ALL THE TELEVISUAL MANDELA EFFECTS.

[Glebe]

The little-seen real last episode of Boon which featured Lovejoy's Dudley Sutton as guest-star. At the very end of the episode,  Michael Elphick says "Where now, mate?" To which Sutton replies, "Onward, brave Elphick!" Elphick smiles into camera as they ride off into the sunset.

And as a bonus Mandela, the show was replaced the following week by the rarely seen 'original' pilot for Heartbeat, in which Paul Maynard's Greengrass is surprisingly wearing a purple hat!

[Glebe]

The classic '80s Kia Ora ad, but with Time Bandits' David Rappaport's face up in the corner of the screen and he says "We all adore a Kia Ora!"

[Glebe]

Another Quincy one... during the credits, when the theme tune goes into the Dixieland jazz bit, there was one where we see Quincy playing trumpet... alongside Roy Castle!

[DistressedArea]

Pebble Mill's recurring feature in the early eighties giving handy tips on how to conduct behind-the-lines guerrilla operations in the event of a Soviet invasion.  Can clearly remember Hugh Scully from antiques roadshow showing viewers how to booby trap a porcelain tea set.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

I distinctly recall watching 'One Man and His Dog' some time in the late 80s and there was a collie-dog standing on two legs wearing tweed plus-fours, whistling at a naked farmer who was down on all fours chasing sheep into a pen.  And despite all my Freedom of Information requests, the dissembling BBC still deny this ever happened.

[Glebe]

An episode of Hi-De-Hi where Maplins is turned into a nudist camp for the day, and the whole staff are asked to go starkers. "I'm only doing it to show willing!" says Spike. "I don't fancy seeing your willing!" cracks Ted. This joke was cut from the VHS release and then the whole episode was banned for good if it even happened.

[Glebe]

An episode of Friends where Chandler drops the American football he is playing with and says "Fuck." It cuts very quickly, but you can see Phoebe looking shocked and horrified behind a curtain.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Who else remembers that episode of Five Children and It where the Psammead confides in Cyril that he'd stabbed a Gypsy to death and buried him in the sand dunes?

[DistressedArea]

That episode of the nine o'clock news where they showed all the news a day early.

[Glebe]

That Milky Way ad with the cartoon cars but the song goes "Fuck them cars and fuck that Milky Way!"

[seepage]

That episode of the nine o'clock news where they showed all the news a day early.

I told mrs seepage there is a Channel 4 -1, and she spent a good 5 minutes looking for it.

[Huxleys Babkins]

That episode of GamesMaster where Patrick Moore called an 11 year old boy a "dismal little fucker" when giving out the level select code for Sonic 2.

[Glebe]

An episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson where guest Steve Martin starts having a wank. There were boos and cries of "Your career is over buddy!" but Martin just kept on pumpin'. Of course it couldn't have really happened... could it?

A The South Bank Show where Jonathan Meades express his love of geek culture to Melvyn Bragg. "I love popping into Forbidden Planet of a Friday and buying a load of manga and a 100 quid Hellboy statuette."

[Huxleys Babkins]

Back in the analogue days we had what was known as "channel crash" where, under stormy weather conditions, the signals for two nearby stations would get mixed up and shows would effectively merge. Victor Meldrew once turned up in a cell on Taggart and Maggie Philbin could be seen wandering aimlessly around the Rovers Return. And who can forget a confused Magnus Magnusson interviewing Robin Cook on Channel 4 News?

But the most famous channel crash was that fateful Saturday night when Noel's House Party and You Bet! collided. For 90 fateful seconds Leslie Crowther and Noel Edmonds mutated into one hideous being. Those that saw it jammed the switchboards to complain. One poor lad with severe learning difficulties committed suicide after viewing the abomination.

As a result of that channel crash both men were so badly affected that a confused Crowther would fall asleep at the wheel of his car, leading to a near fatal accident. However, worse was to come for Edmonds; the Saturday Roadshow star was so badly disoriented that he accidentally opened a handful of shit theme parks.

[DistressedArea]

A lot of people are getting into Last of the Summer Wine at the moment, but everyone seems to have forgotten the early series with 4 protagonists: Compo, Cleg, Foggy and Glom, the enchanted scarecrow.   

[DistressedArea]

Back in the analogue days we had what was known as "channel crash" where, under stormy weather conditions, the signals for two nearby stations would get mixed up and shows would effectively merge. Victor Meldrew once turned up in a cell on Taggart and Maggie Philbin could be seen wandering aimlessly around the Rovers Return. And who can forget a confused Magnus Magnusson interviewing Robin Cook on Channel 4 News?

But the most famous channel crash was that fateful Saturday night when Noel's House Party and You Bet! collided. For 90 fateful seconds Leslie Crowther and Noel Edmonds mutated into one hideous being. Those that saw it jammed the switchboards to complain. One poor lad with severe learning difficulties committed suicide after viewing the abomination.

As a result of that channel crash both men were so badly affected that a confused Crowther would fall asleep at the wheel of his car, leading to a near fatal accident. However, worse was to come for Edmonds; the Saturday Roadshow star was so badly disoriented that he accidentally opened a handful of shit theme parks.

Yes, I clearly remember this!  Didn't happen often, but it definitely happened.  I remember watching Frank Bruno being menaced by a Tripod.

[bgmnts]

Smurfette had a back street abortion in one Smurfs episode.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Am I the only person who remembers that episode of " Mock The Week" in which all of the panellists outright refused to answer any of the questions put by Dara O 'Brian, and just commented on his resemblance to Grimly Feendish? The episode climaxed with both panels chanting " GRIMLY! GRIMLY! GRIMLY!" and pointing at poor ol'Dara, who was in tears at that point.They were all in blackface and all.

[Glebe]

Yes, I clearly remember this!  Didn't happen often, but it definitely happened.  I remember watching Frank Bruno being menaced by a Tripod.

I remember it too. Max Headroom got mixed up with Anna Ford during a live news broadcast, then Ronnie Barker's Arwright got trapped in Headroom's computerized room going, "Re-rerecord, not fade away! Re-rerecord, not fade away!"

[Glebe]

Fighting Fantasy co-creator Steve Jackson's appearance on Going Live! Phillip Schofield asks him, "So how do you play these choosing-your-own-adventures books?", causing Jackson to roll his eyes and shake his head. But did it happen? YOU decide!

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

I always thought it was Wurzel Gummidge but apparently not! Spelled with an O.

There's some version of Ninja Turtles, or maybe a few episodes of the first cartoon, where there's a yellow one and a pink one instead of a blue one and a purple one. Googling only brings up spoof versions but I could swear I remember yellow, pink, red and orange being the bandanna colours in some episodes.

I was sure there was an episode of 'Allo 'Allo where Gruber and René kiss for about a minute but no. They just shove things down each other's pants.

[Glebe]

There was actually one last Last of the Summer Wine special after the 'official' last episode. In it, Brian Murphy's character gets an iPhone, and he searches for George & Mildred on IMDb to look up any interesting trivia about it.

[petril]

There was actually one last Last of the Summer Wine special after the 'official' last episode. In it, Brian Murphy's character gets an iPhone, and he searches for George & Mildred on IMDb to look up any interesting trivia about it.

that's a common misconception, it was Wizadora he looked up

[thecuriousorange]

Remember that year when instead of the Queen's Speech they accidentally showed the porn film "Animal Farm"? My cousin's English teacher played part of it to his class by accident too.

[Glebe]

My mate John says he saw version of Robocop on ITV in the '90s with a new scene where Robocop fights a giant dinosaur.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

Why does no-one else remember the episode of 'Last of the Summer Wine' where a big snowfall in the Dales inspires the lads to rig up a makeshift ski tow using Nora Batty's washing line and an old tractor engine?  Compo proves to be surprisingly adept at ski-jumping, until it gets out of hand and he soars right over the roof of the pub while trying to upstage Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards (making a cameo appearance).

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

Does anyone else remember an episode of Poirot where Poirot keeps hinting to Hastings to join him in bed but Hastings is thick and doesn't get it?

[DistressedArea]

Remember the episode of one man and his dog that had two men?

[Glebe]

Remember the episode of one man and his dog that had two men?

And six dogs!

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

That episode of "The Black and White Minstrel Show" where no-one was in blackface.
(Although they did do a song in yellowface titled "Fuck Those Chinkies". Eric Idle later adapted it, and modified the title and lyrics for a latter day Monty Python song.)