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TOTP Rewind – the 90s…the epilogue
*In the voice of Ron Manager* “Ah the 90s. What a decade! Marvellous wasn’t it? Britpop! Blur! Oasis! Boybands! Girl Power! Cool Britannia wasn’t it? Eh?” Actually, as I’ve discovered by reviewing every 90s TOTP repeat broadcast by BBC4, it wasn’t all that. I mean, yes it was all those things but the nostalgia I…
TOTP 1999 – the epilogue
As with seemingly every year, 1999 brought us the usual bad news stories – war and conflict, earthquakes, political turmoil etc but let’s not dwell on all that – the state of the world is shocking enough in 2026 without reminding ourselves that it was ever thus. In popular culture, the Pokémon phenomenon took over…
TOTP 17 DEC 1999
So here it is…no, not Merry Christmas – though we are nearly there in these 1999 repeats – but my final review of a TOTP show. Yes, after nine and a half years of writing this blog, I’ve finally arrived at my last episode. Not my last post mind – I’ll still have a couple…
TOTP Rewind - the 90s 