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Lol. This is excellent.
Strongly reminded of the Camberwick Green bit in Life on Mars.

On this day in 1978, the first episode of All Creatures Great and Small was shown on BBC One.

I just came across the rather brilliant trail for Series 2 of Life on Mars, featuring Sam Tyler in the style of Camberwick Green.

A look at how the pop music chatter and chartbound sounds in the very first episode of Doctor Who matched up against what was going on in the real life Hit Parade at the time...

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Sing Along With The Common People

How would John Smith And The Common Men - the fictional band in the first ever Doctor Who - have fared in the real life Hit Parade?

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NEW! As a hat-tip to the great Frank Ifield, here's my look at how the pop music chatter in the very first episode of Doctor Who matched up against what was going on in the real life Hit Parade...

timworthington.org/2024/05/20/s...

Sing Along With The Common People

How would John Smith And The Common Men - the fictional band in the first ever Doctor Who - have fared in the real life Hit Parade?

timworthington.org

Combining several of my hobbies and interests at once, a look at how the pop music chatter and chartbound sounds in the very first episode of Doctor Who matched up against what was going on in the real life Hit Parade at the time...

timworthington.org/2024/05/20/s...

Sing Along With The Common People

How would John Smith And The Common Men - the fictional band in the first ever Doctor Who - have fared in the real life Hit Parade?

timworthington.org

Well that was one of those days where you see the very best and the worst of university life.

https://youtu.be/fl9KQ1Mub6Q?si=eaGaRCPaSqJFys08

God, what a mess, on the ladder of success.

Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung!

Well, it's possible that there's still primitive life on Mars (in the oceans below the surface), but movies like "War of the worlds" are not very realistic, I'm afraid.

Maybe there's also life on Europa (one of Jupiter's moons) and Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.

One of the many times in life when you want to come in from the back

yeah I think thats one of the shows where the English title fully caught on for western viewers as opposed to any of the dozens of anime that had English titles no one used lol

Lol. Just a shame the sun didn't pick up the green on the back of its head very well.

#OnThisDay 1969 : The first in multiple series of This Is Your Life was broadcast on ITV by Thames Television. It was initially on the BBC between 1955-1964 and back on the BBC between 1994-2003.

New video: on this very night in 1999 BBC2 broadcast Doctor Who Night.

Selected as part of the line up was Episode 7 of The Daleks - The Rescue.

But what was broadcast was a very strange version of this episode… what was shown? Click and find out!

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On this night in 1963, the BBC introduced viewers to a madman with a box (pictured, right) in An Unearthly Child, the very first episode of Doctor Who

Nice. Garson was in the band the 2 times I saw Bowie. If you can find a good audio version from this tour, the Life On Mars? opener started with Garson alone, then Bowie walks on and starts singing. Then the rest of the band gradually join in one by one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3NJ...

David Bowie Area 2 Irvine Meadows USA august 13th 2002

enjoy

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59 years ago on this day the very first episode of The Likely Lads aired on BBC Two.

But then you probably already know that from Twitter.

At least the post before this was exclusive to Bluesky though, right? 🤷‍♂️

Tonight, a third part of the fascinating “How the BBC Began” is being shown. The first two were shown in 2022 for the BBC 100 celebrations. This one was held back due to concerns about the discussion of impartiality but has now been given approval. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC Two - How the BBC Began, Series 1, Building the Audience

BBC TV’s first female newsreader, Nan Winton, tells the story of how she was sacked.

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nw for the first the first time in decades. one of those movies i saw dozens of times on vhs. couple scenes in and i am struck by the horniness and physicality. gorgeous design in everything throughout

Of course you saw the Mars surface photos of the sailors fighting in the dancehall!

The first episode of Salem's Lot was shown on CBS on this day in 1979.

Big Agatha Christie Day on the BBC! A repeat of the first part of Lucy Worsley’s biography on BBC 2 at 13.50, immediately followed by a double bill of the very likeable The Mirror Crack’d and the unimpeachable Evil Under The Sun, then there’s the new adaptation of Murder is Easy at 21.00 on BBC 1.

Then there's the one where the ship gets invaded by invisible aliens.
And don't get me started on The Haunting of Deck 12.

He seems to have been slightly on the young side for the life as laid out, but what really caught my eye on the BBC page was THIS ...

I've not seen this 'sign of the times' before.