Xanderl

Xanderl

@xanderl.bsky.social

Failed the audition for Blockbusters and still bitter about it. Mostly ranting about films, old TV, Top of the Pops and The Archers. Nearly halfway through the Crossroads box set!

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The only GP in the UK who hunts people down for impromptu appointments rather than making them all go via the online portal #TheArchers

Fun fact ... they used Jose Feliciano in the original stage production of Abigail's Party. Changed to Demis Roussos for the TV version for music rights reasons. Now that line is so famous that they use Demis in the stage version too #totp

I can find literally nothing on the interwebs about Glamourpuss other than a reference on a forum to them being a band made up of 5 Beauty Queens #totp

First UK single release for "Back in the U.S.S.R", released to tie in with the "Rock & Roll Music" compilation #totp

It was the 20th anniversary of Love Me Do (originally released October 5, 1962) if you're wondering why The Beatles were in the charts #totp

CEF was run by Mary Field, who went on to run the CFF which was set up in 1951 by a consortium of British Film Producers as Rank couldn't afford to bear the cost of CEF alone.

Somewhere in Birmingham, the #TheArchers archivist takes a blank index card and writes on it Mr Nicholson: - Doesn't own a ladder ... and consigns it to the archives.

Having belatedly caught up .. so Vince seems to have been saved thanks to the wedding tractor he was critical of Freddie getting excited about having sourced #thearchers

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HOLY COW!! A picture of the original Alvin Stardust has surfaced. I never thought I'd see the day.

Michael Daly@michaeldaly64.bsky.social

31/3/1973. "Alvin Stardust" appears on "Lift Off With Ayesha" singing "My Coo Ca Choo". Peter Shelley, who wrote & produced the song, was "Alvin". Shelley realised that it wasn't working, & advertised for a new "Alvin". Step forward 60s crooner Shane Fenton, AKA Bernard Jewry

Insurance assessor: “So Miss Horribin. You claim your first set of hairdressing equipment was stolen from a horse box. Then some weeks later your replacement equipment was lost when it was in a car belonging to an abattoir owner which was crushed by a tree” #thearchers

Didn’t manage to listen live but thankfully did get the little monster to sleep by 9 so I could catch up! #thearchers

Xanderl@xanderl.bsky.social

On babysitting duty tonight so I’m trying to decide if it’s ok to make my 5 year old nephew listen to #thearchers so I can hear the outcome of the gruesome Vince / Chelsea accident live

On babysitting duty tonight so I’m trying to decide if it’s ok to make my 5 year old nephew listen to #thearchers so I can hear the outcome of the gruesome Vince / Chelsea accident live

I bet Helen manages to make Vince and/or Chelsea getting killed during Pip and Stella's wedding all about Helen #TheArchers