Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 27/12/2025@illarterate.bsky.social from the Russian 2X2 network with a "retro" teletext ident. Note the palm tree on the right! 121
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I love the fact there was a reference to this in David Tennant-era Doctor Who. The Doctor asks why Sarah Jane didn't try to repair K-9 and she replies: "It's not like getting parts for a Mini Metro!" 130
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 26/10/2025It's starting to spark all sorts of memories now! I think I might have a clip of it with Robert Llewellyn and Craig Charles on the end of a VHS tape of Red Dwarf somewhere. I remember kids kicking "the watcher" and thinking bloody hell, if that CRT pops when it's powered up 😱 010
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 26/10/2025I loved that show! I only fairly recently learned that The Little Green Man was played by Laurence Harvey i.e. Human Centipede 2 protagonist and Jago from Knicker Knock Box! 110
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Had to put this on the Blyth Electricity Board page recently. 010
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 11/10/2025I wonder if it'll have you going "Ha-ha this a-way..." 000
Reposted by Wayne Dearden Sean Reynard / Quentin Smirhes @seanreynard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Jago singing on Beatclub mit @laurencerharvey.bsky.social 0103
Reposted by Wayne Dearden Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 01/10/2025Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵 13430181225
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I think "nicotine yellow" is the official shade! 010
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Can't help reading this in Father Dougal's voice. 020
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Well that's the last time I buy Vans trainers. Only had these since May this year, been wearing Vans for nearly 25 years. 020
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I wonder how many people sing the theme tune when going to Santa Pod Raceway in Podington?! I did, every single time. 010
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Can't remember. I never watched Neighbours so it would make sense that I saw it before it started! 000
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Same here. In fact mine was a Vanden Plas! Got it as payment for fitting a CD changer into a Jag (this was 1996) 100
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Ey, ey, d'ya remember books? D'ya remember milk tokens? D'ya remember Austin Allegros? 100
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Every time Neighbours finished: "Fast, Fast, Forward, Forward, Forward, Forward..." 110
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Rediffusion you say? I may have heard of such a thing...! 010
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 05/09/2025'Free spectacular entertainment' which seems to be Lady Penelope, Rab C. Nesbitt in a clown costume and Bob Carolgees. That DOES sound entertaining to be fair! From Channel 4 Oracle 1990. 021
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 03/09/2025This is immediately followed by a spoof Ceefax in-vision of what was going to be "people at it" 😁 020
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Random thing, I used to work with a bloke who swears he saw Roy Castle in a "blue movie in the cinema" back in the day. 000
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 02/09/2025For years I thought it looked more like the "Kings" in the Atari 2600 game Warlords 000
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Yeah, it's from a VHS tape from 1989. The programme itself is very 1970s though! 010
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I only worked out fairly recently what the Tyne Tees one is supposed to be! I was so used to the Tyne Tees logo being yellow on a blue background it didn't occur to me that they'd used the 1988 blue on yellow background. 100
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 01/09/2025One scene I particularly remember was him dressing up as a woman with a knotted plastic bag for boobs to escape some woman's husband. In typical sitcom rule, another man finds him attractive and ends up popping one of his boobs. 000
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 01/09/2025There was actually a couple more in the carousel but Bluesky only allows 4 images 000
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 01/09/2025It's Rumbelows summer sale! ITV Oracle Tyne Tees July 1985 152
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Never had a problem with our actual Time PC but I remember the monitor making a very loud bang and smoke pouring out and Time refusing to believe it was the monitor at fault until I'd "tried it with another PC" took about a month to get a new monitor. 100
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Ceefax 1988. Unfortunately the rest of the carousel was pretty much unreadable but I thought this picture was worth uploading. 0112
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Did anyone get an Oracle index card back in the day when they bought/rented a teletext TV? From Channel 4 1988. 020
Reposted by Wayne Dearden Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 27/08/2025It took an Irish journalist, Claire Byrne, to hand Farage’s arse to him on a plate. Depressing not to see more of this in British broadcasting. Anyway, enjoy how the big mouth has nothing to say for once after she plays him some very embarrassing footage… 10772225
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 27/08/2025ITV Oracle November 1988 and a couple of things from Rumbelows. My Mother bought a TV with this 4+4 cover and by the end of the first four years they were unable to fix a persistent standby fault, which a 14 year old me managed to fix and get another 7 years out of the TV... 021
Reposted by Wayne Dearden Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 26/08/2025For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again. 584148503158
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Teletext VHS recovery from Channel 4 December 1985. I'd never heard of Focus TV and Video Centres before, they were a north west thing, Manchester etc and nothing to do with Focus TV Rental in Scotland. In case you're wondering: £7.95 = £24.67 today £13.95 = £43.29 today 020
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 25/08/2025From ITV Tyne Tees July 1985; The new Ferguson TX90 that is not only a TV but has RGB and composite video inputs, ideal for your ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64! 062
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Seeing as everyone seems to like old electrical retailer teletext pages, here's Comet's offering from Channel 4, 1997. 091
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Notice the page numbers in the middle top of the page are "1FD" and "1FE" with a normal TV remote control you would only be able to input 0-9 so possibly stores had a hexadecimal remote or it may have just been accessed via a Fasttext link from a certain page. 010
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Quite possibly, there's LOTS of ads generally for Rumbelows! 000
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Let's have another from Currys, this time from July 1985. 062
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 22/08/2025It's not 1979 or 1984 as it has Fasttext. Also the Currys logo is the 1988-2008 version. I know it's definitely from 1990 as there are promotions for the forthcoming Italia 1990 World Cup on the tape. 010
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I used to have a woodgrain Grundig too! It's since gone on to do bigger and better things... 011
Wayne Dearden @megawayned.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Today's teletext recovery highlights, secret Ceefax pages for Currys and Dixons. I'm intrigued by the "World of Teletext showcard" 3165
