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Curious British Telly

The home of all those British TV shows you thought you'd forgotten about...

  • By Ben Ricketts
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly 14 posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

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Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2023 21
2024 7

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Winning a Lunch with Brian Cant in 1981
I’ve always been careful to ensure Curious British Telly doesn’t become a rose tinted, nostalgia-for-the-sake-of-nostalgia borefest - you know the thing, see all those Channel 5 documentaries about the 1980s. Nonetheless, it’s sometimes difficult to …
On , by Ben Ricketts, 518 words
The Birth of Thames Television in 1968
Boasting productions such as The Bill, Minder, Man about the House, Rainbow and The Sooty Show, Thames Television produced some of my favourite television programmes of all time. And then there’s that iconic Thames Television …
On , by Ben Ricketts, 1,022 words
The Slow, Slow Start of BBC Video
I still remember the first BBC Video I got: Pyramids of Mars, the classic 1975 Doctor Who serial featuring Tom Baker. This was in 1987, and it meant a lot to a five-year-old who had …
On , by Ben Ricketts, 1,588 words