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Why Don't YouTube?
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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: violent Cribbins! We're up to The Hotel Inspectors episode of Fawlty Towers, the perfect example of spiralling towards an ending we should have seen coming but somehow don't because of all the friction burns.
Dailymotion
Bekijk S1E4.The Hotel Inspectors - guido goetstouwers op Dailymotion
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: More4 is launched as an "adult" version of E4, a home for occasional new programming amid imports and repeats, well before being reformatted for that whole nebulous "lifestyle" arrangement.
More4 Launch Promo 2005
Remember when More4 was an adult entertainment channel before becoming a lifestyle member of the Channel 4 network? Here is the launch promo for it!
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Another week has passed: whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...
The Why Don't YouTube? Catchup - October 3rd-9th 2025
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Alan Bennett has Melvyn and The South Bank Show round for the second time, the first in 1984 so quite a bit to catch up on.
The South Bank Show - Alan Bennett
Alan talks to Melvyn Bragg about his childhood in Leeds, his life in London and how these two places have influenced his work.
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Time Commanders, the historical battle re-enactment series using the Rome: Total War engine, puts a team of students on Pompey's side against Caesar today in 2003. One of them is Ruth Wilson, later of Jane Eyre, Luther, The Affair and His Dark Materials.
Time Commanders - Battle of Pharsalus
48BC. After plunging his country into civil war Julius Caesar faces off against his political rival and former son-in-law Pompey the Great. This battle will influence whether Rome remains a republic…
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: the final episode of Minder's sixth series was intended as its end and would be the last script written by its creator Leon Griffiths. As such Arthur putting up an eccentric recluse comes to an ambiguous ending.
Minder 80s TV 1985 SE6 EP6 - Waiting for Goddard
Minder 80s tv programme starring George Cole & Dennis Waterman. Private investigator Caroline Selby seeks Arthur's help in locating eccentric recluse and inventor Albert Goddard, who has come into an…
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: another list show! But this is quite a good one, The Fifty Greatest Documentaries, as much as it turns into an odd mix of films, TV and reality shows, and some placings that look even stranger now than they did then.
The 50 Greatest Documentaries
The 50 Greatest Documentaries More 4 Channel 4 produced countdown list of The 50 Greatest Documentaries All rights to featured & mentioned programs belong to their rightful owners. No copyright infringement is intended, for educational purposes only. Apologies for #50, please be aware this was ma
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Jayne Middlemiss on behalf of The O Zone follows Oasis to Stoke-on-Trent.
Oasis - 1995-10-03 - Ozone Special, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Band interviews, rehearsal and live clips recorded at their gig in Stoke. Includes one of the very few clips with Scott Mcleod in the band and Robbie Williams still was a mate of the Gallaghers ;)
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Spike Milligan takes adaptable voiceover duties - including, oh christ, *that* voice - on Wolves, Witches And Giants, adapting fairy tales of assorted implied goriness, not least the Brothers Grimm tale that opened the series. www.youtube.com/watc...
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sooty and co, of Sooty & Co, enter a local talent night MC'd by a depressive Jim Bowen. Back at the shop Scampi shows off his unexpected saxophone skills.
Sooty & Co. - 03x06: Talent Night (1995)
Once word about a talent show breaks, Sweep seems awfully eager to enter, and insists on his talent resulting in... telling the gooseberry joke. ©ITV
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: the winner of Dick & Dom's Forfeit Auction has to take dictation, a vehicle for Ian Kirkby to show off his tremendous Eric Morecambe impression to an audience that for the majority will likely have no idea who Morecambe is.
Dick and Dom in da Bungalow - Forfeit Auction, Dictation Kid
More messy fun from Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow - This is from the Forfeit Auction, a regular fixture of the Sunday show where various messy tasks would be auctioned to the highest bidder. Here, the task is The Dictation Kid - sadly, the winner doesn't seem to take well to being drenched in mushy pe
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: welcome to The Learning Zone, a series of early hours educational programmes intended for VHS recording and rebroadcast. Night one includes Jenny Eclair finding out about adult retraining and Duncan Goodhew advising on time management.
BBC Learning Zone - Sunday 8th/Monday 9th October 1995
The very first broadcast of 'The Learning Zone' on BBC2. Includes: Who Learns Wins: programmes 1-6 Making Time In the Office ANY AND ALL COPYRIGHTS DUTIFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED.
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The BBC really liked a public vote around the time of The Nation's Favourite Song Lyric today in 1999, Mariella Frostrup and Griff Rhys Jones helming debate, covers, recitals and countdown.
The Nation's Favourite Song Lyric - 1999/10/08
For National Poetry Day this year the public were invited to vote for the song lyric that meant the most to them. A host of celebrities gather to reveal the results.
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Vic Reeves' Best And Worst Of God is certainly an eyecatching title, linking a series of comedians commenting on the alphas and omegas of the natural and physical worlds and Vic taking advice on the most contentious areas.
The Best & Worst Of God (Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer, 2005)
BBC2, 08-10-2005 - A definitive bible of all that's good and bad on God's green earth in a provocative look at the natural world designed to enlighten, entertain and enrage. Vic Reeves speaks to fellow comedians, experts and eccentrics as he leads us though God's greatest hits and misses. Along the
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: it is a truth universally acknowledged that with one dive into the Lyme Park lake Colin Firth redefined the whole of British period drama. It's not in the book, and Andrew Davies maintains it wasn't intentionally sexy in and of itself.
The Lake Scene (Colin Firth Strips Off) - Pride and Prejudice - BBC
Here's a chance to see the classic moment when Colin Firth, playing the brooding Mr Darcy, takes a plunge in the lake. Subscribe to the BBC Worldwide channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BBCWorldwide BBC Worldwide Channel: http://www.youtube.com/BBCWorldwide This is a chann
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Richard Skinner gets to tell Kate Bush live on Whistle Test that Hounds Of Love is no longer album chart number one. Bush doesn't know Madonna.
1985: KATE BUSH on HOUNDS OF LOVE | Whistle Test | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive
Kate Bush joins Whistle Test's Richard Skinner to discuss the making of her fifth album Hounds of Love, which features singles Running Up That Hill, The Big Sky and Cloudbusting. Originally broadcast 8 October, 1985. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you b
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: won't spoil this week's Dick & Dom In Da Bungalow guest star but the reveal five minutes in, and their circumstances, made us genuinely laugh out loud. And that's before Celebrity Bogies with Jodie Marsh and a very physical Muck Phrase.
Dick & Dom In Da Bungalow S05E09 8th October 2005
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: World Of Skinhead, Britain's least appealing amusement park. Or, an edition of terribly titled Channel 4 sub-culture series Tribe Time.
World of Skinhead - Channel 4 Documentary (1995)
Channel 4 Documentary World Of Skinhead Here's an interesting cinema verite style documentary on the world of skinheads that was made in 1995 by Doug Aubrey. The storyline is narrated by the…
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Belfast-born Kenneth Branagh takes the lead in Dublin-set The Shadow Of A Gunman, Sean O'Casey's Irish War of Independence play, alongside a flatmate about whom there are affiliation suspicions, played by Stephen Rea.
The Shadow of a Gunman part 1 BBC Performance 1995 Stephen Rea ❤️ Kenneth Branagh, Bronagh Gallagher
*The Shadow of a Gunman* by Sean O’Casey part 1 BBC Performance Season 1995 Stephen Rea ❤️ and Kenneth Branagh, Bronagh Gallagher and more. this is part 1. part 2 is here 👉…
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: do you get the feeling Sean Lock wasn't entirely appreciative of Rory McGrath showing off on QI?
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The closest folk club comic and Kay-preceding rememberer of things Richard Digance got to his own show was set of one-offs Abracadigance. Today in 1989 there's a straight song about Tony Hancock, a coach trip to Lyme Regis and a sketch with Doon Mackichan. www.youtube.com/watc...
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Stu Francis-era Crackerjack (don't) today in 1983. Big Country and Nick Heyward add music, The Great Soprendo does his thing, while neither final game guest Brian Jacks nor Liz Hobbs appears to have been briefed about the liquid ending.
Crackerjack - BBC - 7th October 1983
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Frankie Howerd hated being interviewed or talking seriously, so Good Afternoon sent in the big Mavis today in 1976.
Frankie Howerd interview | British comedian | Comedy | Good Afternoon | 1976
Some extracts from Thames Televisions 'Good Afternoon' Mavis Nicholson speaks to British comedy legend Frankie Howerd. In these extracts, Frankie talks about his dislike of interviews and what one should ask.. Recorded: 07/10/1976 Is you would like to license clips from this interview please e mai
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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Schools' Science All Around explores the world of sound with percussionist Tristan Fry and everything he has at his disposal, from gong to swannee whistle via a duet for thunder sheet and hand cranked wind machine.
BBC SCHOOLS - SCIENCE ALL AROUND: Sound with Tristan Fry (TX 08/10/1980)
Fergus O' Kelly and percussionist Tristan Fry explain all about sounds and vibrations with the help of Lane Green Primary School in Codsall and lots of percussion instruments! Originally made in 1975 this recording is from the repeat broadcast in 1980. Continuity includes Slide and Dots Countdown wi
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: the notoriously private Sir Alec Guinness does a South Bank Show. Melvyn Bragg later called him "the weirdest, strangest person I’ve ever interviewed".
SIR ALEC GUINNESS - INTERVIEW WITH MELVYN BRAGG 1985
Sir Alec Guinness interviewed about his life and career by British TV interviewer Melvyn Bragg in 1985.
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