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The 1970 election was unexpectedly rainy & England's recent early defeat in the World Cup are often said to be factors that swung the result towards the conservative party.

This is the first one outside the spring in my lifetime.

According to the BBC the last one in December was in 1923.

The Specials have reformed a few times but never the classic line up, & especially as drummer John Bradbury is no longer with us.

My Dad can remember some of the controversial films in the early 1970s were subject to local bans.

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 service for all the independent local stations.
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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 Feather.

I presume large customers like a...

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 shown at other times of the year.

Also they...

I remember reading that when ITV went 24 hours they considered making the night time hours a separate national franchise

The potential audience & revenue from advertising was too low to make it...

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, Yorkshire, Anglia or East Midlands.

When BBC2 last...

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.
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Where I grew up in Marple we could get grainy reception of all the Welsh channels.

BBC1 & 2 Wales tended to have more opt-outs, & HTV often had a different schedule to Granada. S4C was the most...

Michael Barrymore played a drill sergeant putting them through boot camp.

Spiceworld: The Movie, it's fun fee lgood film that managed to encapsulate the late 1990s very well, with plenty of quirky cameos too.

The other cheat was to carefully lever one of the edge sections out & then all the segments could be removed & reassembled in the completed formation.

They were in just the right place & time when instrumentals became very popular in the late 1950s & continued into the 1960s.

Also the did very well being Cliff Richard's backing group in his...

I'd heard for a few years that Clive James was ill but the news has still come as a shock.

I remember often watching Saturday Night Clive, mostly for the out-takes & home video clips when they...

Maybe the turkeys were for freezing.

I remember my Dad saying it started a lot more serious like Watchdog, but became more & more self parodying as time went on.

I remember there was a mix of funny & shocking items, overseas products with odd names seemed to be a regular feature.

Even at the time some Monty Python sketches were controversial, & sometimes had to be edited out of repeats.

Luckily a complete Blu ray set is coming out which has reinstated a lot of material...

Even when Dad's Army was being thought up the creators were worried it would be seen as mocking the real Home Guard. I guess it's still shown as it's quite easy going.

Allo Allo did get some...

Sadly she died in a plane crash in 1985.

I remember they wouldn't give it to Richard Branson when he broke the record because his boat wasn't a regular passenger vessel!

I remember Superdrug used to stock Panda Pops, normally in those open fronted fridges with clear plastic flaps over the front like a blind.