Yeah, in 1975 as a 12 year old nerdy kid, I moved from London to Eastbourne where the Langney Shopping Centre had a Tandy. The manager was a lovely Canadian guy and he was soooo patient with me umming and ahhhing over which IC or resistors to buy. Many happy hours browsing stuff I didn’t understand.

*The future being 1997

Hey everyone makes mistakes.

It is still my favourite job of all. Loved working and running the Kettering branch x

Rumblelows/ Radio Rentals / Tandy. The holy trinity of mid priced electricals in the early 90s.

Cheeky get!

Ruddy hell, it's soft cell!

a nice big thick slice of Thin Lizzy, basically sex music

Gum?

@@JohnSmith-ep2hh what’s your favourite Beatles album?

The look that says he's in control of his vehicle 👍

@@kincaid7550 A look that says he's in control of his HI-FI.

Good action slacks.

I'm partial to a little Imperial Leisure meself...

@@MrEAus the king of all soaps.

I do exactly the same

@@JuiceTerry87 Same here! Nice action!

We've all done it.

That’s textbook

Lovely stuff.

Or maybe it was the expansion pack to the original game: GTA London 1969.

@@presentprogressivefuturepe2968 Nah...think it was about the same time as Gran Turismo 1 another belter. So I think it was GTA 1.

Back of the net

Did it have a quality action?

@@bst857 The action was superb.

because he was a young man made up to be a middle aged man?

they used to put lots of make up on him to make him look older back in these days. he was saying in an interiew how they dont have to bother now lol.

That would be the sports casual clothing...

@@philpants44 In IAP, sure, but I don't think they bothered with any of that in KMKY. They just let the hairstyle and the fashion do all the heavylifting.

Spent a large portion of my life attempting that

*Apropos One word, s is silent.

@@humann5682 He ought to have a basic grasp of Latin in a KZfaq comments section.

@@danielthompson6448 Ha ha brilliant mate! That was blackbelt

Lacking a basic grasp of Latin there, Lifesloser.

Maplins was a lot better for components.

@@baronmeduse Yes I agree. A lot better for projects and all that. Isn’t RS more for trade?

Maplins was good for computer parts. I built and upgraded my computers from stuff off the shelf. I don't like having to order everything now and hope it arrives in one piece or on time.

Maplins has gone? When the fuck did that happen? I used to go in there all the time.

@@venger nearly half a decade ago

Norwich is a different place now. Too many poles.

​@@Useanamethey should pedestrianise it

​@@Useanamesome people may have found what you said, a bit racist...

@@illmitchjaxwatch the fire hose

I worked in their shops around South Manchester. Enjoyable time.

That very person who opened the store was not called Alan x

What did they use the realmanager in the series?

@@anniewilson2116 You are very much correct; Alan was my previous manager at a different shop lol. I'll be buggered if I can remember his name (feel free to enlighten me haha).

@@paulp4452 In that episode they did yes.

Like being in a computer

And rawlinsons 😊

Quality action.

Lovely stuff.

Nice place actually

Was that in Fareham Precinct?

Lovely stuff!

Dalendless Shid and a Compleme Cunm.

You picked up on that obvious one, but probably didnt pick up on coogan's comic genius @1.17 when he mimics the type of twat who pulls that face while in their element in a store like that

probably some sort of mentalist

I actually said that on the Tandy page. Gavin is even holding a metal detector and coat. Which he was not before x

I worked 14 years for them and would still be there if they had not been sold out x

I would hope they were a good earner, to justify making their employees wear suits and ties

Need to visit. I always visit swaffham costa and think of alan as it is mentioned on his breakfast radio show. Still not seen the roadsign for little oakley mind.

I'm here (albeit a bit late) for #septandy

That's where you're bang wrong "It's at times like these, simply browsing among electrical goods at Tandy's, that I know who I truly am."

Don't forget Bejam, Woolworths and Maplin.

And another one

@@MrAgbxl tosser?

Not a midi hi fi?

It's a quality action

Whats round the back?

djhillfinger just an old mattress.

I did work for them; in that very store - the guy holding all the stuff was the stores manger Alan.

@@Robbiepeaple a couple of traffic cones

They all had those back rooms where the managers used to hide all day.

And me. In Crouch End in London back in the late 70s

The hi fi equipment was very good actually. Could buy all the separates there before Richer Sounds started doing the same. Great sound quality.

@@oddities-whatnot yes it was pretty good stuff, decks, mixer, microphone...good enough for the pirate station I was on!. In fact a lot of the pirate guys had Tandy gear, it was affordable and it worked well enough.

I've still got Realistic separates. They still sound great after nearly 50 years

Sold off to carphone warehouse as they would not allow a management buy out x

😂😂😂😂

My local Dixons hated it when kids went in. They thought every kid was a shoplifter. Used to watch you 100% of the time. They never thought you would buy anything, but I got a couple of home computers from there.

Think my name's old single tape recorder/radio is realistic? Solidly built that thing is. Must be at least 43 years old and in perfect working order.

1985

Will have wanted the premises for the location rather than the retailer

Currys ended up buying the lot out!

yes...furniture polish and newly-opened electronics goods. Also a generally plasticy smell.

@@bobd7307 Indeed!

bout 2000 according to google

2000 for some stores and finished them off in 2001. Did not get much maternity leave as I was helping close them x

Knowing Me, Knowing Yule

The 1995 Christmas Special - Knowing Me, Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge

Needles

Needles to say I took drugs

'their'

It's actually much older than that and is nothing to do with the Black Country. It comes from the old French verb Muchier, which became "Muscher" in Norman french, meaning to skulk around. It was brought with the Normans across to England with the conquest and became "mooch". It's been used across the UK ever since, not just the black country.

Used a lot in Yorkshire also x

@@th8257 I don't believe that, if it would've caught on here, it wouldn't be foreign. We just say words that stick, not evolved through other foreign words. Not that I'm claiming it to be fact of it being made up in the Black Country.

That's like the bloke who works at The Black Country Museum. He was doing a tour for folks out the area. He told them that the word we call a horse, 'oss' came from Germany & claimed that's where we got the language from. I told him he was full of shit & didn't have a clue what he was talking about, just because he found *one* word that sounded similar to a German word.

@@th8257 definitely use in Scotland to this day "mooch around," go for a mooch "

Close. Alan Partridge

There's a time in which he wasn't funny?

Osdlslls

@@somegoodfella 1998-present (though the "anglian lives" special had its moments)

@@jemimallah2591 You're crazy if you don't think "I'm Alan Partridge" was funny. Seeing as how that series started in the year you mentioned :/

@@Danville_AM_Toastmasters the first season of i'm alan partridge (1997) is one of the greatest pieces of art britain has ever produced. the second season was absolute dogshit (a couple of bits of dialogue here and there excepted)

I worked in a couple of branches of Tandy in the early 90s and I’d say: - no, it was not a good shop, most of the stuff it sold was utter junk; - the staff were out of shape but weirdly their skin and hair were flawless; - some did drink Lilt but it was very much frowned upon by senior management. That said, my stint there did teach me two valuable lessons: - a career in electronics retail was not for me; - the brand name ‘Realistic’ didn’t play well with the good burghers of Gillingham and Gravesend.

@@MrWeller69 thanks John .did you get any free Amstrad or commodore games

@@stevendouglas3860 Not a sausage. I think that’s one of the main reasons I decided it wasn’t for me.

@@MrWeller69 aww that's a shame . The British high street need , a Tandy's or Maplin type store .

Sorry to disappoint but that is London Street in Norwich; I worked in that branch before this was filmed - the store manager was still there when they shot it. He’s the one holding all the tat.

@@Hey_Moustache fair play, I was going on the Dormies suit hire shop next door - there was one next to a Tandy in Newcastle. I didn’t know they had a Dormies down south.

@@fluggaenkoecchicebolsen Defo Norwich. Just google street viewed it. 48 London Street. Its a Costa coffe with a Greggs next door now and Adecco job agency to the right. (I think Adecco have land grabbed some of the right hand side of the old Tandy).

Costa Coffee and Greggs. The future of the high street. How very grim.

That was a real studio audience watching the segment played into them. This was part of the 1995 Christmas Special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge, with the studio scenes filmed in front of an audience of 250 people.

Did someone say it was?

Yes. Didn't you hear the audience laughing? Get a new hearing aid for Christmas is my advice.😄

Dry your eyes!

What a odd man

Do you slow down for car crashes

Only mine!