The Christmas TV Times 1985 - Part 6

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Soccer, Comedy, Sports & Recreation, Sports

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Cigarette ads, spy recruitment holidays, the Saga life, gas info restriction, and Bellamy’s knowledge books.

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.
0:08.6	Poe, pow, pow.
0:09.6	I'm Sam Nishti, Delaney, so what?
0:11.3	Welcome along to the final episode of the, uh, our mini deep dive into the Christmas.
0:17.3	1985 issue of the TV Times
0:20.8	We've looked through some of the days
0:23.5	And what the programmes were that we're on
0:25.6	And now we're just going to take a little sideways look
0:28.0	At some of the adverts that were in the pages of that TV times
0:32.5	Because advertising then and now
0:34.8	Excuse me
0:36.1	I have a little utile,
0:38.3	Yiltide frog in my throat.
0:43.2	Freddie, the Christmas frog.
0:47.6	So we've chosen a selection of adverts.
0:50.6	And you can go onto archive.org and find this TV times if you know what to do.
0:57.0	Sometimes I've put the link in some of the episodes so that you can go directly to it.
1:02.3	And you can find these adverts yourself if you want to.
1:05.2	The first one, I mean, I've clipped some out and sent them to you for your perusal, Sam.
1:09.2	The first one that really stands out is a double-page spread.
1:12.8	And it's an advert for Benson and Hedges, fags.
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