Those EastEnders Spin-off Annuals...

Yes, it still the 'annual' season and here's a selection of annuals I've knocked up over the weekend featuring your favourite characters from TV's EastEnders. 

If the layouts of some of them seem familiar, you have good taste in cult television.

More Annuals Based On Those Successful Television Series...

I did four more this morning whilst I should've been clearing out my kitchen ready for the builders on Wednesday. 

What a bloody life I lead... 

The Annuals Your Kids Really Want This Christmas... Honest.

It's that time of the year again. The shops are chomping at the bit to set up their Christmas displays and the cassettes of seasonal top ten hits are being dusted off as you read this. 

The 2018 annuals are here!!!

The covers may look a little familiar this time round but the content is all-new! 

(If you are a bit confused by them, answers are at the foot of the page.)

EastEnders: The Walford Dead...

EastEnders is going through a bit of a bad patch at the moment so I thought about a bit of re-tooling for it... a new direction...

The EastEnders Beetabix Promotion - Free Figures In Every Pack!!!

Card from the original Weetabix promotion

One of the most popular Doctor Who commercial promotions of the 70s was run by Weetabix when they offered free cardboard figures of the Doctor and his friends in every packet. 

It was so popular, they did it twice with the TV Time Lord and ran similar promotions with Disney characters, Asterix and one for Star Trek The Motion Picture. 

Here's something I knocked up based on the second Doctor Who promotion. Each box of Weetabix contained four figures - three 'monster' cards and a "Secret Message From Time Lords" (sic). The monster cards could be slotted into one of four game boards that adorned the back of each pack and became forfeits for landing on specific squares during game play. 

My little effort follows the same format but with modern EastEnders characters instead... Playing the game makes an exciting alternative to having to watch the series at the moment...

You could also try to decode the secret messages from Mr. Papadopoulos... if you really want.

The 2017 TV Annuals - now available!

It's that time of the year where the shelves of WHSmith become cluttered with collections of kids books with large print, colourful pictures, desperately unchallenging puzzles and enough content to fill a medium-sized thimble,

Yes, it's the annual "Annual" season!

Here's this year's choice selection from the House of Andydrewz! 

You can get all these titles from your local Poundland or charity shop from January 2017.

A Selection of Sweet Cigarettes...

There was a time when very TV series had a packet of sweet cigarettes named after them. 

And just like real cigarettes, you had to keep buying further packets. In their case, it was to complete your collection of FREE PICTURES CARDS - usually about 50 to collect. 

You can still buy them today only they are called candy sticks and no longer contain free cards. So sad.

Here's some of the rarer examples.