Trailer for the very first episode of Heartbeat.
Trailer broadcast before Inspector Morse on Wed 8th April 1992…Heartbeat premiered that Friday the 10th (odd to think of it on any day except Sunday, but it didn’t move to Sundays until S2)
Ah, Sunday mornings in the 90s…was there anything better than relaxing in front of UK Golds double bill of Doctor Who and Blake’s 7.
A quick look through listings suggest this particular double bill was on the 4th December 1994.
The early days of Sky, I remember the Family Channel…only have vague memories of Tony Slatterys Trivial Pursuit gameshow
Wow..it’s been 6 months since I last posted…I think taking a long break from social media has certainly done me some good. Still avoiding x like the plague tho :)
Just bought a new device to copy footage from my VHS tapes and enjoying revisiting old gems I’d forgotten…mainly the old adverts :)
How is it February already
That was a sad and unexpected opening to the new #deathinparadise
Haven’t been posting much…I’m sort of blocking out a lot of the outside world and just trying to exist from day to day without feeling too depressed about the state of the world.
Plus I’m still completely addicted to playing Stardew Valley, so spending most of my time on my iPad playing that.
Kids today don’t know the nervousness and anticipation of waiting for so long for a game to load, knowing that it could fail to load, or the tape get mangled at any moment.
Haha yeh…I used to have two lists in my head. Ranking games by Favourites, and also how fast they were to load.
Yep, done all in the image, and all those too…those great spectrum days spending ages waiting for a game to load. Would always keep Jumping Jack nearby for a quick game, cause it was so fast to load compared to others.
From issue 8, here’s that letter :)
Another lovely episode of Pottery Throwdown…such high quality work this season too, it’s such a great show.
I really do love #potterythrowdown it’s one of the best programmes on tv
These were my period too…I still love rereading the 80s Whizzer and Chips comics.
Happy new Year everyone
Still watching more versions of “A Christmas Carol”…tonight the atmospheric animation by Richard Williams (and Chuck Jones) from 1971. Really captures the feeling of it being a ghost story…reunites Alistair Sim and Michael Hordern from the ‘51 film
https://youtu.be/ZTzyC9CZuOA?si=q27n6Hgp_uDnx6jo
Started a new game of Stardew Valley, my first since the 1.6 update….id forgotten how addictive I find it. Been playing all day.
Ah, pottery throwdown time…always a joyful watch (although having to grit my teeth every time Rachel Riley is on the screen, can’t stand her)
That sounds like a perfect day…in fact I just played a game of Atic Atac on my iPad, it still holds up (although I find I can complete it most times now, which I never could as a kid).
Ah, I love Atic Atac…Chequered Flag was a good game too.
This is always worth a post on Christmas Eve, a page from Calvin and Hobbes
This is always worth a post on Christmas Eve, a page from Calvin and Hobbes
Day 24 of Advent, and who better to fill this last spot than Dennis the Menace. 2 strips here from creator Davey Law, and one from David Sutherland.
#BritishComicsAdvent
The fanzine DWB was originally Doctor Who Bulletin, it later changed to DreamWatch Bulletin when it started covering other shows, and then finally to just DreamWatch.
Ah, I love it…funny, but still exciting and at times tense…it’s definitely one of my favourite Hartnells
I remember after UK Gold showed it for the first time, DWB received a number of letters praising it and they commented “is there anyone out there who’s seen The Gunfighters recently and doesn’t like it?”.
It was such a good time to be a fan, all those old episodes gradually becoming available.
It wasn’t until 92 when UK Gold launched that I got to see it (I have a memory of one of the episodes being shown on Christmas Day) and loving it. It’s always been a favourite of mine since then.
It’s hard to underestimate how much the opinions of so few people really shaped fandom. For me (like with so many in the 80s) it was Peter Hainings A Celebration book with its reviews by Jeremy Bentham which became the standard opinions for stories we couldn’t see.
But the colourisation was beautifully done, and the new sequence at the end was pretty nicely done (even if I still hate the nuwho regen effect being used).
I’ll still almost always choose the original in future but it’s nice to have this version to watch some scenes from.
Well, I mostly enjoyed The War Games in colour…it’s one of my favourite stories so I was interested to see what they’d done to it. The editing was a little too frentic for me, and too much was cut out. And the music was a little overpowering…subtlety doesn’t seem to be in their vocabulary.
