ALL THE TELEVISUAL MANDELA EFFECTS.

[Inspector Norse]

Pretty sure that there was one episode of Who Do You Think You Are where Stefan Dennis learnt that he was the Fisher King.

[Huxleys Babkins]

All this talk of Neil Innes has reminded me of that episode of The Raggy Dolls where Sad Sack called Princess a useless whore.

[Glebe]

An episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum with a cameo from Gordon Kaye, where he looks directly into camera and says "Ask about the Bran Flakes!"

[Sebastian Cobb]

Phil Drabble falling through the baaa.

[Glebe]

An episode of Men Behaving Badly where Neil Morrissey is cutting a carrot in the kitchen and he accidentally cuts his cock off. There was another one, a feature-length special I think, where after the credits, Martin Clunes reappears and the camera zooms in on his face and he goes "Drink more beer, f*ckheads!" It might have only been on some VHS editions my mate Donald had.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Many of the lost episodes of Doctor Who were actually deleted due to content that fell foul of broadcasting standards at the time. These include Priest of Doom (Hartnell says "wog" seventeen times), The Highlanders (frequent shots of Frazer Hines' willy), and The Exploding Planet (ping pong ball farted at Chumbley from anus).

[Cuellar]

I definitely saw a version of that episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil accidentally gropes that Australian and you can see the Major's face at the window just staring into the camera

???

[Huxleys Babkins]

I definitely saw a version of that episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil accidentally gropes that Australian and you can see the Major's face at the window just staring into the camera

???

Was that the one where Tom Conti played Manuel after Andrew Sachs got food poisoning?

[greenman]

The original broadcast of Blackadder Christmas Carol had a performance of Neneh Cherry's Buffalo Stance including dancing tramps.

Helen Mirren rips Parkys bollocks off and throws them directly at the camera.

[Replies From View]

There was a televised version of Arlie and The Chocolate Factory set beyond Grinstead on C4, where they never got a golden ticket, and instead Slugworth came to the door of that Bucket residence and forced Arlie to transfix upon his grandparents who magically and instantaneously entered a state of quite vivid stop-motion decay.  Whereupon that Arlie boy was promptly set to work emptying the bed of gramparent compost through his tears, while Slugworth bellowed HOLD THEIR CELLS, THEIR LONG-GONE CELLS.  More and more clods of various stinking soils did fill that bed and the task was not light.

Quite a gruelling five-hour watch for a four year old child, but informative.  Only problem came when they tried to adapt Roald Dahl's sequel and they found the stories didn't mesh very well.  They hadn't set up the factory, the elevator or even Wonka himself!  So they made it about that time Alistair Cooke's skeleton was stolen.

[Glebe]

I'm absolutely certain I heard about a lost episode of Bergerac from 1982 entitled 'Good Evening, Mr. Frotsam', where, at the end, Bergerac fails to prevent Charlie Hungerford's remorseful crooked business mate from throwing himself off a cliff at Greve de Lecq. "Don't blame y'self, man!" Charlie tells Jim, putting his cigar into his mouth sadly as the police mill around. Jim marches off, but suddenly we see a familiar figure walking ahead of him. "Worzel! Worzel Gummidge! I've not seen you in years!" The cameoing Pertwee and Jim dance happily off into the sunset to the Gummidge theme!

[Replies From View]

Grassroots folkband The Orange Organics singing There's No Reason Why No No Reason Why at Bandaid.


Also, they had about three goes at a first episode of Brideshead Revisited and then gave up on the enterprise.  The "series" of Brideshead Revisited from 1987 was just that one episode three times and I was only about 7 years old at the time but swear I'm the only one who can remember that in the whole fucking world mate

[Inspector Norse]

Does anyone remember on Sharky and George where there's a guest appearance from Pope John-Paul II as a depressed octopus? Can't find it on Youtube.

[Replies From View]

Since when was it called Downton Abbey and not - as we all remember it from when we were kids - Downtown Abbey?  Mind blown!!

[Glebe]

An episode of Quincy where Jack Klugman starts cracking up laughing while exposing the murder plot at the end, but they just left it in.

[Replies From View]

Does anyone else remember an episode of Columbo where during the trusty "Just One Last Thing" speech the back of his trousers were quite visibly filling up with excrement?

[Glebe]

I have a vague memory of a children's programme that only ran for six episodes on BBC 1 in 1979 called The Boot Polish Brigade. It was recorded before a live audience of screaming kids, and the 'Boot Polish Brigade' of the title were six grubby, aging Salvation Army geezers toting trumpets and tubas and a drum. The theme tune was Jona Lewie's 'Stop the Cavalry', which the band would mime to at the beginning and end of each episode. Each week, they would discover a mysterious object in the studio set 'Sally Army shop', and try to figure out what it was for (a kind of educational element). I think Don Estelle and Clive Dunn were in it. I could have just made it up, though.

[Glebe]

Also an episode of Terry and June where Terry is worrying that he might be becoming an old fuddy duddy and goes out and buys a Howard Jones cassette. I distinctly misrecall him sitting at the kitchen table with it and June saying "Don't be such a twat you cunt!" Me and my mate looked at each other stunned and laughed unbelievingly, whilst my Aunt Jemima (who was babysitting us) was aghast. In retrospect, I think June might have actually said "Don't be such a twit you clot!" if it actually happened at all.

[Cuellar]

The episode of The Brittas Empire where the Major from Fawlty Towers is raw-dogging Mrs. Brittas behind reception and when confronted by Mr. Brittas merely whispers 'oh fuck'

[buttgammon]

Michael Buerk violently sharting during a reconstruction of a cliff rescue in a one-off live special of 999.

[Glebe]

A 1984 Children's ITV mini-series called The Magic of the Flagstones, starring Toyah Willcox (who also sang the whimsical theme tune) as a kind of wood nymph and Tom Baker as 'The Sorcerer'. I remember the end of one episode where Toyah says "But Master, what's to become of the Flagstones?" to which Baker boomingly replies, "Child, this is only a fantasy!" Toyah then turns around and, speaking directly into the camera says "Or are we?" Her voice echoes as she fades away. The series was also serialized as a comic strip in Look-in magazine, if I remember incorrectly.

[non capisco]

What do you remember about the American alien puppet A.L.F? I bet you probably remember that he looked like this.



Yeah, well I don't know where everyone gets that from because this is him here.

[Replies From View]

"He's back!  In podge form!"

[Glebe]

An early-1980's ad for Penguin bars, featuring Ronnie Barker as miserly shopkeep Arwright from Open All Hours. Arkwright takes a Penguin bar from the shop's confectionery display, leans on the counter and bites into it. Suddenly, his eyes widen, and he exclaims, "Pa-pa-pick up a Penguin! Pa-pa-pick up a Penguin!" Silly music plays as he begins to waddle around the shop in speeded-up stop-motion animation.

[Replies From View]

First ever Beatles appearance on Top of the Pops had Donald Sutherland on stage with them singing "Twist and Cunt, Twist and Cunt" with a microphone louder than John's.

[DistressedArea]

Up until Film '83, Barry Normal's reviews covered corporate training videos and pornographs, not just Hollywood movies.

[seepage]

After a demo of VR on the BBC Acorn, Raymond Baxter projectile-vomiting all over Judith Hann.

[Glebe]

The short-lived Barrymore Live! on Sky One, which saw Michael Barrymore interview the likes of Lorraine Chase, Michael Winner and Melvyn Hayes. One memorable encounter involved a communication breakdown with Professor Heinz Wolff!

[Glebe]

As a young child, I was once allowed to stay up after my bedtime and watch vintage James Garner detective series The Rockford Files... for starters, the classic theme tune was gone wonky because the BBC tape was probably warped. Then there was a bit where Jim Rockford invites a woman into his mobile home. She takes her top off and you can see a hint of boob. Then Jim takes out a jar of mayo and says "Let's ease on down baby!" It was very embarrassing and my father had to turn it off before it got too racy.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

That episode of " News At Ten" which ended with Anna Ford saying " Well  that was the news, you cunts". In blackface. With the sound of a worse for wear Reginald Bosanquet vomiting into a galvanised steel bucket in the background. And instead of playing the closing theme, they played the theme from " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".