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The Strangerers – Space Cadets and Vegetables

H E Cooper — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 16:10:16 +0000

The Strangerers follows two aliens that have taken human form on a visit to Earth to find out more about the planet. Written by Rob Grant, The Strangerers ran for a single series on Sky One in 2000, hasn’t been repeated and doesn’t have a DVD release, which are all good reasons why I’d never …

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The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Fit the First

H E Cooper — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:31:22 +0000

The best thing about my birthday as a kid was that it always fell in half term. We didn’t live that near any multiplex cinemas, so most of my trips to the pictures were in school holidays. My mother started dropping me off at the Showcase more often from the age of 10 or 11 …

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The Goodies – Radio Goodies

H E Cooper — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 09:54:00 +0000

First broadcast: 20th December 1970 on BBC-1 This was my favourite episode I’ve seen so far. The Goodies decide to take advantage of the recent introduction of commercial radio licences – at least that’s how it appeared to me. My knowledge of the history of commercial radio is slim but nonetheless, 1970 seemed a tad …

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The Goodies – Cecily

H E Cooper — Sat, 30 May 2020 09:42:00 +0000

Cecily First broadcast: 13th December 1970 on BBC-1 The Goodies are struggling to find work and one does wonder whether ‘anything any time’ is just too vague for the general public. McCall’s newspaper advert in The Equalizer is similarly brief but at least he narrowed it down to helping people that had a problem with …

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The Goodies – Gender Education

H E Cooper — Fri, 15 May 2020 04:30:00 +0000

Gender Education My next episode of The Goodies moves us swiftly further along to series 2, episode 11. At the Goodies’ headquarters, a well-turned-out, mature woman with glasses sneaks up on Tim and Graeme. She’s instantly recognisable as a faux-Mary Whitehouse and I must admit I was surprised that I saw this so quickly, yet …

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The Goodies – Tower of London

H E Cooper — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:30:00 +0000

I first watched The Goodies without realising. In my early forays to YouTube, I was searching for Doctor Who content when I came across something featuring Patrick Troughton up against three other blokes. Split into two videos, there were no titles and when it finished I still I had no idea what it was but …

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

H E Cooper — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:16:00 +0000

Until last year, I believed Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a sitcom set in a pet shop. I have no idea exactly why or when this image of a northern pet shop had formed in my mind. Suffice to say, it was a tad off the mark. One day, perhaps someone will write about the hilarious adventures of the …

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