Two-Way TV

[George 1978]

The link that Sixtyten has given above is a reasonably good illustration to my first post, and it is probably best if one clicked on the link first and had a read of it.

I think that I can understand why my household never had it - my late mother would have not understood it. A pencil and...

[George 1978]

In around 1997 I reemmber adverts for somthing called Two-Way TV which allowed viewers with, I assume, a special remote control or computer keyboard to take part in game shows and quizzes. I believe that it didn't last very long and it petered out by the end of the 1990s. I know that the latter Les...

[George 1978]

Are Stanley Bates and Malcolm Lord (the two other actors to wear the Bungle costume) still alive? Does anyone know? I believe that both of them and Leeson were the only three to portray Bungle in Rainbow....

[George 1978]

With the recent death of Zippy's puppeteer earlier on this year, one has to pay tribute to the first actor to grace the big brown bear costume who answered to the name of Bungle. John Leeson, (born John Ducker) has died. He mostly worked with David Cook who was Rainbow's first human presenter, although...

[George 1978]

I am certain that there was a double-decker bus which was a mobile library inside and had snakes and ladders sort of designs on the side of the bus. It used to go around my neighbourhood once every three weeks or so, and it was for kids to exchange libvrary books as if they were going to an actual library....

[George 1978]

I was too young to remember it personally, and so I am doing this from research. I believe that it was an indirect predecessor to Casualty - it was a 1970s and early 1980s equivilent of that series. Angels, was of course, named after St Angela's Hospital in which the series was based. For those who...

[George 1978]

Purchased from a charity shop in around 2004 and plays beautifully....

[George 1978]

Now that Dame Esther's funeral has taken place, I can say that I have been watching various That's Lifes (or even That's Lives - is that the correct plural?) on YouTube where the late Ms Rantzen seemed to sport so many changes of hairstyle and fashion (think Sue Cook on Crimewaatch UK during roughly...

[George 1978]

Of course, our hero in the British Gas advert was not Donald Sutherland but Gavin Richards, but my goodness, the simiarities are more than apparent....

[George 1978]

I was thinking about the way that Mr Bean is presented on screen and how female viewers perceive men when they watch TV, be it presenters, actors or sportsmen such as footballers. It made me think that despite Bean's nerdy persona, I have almost come to a conclusion that he is seen, if anything on screen,...