Saturday, 26 May 2012

Classic Brookside - Remembering Damon Grant (1982 - 1987)

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Damon Grant wa s the first heart throb in the now defunct British soap opera Brookside and was played by Simon O'Brien. The characte...

Coronation Street - the 1970s

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The 1970s saw Coronation Street 's production team dealing with problems routinely besetting long-running soaps - how to write and struc...

Doing his Porridge - Remembering Lennie Godber

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Leonard Arthur " Lennie " Godber was played by the late, great Richard Beckinsale in the classic BBC sit-com Porridge. Godber is...

America's Finest - The Saturday Evening Post

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The Saturday Evening Post is a bimonthly American magazine . It was published weekly under this title from 1897 until 1969, and quarterly a...
Friday, 25 May 2012

That Was The News That Was: John Alford Guilty on Drugs Charges (1999)

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Back in the 1990s I was a huge fan of London's Burning and was saddened and shocked when actor John Alford (Billy Ray) was arrested for ...
Monday, 21 May 2012

Robin Gibb (1949 - 2012)

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Sad news reaches us today of the passing of former Bee Gee, Robin Gibb. Robin Hugh Gibb , CBE was born on 22nd December 1949 and is best kn...
Saturday, 19 May 2012

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Roy Rogers , born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, one of the most heavily...
Friday, 18 May 2012

It's A Knockout - Series Guide 1976

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Having reached the BBC retirement age of sixty, British p roducer Barney Colehan stepped aside after ten years with  It's A Knockout  ...