I have something of a backlog of recordings of nostalgia-focused Talking Pictures TV's The Footage Detective programmes, so I have only now discovered that there was some Cheeky content in the episode first broadcast on 09 March 2025.
The programme, hosted by TPTV founder Noel Cronin BEM and Mike Read, is a mixture of obscure vintage film clips and viewers' reminiscences. Contributors to the Something from Our Post Bag segment of the programme often send in items of various descriptions (comics and annuals are frequently among the donations), with an accompanying letter of the 'does anyone remember these?' variety.
One such submission was the plastic bag of badges 'from the 70s and 80s' provided by Sandra Palmer of Hemel Hempstead and examined by our hosts on the aforementioned 09 March 2025 edition. Included among the contents shown on screen was a Friend of Cheeky badge.
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| Noel (right) hands Mike Sandra's bag of badges |
These Cheeky badges were the free gift in issue number 3 of Cheeky Weekly, and were subsequently awarded as prizes to readers whose letters were published in the comic. It would seem that following Cheeky Weekly's merge with Whoopee!, the editor was keen to shift the remaining Cheeky badges, as they were distributed to readers in return for a stamped, addressed envelope.
The Cheeky badge wasn't mentioned by the presenters.
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