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Curious British Telly @curiousbritishtelly.co.uk · 25/06/2026

New article is 5 Out-of-Reach British TV Programmes I’ve Never Seen. Many of these programmes only ever aired once and, somehow, escaped being preserved on home recordings. I may never get to see them.

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5 Out-of-Reach British TV Programmes I’ve Never Seen

Five elusive TV programmes I may never actually get to see

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Theatre Goer @theatre-goer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Cooper and Lambert have been assigned. Back to the cafe with a couple of classics and one I’m not sure if I saw.👍🏿 A great overview and reminder to rewatch even more stuff. The pile totters. Happy Day.👏🏿 🧟‍♂️ 🚸📺 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's a YoLD bonus mini-edition covering those ten weeks in 1976 everyone's been banging on about this week. What were we watching? Drama in which nothing happens, cartoons in which everything happens, monumentally inane competitions and a touch of rabies. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...

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Heatwave Summer Special: 23rd June – 27th August, 1976

“Soon they will kill all the sheep, wander away and live in little holes.”

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

☀️ Ray's headed out to the beach on his trike to catch some rays, and as that's over 100 miles away we're taking a little minibreak until his return. Remember to unplug your aerial if it starts thundering, or to be extra safe nip out and take it down. ☀️

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Late to the party but this is good stuff. Nice to see Death is a Good Living covered as it's a gem of a series, and thanks to Una I now know that Michael Powell directed episodes of Espionage which will encourage me to dig out the DVD set. Well worth a listen.

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Iconically brandishing there a classic Woods Ware Iris cup and saucer, the official crockery of @cathoderays.bsky.social , Ivy's of Holmfirth, a community centre in Ashes to Ashes and many many more.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Celebrating Sue Townsend's wit and observational genius creating #AdrianMole, it's also important to remember her passionate campaigning against poverty - as Roy Hattersley did with this lovely response to an article she wrote (which is quoted in its replies).

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

With a gap in the 2026 Christmas schedule for a returning children's favourite, how about a tender for plague victim prankster Nobody, a sepia psycho ghost girl, or a Happy Day of layline-fuelled psychosis?

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?! 💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

'Terrifying Children?' menu with title cards from the shows

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Do CRT TV programmes contain more terrifying children than TV terrifies? Hannah and Pete have been very brave for tackling some of this week's shows.

This week's specials: Terrifying Children? Sapphire & Steel, Nobody's House and Children of the Stones.

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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My absolute favourite campus-life drama. It is simultaneously spot on as to what it's like to work at a university and utterly, utterly bonkers. Also, I've been on committees with all these characters.

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David G-P @davidjgp1983.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Saved this for the drive home!

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We challenged ourselves to give a taste of three espionage shows in about an hour, and it was a blast! As a complete newbie there was so much to take in. Head to @cathoderays.bsky.social ...but watch your back 🥷

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I listened to this earlier today and I thought it was brilliant. Three series I’ve never seen (including one I’d never heard of) but now I really want to watch them all.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I massively enjoyed doing this: watched episodes of shows I’d never seen before. Plus bonus Michael Powell content!

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers. 🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 ⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

Title card: Plotters, Pen Pushers & Pensions

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What's that? You want MORE Leonard Rossiter than this? As you've probably never seen him before?

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We're entering a suspicious world for our next episode... Here's what's coming up on Ray's specials board this week!

Ray's Cafe. This week's specials: Plotters, Pen Pushers & Pensions. The Sandbaggers, Death is a Good Living, and Espionage. A HPTV Production from the Midlands.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

When you're encouraged to use AI creating an upcoming presentation at work...

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We're not sure We love you ...is a lyric so deftly ambiguous and unsettling, it should've been a huge hit single! We'd love to know if a full-length version was ever recorded? Elkie Brooks absolutely takes you there. #AVeryPeculiarPractice youtu.be/04qsAE5ZuX8?...

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We can neither confirm nor deny Ray’s influence on broadcasting decisions, but our latest episode has obviously gone down well.

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

And just like that, A Very Peculiar Practice pulls up on the iplayer - the power of Catastrophe Theory?

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One of us was influenced by the music of Goodnight Sweetheart…

Your first song on Spotify was… Love is the Sweetest Thing by Al Bowlly.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Had enough of this malarkey? Need a fresh start? Dive with us into 70s suburban rebirth, twisted 80s academia and 40s/90s blitz hopping! via #ReginaldPerrin #AVeryPeculiarPractice & #GoodnightSweetheart 🥸 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🩺 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 💣 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This coming week we're looking at characters who have all decided on a fresh start, somewhere else, perhaps as someone else... Here's what's on the Cathode Ray's specials board.

Ray's Cafe specials board for My Strange New Life with title sequence screenshots for The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Goodnight Sweetheart, and A Very Peculiar Practice.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

When #TheTripods series 1 finale rewarded our patience with the coolest TV laser battle of the 80s

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LL CLIFF J @badgermanbadger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Listened to this. Then I watched a show, and bought a novelisation of a missing show. So I guess I liked it!

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Theatre Goer @theatre-goer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

At the Cafe with dystopian themes amongst the pastries and drink.👍🏿 Add a great trio looking at a terrific trio. I had hopes for The Tripods back in the day. At least I can try the books or listen to the score(s).🤔 Some rewatching to add to the tottering viewing pile of goodies. Fab listen.👏🏿 🚀📺 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In The Machine Stops, Out of the Unknown shows us a world where people can circumnavigate the globe in a couple of hours, but find it a rather tiresome bother.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Southern always seemed a bit glamorous from up here in Central. Telly from places you go to on holiday!

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Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Really enjoyed this. Well worth tuning into this if you like stuff I like. Nice, friendly presenters who discuss their choices with insight and clarity. Like being in a room with jolly enthusiasts telling you interesting stuff. Great subject matter too.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Machines have taken over! But Conrad Westmaas @hairofthehound.bsky.social has joined the fightback at Ray's Café, as we dive into #AForAndromeda, #TheTripods and #TheMachineStops from #OutOfTheUnknown. 🌌 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🧢 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🛑 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Tomorrow the café welcomes our first guest to the Cathode Ray's Podcast! Here's what's coming up on the specials board this week.

Ray’s Cafe menu for Rage Against the Machine with The Tripods, A for Andromeda and Out of the Unknown’s The Machine Stops.

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Trap One🎙Podcast @trapone.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast @drwhonovels.bsky.social, @melvinpena.bsky.social, @jeffgoddard.bsky.social & @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social celebrate The Rescue’s vinyl release with a look at this classic story: Apple: tinyurl.com/mtuxw9cb Spotify: tinyurl.com/yt3jp86h Podbean: tinyurl.com/ery97zar

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Finalising tomorrow's episode with a sprinkling of dialogue clips, it's remarkable what was acceptable in the 80s...

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Your intrepid podcast team go to the greatest lengths to capture cathode rays for Ray.

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Amazing that our comparison of #schooluniform policy at Grange Hill vs Adrian Mole's Neil Armstrong Comp vs Press Gang's Norbridge High has now been followed by publication of a new government report into the issue. Just wait until next Tuesday's episode drops... 🤖

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

ICYMI We opened Cathode Ray's this week! Thanks to everyone who’s joined us for a cuppa. Our first episode digs into teenage kicks, comparing #PressGang, #AdrianMole and #GrangeHill. Available everywhere now! ☕Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🍰Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🍫YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

Teenage Kicks: title cards for The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾, Grange Hill, Press Gang

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Toasting our first pod cast and full of future plans, cheers everybody! 🍻

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Visitors to Ray’s listen at their own risk and we cannot be held responsible for causing your DVD pile to grow, or your bank account to empty.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

As mentioned in our chat about Grange Hill’s (lack of) smokers, actual proof of Nick O’Teen!

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Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Taking credit for @cathoderays.bsky.social summoning this up. What will we enable the TV universe to bring back next…?

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

*gasp* Have I summoned this via @cathoderays.bsky.social ?!

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Were you a field trip arsonist, a naive intellectual snob, or a quipsome clever clogs? For me Adrian Mole is the most realistic depiction of adolescence because he's so completely normal... right?

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Welcome to Cathode Ray's, the café where the tea is piping hot and the drama's 4:3. Our first episode digs into teenage kicks, comparing #PressGang, #AdrianMole, and #GrangeHill. Available everywhere now! ☕ Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🍰 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🍫 YouTube tinyurl.com/mre46fm3

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