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One Foot in the Grave - One Foot in the Algarve The Meldrews and Mrs Warboys embark upon a hellish holiday to Portugal. After an entanglement with the police, they finally arrive at their unpleasant villa.

Tonight on BBC iPlayer, ONE FOOT IN THE ALGARVE (1993).

This is feature-length Warboys! And as @hellothisisivan.bsky.social has rightly observed, she's one of the greatest ever TV characters. Her mere presence in a scene catalyses a build-up of comic potential.

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Well this credit raised a smile from me anyway

Eeeh we couldn’t afford any TV listings magazines, the only way we could know what was on telly was by looking in a bin for a paper someone chucked away

I’m none the wiser

Weird how I can watch a Blankety Blank from 1979 (a year beforeI was born) & know who all the panellists are but then watch one from 1990 when I actually existed & be baffled (Tina Baker?! Pamela Power?!)

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1970: The Serious Business of Shopping | Tuesday Documentary: The Retail Game | BBC Archive

Weird coincidence! I watched this BBC documentary from 1970 about retail earlier today & the Fun City cover crops up in the section on WH Smith. There’s an entertaining bit on horror paperbacks too www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSo...

One of the conveyor belt prizes on this Generation Game is ‘an electric mincer’

Discovering the wonderful world of gay dating apps. Now I remember why I stayed in a relationship for 18 years.

No you’re thinking of Will you stuff an orange in my mouth and put a plastic bag (Fortnums) over my head

Now if it was YOU…

I’ll ask him when I see him later

Discovering the wonderful world of gay dating apps. Now I remember why I stayed in a relationship for 18 years.

Unable to think of anything else when I see it

The sheer 1970sness of this label brings me endless delight. Frozen in time for 50 years.

Movie bonanza at the charity shops this morning

The burning question

Time to be taken out and shot

The burning question

This is what’s gonna keep me going today

Amazing scenes on The Generation Game Who Lives Behind this Door round:
“What have you got for 221b Baker Street, Isla?”
“Well we have… a solicitor”
“And we have Dr Crippen”

Your last surviving parent dying & then your partner of nearly 2 decades dumping you a month away from Christmas is certainly a thing

Peak human beauty

Rupert Graves, the hottest man who’s ever lived

Rupert Graves in A Room with a View = the most attractive a human being has ever been

I feel unnerved by them but I want to be one of them

My fave song ever of all time

Astonishingly potent line about Britain at the dawn of the 80s in Larry Grayson’s Generation Game: “It says here you took a Cordon Bleu cookery course but it was a waste of time as your husband only likes sausage and chips”

Well this credit raised a smile from me anyway

Never thought I’d find myself single again at 45. I can’t see there being much of a queue.