Remembered by All - Jimmy James' Box Sketch
Andrew Cobby remembers an all-time classic music-hall sketch that shows no sign of dating.
Continue ReadingAndrew Cobby remembers an all-time classic music-hall sketch that shows no sign of dating.
Continue Reading"Flirtatious by nature, she was all woman and she knew it."
Continue ReadingAnother delve into daytime television in which Andrew Cobby looks at art programmes and asks - whatever happened to art for art's sake?
Continue ReadingAndrew Cobby looks back at the golden age of snooker on the box.
Continue ReadingFor 30 years ITV's principal sports presenter and football commentator, to a generation of fans, there was "only one Brian Moore!"
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Going...going...but not gone! There's a plethora of antique shows on television these days and they don't look like going anywhere soon. Andrew Coby bangs his critical gavel over the best buys and the bargain basement productions.
Continue ReadingHow television funded the world's greatest theme park
Continue ReadingThe History of Doctor Who in Print 1963 – 2005
Continue ReadingHow the Daily Express junior newspaper, designed to build a loyalty among young readers who would then stay with the newspaper through adulthood, grew into one of the most superior children's comics of the 1950s and early 60s.
Continue ReadingEvery TV show where The Beatles appeared on British screens from 1962 to 1970.
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