Richard1978
DYR fanatic

That's probably the reason any ideas of a night time franchise didn't work out. At the same time there was an attempt to have an overnight radio...

I remember 1 or 2 other spoof diaries around that time, I have a Red Dwarf one, & I have seen ones for Rene from Allo Allo & Dorian from Birds of a...

I also got a copy of the diary, although I bought my own from WHSmith as I couldn't wait for Christmas when I asked it for a present! It wasn't like...

I hope that I have influenced you on what to watch on Christmas Day! - I have to admit that despite having the main TV listings magazines in front of...

I don't think Central would have been part of it, unless they were the main provider of the programmes to the network - they didn't show Night...

I've still got my copy of Mr Bean's Diary. I remember when BBC1 was way out of synch with Neighbours, & often their Christmas special was often...

I remember reading that when ITV went 24 hours they considered making the night time hours a separate national franchise The potential audience &...

Continued from the previous post. MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR BEAN - ITV 4 (120) - 12.00 PM 　 Mr Bean goes Christmas shopping and gets a rather big...

Australia is nice at this time of year - where do you think all the sunshine and heatwaves go when it is dark and cold in Great Britain?

I have always associated the phrase with something negative, such as Black Monday in 1987 when the stock market crashed on 19th October that year,...

I would have liked to have lived in Lincolnshire as well and get both Central and Yorkshire. As for the Super League Show, it was the last England...

I believe that there was briefly a TV version of Radio Caroline in around 1970 (looking at old microfilm newspaper copies) but it didn't last long...

Sometimes I just wished that my family was a BBC household as it did drive up us the wall seeing the same advert a number of times in each evening -...

That was a Disney film, wasn't it? (for obvious reasons, hence your avatar!)

Do they still make those double tape deck cassette recorders and hi-fis? - Dixons definitely used to sell them. I used to use it to record tapes...

Thanks, I often wear it when I go to anime themed events.

When my Aunt & Uncle lived in semi-rural Lincolnshire it was possible to pick up 3 different regions depending on which you pointed the aerial,...

You don't get anything for nothing these days - I would think of it as suspicious if someone got even £3.20 worth of gifts for free, never mind £32,...

I am surprised as well - how long has black Friday been a tradition in the United States? - yet it was only around five years ago when it took off...

Most programmes were seen on BBC 1 in Wales, and Wales only missed out on repeats which the main BBC 1 had shown - programmes made in England are...

Apart from regional news, Inside Out, and the regional segment of Sunday Politics, there wouldn't be any difference between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and...

Well the UK has changed so much in the last 20 years since millennium,we are now known as the 51st state,what happens across the pond always ends up...

There are also the Christmas parties at schools where parents make jellies, cakes and the like.

TVS had taken over the Bluebell Hill transmitter from the London region at the start of 1982 so prior to that Thames and LWT's reception would have...

Amazing that there was more difference between London and the South on ITV, than there was between London and Scotland on BBC 1. How many of us...

I didn't know that Porco Rosso wore yellow dungarees...

I hope that he didn't drill into any hot spots. (one gets one's coat again...)

Good for you - in those pre-VCR days, I used to record it from the TV on a tape recorder. You could have made it into a Zip file, I suppose (if...

I'm a big fan of Studio Ghibli's films, Princess Mononoke & Porco Rosso are among my favourites Here's me cosplaying as Porco Rosso. .