nbsp;Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one because this week in 1981 saw John Lennon hit the top of the UK singles chart, thanks to his venerable track Imagine.But...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. In January 1981, a trip to your local cinema was clearly more fun than a trip to your local seaside.And that’s because the month saw the release of Blood Beach, a nightmarish film in...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. The year 2021 pushes on as we march into that realm which was once the future.But, right now, it’s the past which interests us.A past that is packed with incident, heroics and villainy...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Forty years ago this week, Europe drew that little bit closer, as Greece joined the then European Economic Community. Clearly, nothing could halt the inevitable growth of the European Union....

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Irwin Allen. What a producer. He gave us Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Towering Inferno.He also gave us City Beneath the Sea, the...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Everyone knows the big problem with cricket is it’s like watching paint dry - but slower.However, in January 1971, a cure for this tedium was found, as the first-ever One-Day...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. The truth is out there and, this week in 1980, it was out in Suffolk, as that area experienced the dread event known as the Rendlesham Forest Incident when the sighting of...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. War is hell.And so is reading war comics.I admit it, it’s a genre that’s always held little interest for me, but the public’s demanded I review a product of that field and, so, I must.I could...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. There’s no one quite like Grandma.I know that because a nightmarish gang of children waylaid me and told me so.Then they kept on telling me, over and over again, for three...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. As we all know, there is, in all human existence, no experience more thrilling than reading this blog. Why, even as the man writing it, I often have to take a bucketful of sedatives to...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. I’ve never seen an entire episode of Magnum P.I. That didn’t stop them making it.And this week in 1980 was when we were first allowed to see it.It made its debut, on CBS, with a...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Christmas may be mere days away but there’s no rest for the wicked, as I plunge, once more, into Santa’s Great Big Stocking of History and see what Marvel’s big-hitters were up to in their...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. A wise man once said, Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. It was John Lennon, on his final album and, this week in 1980, just three weeks after that LP was...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Something very odd happened in December 1980.And that was that the movie Superman II was released.Except it was only released in Australia and mainland Europe, while the United States, its...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. December 1970 saw humanity reach for the sky when the World Trade Center’s North Tower topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world. However, it would be another two...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Strange things were afoot in 1909.Amongst them was that a group of people staged a play in Egypt, in an attempt to lift a curse that had, allegedly, been placed upon the pharaoh...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Wait What’s that?It’s the sound of someone knocking And I’m not the only one who can hear it - because Dave Edmunds can too And it’s lucky he can because, thanks to that sound, in December...

nbsp;Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. When I think of Code-approved horror in monthly slices, I always think of DC and Charlton.Marvel was for super-heroes. Even their big horror titles, like Dracula, Frankenstein and...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Who shot JR?It wasn’t me. I have an alibi.And I had one 40 years ago.And that’s a good thing because this was the week, in 1980, the TV show Dallas revealed the culprit behind the...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. The War of the Worlds, that stark warning by HG Wells that the British might not rule the world forever, unless we get our act together and make sure we’re all diseased up to the...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. There aren’t many bands would write a song about their lighting rig but, then, there aren’t many bands like ABBA.Thus it is that, forty years ago this week, Super Trouper, the album...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. October 1982 delivered bad news to all who wanted to travel in time.That’s because it was the month in which John DeLorean was arrested for selling cocaine to undercover FBI agents. Now...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Hi. I’m not the kind of girl and neither is Debbie Harry.I know that because she told me so, way back, this week in 1980, when she and the rest of Blondie hit the very top of the UK singles...

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Two films the world will never forget came out in November 1980.One was Raging Bull, the story of middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta, and the other was Heaven’s Gate,...

nbsp;Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Turn on your spotlights and fill up your tanks because we plunge, once more, into the Marianas Trench of History to see what strange fish we can encounter and annoy.The team try to...