Comics on TV

[Niblet]

Only Fools and Horses episode entitled The Russians Are Coming (first broadcast 13 October 1981) - I think that's a Dandy at bottom left.

[stevezodiac]

I took possession of my mum's no longer needed VHS player today as I have hundreds of tapes I want to go through before I junk them - I'm going to get one of those converter leads so I can copy anything I want to keep onto my laptop and then onto disc. Have already found a 9 O'clock News item on the Dandy's 50th birthday which showed Ken Harrison drawing Desperate Dan, also Michael Aspel interviewing Clint Eastwood. But I also caught an advert for Toppas (shredded wheat minis with sugar topping) and the husband was reading the Beano - it was priced 22p so anyone know the year? I also have some 60s Hannah Barbera videos like Pixie & Dixie and Snagglepuss I want to copy.

[Digifiend]

The 22p Beano would be from 1988 or 1989.

[Nuttyman]

@ stevezodiac Great to hear you've got some footage from the Dandy's 50th birthday. 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, then I wouldn't mind taking the Dandy and Beano tapes off you, if you would be willing to let them go. I would be willing to pay

[stevezodiac]

I don't remember taping any 80s or 90s children's shows as I preferred 60s stuff. Most of the recordings are feature films and 60s tv shows plus some music videos. I did record Small Wonder which was a US sitcom about a couple who had a robot daughter. As I said I will attempt to transfer the vhs to dvd so can make as many copies as I like. Another interesting thing is the adverts - I saw one yesterday where Danny Baker was doing the DAZ doorstep challenge. I have a fondness for Danny as he grew up down the road from me and was a friend of my mates - also he supports Millwall.

[alanultron5]

IIIII used to have a few `Viz` comics and they really had it in for Danny Baker! Wasn't sure why- maybe it was a North/South thing?

[Nuttyman]

@ 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! Ah, the great world of Viz! I recall a conversation I had with Jim Whittaker, the editor of Poot, there were many "adult-based comics like Viz and Poot" like Smut, Oink (okay, that was a kid's comic), and several others! Let us move slightly from the convo which I kinda started.. well, defo started, one item of interest was a Only Fools and Horses episode I watched the other day on BBC 1, and Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) had, yep you guessed it, a comic.. but it was a IPC comic. I knew because of the pages colours, whereas DC Thomson weren't colour (only 4 pages) til 1987/1988. In the case of The Beezer and Topper, 1990. Now I can't remember what the episode was called, however it contained Del Boy and Uncle Albert trying to get Rodney a date for a disco! Hilarious!

[jakob1978]

@ 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! Ah, the great world of Viz! I recall a conversation I had with Jim Whittaker, the editor of Poot, there were many "adult-based comics like Viz and Poot" like Smut, Oink (okay, that was a kid's comic), and several others! Let us move slightly from the convo which I kinda started.. well, defo started, one item of interest was a Only Fools and Horses episode I watched the other day on BBC 1, and Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) had, yep you guessed it, a comic.. but it was a IPC comic. I knew because of the pages colours, whereas DC Thomson weren't colour (only 4 pages) til 1987/1988. In the case of The Beezer and Topper, 1990. Now I can't remember what the episode was called, however it contained Del Boy and Uncle Albert trying to get Rodney a date for a disco! Hilarious!

I think that episode sounds like "Watching the Girls Go By" where Rodney has a bet about his girlfriend and so Del Boy sets him up with someone (who turns out to be a stripper with a snake).

I'll check the episode out later, see if i can get screenshots

[Nuttyman]

@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!

[jakob1978]

@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!

had a quick fastforward through it and didn't spot him reading a comic..i'll have a proper look later on

[Jay]

I was watching a teaser for an upcoming Doctor Who episode called The God Complex when Look-In and the top bit of Jackie rolled into view. There was a 3rd comic/magazine but I have no idea what it was.

[Raven]

Not a comic; a women's mag like Woman's Own, maybe?

[David McDonald]

A few months back the Irish independant gave away for a week and copy of the Beano and Dandy, and i think copies of the Bunty. A quick google reveald this article, i got the Beano and Dandy http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/jus ... 87997.html

David

[Digifiend]

11 months ago to be exact. But this probably wasn't the right thread to mention that, it's nothing to do with TV.

[stevezodiac]

That other magazine is The Isle of Arran Shoemaker's Monthly.