Category: British
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The Tea Ladies: The Other Ray Galton And Johnny Speight Sitcom
This story begins with a small, innocuous looking press cutting from The Stage, dated 21 September, 1978. The article is about The Two Ronnies, who are to make at least six episodes of their show for the Nine Network in Australia. This is interesting enough on its own. The show ended up being called The…
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That Banned Denis Healey Debit Card Advert
Adverts are usually banned for being misleading, or for containing something offensive, but in 1994, an advert for Visa Delta debit cards was banned because a former Chancellor of the Exchequer got a bit libelous about another former Chanceller of the Exchequer. Here’s the ad, see if you can spot it. Did you see it?…
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The Night Grace Archer Died
Life is what happens when you’re idly looking at a page of The Stage and Television Today from November of 1977. You see that Kenny Smiles will be appearing on the Christmas Battle Of The Comics on ITV, and that The Fabulous Dudley Peters Duo will be appearing on Opportunity Knocks to sing Old Man…
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Not A Perm
Hair adverts are so easy to parody, that even other adverts pardodied them for a while. This is probably the more famous of the Alan Davies Abbey National campaign adverts. It actually broke from the theme of the campaign a little bit, which usually focused on Davies’ everyman character facing slightly odd situations, and being…
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Closing Down
Not this blog. Here’s how BBC One closed down in 1979. And here’s the last ever closing down of the channel, explaining what will be happening through the night from the next day onwards.
