I actually watched the episode where the dead Bobby Ewing came out of the shower, largely because it was such an impressively mad thing for a soap to do.
Also, I only learned the other day that Man From Atlantis only ran for one series. It felt like it was a permanent fixture, but no, a mere bubble in Patrick Duffy’s career
I remember that TV in thief lane being on all the time. But I can't actually remember anything we watched. That's precisely because it was on all the time. Indeed it's moving wallpaper, but who remembers wallpaper? So thanks for refreshing my memory :).
Mind you, these are the only two programmes I can remember watching. And maybe Going For Gold, which may not get a Metropolitan article devoted to it, although I will no doubt shoehorn in somewhere that the theme was written by Hans Zimmer
Loved this. I had a Twin Peaks Viewing Society. Just replaying the opening credits on your post brought it ALL back. Thankyou! PS I grew up in one of those wierd families without a TV. In London. Parents thought we ought to engage in conversation and the theatre.
Someone dug out a picture of one of the viewing parties we held at Uni - absolutely everyone dressed as Agent Cooper, of course. And no TV! There's posh. We were a standard bourgeois 'no ITV' house, naturally, and Ros' dad worked for the BBC, so she definitely wasn't allowed to watch the competition.
I think J.R. survived. Wasn’t the question “Who shot J.R.?”. But then wasn’t it all dreamt by Bobby? And wasn’t he the Man from Atlantis?
Thanks, Jon - edited the piece now
I actually watched the episode where the dead Bobby Ewing came out of the shower, largely because it was such an impressively mad thing for a soap to do.
Also, I only learned the other day that Man From Atlantis only ran for one series. It felt like it was a permanent fixture, but no, a mere bubble in Patrick Duffy’s career
Oh bum. I even went so far as to look up who *had* shot him (not the Poison Dwarf, apparently) and still managed to type that wrongly.
I remember that TV in thief lane being on all the time. But I can't actually remember anything we watched. That's precisely because it was on all the time. Indeed it's moving wallpaper, but who remembers wallpaper? So thanks for refreshing my memory :).
Mind you, these are the only two programmes I can remember watching. And maybe Going For Gold, which may not get a Metropolitan article devoted to it, although I will no doubt shoehorn in somewhere that the theme was written by Hans Zimmer
Loved this. I had a Twin Peaks Viewing Society. Just replaying the opening credits on your post brought it ALL back. Thankyou! PS I grew up in one of those wierd families without a TV. In London. Parents thought we ought to engage in conversation and the theatre.
Someone dug out a picture of one of the viewing parties we held at Uni - absolutely everyone dressed as Agent Cooper, of course. And no TV! There's posh. We were a standard bourgeois 'no ITV' house, naturally, and Ros' dad worked for the BBC, so she definitely wasn't allowed to watch the competition.
Both of these shows were absolutely instrumental to my teenage identity.
In the case of Big Night Out, really quite remarkably so, given I lost my virginity while the New Year's Eve show played in the background!
I don’t recall that act being on Novelty Island ;)
I wouldn't let it lie!
Well, we now know what’s on the end of the stick
You terrible man, terrible man, terrible, terrible terrible man.