@russtyruss.bsky.social
Fancy a trip to celebrate the past filled with #UK based nostalgia. Its mainly Television on here but I chuck other #retro bits in too.
W12 8QT, the home of Lime Grove?
25.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Poor old MIchael with what was said at 1.30pm that day. Fast forward 8 hours later at 9.30pm that evening and this for me is worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Hj...
15.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jill was very successful with her programmes post Southern.
12.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jill Cochrane... the final singular face on camera on Southern Television's final programme, It's Goodbye From Us.
Just putting this here...
12.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Lets do the fucking news
08.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 5
Amiga Power / Issue 54 / October 1995
From 30 years ago
Amiga Power / Issue 54 / October 1995
AP declares games are bad for you.
#90s #retrogaming
Amiga Format / Issue 76 / October 1995
From 30 years ago
Amiga Format / Issue 76 / October 1995
Enter the world of Public Domain
#90s #retrogaming
Amiga Format / Issue 15 / October 1990
From 35 years ago
Amiga Format / Issue 15 / October 1990
AF has some hidden secrets for you.
#90s #retrogaming
Amstrad Action / Issue 61 / October 1990
From 35 years ago
Amstrad Action / Issue 61 / October 1990
Join the party for the 5th birthday issue of Amstrad Action.
#90s #retrogaming
Amstrad Action / Issue 1 / October 1985
From 40 years ago
Amstrad Action / Issue 1 / October 1985
130 Games Tested in this magazine that launched the Future empire.
#80s #retrogaming
Time now to check out my first look back to the computer magazine covers from October of yesteryear.
06.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
KYTV holding slide
Coming up next on TV in the past - Number 66
BBC2 - KYTV
Tom Cruise will awlays be Top-Gun to me.
From w/c 6 October 1990 : Tom Cruise will always be Top Gun To Me by the woman who really knows him as seen in the TV Times.
#90s
John Lennon who would have been 50 this week.
From w/c 8 October 1990 : John Lennon apppeared on the front of the Radio TImes as Radio 1 remembered his life.
#90s
Clint Eastwood... and his women
From w/c 6 October 1984 : Clint Eastwood appeared on the front of the TV Times.
#80s
Anna Quayle
Remembering the life of Anna Quayle who was born #OnThisDate in 1932. Anna passed away in 2019.
06.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Dave Spikey
A Happy Birthday to Dave Spikey. 74 today!
06.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Melvyn Bragg
A Happy Birthday to Melvyn Bragg. 86 today!
06.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Eileen Derbyshire
A Happy Birthday to Eileen Derbyshire. 94 today
06.10.2025 19:21 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
K9 title
#OnThisDay 1989 : K9 was released in UK cinemas.
Watch the trailer here : youtube.com/watch?v=aUDh...
#80s
BBC One ident / Balllet
#OnThisDay 2006 : The Rhythm and Movement idents on BBC One was used for the final in the early hours of Friday 6 October 2006 before a new set of idents was used later that day.
06.10.2025 19:15 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Clive Anderson All Talk
Clive Anderson
#OnThisDay 1996 : The first Clive Anderson All Talk was broadcast on BBC1.
#90s
Pop Idol title
#OnThisDay 2001 : The first edition of Pop Idol was first broadcast on ITV.
06.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Pob
Pob flob
TV Listing New series for children to watch with their parents. Pob is a magic puppet who lives in the television set. Roy Castle tells a story and has a secret musical present for Pub.
#OnThisDay 1985 : 40 years ago today, Pob was first broadcast on Channel 4.
There was 82 episodes in total.
#80s
The Trap Door title
Berk and Boni
TV Listing The first in a new animation series set in an old forgotten castle in the dark and nasty region where nobody goes. The trap door gives entrance to a foul-smelling pit beneath the castle. Who knows what creatures live there? And what will happen if they escape..?
#OnThisDay 1986 : Trap Door was first broadcast on ITV.
Berk and co were featured in 40 episodes spread over 2 series.
#80s
Hugh Laurie
06.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
£10 you say....
Advertised in October 1983 : Now a ZX81 push-buton keyboard for under £10
#80s #retrogaming
Its basically a bit of plastic :)
Advertised in September 1983 : Put everything you need on the keyboard with a "Custom Keypanel Kit"
#80s #retrogaming
Roy Walker with Catchphrase
Coming up next on TV in the past - Number 65
ITV - Catchphrase
Band Of Gold single
55 years ago on this day in #music the UK #no1 in 1970 was Freda Payne with Band of Gold
Watch the video here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxi...
