Tony Keetch

@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

You’ve probably had loads of replies, but Name That Film was Cold Comfort Farm. Probably the late 1960s TV version

“And tonight, your very own Google Withers…

… and what to do about it.”

I had this on cassette at the time, but have since found a seemingly pristine copy of the LP - for 10p! Sadly, it’s very crackly

Hull Dolly

When I was working on the Isle of Man in 1985 there was a live Mr & Mrs stage show at the Villa Marina. I remember with a shudder the huge cutout of Derek Batey looming over the theatre

There’s an echo in here!

Chancellor Goth from Dr Who

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I thought the Mission were always drenched in talcum powder? Or was that a different bunch of Goths?

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Why was C’Mon Everybody rereleased? Was it used in an sd?

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‘The Bee Gees have knocked Blondie off.’

Who knew?

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Around this time my sister was working on BBC’s Swisstime Special. Boney M, ABBA, Kate Bush…, al up an Alp.

She had a photo of some black guys in ski boots posing for her camera. ‘Is that… the Jacksons?’ I gasped.

Yup.

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I wonder what happened to all the Boney Ms who filled the studio when they did Belfast? There were dozens of them then

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Energy Saving Light Orchestra

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Blimey, Clog Dance was a thing. I thought it might have been a fever dream from when I had flu at the time

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That looked like the Boomtown Rats’ drummer playing with Thin Lizzy. Or was I imagining it?

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The hashtag fell off

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Oh God, Read’s wearing leather trews. Nurse, fetch the mind bleach!

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The I Will Survive vid looks like it predates anything by Georges Méliès

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1979! I can pretend to be 14 again

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Mike Read has turned into Primarky Ramone

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I remember Clive James interviewing Ginger Spice and claiming how much he loved her album. He wasn’t a great actor

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Since the rise of AI, predictive text has become increasingly eccentric. I’m a lousy typist, and when I read back a nondescript paragraph, it’s inevitably been turned into a forgotten verse of I Am The Walrus

Watching Buccaneer on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. Barking with laughter every time Bryan Marshall introduces himself as Tony Blair. No, Bryan that’s MY gig!

He also turns up in Prisoner Cell Block H

And JB Priestley again on immigrants from English Journey (1934)

JB Priestley in his 1942 novel ‘Blackout in Gretley’ talking about the sort of people who become fascists.

I was given a Yellow Submarine for my 8th birthday. I know the film was shown on a bank holiday a short while after. I then recorded the soundtrack off the telly during the 1976 BBC Beatles film season. Can still quote bits of it.

During the run of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Gielgud Theatre in 2004, Christian Slater had to make a racket offstage so he would kick an old dustbin. Mackenzie Crook drew this and stuck it to the bin…