2643. 🇬🇧 Vicar Of Dibley - Another BBC Comedy Featured On New Royal Mail Stamps.

 

New Issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

14 January 2024 - 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of The Vicar of Dibley, a charming, inoffensive  but generally unremarkable BBC comedy television programme - 8 gummed stamps (4 se-tenant pairs) costing £12.60p, 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps costing £6.60 and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 self-adhesive stamps with attached labels sold for £17.10p. Total cost - £36.30p.  Designed by True North and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

2636. 🎄 Merry Christmas!

 

The world’s first Christmas stamp.

🎄 Merry Christmas!

Scenes from the BBC children’s television programme Blue Peter in which the two children who provided the designs for the first British Christmas stamps in 1966 were interviewed. 

  And a recent broadcast of an Antiques television programme, Bargain Hunt, by the BBC featured the 1966 Christmas stamps and told the story of their development though when talk turned to the subject of King George V and his magnificent stamp collection  the item was illustrated with a photograph showing George VI with his stamps.

  So once.more, Merry Christmas!

2555. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail To Release Yet Another Issue Depicting Vintage BBC Television Comedy.

New Issues - 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

3 September 2024 - Porridge, vintage BBC Television comedy programme set in a prison (‘porridge’ is slang for serving a term of imprisonment for criminal activities) - 8 stamps (4 se-tenant pairs, total cost £13.40p) and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10:stamps with attached labels (sold for £17.30). Designed by Steers McGiven Eves and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

Meanwhile, anyone interested in a philatelic bowl of real porridge may recall this stamp from An Post which was issued on 16 July 2015 as part of a set of 4 with an accompanying miniature sheet. The set was titled - “Ireland - the Food island”  -

2305. 🇬🇧 Memorable BBC Comedy Blackadder Featured On New Royal Mail Stamps.

 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

17 May 2023 - 40th anniversary of Blackadder (popular BBC television programme) -  8 stamps, 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps, 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ costing £15.40 and made up of 10 stamps with attached labels, and 1 limited edition (edition of 1000) miniature sheet ’plated in 24 carat gold’  costing £149.99p. Lithographed by Cartor. Perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating::- **. 

  In a single issue the actor Rowan Atkinson becomes featured on more British stamps than any other non-royal, non-fictional person that I can think of.