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The Rise and Fall of All Japan Pro Wrestling

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The Rise And Fall Of All Japan Pro Wrestling
While New Japan Pro-Wrestling is the undisputed top promotion in Japan today, that wasn’t always the case and for the later part of the 20th century they enjoyed a friendly but serious rivalry for…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Just a brilliant upgrade by Wendinu
Wendinu looks up at a giant mech and comments that "Megatagame Mark IV" was created for her Wendinu continues, "Megatagame Mark IV... it sounds so boring." Wendinu adds: "I know! I call it Megatagame Sexy!" A shot of the giant mech again with the subtitle GADGET GIANT MEGATAGAME SEXY and a bright pink heart next to it
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Super Sentai Strongest Battle (2019)
Episode 4
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Here's my Dad's greyhound yet again ignoring the two beds it has in the living room to instead lie in the middle of the fucking doorway like the world's cutest skinniest fire hazard
Barmy bastard of a dog sleeps wherever it wants even though there's several reasonably priced comfy beds within two yards of where it's currently asleep
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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thinking about kabuto and how the urge to watch it again skyrockets when i remember some of the prettier scenes like this one. this show did so much to my brain
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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ON THIS DAY... 2 years ago, The Star Beast, the first of the three 60th Anniversary specials, was first broadcast on BBC One. It received a viewership of 7.61 million.

Art by @whovivortex.bsky.social 🎨

#DoctorWho
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Our new clips continue to arrive...

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BBC News from Christmas Day 1986. BBC 2 South West ident from 16 December 1988. Ian McCaskill with the weather on 11 October 1989. Jeremy Paxman promoting You Decide, the show where you call in and vote on a question before the live debate show on BBC 1 on 5 September 1996.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"Old friends, old enemies and all five Doctors come together in a special 90 minute "Doctor Who"..."

BBC trailer for "Doctor Who: The Five Doctors" (1983). #DoctorWho
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"Radio Times" (dated 19-25/11/83). Art by Andrew Skilleter. #DoctorWho
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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25th November, 1978:
"Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara" part 1. #DoctorWho
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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25th November, 1983:
"Doctor Who: The Five Doctors". #DoctorWho #DrWho
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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23 November 1985

After 4 years, 5 series and 60 episodes, ITV broadcast the final episode of Game for a Laugh.

23 November 2000

ITV debuts the 6 part legal drama Close and True. Robson Green is John Close and James Bolam is Graham True. Also stars Jamie Bell (Billy Elliott).
Game for a Laugh arrived on our television screens on 26 September 1981. 4 years, 5 series and 60 episodes later - the show came to an end on 23 November 1985. Hosts were Jeremy Beadle, Henry Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy, Martin P Daniels, Rustie Lee, Lee Peck and Debbie Rix. An LWT Production. Close and True is a 6 part legal drama broadcast on ITV from 23 November to 28 December 2000. John Close takes over a run-down legal practice owned by Graham True who now resides in a mental institution. During his first days in charge of the practice, he is thrown into the midst of a murder trial despite having no criminal trial experience. The cast includes Robson Green, James Bolam, Susan Jameson, Kerry Ann Christiansen, Jamie Bell and Nicola Grier. A Coastal Production for Meridian Broadcasting.
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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23 November 1960

ITV debuts a 9 part adaptation of AJ Cronin's The Citadel. The cast includes Eric Lander (pictured), Zena Walker and Jack May.

23 November 1965

BBC 1 debuts the sitcom Hudd. Roy Hudd with a different cast of guests for each of the 6 shows.
The Citadel is a 9 part television adaptation of AJ Cronin's 1937 novel of the same name. The series was broadcast on ITV from 23 November 1960 to 18 January 1961. Andrew Manson, an idealistic, newly qualified doctor, arrives from Scotland to work as assistant to Doctor Page in the Welsh mining town of Drineffy (or Blaenelly). He quickly realises that Page is ill and disabled and that he's doing all the work for a meagre wage. Shocked by the unsanitary conditions he discovers, Manson works to improve matters and receives the support of Dr Philip Denny, a cynical semi-alcoholic who, Manson finds out in due course, took a post as an assistant doctor after having fallen from grace as a surgeon. The cast includes Eric Lander, Zena Walker, Jack May, Noel Harrison, Barry Keegan, Elizabeth Shepherd, Richard Vernon, John Laurie, Richard Carpenter and Fiona Duncan. This television adaptation is entirely missing, all nine episodes are believed to be lost. An Associated-Rediffusion production. Hudd is a 6 part sitcom that was broadcast on BBC 1 from 23 November to 28 December 1965. It followed a successful Comedy Playhouse pilot on 15 July 1965. Roy Hudd is Hudd who is joined by a guest cast for each show. These include Ralph Michael, Avril Angers, Freda Bamford, Garry Marsh, Carole Mowlam, Cheryl Molineaux, Amy Dalby, Michael Bates, Ann Ramsden, Vicky Morris, Juba Kennerley, Leila Forde, Una Stubbs, David Langton, Aubrey Woods, Roy Evans, Patricia Clapton, Lisa Peake, Michael Harvey, Charles Bird, Nan Kearns and John Mulgrew.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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23 November 1970

The Independent Television Authority debuts Engineering Announcements on ITV. A weekly programme for the TV trade so it was never shown in the TV Times listings.

23 November 1975

6 part drama The Legend of Robin Hood debuts on BBC 1. Starring Paul Darrow.
Engineering Announcements was a weekly television programme of news and information intended for technicians and salespeople in the United Kingdom, produced and transmitted by the Independent Television Authority (and later the Independent Broadcasting Authority) from 23 November 1970 until 31 July 1990. The show was never shown in TV Times listings as it was a trade only programme. It was shown on all ITV franchises until 17 May 1983. It was then moved to Channel 4 and S4C from 24 May 1983. The series ended as the IBA was being disbanded at the end of 1990. The Legend of Robin Hood was a television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood. It was broadcast on BBC 1 from 23 November to 28 December 1975. Robin, raised as a forester by John Hood, finds out he is actually the long lost son of the late Earl of Huntington. Robin is told to go to London and see King Richard I with the Huntington signet ring and a letter. On his way to see the king, he helps the Lady Marion, who is to be married to Sir Guy of Gisborne on the order of her uncle, Sir Kenneth Neston. The cast includes Martin Potter, Diane Keen, William Marlowe, John Abineri, David Dixon, Michael-John Jackson and Paul Darrow. It's noted as a version of Robin Hood that particularly values having "depicted the 12th century accurately."
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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On Saturday, we announced that we're posting 1,000 new clips to our website.

The first batch of 60 are now live.

Here's a screenshot of just 4 of them, but do enjoy them all.

And still more on the way....

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Alan Davies in an Abbey National advertisement from 1997. Birds Eye Alphabites commercial from 1989. Mick Luckhurst hosting a programme of American Football on Channel 4 in 1990. An advertisement for the Armada Centre in Plymouth from 1987.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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ON THIS DAY... 12 years ago, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot was first broadcast on the BBC Red Button service.

#DoctorWhoDay
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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ON THIS DAY... 38 years ago, Dragonfire was first broadcast on BBC1.

Originally broadcast from 23rd November - 7th December 1987.

RATINGS: Part One: 5.5M, Part Two: 5.0M, Part Three: 4.7M.

Artwork by Lee Johnson 🎨

#DoctorWho
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Alternatively (@maffewgregg.bsky.social) #HUSTLE #GREATMUTA
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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only just realised Demand's Navy Admiral tribute
it's not a real tribute until ricochet punches a firey hole through Big Justice
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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ON THIS DAY... 12 years ago, The Day of the Doctor was first broadcast on BBC One and simulcast worldwide on TV and in cinemas. It aired at 7:50pm and received a viewership of 12.80 million.

Artwork by Lee Johnson 🎨

#DoctorWhoDay #SAVETHEDAY
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"But it was just a telephone box..."

"Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child" (1963). #DoctorWho
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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23rd November, 1987:
"Doctor Who: Dragonfire" part 1. #DoctorWho
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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23rd November, 1968:
"Doctor Who: The Invasion" episode 4. #DoctorWho
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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One of the funniest moments in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger is this bit from episode 29 where a computer challenges them to solve a riddle and Kirenger is like "man that's a tough one" so the computer talks shit at them

Daita's delivery of "NAN DATTO?!" lives in my head
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM