The Melchester Odyssey - Part 169
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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David Croft, more hoarding namechecks, Roy is cuckolded, Sir John Stalin, being claggy, and dolphin-watching. (Rec: 25/8/22)
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| 0:41.0 | I'm standing if the lady say what, sorry. That was the return of the pause. The pause, yeah, |
| 0:46.4 | that was like sort of year one really of top-flag time machine and you always thought it was a |
| 0:51.8 | power play as opposed to just my distracted mind. Yeah, I just felt like you just left me hanging. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm sorry, I'm flooding back then. Sorry, I would never do that. Okay, never mind, let's get over it. |
| 1:06.5 | A smelchester I've seen, I have in, let's just mix it up, I have in both my hands the 12th of |
| 1:15.4 | November 1983 issue of Royal Rovers, no real reason why it's not heavier than usual, it doesn't |
| 1:21.3 | need to be held with both hands, I just thought. You're holding it like a vicar may hold a Bible |
| 1:26.7 | when he addresses his congregation. Exactly like that. That's how a lot of people might see this |
| 1:34.3 | Melchester Odyssey as well. Yeah, a Bible. I just know that there is a lot of activity that goes on |
| 1:42.0 | in the betting markets in the far east regarding which hand I'll be holding the issue in each week, |
| 1:49.1 | so I thought. It's going to be specific. I'll be real lashing hold it in both hands. |
| 1:54.0 | Know how light in all sort of sitcoms and quite a lot of just like family dramas in the 70s in |
| 2:01.2 | particular and also restrictions 80s, there was always a vicar, but also the vicar always had a sort |
| 2:06.4 | of an idiotic slightly trumped up assistant. What are they called? They're the title, didn't they? |
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