Gary Bainbridge (@garybainbridge.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Captain America: Brave New World. It's got unsubtle satire, a plot callback to a box office bomb and one very inconsistent character, and we enjoyed it but aren't sure *why*...
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My own Prisoner title sequence would involve a street cleaning buggy, a very surprised Cotswolds Town Clerk and me falling backwards into a river while pretending to fight an inflatable hippo.
During the seventies, Denys Fisher Toys secured the rights to pretty much every television programme and celebrity going and slapped them onto games that were essentially just flashy Ludo. This is what happened when I played all of them. Well, apart from one...
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Giant Hogweed, 'Adult' Teletext, Trebor giveaways and graffiti insulting Enoch Powell...
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The Larks Ascending - a history of comedy on BBC Radio 3. It's like a lost world of humour hidden away in the small print in Radio Times.
Paperback (15% off code PRINTED15) or Kindle from here.
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It's understandable that the Bond contributions and the later Oscar-winning scores tend to overshadow John Barry's earlier beat-boom era soundtrack work, but a good deal of it really is tremendous and here are some quick thoughts on where to start...
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With huge thanks to @pablovich.bsky.social for standing in as host, here's me on what The Magic Roundabout is and why I love it so much.
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If you love Press Gang, then you have a lot of reason to be grateful to Stephen O'Brien - a viewer who actually became involved with the show. You can hear all about his fascinating story - including how Steven Moffat discovered Blur - here...
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Why do we still find Bagpuss every bit as haunting - in a positive sense - as we did at the time it was first broadcast? Steve O'Brien shares his thoughts on some of the possible reasons here...
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One of the main reasons Grange Hill was so popular was that there was always a character or two that you secretly wished you could actually go to school with. So who did John Rain.want to team up with for a slice of the moneymaking mischief action?
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Orm And Cheep - a nervous flightless bird and a more worldly-wise worm who aspired to, erm, sing - were kindly puppet pals who cared for all of their forest friends. So why did Juliet Brando want their natural predators to intervene??
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With @sliderulesyou.bsky.social on Orm And Cheep, @johnrain.co.uk on Grange Hill, Steve O'Brien on Bagpuss, Stephen O'Brien on Press Gang and @outonbluesix.bsky.social - with a little help from @pablovich.bsky.social - on The Magic Roundabout.
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Absolutely thrilled to have been invited on to RHLSTP Book Club for a chat with @herring1967.bsky.social about The Golden Age Of Children's TV - and here's definitive proof that Johnny Ball really *did* balance a gold bar on his back in Think Of A Number...
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What makes a really good ending? I think I know, and here are ten of my favourites...
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Now - The Summer Album - the long-forgotten follow-up to Now - The Christmas Album - is one of the most baffling compilations ever released, grouping songs by words rather than by sound. Accidental genius, and here's a Smash Hits-assisted look at it...
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Said this before, but Arthur Askey's first TV appearance was on Baird's experimental transmissions and his last was on Channel Four
Summer Chart Party is possibly the most baffling compilation that has ever existed. It's just a collection of recent hits of varying degrees that has little to do with 'Summer', 'Party' or arguably even 'Chart'. But over the summer of 1990, it was inescapable...
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Melanie Williams on Kelly Monteith, Aubrey, Kellogg’s Rise & Shine, Girl and Jackie Magazine, The Man Who Juggled Blocks On Variety Shows, Rimmel Coffee Shimmer and much much more...
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What is the best episode of Mr. Benn and why is it the one with the balloon race?
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During the school summer holidays, the BBC would sometimes show programmes so dull that they actually *stopped time*...
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Celebrating this #internationalwomensday with my “WOMEN’S TROUBLES” stand-up comedy routine from my 2025 Edinburgh Show WE’LL SEE. This was my most talked about routine of that show.
So what better way to celebrate #IWD than with #womenstroubles #standupcomedy #comedy youtu.be/WSeT-ffjpR8
As a youngster I was fascinated by railway station graffiti and its badly punctuated flashes of a secret world of sex, drugs, 'grasses' and, well, 'Jimmy' Hendrix. Here's a love letter to this lost art, scrawled onto a dilapidated wall in magic marker.
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First interview for my forthcoming BFI Film Classics book on the Beatles' first film... Always a joy talking to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth...A Word In Your Ear.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSD...
ALF, quill in hand, writing romantic poetry
ALF, quill in hand, sniffing a flower
ALF eating his quill
Carla Gugino!
OUT NOW! In an all new ALFsplaining this week...
ALF gets poetic - and we meet a bonafide "before they were famous" guest star!
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Can't Help Thinking About Me. Tons of my columns and features with even more footnotes, updates and bizarre facts nobody asked for about Chigley. Paperback (15% off code PRINTED15) or Kindle from here.
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Good morning! Series 5 episode 2 is out now, featuring Orks on Banjos and a lot more Timmy Mallet than you'd expect, plus the usual 60s USA Bilboard number 1s! Enjoy! plinkhq.com/i/1531129636...
Not so long ago, I tried to get a recommendations-based substack off the ground. It didn't really catch on, but here's my review of a Scarlet Witch collection published to tie in with Agatha All Along...
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Paul Abbott on The Compleat Beatles, Zeeb And The Martians, Crab E. Crab, Rock Lords: Narlies, The Commodore Plus/4, The Late Night Funster Show and more...
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Coming up this Thursday on PantoSplaining...
Nintendo World Cup - NES-bundled globally-devised take on 'soccer' with competing vaguely caricatured national teams (including 'Dayv' playing for GB) and the 'super shot' trick in which the ball becomes a toxic pink player-flooring goalbound mass.
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