RIP Brian Murphy

[George 1978]

Brian Murphy, the comedy actor famous for playing George Roper in both Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred has died at the age of 92, outliving his screen wife played by Yootha Joyce by over four decades. Murphy and Joyce played the familiar married couple in both 1970s sitcoms and...

[George 1978]

Marianne Faithfull was almost an icon of 1960s Flower Power and free-spirited values which fitted in well within the latter half of that decade - especially as she did look rather like a model starring in a 1967 Harmony Hairspray advert! She was a great singer - This Little Bird from 1965 was probably...

[George 1978]

I read on BBC News about WHSmith thinking about selling their High Street and shopping centre stores which I think would be a very sad day if it did happen. - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7zj8yr5x7o - Certainly when I stay in various towns and cities around the UK in August, I often pop into...

[George 1978]

Do you know what? I just can't wait for Saturday 20th Jnauary 2029 when the White House will get a new incumbent - roll on the next four years.

It's good to rant - no need to apologise for it, FG. ...

[George 1978]

I don't think so - Wikipedia lists when the episodes of 'Allo 'Allo was first transmitted, and there were no new episodes between 1989 and 1991, coinciding with Kaye's accident and recovery.

[George 1978]

That's right - I often associated Gorden Kaye more with the accident he had when he was driving in the 1990 Burns Night storms rather than as Rene in 'Allo 'Allo. The previous series of 'Allo 'Allo was in 1989, and the next one was in 1991 - I assume that it was due to Kaye's accident in the storms...

[George 1978]

I was thinking about the Burns Night storm of 1990 and the fact that we have had a lot of windy weather this week that it almost seemed that 35 years to the day we would get the same amount of weather again!

[George 1978]

I haven't been to Beamish myself (or at least I don't remember going there), but I know that my sister went there in around the mid to late 1980s.

[George 1978]

I played one of them on a hi-fi at home, and all I heard was a strange sounding tone going up and down, and something which was not much interest to an average listener of a cassette tape - something more suited to an average 1980s BBC computer....

[George 1978]

In the mid 1980s there were some special cassette tapes for computers which were around ten minutes long on each side just for using them on those machines - my sister did comuter studies at the time and I remember her bringing one home with her, probably as a form of homework.

[George 1978]

More innocent times, I suppose? Classical music was played in the Infants; pop music in the Juniors....

[George 1978]

There was a nice difference of sitting on the dirty floor (Primary) and sitting on chairs (Secondary) - one preferred the latter.

Sometimes, assembly was the only time that we ever saw the Headteacher aka THE BOSS (well, it felt like that, anyway).

[George 1978]

I got myself a CD radio cassette recorder just a few years ago, and as recently as a couple of years ago I used a cassette tape (a TDK brand - certainly not a "market stall" brand) in order to record various tracks from my CD collection; Lene Lovich; Toni Basil; The Masionettes; Boyzone; and...

[George 1978]

Don't worry - not too many keyboards have pound sign keys on them.

[George 1978]

Or even every cent? ...

[George 1978]

I notice that Lene Lovich (please do see my signature if you must) was obviously one of the artistes on the Stiff record label at the time and I have just noticed that you and the poster have mentioned her - 1978 was the year before she had that Lucky Number hit. I have never owned a 7 inch single of...

[George 1978]

I have to say that I am certainly not in the mood for dancing after I heard this devastating news on Radio 5 Live on Wednesday lunchtime. Linda Nolan was the same age as Tony Slattery and they were both born in 1959, I believe.

She was part of a great vocal group and was so talented as...

[George 1978]

I was reminded about this when I watched a YouTube video over the weekend about technology and fashion which were around the the 1980s - Ttat deacde seemed to be the one famous for trying to put everything in one plece to save both space and time and it was a modernisation of something that people have...

[George 1978]

I use it all the time, but the main problem with the charts compiled on that website is that they split months into three parts: the early; the mid; and the late parts of the month, unlike weekly charts, and of course, it only goes up to around 2012 - I prefer the weekly chart archives. It does make...

[George 1978]

My autograph book come back from the New Victoria Theatre - great end to the panto season.