TFTM Gold: The 50 Greatest British Moments - Part 3
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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(Rec: 25/12/20) 30-21… dominos, corpse-boozing, stadium-soiling, the Clough clump, a dead sheep, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:04.1 | Here we go. |
| 0:08.1 | Here we go. Here we go. |
| 0:10.2 | Here we go. Here we go. This is Top Fly Time Machine. I'm Andy Lawson. |
| 0:16.1 | Pa-Pap-Pow. I'm Sam Delane. Say what? |
| 0:19.2 | It's part three of our 50 Greatest British Moment series |
| 0:22.2 | to keep you amused over Christmas 2020 |
| 0:24.4 | at the end of a horrific year. |
| 0:26.5 | We are, on episode three, we are getting to the mid-range section. |
| 0:32.0 | It's number 30 down and number 21. |
| 0:34.4 | Here we go, number 30, Sam. |
| 0:36.9 | Any time there was a domino toppling world record attempt on record breakers. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.6 | Any time. You can merge them all into one. They were all fantastic. |
| 0:47.1 | Invariably, for reasons, I can't quite fathom out. |
| 0:50.3 | They seem to always take place in the Netherlands. |
| 0:53.9 | That's as I remember it anyway. I could be wrong. The Dutch is a perfect thing because it's very flat. It's very flat. Exactly. That's why. That's why. That's why they're a nation of dominoes, you know. But, um, I mean, these things would take months to set up. and the cameras were there for the setup as well as for the event itself. |
| 1:14.8 | So you would see, it would be like a mini documentary before you saw the toppling |
| 1:19.4 | and it would say like a day 17, a tragedy overnight. |
| 1:24.6 | A mouse has entered the building and knocked over a domino and triggered |
| 1:29.3 | a 48,000 topple. |
| 1:33.0 | When you know, they're trying to put it together and a fucking mouse has got in or a bit |
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