Comics on TV

[steelclaw]

You can watch the minder episode on youtube,
First time you can see the comics on the rack is around 9-11 mintues.
Minder- The Bengal Tiger

[big bad bri]

im watching all the old series of grange hill on uktvbox & they show plenty of comics in those but i dont know how to capture images otherwise i could try from my dvd box sets of s1-4 as im sure i saw some on those eps.but i just watched a s7 ep & zammo was reading look in

[stevezodiac]

I thought it was Button Moon when I first saw it but I have no idea when Button Moon was on the shelves.

[Niblet]

The latest trend in reality TV seems to be programmes about people who hoard stuff. I've watched a couple of such shows in the hope of seeing someone whose home is crammed from floor to ceiling with comics, but no luck so far.

However, this week's episode of The Hoarder Next Door on Channel 4 featured a scene showing the 1976 Dennis The Menace book.

[George Shiers]

James May's 20th Century had a 2006 Beano annual in it - the episode about the teenagers stuff.

Also the name has escaped me but there was a 60's or 70's Buster in a comic in a program about a policeman who had gone back in time and was stuck there.

[dandy mad]

Sounds like the excellent Life On Mars where Sam Tyler gets hit by a car and wakes up in 1973 and try's to get back to the present day.

[George Shiers]

That's the one!

[Digifiend]

The show was set in 1973, so hopefully the propmasters used an issue from that year. I'm pretty sure that it's not the only comic seen in Life on Mars. In one episode, IIRC, he walks past a newspaper stand which also sells comics; in another, a comic can be seen in his childhood bedroom.

[dandy mad]

I remember a wartime drama from the early 90s on BBC1 that had a Beano book 1942 in it it came on Sunday nights as I recall plus another drama on the beeb about kids that got sent to Australia in the early 50s a lad was always carrying an Eagle annual around with him anybody know what the shows where called??

[dandy mad]

Plus there was a number of wartime Beanos and Dandys on the counter of the memorabillia shop that the bloke who could time travell back to WW2 London in 90s sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart

[Digifiend]

Gary Sparrow and his Blitz and Pieces shop. The comics, along with all the other stock, was obtained from the past (maybe he stole them from shops he knew were about to be destroyed?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Sweetheart

[Jon]

Don't think this has been mentioned - the 1989 film Shirley Valentine has Shirley's (grown up!) daughter reading 1977 Beano annual. Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot.

[Niblet]

This somewhat bedraggled copy of the 1975 Beano Book, languishing among the piles of detritus in an unfortunate hoarder's front garden, was seen on BBC 1's Britain's Biggest Hoarders.

[Jon]

Mr. Bean's Dennis the Menace bookmark:






Mr. Bean reads a Dandy:



Anyone know which issue it is?

[Digifiend]

It's at some point between 1993 and 1998, judging by the masthead (before 93 the shadow was in the opposite direction, and in 98 the logo changed a bit).