Category: British
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Ads To Make Your Mouth Water
Today’s ear worm is the jingle from the Opal Fruits advert. Apparently, the slogan was invented by Murray Walker, the man more famous for screaming about racing brum brum cars. This 1974 advert does all the things that make adverts from this time period feel really creepy. Weird lighting, whispering voice over, odd angles. Ten…
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Absolutely Fabulous Passports
In the 2001 episode of Absolutely Fabulous, Edina, Patsy, Saffy, and Bubble take a day trip to Paris. The episode is longer than normal, and mostly shot on location in the city. There’s a scene on the Eurostar, where they compare passport photos. This is Saffron’s. She was born on 17th March 1975, so was…
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Some BBC Video Trailers
The space on a VHS tape was limited, so it’s a marvel that some of it was used for trailers, but the BBC were very good at these some times. Like this one, from 1991 for example. By my reckoning, a complete VHS collection of Last Of The Summer Wine, covering all 295 episodes, would…
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Comedy Is … Nice Work If You Can Get It
There was a time in the late 1990s when I would watch cable television into the small hours of the night. And more often than not, I was watching The Paramount Comedy Channel. Home to an eclectic mix of British, American, and Australian sitcoms, sketch shows, stand up, and panel shows – the channel’s strap-line…
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Brainstorm
Mentions of Brainstorm have been appearing on my social media feeds all week for some reason, and I realised I wasn’t aware of this show. Hosted by Kenny Everett and Cleo Rocos, it ran for 7 episodes in June and July of 1988, on BBC One. It’s rather good. Read more about the show here.
