You couldn't do that nowadays...

 

No-one thinks about the down-side of Flat Screen TV's.  

We used to have this marvellous platform for decorations, cards, fish-tanks and beer cans. We've lost that now.

"Thank You, Technology!"

Bonus - 

A Hielan' Coo

 

How Odd.

Bonus - RIP Ozzy. 

Paranoid 

Behind the scenes of "The Stirling Seven"

 

Few people remember the children's book series "The Stirling Seven", and even fewer will recall the BBC TV series of the same name. The novels were written by Ewan McTeagle, as a rival to the successful Enid Blyton serieses, and as an attempt to dispel the stench of failure associated with his Poetry for Money output.  Strangely, the "Stirling" part of the name was never explained, and the series was set in Cambuskenneth.

Here, we have a backstage snap, featuring (from the left) Maggie, Kevin, Holly. Wilbur, S*mbo the Dog, Freddy and Mr Fordyce the Cat.  Yes, they were different times, and pet-names were, umm, odd.

Bonus - Speaking of cats. George The Cat and the US Navy. 

Look. David's On The Telly

 

Tho' to be honest, it's a small tourist repro of Michelangelo's statue of David in Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze. (Florence).

Actually on the TV screen is what seems like an advert for a MIL Marquis Farm Tractor Front Loader.  My all-time third favourite tractor front-loader attachment.

Bonus - 

The World Series of Snowball Fights 1975

 

No info on this slide, other than the date of 1975.

However, the presence of TV cameras from Japan (NHK), America (ABC) and the Canadian mounties makes it very easy to conclude that this is The World Series of Snowball Fights 1975.   The rioting after the event has wisely been forgotten by history.

Bonus - THE ELEPHANT WHO COULD BE A PERSON

Meet The Svensons

Ahead of next weeks series opener on BBC 5, here's the first image of the cast of "Meet The Svensons". The sitcom features the comedy situations of the Svenson family, who are mysteriously transported from 1963 Minnesota to 2019 Sheffield..  Hilarious event result.

Pa Svenson (Gary Mortenson)
Ma Svenson (Alison Venton)
Olaf Svenson (Will Garcia)
"Killer" (voiced by Peter Serafinowicz)

Bonus -

Massive Television

In these days of every bedroom having a 43-inch plasma screen television, it's nice to be reminded of the times when a 24-inch CRT TV was the height of technology. And yet, people still disguised them as a cupboard or sideboard.

Weird.



Bonus - Treehouse of Horror XXIV - How many film references ????