I have long been fascinated by the products on sale in the Greendale post office. "Going to Gogginses, d'you want anything? "Yes, can I have some Big, a box of Day and a packet of 10, please?"

This reminds me of what I believe is the most French advert ever made: youtu.be/oV_ZTZmrsmQ?...

There's too many people called Seth in the public eye. It's a recent phenomenon and it's confusing. Back when I was a lad there was only one Seth that mattered

I bought the 12" from the Cancer Research shop, which was probably the first time the charity ever saw any money from it

At least Herbert Ashworth-Hope lived long enough to see Anita West take over on Blue Peter. (He only missed Val by a couple of months.)

This is fantastic, especially the repro House Of Commons corridor - a pleasantly surprising number of these shows haven't been wiped too!

Double LP. CD. Digital download. fasttunes.bandcamp.com

As advertised by Kenny Everett and assorted groovy types youtu.be/blE0-s7Fs_8?...

True fact about this sketch - the letter about sewing a pocket into the inside of your coat was a real letter to the Dear Miriam page of the TV Times in December 1989

The show was Strike A New Note, and there's a programme for it here - Eric is listed in the (huge) cast, I can't see Little Ern, but he was in it: www.silversirens.co.uk/productions/...

Choose your fighter

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

QTP a cartoon with an awesome theme song! All hail the genius that is Hoyt Curtin youtu.be/pOIW66DADH4?...

What channel is it, bab?

With the Michael Jackson movie doing so well and getting people to listen to his music again. It's time to revisit arguably the greatest cover o one o his classics with The Jackson Five. Keith Harris singing, 'Can You Feel It?' #MichaelMovie

100 years ago isn't what it used to be. I remember when 100 years ago was all Tchaikovsky and bustles. 100 years ago now they had commercial air travel and Cadbury's Flakes

This works really well, it sounds like it should have been sung in French all the time

At Much Binding In The Marsh This snooker match is going on forever At Much Binding In The Marsh Most of us aren't feeling all that clever We're sorry if you're tuning in to watch Top of the Pops It might be on if this damn snooker ever ever stops It's going to keep going till somebody bloody drops

"He shoots - he scores!" - Sergio Leone on set, pointing out what Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone's jobs are.

For all of you fans of library music, here's musician and composer Johnny Hawksworth teaching his dog to play piano.

I like how this guy’s jacket changes colour when he goes through the news portal

Madeline Smith looking decidedly unimpressed by Ian Anderson's flute.

Looking forward to the scene where he discovers the chemical that makes it taste like vomit

Sorry to hear Asha Bhosle has died - here's a superb special she did for Indian TV with then-husband and genius soundtrack composer RD Burman, which appears to show they were the Bollywood Bruce Forsyth and Anthea Redfern: youtu.be/v4iN9GxoIEw?...

This is an absolutely belting pop song, and not even a po-faced "look at us aren't we superior taking the piss out of this bit of pleb culture" cover version by The Kings Singers can spoil it's joy.-

Ronnie Hazlehurst was appalled at the choice of theme music for this - he was at the auditions where various composers' submissions were played, and said 'There was so much beautiful music played in that room....'

40 YEARS AGO TODAY

I wonder if Joss Ackland did the voice on this? (The Paul Merton-voiced Fred is NOT CANON)

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: maybe the reason this isn't part of the televisual April Fools canon is Channel 4's big idea happened at closedown, not just after the traditional midday cut-off - after all, all of those above were too - but technically on the 2nd.

That's Miranda Pollard off of Crossroads!

It was Tony Rivers who was not-Freddie on what's generally regarded as the Top Of The Pops LPs finest achievement, the cover of Bohemian Rhapsody (and when they needed a Little Jimmy Osmond soundalike, he got his son to take a day off school to come to the studio) youtu.be/Xns7-Tl0pdo?...

🟥 REWIND | All this fuss about who has what it takes to present an early morning radio show. Back in the day, TV announcer/director David Allan would finish his evening/late night shift on BBC One and head over to Broadcasting House to do the early shift on BBC Radio 2.

And here's the full version of you'd like to hear it - Steve Race himself on piano, with flute solo by Johnny Scott youtu.be/KOmHTgqa9dA?...

Best #Crossroads post-credits scene ever!

Back in the 70s you just had to wait for a big strike, and then film quickly, all the bodies piling up in the street and people going cap in hand to wherever and crisis what crisis and all that sort of bleeding carry on. Then you’d have a pension off documentary montages forever.

Brilliant film! I've always wondered how it was done - you can't cover Portobello Road in loads of rubbish without someone noticing. I wonder if the local paper covered it at the time?

Nice to see some love for this on the timeline, instead of the slagging it usually gets for some unfathomable reason - flutes with space echo always get an instant like from me, anyway!

Every copy of this album originally came with a real button attached, which is why there's always a hole punched in the upper right corner of the sleeve - the vast majority of them have dropped off now! Great album by one of my absolute favourite bands.

Yes! Max Bygraves did a version, bizarrely - and he did it four years before Prisoner was even shown over here. Composer Alan Caswell said it was one of the worst things he'd ever heard.

I'd just like to point out Henry Mancini's version is actually insane youtu.be/Z7hgscZ0Ndg?...

This is great - I love the contrast between the jovial 'This man plays a door!!' preamble and the actual music that he plays, fantastic stuff!

Terry from Minder on every bank note. On the five pound he's just a bit grumpy, but he gets progressively more angry with each banknote. "Can you change my Furious Terry for five Vexed Watermans please?"

Southern's clock from 1964-76 appears to be a very stylish off-the-shelf Solari Ciffra 5 from Italy - buy one and you too can be Brian Nissen doing a link into First Report

GERRINWIVITT!!!! youtu.be/-fqfqIZmW6s?...

Fabulous! Johnny Scott doing the jazz flute solo - still alive (at time of typing) aged 95, and one of the nicest people in the music biz. I've been to his house!

Should've been the theme to the film

I've been slightly bingeing on old About Anglias recently - absolutely wonderful, I wish the regional magazine show still existed in this form