I think we've done this before but;

I have mentioned on here before that a friend of mine is sure he saw a feature on 'Nationwide' just prior to 1977 about a plan to carve the Isle of Wight (or maybe Man) in to the shape of the Queen's head and has been desperate in recent decades for someone to confirm that they saw it too.

In the same vein, I once saw a one-off TV play (mid/late eighties I think) based on a true story about a British spy and covert Welsh Nationalist who was involved with the putative plans for a link-up between the IRA, the German Abwehr and Welsh and Scottish nationalists during the war

I really don't remember much about it apart from it being a terrific if bizarre plot and the guy being portayed as (unsurprisingly) a complete fuck-up. Oh, and I remember his line when he was finally arrested was "Don't touch me, I'm special!".

Anyone recall either the play or the person it was based one?

No, but no-one else seems to remember "The Shadoks and the Gibis".

What's the German Abwehr?

Military Intelligence.

Abwehr also translates (and is used) as 'back four'.

I used to have this problem all the time, before the internet arrived.

I used to tell people about a bizarre east European children's programme I remembered, called Oskar, Kina and the Laser. About a boy with a duck and a talking laser. People thought I was crackers.

I remember two BBC 2 specials from the early 90s (I think) that I've never been able to get the names for.

One was set aboard a train full of famous historical characters (poets?) having a chat with someone who may have been Benjamin Zephanaiah.

The other, much more interesting but with a special effects budget so low it looked like it was filmed on a Playschool set, was about Vietnamese women being fitted with vaginal implants that had metal teeth to emasculate any US soldiers trying to rape them - a kind of a vengeance squad.

No, but no-one else seems to remember "The Shadoks and the Gibis".

I do, and so does Mrs Bafflin. Wonderful stuff.

Loads (and loads) of episodes are available online.

I remember watching a programme/film in the early 1980s and it's effect was quite disturbing.

I can only remember three details about it clearly;

1) A lot of it is set in a house.

2) The house is situated next to a lake or river.

3) At one point, blood seeps through a corner of the ceiling in the front room of the house.

I've asked everyone and no-one remembers it.

this is a rather banal i suppose but I seem to remember a nike advert starring paul scholes that aired on the night england got knocked out of a big tournament, possibly euro 2000. it was kind of low key and sad and had an 'always next time' sort of message to it. i only saw it once and can't see any mention of it anywhere but i would feel better if someone could confirm that i didnt just dream the whole thing

Kowalski, it sounds like this:
http://www.hammerhouseofhorrortvseries.co.uk/hhbled2.html

from October 1980

mafu wrote:

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this is a rather banal i suppose but I seem to remember a nike advert starring paul scholes that aired on the night england got knocked out of a big tournament, possibly euro 2000. it was kind of low key and sad and had an 'always next time' sort of message to it. i only saw it once and can't see any mention of it anywhere but i would feel better if someone could confirm that i didnt just dream the whole thing

If Scholes spoke in it you may have dreamt the whole thing.

There was an anti-smoking advert in the 80s which I'd begun to imagine I must have imagined, cause no one else knew what I was on about when I mentioned it. But then a friend started talking about the advert last week out of the blue, so I know I'm not nuts.

It explained how the human body would have to evolve if it was going to be able to cope with smoking, and culminated in the actual Smoking Man of the Future being presented: a green, emaciated goblin-like creature with a mouth like a ringpiece belching smoke toward the screen.

Absolutely fucking terrifiying, it was. Put me off smoking so badly that I didn't start until I was 14 years old.

Huge <applause> for Not Me, there.

I, too, remember that ad. Didn't the goblin-thing go on to appear in the film version of 'Sin City'?

Bafflin Smoke Signals wrote:

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No, but no-one else seems to remember "The Shadoks and the Gibis".

I do, and so does Mrs Bafflin. Wonderful stuff.

Loads (and loads) of episodes are available online.

Fantastic! Thanks.