Only Fools and Horses - Funniest Uncle Albert Moment
That's what I think myself, I remember watching a documentary of the "40 Top Moments of Only Fools and Horses" and this wasn't in it!
What UK Comedy Compilation wouldn't be complete without "Only Fools and Horses"? Yes, it seems to be on G.O.L.D 24/7, but let me pinpoint you to the "gold within the gold!". This features, like the uploader, what I believe to be the funniest Uncle Albert moment from the show, taken from the 1990 Christmas Special "Rodney Come Home". It's just the element of Uncle Albert (played by Buster Merryfield) pretending to be shocked (as instructed by Del) by Rodney's decision to date a new woman named Tanya, after his marriage with Cassandra is on the rocks. Albert feigns shock and surprise too early on, to Rodney's bewilderment with some funny lines included, and when Rodney does finally announce the name of this new woman, Del has to hit him with the newspaper to get dotty Albert to "OOOOOOOOO", or whatever you can interpret the sound of surprise and shock in word form. Just watch it, I don't need to describe how funny this is anymore!
Friday, 15 January 2010
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Links, links, links
Inserted below the labels (which will be downsized eventually), are now a growing list of UK TV Nostalgia-related links. The first on the scene are
TV Ark - Watch classic titles of your BBC/ITV drama, your children's, your PIFs, adverts and etc. on the local, easily accessible video player.
TV Cream - The best all-round UK TVnostalgia site out there. An A-Z of classic and obscure shows, a forum and more youtube video links.
Do You Remember? - Now this is class. Discuss and re-discover toys/sweets/food/drink/music/TV/basically anything from 1970's, 80's and 90's culture. Random memories pop up and are a great help to much-missed products/programmes you miss, but can't seem to put a finger on a name. Also includes a forum and blog.
I will be including more links as time goes on.
TV Ark - Watch classic titles of your BBC/ITV drama, your children's, your PIFs, adverts and etc. on the local, easily accessible video player.
TV Cream - The best all-round UK TVnostalgia site out there. An A-Z of classic and obscure shows, a forum and more youtube video links.
Do You Remember? - Now this is class. Discuss and re-discover toys/sweets/food/drink/music/TV/basically anything from 1970's, 80's and 90's culture. Random memories pop up and are a great help to much-missed products/programmes you miss, but can't seem to put a finger on a name. Also includes a forum and blog.
I will be including more links as time goes on.
80's Advert Jingle Most Likely to Run Over Your Head Again and Again
Kellogs Bran FLakes advert ( Boats) - Very Very Tasty!!
All I can say is: TASTY, TASTY, VERY, VERY TASTY, THEY'RE VERY TASTY. These were a series of Kelloggs ads that ran from the early 80's and onwards to the late-80's. Actors, if nothing but plebs, were voiced over by a mockney-cockney singer in the same vein of Chas 'n Dave, telling us the story of the situation, oh, and they're tasty...very, very tasty...they're very tasty.
All I can say is: TASTY, TASTY, VERY, VERY TASTY, THEY'RE VERY TASTY. These were a series of Kelloggs ads that ran from the early 80's and onwards to the late-80's. Actors, if nothing but plebs, were voiced over by a mockney-cockney singer in the same vein of Chas 'n Dave, telling us the story of the situation, oh, and they're tasty...very, very tasty...they're very tasty.
Saturday, 9 January 2010
Maths gets a Barbie-Makeover..
ITV Schools Junction - October 1982 Basic Maths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GERd72aJ_Z4
Oh, lovely. What more makes weekday morning complete without watching some sums? Why not equate you're love for it, by watching this clip/near full episode of "Basic Maths". We first see the minimalistic "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" logo start-up, with some lovely flute music, ticking down to our next programme, produced by ATV and Central TV. We then see stop-motion intro of magically moving and changing objects, and we also get a bit of phonics as, each letter of the title, are pronounced childishly, which seems to be set against a Butcher's shop wall, and telling from the multi-coloured wall, he may also be "a bit of a character". Anyway, for most of the show, we're faced with a now garish-looking pink set, presented by Fred Harris and Mary Waterhouse. Along with alternative kids-putting-maths-into-practice section, and a pair of hands helping us along the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GERd72aJ_Z4
Oh, lovely. What more makes weekday morning complete without watching some sums? Why not equate you're love for it, by watching this clip/near full episode of "Basic Maths". We first see the minimalistic "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" logo start-up, with some lovely flute music, ticking down to our next programme, produced by ATV and Central TV. We then see stop-motion intro of magically moving and changing objects, and we also get a bit of phonics as, each letter of the title, are pronounced childishly, which seems to be set against a Butcher's shop wall, and telling from the multi-coloured wall, he may also be "a bit of a character". Anyway, for most of the show, we're faced with a now garish-looking pink set, presented by Fred Harris and Mary Waterhouse. Along with alternative kids-putting-maths-into-practice section, and a pair of hands helping us along the way.
And You Thought Politics was Boring?
Roy Jenkins and the Flour Bomb 1975
Hello, and welcome to first edition of the Politics section. This will profile election coverage, by-election coverage, and whatever on youtube that shows some of Britain's greatest leaders and politicians, and some not-so.
First we have a clip, that I would say is not only something for fans of politics, but politics haters. Roy Jenkins, a very instrumental politician in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Here he is pummeled by a flour bomb, and the he reacts with a great deal of outrage, in that great well-spoken voice of his, which provides the entertainment.
Roy Jenkins was Labour's Home Secretary, and passed and liberalised some of the most important law changes in modern Britain. Homosexuality was made decriminalised, abortion was legalised and capital punishment for crooks was suspended. No more hangings. By the late-70's Jenkins had become disillusioned with the Labour party and the increasing power of the left wing of the party. After a reign as President of the European Commission, Jenkins returned to the UK political scene and became a member of the breakaway Labour "The Gang of 4" Group, and they founded a true political party of the centre, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which under his leadership, merged with the UK third force, the Liberal Party, to become the "SDP-Liberal Alliance". This was successful for a while in the early 80's, but when Jenkins lost his Glasgow Hillhead seat to left-wing maverick "Gorgeous George" Galloway. This was the end of his career, but was still in the public, writing books. Jenkins died of a heart attack in 2003, at the age of 82.
Hello, and welcome to first edition of the Politics section. This will profile election coverage, by-election coverage, and whatever on youtube that shows some of Britain's greatest leaders and politicians, and some not-so.
First we have a clip, that I would say is not only something for fans of politics, but politics haters. Roy Jenkins, a very instrumental politician in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Here he is pummeled by a flour bomb, and the he reacts with a great deal of outrage, in that great well-spoken voice of his, which provides the entertainment.
Roy Jenkins was Labour's Home Secretary, and passed and liberalised some of the most important law changes in modern Britain. Homosexuality was made decriminalised, abortion was legalised and capital punishment for crooks was suspended. No more hangings. By the late-70's Jenkins had become disillusioned with the Labour party and the increasing power of the left wing of the party. After a reign as President of the European Commission, Jenkins returned to the UK political scene and became a member of the breakaway Labour "The Gang of 4" Group, and they founded a true political party of the centre, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which under his leadership, merged with the UK third force, the Liberal Party, to become the "SDP-Liberal Alliance". This was successful for a while in the early 80's, but when Jenkins lost his Glasgow Hillhead seat to left-wing maverick "Gorgeous George" Galloway. This was the end of his career, but was still in the public, writing books. Jenkins died of a heart attack in 2003, at the age of 82.
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Pans People Say Goodbye..Am I Seeing What I am Seeing?
Pans People last dance TOTP 1976
Pans People go out in a blaze of glory, as they present their artistic musical interpretation of the song for the very last time. Are they wearing next to nothing with star glitter on their cajones, or is that craftily skin-coloured gear? This last group consists of Mary Corpe, Cherry Gillespie, Sue Menhenick,Ruth Pearson (the only remaining original member of Pan's People)
and Lee Ward. The group were still in demand despite being dumped by TOTP.
Pans People go out in a blaze of glory, as they present their artistic musical interpretation of the song for the very last time. Are they wearing next to nothing with star glitter on their cajones, or is that craftily skin-coloured gear? This last group consists of Mary Corpe, Cherry Gillespie, Sue Menhenick,Ruth Pearson (the only remaining original member of Pan's People)
and Lee Ward. The group were still in demand despite being dumped by TOTP.
One of CITV's Better but Short-lived Saturday Morning Shows
Intro to Saturday Ghost Train
"Ghost Train" was a Saturday morning show situated on CITV, from 1989-1991, and it was a pretty good alternative to BBC1's "Going Live!". Taking in from this old youtube clip, First of all, please Michaela Strachan, keep those legs away. Ah, and we see one of the crazied commercialised nonsense, that was the dancing flowers, great! Then we see the old CITV logo (one of the best, mind) and then we see Sabra Williams and Frances Dodge (?), I think. Then we have Nobby the Sheep speaking to animated English children's poet Michael Rosen.
The show was mostly known for the ghostly theme, attributed nicely, by "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon showings, and Nobby the Sheep, voiced and puppeted by Simon Buckley. An almost life-size puppet, talking lamb, usually wearing the much-loved shellsuits at the time. Now, Wikipedia, in it's "Ghost Train" article, says Nobby is camp-talking? A little sheep-ish in character, but camp-talking? It's not exactly "George from Rainbow" camp, is it?
The show evolved into "Gimme Five", still carrying on with Nobby, which had a bit more of a mish-mash of a overall underlying theme, and graced by Jenny Powell. I always preferred the earlier "Ghost Train", it was a more exciting show, oh and you also had Gilbert the Alien, probably one of the most whimsical and freakiest of puppets to watch in action. Don't worry, we'll have some his clips on here, UK TV Nostalgia on Youtube!
"Ghost Train" was a Saturday morning show situated on CITV, from 1989-1991, and it was a pretty good alternative to BBC1's "Going Live!". Taking in from this old youtube clip, First of all, please Michaela Strachan, keep those legs away. Ah, and we see one of the crazied commercialised nonsense, that was the dancing flowers, great! Then we see the old CITV logo (one of the best, mind) and then we see Sabra Williams and Frances Dodge (?), I think. Then we have Nobby the Sheep speaking to animated English children's poet Michael Rosen.
The show was mostly known for the ghostly theme, attributed nicely, by "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon showings, and Nobby the Sheep, voiced and puppeted by Simon Buckley. An almost life-size puppet, talking lamb, usually wearing the much-loved shellsuits at the time. Now, Wikipedia, in it's "Ghost Train" article, says Nobby is camp-talking? A little sheep-ish in character, but camp-talking? It's not exactly "George from Rainbow" camp, is it?
The show evolved into "Gimme Five", still carrying on with Nobby, which had a bit more of a mish-mash of a overall underlying theme, and graced by Jenny Powell. I always preferred the earlier "Ghost Train", it was a more exciting show, oh and you also had Gilbert the Alien, probably one of the most whimsical and freakiest of puppets to watch in action. Don't worry, we'll have some his clips on here, UK TV Nostalgia on Youtube!
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Largely Forgotten Dame Detective Duo Spin-Off with Hair of High Perm-atude
C.A.T.S Eyes First Series titles
C.A.T.S. Eyes was a mid-80's detective drama, and a spin-off, of LWT's police drama "The Gentle Touch" that starred a non-trout, future "Men Behaving Badly" star Leslie Ash with extra permage. Produced by TVS (old ITV region Television South for Oxford and to the south) for ITV, the show ran from 1985-1987. The initials C.A.T.S. stands for Covert Activities Thames Section.
Good choice for theme music instruments here. Sounds like a cat getting his tail stepped on at times. Perfect.
C.A.T.S. Eyes was a mid-80's detective drama, and a spin-off, of LWT's police drama "The Gentle Touch" that starred a non-trout, future "Men Behaving Badly" star Leslie Ash with extra permage. Produced by TVS (old ITV region Television South for Oxford and to the south) for ITV, the show ran from 1985-1987. The initials C.A.T.S. stands for Covert Activities Thames Section.
Good choice for theme music instruments here. Sounds like a cat getting his tail stepped on at times. Perfect.
The LAST TIME All the Greatest Darters Were Under One Roof...
The Lakeside - 1993
As we currently have the BDO Darts tournament at Lakeside on the box right now, here's a blast from the past highlight reel of the 1993 tournament. Been watching the Lakeside Darts over the recent years? Noticed it's just not somehow got that same magic feeling? No Phil Taylor, no Eric Bristow and no Raymond Van Barneveld? Well, the 1993 Embassy tournament at Lakeside was probably the last undisputed World Darts championship, before, an unprecented split occured, as an army of some of the most well-known players including an impressive embargo of all previous active Embassy champions, who left to join the PDC. This was in reflection that the BDO (British Darts Organisation), was not doing enough to modernise the pub sport into an international professional sport, and we're not talking about forcing darter's to downsize their beer bellies. Also ratings were down, and the image of the beer drinking/smoking Darts "athlete", was thought to be perhaps the cause.
By the time of this 1993 tournament, the 16 unsettled professional Dart players were refused to wear the logo of their newly formed inner-faction the "World Darts Council" on their shirts. The BDO, rather bullish and old-fashioned, banned the players from BDO competition, as they complained of their Council not being recognised. The 16 players were Phil Taylor, Dennis Priestley, Rod Harrington, Alan Warriner, Peter Evison, Richie Gardner, Jocky Wilson, Eric Bristow, Keith Deller, John Lowe, Bob Anderson, Cliff Lazarenko, Kevin Spiolek, Jamie Harvey, Mike Gregory and Chris Johns.
So they set up their own Darts organisation called the PDC, and their first World Championship would be televised on Sky Sports in 1994. Since then, the PDC have risen from peak to peak, now over-taking the BDO in talent. However, the BDO are still regarded by all, that it is the Government body of UK Darts.
The song in this compliation is the appropiately title of Queen's "The Show Must Go On". I know for fact, this is not a fan-made compiliation, but it featured in the BBC's 1996 Embassy coverage, as a historical montage, rather random though.
As we currently have the BDO Darts tournament at Lakeside on the box right now, here's a blast from the past highlight reel of the 1993 tournament. Been watching the Lakeside Darts over the recent years? Noticed it's just not somehow got that same magic feeling? No Phil Taylor, no Eric Bristow and no Raymond Van Barneveld? Well, the 1993 Embassy tournament at Lakeside was probably the last undisputed World Darts championship, before, an unprecented split occured, as an army of some of the most well-known players including an impressive embargo of all previous active Embassy champions, who left to join the PDC. This was in reflection that the BDO (British Darts Organisation), was not doing enough to modernise the pub sport into an international professional sport, and we're not talking about forcing darter's to downsize their beer bellies. Also ratings were down, and the image of the beer drinking/smoking Darts "athlete", was thought to be perhaps the cause.
By the time of this 1993 tournament, the 16 unsettled professional Dart players were refused to wear the logo of their newly formed inner-faction the "World Darts Council" on their shirts. The BDO, rather bullish and old-fashioned, banned the players from BDO competition, as they complained of their Council not being recognised. The 16 players were Phil Taylor, Dennis Priestley, Rod Harrington, Alan Warriner, Peter Evison, Richie Gardner, Jocky Wilson, Eric Bristow, Keith Deller, John Lowe, Bob Anderson, Cliff Lazarenko, Kevin Spiolek, Jamie Harvey, Mike Gregory and Chris Johns.
So they set up their own Darts organisation called the PDC, and their first World Championship would be televised on Sky Sports in 1994. Since then, the PDC have risen from peak to peak, now over-taking the BDO in talent. However, the BDO are still regarded by all, that it is the Government body of UK Darts.
The song in this compliation is the appropiately title of Queen's "The Show Must Go On". I know for fact, this is not a fan-made compiliation, but it featured in the BBC's 1996 Embassy coverage, as a historical montage, rather random though.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Foil-top Milk Bottles are No Good for Harsh Winters!
UK Public Information Film - Frost Warning (1969)
With the harsh winter we're having, almost to Russian standards, this seems a good time, to compare how the 1960's braced themselves for a winter chill, with this animated small clip of a PIF. The milkman was a cultural icon back then, so milk bottles are focused on, to send home the message, as they are vulnerable to the cold, with the foil-top milk bottles.
With the harsh winter we're having, almost to Russian standards, this seems a good time, to compare how the 1960's braced themselves for a winter chill, with this animated small clip of a PIF. The milkman was a cultural icon back then, so milk bottles are focused on, to send home the message, as they are vulnerable to the cold, with the foil-top milk bottles.
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