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2022: A Year in Metropolitan

It’s A Wonderful Script

For Dad

The Box of Delights

A Christmas Carol, five ways

Inspector Morse (1987 - 2000)

King Baby

Agaton Sax and the Scotland Yard Mystery

Good branding

Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain

Striplight Goth

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Hammered

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (2004)

The Secret Nine Point Plan to British Unwitting Gen X Canadians

He didn't do it his way

ER (1994 - 2009)

Reputation Management

1976: The potency of cheap music

The Genesis of the Dads

Mystery Train (1989)

Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan

1976: Pop Muzak

The Spectres of Summer 1984

The Crack-a-Joke Book

Friends

1975: Family Fun

The Who Who Haunted Whomself

Office Space (1999)

Double White Female

Ballet Shoes

Beck and the 1990s Angel Dust Bowl

Top Gun (1986)

The nature of animation

The Terminator (1984)

Irma La Douce wears green stockings

A Wizard of Earthsea

Up in smoke

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Oh! What A Lovely War Games

Wings of Desire (1987)

Things can only get better

Back to the Future (1985)

The Metropolitan #10: Snooker loopy

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

How to get into Hogwarts using a modem

Misunderstanding The Female Eunuch

The Beatle Invasion of Earth

The Metropolitan #5: ‘Ooh, you poor man.’

I know what boys like

Corporate ukulele

‘Nowt We Can Do About It’

Sunday's Child

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