The National Health Service (the British public health system) is ferociously savaged in this black comedy set in a rundown, poorly-equipped, under-funded Victorian London hospital filled with wacky staff members and patients. Much of the film concentrates on six patients in…
1 9 7 3 (UK) 7 x 30/40 minute episodes 1 9 7 5 (UK) 4 x 30/40 minute episodes 1 9 7 7 (UK) 6 x 30/40 minute episodes 1 9 8 0 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This spooky Bristol-produced…
1 9 8 3 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes Based on an American show of the same name, this Friday night comedy game show from Tyne Tees for ITV starred Bernie Winters and a cavalcade of comic guests, including Mick…
1 9 8 2 (Ireland/France/UK) 6 x 60 minute episodes Premiering on RTE on 18 November 1982 and on Britain’s Channel 4 on 18 February 1983, this co-production between FR3 France, RTE (Radio Telefis Eireann) Ireland and Channel 4 recounted the…
Inspired by the 1964 Elvis Presley movie Roustabout, two young Irish men – Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and his brother-in-law Arthur (Eamon Morrissey) – build a motorcycle “wall of death” in the middle of a peat bog. For Vinnie, riding the…
1 9 9 1 (USA) 7 x 30 minute episodes Charlie Hoover starred Tim Matheson (best known for his role in Animal House) as the titular character – a 40-year-old born loser who had been working in New York City as an accountant…
1 9 9 7 (Australia) 60 minute episodes Premiering on 5 April 1997, this Saturday kid’s show from Australia’s Channel Nine featured Plucka Duck from Hey Hey It’s Saturday, presenting cartoons, guests and competitions for children. Plucka was assisted by former…
Middle-aged construction worker Donald (stand-up comedian Jackie Vernon in his final movie role) is going hungry because his frumpy stout wife, May (Claire Ginsberg), has decided only to cook gourmet foods – in the world’s most ridiculously huge microwave oven.…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 1 9 7 6 (Australia) Bandstand was the longest-running Australian pop television show of its time, and throughout its fifteen years, it featured the same host (bespectacled Channel Nine newsreader Brian Henderson)…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 1 x 90 minute episode 52 x 20 minute episodes 1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 0 14 x 20 minute episodes A delightful stop-frame animation musical version of…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 9 (USA) 199 x 97 minute episodes Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a long-standing cult-TV favourite from the mind of Joel Hodgson. In the not-too-distant future, Joel Robinson (Hodgson) and his robots (Crow T.…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) The little orange bear with the sooty ears and nose has been a British TV tradition since his TV debut on BBC TV Talent Night in 1952. The Head of BBC Children’s…
1 9 9 2 – 1 9 9 3 (Australia) 40 x 60 minute episodes One of the most successful and funny comedy shows ever produced in Australia, The Late Show marked the re-grouping of the D-Generation, a comedy group from…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 8 0 (UK) 667 x 25/50 minute episodes Watch With Mother – a general title for a series of five individual programmes – was the first planned combination of entertainment and education on British television, specifically…
1 9 9 1 – 1 9 9 9 (UK) 56 x 40 minute episodes When Andrew Marshall’s 2 Point 4 Children first hit British screens it was compared to Roseanne (1988), primarily because of Gary Olsen’s burly build as idle, beer-drinking, lumberjack-shirted Ben Porter.…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 0 (UK) 27 x 30 minute episodes Based loosely on the novel by Richard Gordon, Doctor In The House was the first of a number of ‘Doctor’ series made between 1969 – 1977. Michael Upton,…
Tom Petty formed The Heartbreakers in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. Led by Mike Campbell’s Byrdsian guitar and driving, Stonesy rhythms, the group brought a dash of new wave into the heartland rock of the US. Petty teamed up with…
In the late 80s, Cinderella had triple-platinum hits in the US with their debut album Night Songs (1986) and follow-up, Long Cold Winter (1988). Night Songs was released a year after the Philadelphia group were discovered by Jon Bon Jovi and showcased a…
Blazing a trail of outrage that lifted them from the suffocating obscurity of the downbeat club circuit in Los Angeles and onto the biggest stages in the world, W.A.S.P exploded onto the scene in 1984 when Capitol Records refused to…
Although die-hard fans stuck by Anthrax no matter who their singer was, it is widely agreed among metalheads that the band was at their peak – both artistically and commercially – when Joey Belladonna was fronting the line-up. What set…
Formed by Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield in Los Angeles in 1981 and initially inspired by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), Metallica’s music was built on frenetic guitars cranking one deliciously sleazy riff after another, played at…
Plastic Bertrand was the alias of new wave prankster Roger Allen François Jouret, a native of Belgium who appropriated the sound and style of the new wave movement in order to give it a gently satirical poke in the ribs while scoring…
The birth of the Psychedelic Furs came in 1977 when London art college student Richard Butler grew tired of silk-screening, persuaded his younger brother, Tim, to buy a bass guitar, recruited a couple of pals and spent a year and a…
Birmingham’s Toyah Ann Willcox was born on 18 May 1958. As a professional actress, her film appearances included Jubilee (1978) and Quadrophenia (1979), and she suddenly found parallel success as a highly visual punk/pop singer. Chart success came in 1981 with It’s A Mystery, I…
In 1910, US senator “Pilgrim” Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife return, unannounced, to the frontier town of Shinbone to attend the funeral of rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). A local reporter takes an interest in their arrival, and the…
Some gangsters get their hands on an old WWII German submarine and set out to pirate a luxury liner – the RMS Queen Mary – in this rather unlikely crime caper that fails at many levels. The preparations for the crime…
An excellent cast combined with the provocative idea of witchcraft yields a top-notch thriller under Polish director Roman Polanski’s deft handling in this, his US film debut. Waif-like Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her overly ambitious husband, Guy (John Cassavetes),…
In this sequel to The Silencers (1966), Dean Martin returns as womanising photographer-turned-secret agent Matt Helm to save Washington from dastardly millionaire industrialist Julian Wall (Karl Malden), operating from a secret island base in the French Riviera. This time, Helm fakes…
The Carry On team throw caution to the wind and presents an hour and a half of good, clean lavatorial humour. This was the first sign of impending decline in the series and the major flop during a seemingly indestructible purple…
L.C. Peache (Martin Mull) is a hotel manager who moves to Chicago to take on a prestigious new job at the posh Ambassador East. The problems with his eccentric mother (Ruth Gordon) – who tries to pick up guys in…
This film about an Australian Rules football club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) could easily be about the behind-the-scenes and front-of-house activities of any company, organisation, charity or committee. It shows the way people operate – lying, manipulating, adapting,…
When you mix a left-wing teacher, a loud-mouthed philanderer, a mild-mannered accountant, a failed philosopher, a 19-year-old nymphette, a frustrated wife, a drunken pornographer, a temperamental artist and an arrogant dentist with a lot of booze on election night in…
Although the curry is the national dish of the British these days, back in the 1960s and 1970s when fish & chips was still Britain’s favourite meal, having a curry was the height of culinary daring. It showed you had…
Many of the truly classic games and toys of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s are still around today, albeit in a much-altered form. The ‘modernisation’ process usually means they are flimsier, cheaper to make and mostly made of plastic. Some…
Nothing said ‘mod’ more than the high-standing band collar of the Nehru jacket. The 60’s interest in world affairs and ethnic cultures broadened the horizons of the fashion world, opening the way for the ‘collarless’ jacket worn by Indian prime…
The first Lord John men’s fashion boutique was opened in 1963 at 43 Carnaby Street in London, on the corner of Ganton Street (pictured above) by brothers Warren, Harold and David Gold, who graduated from selling suede jackets from a…
Angel Delight was first released in Britain in 1967 by the Birds Custard company, promising the taste of strawberries and cream from colourful sachets of microdust. By the 1970s, the product had doubled Britain’s instant dessert market. The luminous powder…
Encouraged by the success of Atari, other companies tried dipping their joysticks into the home video game market in 1976. Coleco introduced Telstar Pong, while the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company weighed in with the Fairchild Channel F; the first programmable…
American physicist Professor Julius Sumner Miller was the brilliant and wonderfully mad professor who introduced young Australian television viewers to science with his famous signature question, “Why is it so?” Born in Billerica, Massachusetts, of immigrant small-farming parents, he studied…
Fred Dagg was actually New Zealand-born comedian and political satirist John Clarke, who appeared as Dagg on television always wearing a black singlet and gumboots. Fred Dagg, father of seven sons all called Trev, became a household name in Australia…
January 05 – Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for talks with Truman. 07 – General Dwight D Eisenhower says he will run for US President. 12 – The prototype Vickers Valiant, Britain’s only long-range jet for carrying the atomic bomb, crashes. 13 – The Iranian government…
January 01 – Chinese and North Korean forces advance across the 38th Parallel and through UN lines. 01 – First episode of The Archers is broadcast nationally on the BBC Light Programme. 01 – Bill Byford (Saxon) born. 04 – Communist…
January 01 – Radio Beijing announces that Tibet will shortly be “liberated”. 03 – Wafd Party wins Egyptian elections. 04 – Britain asks the US for a stockpile of atomic bombs. 05 – President Truman rules out military aid to…
January 01 – Britain, Denmark and Ireland join the European Economic Community (the “Common Market”) bringing the total number of member states to nine. 01 – Baseball star Roberto Clemente is killed in a light plane crash off Puerto Rico.…
1 9 8 8 – Current (UK) Exploiting the talents of comedians and comic actors from various generations and backgrounds, Comic Relief has been described as a Children In Need with gags. Inspired by the Live Aid concerts in 1985, Comic Relief started plastering red…
Average Weekly Wage (male): $149.93 Average Weekly Wage (female): $138.71 3-seater sofa and 2 x leather-look armchairs: $259.00 Chrome and Glass Coffee Table (Square): $29.00 62cm Colour TV: $779.00 4-piece stereo system: $599.00 2-door fridge: $499 Electric frypan: $39.95 Toaster: $19.95…
January 01 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the so-called “Velvet Divorce”. 01 – The European single market is created by the European Economic Community (EEC), eliminating trade barriers within the EU. 03 -…
January 02 – Rebels in El Salvador shoot down an American Army helicopter and kill all three crew members. It is believed that two crew members initially survived and were executed on the ground. 08 – Def Leppard guitarist Steve…
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McCallum was known for his roles in films and TV series including The Great Escape, Mosquito Squadron and NCIS.
Tonight's test schedule on NC Radio:
20:00 (GMT)/13:00 (CDT)/05:00 (Sydney) - 1960s Cavalcade (1 hour)
21:00 (GMT)/15:00 (CDT)/06:00 (Sydney) - 1980s Rewind (2 hours)
23.00 (GMT)/17:00 (CDT)/08:00 (Sydney) - Power Pop Hour (1 hour)
00:00 (GMT)/18:00 (CDT)/09:00 (Sydney) - Sunshine Pop (1 hour)
01:00 (GMT)/19:00 (CDT)/10:00 (Sydney) - Aussie Flashback (2 hours)
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The Boy Looked at Johnny - favourite punk rock tracks from the late 70s/early 80s
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Yacht Rock . . . very smooth!
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1980s Rewind
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We're testing the scheduling software today, so coming up on NC Radio tonight:
6.30 pm : 1960s cavalcade
7.30 pm: 1980s Rewind
8.30 pm: The Boy Looked at Johnny - 1970s Punk Rock
9:30 pm: Rad Venture LIVE playing the best of vintage Pub Rock & Powerpop
10.30 pm: Return to the 60s
11.30 pm: 1950s Flashback
01:00 am: Classic Albums - Led Zeppelin IV
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The special scheduled "themed" shows are still few and far between atm (and I'll post them here and on the nostalgiacentral.com page), but there will be *something* nostalgic to listen to any time of the day or night.
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“No one is going in there to make pork chops and applesauce in that kitchen. ” 😆
HGTV sells ‘Brady Bunch’ house for $3.2M — ‘nobody is going to live in it’
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A lovely lady fan has purchased the Studio City, California home that famously served as the exterior for a famed family’s house on “The Brady Bunch.”Sighhhh
I wouldn't.
NC Radio presents "Sunday Night Seventies" at 6:00 pm tonight (GMT). A test broadcast featuring four and a half hours of nostalgia-tastic classics from the 1970s.
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Another one of the 70s British TV greats is gone 🙁
RIP MIke Yarwood.
Mike Yarwood, comedian and impersonator, dies aged 82
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Comedian Mike Yarwood, whose TV impressions made him a household name, dies aged 82.
NC Radio presents "Friday Night Vibes" from 7:00pm (19:00) tonight GMT. A test broadcast featuring two and a half hours of nostalgia-tastic classics from the 1990s.
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