Category: British
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Breakfast Time
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the first episode of Breakfast Time. And the wonderful Andy Pearman has uploaded the entire thing for us. How nice. It launched a couple of weeks earlier than TV-am over on ITV, and caught its rivals unawares by being a little more cosy that expected. Here’s an article from…
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America Gets The Birds
We’ve looked before at the FOX network’s remake of Birds Of A Feather. It was called Stand By Your Man, starred Rosie O’Donnell, and aired in the US in the spring of 1992. Whilst looking at clippings for Keeping Up Appearances, I came across this interesting article … It’s from the Mirror on Saturday 27th…
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Clipping Up Appearances
Hyacinth Bucket debuted on our screens in October of 1990. With it’s first episode, Keeping Up Appearances hit the ground running, winning an audience of 11.4 million. And it did that with little or no fanfare in the papers, though I’m sure it was heavily trailed on the channel. Apparently, it only takes 30 seconds…
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Marti Caine’s Hilary
Marti Caine’s sitcom Hilary was written by Peter Vincent (one half of Sorry!‘s writing team) and Peter Robinson. The pilot aired in December of 1984 on BBC Two. Here’s how it was announced in The Mirror, along with whispers of a new soap opera that was to become Albion Market. On the day that the…
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Alas! The Tour (Souvenir Programme)
A few months ago I tweeted this: Which then led me down a little, shallow rabbit hole, wherein I purchased a copy of the tour programme. Here’s how it looked when it arrived, all pristine and lovely. And here’s the back cover. This is a full page advert parody from inside. Here’s a flavour of…
