Category: Piffle
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The Young Ovens
I’ve become a bit obsessed with ovens in sitcoms this past week. It all started when I noticed how many ovens Arkwright got through in Open All Hours, before I began to wonder if any of those same ovens were used in other BBC shows. Logic would suggest they would have to have been. I…
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Oven All Hours
I know the internet is full of articles about the ovens in Open All Hours, and that adding anything to the discourse is almost, if not completely impossible. Nonetheless, let’s have a look at the ovens in the backroom of Arkwright’s. We first get a glimpse into the inner workings of the shop in the…
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Pause To The People
I don’t like to link to full episodes of shows that are commercially available, but have a look at this really odd moment from Citizen Smith. https://youtu.be/rWLHozl8AFw?t=671 This is episode four of series three (Tofkin’s Revenge), which aired on 11th October, 1979. Now, I know that sometimes changes are made for the DVD, due to…
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The Fall & Rise Of The Camera In The Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin’s Titles
Not sure why my mind is being drawn to such little details this week, but here’s the opening titles to The Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin, a BBC sitcom, written by David Nobbs. So, after Reggie gets his kecks off, and runs down the slope, the camera ‘falls’ and then ‘rises’ again. This feels…
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Hyacinth & Seinfeld
Keeping Up Appearances is a sitcom written by Roy Clarke for BBC One, starring Patricia Routledge, which ran for five series between 1990 and 1995. But you knew that already. You may not know that it is still one of the BBC’s most exported shows worldwide. Routledge demonstrated time and again her physical comedy prowess.…
