http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Ai8q_0e8o&feature=player_embedded Scully is a television programme set in inner-city Liverpool in the early 1980s. I first saw it when we, for some reason that I cannot remember, watched it at school and, although I hadn't seen it for the best part of thirty years, I still remembered bits of it very clearly – the theme … Continue reading Turning The Town Red →

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole was pretty much business as usual with the only major difference being that Julie Walters no longer played Adrian's mum and the part was played by Lulu instead. Yes, that's right, Lulu of Boom-Bang-a-Bang, Shout and The Man with the Golden Gun fame. Now I never really noticed that … Continue reading Profoundly In Love With Pandora →

I have recently watched the 1985 television adaptation of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole age 13 3/4. I do remember watching this when it was originally broadcast and it has stayed with me ever since despite the fact that I have not seen it in almost 30 years. It probably helped that I also … Continue reading Just my luck →

The third series of Men Behaving Badly was the first series broadcast on the BBC and due to its later time slot the show was a little bit rowdier and smuttier than it was before. This is my favourite series so far and there were some really funny episodes in this particular run. Bed which … Continue reading Men Behaving Badly Series 3 →