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Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it.

This is Top Fly Time Machine.

I am Andy Hot Body Dawson, pow, pow, pow.

I'm Sam Nifty Delaney, so what?

Welcome along to the second part of our mini-series looking at the...

It's Christmas of 1984.

Argos catalogue.

It covers the autumn and winter of 84 slash 85.

Hope you're enjoying it so far.

I'll have a little look at the front cover, I think,

because the one we did before was quite hastily put together, I think, the 1981. They just picked some things. Well, it was very dark.

That's the main thing I remember about it. Black, wasn't it? I mean, this is fairly dark,

but it makes a bit more sense. It's got some of the same items, I think.

This picture is to my mind, especially when I was that age, I'd have been nine when this came

out.

This would be what, a occasional table in a like sort of sophisticated spies, upper-class spy this is what his occasional table would look like when you went around this house it's reaching for sophistication isn't this yeah it's like there's a little bowl of flowers there's a gold chain some little bit of jewelry a high-class pen probably a fountain pen an amazing an amazing camera i think that's an olympus um a cut glass decanter with matching like goblet now this that and the courage clock next to it, these were two classic prizes

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