There should have been a room in the Crystal Maze just with a staircase you have to go up and down while carrying an over full mug of coffee - if you didn't spill any you'd get the crystal. No crystal for me going into the basement.
Old Telly stuff: people of a certain age in the UK may remember being glued to their TV sets as youngsters watching a made-for-children sci-fi series called The Tomorrow People.
@losttourist there's been a lot going on quietly for the 50th anniversary. As well as the Look-in compilation mentioned in the article, a new novel is in the works.
@losttourist That’s a good read, I loved that show in high school in the early 90s and had no idea this is how it ended! Seems a bit weird to bring it back
UK readers probably remember (or are at least aware of) this country's first famous celebrity chef, Fanny Craddock.
You might also have heard the well known anecdote about how she stormed out of the Parkinson talk show studio after finding out that fellow guest Danny La Rue was a man in drag. It's cited in The Guardian, on Wikipedia, just about everywhere.
Except, as this latest impeccably-researched post in the really excellent Dirty Feed UK TV blog explains, it never happened and never even could have happened.
63 years ago today, #TheAvengers debuted on British television. From 1961-9, 161 episodes were produced, both in B/W and color.
John Steed teamed up with various partners, including Dr. Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, Tara King - and for a few nerdy bonus points we'll throw in Dr. King & Venus Smith.
This week's "This Week In The 90s" from @ThisWeekInThe90s is a deep dive into the phenomenon called Mr Blobby and his evil creator, Noel Edmonds.
Whether you're familiar with them or not it's worth a read, although you might be left scratching your head at the collective madness that overcame the British TV-watching public in the 90s. Here's just a taster paragraph:
If you’re not British and you don’t understand Mr. Blobby… I can’t really help you. I don’t understand him either. He seems to be cross between Mr. Bean and a Dalek. He looks like a diseased penis. British people could not get enough of him.