Category: Allo Allo

  • What’s Behind Blackadder’s Mystery Door?
    What’s Behind Blackadder’s Mystery Door?

    At the risk of running down a rabbit hole armed with nothing more than an empty brain and boredom, let’s have a look at the mystery door on the set of Blackadder The Third. That one in the back corner, behind Blackadder. Where does it lead? It might help for us to get a better…

  • Wogan Says ‘Allo ‘Allo
    Wogan Says ‘Allo ‘Allo

    I could have sworn we’d looked at this before, but it turns out we haven’t. It’s labelled as 1985 but that would have made it a Sunday, so this must be from 1986, which also tallies with the dates of the ‘Allo ‘Allo live show. With his customary savoirfaire the chat-show host par excellence introduces…

  • ‘Allo ‘Allo Live
    ‘Allo ‘Allo Live

    Here’s the ‘Allo ‘Allo live show, as featured on one of the best iterations of Comic Relief in 1989. It appears to be an extract from the full live show, which ran from 1986 to 1992, rather than anything specially made for Comic Relief.

  • What’s The Opposite Of ‘Allo ‘Allo?
    What’s The Opposite Of ‘Allo ‘Allo?

    On this week’s episode of setisoppO, the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite, we work out the opposite of a pirate ship, of a Mars bar, and of ‘Allo ‘Allo. We make brief mention of the following things.

  • Christmas On BBC One In 1985
    Christmas On BBC One In 1985

    Seems like the perfect time to have a wander round the BBC One schedules for Christmas of 1985. These were the big blockbuster movies that Auntie had lined up for us. I mean, I would have recorded Rocky II, but the others are all a bit meh. It’s a pretty strong line up through the…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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