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Kenith Trodd obituary Television producer whose long-running partnership with Dennis Potter resulted in landmark drama serials including Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective

RIP Kenith Trodd, producer for some of the best of Dennis Potter and much else www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

T.T.V. - spinoff from Play School's ill-advised early eighties 'zany' makeover featuring diseased bin-perching puppet cat Scragtag introducing appropriately raggedy filmed inserts in a - ho ho - Breakfast Time-lampooning 'Tea Time TV' conceit.

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World Book Day - Jackanory style!
#WorldBookDay

Buenos días !

Microbio panzón patas largas les manda saludos 😽

And set light to it?

Think I might fill the bath with petrol to save 5p a litre. That seems like a sensible thing to do.

#OnThisDay 26 February 1988
WORTH £10 MILLION - BUT HE STILL USES A TESCO'S PLASTIC BAG TO CARRY HIS SCRIPTS
Comic #BennyHill, revealed as one of Britain's richest people with a £10 million fortune, walked to work as usual yesterday with his scripts in a supermarket plastic bag . . .

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 37 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 26 February 1989
1. #CoronationStreet 24.26m
2. #EastEnders 24.08
3. #Neighbours 19.07
4. Forever Green 15.59
5. This Is Your Life 15.08
6. 'Allo 'Allo 14.73
7. Antiques Roadshow 14.33
8. Boxing: Tyson v Bruno 14.30

#OnThisDay 27 February 1982
ITV-2 GAMBLES ON BROOKSIDE
When Channel 4 takes to the airwaves in the November, family unity, already stretched to breaking point, will have a fourth channel to contend with. Channel Four's biggest gamble is a new soap opera called #Brookside . . .

#OnThisDay 27 February 1982
HILDA'S NEW HOME IN THE STREET
Hilda Ogden is getting a new house in the most famous street in Britain . . . and she's doubly delighted. The address is the same, Nº 13 #CoronationStreet, but the house will be twice as big . . .

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 43 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 27 February 1983
1. #CoronationStreet 18.45m
2. This Is Your Life 15.10
3. Last of the Summer Wine 15.00
4. Wish You Were Here 14.75
5. 3-2-1 13.40
6. #Crossroads 13.10
7. Family Fortunes 13.00
8. Brass 12.95

#OnThisDay 28 February 1978
GET OUT OF THAT, SUNSHINE
#EricMorecambe "cheers up" #DesOConnor after he slips in the bath and breaks his leg, leaving him unable to go to Australia on tour.

#OnThisDay 28 February 1985
PAY UP TO SAVE DR WHO
Fans of #DrWho may be able to save their favourite programme. The BBC, which yesterday announced the sci-fi programme was being dropped, revealed today it would consider this novel way of raising money . . .

#OnThisDay 28 February 1985
Buster Merryfield makes his first appearance as Uncle Albert in #OnlyFoolsAndHorses in the episode 'Strained Relations'.
Here's continuity from the original broadcast, interviews with Buster, and the reaction of young fans to the new character.

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 44 years ago
📺TV Ratings for the whole of February 1982
1. This Is Your Life 18.10m
2. #CoronationStreet 18.00
3. Wish You Were Here 15.50
4. The Gaffer 15.45
5. The #BennyHill Show 15.35
6. Last of the Summer Wine 15.30
7. Family Fortunes 15.10

📺TV Ratings for the whole of February 1983
1. #CoronationStreet 18.45m
2. It'll Be Alright on the Night 16.00
3. This Is Your Life 15.65
4. Last of the Summer Wine 15.60
5. Wish You Were Here 14.75
6. 3-2-1 14.60
6= Tom, Dick and Harriet

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 40 years ago
📺TV Ratings for the whole of February 1986
1. #EastEnders 24.35m
2. #CoronationStreet 19.25
3. Wish You Were Here 18.35
4. Boxing: Barry McGuigan 18.30
5. Noel Edmonds Late Late Breakfast Show 16.75
6. Duty Free 16.10
7. Surprise, Surprise 15.19

#OnThisDay 1 March 1985
The newspaper cartoonists have their say on Michael Grade's decision to cancel #DoctorWho.

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 34 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 1 March 1992
1. #EastEnders 21.81m
2. #CoronationStreet 19.55
3. You've Been Framed 19.30
4. #Neighbours 17.92
5. Darling Buds of May 17.88
6. Inspector Morse 16.44
7. One Foot in the Grave 16.16
8. #Casualty 15.80

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 40 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 2 March 1986
1. #EastEnders 24.35m
2. #CoronationStreet 19.25
3. Surprise Surprise 15.00
4. Wish You Were Here 14.60
5. TV Times Awards 13.90
6. This Is Your Life 13.80
7. #Emmerdale Farm 13.75
8. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 41 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 3 March 1985
1. #CoronationStreet 18.05m
2. Last of the Summer Wine 16.75
3. Miss Marple 15.35
4. The Laughter Show 15.15
5. #OnlyFoolsAndHorses 14.90
6. #Crossroads 14.80
7. One by One 14.25
8. #EastEnders 14.20

Full House - upscaled as best as I could.

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Upscaled - Up Pompeii - s1 (1969) [couchtripper][U] YouTube video by Memovids

Up Pompeii - s1, upscaled. Ooh, Mrs, and so on.

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Twin Peaks logo, but it says TWON POOKS

Crabtree out of Allo Allo

Aw, thanks for this! 🥰 I had really hoped this would get a home-media release as many other "undercooked" sitcoms got, but sadly, it didn't, and it's unlikely to be...

Man Alive.

BBC1, 3 March 1971.

Frost on LWT.

Terrible to see that Ronnie Barker has been dragged into this

The cat next door who comes to my back door for food everyday. His name is Misty! #cats