The very first programme featured on Curious British Telly was Sebastian the Incredible Drawing Dog , which had a young Michael Barrymore at...

I've scribbled, more than once, about the cataclysmic jolt that  Let's Pretend gave my infant imagination , and this is precisely wh...

Think Tank starts much like an early 80’s sci-fi show, with a backdrop of twinkling stars accompanied by a pulsating bassline as the Think ...

For the benefit of those who don't know about Kaleidoscope, they're a specialist archive set up to track down and save missing Briti...

I was recently made aware that Kaleidoscope - the Birmingham-based British TV archivists - are trying to raise funds to help get the IBA Ed...

The noble art of trawling through ancient video tapes - part archaeology, part masochism - often turns up fragments rather than complete rel...

I've seen some curious feats of British television in my time, but I'm not sure anything will beat the fever dream which is Darth Va...

I never thought I’d get to watch enough of Teetime and Claudia to write an article on it. Aside from one episode which was on YouTube - and...

When I first started digging through video tapes in 2016, the chances of securing collections of 1980s recordings via Ebay, Gumtree, Faceboo...