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- Tue Jan 05, 2021 4:34 pm
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Tanya Roberts (1955-2021)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 283
Re: Tanya Roberts (1955-2021)
TMZ are now saying that she died last night.
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Misremembered titles
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2100
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:52 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Film/TV clichés
- Replies: 120
- Views: 14852
Re: Film/TV clichés
The 2020 version of The Twilight Zone shows a teenage boy's bedroom with handfuls of crumpled tissue on the floor.
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:50 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Film/TV clichés
- Replies: 120
- Views: 14852
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 1:40 pm
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Geoffrey Palmer (1927-2020)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 495
Geoffrey Palmer (1927-2020)
The definition of "lugubrious." RIP
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:06 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Avengers Hendry/Rollason/Blackman/Stevens
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2826
Re: Avengers Hendry/Rollason/Blackman/Stevens
It's a lousy piece, certainly.
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Most in need of a reissue.....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2077
Re: Most in need of a reissue.....
When Network started putting ITC shows out on blu-ray with full restoration I asked on one of their Youtube pages if they were planning to do The Baron and was told yes. No sign of it some years on, unfortunately as the old DVD set left a lot of room for improvement.
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:25 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Most in need of a reissue.....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2077
Re: Most in need of a reissue.....
All the Ebay listings I’ve seen say it has 11 episodes, and a couple have listed them - with “Czech Mate” and “Last Video And Testament” left out. Have you actually seen a copy?Billy Smart wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 11:28 am
There's no need of one! The Pidax Vorsicht, Hochspannung! collection includes all 13 Mystery & Suspense films.
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:32 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Most in need of a reissue.....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2077
Re: Most in need of a reissue.....
Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense has sold for £70-plus on Ebay more than once. There’s a German Vol 1 set which came out in 2018, but no sign of a Vol 2.
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:41 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Threads (DVD Release) - A Few Thoughts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3494
Re: Threads (DVD Release) - A Few Thoughts
The fact that Threads made such an impression on people is in itself evidence that the world hadn’t “moved on” by 1984. Nuclear anxiety was very much a theme of the early Eighties, literally from the beginning of the decade when Russia invaded Afghanistan.* Other nuclear war films of the time were T...
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:01 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 280151
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
Someone made an interesting point on something I read. The reason the current show is in such a mess is because the same people have effectively been running it since it returned... I think there's a good deal of truth in this. Especially after Davies*, so much of it has had the feeling of playing ...
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 8:52 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Psst.... (Fawlty Towers edited)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 11277
Re: Psst.... (Fawlty Towers edited)
If Joe Orton was still alive he’d be Sir John Orton and would have been officially pardoned for defacing the library books.
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:55 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Out of the unknown--The Uninvited
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6311
Re: Out of the unknown--The Uninvited
"The Uninvited" was remade in the 80s, as an episode of Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense.
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:10 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Coming soon on Freeview Channels
- Replies: 259
- Views: 45505
Re: Coming soon on Freeview Channels
By 1956 the Code was on the way to breaking down. More likely the alternative ending for 1984 was political, in case they got into trouble for making a movie where the Communists won.
- Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:53 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: More popular outside their region of production
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8411
Re: More popular outside their region of production
Russell Harty was on LWT before he was networked, I think. Certainly I remember reading in the NME about musicians (maybe the Who?) being on his show and having no idea who he was. And let’s not forget that Bill Grundy’s interview with the Sex Pistols was only broadcast in the London area. If it had...
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:04 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: More popular outside their region of production
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8411
Re: More popular outside their region of production
Crossroads was on for years before it was shown all across ITV.
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 12:39 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 280151
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
I watched again, and thought how unnecessary the whole "timeless child" business is, a pointless complication of a simple setup. If the Doctor's dying, he can survive by changing into a new body: that's all you need, and it's an idea that has served the show well. (If they'd just replaced William Ha...
- Thu Mar 05, 2020 3:51 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 280151
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
Moffat clearly couldn't resist a regeneration scene (despite making a hash of every one he wrote) and it seems that Chibnall has a similar thing for alternate Doctors.
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 10:44 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 280151
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
I thought it contained long passages of tedium. I think Gallifrey is a dull setting - the Doctor left there a long time ago, and that's all the "origin" he, or indeed she, needs. "Everything you know is a lie" is a boring, irritating premise, and it wasn't improved by the Master either intoning it p...
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:29 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 280151
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
I notice that weeks pass and episodes get almost no discussion, here and at a couple of other places. I'm not surprised, because most of them feel very uninspired - and even stunts like the mystery is-she-isn't-she Doctor are uninspired. Chibnall simply doesn't have original ideas.
- Wed Jan 29, 2020 2:58 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shows ruined by revival/comeback
- Replies: 80
- Views: 13166
Re: Shows ruined by revival/comeback
I've been watching Special Branch on Talking Pictures, and looking at this thread again has been illuminating. I was puzzled by the revamp at the tail-end of series one, and in series two it's definitely lost its way. It started out with an air of Callan about it, but some of the episodes in series ...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 280151
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
I thought Skyfall was Chibnall doing an RTD-style story, and last night’s episode felt like him doing Moffat - not a good thing at all.
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:57 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 280151
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
I watched last night’s and thought it wasn’t bad to begin with, but after they left the dome it became convoluted and repetitive - the silly bit about those two characters being mother and daughter (it would have helped if they’d borne the slightest similarity to each other), one character after ano...
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:38 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Programmes that kept going for no real reason
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5043
Re: Programmes that kept going for no real reason
I suppose it was always possible that someone else might try to shoot the Queen.Brock wrote: And why did the BBC continue to broadcast the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony on radio until 1994?
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:01 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Programmes that kept going for no real reason
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5043
Re: Programmes that kept going for no real reason
I don't know if they still do it any more, but it was a sure sign that a programme had run out of ideas when the new series came from a different part of the country every week.
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:50 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Coming soon on Freeview Channels
- Replies: 259
- Views: 45505
Re: Coming soon on Freeview Channels
Just turned on TPTV and they’re showing The Day After again. Good timing!?
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:49 pm
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Elizabeth Sellars (1921-2019)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 760
Elizabeth Sellars (1921-2019)
A leading lady in Fifties British movies, she had a later career on TV - including the unforgettable Beasts episode “During Barty’s Party”. RIP.
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 3:59 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Andrea Newman (1938-2019)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 643
Andrea Newman (1938-2019)
Destined to be remembered for Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. RIP
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 3:14 pm
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Gay Byrne (1934-2019)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1081
Gay Byrne (1934-2019)
Longtime presenter of Ireland's The Late Late Show. RIP
- Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:09 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: 'Almost cast' actors
- Replies: 76
- Views: 12569
Re: 'Almost cast' actors
John Cleese has said that at first he didn’t intend to play Basil Fawlty, and one person he had in mind for the part was Denholm Elliott.