Three Trolly-Dashing, Retro Game Shows of Yesteryear, Plus Lidl Voucher Winner Announced.

Last week I blogged about some of the unusual groceries you can get in store in Lidl. I ran a Twitter competition to win £20 of vouchers, which was picked at random and the winner is  Erica Harmar.

While I'm talking supermarkets, which of these retro game shows do you remember being on the box?

The Price is Right- the worldwide, original shopping themed game show

Lots of money guesstimating games

Supermarket Sweep, another US show, presented in the UK by a fresh faced Dale Winton

everyone dreamed of doing a trolley dash

I'm struggling with this one, so perhaps you can help. Rod Hull's Pink Windmill game show definitely had a supermarket element, but I can't find any images of it online

do you remember the shopping trolley part? Or am I imagining it?

Cartoon Flashback- Galaxy High School

The David Meade Project sends me a Magic Bottle...

One of my online friends is a mentalist. David Meade @DavidMeadeLive can make you believe he's in contact with the dead, and even more, he'll expose how fraudulent psychics do the same.

His fantastic series is back tonight on BBC1NI at 1035pm, and he'll be live tweeting if you care to ask any more questions about the tricks he performs.

Paddy Doherty from My Big Gypsy Wedding is on the show tonight. That's right, David is going to tell a prize winning boxing gypsy that mind reading, a traditional gypsy trade, is all a load of balls. Good luck with that, David.

He sent me this curious item for my cabinets. I didn't realise the trick, I thought it was just a nice vintage glass bottle, until my son asked me to take the cards out for him to look at. Errrr.... How do you get them out? More interestingly how the hell did you get them INTO the bottle, David. The neck is narrower than the deck of cards. BURN THE WITCH.

If you aren't in the BBCNI region you can watch David Meade Make Believe on the BBC iplayer NI channel, or find the regional versions of the BBC channels on Sky.

Farewell, Ceefax

Ceefax is switched off this week, but you can show your love with this merch from eBay. 

I LOVE CEEFAX T-SHIRT

Arrested Development Paper Dolls. Dress Your Tobias with Never Nude Pride

Doctor Shoe & The Dal-kicks

All currently on Etsy. Extra points to the maker of the first pair, using the old, old BBC logo.

TOP SECRET Behind The Scenes Photos from The Ministry of Curious Stuff

I've been hooked to Vic Reeves & his chums on The Ministry of Curious Stuff on CBBC the past two months.

You can join in the madness on Mondays at 5.45pm on the CBBC Channel, or Saturday mornings at 9am. Your kids will thank you.

Series producer & director Rob Hyde kindly sent me these glorious behind-the-scenes pictures from his own collection, taken during filming. All photos copyright to Rob.
www.whatrobdo.com

The Ministry of Curious Stuff

A Vic Reeves children's show about weird, unexplained topics? Sort of like the BBC made a tv programme tailored for me. My son is being forced to Watch With Mother this series, currently running on Mondays on CBBC. I've been following Vic Reeves since the days of Big Night Out, and even though Bob is missing from Ministry, there are still touches of the style of the pair's madness.

Vic's new sidekick is Captain Lengthwidth, played by Dan Renton Skinner, who is unrecognisable from his Angelos character from Shooting Stars.

Apart from being a fan girl for the comedy royalty, the show also appeals in the weird topics ('Do aliens live among us?', 'Can we travel through time?') and the aesthetic aspects of the set.

The Ministry seems to be set in a bizarre little corner of Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil', with jet-packed, steam punk postwomen & sassy WW2 telephonist assistants.

I advise you to get all over it, the first three episodes are on BBC iplayer now, and episode 4 screens this Monday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/the-ministry-of-curious-stuff