"It's constituency was the drunk, unemployed insomniac, student, loners that understood my passion for the minutia of television."

May 21, 2008 9:54 AM

The classic post-pub television program of the nineties, In Bed With Medinner had a simple format - Bob Mills would present and comment on clips from the many documentaries he had made over the years.

Many highlights are here, but I would recommend:

Muggy Bonehead
Christian Flat Sharers
The Great Missenden Riots
Silas
Heavy Metal
My Son's A Grass
Mr Farmer - Part One, Mr Farmer - Part Two
Miss Anglia 1979
Kevin The Ladykiller
Punk Son
The Yorkshire Disco Dancing Championships

posted by fearfulsymmetry (11 comments total)

Post-pub == Late Night?
posted by octothorpe at 10:33 AM on May 21

Yes.

Post-pub == You are drunk or otherwise impaired, and anybody sensible or with a job is safely in bed.
posted by Artw at 10:53 AM on May 21

It was utterly awesome, and I'm looking forward to wading through these. Great find!
posted by Jofus at 10:53 AM on May 21

Fantastic post. One look at Bob Mills and I'm immediately on a bedsit floor picking bits of kebab out of my shirt and wondering where the king size skins are.
posted by vbfg at 11:31 AM on May 21

That Muggy Bonehead one is interesting. So's the idea of specific "post-pub" programming. I wonder what the ads were for. When I went to college in a small college town, the local Fox station played a full hour of The Simpsons every night at midnight, and the ads were 100% for pizza delivery places. That's called knowing your audience.
posted by Bookhouse at 11:34 AM on May 21

You should see The Word. It's an express elevator to hell, going down...
posted by Artw at 11:39 AM on May 21

I wonder what the ads were for.

I seem to remember a lot of 'If you're sat at home alone, there's people waiting to chat on the phone'

Sadly now 'post-pub' entertainment consists of utter bilge like The Mint ripping off the drunk and stupid.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 11:48 AM on May 21

Fun times.
posted by Artw at 11:49 AM on May 21

I loved that show. Primetime hit Harry Hill's TV Burp is pretty much the same programme, only less geeky and more obsessed with soap operas.

Before I met her, my first wife had been a presenter on a cable-TV health show. Apparently the night before our wedding Millsy showed a clip of one of her appearances, a piece to camera while she received colonic irrigation. Had I only known, I would have taken it as an omen and called the whole thing off.
posted by Hogshead at 5:05 PM on May 21 [1 favorite]

I grew up in Great Missenden. Never seen or heard or this before. Ker-azy. O_o
posted by bifter at 5:42 AM on May 22

I wonder what the ads were for.

I seem to remember a lot of 'If you're sat at home alone, there's people waiting to chat on the phone'

There's something I've always wondered about one of those...

It was for a gay chat line (the one memorably parodied in Father Ted), and there was an array of the kind of men that potential customers might be interested in - a muscle mary, say, a little fellow in lycra trousers dancing around, someone with a handlebar moustache ... and a man in a white coat with a clipboard.

Later on the man with the clipboard was edited out, but what was he doing there in the first place?

I'm sure I'm not imagine this, although I was very drunk.
posted by Grangousier at 5:57 AM on May 22 [1 favorite]