[TV] Times have changed

[schmunk]

It's on this video, starting at 8 mins 52.

Kid's telly back then was just utter madness!

I raise you:

 

[Bry Nylon]

I'd forgotten all about Anthea Turner getting blown up on the tailgate of a truck.

And I KNOW I shouldn't laugh but FFS I just can't help it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Those three WERE Blue Peter for me. Fond memories

Still suffering PTSD from stumbling across Peter Purves at a Fall gig in a Gothic church hall in London town in 1978

 

[Silverhatch]

Braybon the Builders - must've built 10-20% of Brighton's housing stock

 

[knocky1]

Watched a documentary last night about this event in Brighton in the early 80s.

Investigative reporter Roger Cook takes a whacking from an antiques dealer with an iron bar, causing cracked ribs. Not sure there was ANY action taken.

Back in the day, eh?

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He lives near me. Cheerful and jokey bloke. Something stops me asking him about that incident.