Xanderl

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Failed the audition for Blockbusters and still bitter about it. Mostly ranting about films, old TV, Top of the Pops and The Archers. Nearly halfway through the Crossroads box set!

Vintage Chad Valley give-a-show projector
Benny from Crossroads visits the hospital
List of longest serving soap actors by date
Inspector Barlow out of Z Cars
Julian Clary about to do the Norman Lamont joke
The Sgt Major and Gloria in It Ain't Half Hot Mum
"Yes, that's it. We're getting so incredibly lazy as a species we give more and more of our functions over to the tinware-we no longer worry about the fact that we're taking more and more materials out of the earth-things we can never put back-just to make computers which are so bloody smart we don't even know how they go wrong. Nobody needs the damn things except maybe hospitals-they're just an electronic phallus—a technological status symbol."
A man walks down stairs, goes outside, and is beaten up by some young tearaways.
Z-Cars credit screen - "Directed by Kenneth Loach"
Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin
Lp cover ART LINKLETTER narrates the story of WHERE DID YOU COME FROM Photo of middle aged Art in the middle, holding forth to drawings of children
Cinema Modernissimo Bologna
Back cover of a tie-in book for 1971 Schools series "It's Fun to Read" featuring Penelope, Bill and Bill's magic box.
Audrey and Alma in Corrie looking like Bon Jovi
Lynda La Plante in Rentaghost with Mr and Mrs Meaker
Sister Sledge and Frank Sidebottom
Any hint of Zappa’s subversive provocations is rather blown by Innes’ 1977 Top of the Pops appearance singing his Silver Jubilee ditty, without any hint of irony, to a cod-reggae beat. He denied that this was a riposte to the Sex Pistols, and said that it was written at the suggestion of his agent. He brushed the idea aside at first, but then found lines and rhymes coming into his head. It’s a harmless enough song, a catchy singalong which makes Paul McCartney’s Her Majesty at the end of the Abbey Road LP sound like a radical Republican call to arms.
In 2015, he and the rest of the Wurzels made a music video to encourage safety of farm workers following a spate of fatal accidents.
Towards the end of this year, when Season 26 was still being screened on British television, Philip Segal first approached the BBC about obtaining the rights to Doctor Who. Segal's initial enquiry was ignored. At a press conference in October, the BBC's Head of Series, Peter Cregeen, said 'Doctor Who has lasted 26 years and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't continue. The BBC is committed to more Doctor Who in the future.' A month later, the series' future was in grave doubt. Cregeen said to the Radio Times in November, 'There are no plans to axe Doctor Who,' but added 'There may be a little longer between this series and the next than usual.' Cregeen also issued a press statement saying that 'The best possible way to take the series through the nineties will ... involve having it made outside of the BBC.' The announcement that the BBC were looking into the prospect of Doctor Who being made by an independent production company resulted in approaches from a number of prospective independent producers.
Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn
Mike Reid on Runaround doing a Sieg Heil salute possibly
Woman pulling a range of odd faces while listening to Paul Burnett.
Andy Crane and Mr Bronson from Grange Hill in the Broom Cupboard
Children's Promise: the Man in the Golden Suit BBC one Fri 3rd Dec 1999, 19:55 on BBC One London Another besuited celebrity invites viewers to give their final hour's income of 1999 to charity. (S)
His 1999 single, "Communication", also known as "The Communication Song", is notable for being mainly constructed from the interference caused on improperly shielded audio equipment when a GSM mobile telephone rings nearby. The Ringtone sample that can be heard is from the Motorola MicroTAC International Series of GSM Mobile Telephones. Vision.
Adam Chance talks to Chris Hunter about the latter’s sudden offer of a round the world boat trip
Crossroads Motel sign from "Endeavour"
Newspaper story - Five to stand trial for Oxford $1.5m crypto 'robbery' 8 HRS AGO OXFORD CROWN COURT Oxford Crown Court (Image: Oxford Mail)
Multiple popmaster posts using the same photo of Colin Hunt from The Fast Show
Anna-Louise was the much-wanted fruit of Carol and John Tregorran's union. Her proud godparents were Lady Isabel Lander, Jill Archer and Hugo Barnaby. She travelled with her peripatetic father, but returned to England for school, taking her O-levels in 1985.
Grenville, Richard Charles b. 13 Dec. 1962 Richard Grenville's father died in 1965 ...
A Viennetta
Johnny Keller sits in the crossroads recording studio listening to backing tapes
Macclesfield DC was the first of over 70 local authorities to pledge its support to Children's Promise - the campaign which asks the nation's workforce to give the value of their final hour's earnings in this millennium to help the children of the next. Launched by Marks & Spencer in partnership with the Millennium Experience, Children's Promise is part of the Millennium Experience's National Programme and aims to encourage every working adult to get involved and help create a brighter future for the children of the next millennium.
Meg Mortimer with a punk rock group in the foyer of the Crossroads Motel
Public school glam rock band Slag Bag from Play for Today: Jumping Bean Bag
Credit saying "MORE THAN IN LOVE" by Simon May
The model Penelope Tree
Mr and Mrs Kevin and Glenda Banks leaving the Brownlow house (a 1950s semi-detached house, I think) after the wedding reception, followed by Doris Luke. Glenda is pulling a very odd expression.
A photo book called “fashionable older men”
At the heart of the City since 1979 In 1981 Cliff Richard filmed his pop video for Wired For Sound' here (on roller skates!) #cmkdidyouknow
Cover of Lassie: The Mystery of Bristlecone Pine
Jean Gabin visits Alain Delon in prison and the camera cuts between their two faces as they stare at each other
Some people in cagoules running slowly up a hill, chasing a person not wearing a cagoule.
The people mentioned in the post chatting at the nightclub bar
Title sequence of Park Ranger
Jerry Verno in Edna the Inebriate Woman sitting at a desk by a fire - grotty copy from YouTube
Miss Diane arrives back from the USA to find her tenant Becky with her husband Chris
You've played Debbie Aldridge in The Archers on and off for 20 years. Will that continue? I hope so. At the beginning of lockdown, they came up with the interesting idea of doing characters' internal monologues. I set up a DIY studio in my son's wardrobe. It's been difficult to get to Birmingham to record.
Handwritten sign saying “GRACE RUN LIKE YOU STOLE SOMETHING”
Sign in a shop window saying “Closed till further notice due to Urgent building work sorry for any in conveniece your nearest savers Cowley templar square”
5 baby goslings by the river with their mother goose