Remember when practical gadgets were advertised on TV and only available in certain stores. Usually a 'bargain' price. These goods ...

Woodsy, you have mentioned a couple of times not being familiar with the US detective series Simon and Simon.  Here is a short video looking...

 There appears to be two types of Christmas TV ads from the big UK supermarkets this year, kind-hearted and mean spirited. My favourite so f...

 As recommended by Bill, I watched the first half of the new Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein on TV. And wow! What a treat for the eyes...

I never had a telly in my bedroom.  None of my friends did in the late Sixties/ Seventies. Up till 1970 our family TV was black and white. A...

 What can I say about Alien Earth, the new TV series on Disney+? Superlatives don't really cover it. Think supremely fantastic and cring...

Biddy Baxter I  saw on the news that Biddy Baxter has sadly passed away. It was the first time I recall seeing what she looked like but I re...

TV update: Westworld: I finished it, sort of. Seasons 1 and 2 were amazing. Alas, they left the park in 3 and 4 and it just couldn't hol...

 I came across this old paperback from the mid-Seventies. Here Comes Mumfie? On TV? It's a complete mystery to me. Never heard of it, ne...

 Now, I just don't recall Simon and Simon on TV but I would have loved those walkie talkies!  "Simon, it's Simon. Over!" H...

Today was mentioned the old British TV Series Emergency Ward 10. This is not a show I recall, and I do not know if it ever made it to NZ, bu...

Tufty and Zoo Quest! Remember them? I recall the Tufty Club but what was it? 

  Now obscure TV shows came and went. For instance I remember Street Hawk and Manimal but this Automan passed me completely by. He did get h...

Adam Adamant Lives did not screen in NZ, and I had never seen it. However it was often referred to, and seemed to be well regarded. It was a...

Thinking it was sci-fi I began watching a US series called Zero Day on Netflix. It wasn't sci-fi but apocalyptic enough for me to carry ...

I've been thinking about this. It's not an easy question. It changes as I consider it, as my memory revs up.  One day it's Thund...

I love miniature toy TV's. I always have and had lots of different types as a nipper in the Sixties: viewmaster types, which you clicked...

 I adored my Corgi Lincoln Continental die-cast as a kid in the 60's. Everything about it was just the best. The atom symbol on the rear...

 Further TV watching this last week: X-Files: me and Missus are ploughing on with our big watch; all of the X-Files episodes, one or two a n...

The High Chaparral was an American Western TV series. It ran for four seasons (1967-71), and 98 episodes. Big John Cannon has just bought a ...