Cadbury's Ticket

[George 1978]

Looking at John Prescott's General Election results in Hull East while he was MP, he defeated quite a few rival candidates over the years who had become household names nationally after standing in other constituencies. Prescott's first Conservative rival was Norman Lamont in 1970, two years before...

[George 1978]

An actress who plays a stroppy character - one tends to think whether the woman is like that in real life throughout the episode they appear in if they are there as a guest.

[George 1978]

There's a clip on YouTube where LWT has had technical problems during the evening, and the first minute of so of The Gentle Touch has the end of that evening's Play Your Cards Right and Bruce Forsyth talking anout a contestant's safari suit! Same ITV company for both programmes, but it looked so surreal!...

[George 1978]

Yes, it's nothing like the Radio 2 that I associate with - even Zoe Ball is leaving just before Christmas. Instead of Radio 2 mid-mornings, I mostly listen to Nicky Campbell on Five Live instead....

[George 1978]

As Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott had always been the prominent shadow of Tony Blair and his Premiership throughout his ten years as his Deputy, and despite being Blair's Number Two, one would not imagine him being Prime Minister himself. Indeed, only Clement Atlee has been both Prime Minister...

[George 1978]

How many people used to assume that the name of the protagonist in the series was literally called Juliet Bravo? I know that some people used to. The very first episode was transmitted on my birthday back in 1980.

The interesting thing was that Juliet Bravo had a bigger profile as a TV...

[George 1978]

Reminds me of the musical Starlight Express but I know that it is not that!

[George 1978]

Most of the shops have put decorations or a tree up - Heart Xmas started around a month ago, and some of the movie channels on Sky around the 312-319 mark have had Christmas films on since September. And now it has been snowing outside!

It made me think: "should I, or shouldn't I get...

[George 1978]

I sympathise - some kids used to think wearing glasses was a novelty thing when just one kid used to wear them....

[George 1978]

It was quite a coincidence that West appeared in the penaltimate episode of Doctors last week - it was a planned episode and was not deliberately scheduled as a result of his demise. Of course, Doctors was known for another Timothy - Christopher Timothy.

My condolences to Prunella Scales...

[George 1978]

I often confuse his name with Casey Jones, but he has left such a legacy when it came to familar music. He worked with Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Count Basie, to name but a few.

I was listening to the tributes on Radio 5 Live on Monday, and I was surprised to hear that Lesley Gore of "It's...

[George 1978]

Great stuff - thinking about it, the name would go well with a Double Decker! Bus ticket - geddit?

It also goes to show that Coronation Street and Cadbury's were together many years before they sponsored the programme!

[George 1978]

Does anyone remember a chocolate bar from Cadbury's circa 1980 called "Ticket"? There is a 1980 episode of Coronation Street on YouTube which has its ad breaks intact, and one of the adverts was for the aformentioned chocolate bar. The advert shows various scenes such as a traffic warden giving...

[George 1978]

Here is something to write about during my "extra hour" of overnight time as a result of the clocks going back: boy-and-girl groups are always popular and exciting to listen to and look at - a mixture of fine talent and sound. In the 1970s there was the Brotherhood of Man; in the 1980s there...

[George 1978]

Marmalade Atkins did CITV in around 1984, around the earlier part of doing the continuty - I vaugely remember her doing it at the time, but I bet that it was a treat for viewers when she did. She was the only person to do continuuty who probably resembled an average CITV viewer! Danielle Nicholls was...

[George 1978]

And here we go again putting them back again once more - I did mine just after midnight (or 11.00 pm as I actually adjusted the clocks to). There is an art to adjusting time on clocks, don't you know? Six clocks and watches in my abode, and until 2.00 am BST (sorry, 1.00 am GMT), I have NOW 70s on the...

[George 1978]

Chris Kelly used to be everywhere on ITV in the 1980s, and of course he did Food and Drink on BBC 2. Since the end of the 1990s I believe that he has been a writer, mostly working behind the scenes on TV programmes....

[George 1978]

Capes always had that "bearded caveman" look to him wherever he was seen, and I suppose he was seen as a superhero as well, especially to youngsters at a time when movies and comics depicted them so much. In the 1980s he was always seen as the "strongest man in residance" when he...

[George 1978]

I wouldn't like eating Dove in the UK as it would taste rather horrible - it is a bit soapy - and not as in soap in the Family Fortunes sense either! Les Dennis asked a contestant to name a soap (opera) and came up with Dove! At least Coronation Street was sponsored by Cadbury's for a few years....