What A Gas

This isn’t what I was planning on sharing today, but sometimes you’re scouring for tiny articles in the archive, and you get distracted by big, gaudy ones like this.

Daily Mirror – Monday 20 July 1987

‘Romped with a bevy of beauties’ is a phrase you only ever see in a tabloid newspaper.

Here’s a preview of the movie, from the Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald

Friday 10 July 1987

And here’s the trailer for The Chicken Chronicles.

And finally, this is probably one of the better titles of a memoir you’ll ever see.

Buy My Books
  • 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…

Follow
Most Read
  • 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…

From The Archive

Sign up for my FREE newsletter