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Phil Norman

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There's no need to get all plums and prisms.

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Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 22h ago

The label for rap pioneer Spoonie Gee's 1979 classic Spoonin' Rap. (Of "You say one for the treble/Two for the time" fame.) Note the pressing plant have misheard the artist's name and assumed it's the same as in the song title. Though I prefer to think they've confused him with Dustin Gee.

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Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 3d ago

I turn on the TV and it's showing The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, a Play for Today I've been watching all my life. Experiencing severe flashbacks to at least three different screenings by three different media production lecturers in three different institutions.

Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 6d ago

What famous actor do you stubbornly continue to associate with a minor role they did years ago before they made it big? Whenever I see Sally Hawkins I always think "Oh, it's the original Ping off Ed Reardon's Week!"

Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 7d ago

"The director general of the BBC - pay attention, Everett - the director general of the BBC was left disappointed after cancelling the old Wogan show. He'd only saved enough money... for a blank!"

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Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · last wk.

Watching the Goodies' final BBC series. Maybe not their very best, but the one I recall most vividly from its original broadcast. (Word for word in some cases, even though I can only have seen it once prior to the DVD release.) Still love Graeme's Willy Rushton Double Decker ad parody.

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Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · last wk.

Bill Oddie had a wider range of musical influences than your average children's TV theme composer. You wouldn't get this with Edmonds. Or indeed Tarrant. (And correct me if I'm wrong, but won't all the instruments on Bill's version be played by either him or Dave MacRae?)

Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · last wk.

Looking forward to the inevitable follow-up articles: That bloke outside the newsagent was looking at me funny again. This weather's not doing my hip any favours. Went down Tilbury car boot on Saturday. Nothing. Complete waste of time.

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Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 2w ago

In 1984 a wine bar was a grim place where men with rolled up jacket sleeves tried to impress Rosalyn Landor with talk about "shipments from Geneva". By 1992 it was a grim place with blacked-out windows and a toothless gak dealer. Does that mean they were quite nice for about two weeks in 1989?

Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 2w ago

1977: Play School joins Doctor Who, Blankety Blank and other programmes with a crucial piece of mechanical scenery that causes inter-departmental arguments over whose job it is to make it go.

Clock this! -UNFORTUNATELY I tend to miss the BBCs Playschool, through having to go . to work, so I am not very well versed in the details of its famous clock. But it is sad to hear that the various mechanical figures who cluster at its base are going to be immobilised next week as the result of an inter-union dispute. The , problem? Everyone wants to press the button which whirrs into life the little bunnies and gnomes, or whatever else the designers have chosen for each episode. As far as the electricians are concerned, the job is an electrical one ; bat the people who handle the scenery con-sider it a matter of mops. Once we get cable television, the children may be able to sort all this out by voting electronically for the button pressing union of their choice: 'Neon svh i le, mums and dads had better prepare answers to the questions : " What's an eeptu, Mummy ? And what's a nattke ? "
Phil Norman@mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Apparently the new game show based on Top Trumps will be "funnier than the original card game". I don't know, though, even Peter Cook would struggle to top "Number of cylinders: six".