All in the Best Possible Taste: Growing Up Watching Telly in the Eighties

All in the Best Possible Taste: Growing Up Watching Telly in the Eighties

by TomBromley (Author)

Synopsis

It's the early 1980s and TV-land is a weird place to be ...There are only three channels! Everything stops at midnight! There's no Breakfast TV, no daytime telly ...and the biggest prize on TV is not Chris Tarrant's million pounds but a speedboat on Bullseye. As Tom Bromley suggests in this hilariously funny and entertaining walk down memory lane, all that was about to change. Coming our way were new channels, 'yoof' TV, Dynasty, Dallas, TV-AM, Charles and Di, Scott and Charlene, talking cars and a Royal It's a Knockout. By the end of the decade we were primed and ready for satellite TV, multi-channels, rolling news and incredibly ...you could watch TV all the way through the night! And no-one felt this change more deeply than Tom Bromley. From Fame to the Falklands War, Live Aid to Loadsamoney, All in the Best Possible Tastetells the story of a childhood spent with his mum, dad and three siblings and that other all-important family member; the TV.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Published: 04 Aug 2011

ISBN 10: 1849830584
ISBN 13: 9781849830584

Media Reviews
'Bromley's box of recollections, peppered with amusing detail, reads like the real thing...his unashamed love for television makes his book an engaging primer for 1980s TV, from Dallas to Danger Mouse, which will have you stacking up a whole new YouTube play list' Metro 18/8 'Good fun...Bromley makes an entertaining guide' Book of the week, Daily Mail 6/8 'An enjoyable slice of nostalgia' Choice, September Issue 'Warm and often hilarious memoir' Press association, 10/9
Author Bio
Tom Bromley is the author of We Could Have Been the Wombles, two music-related novels, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Half a World Away, and co-author of Rock and Pop Elevens. He lives in Salisbury.