Category: British
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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…
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Robin Cock – A Not The Nine O’Clock News For The Nineties
This runs the risk of turning into a Simon London’s appreciation piece appreciation piece. It’s fair to say he was an early written champion of The Day Today. On the Saturday before the first episode was broadcast (15th January 1994), he wrote this column. The following week, on the 22nd January, he marked the show…
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Awful Alan
On the weekend before Alan Partridge’s new chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You … arrived on BBC Two screens, he gave a short interview to the Daily Mirror. This is how it appeared on Saturday 10th September, 1994. Then, the day before the show began, this snooty (but probably prescient) warning arrived in the pages…
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Popadoodledandy
Perhaps one Sunday afternoon in 1993, maybe on Valentine’s Day, you were perusing the pages of The Sunday Mirror, and a picture of Nurse Duffy from Casualty caught your eye. If you let your gaze wander, you would have seen that Vic and Bob had just recorded a new pilot for Channel Four called Popadoodledandy.…
