There's a chapter about this show in my book Nineteen 90s Television Shows.

Jeeves and Wooster title

#OnThisDay 1990 : The first episode of Jeeves and Wooster was broadcast on ITV.

Four series was produced between 1990 to 1993 featuring lead roles played by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

#90s

Christopher Price on BBC News 24

Christopher Price on Zero 30

Christopher Price is on Liquid News

Christopher Price interviewing

#OnThisDay 2002 : It was announced that Christopher Price had passed away.

Christopher was best known as a journalist and presenter in which he presented Zero 30 on BBC News 24 which later moved to BBC Choice as the bolder Liquid News programme.

The 8-15 From Manchester title

#OnThisDay 1990 : The first episode of the 8:15 From Manchester aired on BBC1.

It was presented by RossK ing and @Charlotte Hindlle and ran for two summer series between 1990 and 1991.

#90s

The Young Ones on the front cover of Look In

From week ending 12 April 1986, The Young Ones appear on the front of Look In magazine.

#80s #YoungOnes #RikMayall

The Inception Of 20th Century Coyote This is a very small thing, marking an historical moment in the development of what became known as Alternative Comedy in the early 1980s. It's easy to forget that 20th Century Coyote was more than...

The Inception Of 20th Century Coyote

(a blog from the archive)

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TV-am | The Wide Awake Club | 1986 22nd March 1986 Tommy Boyd interviews Christopher Ryan and Hank Marvin in the studio and Howard Jones on the phone. Chris & Hank then join Arabella Warner & Tim Healy in the kitchen for some Wac Snax

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wide Awake Club promotes the Young Ones Living Doll with Hank Marvin and, in a rare promo appearance, Christopher Ryan. As if that didn't seem odd enough for that time of morning Tim Healy joins both for Arabella Warner's cooking spot.

Alexei Sayle - Paul Daniels Magic Show YouTube video by daitengu77

He has a point

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NETFLIX The Dinosaurs: Trailer Review | Terrible Lizards Get more from Terrible Lizards on Patreon

What does paleontologist @davehone.bsky.social think of the Netflix Dinosaurs trailer? www.patreon.com/posts/153128...

In April 1992, Robert Altman's The Player was released, garnering lavish praise for its opening scene, a complicated ensemble tracking shot. In April 1990, Coronation Street was doing stuff like this, and nobody batted an eyelid.

I am VERY tempted to write another long post about how the decision in the 1970s not to establish a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund in favour of simply using the oil money to prop up finances at the time, has done more damage to the UK than any other decision in history. LONG THREAD, SORRY.

Comedy Is ... All About Timing Here’s the third installment of Comedy Is … an audio essay that uses a show from the late 1990s line-up on the Paramount Comedy Channel as a springboard to talk about the history of television comedy,...

Comedy Is … All About Timing

(a podcast from the archive)

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The Wispa Gold Comedy Archive We had a look at the launch of the Wispa a while ago, exploring all the comedy duos the campaign utilised. That post left a few gaps, so here's a further look at some of the adverts. We missed, for ex...

The Wispa Gold Comedy Archive

(a blog from the archive)

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Rewind TV (Freeview ch. 81) is showing the series Rik Mayall Presents, in which plays various characters, starting tonight at 9.20pm.

Great to see @rewindtv.bsky.social showing Rik Mayall Presents...

The first episode - MICKY LOVE - is on tonight at 9:20pm.

Vastly underrated work from Rik, and showed a very different side to him.

National Cheese Board - Any Way You Please It - UK Advert YouTube video by Nina Perez

Well, this has just marched in to my head from the distant past and taken up residence.

youtu.be/0rERXwTHp4c?...

Arfon Haines Davies announcing in front of a mysterious street.

Any of my HTV-watching chums know where Arfon's background pic is? A colleague is on a mission to find out.

The Daves I Know YouTube video by javiehe09

These are the Daves he knows, he knows, these are the Daves he knows.

youtu.be/8nvzEqsZIGo?...

Hi-De-Hi! title

Paul Shane

Ruth Madoc

Su Pollard

#OnThisDay 1981 : Following a successful pilot the year before, the first series of Hi-De-Hi was broadcast on BBC1.

It featured Maplins, a fictional holiday camp and the lives of the on site entertainers.

#80s

Spitting Image

TV listing A Topical comedy sketch show with hideously cruel caricatures of the 80 most important personalities in the world. An extremly impertinent attack on the sort of people usually remote from real criticism.

#OnThisDay 1984 : The first edition of Spitting Image was broadcast on ITV.

The original run lasted until 1996 but saw a comeback on #Britbox in 2020 for two series.

Any favourite moments, caricatures?

TV listing : @woodg31.bsky.social)

Gutted.

Going Straight title

#OnThisDay 1978 : The first episode of Going Straight which was a direct spin off from Porridge was broadcast on BBC1. Featuring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, it would run for just one series of six episodes.

#70s

The Brittas Empire title

#OnThisDay 1997 : After 7 series, the final The Brittas Empire was broadcast on BBC1. It would end as a dream for Gordon Brittas whilst he was on his way for an interview as a leisure centre manager.

#90s

Interceptor - Series 1 (1989/1990) - YouTube A successor to 'Treasure Hunt', this game show puts a whole new twist on the old game of hide and seek. Two contestants are each given a locked backpack - on...

Every episode of "Interceptor" in one handy playlist, courtesy of "Lara Croft". She really digs up treasure.

You're welcome. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Alexei Sayle - 1983 - Comic Roots (Full) YouTube video by chromestar100

BBC2 off-air of the Alexei Sayle episode from "Comic Roots". Aired 26th Aug 1983 and repeated twice more since (far as I can tell, once in 1984 and again in 1991). This seems to be a betamax transfer from the original broadcast. Lovely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rstb...

I find this rare Young Ones publicity photo of the infamous Fifth Housemate more unsettling than the brief glimpses we get of them on screen. It's the fact that this mysterious ghostly presence is out there front and centre, *staring* at us. Brrrr.

Kenneth Williams and television in the 1980s Kenneth Williams hosting Wogan, BBC1, 23 April 1986 Between January 1980 and his death in April 1988, Kenneth Williams appeared as a guest on 56 different television programmes. If you include othe…

I've started a new site where I'll be writing periodically about TV, films, music and the like.

To begin with, ahead of the 100th anniversary of his birth: Kenneth Williams and 1980s television - a story of commitment, triumph and upholstery.

nearertotheend.co.uk/2026/02/15/k...

Laugh Track Partridge Just where did the seemingly prevalent misconception that the first series of I'm Alan Partridge didn't have a laugh track, while series two did, actually come from? I remember a friend bemoaning this...

Laugh Track Partridge

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The Fifth Seinfeld

(a blog from the archive)

www.simondunn.me.uk?p=12543

1987 Smarties Only Smarties Have the Answer Advert YouTube video by Cereal & Other Ads

I have only just this evening realised that the Smarties in the slogan doesn't refer to the product.

youtu.be/-BG7ODgEmi0?...