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Cookie's Classics
@cookiesclassics.bsky.social
Bluesky account for the YouTube Channel featuring classic clips and adverts from TV and film.
Posts by @therealrobcook.
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An advert for Military Police documentary series Redcaps, advertised on BBC1 in February 1996.

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January 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Who remembers Extremely Dangerous starring Sean Bean?

#throwback #vhs
January 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Gary Whelan (D.I. Harry Haines) as Steve, a CID officer interrogating animals in this humourous series of idents for Tango's sponsorship of The Word in the 1990's.

Loads more photos of different animal suspects over on our Insta.

#TheBill #OffTheBill #GaryWhelan #Tango
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Matthew Crompton (PC Sam Harker) presenting Saturday Disney in 1995.

#MatthewCrompton #TheBill #OffTheBill #Disney #SaturdayDisney
January 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Over on Insta, I have an account called OffPeakPractice covering the stars of #PeakPractice in other roles (ala. @offthebill.bsky.social).

Here's the Top Nine for 2025.

If you're on Insta, feel free to give it a follow 😊
January 1, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Happy New Year everyone!

Here's our Instagram Top Nine for 2025 with Where The Heart Is proving popular.

Here's to 2026 and seeing plenty of other vintage TV and film memories...

#CookiesClassics #ThrowbackThursday
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Happy New Year everyone!

Here's our Instagram Top Nine for 2025 with Tony Scannell proving popular.

Here's to 2026 and seeing our Sun Hill legends in other projects old and new...

#TheBill #OffTheBill
January 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Tom Cotcher (D.C. Alan Woods) as various scotsmen in the Sooty and Co. episode 'Highland Fling' (1996).

Thanks to @pcstratford.bsky.social for the nod.

#TheBill #OffTheBill #SootyandCo
December 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Ciarán Griffiths (DC Gary Best) as Company Runner in Episode One of Monsignor Renard (2000).

#TheBill #OffTheBill #MonsignorRenard #CiaránGriffiths #throwback
December 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Clara Salaman (DS Claire Stanton) as Kathy Reynolds in the A Touch of Frost episode 'Widows and Orphans' (1994).

#ClaraSalaman #ATouchofFrost #TheBill #OffTheBill #throwback
December 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Merry Christmas!

What did you find under the tree today?

#PeakPractice
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Merry Christmas!

Did you find any #TheBill related gifts under your tree?
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The Christmas specials of The Bill are celebrated in a brand new article in December's Best of British magazine!

#TheBill #BestofBritish
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Journey back to Christmas 1988 and a host of comedy favourites on BBC1....

youtu.be/0qz9UGFECVk?...
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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You can watch this advert on YouTube:

youtu.be/NiTFKjlNzJU?...
BBC Biteback (1995)
YouTube video by Telly Vintage
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Caroline Catz (Sgt. Rosie Fox) appears as Dawn in this advert for Preston Front on BBC1 in 1995.

#TheBill #OffTheBill #PrestonFront #CarolineCatz #AllQuietOnThePrestonFront
December 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Kevin Whately (Dr. Jack Kerruish) as Neville Hope in the fourth series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2004).

#PeakPractice #KevinWhately #OffPeaks
December 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Matthew Crompton (PC Sam Harker) in panto?

Oh yes he did!

From his Saturday Disney days in 1997, Matthew is advertised in Babes In The Wood at the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds.

#TheBill #OffTheBill
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Amanda Burton (Dr. Beth Glover) as Rosie Willis in The Precious Blood (1996).

#PeakPractice #OffPeaks
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Look who popped up on an old advert for Birds of a Feather? 😁

#TheBill #OffTheBill
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Michael Parkinson's 1981 interview with Goldie Hawn features some very tight close ups of both Goldie and Parky which feels very odd, especially compared to the other interviews in the episode with Thora Hird and John Blashford-Snell (and other editions of the era). #ThrowbackThursday
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Zoe Eeles (Burnside's DC Sam Phillips) as Tina in Series 4 of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2004).

Zoe appears throughout the series starting with the second episode and according to IMDB, this was Zoe's last screen role.

#Burnside #Burnside25 #ZoeEeles #TheBill #aufweidersehenpet
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Roberta Taylor (Insp. Gina Gold) as the Witch Chef in The Witches (1990).

#TheBill #OffTheBill #RobertaTaylor #RoaldDahl #TheWitches
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Do you remember the BBC version of Sweeney Todd from 2006 starring Ray Winstone, Tom Hardy, David Warner and Essie Davis?
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM