Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Our Hilda Speaks Out - The Street has Lost Its Soul To Sex, Violence and Downright Nastiness!

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This article was printed in the Daily Express on May 12th this year and sees former Street Legend Jean Alexander (Hilda Ogden) speaking out ...
Sunday, 27 May 2012

Steptoe and Son - Fifty Years of Magic

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Forget the laughter. It was the tears, a trickle of real grief, that announced a new kind of comedy on television half a century ago. One Fr...
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...