Category: British
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1995: A Special Year Of Specials
It’s Christmas in 1995. You’ve got your red pen hovering over the Radio Times listings, all ready to circle the shows you’re going to watch or record on tape, and you realise … there’s loads on this year. Take a look at this trail, to begin. That’s the last ever episode of Keeping Up Appearances,…
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Mars Celebrations
I would have bet money that Mars Celebrations were released the same year as Cadbury’s Heroes, in a pitched battle to steal the sales from under the noses of those Quality Street folk. Turns out though, that Mars released their boxed sets in 1997, a full two years before Cadbury’s unleashed theirs. Of the two,…
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A Bunch Of Students In A Flat
Here’s an excellent episode of The Alexei Sayle Podcast, featuring Lise Mayer, all about a 1980s sitcom called The Young Ones.
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Harry and Clive
Harry Enfield’s appearance on Clive Anderson Talks Back.
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Cadbury’s Roses
This is the advert I think of when I think of a big tin of Cadbury’s Roses, especially the feeding William line. That tune has been around for a while though. But in the 1990s, the marketing folk got a bit obsessed with car matters for some reason.
