244 titles eh? I have not found many I did not recall (only the non British screened ones) Isn't it funny how much unimportant stuff our brains retain.
Great thread for bringing back really hazy memories this, though...quite a few things I'd totally forgotten about! Like Flicks & Captain Zep for instance...
Richard of Sulyvan and some girl who at the time aged 13 and 14 was out clubbing in London dancing toppless on tables when drunk and IIRC her mother was no better hanging on to her daughters coat tails freeloading off her celebrity status. The sun had a field day on school girl saucyness inuendo type articles. Whilst on the next page were stories of Paedo teachers, preying on your teenage daughters (sports teacher of course, well at least ours did).
It makes me sad to see how complicated my life is now as an adult in a fierce world that I'm powerless to change. Sometimes I just want to be back in my mothers arms as a sever year old boy without any worries in the world. Somehow this brought everything flooding back.
Whilst not a theme tune this is an interesting slice of the 80's mentality, 1985 to be precise.
A Noel Edmonds Telecom Tower, live christmas charidee extravaganza featuring Helicopters, a band (Fergal Sharkey) and crackerjack episode live from a Virgin 747, outside broadcasts from around the country, lashings of video conferencing and the obligatory ostentatious satellite link ups. They went to great expense to fly out a massive satellite dish all the way to the outback of the Rwandan desert. They did a link up with the charidee workers to their family back home and talked about all the 'great work they had done for charidee', yet not once did they interview or properly showcase the Rwandan people they were there to help, it was more about the charidee and the people who were bringing it than it was the finding out where and on who all our charidee money was being spent.
I could not help thinking the cost of all that must of been immanence and probably outstripped any income they would have got from the public. F*ck the dish, F*ck the lashings of helicopters, planes and satellites and Smittee the air bound county hopping charidee superhero. Give the money to the Rwandan's and stop being to vulgar.
Still it is interesting to watch if only to see how much our attitudes have changed (partly due to Smashie and Nicey) and how much money the BBC had to splash arround. Also, there is an Merlin Tonto one per desk featuring prominently as the computer that runs the competition, presumably because the show came from the BT tower.
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The Perishers
Heidi
Moschops
Hardcastle & McCormick
Crazy Like A Fox
Dempsey & Makepeace
244 videos in the playlist right now! :D
244 titles eh? I have not found many I did not recall (only the non British screened ones) Isn't it funny how much unimportant stuff our brains retain.
Blimey! Had almost totally forgot about that!
Great thread for bringing back really hazy memories this, though...quite a few things I'd totally forgotten about! Like Flicks & Captain Zep for instance...
Barriers
Highway To Heaven
Home To Roost
Just Good Friends
Lame claim to fame, my daughter goes to school with Jan Francis' granddaughter. Chatted to her a few times, she's lovely :)
Hehe! :lol:
Don't think anybody's mentioned this yet either...
Kung Fu
Monkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!
A Noel Edmonds Telecom Tower, live christmas charidee extravaganza featuring Helicopters, a band (Fergal Sharkey) and crackerjack episode live from a Virgin 747, outside broadcasts from around the country, lashings of video conferencing and the obligatory ostentatious satellite link ups. They went to great expense to fly out a massive satellite dish all the way to the outback of the Rwandan desert. They did a link up with the charidee workers to their family back home and talked about all the 'great work they had done for charidee', yet not once did they interview or properly showcase the Rwandan people they were there to help, it was more about the charidee and the people who were bringing it than it was the finding out where and on who all our charidee money was being spent.
I could not help thinking the cost of all that must of been immanence and probably outstripped any income they would have got from the public. F*ck the dish, F*ck the lashings of helicopters, planes and satellites and Smittee the air bound county hopping charidee superhero. Give the money to the Rwandan's and stop being to vulgar.
Still it is interesting to watch if only to see how much our attitudes have changed (partly due to Smashie and Nicey) and how much money the BBC had to splash arround. Also, there is an Merlin Tonto one per desk featuring prominently as the computer that runs the competition, presumably because the show came from the BT tower.