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Wayne Sleep was on the radio the other day, the guy doing the interview said it was about time those dance troupes you used to get on variety shows were due a comeback. Why is is that everything over twenty years old is 'due a comeback'?

I didn't spend the best part of the 1980s fighting the Comic Strip wars just so a bunch of idiots who'd forgotten how bad stuff was the first time around think it's time it was bought back.

The sight of the Jeff Rogers Dancers on Seaside Special, Name That Tune. Shirley Bassey shows etc. was something that haunted my youth. All those grinning, energetic gits miming to a hit of the day is something that will live with me forever. Even as a seven year-old, a little bit of me died every time I saw it. The thing was, you knew they were miming, because, as my sister always used to say: "How can they jump around like that and sing at the same time?"



So what else do you think isn't due a comeback from 'the good old days?'

Here's a few suggestions:

• The Good Old Days
• The Black and White Minstrel Show
• Scarlet fever
• Banana-flavoured Toffos
• Syphilis
• Kloppa Castle
• The New Schmoo
• The Third Reich
• Roller discos
• Rationing
• 'Confessions' films
• ELP
• The Test Card
• Weekend World
• Bruno Brookes
• Clackers
• Herman's Hermits
• That's My Dog
• That's My Boy!
• The three day week
• Derby County FC