Live & Kicking on 9 December 1995, Phillip Schofield is a guest that morning. He's already tried to sing a song from Joseph, but got interrupted by The Singing Corner, so will second attempt result in a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?! #saturdaymornings

A little Friday fun... Live & Kicking on 9 December 1995, Phillip Schofield is a guest that morning and about to sing a song from Joseph, or is he..? Swing your pants... #saturdaymornings

I have to admit I was getting a little bored of writing about sitcoms on Dirty Feed, but transitioning to reviews of 70s French porn on Letterboxd was not where I saw 2026 taking me.

Tough wank but hey, only 36p per minute cheap rate

Just seen a personal site which states “I stand for love, tolerance, acceptance, and non-judgement”, and I’m with you on the first three, but STOP GETTING MARY TYLER MOORE WRONG

If somebody could arrange for me to have sex with Sophia Loren c. 1955, that would be grand.

Carry On England really is fucking awful isn't it

Interesting titbit about All in the Family from The Los Angeles Times on 24th Sep 1978: "In addition, the show is being taped without an audience, over two days instead of one - at the insistence of star Caroll O'Connor - thus increasing production costs."

Well, Married With Children’s “Top of the Heap” wasn’t so much a back door pilot as a front door pilot. It’s not terrible, but does prove that the way MWC gets away with so much is partly down to the charm of its leads. Joseph Bologna is fine, but doesn’t have it.

Something something something wreath footage, except it wasn’t one rando, and I’m still agog.

I remember the days when I thought I was above laughing at TV Offal's Catchphrase sketch.

I feel I am not using Letterboxd to my best advantage. letterboxd.com/dirtyfeed/fi...

Someone in my feed is worried that Married With Children was very much "of its time", and it's so rare that any of that bothers me. Mainly because I don't hate the version of me from 30 years ago.

I wrote a short thing about one of my favourite moments in Married... with Children. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/elec...

I wrote a short thing about one of my favourite moments in Married... with Children. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/elec...

Just noticed that throughout the entire scene - including before and after this clip - David never turns his back to the camera. So he must be wearing the smoke effect mechanism throughout the whole scene, and they just set it off outside the door.

Very much enjoying people losing their shit over Doctor Who, I am far better than you, and please ignore my near mental-breakdown during Red Dwarf's Back to Earth.

Our Friends in the North is getting a runout on BBC Four, starting from Weds 24 June. First ep preceded by a Remembers... programme with Peter Flannery. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Les Dawson was enjoying a Berni Steak in 1980

Remind me to write 5,000 words on how Married With Children was the pinnacle of television, and how it was all downhill from there.

Married With Children, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" (Fox TX: 18th November 1990). Bud "fixes" the doorbell, and MWC decides to the effect PROPERLY, all in one shot. How easy it would have been to cheat and just cut to a close-up of Bud, and they don't!

Married With Children, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" (Fox TX: 18th November 1990). Bud "fixes" the doorbell, and MWC decides to the effect PROPERLY, all in one shot. How easy it would have been to cheat and just cut to a close-up of Bud, and they don't!

One really interesting thing about A Very Peculiar Practice is that you could cut the episodes in half and record them in front of an audience, and huge chunks of the show would work perfectly with no rewriting whatsoever.

It's 80 years today since the return of BBC Television after the Second World War. The re-opening show is of course lost to history - gone forever, live as it was broadcast. But a few minutes of sound recordings of it *do* survive. Here's a piece I made from them for BBC Local Radio this week:

The episode of Married With Children I just watched ended with a punchline which is a) impossible to justify, b) extraordinarily amusing, and c) I will not quote here because I enjoy the shred of goodwill which I still somehow have.

May be the only person in the world to follow Ieri, oggi, domani (1963) with an episode of Married With Children.

Started watching A Very Peculiar Practice. a) Excellent. b) Considering who wrote it, Stephen is essentially just a more professional version of Martin in Game On. And Robert has an awful lot in common with Matthew, for that matter.

One fun but weird thing about my job: discovering that people you work with on live/late delivery shows were PA on Hale and Pace or something.

Oh Google, you don’t have a fucking clue.

Sunday will be the 80th anniversary of TV's post-war return, so I've written a piece for the History of the BBC site. If you're a BBC Local Radio listener you may also get to hear some bits of the comeback show today, as I've done a package for CNS which some stations are running.

I asked in a scheduling meeting yesterday whether seven minutes was enough to get the 100m race done and dusted before the end of the live athletics.

I HAVE GOT SPAIN IN THE BBC PRES WORLD CUP SWEEPSTAKE

Talk on here today about what scared you as a kid reminds me of something I wrote a few years ago - about how terrified I was of Knightmare and its GRINNING BASTARD SKULL. www.dirtyfeed.org/2020/07/cond...

My boring Noel’s House Party observation, which I loved growing up (and still do): I remember being confused when I first joined forums in the 2000s, and found virtually nobody had a good word to say about the show. “But it was hugely popular, where has everyone who liked it gone?”, I pondered.

I don't tend to write much about music, but I just couldn't resist this one. On a track by dance music pioneer Patrick Cowley, which went unreleased for over four decades. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/05/a-ch...

I don't tend to write much about music, but I just couldn't resist this one. On a track by dance music pioneer Patrick Cowley, which went unreleased for over four decades. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/05/a-ch...

I've just noticed that the very end of the closing theme to The Pink Panther Show has an edit to repeat one of the bars of music, presumably just to extend it that little bit longer to fit the credits. At 0:51. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kndo...

Relevant to other discussions I'm having on here today - here's something I wrote back in 2021, about how Series 1 of Fry & Laurie was recorded. www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/08/id-l...

On the latter half of Married With Children S4, and the audience have now started applauding character’s entrances. As someone who has really enjoyed the rowdy audience up until this point, it’s a step too far and is mildly irritating.

I do find it interesting that the often-derided BBC Sitcom Season from 2016 still managed to create one ongoing success, which is still with us a decade later: Motherland, now transformed into Amandaland. Not many seasons like that manage to create such a long-lasting show.