John GrindrodIt’s #Drabvent, day 1. This year it’s going to be very different, higher budget, more spectacular. From Money Go Round, 1977
Welcome to day 2 of #Drabvent. Here’s Newsround explaining the allure of fast food in 1981
#Drabvent day 3: choose your ITV or BBC TV lounge for the day, on a holiday camp at Hayling Island on Wish You Were Here, 1974
Day 5 of #Drabvent. It’s 1976 with that typical mode of transport: showgirls dragging a bloke on a sled across the Birmingham NEC car park
It’s #Drabvent day 6 so here’s some urgent business news from 1979
#Drabvent day 8. It’s 1977 and all the young people are going wild at a Sex Pistols gig
#Drabvent Day 9. 1977 was the year Star Wars was released.
It’s #Drabvent day 10, with some Datsun car bonnet glamour
Nothing says #Drabvent day 11 like that 1974 #CoronationStreet Christmas where Albert Tatlock and Ena Sharples approached pulling a cracker as a great Cold War stand off
It’s #Drabvent day 12 - and now from Norwich it’s the quiz of the week… A bumper crop of prizes from The Sale of the Century
Day 13 of #Drabvent. If Hewlett Packard made reindeer
#Drabvent day 14 shows us the joy and liberation Green Shield Stamps can bring
Day 15 of #Drabvent. Seconds later Elon Musk bought this futuristic contraption and sacked the inventors
#drabvent day 16 brings us the Generation Game conveyor belt from 1974
#drabvent day 17 shows the care with which quality products were treated in 1974
Day 18 reminds us that #Drabvent isn’t the only gripping countdown available
Day 19 of #Drabvent features the most festive of all foods
It’s #Drabvent day 20 and the Crossroads milkman is here
The 21st day of #drabvent is also the winter #dullstice. There is only one traditional way to mark the day
On the 22nd day of #Drabvent a fibreglass potato has difficulty cutting the ribbon to open Southampton’s Spud-U-Like, 1982
On the 23rd day of #Drabvent it’s 1984 and an advanced compuder helps a professor draw a beaudiful cat
It’s the final day of #Drabvent and we end it in traditional fashion, with the good folk of Look North in 1981 inhabiting our nightmares forever and ever and ever
Russell Garner
Internets Dairy@Grindrod In the rest of the clip, he draws a speech bubble and types in it, "I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER?"
@internetsdairy You’ve seen it!
Carol D@Grindrod Or Spud-U-Tolerate as it was known by some.
Webber
The edge of Iain - nanananana@Grindrod crikey, that takes me back. Telly brought in on a trolley to watch something that had been produced 10-20 years earlier…
@Grindrod Didn't know you could milk a friar.
@internetsdairy don’t ask don’t tell
Joe Higham@Grindrod Brilliant, I often think of that gameshow.
Philip Downer@Grindrod The young Toby Jones considers his options.
katrinanavickas@Grindrod they were all probably 50 years old.
@katrinanavickas If that. This clip makes me so anxious
Chris Hearn
Krizanovich@Grindrod this reminds me of when I used to write the Agony Aunt answers on Teletext all those years ago. I answered every darned question and there were hundreds every week 🤔 😂
@krizanovich oh my god, I used to read those! A heroic feat and one that surely deserves a medal from Bamber Boozle
@Grindrod I never thought anyone read them. But then I was told by one of the editors that they were super popular. I remember answering 90 in one day. All real answers - I didn't make one of them up!
@Grindrod Aww, shucks, thanks. I hope they were amusing or at least NOT boring.
@krizanovich Always hilarious, you could never be boring
@Grindrod That's very kind, thank you. (I bore myself regularly)
@krizanovich Talking about how funny your writing is was one of the first conversations I ever had with my partner
@Grindrod I hope one of you disagreed!