Articles

Mr and Mrs

1970s Daytime Television

Mr and Mrs

Andrew Cobby takes a humorous look at 1970s daytime TV: Crown Court, A Handful of Songs and Nancy Kominski - who wouldn't want to skip school for that?

Murder, She Wrote

Whodunnit?

Murder, She Wrote

Jessica Fletcher will tell you and Andrew Coby will tell you how she dunnit in this affectionate look back at Murder, She Wrote.

Life On Mars TV series UK

In Praise of Life On Mars

Life On Mars TV series UK

In a Sweeney meets Wizard of Oz scenario, twenty-first century detective, DI Sam Tyler, crashes his car and wakes up in the 1970s

Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes - The Finale

Ashes to Ashes

Alex Drake finally discovers why she's been sent back to the Eighties, how it all ties in with Sam Tyler, and exactly who is Gene Hunt. WARNING: SPOILERS

Period Dramas

The Top Ten Period Dramas

Period Dramas

Let’s escape to the sumptuous majesty of period drama, where the clothes were more elaborate, the people more refined, and the drama more quaint.

Cottage-core

How period dramas fuel our obsession with rural English lifestyle

That TV Year 1963

That TV Year - 1963

That TV Year 1963

In spite of all the major domestic news stories of 1963; The Great Train Robbery, The Profumo Affair, everything else was eclipsed by the world shattering events in Dallas Texas on 22nd November.