Where it all started

One of the first things I ever recorded on my second hand VCR was the first episode of the aforementioned I'm Alan Partridge. For the uninitiated we start the series (which I will come back to in greater detail during the countdown full) with Alan living, alone, in a motel equidistantly positioned between London and Norwich after the events of Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, the Christmas Special from 1995, (obviously I can't include later) in which he punches Tony Hares, the Chief Commissioning Editor of BBC Television and is told he will never work on the BBC again. After coming up with some of the worst pitches ever, that ironically wouldn't seem out of place on TV nowadays ( Arm Wrestling With Chas & Dave, Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank, Inner-City Sumo, Cooking in Prison and finally Monkey Tennis.) Alan turns the conversation to food and drink.

Think of this as #101.

Introduction

This November is my 24^th birthday; it will be on the same day as the tenth anniversary of the first episode of I’m Alan Partridge which will also be the tenth anniversary of me owning a VCR in my room and having the ability to watch shows like Seinfeld the day after BBC2 put them on as late as possible. By means of a double celebration, for roughly fifty days before (Sept 14^th ish) and fifty days after I will be counting down 100 of my favourite moments from the shows which I have loved either sporadically or those I love without question from that time frame. There will be spoilers, you have been warned.