Loaded with 'em, this one.
Page one:
This is Richard and Judy, darlings of British daytime TV. Pukka TV chec Jamie Oliver namechecked as "Jimmy Olivier", as is the Geordie woman who dispenses advice to the lost and lonely (can't remember her real name). The cameraman has a jacket with "England's Glory" on the back - the slogan of Bryant and May matches?
Page two:
David Dauntless - Dan Dare and a bit of Dicky Dauntless (Kid Marvelman/Miracleman - or was it Young Marvelman?)
page five:
"A man called Mother" - the Steed's boss in the Avengers.
Page seven:
Raft of British High Street shops parodied -
Sada=Prada?, After=Next, Thornton's toffee shop, HVM=HMV, Heneis=Hennes/H&M, Fleece & Firkin - pub chain.
page nine:
Rover's Return pub from Coronation Street (should be in Greater Manchester/Lancashire though, not Yorkshire).
Bert Rigby, chubby northerner with a jovial disposition - Dan Dare's Wigan-born sidekick, Digby.
page eleven:
Korova Strip Bar - Clockwork Orange, obviously.
page eighteen:
Doris Karloff - Anne Widdecombe, fearsome Tory.
page twenty:
Hacker - Jim Hacker from Yes, Minister (I think we've had that before, have we?)
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