The Christmas TV Times 1985 - Part 2
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Sofa turf war, Brandreth, Mr McKay, surly news, Toad, saucy holiday mood, and Bowie’s Christmas.
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. |
| 0:07.4 | I am Andy Hot Body Dawson, pow-paw, pow. |
| 0:09.5 | I am Sam Nifty Delaney, so what. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome along to another episode where we're looking at the radio times, the TV times of Christmas |
| 0:21.0 | 1985 and all of the delights that lay within it |
| 0:25.5 | we are approaching Christmas very rapidly. |
| 0:31.7 | What we'll do is on Thursday on Christmas day itself |
| 0:36.6 | we will cover the Christmas Day schedule so your |
| 0:39.5 | Melchester episode will be one day late this week on Boxing Day so I hope that prepares you |
| 0:46.2 | well enough for this we're three days away from Christmas right now so we're gonna look at the |
| 0:53.3 | Christmas Eve schedules |
| 0:55.2 | in this delightful document. |
| 0:57.7 | If you go to archive.org. |
| 0:59.7 | I'll try and remember to put the link in the show notes, |
| 1:03.0 | as they call them. |
| 1:03.7 | Show notes. |
| 1:06.4 | And so you can link directly to have a look |
| 1:09.0 | at the source material. So it's Christmas Eve |
| 1:13.6 | 1985, page 60. The tension is building and as such on this Christmas issue of the TV times, at Christmas Eve, there's a border around the page, which has got some, like, decorations, illustrations. |
| 1:37.1 | And we've got some colour as well on the pages themselves. |
| 1:40.8 | You're genuinely excited when you got to turn to the Christmas Eve page and the cut |
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