Simon Coward

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"A good pedant" (Richard Herring)

A picture of a sign with the wording, "No parking for involving everyone and equipment hoist students".
A listing for Timewatch and an accompanying feature. The listing says: 9.50 Timewatch Flames of War A film about the horrors of the English Civil War, using letters, diaries and memoirs of ordinary people in 17th-century England. The historical characters of Parliamentarian Lord Saye and Sele, and Royalist Sir Edmund Verney, are represented by their own descendants. Other characters - a soldier, a lawyer, and a political activist - are represented by their modem day counterparts.
Oliver Postage, with a Clanger, the Soup Dragon and a Froglet.
A badly framed photo of artist Mike Higgs holding a proof copy of The Collected Cloak.
Emeric Pressburger, one of The Archers, alongside Michael Powell.
Gary (Btradford Dillman) with his hand over Gilly's (Suzan Farmer) mouth in 'Death in Deep Water' #BrianClemensThriller
Two minimal TVTimes listings for Thriller: Appointment with a Killer from TSW (left) and HTV Wales (right).
A newspaper cutting which reads: Gloria Kasdan's third- and fourth-grade classes at Vannoy School in Castro Valley are fixing up exhibits on space for a showing this week, appropriately called "Close Encounters of the Third Grade" and "May the Fourth Be With You".
A picture of the actor John Standing, standing.
SWASTIKAS... AT ABC'S STUDIOS. [NORTH] Swastikas and German uniforms were much in evidence when I looked in on ABC-TV's Studio One rehearsal of Counter-Attack (writes Jack Barlow). Over a dozen complicated sets of the Channel Islands scenes of the new children's Sunday afternoon serial were erected and no effort was being spared to add realism to the story.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan from the 'Saturday Live' opening titles.
A clipping from TV Times listing MY WIFE'S SISTER at 9pm. The text says: "starring Eleanor Summerfield in Granada's light, bright comedy series with Helen Christie and Martin Wyldeck. Written by Reuben Ship. Directed by Henry Kaplan. A Granada TV Network Production."
Alamy photograph showing a similar kind of view albeit from a lower vantage point. 'Lemon Hart', 'For Charm' and most of the Wrigley advert are on the flat face of the building rather than wrapping round the corner as shown in the painting.
The cover of 'Who Killed The JAMs?' by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
Lene Lovich on Top of the Pops with the subtitle "She chirrups".
A multi-coloured card offering a service which can remove the effects of black magic, bad luck, witchcraft and the like.
Batham's bitter albeit somewhat disguised as pint of Holden's.
A 'Regional Television Variations' listing from The Times for 7 April 1983. Every ITV region is showing Police Squad between 7.30pm and 8pm.
Search results on TIDAL for Pink Floyd albums. All albums have a description of their cover rather than featuring a cover image.
A young Jonny Lee Miller, wearing a school cap, with Patricia Hodge (as Jemima Shore).
Google's AI Overview: Patrick Newell played Mr. Oliphant in the TV series "The Avengers". Specifically, he portrayed the character in the episode titled "Never Say Die", which was part of the series "The Criminal". This episode aired in 1970.
A Radio Times listing for FOUR TALL TINKLES, on BBC 2. Among the characters are a Sergeant Cork and a Detective-Constable Marriott, played by John Barrie and William Gaunt.
A line graph showing Coronation Street viewers (weekly average) from 1977 to 1982.
Doctor Who is at position 69 with 4.90 million viewers.
Display noting that "fast trains come through this station regularly".
3/4 of a pint of Hobson's 'Town Crier' next to a plate of Hunter's Chicken with onion rings, peas, slaw and chips.
A picture of a box of Twinings' Fruit Bliss Infusions Raspberry and Rose flavour tea bags.
A copy of Ian Greaves' book Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, which arrived astonishingly early this morning but still after just about everyone else's which, judging by posts here, seemed to get to them yesterday.
However, Peter Hammond, who was actually the first director from the earlier taped seasons to be offered the chance to direct an episode on film, had a blunt response: ‘I told them to get lost. There was nothing I could love in the new series of The Avengers!’
An article from the Wolverhampton Express and Star, 07/10/1966, headed "Authority steps in to clip the Saint's wings".
Ronald Reagan, apparently pointing at Margaret Thatcher, from the Saturday Live titles.
Part of an email from VirginMedia telling me that a phone switchover will happen on '2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC' - i.e. 1 a.m. on 7 April 2025.
A picture of sheep in a field - the front cover of the KLF album "Chill Out".
Two screenshots from the West Midlands Railway app on a mobile phone. The ticket details portion shows a departure at 07:26, which was correct, the ticket itself shows 08:26.
TVTimes cover as mentioned in the post. The main image on the real magazine is of Timothy West playing Edward the Seventh.
A snippet of a Sainsbury's receipt showing that a Sharwood's Butter Chicken Sauce Kit would be arriving in place of 5 Fairtrade Bananas.
A Tweet from Marco Longhi stating: "Dominic Cummings gave a detailed account of events in a frank and honest way. In his circumstances he used common sense to minimise risks, as a father and husband, but within the rules. Let's now focus on fighting the disease and rebuilding our economy together, for all."
A 1960s bubble-gum card featuring a picture of a one-eyed creature from the television series 'The Outer Limits'. The card is captioned 'The Brainless Glob' but the 'monster' is far from brainless in the series, and featured in the episode "Don't Open Till Doomsday".
Vic and Bob analysing, not pondering, honest.
A clipping from TV Guide listing Eddie Boyd as the writer of 'A Date with Kathie Kay's.
Philip Bird, in Sapphire and Steel.
A picture of a packet of Fox's Ambers biscuits.
The back of a publicity brochure for the Thames Television series 'Fox'.
Listing for 'The Destructors' episode of Thames Television's "Shades of Greene".
A balloon with the address TISWAS ATVLAND BIRMINGHAM B1 2JP written on it.