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We must be about the same age. I adored Tom Baker Doctor Who, Goodies, Monkey, Blake's 7. Also loved: Kenny Everett Video Show, The Curiosity Show. A friend wh

We must be about the same age. I adored Tom Baker Doctor Who, Goodies, Monkey, Blake's 7. Also loved: Kenny Everett Video Show, The Curiosity Show. A friend who lived in Newcastle went to the corner store to buy rubber bands while watching The Curiosity Show. The bewildered shopkeeper asked why so many kids were coming to buy rubber bands at that moment. What a heart-warming story, I never knew if anyone else watched it. Recently rewatched Blake's 7, the SO loved it. I mentioned that to a friend in Bulgaria, she said "What?? Blake's 7?? We used to play Blake's 7 in the street when I was a kid. Guess who I was? Gan haha" "We saw very little American TV." Weird, I watched an awful lot of terrible US series that I'm too ashamed to list. With ads! Moonlighting was about the only really good one.

cletus 4y ago
Oh I'd forgotten about Kenny Everett. What a trip. My early years I spent in a rural year where we only had one channel: the state broadcaster. That's why we saw American TV rarely. By the teen years it was different: we got a second channel! With ads. Actually we had some of that when visiting family in a large city (with 3 then 4 channels!). The A-Team, Different Strokes, Cheers, the Dukes of Hazzard, Family Ties, LA Law (which was dope), The Wonder Years, the list goes on.
- smackeyacky 4y ago
  There is plenty of Kenny Everett on Youtube. It's not as funny as I remember but it's worth revisiting if you skip the music (which makes the original show about 10 minutes long in total).