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I had a very strong memory of Mark Wing-Davey in a very Zaphod Beeblebroxesque role unveiling a marijuana cigarette as "the Sunday joint". I asked a few people about it and was told it must be in The Glittering Prizes. Having watched The Glittering Prizes I couldn't find the scene, so I was quite pl...

There's a Doctor Who type show in an episode of "Press Gang" - was it Professor X?

She's really good as the put-upon sister-in-law to Peggy Mount in "Sailor Beware" (with bonus Gordon Jackson, not to mention Paul Eddington as uncredited bearded sailor at the start).

Thanks for pointing that out Mark!

I too would love to see the rest of Metal Mickey out on DVD. I was just having a sneaky read of "Metal Mickey's Boogie Book" only this morning!

Ian Marter.

Billy Smart wrote:is it possible that the three missing episodes have now been added?

Perhaps Network have put one episode on there three extra times!

The titles on the strike affected Hadleigh episodes on the Network set look as if they had the colour level decreased to almost but not absolute zero - you can tell they were from colour film from a tint but not anything more. What else has been out on DVD that was affected by the colour strike? Ha...

The Late Show was brilliant viewing. I hadn't realised that after they disappeared from our screens that they were doing radio in Melbourne. I was a huge fan of the D-Generation and to suddenly have them back on the TV was wonderful; certainly compulsory viewing as you say. They had so many good thi...

It's definitely not "The Store of the Worlds", which is basically a tale about a man living a normal life, then waking up to find reveal to the reader that he's actually living in a post-apocalyptic world and all that went before was an induced dream of the past, for which he'd paid his life savings...

Do you or did you come from Australia then, Bodie? Hi murphy1961, yes I'm Australian too. I agree "Fast Forward" was much better. They certainly did well with their parody versions of Get Smart and so on. (I also agree about Col'n Carpenter and his sitcom, which I was going to mention, but I go on ...

"More coal!" Sometimes repetition can be the bedrock that makes the thing funny. The same thing happening over and over, until the hilarity reaches a crescendo. It depends on how the repetition is used or how the familiar set up is played off. It also depends on how far you have to zoom in (or out) ...

I was never happy about Blake's Seven continuing as a story of five people, none of them called Blake. It could be argued that by calling it "Blake's 7", it was about the seven people who belonged to/were connected with Blake, rather than being about Blake himself; just as a show called "Chekov's G...

Trippers Day (1984) starring Leonard Rossiter, turned in to Slingers Day with Bruce Forsyth after Rossiter's death. I never understood the new title. The old one was obviously a pun on "day tripper" What's a "day slinger"? I never thought of the second title as being a pun like the first one; only ...

Now "Not on Your Nelly" has finally got a box set, I wonder if Network will decide to box these up too.

It's a great radio series but I don't think the earliest ones are as good as the rest of the run. They were still working out how to do things and there's a lot of narration by Watson to get over parts. Anything Bert Coules worked on however is terrific. It was someone's comment here about "The Lion...

Dirk Gently. Hilariously witty and strange and much better than Sherlock. I was gutted when they abandoned it. They were out of books to adapt. I thought it was a bit incoherent myself, and I don't mean that on purpose or in a holistic way. The first/pilot episode clearly borrowed from the the book...

I mentioned L for Lester can you think of other examples of programmes that had one successful series and were never heard of again? As HHG and FR&C have already been mentioned, I'll have to go with "An Actor's Life for Me" with John Gordon Sinclair. I don't know how successful it was but I'm very ...

I would start and stop the music by turning the radio on and off, thinking that by turning it off the music would also stop, and the same song would start again when I turned it on, at the same spot where I turned it off. I well recall being sent to bed before a particular show had finished and beg...

I'll have to locate the video you speak of. I'm chuffed to learn Glen Matlock was probably involved.

Actually, I've seen a few interviews with Mr Matlock which I assume are at his house and he's got a poster for "The Rebel" with Tony Hancock up on the wall, so I'm sure he'd fit in well here!

Excellent work, all. Now, can anyone tell me who are Disaster Area on the "It's Only the End of the World Again" single? Rumour has it that Rusty Egan was involved, and DNA plays rhythm guitar. I love this song and would love to know more about it. I love how it fits the "boy being meets girl being ...

I always loved Candid Camera because it always seemed rather gentle and good-natured. ! That's how I felt about the US version. Alan Funt was a genial host. Hmm, here's an interesting snippet from Wikipedia: "On February 3, 1969, Funt, his then wife, and his two youngest children boarded Eastern Ai...

Does anyone have a good word to say for it? Actually, I quite liked it. It's one of those shows that I saw as a teenager and could still remember half the gags in the first episode when I watched it on DVD 20 years later - his grandmother telling him to get some cigarettes from the corner shop - "w...

I remember watching one episode of Public Eye where Frank Marker has a tin of "Neocafe", which I thought was great as they only had to alter one letter on the coffee tin. But it also shows it wasn't just the BBC trying to avoid unintentionally publicising products. Last night I was watching an episo...

A flower shop? "Bloody flora!"

I'll admit to liking Chef too. The smart titles with the programme name made out of food is a neat touch. From memory there are cuts to at least one of the episodes, possibly accidental. I'm thinking of the one where Gareth Blackstock wants to buy some 'proper' traditionally-made cheese but the heal...

It looks like they're using Paypal to validate payments rather than a link through a banking service like they used to with RBS. I get a "Pay by Paypal or Credit Card" link only. Going through the link gives me the option to pay by Paypal or Credit Card, but the credit card payments show up in my or...

Loch Ness turns up in a lot of these, doesn't it? There's the Goodies "Loch Ness Monster" episode too.

Don -- It's all Hitler's fault. GT's family lived in Aberystwych but his father was in the army during the war. His dad happened to get leave in the capital when his mother was pregnant with GT and close to term. She went to London to visit her husband and happened to go into labour, so GT had Londo...

if your dvd contains episodes, they are all lumped together into one VTS set, accessed by pointers from the menu. If you rip them individually, you no longer have to worry about being able to read the dvd file pointers. I'm always surprised when I look at some discs and find that they contain singl...

My favourite episode is "The Deadly Attachment" ( the U-Boat crew one with Phillip Madoc), in the Radio version Bill Pertwee (Hodges) is absent, so it's Frank Williams as The Vicar, who is taken hostage, when they threaten to shoot him, Frazer's line to Mainwaring, "You must admit, you've never rea...