Anyone who spends a fair amount of time on social media may well be aware of a Twitter account called Accidental Partridge, in which footage and photos of real-life folks being unwittingly akin to Alan Partridge are thrust onto the timeline, for their 400,000 followers to enjoy. Ex-minister Matt Hancock has been on there rather a lot lately. They've made t-shirts and everything.

It's easily done, in fairness. Partridge is a comedy character who probably endures, in part, because we can all see a bit of ourselves in him, and that must be particularly true of anyone working in the media. Doing a commercial radio show without occasional lapses into Partridge-esque phrases as you natter away for hours is surely nigh on impossible. There but for the grace of Alan go I.

Alan was also ahead of his time in terms of actually coming up with winning ideas. His brainstorming - into a dictaphone or over dinner with Tony Hayers - springs to mind whenever you see a couple of seemingly random things hurtle together. Speaking of fowl, there's a game on this casino site link unibet.com/casino called Nunchucks Chicken, which is exactly the sort of crossover that piques - or beaks - the interest. It's a chicken in a headband with nunchucks!

Or should that be nunchicks? Either way, you'd bet on her to rule the roost. Eggcitement guaranteed. Ahem. It throws you right back to monkey tennis, the most famous of Partridge's frantic attempts to come up with a new format, on the spot, as the BBC bigwig looked on. Back then in the 1990s it sounded bonkers; now, if any channel announced such a mix of animal, activity and unemployed presenter looking for something to do, no-one would bat an eyelid.

Even more prevalent are the shows that seem a direct descendent of the format ideas Alan also tossed out for his fellow celebs. In fact, the most infamous of those - Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank - actually became a thing a few years back, as a youth hostel company hired the still-bemused ex-boxer to star in some commercials. Which also raised the possibility of those tongue-in-cheek ads popping up in the middle of shows that were the epitome of Partridge-style programme pitching, too.

Honestly, it's hard to roam around the higher numbers of the TV channel guides, without coming across a show that immediately throws you back to Alan's idea-fests. Let's have a quick look now - just today there's Coastal Devon and Cornwall with Michael Portillo, the ex-politician now best known for train trips in colourful trousers. And lo and behold, here's Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways, the former Tiswas and quiz-show host changing tack on the tracks.

Even the excellent Michael Palin in North Korea would have sounded like a spoof, back in the Monty Python days. But then it was probably Palin's everyman adventures - taking over in the late 1980s from the BBC's old travel stalwart, Alan Whicker - that began the trend for familiar faces doing exotic adventure documentaries.

Now you can't move in the Far East or the South Bronx without tripping over Paul Merton, Sue Perkins or Stephen Fry, or maybe Miriam Margolyes in the Outer Hebrides. Nice work if you can get it. Cashback!