The Christmas TV Times 1985 - Part 1
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Comfortwear, nuts, and the Saturday before Christmas 1985 assessed via the TV Times.
Follow along at https://archive.org/details/1985-12-21-1986-01-03-central/mode/2up
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it. |
| 0:05.9 | This is Top Flight Time Machine. I am Andy Hot Body Dawson, Pow, Pow, Pow. |
| 0:09.7 | I am Sam Nifty Delaney. So what? |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome along to the beginning of a festive mini-series |
| 0:18.2 | to cover the Christmas period here at Top Float Time Machine |
| 0:23.4 | Headquarters. |
| 0:26.4 | What we're going to do is over the next couple of weeks |
| 0:29.3 | on a Monday and Friday, instead of doing topical episodes |
| 0:31.7 | which we are not able to do |
| 0:33.9 | because we are not working over Christmas. |
| 0:37.6 | We refuse to work over Christmas. |
| 0:41.9 | We're downing tools. |
| 0:43.6 | Yes, we are. |
| 0:45.1 | Downing tools, putting on some leisureware, even more leisureware than usual. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.7 | And drinking, imbibing even more tea and coffee and cake than usual. |
| 1:00.6 | So what we're doing? |
| 1:02.4 | You see like putting on even more leisureware, I noticed myself recently, go into my wife. |
| 1:09.1 | Like, you know, like, for me, when it hits six o'clock, irrespective what I've been doing, it's symbolic, isn't it? At home, I will get changed something more comfy. But some days I'll only be wearing tractsuit bottoms and a sweatshirt in the day. So then I'll be like, right, that's it. Now, I'm done for the day. Time to get changed into my leisure wear. And she looks at me, she's like, get changed into your leisure. You're wearing a fucking track suit. And I take off my tracksuit bottoms, but here's the crucial bit, my pants. And I put on my pyjama bottoms. Yeah? Yeah. You dear. There are levels to this. |
| 1:44.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:45.3 | You know, you're tartany flannel sort of like bottoms. |
| 1:50.1 | You know, we're the ones I mean. |
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