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  • Lisa, Bella, And Russ Go Woganing
    Lisa, Bella, And Russ Go Woganing

    Tel opens with a Twin Peaks joke, which is unexpected. Has Russ Abbot always been the same age?

  • 008 – The Real James Bond
    008 – The Real James Bond

    It’s not often you get a peek at the unproduced work of writers, and it’s amazing that Roy Clarke found the time to write pilots at all, what with writing over 500 episodes of shows over the years. There’s an episode of Last Of The Summer Wine that guest stars Brian Conley. It’s called Enter…

  • A Word With Harry H Corbett
    A Word With Harry H Corbett

    The Thames TV Archive on YouTube is a veritable goldmine of curios. I watched Mary Berry cook an ox’s tongue the other day, using, and I’m not joking, some weapons grade chemicals. It’s too gross to watch though, so instead here’s a facile interview with Harry H Corbett, and an interviewer who asks terribly boring…

  • Wogan Introduces Dallas
    Wogan Introduces Dallas

    Telly doesn’t seem to do things like this anymore. Here’s Terry going straight into the final episode of the series of Dallas.

  • Michael Redmond On Clive Anderson Talks Back
    Michael Redmond On Clive Anderson Talks Back

    This is a rare and lovely treat. Have a watch, and we’ll talk afterwards. Yes, that line does feature heavily in an excellent Stewart Lee routine, and man alive, the accompanying ladder joke is marvellous. Such ad odd intro to the stand up though. Why was Clive in the audience, and why was the camera…

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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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