Category: British
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Rik’s Comedy Of Errors
This is the story of how Rik Mayall accidentally broke Jon Plowman’s arm while throwing him in to a swimming pool. But we’ll get back to that. The Oxford And Cambridge Shakespeare Company was the brainchild of, among others, Jonathan Miller. The company staged Shakespeare productions, which toured the UK and then the USA. In…
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Contemporaneous The Young Ones Clippings
So much has been written about The Young Ones over the years, I thought it might be interesting to look back at what was being written about it during the first few weeks that it aired. On the morning of the debut of Demolition, this write up appeared in The Daily Mirror, written by Ken…
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All Night Long
Funny how the memory plays tricks on you. For the longest time I keep remembering a mid-1990s 8.30pm sitcom starring Keith Barron, working in an all-night bakery. Sometimes I forget what it was called, and it takes ages to recall the title … but my mind keeps coming back to it. All Night Long, written…
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Atari And Wise
I mean, who else would you get to flog the latest Atari console?
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The Kit On BBC Knowledge
I have a soft spot for those early wilderness years of BBC cable channels like Choice, and Knowledge. Here’s one of Charlie Brooker’s most early appearances, on a show called The Kit.
