ALF – Simon Dunn

Sitcom-puter Games

Here’s a really interesting advert for The Young Ones game, complete with fill in-game graphics, and a voice over. I don’t know who the voice over is, but every now and then, there’s a hint that it might be Ben Elton. I’m probably wrong. As an aside, in a related vein, here’s the gameplay for…

August 7, 2021
Schedule Spotlight: NBC Sundays 89-90

The first part of Sunday evenings on NBC in the autumn of 1989 was dedicated to The Magical World Of Disney. Come the summer though, this hour was extended to to a two hour slot. With the Sunday Night Movie running from 9pm, that just left a single hour to fill, and that’s where the…

July 12, 2021

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…

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…