Depending on who was on Chock-a-Block duties today, we either got a double dose of Carol Leader, or a conjunction of two of my favourite presenters: Fred Harris and Johnny Ball.
At this point I wanted to be a teacher just so I could give it up and become a TV presenter. #1986diary
We used to play an epic version of the themetune in my band at uni. In that month that we existed.
The most shortlived Sugababes lineup, but arguably the most interesting...
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"No Limits" at 6, if I can get away from the table in time. And then another rather inspiring evening lineup which I'll spare you (Emmerdale Farm, Busman's Holiday, Boxing, yawn). And that is why, to this day, I have square eyes.
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"Postman Pat", "Laurel & Hardy", "Rushton does Pooh!", "Bananaman", then Johnny Ball's new series "Think It…Do it!"
"Newsround", Rowland has trouble waking up in "Grange Hill", and a new series of "Rolf Harris Cartoon Time", doubtless on while we eat our dinner.
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"History 11-13" does Mary Queen of Scots at 2.15, and "Exploring Science" looks to the stars to get us to 3pm when YTV has gameshow "Mouthtrap". "A Country Practice" then hammocks us into the children's slot...
"Chock-a-Block"'s at 1.45 then a very made-for-me "You & Me":
"Cosmo and Dibs find different uses for a kitchen sieve, Bill Owen leads the singing in 'I'm a little teapot', Henry finds the words You and Me written in the Radio Times… Anthony van Laast takes his son Kit to a dance class."
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10.30 Carol Leader's on "Play School" duty
10.48 "People & Politics" on the ITV looks at the media's handling of politics.
11.10 "Seeing & Doing" deals with computers.
11.39 "Science Topics" back on the Beeb deals with metals and plastics.
12.00 "Button fucking Moon" and "Rainbow"
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Some telly picks:
9.52 Elaine Donnelly and Roger Sloman relate to measures of capacity in "Mathscore One" (while the tide goes down in "A Place to Live" on the ITV)
10.15 "Look & Read" gives another slice of 'The Boy from Space' (against "My World"'s look at telephone exchanges)
Also, a look at the built environment of Birmingham, and I hang out with my dead Auntie Sue. #dreamtweet
Han Solo befriends K-9 #dreamtweet
The camera keeps pulling back further and further until it's revealed that their entire world is trapped inside this:
NEAR AND FAR (1975): This BBC educational series for schools had a decidedly eerie title sequence, with a theme tune best described as 'queasy'.
Now turn to page 666 in your exercise books.
This, but without the blue grading.
...and despite the late hour, I've a feeling I might also have seen this. #1986diary bsky.app/profile/whyd...
Yes. Yes, I saw this. #1986diary
Top of the Pops camera script (tx 10th March 1983)
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While we're at it, CBBC's lineup is:
Paddington, Heads & Tails (with badgers!), Laurel & Hardy (cartoon), Jackanory (Rushton does Pooh!), Thunderbirds 2086, Newsround, Blue Peter (on Mrs Beeton), Charles in Charge
Oh and it looks like there's nowt remotely interesting on in the evening.
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13.45 "Little Misses and the Mister Men"
14.00 Jimmy Savile tells us how to "Play it Safe!" on our bikes. Followed by "Pages from Ceefax".
[I don't have ITV listings for the afternoon, you'll be relieved to hear]
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11.00 "Zig Zag" looks at detectives (a theme carried on into "Thinkabout" at 11.22 and "General Studies" at 11.40; meanwhile the ITV is deep into maths)
After this, things kind of peter out until the news at 12.30 followed by Pebble Mill.
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10.00 Dibs goes missing in "You & Me" (up against "Time for a Story")
10.15 "Music Time" deconstructs 'Sleeping Beauty' with puppets (up against "The Micro at Work")
10.38 Keith Chegwin takes the Liverpool to Manchester line in "History File"
Better put the telly on, then, eh?
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Schools & Colleges highlights:
9.30 "Picture Box"
9.38 "Past Thirteen" 'Can Girls Choose Like Boys' looks at "the most exciting option of all - to challenge stereotyping." (up against "Stop, Look, Listen")
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Another week in which people keep putting their hands around my neck.
I don't have many in-class memories of this particular school year and we begin to see why.
Top left in bold rounded brown font: March 1986 Top right, smaller, normal weight: Week 11 Horizontal bar Top left: 10 Then smaller: Monday The rest of the beige page is a box for today's diary entry, written in black biro by a 7-year-old: off school
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off school
Yep, I'm still porley.
This is the last entry for a while but that doesn't mean I'm dead. Probably does mean I've got fed up of writing "same" for now, though. We can probably assume that this entry does for the whole week.
A book called 'Where Witchcraft Lives' by Doreen Valiente. It's purple and white with a little graphic representation of a witch on a broomstick.
A close up of the witch graphic
I really love the little witch graphic on the front of this book
Signage for "Excel Church"
"You know who else pivoted a table?"
Bruce Forsyth made his television debut as a child accordionist in 1939 and bowed out with a Claudia Winkleman flashmob in 2014.
An image made by Iawn Cont posted on B3ta, front paged by the moderators, and reposted on Bluesky by code automatically.
Artist: Iawn Cont https://b3ta.com/board/11426238
From the '80s Tech Today' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/80stechtoday/popular/ #80sTechToday
“HIELANMAN'S UMBRELLA” should be a new law of journalism, which states that if AI generated photos are used in a news article, all reporting from that publication should be instantly distrusted.
