I often get asked why I go on about sixties jazz so much. This might give you some of the answers...

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If he's nominally a 'villain', why do we all love Loki so much?

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It's always dispiriting to realise how many great American bands of the sixties 'went' 'country' in 1969, after hearing The Notorious Byrd Brothers without apparently understanding a single thing that worked about it.

With people fighting bitterly over #DoctorWho animations, it feels like the opportune moment to link to my own effort again: youtu.be/olSRLj9JBYw?si…

Not On Your Telly - the only* guide to lost, wiped, banned and just plain forgotten television shows you'll ever need! Paperback (10% off code MYLIBRARY10) or Kindle from here.

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* Possibly

But by all means let’s carry on clutching our pearls over a photo of Angela Rayner’s cushion.

Sticker albums, also-ran crisps, cheapo computer games and comics that lasted for about seven issues - they're all in this...

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‘I am a great admirer of the BBC game show You’re Sacked. However I think they spend too much time on pretending it’s not a game show and not enough time on seeing the ventriloquist double act Lord Alan and Ray Charles snoozing under a desk.’

A chat with Ros Ballinger about Microsoft Explorapedia, Henry's Leg, Waiting For Aliens, sneakily reading your dad's humour books and plenty more besides...

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It's out today! Funnily enough i was just in Shakespeare&Company earlier!

Just a polite reminder that 'TV That Time Forgot' is not a personal assault on your own choice of childhood viewing, it's just fun shorthand for anything that isn't really as celebrated by everyone else apart from you as it ought to be. Cheers!

It doesn't exactly show up alongside Mistletoe And Wine, but Max Headroom was once so big that he had his own Christmas Single - and it's every bit as odd as you're thinking...

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TV THAT TIME FORGOT: The Max Headroom Show (Channel 4, 1985-87)

Putative World's First Computer Generated Chat Show Host - Matt Frewer in a sort of rubber wig - links the Sledgehammer video and interviews with Cutting Crew with glitchingly stuttered Reagan-baiting zingers.

NEW! It's 1974, and Jon Pertwee is about to hand over to Tom Baker, but there's still a few grim socio-ecological parables - and a dinosaur going 'KKLAK!' - to deal with first...

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'JIMMIIIIEEEE should have electrocuted the substation, not the other way around'.

I’m left handed and I wear my watch on either hand to confuse columbo should I ever be suspected of murder, don’t we all??

Ask The Family - Robert Robinson-helmed polite and highbrow BBC1 early evening family quiz show with logic bomb questions and close-up photo clues for 'eldest son only' and some of the weirdest music and graphics seen outside of a prog-rock triple album.

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Yes that's the Test Card without The Girl... so where is she??

All is revealed in this, so don't panic. Yet...

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