Category: The Young Ones
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The Groovy Fellers And Ken Bishop’s Nice Twelve
It just wouldn’t be the new year without a bit of Jools Holland now, would it? So, it came to pass, that on the first day of 2021, I learned that Jools Holland had his own sitcom on Channel Four called The Groovy Fellers. Co-written with his co-star Rowland Rivron, the episodes were 50 minutes…
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Dear Mr Echo
Got a cold. This is all I can think about. Normal service will resume shortly.
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Is The Grange Hill Set Used In The Young Ones?
You may have noticed that I’m on a slow binge-watch of Grange Hill from the beginning. I’m two thirds of the way through series six, and the sets are starting to look like the sets I most remember. Whether that’s because this was the era I watched most as a kid, or because of this,…
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Wasn’t It Monk D’Wally De Honk?
This line has been stuck in my head for days. I assumed this was a made up name, but held out hope that it was a real person, with a real backstory that somehow fit the question exactly. It’s not though. But it’s a name that has been baffling the Autosport forum for years. It…
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Lost Memories Of The Young Ones
In the 80s, and part of the 90s, most weeks we would go and visit my Gran and Grandpa in Bristol. Sometime in the eary part of 1984, I stayed in and played with the solitaire marbles, or played tiddly winks with my brother – I now realise this was actually a toy roulette set,…
