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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 1d

If your fourteenth-favourite early nineties sketch show did a skit parodying a "typical" seventies sitcom, it couldn't hope to look even half as over the top as Yus, My Dear, which was real.
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Mullard, Watts and Reid in checks and orange polyester

Mullard sports a fluorescent orange and green anorak

Reid in gold lame dressing gown, Mullard in God knows

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 3h

I write academic and popular works of television criticism. The Written Archive has been an invaluable source for my research on Doctor Who and Blake's 7. I had plans for a work on the groundbreaking multiethnic 1970s series Gangsters, which it will be much harder to do without the Archives.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 14h

I had a feeling that might pique your interest. It’s the new BFI Flipside Short Sharp Shocks 4 blu-ray. She’s in a short film called Red, and let’s just say it’s right up your street as long as Roy North‘s presence isn’t too much of a cold shower.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 14h

I’m watching the latest BFI Flipside Short Sharp Shocks compilation and wasn’t expecting to see Roy North under a pseudonym cavorting naked with Gabrielle Drake. I wonder why he adopted the name Steve Brownelow? Worried Basil or the Get It Together producers would disapprove?

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 1d

Hire this funny writer immediately.

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Dr Tom May @dreamcargoes.bsky.social · 1d

Exploring #TheWednesdayPlay's Legacy At 60 returns with Dennis Potter's Alice, broadcast sixty years ago to the day. A fascinating, overlooked drama concerning Charles Dodgson's life, the Liddells & the creation of Alice in Wonderland:
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Exploring The Wednesday Play’s Legacy At 60 – 03:01: ‘Alice’ (BBC1, 13 October 1965)

The Wednesday Play (1964-70, or 1965-70) was a landmark BBC drama series, following ITV’s lead with Armchair Theatre (ABC & Thames, 1956-74) in amplifying working-class voices. Canadian m…

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 1d

Crown Court. Jim'll Fix It.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

If you're bored this Sunday, you might like some of my recent Fawlty Towers writing.

The cut ending to Gourmet Night: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

Fawlty Towers parodies over the years: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/herr...

Behind-the-scenes of Basil the Rat: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Polly with a pencil in her hand, taken from The Builders

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 1d

“Erica Wilson is your host for the most exciting piece of infotainment to come out of Nantucket since Moby Dick.” As brilliant as ever.

Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 3d

Week 53: Pauline Quirke stacks beans, Joss Ackland attacks squatters with an axe, Arthur Mullard removes his trousers, Gemma Jones hosts some randy Liberals and Max Bygraves remembers last week. It has to be 1976.
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Week 53: 11th – 17th October, 1976

“We’re all going soft in the head through eating oranges.”

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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 3d

Week 53: Pauline Quirke stacks beans, Joss Ackland attacks squatters with an axe, Arthur Mullard removes his trousers, Gemma Jones hosts some randy Liberals and Max Bygraves remembers last week. It has to be 1976.
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Week 53: 11th – 17th October, 1976

“We’re all going soft in the head through eating oranges.”

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 2d

An epic, this one. The Doctor Who Monster Book by Terrance Dicks, in excruciating detail. 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The Doctor Who Monster Book, by Terrance Dicks

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2d

Went to see my mum in hospital today. When I arrived, she immediately said to me, "When can I get out of this football ground, and finally get to bed?" A complex question on a really tricky day.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2d

Well that was a shitty day, but I did manage to watch Planet of Evil Pt.3 so all was not lost.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

Oh it will.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

I'm in the middle of a terribly stressful day, but I'm remaining calm because I know at some point tonight I'll be watching Planet of Evil Part Three 50 years to the day it was originally transmitted.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

Shirley and I hang with many corvids in our front yard. Mainly jackdaws. Good company

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve just looked up on Genome (it only works in the witching hour) when I first saw The Producers. Saturday 3rd October 1981. I absolutely loved it but how weird it has become such a global success in multiple forms. Not an obvious outcome when I viewed it at 11pm with my parents asleep on the sofa.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

Genuine big laughs here.

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 4d

The next episode of Through the Square Window is out on Wednesday. Be warned... IT'S A POTENTIAL DEATH-TRAP. Made and hosted by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

I was genuinely terrified by the cross-plies and radials PIF which is quite something as my family didn’t even own a car.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

The eternal question.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

The Great Philosophers is very good and well worth your time.

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4d

This is just the sort of television that they don't make any more - there's now a strong aversion to "talking heads". But if the heads are interesting enough, there is nothing more riveting. #philsky

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's series The Great Philosophers

Good news. BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's 1987 television series The Great Philosophers . The first three programmes – on Plato, Aristotle ...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4d

This is just the sort of television that they don't make any more - there's now a strong aversion to "talking heads". But if the heads are interesting enough, there is nothing more riveting. #philsky

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's series The Great Philosophers

Good news. BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's 1987 television series The Great Philosophers . The first three programmes – on Plato, Aristotle ...

liberalengland.blogspot.com

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