The Christmas TV Times 1985 - Part 4
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The festive perineum, Terry’s Christmas, Spinnolio, the Smurfs, Talksport sextuplets, and a coffee slogan contest.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it. |
| 0:06.0 | This is Top Flight Time Machine. I am Andy Hop-Baudidawson, pow-pow-pow. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Sam Nifty Delaney, so what? |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome along. We're looking again at the Christmas TV Times of 1985. |
| 0:19.2 | And what we're going to do in this episode is look at the 29th of December to see what was going on on the telly in what we've described previously as the perineum of the festive period a period between Christmas and New Year when fear and confusion reigns over us. Very difficult. Very difficult period, isn't it? |
| 0:38.8 | I find it. |
| 0:39.5 | I personally find it very difficult. |
| 0:41.0 | Well, I don't suffer from that because I've got two children's birthdays to tackle. |
| 0:45.9 | Yes, that's good. |
| 0:46.9 | So that fills that in. |
| 0:48.0 | Plus the dart is always on, so I can amuse myself during the perinear. |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.8 | But what we've got here on the 29th of December, |
| 0:58.0 | 1985, to make things even worse, it was the Sunday. |
| 1:03.4 | And Sunday telly is, well, was back then, of course, |
| 1:07.2 | the worst day, pretty much, especially during the day. |
| 1:11.2 | But we'll have a look. |
| 1:12.2 | We'll give it a try. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.3 | I'd have been struggling at this stage, I think. |
| 1:19.9 | They're usually like a few family dues in my wider family, boxing day, |
| 1:25.6 | sometimes also the 27th. |
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