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In this the infamous episode called ‘The Trouble with Mr. Bean’ Mr Bean wakes up late for his dentist appointment and has to get dressed in the car. First of all, though, he uses a Goblin 834 teasmade to wake himself up! Enjoy this video from the official Mr Bean
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Maurice Collins began gathering strange devices and inventions in about 1976, when he took his teenage son to a rubbish dump...
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In 2010 I appeared on Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention. It was an amazing honour! The teasmade segment was aired in episode 3 ‘Home Sweet Home’ which was first shown on TV on 17th November 2010. As a thank you for my appearance we were invited to tour
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Here are some of the quotes about teasmades which I’ve come across over the years… The greatest advancement in civilisation since the aqueduct. Guardian, 12th June 2007 Bring back the Teasmade… as long as it comes in a pair of boxer shorts! Zoe Tyler, Loose Women, 14th Oct 2009
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The Loose Women discuss the relaunch of the Swan Teasmade back in 2009. This did make me giggle! But Sherrie, they are Teasmades, not Teasmaids! The best quote from this show was: “Bring back the Teasmade… as long as it comes in a pair of boxer shorts!”
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I thought you might enjoy this animated Larry cartoon! (Reproduced here by kind permission of the artist).
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We were delighted to read in The Construction Index that in 2010 JCB made a move towards supplying its drivers with teasmades. Actually it’s taking it a bit far to suggest that it’s a teasmade – really it’s just a hot water dispenser capable of producing tea, coffee
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On Oct 13th 2009 the Express published a story by Jo Willey entitled ‘Wakey wakey! The return of the Teasmade‘ in its Retirement section. Jo wrote: THE must-have gadget of the Seventies, which woke millions every day with a fresh bedside cuppa, is about to make a comeback. The
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A teasmade features briefly in fourth episode of the second series of Fawlty Towers, which is called ‘The Kipper and the Corpse’. In this episode Basil takes some out of date kippers up to a guest for his breakfast, but fails to notice that the guest has died in his
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Original article published in The Guardian, by Laura Barton, Tuesday 12 June 2007 It was once a symbol of all that was good and right about Britain: a bedside contraption that not only worked as an alarm clock but also brewed a cup of tea, coordinated to the precise hour
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2007 was a strong year for the teasmade and there was a great deal of media attention for the Teasmade team.
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Over the last two days Doug Fennell and I have been visited by Touch Productions’ ‘low impact crew’ (gosh, I’m picking up the lingo already!) for a 15 minute documentary short for Channel 4. The programme will be one in a series of five on great British inventions. The
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