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NEW ARTICLE: Blankety Blank Series Twenty-Two from worst to best.

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Featuring looks into the following:

* Political humour
* Hired contestants
* The ratings
* A sad memoriam
* And why did this article take six months to be published?
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NEW ARTICLE: Blankety Blank Series Twenty-Two from worst to best.

www.anorakzone.com/blanketyblan...

Featuring looks into the following:

* Political humour
* Hired contestants
* The ratings
* A sad memoriam
* And why did this article take six months to be published?
www.anorakzone.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@realpaulputner.bsky.social I enjoyed that skinhead interview footage you uploaded, very interesting.
January 2, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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The final Wednesday Play post of 2025 here, & almost the last in this as a regular series. It's been a pleasure! #OTD 60 years ago, James O'Connor & Ken Loach's Christmas-themed THE COMING OUT PARTY was entertaining & illuminating about life in a rough
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Exploring The Wednesday Play’s Legacy At 60 – 03:11: ‘The Coming Out Party’ (BBC1, 22 December 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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December 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
NEW ARTICLE: Blankety Blank Series Twenty-Two from worst to best.

www.anorakzone.com/blanketyblan...

Featuring looks into the following:

* Political humour
* Hired contestants
* The ratings
* A sad memoriam
* And why did this article take six months to be published?
www.anorakzone.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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NEW ARTICLE: The Young Ones from Worst to Best:

www.anorakzone.com/youngonesran...

Focal points include:

* Who wrote what?
* Deleted scenes
* The US pilot
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Worst to best: #bod

I wrote this nearly ten years ago now (!) but with BBC4 showing a Bod special with Derrick Griffiths, it's an ideal time to revisit it:

www.anorakzone.com/bodrank1.html
December 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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My review of the latest PLAY FOR TODAY 2.0 entry, A Knock at the Door (Channel 5, 4 December 2025), fearing Alan Davies, Nikki Amuka-bird & Logan Mersh. I had different feelings when watching for the first & second times: so, it's a bit like an argument with myself! :
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PLAY FOR TODAY 01.03: A Knock at the Door (C5, 4 December 2025) REVIEW
YouTube video by Tom May
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December 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
NEW ARTICLE: The Young Ones from Worst to Best:

www.anorakzone.com/youngonesran...

Focal points include:

* Who wrote what?
* Deleted scenes
* The US pilot
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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NEW ARTICLE: Play For Today Series Five

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Includes the plays Gangsters, Sunset Across the Bay, Baby Love, Eleanor, Leeds United! and Funny Farm.
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Play For Today Series Five

www.anorakzone.com/playfortoday...

Includes the plays Gangsters, Sunset Across the Bay, Baby Love, Eleanor, Leeds United! and Funny Farm.
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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🤯 We interviewed freaking BEN ELTON!!! 🤯

Listen to the full episode 🎧
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November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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For the Frankie Tan fans www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGmA...
Frankie Tan as different comedians.
YouTube video by Paul Putner
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November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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🎁Well, it's birthday week! My goal for birthday week? Sell one print for every year I've trodden this earth, plus one for the year to come. 43 in all. Can I do it? Let's see!

(Now is also the time to place holiday orders so they actually arrive for the holidays!)

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November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I once went out with a girl who worked as a golf caddy, but I didn't feel it was going to work out.

There were too many red flags.
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Young Ones: Boring.

Who's this tall guy outside the Kebab & Calculator for one shot? I don't recall seeing him before... I wonder if @dirtyfeed.org knows?
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Young Ones, Cash, when they turn the set around and shoot from a different side... it is REALLY the same dimensions? It never appears to be to me, it looks narrower?
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Day 291 of #365DaysOfSmiles
He’s like, “Come on, you know what to do”
October 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Yet again, speculating on missing Doctor Who episodes.

I'm excited by the thought of episodes returning so in a vacuum of real news, let's have a guess. I thought I'd put this in 'print' so I can look back and see how wrong I was. Also I haven't read Richard Molesworth's Wiped in a long time so…
Yet again, speculating on missing Doctor Who episodes.
I'm excited by the thought of episodes returning so in a vacuum of real news, let's have a guess. I thought I'd put this in 'print' so I can look back and see how wrong I was. Also I haven't read Richard Molesworth's Wiped in a long time so some of my thoughts maybe a little inaccurate. Anyway, here goes.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Wipeout contestant reaction of the week...
September 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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NEW ARTICLE! NEW WRITER!

Yes, in ranking the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes stories from worst to best, we've got a guest writer who wanted to do his own article on the site:

www.anorakzone.com/sherlockholm...
September 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
NEW ARTICLE! NEW WRITER!

Yes, in ranking the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes stories from worst to best, we've got a guest writer who wanted to do his own article on the site:

www.anorakzone.com/sherlockholm...
September 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Had to have some workmen round this week, and forgot that one of the drawers they needed to get into contained all the books I'd bought for Blankety Blank research.

My sense of pride evaporated as he moved the autobiography of Syd Little out of his way to complete his work.
September 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Wipeout clip of the week...
September 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Currently adorning my shelves and born this day 1918 – the late great Mrs Mills!
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM