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Tag: Comics on TV
Comics on TV: Dempsey and Makepeace
He's a gruff New York cop, she's a cultured British police officer... together, they're featured in this episode of Comics on TV!
Comics on TV: The Young Ones
Once in every lifetime comes a sitcom like this...
Comics on TV: Call the Midwife
Let's hop in our time-machine and travel back to 1960s Poplar in the east end of London...!
Comics on TV: Dr. Who & The Daleks
OK, so Dr. Who & The Daleks was a movie, not a TV show, but I first saw it on TV so that counts... The movie -- loosely based on the second story of the then-relatively-fresh smash-hit BBC science fiction show -- was released in 1965 and stared Peter Cushing as the title character... a … Continue reading Comics on TV: Dr. Who & The Daleks
Comics on TV: Eastenders
British comics fan Brian Meenan has spotted Arthur Fowler (played by Bill Treacher) reading a copy of Cor!! in a repeat of the BBC soap opera Eastenders... The issue in question is cover-dated 27th April 1974... On his Facebook post, Brian mentions that this episode is the one in which Arthur dies. According to Wikipedia, … Continue reading Comics on TV: Eastenders
Oddities: Goody Goody comic
Long before The Young Ones deigned to (dis)grace the TV airwaves, and longer before I'd even heard of Monty Python's Flying Circus, my comedy heroes were Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor, AKA The Goodies. They were silly, inventive, childish, slightly subversive, much more accessible to younger people like myself, and above all they … Continue reading Oddities: Goody Goody comic
Comics on TV: The Deceived
The Deceived is a four-part contemporary thriller created and written by Lisa McGee (of Derry Girls fame) and Tobias Beer. It's recently finished airing on Virgin Media One here in Ireland, and for me, personally, it was an absolute triumph. Not because of the story or the acting or the scenery or whatever, although there … Continue reading Comics on TV: The Deceived
Comics on TV: Life on Mars
In the 2006 TV show Life on Mars (named after the David Bowie song that was released on the 1971 album Hunky Dory) Manchester-based police officer Sam Tyler is struck by a car and wakes up in the year 1973. He doesn't know whether he's going crazy, in a coma, or has travelled back in … Continue reading Comics on TV: Life on Mars
Comics on TV: Back in Time for the Corner Shop
BBC2's excellent Back in Time for the Corner Shop is a show that sends a modern family "back in time" to run an old-fashioned corner shop, with all the restrictions and rules commensurate to the era, including having to deal with imperial measurement, food-shortages, ration books, pre-decimal currency, etc. It's an extremely engaging show, chiefly … Continue reading Comics on TV: Back in Time for the Corner Shop