Reposted by Simon CowardWorld of Telly @world-of-telly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The video version of our latest episode about Threads is now on YouTube. You can also watch it ad-free via our free to join Patreon. Please like, subscribe and share this video if you enjoy it. youtu.be/pFPP6FjpGOIyoutu.beWorld of Telly Episode 23: ThreadsYouTube video by World of Telly 2167
Reposted by Simon CowardGail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk 7221140
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earliest I've found in Radio Times is as the number for a phone-in part of 'Midweek' with Ludovic Kennedy, and that's on 30 January 1973. The programme's phone-in segment pre-dated that by at least a couple of months but I can't see an earlier number in RT, though it may have been given out on air. 121
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Plenty in both will be going to the cemetery gates. 010
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Getting home has proved more difficult than usual but the moquette on this bus is fancier than average. 020
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026But did they also want to "Shag, shag, shag some more"? 011
Reposted by Simon CowardGail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 24/09/2026A tumbleweed is rolling through my online shop today. I create colourful prints, cards, homewares and T-shirts inspired by architecture, music and mid-century design. Please have a look at my shop and repost to help spread the word. Thanks! gailmyerscough.co.uk 571105
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm not convinced this was a positive step, and I'm not at all sure it was really any business of the ITA forcing this upon the companies. It's mildly interesting that the advertisement refers to the new magazine as 'TV Times' whereas from the beginning, in the mag itself, it was always 'TVTimes'. 010
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I can't criticise: it was only because this afternoon I was talking to someone about it that I discovered that it had made it that far. 020
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Have they announced it's stopped / stopping? Last one was 28 Up in 2021: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/m00104mygenome.ch.bbc.co.uk 120
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I can only look at Canadian newspapers, not listings magazines, but I haven't found anything there. There is one British ante-dated reference, though. In 1962, the Norwich Evening News reports that in an episode of "Dial Rix", "they take a sideways look at certain television advertising magazines." 000
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026On radio, "You and Yours" uses it for a short while in 1972 but I can't find it on TV listings until Jimmy Tarbuck "takes a sideways look at London" in his 1974 ATV series. It's finally front and centre when it's used as the title of a 1977 BBC radio series presented by Anthony Smith. 100
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I wonder where it originated. In UK broadcast listings, "Braden's Week" seems to be the first to use it, in late 1968. It's quickly adopted for a segment of BBC radio's "Home This Afternoon" but for television listings no-one else seems to touch it while Bernie's still going. 100
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"As revealed by the company’s store locator, a listing has popped up for ‘Retro Birmingham’ on 89-90 Bull Street". It's not on there now, just shows the site as 'Birmingham'. 89-90 Bull Street is the address in the city at which CeX have been trading for the last 12+ years. 020
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm not sure they were laughing at that but they were mocked. My own mockery came from the ludicrous situation of them being unskippable on legitimately-bought DVDs but nowhere to be seen on the pirate downloads the ads were warning about. Penalise the good guys, that's bound to generate goodwill. 010
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Certainly non-traditional if the plans are correct: there seems to be no way in or out of Bedrooms 1 and 2, except to and from their ensuites (and a dressing room, in the case of #1). 180
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I should add that this isn't just a biographical note. In the one episode I've seen of the series, Goodall spends some time in the flat at the start of the episode, including working at a desk in it, before his investigations take him out and about. 020
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 28/08/2026He may perhaps have used a hotel from time to time, if his work took him some distance from where he lived, but his home base was a "richly, heftily furnished Eastbourne flat" according to TVTimes. 220
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This was on mine, number 1 in the Disc, Melody Maker, New Musical Express and Record Mirror charts (no Record Retailer chart back then). 000
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 22/08/2026But do they mean poor reception on the part of the viewers or on the part of the reviewers? I can well imagine that many of those responsible for reviewing television programmes for the newspapers would have been among the first to get colour television, so it may have affected their opinions. 100
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The fact that Rex didn't mention it did make me wonder if Brian was misremembering and I did challenge him on it when I was editing his book. But I couldn't shake him on that particular fact, so we left it in although Brian hadn't remembered Bond's involvement but he added that following my query. 110
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Ah, yes, I can well understand why he would be familiar with it. Tinker Tailor is also mentioned briefly in Brian Tesler's autobiography. The only thing it adds, so far as I can see, is the suggestion that Le Carre had a go at adapting it himself first, before Julian Bond attempted it. 121
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I'm glad you've seen that and I'm pleased it was useful. I was getting ready to extract the relevant pages but clearly there's no need. 110
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I don't know whether it would be of use but have you ever read what Rex Firkin had to say on the matter in his autobiography? 130
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I'm guessing that most of you having a good laugh and ridiculing the emergency alert don't live in the West Midlands and Staffordshire. 020
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It's bizarre that Jones Clocks don't do the happy face thing on their analogue clocks but do set the right time on their Visor LED Alarm Clock packaging, even though those displays are digital. 000
Reposted by Simon CowardLew Stringer @lewstringer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The strip that inspired me as a kid. THE COLLECTED CLOAK is available to order now from your nearest comic shop! All of Mike Higgs' brilliant 1960s Cloak strips in one big hardback, plus extras. Over 230 pages. Give your comic shop the code AUG262180 so they'll know to order it. 091
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"And I once saw the Palace score four goals away from home". #preposteroustales #i,ludicrous 000
Reposted by Simon CowardJon Dies At The End @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Insanely excited to tell you that @worldoftelly.bsky.social and I will be hosting a 50th anniversary celebration of one of TV’s most unique dramas, Philip Martin’s Gangsters, on 8 November with some amazing guests. Part of this year’s Square Eyes TV Festival in (where else?) Birmingham. Do come!macbirmingham.co.uk50 Years Of Gangsters + Q&A | Mac BirminghamGangsters was a TV drama like no other. Burrowing into the dark underbelly of the Birmingham crime scene, it mixed Shakespearian soliloquy with comic strip 35629
Reposted by Simon CowardEddie Robson will be at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026(HANCOCK emerges from shop) HANCOCK: There, that told 'em. I won't stand for this sort of indignity! BILL: They're gonna stop using your book to prop open the window? HANCOCK: No, but they're going to turn it the right way up. 0398
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 03/08/2026No need to wait until autumn. It's back next week, slightly earlier (9.30), following a regular 1977 edition of Mastermind. 010
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Yes, at least he's not credited as the computer voice but he is credited as 'Scientist at Computer'. 010
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 29/07/2026There's almost too many! I'm gathering them slowly, concentrating first on the scripts for the missing TV serials. 000
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The only radio Paul Temple that's missing, so far as I can see, is Paul Temple and the Front Page Men. I think all the other serials and plays are there including both serial and single versions of Send and News, and both Send Again and its remake Alex. 100
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The phrasing is a little misleading, maybe. The play is given a cover feature but it's a more generic photo, unrelated to the scene he describes. 110
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I'll believe it when I see it, but... The Mask of the Clown The Odd Man A Man of Our Times (with scripts and/or detailed synopses for the missing ones) The Misfit The film episodes of Strangers in HD 000
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I know it wouldn't have been accessible to everyone but there were plenty of repeats on UKGold between 1994 and early 2000. 010
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A fake Loudbasket? The cheeky so-and-so. All together: one Loudbasket, there's only one Loudbasket. One Lo-ud-bas-ket. There's only one Lo-ud-bas-ket. Et cetera. 110
Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If I search for your name I get similar info, but slightly different phrasing. One phrase is "Live in south London with hubby and trans teen daughter." If I search for that in Google it brings up a shed load of BlueSky hits, all different people plus same refs to sci-fi + genealogy. Weird. Worrying. 100
