006 - THE GOOD COMPANIONS

Jaffa Cakes For Proust returns in a new, fortnightly series – first up, Gary and Tilt discuss Alan Plater’s TV adaptation of JB Priestley’s The Good Companions.

005 - HAUNTOLOGY VS. MILLENNIAL NOSTALGIA

Mooncat, Ocho and Gee Baker discuss televisual nostalgia through the prism of PIFs, Picture Box and Pippin the dog.

004 - BRUCE FORSYTH'S BIG NIGHT AND THE GENERATION GAME

Jaffa Cakes For Proust gets the network together as we look back on the BBC's Generation Game and Bruce Forsyth's later vehicle for ITV.

BRUCE FORSYTH'S BIG NIGHT (SHOW #1)

1978, LWT (for ITV)

The first edition of the mish-mashiest, random hotch-potch of Saturday night television in history!

003 - A BUNCH OF BRITISH B MOVIES

Mooncat and Ocho take a trip to the local Roxy for three British B movies from the 1950s.

TELLY SAVALAS LOOKS AT PORTSMOUTH

1981, HAROLD BAIM PRODUCTIONS

Harold Baim's 1981 film shown in cinemas at the time to promote tourism in Portsmouth.

TELLY SAVALAS LOOKS AT BIRMINGHAM

1981, HAROLD BAIM PRODUCTIONS

TELLY SAVALAS LOOKS AT ABERDEEN

1981, HAROLD BAIM PRODUCTIONS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 Telly Savalas and the Quota Quickies Saturday 26th April, 10:30, BBC Radio 4 In the 1970s, Birmingham attempted to reinvent itself as a city of the future - and recruited Telly Savalas to voice the narrative. A world of multi-storey car parks, concrete shopping centres and motorways...

002 - LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION IN 1968

PRE-LAUNCH SPECIAL - NUTS AND OTHER ELUSIVE MEMORIES

A show too short to be declared the first proper podcast from Jaffa Cakes, but too relevant not to be recorded.

THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT (1987)

NUTS (1982)

Trond Kirkvaag, Knut Lystad og Lars Mjøen Montreux 1982
On a late-November evening in 1987, two Chicago television stations were victims of a broadcast signal intrusion. After a brief intrusion during the sports report on WGN's 9:00 news, a later broadcast on channel 11 - PBS affiliate: WTTW - of the Doctor Who episode "Horror of Fang Rock" was interrupted by a man wearing a Max Headroom mask.

THE UPPER HAND: "QUANTUM LEAP" (Series 6, Episode 12)

Series 6 (6 Jan 95 - 8 Apr 95) Charlie starts to wonder how he life might have turned out if he had not had his accident and had gone on to be a millionaire footballer. "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Series 6 (6 Jan 95 - 8 Apr 95) Charlie starts to wonder how he life might have turned out if he had not had his accident and had gone on to be a millionaire footballer. "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

THE PAUL SQUIRES SHOW PROMO (1981)

 
"It's a show within a show that wouldn't be a show without... er... show... hang on..." An advert for The Paul Squires Show. Which wasn't very good. But hey. It's a very "ITV In 1981" promotional trail, this.
 

A CHRISTMAS PILOT

An extra gift under the tree as Mooncat and Ocho present the pilot of Jaffa Cakes For Proust, discussing all things non-sitcom beginning with A Christmas Carol.

AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS CAROL (1979)

3-2-1: "CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (DICKENS)" (1979)

Starring Ted Rogers & Dusty Bin with Jenny Layland, Mireille Allonville, Annie St. John, Karen Palmer, Patsy Ann Scott, Chris Emmett, Mike Newman. Guest Stars - Bill Maynard, Terry Scott, Wilfrid Brambell, The Krankies, Carmel McSharry, Felix Bowness & The Ramblers. Series 2 - Edition 11 Transmitted - 25th December 1979.
In an American town, an old miser full of bitterness is given a ghostly chance at redemption on Christmas Eve. Starring Henry Winkler, Dorian Harewood, David Wayne and others.

THE LITTLE CONVICT (1979)

THE CHRISTMAS MARTIAN (1971)

The Christmas Martian
In old New South Wales a new bunch of convicts arrives including the little convict, young Toby Nelson. Consigned to a Government farm they are subjected to the cruelty of Sergeant Billy Langdon and Corporal Weazel Wesley. Toby escapes and flees into the Australian bush where he is saved from death by the aboriginal boy, Wahroonga.

MR KRUEGER'S CHRISTMAS (1980)

ZIGGY'S GIFT (1982)

Ziggy gets a job to be a street Santa on Christmas Eve from a crooked boss, but the magic of the season allows the lovable loser to do more good than anyone expects. (1982)
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EBENEZER (1998)

 
 
A Wild West retelling of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol," with Scrooge as a land baron, gunfighter, and card cheat who is visited by three spirits who attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.