Category: British
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The Detectives
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen The Detectives. I may not have even seen it since it was first broadcast. The sitcom began life as a run of sketches on Canned Carrott. It ran for five series between 1993 and 1997, and was written by Mike Whitehill and Steve Knight. Unusually for the…
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Carrott Canned
I was watching 24 Carrott Gold yesterday, a show I’ve not seen for years, but one which I recorded on VHS and watched a lot of. The broadcast version was a good half an hour shorter than the released version though, so there were bits of it that I hadn’t seen before. I think one…
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Canned Carrott
Here’s one of the more well known advert spoofs from Canned Carrott. Canned Carrott ran for two series in the early 1990s, and lead to the sitcom The Detectives. It also feautred Punt and Dennis around the time they were also doing The Mary Whitehouse Experience.
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Moanin’
I’ve had Moanin’ by Charles Mingus stuck in my head for a few days now. It feels like a piece of music that has been used in a lot of things, but the only ones that I can put my finger on are the Tetley Bitter ‘smoothly does it’ adverts, and Comedian, the documentary about…
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Palin And Jones On Good Morning America
Here’s Michael Palin and Terry Jones appearing on Good Morning America in 1983. I can’t find my copy of Palin’s diaries, so I don’t know if he mentions this appearance in them or not.
