A few weeks ago on the Twitter I put out a request for ideas for my 500th post. To say I was inundated with suggestions is an understatement. In the end I chose three ideas that tickled my fancy and here they are.
A big thank you to Paul Gibbs ( @gibbspaulus ) for the Threads baby mobile, Simon Hart ( @si_hart ) for the Encyclopaedia of Juliet Bravo - E-K, and Chris Orton ( @chrisorton2011 ) for the Tenko playhouse. Follow them as they seem to share the same sense of the absurd as I do.
Also a big thank you too to everyone who suggested their own ideas.
Following the huge phenomenal popular success of putting old Doctor Who episodes on to the Blu ray disc format, the BBC have decided to extend the idea to other cult TV shows in its back catalogue.
Following an analysis of social media (and in particular a select group of Twitter movers and shakers), they have chosen Juliet Bravo - the hit 80s police series - as their next project.
The series was hugely popular in the 1980s for many years and was a permanent fixture of Saturday night viewing until Casualty turned up and spoilt it all. Questions were often asked in the Houses of Parliament, not about the series but none-the-less, they were asked. And schoolboys everywhere filled their playgrounds with the sounds of "I-Am-Juliet-Bravo!!, I-Am-Juliet-Bravo!!". There was even talk of a movie (by two old ladies in a Swindon cafe over a five-item breakfast.).
It was THAT huge!
Anyway, here's the covers for the first two releases -available in exclusive steelbook editions - which should hit stores when they are thrown at them from a short distance.
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It's been sometime since I've had some Juliet Bravo fun so the fact it's now being screened in the mornings on Drama is as good an excuse as any to post some daft bits what I've done recently...
Viewmaster. The amazing gadget that allows you to see 3D pictures of everything from Thunderbirds to Tom & Jerry to the Grand Canyon to something called Dr WHO.
Here's a selection from the 70s and early 80s that money can't buy.
Some more little doodles on the theme of 80s TV - including a couple more part-work things...
That is all.
It's that time of the year where we are, again, bombarded by new part-works. This year it's Star Trek graphic novels, Transformers graphic novels, Build Your Own R2D2s, Build Your Own Back To The Future DeLorean Car and Mathematics text books(!)
We here at the House of Andydrewz have been busy preparing our assault on the market and despite restraining order from Eaglemoss Publications, we're proud to reveal definitive guides to your favourites 80s television programmes.
Building week by week into stunning (and heavy) collections that will clutter your garages in years to come and put pressure on your already floundering marriage following the purchase of that limited edition David Tennant coat from the US.
Yours to collect.
Now.
There can't be many Saturday night TV shows that were broadcast during the 1980s that spawned as much merchandise as Juliet Bravo.
Sadly much of it is rarely seen nowadays outside of Yorkshire where the "official Juliet Bravo play costume dress-up set" was the top Christmas present for two years running in 1982 and 1983.
Luckily, I've managed to acquire a job lot of this highly sought after material and I want to share it with you on my blog.
Why?
God knows...
Here they are.
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.
Here's the final three issues of 'BBC's Legend of Yesterday'.
It seems a lot of people wish this little effort was a reality judging from the feedback I've had following the posting of the first three covers.
I'm not sure I'd get away with the last issue though...
Also a big thank you too to everyone who suggested their own ideas. 
It was THAT huge! 
It's been sometime since I've had some Juliet Bravo fun so the fact it's now being screened in the mornings on Drama is as good an excuse as any to post some daft bits what I've done recently... 
Viewmaster. The amazing gadget that allows you to see 3D pictures of everything from Thunderbirds to Tom & Jerry to the Grand Canyon to something called Dr WHO.
Some more little doodles on the theme of 80s TV - including a couple more part-work things... 
It's that time of the year where we are, again, bombarded by new part-works. This year it's Star Trek graphic novels, Transformers graphic novels, Build Your Own R2D2s, Build Your Own Back To The Future DeLorean Car and Mathematics text books(!) 
There can't be many Saturday night TV shows that were broadcast during the 1980s that spawned as much merchandise as Juliet Bravo. 
There was a time when very TV series had a packet of sweet cigarettes named after them. 
Here's the final three issues of 'BBC's Legend of Yesterday'. 
