Curious British Telly
Tuesday, 28 March 2023

What Was It Like Presenting Why Don't You?

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As a child, hearing the Why Don't You? theme tune meant two fantastic things: firstly, it was the school holidays and, secondly, that...
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Saturday, 25 March 2023

Regional Oddity: Sit Up & Listen

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Much like the concept of ringing our friends on a landline for a chat, the TV closedown is another archaic reminder of a very different l...
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Monday, 20 March 2023

Book Review: Travel Without the Tardis

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Before you read any further, please prepare yourself. A statement which can only be described as a bombshell of epic proportions is a...
Friday, 17 February 2023

The Life of a Runner on The Children's Channel in the 1980s

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Around a year ago, I published an article about The Launch of The Children's Channel in 1984 and, in one of those wonderful this-is-why...
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Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Bradley

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Ephemeral television, as is its nature, comes and goes without causing much of a fuss. Indeed, it only takes a quick perusal of the Cu...
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Thursday, 19 January 2023

29/10/1984 - Let's Pretend: The Milk Float and the Racing Car

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It's been a year and a half since I last looked at an episode of Let's Pretend and that's because not a single second of it ha...
Friday, 23 December 2022

New Article in Best of British (January 2023)

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Although Christmas is still a few days away, I've already received an early present: an article of mine being published in the latest is...
Thursday, 8 December 2022

Christmas at the BBC 1972 – Dramas Out of Crises

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By Jon Dear The last couple of years have been rather tough, haven’t they? Starved of a functioning government and with Covid and Brexi...
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Saturday, 3 December 2022

Bob Monkhouse: The Flip Side (Thirty Minute Theatre)

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It's hard to believe that next year marks the twentieth anniversary of Bob Monkhouse's death. For decade upon decade, he was a...
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