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Before Hugh Laurie had an American accent and limped around a hospital, he was dim-witted Prince in Blackadder. “Queenie” was hilarious with her indiscriminate orders to behead and whims attended to by none other than the acidic Rowan Atkinson. My favourite character by far was Lord Flashheart -played by Rick Mayall. His character could well […]

The pythons were: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin and they broadcast on the BBC from 1969 to 1974. Their madcap approach to comedy broke all the boundaries and they were as controversial as they were successful. If I could, I would play every Python episode and film […]

Allo Allo is a farcical comedy about a French cafe owner juggling the secrets of French, British and German wartime interests -as well as his own. The show ran from 1982 to 1992 and followed the progress of Rene who has to hide paintings for different German factions, act for different Resistance factions, hide two […]

A hapless bunch of Home Guard “soldiers” attempt to defend their homeland to little effect. Dad’s Army has a brilliant start sequence with song that was specially written for the show and military progress arrows fighting each other. Lyrics to Dad’s Army Theme Tune: “Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?” Who do […]

Light years ahead in terms of technology, virtual reality children’s television series, Knightmare, was actually really scary. It was like a cross between a medieval re-enactment and a computer game. It would be really strange to take part in it as it literally was a walk through computer game -except some gammy actors would accost […]

The best morning show of th 1990’s. Ant, Dec and Cat Deely would run amok for a couple of hours. Ant used to try and beat the kids at the trivia quiz and he could be quite harsh -especially if he won. They impersonated most celebrities and we nearly got the long-awaited kiss on their […]

Presented by that-guy-off-Red-Dwarf, Craig Charles. Robot Wars was the arena for robots to do their best to try and blow each other up on TV. Especially funny when they tried to interview the uber-geeks backstage who would mumble and blurt out inappriopriate comments. The show’s own master robots sometimes came to a grisly end of […]

“I’ll have a ‘P’ please, Bob!” “I’ll have an ‘E’ please, Bob!” Oh, how we laughed. Seriously, though, Blockbusters was great TV. Students would play for weeks, in pairs, or solo, and would always be accompanied by a furry mascot, eventually, they would win a budget prize, like a “Steam Iron” or a trip to […]

A guy with a silly clothes and a badger that loves mash potato. Sounds like my school drama class at work again. My favourite bit was when all the stupidity had stopped and they made stuff out of recycled bits and bobs that came out of a shute. I always wondered, though, how they got […]

Remember being scared of the big bad wolf? Did you want to date /look like Jet? Remember when Shadow got done for using steroids? and the wonder of people fighting with giant cotton buds on elevated platforms? Gladiators was a phenomenon of family viewing. Everyone knew someone who’s teacher’s friend’s brother’s babysitter had been a […]