We have someone special to thank for this week's #BlastfromthePast blog. You see, there is a quite brilliant Twitter account we started following a few months ago. I don't doubt that some of you readers of this here blog of a certain age may have already heard of it. In a time when intense online campaigning … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: Lolly
It's another televisual legend we bring you for this weekend's #BlastfromthePast, so without further ado, let's begin our story back over two decades ago... As the 80s gave way to the 90s, British children's TV was changing. One of the most prominent new names of the time was Anne Wood. After leaving TV-am on ITV … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: Brum
With TV shows like The X Factor and The Voice now the most commonplace location from which to launch a pop career via a TV show, it's easy to forget that back in the distant past, there was another way. Such was the case for the band we meet on today's DeLorean hop with the … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: North and South
I firstly have to apologise. There's been a distinct lack of #SongoftheWeek, #TweetHeeHee and indeed, any of the regular blog series these last couple of weeks. I can place the blame safely on recovering from this awful virus/cold doing the rounds that I have only just shifted, but which has left me rather low on energy to … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: The Queen’s Nose
A comedic DeLorean hop for this week's #BlastfromthePast this week. In the last two decades, few sketch shows have tickled us quite like Channel 4's Smack the Pony. Arriving on screens in 1999 - a whole eighteen years ago - and picking up an International Emmy award along the way - Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: Smack the Pony
Now here's a blogging DeLorean hop this weekend that will make certain readers - namely around my age - feel old. Can you believe it's 20 years to the week that a certain group of Danish Europop legends topped the charts with an ode to the world's most plastic fantastic doll? The story of Aqua … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: Aqua
Welcome to a suitably spooky DeLorean ride for Halloween on this week's #BlastfromthePast. This week, we hop on our broomsticks to 1986, when the then 11 year old Fairuza Balk (Return to Oz, The Craft) took up the role of one of Britain's best loved witches. Originally airing on ITV in October of that year, The … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: The Worst Witch (1986)
