We’re nearly at the end of Angels (today’s episode is the penultimate one). I’ve waxed lyrical elsewhere on the blog about my love for the original incarnation of Angels, but I’ve found the series’ restructure (into the twice-weekly half hour “soap” format) harder to get into. Still, I think I’ll dip into these final two episodes and maybe 2024 will be the year I begin tackle the whole run (all 220 episodes) in earnest.

I’ll follow that with the second episode of No Place Like Home. It’s a very trad sitcom, but the cast are so good – headed by William Gaunt as the long-suffering Arthur Crabtree – that I find it slips by very easily.

One of the best of Network’s (RIP) final DVD releases was the Michael Aspel era of Give Us A Clue. That’ll certainly be pressed into service today as Angela Rippon, Sylvia Sims and Victoria Wood join Una and Leslie Crowther, Stu (“I could crush a grape”) Francis and Gerald Harper pitch up to assist Lionel.

Unfortunately, I can’t source the complete Des O’Connor Show, but the interview with Ken Dodd is available.