TV listings from the olden days 📺

[Rogg]

No-one remembers Mulberry.

[ChrisW]

Nope. After watching the first episode I will try to unremember it.

[Rogg]

Saturday 25th February 1995.

This amazed me because I'm almost certain that I was watching that Rev W. Awdry programme as a kid. Thomas the Tank Engine guy. He was a scary man. 8.05pm on BBC2.

Big Break, You Bet and Noel's House Party may also have been watched that evening.

Live boxing on ITV at 9pm. A Frankie Howerd film on Channel 4 at 11.20pm: The House in Nightmare Park. I have the DVD.

[tungsten tossers]

Never heard of it

[Rogg]

Never heard of it

A horror spoof. I love it but I am weird. Frankie Howerd arrives at a creepy old house.

[Rogg]

Yer man from Columbo is in it too.

[Randall]

Can't remember his name

[Rogg]

Can't remember his name

Ray Milland.

[Randall]

Can't remember his name

Ray Milland.

That's the fella

[Rogg]

Rands get yourself down to Gallowtree Gate at 4pm today in 1977 to rent a telly and meet Ken Barlow.

[Randall]

He wouldn't be seen dead on gallowtree gate now

[Rogg]

Sunday 26th February 1995.

30 years ago yesterday. More live football on ITV of a Sunday afternoon: Millwall v Middlesbrough. Boro will win the league. Introduced by Jim Rosenthal with guest Terry Venables. Commentary by Brian Moore and Ray Clemence.

One of my favourite Only Fools and Horseses turns up on BBC1 at 8.20pm: Friday the 14th!

OJ Simpson's trial is still going on, BBC2. The movie Westworld at 11pm.

[tungsten tossers]

Friday the 14th is a superb episode

[Rogg]

Friday the 14th is a superb episode

It might be my most watched episode of any sitcom ever. I can act it out.

[tungsten tossers]

Friday the 14th is a superb episode

It might be my most watched episode of any sitcom ever. I can act it out.

[Randall]

Is it the hand glider 1?

[Rogg]

Is it the hand glider 1?

That's called Tea For Three.

Friday the 14th is a horror spoof, hence the title. Where they go to Boycie's weekend cottage to do some illegal fishing and there's an escaped mass murderer on the loose.

[Randall]

Not sure I remember it

[Rogg]

40 years ago today.

A newspaper reports that Doctor Who has been shitcanned for the foreseeable future. The fans evidently are highly upset.

[Randall]

I begrudgingly like timelash