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Its time for a very British TV focussed post here in Popular Nostalgia – its Teletext! We all remember reading Teletext for news, sport reports and even, once Fastext (oh what an advancement in technology that was – like the internet, only with four “choices”!) was invented, quizzes, like Bamboozle. If the internet is the […]

I remember watching this thing when I was a child. I am not altogether sure that I enjoyed it, but TV was a pretty straightforward game back in 1991, you had your basic 4 channels in Britain, and only one of them showed children’s TV without adverts, so it was this or art attack. Come […]

I remember Albert fondly as one of those cartoons in the mid 1990s that were Okay to watch even though I was probably a little bit too old to still be watching cartoons: it had the occassional big word and grown-up reference in it! Albert was a small man, but was crucial to the Napoleonic […]

The Muppets were the biggest sewn people for a decade or so in the 1980s and early 90s – and there isn’t a much more nostalgic show than “A Christmas Carol” when it comes to feeling christmassy, so it isn’t really that amazing that the “Muppet Christmas Carol” evokes in me all kinds of twinkly, […]

Ahhh the old days of Top Gear, when they actually used to review cars. Nowadays it’s just races, celebrities and silliness. However, at least they recognise that most of the audience are never really going to go out and buy a car. They just like to dream about buying a supercar. So that’s what they […]