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It was on Gold today!!

That's Toby Troyna, he was the "standby props" guy - meaning he is on set to make sure the props, like Hobbo's horn, are in the right place at the right time.

ummm, errr, oooooooHH!!

Sunday 20 April 2025 at 7:00pm (UK/BST) on my YouTube channel The UK’s Most Controversial Sitcoms Episode 2

Ooooh, Ooooh!!

(exact origin unknown)

Probably because it was released by 'Network' who specialised in obtaining the DVD rights for obscure shows, and have now ceased trading.

you'll have to wait a couple of weeks ...

Sunday 13 April 2025 at 7:00pm (UK/BST) on my YouTube channel The UK’s Most Controversial Sitcoms Episode 1

I have a number of different video scripts and research projects on the go at the moment. One is a retrospective, similar to my recent Victoria Wood tribute video. All was going fine until I came across the words "Operation Yewtree"... I had never heard this connection made with this - now...

has it anything to do with treacle?

After the excitement and chaos* of the last few days, more-or-less back to normal here! Sunday 6 April 2025, 7:00pm (UK / BST) on my YouTube channel A Tribute to Victoria Wood *Chaos included spending and hour-and-a-half setting up lights and camera for 90 seconds of screen time for part of...

The infamous "memo". Those are copies of real BBC documents underneath it ...

For the record: Terry contacted me about two weeks ago with a suggestion for a Summer Wine April Fool's video. The script was written by Google's Gemini AI (Aime Ginni). I only made minor changes to it. I added the BBC creative consultant "Olaf Lillip" (April Fool) *, and BBC producer "Larry...

Hi! I can't claim any credit - it was written by Aime Ginni

video link on forum post: New Videos

Just uploading - the link will work as soon as the machinery at YouTube has uploaded and configured everything ...

Castrol oil is called that because it contains castor oil, the company was called “CC Wakefield & Company” but changed name to Castrol due to the popularity of the oil.

Thank you... it does help that there are some tv nerds that have managed to preserve some of these 'lost' shows in their blogs, even if the shows are long since gone. According to Frankie's personal archive, curated and kept by University of York, he was keen on giving 'new' writers a chance...

As promised on Thursday last week - and mentioned in @maltrab's recent post (Can this being Happening in 2025) ... bonus video on Monday: