Category: British
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Gran-Ade Rentals
Here’s an advert from around 1989, in which Adrian Edmondson flogs us the benefits of renting a telly. I expect you could rent videos too.
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The Thin Blue Clips
It won’t surprise you that as the BBC prepared to broadcast The Thin Blue Line, it got quite a bit of newspaper coverage. That was due to the return of Rowan Atkinson in a Ben Elton written sitcom. As with all these things, the earlier bits tend to try and tie them into the news…
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Some Fast Show Clips
The TV Weekly page in the Daily Mirror on the 24th September is titled Smashie Pens A Real Smasher. We’ll have a look at most of what’s on the page, just to get a sense of where TV comedy was at on the weekend before the first episode of The Fast Show aired. The write-up…
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The Mupclip Show
A trio of newspaper clippings for you today, this time from 1976 just as The Muppet Show was about to hit British teatime television screens. The first is from the Coventry Evening Telegraph on Wednesday 18th August. The same paper told much the same story a few weeks earlier too, this time on the 4th…
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More New Thames Sitcoms In Pipeline
Here’s an article from The Stage, published on Thursday 4th September 1980. That sitcom aired as The Incredible Mr Tanner, in February and March of 1981. But it wasn’t the first time that Cooke and Mortimer had written these characters. It’s actually a reworking of their 1971 sitcom Kindly Leave The Kerb, with the main…
