Final upload of 2025 for me, and it's a clip from a missing-believed-wiped episode of Motormouth from January 1989. If you ever wanted to see Cuthbert Lilly, Wizadora, and a Pink Windmill Kid all in the same place at once, now's your chance. #lostmedia #80s youtu.be/uJq4ZXqp0ao

From the second series of Mike and Angelo, in which Philippa's pet Tabby is in need of a temporary home, and things take quite the surreal turn from there. A recording of the original 1989 broadcast, complete with original theme tune and no canned laughter, incidentally. youtu.be/GHGkSEEhy7I

Genuine contender for best ever episode of Mike and Angelo - this one's called The Warrior, and a mishap with the new Virtual Reality cupboard sees Norse hammer-wielder Thor escape his video game and demand a fight to the death. Gavin Richards guest stars brilliantly. youtu.be/eQd-1KhNLbU

We're having a bumper Mike and Angelo day on my channel today, and this episode sees them accidentally catapult a prehistoric resident of Larkswood Lane forward to the present day. Will he pass for Mickey's Uncle Wally? youtu.be/kw-aYUylQ9A

More French language lessons from BBC Schools show Quinze Minutes Plus, and in this one we learn how the French and Guadeloupean teenagers of 1997 spent their free time - roller skating, gymnastics, swimming, cycling, kayaking, and going to the beach, amongst other things youtu.be/Q122N7nfHs8

My final batch of YouTube uploads of the year, and first are these clips from TWC Fight - a.k.a. The Wrestling Channel - possibly December 2006. It's unintentionally hilarious which brands chose to advertise during a programme entitled Bloodbath. youtu.be/WDDlr4tQWfY

An episode of Mike and Angelo from 1999 in which Angelo's new job as a traffic warden, Katy's presentation for the head of the Met Police, and last night's gold bullion robbery somehow intertwine in their kitchen. youtu.be/K9mgNvalxn0

Back in 1991, someone at Channel 4 decided that chess would make a great spectator sport, and this is what they came up with. Note that it features precisely zero footage from the actual match in question, and relies purely on graphics and an explanation. Weirdly fascinating. youtu.be/C9zmKEjofj4

Out of the news and weather and then a bunch of ITV ad breaks from the Tyne Tees region back in August 1992. The Newcastle Exhibition Beer ad is quite extraordinary, but my favourite is the Red Rock one with Leslie Nielsen and co in the style of Police Squad. youtu.be/IgWlj7rSHTk

Hopefully your French language skills are improving thanks to these BBC Schools shows I've been uploading. This 1997 episode of Quinze Minutes Plus teach us about the secondary education systems in France and Guadeloupe, including lessons, school dinners, and earthquake drills. youtu.be/sJjcsPymogg

Weekly-ish YouTube upload time, and first is a compilation of BBC2 junctions from December 2002. Expect promos for The Life of Mammals, Fame Academy, Radio 1, and two different general comedy ones featuring Alistair McGowan, amongst others. youtu.be/XMyLnwU-UnI

Aaaaand we're back in business. :-) Mr Pinner catches Angelo walking on the ceiling, so all of a sudden a plausible explanation needs to be invented in order to throw him off the scent. The first episode of the second series of Mike and Angelo from September 1989. #CITV #80s youtu.be/WoO9Wu7iVJA

How's your French coming along? This week we look at the native cuisine of both France and Guadeloupe, find out what people's favourite foods are, make a fruit salad, mass-produce some sweet treats, and more in this 1997 BBC Schools language programme. youtu.be/jZ4lIMEQ5Is

Some nice bits of Christmas Eve 2002 BBC2 continuity and idents, coming out of Carols from King's and around the film White Christmas. Promos include those for the "Celebration of Performance" season, comedy in general with Alistair McGowan, and one for the drama Topsy-Turvy. youtu.be/7AmYYojxIxQ

A very nice ITV ad break from LWT from March 1985. Includes Birds Eye's "We hope it's chips, it's chips", "Thank you very much" for Roses, Stephen Fry's Extra Strong Mints, Oracle, BT's Telex, the TSB Trustcard, and more. youtu.be/SGLmPVQCnLU

This week, my YouTube uploads start with the ITN News Headlines from 14th October 1991, with top stories including shootings in Belfast, HMS Endurance's replacement, and military cuts across the board. youtu.be/tezLQK_YBPQ

An episode of the brilliant Bug Alert from 2000 which sees Plug Bug hypnotised into thinking he's a lot younger than he is. Also featured segments on choosing a family pet, making a mobile and edible rattle, and a very irritating song. Great fun, as always. youtu.be/HOnbQhONmOE

A whole load of ITV ad breaks from the Tyne Tees region during the premiere of Dumb and Dumber back in March 1998. Includes the campaign when Opal Fruits changed into Starburst. youtu.be/WHw8lzOacnc

I'm determined to help viewers of my channel get all bilingual, and having uploaded all of Quinze Minutes already, I'm now starting on the few episodes of BBC Schools' 1997 KS3-level show Quinze Minutes Plus that I have. youtu.be/yHkLQxvTKuM

Some promos and ads from around UKTV Gold's repeat showing of Have I Got News for You circa 2005 which sees them pushing the likes of Nigella, Jonathan Ross, Trinny and Susannah, Jeremy Clarkson, and The Vicar of Dibley, amongst others. youtu.be/2hc8BaYLa_w

A full episode of World Sport from September 2001 which includes highlights from the latest jetsprint, mountain biking, snowboard, rally, and CART events, plus an interview with driver Petter Solberg. youtu.be/0XdsPPGVGGY

Time for my near-weekly YouTube uploads, and first up is an ITN News Summary from December 1993. Stories include Neighbourhood Watch vigilante groups, the Hubble Space Telescope, and Diana stepping back from media duties while the newspapers promise to respect her privacy. youtu.be/WWj5mKRonhs

An episode of Professor Bubble in which he can't find his teapot. Has mouse lost it? Can a watering can do the same job? Also features a song about camouflage, a story about playing hide-and-seek, and how to make animal fridge magnets out of clay, paint, and nail varnish. youtu.be/hvG6WFb3ACA

Some very nice late-night clips from what was branded as Central More in the early hours of 23rd May 1987. Features two different lots of News Headlines read by Wendy Nelson, ads, promos, and more besides. youtu.be/lp_4glhzOw4

The concluding part of the BBC Schools French language Look and Read sister show La Marée et ses Secrets from 1984, featuring way more guns being pulled and people having their skulls smashed in than you'd imagine. youtu.be/RUhvSt-9N8M

14 minutes of clips from This Sunday (the weekend spin-off of This Morning) from Christmas Eve 1995. The show leans into the festive side of things, but look out also for some ads and technical gremlins. And is it just me or is that a rather underwhelming TV schedule? youtu.be/_7USJvOiY_A

A Sky Sports ad break from straight after the football in January 2002. Features a nice promo for a load of contemporary Sky One shows, including Enterprise, Alias, Angel, Scrubs, and The Simpsons. youtu.be/EVJqVgRYHoU

Time for my near-weekly batch of YouTube uploads, and the first is this nice collection of ads and Christmas promos from around December 2006 on the channel UKTV Documentary. youtu.be/mdR04lNNoKU

The last of the current batch of Mike and Angelo that I have (here's hoping more will show up). This episode - The Larkswood Kid - sees Mac McDonald play a cowboy in every sense of the word, dressing and acting like one as he sells used cars. youtu.be/_Whzeo55Tdg

The last episode of Wizadora that I have, and there's a bit of an environmental message to it as a general tidy-up turns into a discussion about which things should be kept, which should be thrown away, and which can be re-used in a different way. youtu.be/F5sCVYAJbkM

Two full ad breaks (nearly) from during LWT's showing of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. The episode was called Scoop, and I believe it first went out in 1986, but I haven't been able to confirm whether this is the original broadcast or a later repeat. Anyone? youtu.be/d8rTQu0Xv7o

What do you get if you take Look and Read and add a load of death, revenge, guilt, blackmail, and smuggling, and then do it all in French? The 1984 BBC Schools show La Marée et ses Secrets, of course. youtu.be/awbC_kdyjmM

A load of ad breaks and promos from April 2003 during ITV's showing of Father of the Bride 2, and then part of the Tyne Tees region's local news programme North East Tonight. youtu.be/LiZU768XRfQ

Weekly-ish YouTube upload time, and my first is a short junction from Sky Movies back in 1992. Most notable for a promo counting down the days to a new era in football: the start of the Premier League. youtu.be/E3P7vBmOboI

Clips from the first 1989 episode of Motormouth, mostly Spin Off, but also glimpses of Andrew being Famous for 30 Seconds and Caroline Hanson hosting a phone-in with one half of Climie Fisher. Who's the actress playing dotty hotel inspector Binky Hassocks? I don't recognise her. youtu.be/ERyH0JVwupc

A fascinating Channel 4 music documentary from Boxing Day 1985 about the band Incantation. They're the ones who drew on the indigenous sounds of South America, travelling thousands of miles to find authentic traditional instruments, and had an unlikely top ten hit along the way. youtu.be/Fx0nXm1r9VU

The episode of Mike and Angelo from 1996 entitled Don't Give a Monkey's, which sees Mike's life being made a misery by a gang of hoodlums and Angelo deciding to go and do something about it. Meanwhile, Katy's feisty animal rights activist sister drops in for a visit. youtu.be/OqpIOfhnQLQ

Clips from UK Gold back in 2000. Promos include those for Victoria Wood Night, the 25th anniversary of Fawlty Towers, and the new series of Rock Profile on UK Play. Diligent readers will notice that said series of Rock Profile is itself now marking its own 25th anniversary. youtu.be/Nghduq5Lags

Episode three of the 1984 BBC Schools show La Marée et ses Secrets, which, for the uninitiated, was basically Look and Read for secondary pupils learning French. Is there murder afoot? youtu.be/SNtsSn-rHL8

Time for my weekly(ish) YouTube uploads, and let's start with a nice collection of BBC1 clips from 23rd December 2002. There's the end of the local news, plus a load of promos, idents, continuity, and even the Neighbours opening titles. youtu.be/no03VtgdsFs

The first ever episode of short-lived late night C4 music, comedy, and distilled lad/ladette culture programme Born Sloppy. Presented by Sara Cox and Colin Murray, with guests Ross Noble, Norman Cook, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, and more. TFI Friday with swearing, sort of. youtu.be/DSrqTVfdQqI

Episode two of La Marée et ses Secrets, the 1984 French-language BBC Schools show from the same team that brought us Look and Read. This one sees our heroes out at sea harvesting oysters, but the undercurrent is one of skulduggery and mystery. #80s youtu.be/_kwG6zNEYOc

A 1995 episode of Mike and Angelo in which Mike's determined to win something - anything - no matter what or how. But will his desire for quick fixes get the better of him? Meanwhile, not entirely unrelatedly, Angelo invents a robotic arm. #90s #CITV youtu.be/7E9ei6MNvDE

Short BBC2 clip between the Doris Day film The Thrill of It All and What the Magazines Say, from the early evening of Friday, 2nd September, 1994. Features promos for Murphy Brown and tech documentary White Heat, plus the usual continuity and stuff. youtu.be/PqqhlKs0qrI

A good fun episode of Beachcomber Bay in which everyone's going down with a cold. Also features that cracking upbeat weather song they occasionally did, and the Sludges once again steal the show, this time with their reinvention of the mobile phone. youtu.be/NNi0VFfeDRE

Time for my weekly-ish YouTube uploads, and the first is a collection of weather forecasts found on an old tape from August 1999, which also includes the ITN footage of the total solar eclipse on the 11th of that month. youtu.be/SiSnTlDAxNM

The first episode of La Maree et ses Secrets, the 1984 BBC Schools show from the same team that brought us Look and Read. It has the exact same nostalgic vibe, with the only minor hindrance being that it's entirely in French. #80s youtu.be/Hw5y0sbbDAM

A 1995 episode of Mike and Angelo in which they win a holiday - the main drawback being that the competition was supposed to be for families only. Will they be able pull off the deception when the head of the company comes to visit? #CITV #90s youtu.be/73KXBga5Ypg

A few Channel 4 clips of continuity, promos, and so on from 2002 - expect glimpses of Faking It, Extreme Ironing, Friends, Kylie Entirely, Alias, Trigger Happy TV, Born Sloppy, and Hotel Splendide. Was Extreme Ironing real? youtu.be/t1ZD5fO9yiA

A collection of ad breaks from 1992, all taken from the same tape but from recordings of both Sharp's Funday (with Pat Sharp) and TV-am's Cartoon World. Fair warning: Rolf alert. youtu.be/9PSUI6h11BM