcom written by Ben Steed. Denise Van Outen appeared in the first series of this, and Sarah Alexander in the second. And yes, that’s the voice of…
