Celebrity Squares
Celebrity Squares - 1975
It was prime time Saturday night viewing at it's peak as one of Britain's best loved comics (Bob Monkhouse) proved he was still king of the game show.Celebrity Squares was in fact ...
Monty Python – Live At Aspen
Monty Python - Live At Aspen - 1998
In 2014 they announced their final show. For this post we go back to 1998 and what was billed as the last reunion.It's 1998 and the Pythons re-unite along with a specia...
Coogan’s Run
Coogan's Run - 1995
Coogan's Run was the 1995 BBC TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle.It consisted of six self-contained stories, although C...
Mrs Merton And Malcolm
Mrs Merton And Malcolm, 1999
Here's another rarity, when you talk about Mrs Merton you always remember that great chat show. until recently I didn't realise that there was a spin off show.Mrs Merton and M...
Only Fools And Horses – Christmas, 1992
Mother Nature's Son
The regular series Only Fools And Horses had come to an end in 1991. However the series would return annually as a Christmas Special.These regular Christmas outings continued until 199...
It’s Commercial Break Time – With Bob Monkhouse
Bob's Fab Ads - 1996
We came across this by accident.From a time when there was always a piece of comic genius to look forward to on a Bank Holiday Monday. A one off show presented by the late great Bob M...
The Royle Family
The Royle Family, 1998
Popular BAFTA award winning sitcom The Royle Family will reach twenty this September.The original series ran for 3 seasons. It was resurrected in 2006 for a one off special “The Que...
Arthur Has A New Minder And He’s Family…
Minder - The Gary Webster Years - 1991
In 1989 Dennis Waterman announced he would no longer appear, saying that the character had run its course, and that it was becoming harder for the writers to come up with...
Brush Strokes
Brush Strokes, 1986
Another sitcom put to the back of people's minds, but in it's day it really caught on. However if you've ever seen it all the way through you might be of the same opinion as this writer - ...
A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, 1989
A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.It started life in 1987 a 35 minute pilot episode...