Women's magazines (are they really just for women?)

[George 1978]

A bit of an unusual choice of publication for me to write about, I know, but just in case you do find any women's magazines from the DYR era... My late mother not surprisingly used to read them back in our decades of relevance (well, why else would she buy them for?) As she was more mature in her years,...

[George 1978]

It was also, more or less, the spin-off of the Dramarama episode Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night which was based on the Beatles song. Writer Paul Abbott wanted the series to be based in a children's home rather than a hospital ward which made me think of how similar it would have been to the...

[George 1978]

Whenever I watch old Mr Kipling adverts from the 1980s on YouTube, I always notice the exceeding good voice which sounds very much like a warm, rich and slightly plummy feel-at-home sort of voice; just like rolling toffee in one's mouth and swallowing the delicious, sweet favour. The voice in question...

[George 1978]

Funnily enough, I have been looking at the Wikipedia page for Children's Ward in the past week although I didn't watch too much of it at the time - it was briefly called The Ward towards the end although I believed that it changed its name back due it being either too generic or too similar to Channel...

[George 1978]

When I have watched adverts for detergents on the television, I can always spot a mile off whether Lever Brothers or Proctor and Gamble (or even SC Johnson) had made it, although I cannot really explain why - usually it's one or the other. I would love to know what the difference was between Frish and...

[George 1978]

Does anyone know if Frish toilet cleaner is still made? - it used to be in a smallish green bottle and was advertised on TV so much in the 1980s (usually during films), often showing a wonderful waterfall cascade sort of thing inside the toilet bowl as soon as one applied the liquid under the rim. I...

[George 1978]

Amazing that I have only come across this thread... Better late than never:

The answer to the question to which the title of this thread asks was: no, I have always wanted to leave school. The main problem was that education should both be a privilege and a positive influence to those involved....

[George 1978]

I wouldn't touch EastEnders with a bargepole, but I do watch PCBH episodes on YouTube....

[George 1978]

I have seen from old TV listings that Ulster used to have its own version of The Romper Room (in which Anglia and Grampian also had their own versions of) - a "kindergarten on the TV" programme. I only associate it with the American or Canadian "is this thing purple?" outtake seen...

[George 1978]

Rod Hull definitely appeared on Good Morning Britain just before Christmas in 1983 as Emu "attacked" Nick Owen on the sofa when Hull was promoting his book on poetry: "signing his book at Alders in Croydon", he said before he launched his attack - is on YouTube.

As far...

[George 1978]

I won some Wallace and Gromit stamps on eBay because I needed some for Christmas cards I will be sending, and it was only last night that I realised that they haven't got the barcode on them - so I spent half an hour on the Royal Mail's telephone line to make sure that I can use them on Christmas card...

[George 1978]

Happy 75th Birthday, Your Majesty!

[George 1978]

Rod Hull always seemed to "control" Emu for his Pink Windmill shows on Children's ITV at least - I think that Emu only "misbehaved" on chat shows such as Parkinson and mainstream shows not aimed at children.

I mentioned this on the "Rod Hull's odd glove" thread...

[George 1978]

I believe that the slot was very similar to Saturday mornings, pre-Tiswas. Looking at old schedules, Granada used to show Crossroads at around 4.30 pm (when they first decided to show the series in 1972), but then again, up until that same year, children's programmes were mostly on between 4.45 pm and...

[George 1978]

This year (2023), it falls on 11th November, so that we will have our first two minute silence within the programme.

[George 1978]

One thing that Nottingham has brought to the world is good old Raleigh.

[George 1978]

I know that you are a one-post wonder and have not come back since (many years later), but I have just re-read some of the comments on this thread and thought that I would write an addendum.

I haven't invented anything here - perhaps it had all been invented by the media and those who...