An exciting find for Curious British Telly today in the form of a 99.9% complete episode of Packing Them In , the 1992 Channel 4 standup sho...

I first covered Scragtag, the verminous mid-1980s puppet operated by Marcus Kimber, in 2013. I must have watched him in progra...

A few years ago, I wrote about the launch of The Children's Channel in 1984 . Available only on cable television at the time, it was Bri...

This week, I was sent a few VHS tapes dating back to the early 1990s. Usually, I'm only fussed about old recordings dating from the earl...

Yes, I’ve managed to secure another printed article and, as ever, it’s an absolute thrill to announce it. It’s in the October 2026 edition o...

After a few weeks of fiddling with margins and tabs in Word documents, wrestling with anxiety over font sizes and being driven up the wall b...

England, predictably, crashed out of the World Cup this week in their trademark blaze of tactical insanity and, well, an inability to win wh...

Stop-Go is one of those vintage, forgotten programmes which has proved frustratingly elusive for me over the years. Part of the See-Saw lu...

Greenwich Cablevision was Britain's first cable television channel and launched in 1972 , but it only ran as a full service until 1974. ...