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I was looking through my ever-growing collection of comics, when I came across a copy of The Dandy, issue number 2686, and dated May 15th 1993 at the price of 30p. The copy's your average Dandy, until you get to page 5.. in the comic strip Smitten, a french boy lives in the road of Smitten's crush ...

@jakob1978 yes, that's the one mate! be grand if you could upload screenshots, cause I don't know how the hell to, on here! cheers!

@ alanultron5 yeah, they used to really have it in with long-chinned Jimmy Hill as well (still do to be honest), and other celebrities and famous faces.. too many to mention! :lol: Ah, the great world of Viz! I recall a conversation I had with Jim Whittaker, the editor of Poot, there were many ...

@ stevezodiac Great to hear you've got some footage from the Dandy's 50th birthday. :offtopic1: Tell me, do you know if any of the vhs tapes contain children's programming (early-late 90's) or is it just the 80's?

If they do, let me know, and I'll be interested in taking them off your hands. If not ...

Thats okay anyhow, here are more clips of Zzzap and other kids shows of the 1990's on my YouTube channel if anybody's interested: www.youtube.com/changethewords2

@ Digifiend Cuthbert Lilly and Tricky Dicky were played by the same person, Richard Waites (who was also known as Hamilton Dent in No. 73). They were both in Series 1, and Tricky later got replaced by Daisy Dare. Cuthbert stayed in the programme for all 10 series. The programme ran for 8 years, over ...

I know, surprised how Meridian could get away with that, as Playdays was quite popular around that time!

Thank you very much!

A bit :offtopic2: but hello everybody, I'm a newbie to the forum! Quite a few people I recgonize from The Beano, The Dandy, and the like. Anyhow, going back on-topic, there was a programme you might or might not watched in the 1990's called Zzzap!, made for ITV by Meridian and The Media Merchants ...