Me on the way to the rapture

On this day, 30 years ago, the first series of Shooting Stars began (after a pilot the previous Christmas), and it felt like comedy shifted a bit - Vic & Bob didn't really change or water down their approach, but suddenly their strange world seems to infiltrate everyone else's.

#ITV70 youtu.be/nDaGPSM3t5I?...

#ITV70 youtu.be/6rzd05qtokk?...

Love the new video from 6u66legun youtu.be/3Hum3zj6Htw?...

A superb album from 1997 and the best Dubstar album. ‘The View from Here’ and ‘Ghost’ were crying out to be singles

‘Play it Cool’ is one of the very best singles from the Super Furry Animals with one of their best videos to go with it. I was always surprised this wasn’t the lead single for the ‘Radiator’ album

Dearest Brenda, the first episode of ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’ is now on ITV Drama’s YouTube channel youtu.be/-VNQ93biynU?...

My Top Ten Favourite Sitcoms (in alphabetical order) Blackadder Drop the Dead Donkey Ever Decreasing Circles Fawlty Towers I’m Alan Partridge One Foot in the Grave Porridge Red Dwarf Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? The Young Ones

Ross kings looking well #strictly

A Happy Birthday to Scott Chisholm who is 32 today. Scott's face may be familar to you as he was part of the BBC's Future Generations promo in the late 90s.

And on the B Side you got the Carter USM remix …one for all the teenage girls youtu.be/QHv_KtYer74?...

Happy Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Day

🎶Ceilings cover well in Motherwell🎶 I think this is probably my favourite advert of all time youtube.com/watch?v=FX4Y...

Artist: razzle https://b3ta.com/board/11421182 From the 'Children's TV At The Movies' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/childrenstvatthemovies/popular/ #ChildrensTVAtTheMovies

And to think we used to moan on about ‘Last of the Summer Wine’. That ended with 31 series

Stuart Millard on Hangar 17 youtube.com/watch?v=p1wS...

R.I.P. Robert Redford The Sting (1973) is in my top five favourite movies of all time. Superb storytelling and consistently entertaining from beginning to end youtu.be/f0eTISgJ3Io?...

On par with ‘Divine Madness’. Every XTC single in chronological order. (How all Greatest Hits & Singles Collection albums should be!) …I’m still waiting for Blur to release their Fossil Fuel!

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

Happy Birthday to me 🥳

I wet shave mine 💪

Released on my Fourteenth Birthday and the song that got me hooked on Suede

Mid Noughties game changer in my life

Make a band singular: Fun Boy One

A little Friday Fun. Here's Sage and Onion having a gentle pop at the then recently launched Channel 5 and their somewhat infamous reception issues...

#TOTP I had such a crush on Lindsay Armaou from B*Witched …still do

#TOTP Super Furries and B*Witched save this episode

#TOTP and it was actually B*Witched who were the next big thing

#TOTP Table tennis rules, they’re so confusing it’s not played by fools

#TOTP everyone sounds really flat on this episode

#TOTP it’s Indie Natalie

#TOTP …and the answer is a house

#TOTP Hurry up and get to the next episode with the Super Furry Animals and B*Witched please

#TOTP what the sixth form school disco is this?

#TOTP I’ve already forgotten how this song goes

#TOTP Heads up. Super Furry Animals perform ‘Ice Hockey Hair’ on the second of tonight’s episodes from 1998 on BBC Four

Classic Banksy

The Gorillaz of the 60s

And the last episode of series one was broadcast about five months later …it didn’t half go on a bit

The first great pop song of the twenty first century

It’s an absolute crime that this song didn’t even enter the charts

What do you get if you blend together ‘More Specials’ by Specials & ‘Rise & Fall’ by Madness?

The pain from food poisoning is unbearable. It’s like being repeatedly punched in the stomach! 😫

Hello, I have nice news. @gkw.bsky.social & I are combining our passion for old TV shows in a new podcast launching next wk. search for “Through The Square Window” now, wherever you get your podcasts. Short trailer available now. And follow @squarewindowpod.bsky.social to stay in touch.. 📺