Christmas Television 2020

[George 1978]

I have been looking on Digiguide and that Christmas TV website to see what "goodies" we will be expected to see on the box this Christmas, and I can understand what people are saying with regards to the scheduling - the fact that even BBC 1 and 2 have so many repeats this year, but of course,...

[George 1978]

The only way you can officially obtain a copy of a BBC programme is it you had appeared on it as a participant - apart from that, I don't think that they can help....

[George 1978]

Looking at the Radio Times Genome, there was a programme which was on BBC Radio 4 during school holidays and Bank Holidays, and then to Sunday evenings from around 1986 to 1990 called Cats' Whiskers? Does anyone remember it because I don't, despite the right age for it at the time! It might have been...

[George 1978]

I still think of Viagra when I hear Pfizer's name.

Anyway, I would agree to have the vaccine if it was offered to me - I can vaguely remember the MMR and the tetanus and whooping cough vaccine that I had in around 1984.

[George 1978]

I think that the big issue with regards to Tom and Jerry cartoons was the fact that they were too violent which sounds absurd considering it was a cartoon.

Not surprisingly, G Glitter's Rock 'n' Roll Christmas will never be heard on the radio again, not even at Christmas, and neither will...

[George 1978]

Look at how many old songs contain the word "gay" in the lyrics such as "Twisting the Night Away" ("where the people are so gay"), and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" ("why do birds sing so gay?") - are we going to ban those songs in the same way? Of course,...

[George 1978]

I was watching the current snooker championship just now and there are two players who can call themselves J Jones - Jak Jones and Jamie Jones, and Jak Jones had to be listed at the bottom of the screen by both first and last name.

The only other example would be Dennis Taylor and David...

[George 1978]

Did anyone have drops of Karvol put onto their pyjamas by their parents before they went to bed as a child? - they were capsules in tiny brown bottles (they looked like to me) that were available from the chemist which were used to help a child breathe and get some sleep when they have a blocked up...

[George 1978]

I was thinking about Christmas 1985 when I got a yellow Tom and Jerry alarm clock and a blue Postman Pat lamp (both of which were placed on top of my bedside table throughout 1986 and perhaps later) - I also vaguely remember the TV on Christmas morning and Matthew Corbett and Sooty visiting kids in...

[George 1978]

Just had a very late Tesco online delivery to my place (no earlier slots, I am afraid), and the only thing that wasn't available was the advent calendar. Never mind......

[George 1978]

If you want to listen to it, Heart Xmas plays it on my DAB radio, so if you keep listening you will eventually get to hear it....

[George 1978]

Thanks - you did say Top 20, so I decided to rack my brains in order to give a complete list.

[George 1978]

Thank goodness for Sky News for keeping me up to date....

[George 1978]

Dave Prowse MBE, the weightlifter-turned-actor, famous for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, and also to multiple generations of children, the Green Cross Code Man (remembered so well by the compliers of the Charley Live videos in the late 1990s) has died at the age of 85 - he came...

[George 1978]

I was thinking just now that Findus as a brand is extremely low profile these days in Britain, probably limiting itself to the Crispy Pancakes range and one or two other food items (cue the sub-Adrian Mole teenage boy in the adverts with the packets stuck on his bedroom wall).

Their lasagne...

[George 1978]

I have been listening to Heart Xmas on Friday (my DAB digital radio has it), and I have been acquainted with most of them again this year:

1) Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
2) Lonely This Christmas - Mud
3) Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens
4) Do They Know It's...

[George 1978]

The R number looks promising to go below 1.

[George 1978]

I am now using Google Chrome when using the forum (complete with new avatar)....

[George 1978]

Argentina legend footballer Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60.

To me, he will always be "Mr 1986 World Cup", and as the 1986 World Cup hosted by Mexico that year, also happens to be my earliest memory of the event - Maradona is the first footballer that I can remember taking...

[George 1978]

Many thanks to both of you - I just hope that things will get back to normal very soon.