PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI's TOP TEN BRITISH CHILDREN'S TV SHOWS.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 2nd 2025.This week our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, returns to present yet another of his Top Ten choices, which this time is his choice of his all time favourite British Children’s Television shows.As with his other Top Ten selections, I think that you might be a little bit surprised by several of PAUL’s choices, and, of course, there is a vast archive of quality options that have to be left out when you’re making a list like this, and several forgotten classics often pop into the mind almost as soon as you’ve finished speaking.As ever, PAUL’s Top Ten choices, might set you thinking about what your own favourites might be, and whether you might want to share them with the wider VISION ON SOUND community. As always, if you would like to appear on the show and share your own Top Ten choices about anything Archive TV related, feel free to let me know via the usual Social Media outlets, and we might be able make it happen some day.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 258 - TX OCTOBER 26 2025
WARREN CUMMINGS takes us on a journey into some Action TV.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 26th 2025.This week we welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS who initially joined me for a bit of a random TV viewing catch up. We start out talking briefly about our recent viewing choices of shows like THE SECRET AGENT, TAKING OVER THE ASYLUM, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and M*A*S*H, but our conversation then takes a sudden sharp handbrake turn as we find ourselves talking at some length about the more action-orientated TV shows, prompted by mentions of THE EQUALIZER, THE PROFESSIONALS and CALLAN: THE MOVIE, amongst others, and we end up giving some serious consideration to the wisdom or otherwise of portraying vigilantism as entertainment.I sometimes think that VISION ON SOUND works extremely well when we take a random route to a totally unexpected subject after being prompted by this simple idea we once had of talking about archive TV, and I hope you will enjoy the next hour as much as we did.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 257 - TX OCTOBER 19 2025
STEVE HATCHER reveals more of his eclectic television playlist.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 19th 2025.This week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER once again to continue our series of conversations about some of his eclectic television viewing choices.Steve has a life long love of television and – like many archive TV fans - is always adding to the mix that makes up his own personal TV schedule based around some of the archive channels, things he finds on the Tube that is You, and his own extensive DVD and Blu-Ray collection which means that he is constantly exploring the fascinating and more obscure corners of the television archives and finding new and often forgotten series to talk to us about.This week he will mostly be introducing us to several sitcoms, some of which you will have heard of, a couple of which you may actually remember watching, but nevertheless all of them are largely forgotten by the viewing public at large.So over the course of this week’s show we have a natter that includes the GEOFFREY PALMER-led Channel Four series FAIRLY SECRET ARMY, a kind of not really spinoff from THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN written by David Nobbs; we’ll blow the dust of the once hugely popular ITV hit that was THE ARTHUR HAYNES SHOW, and we’ll also take a peek at the BBC 2 delight that was HOW DO YOU WANT ME? which featured DYLAN MORAN alongside FRANK FINLAY and two actors who left us far too soon, CHARLOTTE COLEMAN and EMMA CHAMBERS.And just to keep things balanced towards the broader and perhaps more dramatic regions of the television spectrum, we will also touch upon the 1960s BBC drama anthology series DETECTIVE which ran for three series across five years in the latter part of the 1960s and, across its 45 episodes, introduced a whole range of detectives to the viewing audience, many of which were neither SHERLOCK HOLMES nor MAIGRET, despite the programmes often being introduced on screen by RUPERT DAVIES himself.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 256 - TX OCTOBER 12 2025
MICHAEL HERBERT talks about DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 12th 2025.This week we welcome back MICHAEL HERBERT whose popular recent biography of the television writer MALCOLM HULKE “THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM” has been released into the world for about six months now, but it is still available via Lulu Books.MICHAEL hasn’t lost interest in the life and work of MALCOLM HULKE yet, however, and earlier in the year he suggested that we might talk specifically about one of his DOCTOR WHO stories for today’s episode, in a conversation which we recorded on the 22nd of JULY 2025. So, over the course of the next hour, we will mostly be talking about a seven-part story from the very first colour series which had the title DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS and which was first broadcast in 1970, and starred JON PERTWEE, CAROLINE JOHN, and NICHOLAS COURTNEY.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 255 - TX OCTOBER 5 2025
NICK GOODMAN revisits the television year of 1975.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 5th 2025.This week we’re welcoming a new voice to VISION ON SOUND, NICK GOODMAN, and he’s here to talk about the television of 1975, and the effect it had on making him the archive television fan he is today.So I hope you enjoy what you hear as we end up chatting about THE GOODIES, THE CHANGES, THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, DOCTOR WHO, SPACE: 1999, although, let’s be honest, I DIDN’T KNOW YOU CARED…PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
ADVENTURES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY TELEVISION... AND BEYOND...!Where the television of the past… …becomes the conversation of the present.Join us as we take a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and my guests and I investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.
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