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My Favourite TV Shows – 1980s – Pt 4

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Not much here. I must have been out a lot during the eighties. Black Adder Brideshead Revisited Cheers China Beach Hill Street Blues L.A. Law Red Dwarf Roseanne Thirtysomething Wonder Years The Young Ones Were there really only eleven decent shows on in the 1980s? I challenge you to add any others to the list!

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My Favourite TV Shows – 1970s – Pt 3

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More favourites. Jeez, what happened? The list is getting shorter than the previous two decades. I think I need a transporter to beam me up to the 2000’s. All In The Family Are You Being Served? Baretta Barney Miller Benson Bob Newhart Show Columbo Fawlty Towers Flip Wilson Show Happy Days The Invisible Man Kojak […]

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My Favourite TV Shows – 1960s – Pt 2

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Are you old enough to remember these? 12 O’Clock High Adam 12 Addams Family Andy Griffith Show Batman Ben Casey Benny Hill Show The Beverly Hillbillies Bewitched The Big Valley Branded Bugs Bunny Show Burke’s Law Car 54 Where Are You Carol Burnett Show Combat

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My Favourite TV Shows – 1950’s – Pt 1

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I may be carbon dating myself but here goes – my favourite 1950’s television shows. Off the top of my head (where else?) 77 Sunset Strip Adventures In Paradise Adventures Of Superman Adventures of William Tell Bat Masterson Bonanza Broken Arrow Burns And Allen Show Cheyenne Circus Boy Cisco Kid

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Roy Boy

My memoir about growing up in the working class slum of Fitzroy during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Sandringham Sabres – The First 25 Years – 1974-99

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Books I’ve Read

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Beau Geste
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Beau Geste
by P.C. Wren
Jaws
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Jaws
by Peter Benchley
Fahrenheit 451
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
5 of 5 stars
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
by Alex Kershaw

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