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- Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:09 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Blue Peter 29.12.69
- Replies: 2
- Views: 187
Re: Blue Peter 29.12.69
Brilliant, thanks Billy!
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:15 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Blue Peter 29.12.69
- Replies: 2
- Views: 187
Blue Peter 29.12.69
Obscure one, this, but any help would be much appreciated. It is for a thing.
I’m trying to find out what the items were on this edition. Can anyone help? Huge appreciation if you can!
I’m trying to find out what the items were on this edition. Can anyone help? Huge appreciation if you can!
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:24 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Just published - 'A THRILLER in Every Corner'
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1407
Re: Just published - 'A THRILLER in Every Corner'
“Marvellous!”
Just received my copy. That will see me through lockdown!
Just received my copy. That will see me through lockdown!
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 2:11 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Oldest TV advert still running?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1175
Re: Oldest TV advert still running?
I remember one of the old Fry’s Turkish Delight ads suddenly reappearing, bizarrely, in the 90s, and looking in pretty poor shape and totally out of place.
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 12:55 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Frank Windsor (1927-2020)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 873
Re: Frank Windsor (1927-2020)
I'll always see him as a great police officer and also in A for Andromeda. The name Watt might hint at the well-known Conan Doyle supporting character. RIP. Which Barlow acknowledges on Jack the Ripper, when he calls him “my dear Watt.” I’ll also put in a word for his role in a shocking Crown Court...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:06 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: My Wife Next Door (1970s BBC sitcom)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3555
Re: My Wife Next Door (1970s BBC sitcom)
Internet suggests they were in Poynton. That seems a bizarrely long distance from TVC...
http://www.poyntonforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=3589
http://www.poyntonforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=3589
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 1:37 am
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Four Albums 1968-1978
- Replies: 1
- Views: 655
Re: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Four Albums 1968-1978
Thanks for the heads up on this. Through a GD is wonderful!
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:09 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: "The Other One" other ones!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1113
Re: "The Other One" other ones!
Perhaps Colin’s Sandwich had run its course, but I’d certainly have watched another series. A curious one that never gets a mention is Goodbye Mr Kent. It’s an odd one, I think that like The Other One, the premise is a little too bewildering at first glance, and we aren’t quite sure where our sympat...
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:05 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: "The Other One" other ones!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1113
Re: "The Other One" other ones!
At least with Fawlty Towers it was a case of stop when the ideas the writers were passionate about ran out and not prolonging it with new episodes just written to keep it going and people saying "it's not as good as it used to be". Considering that FT only has 12 episodes, there is a rather high pr...
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:30 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: The box that says “the adverts are coming”
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1193
The box that says “the adverts are coming”
Can anyone shed any light on that mysterious box in the top right hand corner of the screen with the scrolling lines, the one that used to forewarn us that the commercials were approaching?. I’d always assumed that they were added to the programme By the presentation department live, but I notice th...
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 9:43 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: My Wife Next Door (1970s BBC sitcom)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3555
Re: My Wife Next Door (1970s BBC sitcom)
Hannah Gordon probably was thought of, on the back of "My Wife Next Door", although as she admitted, she was asked to do "M&W" after someone else declined to appear. I thought it was a great series, the two leads were really good, obviously a somewhat far fetched idea, but hugely entertaining. Acco...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:06 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: The Other One (1970s sitcom)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1287
Re: The Other One (1970s sitcom)
This is a fascinating thread. I think Jason H is spot on about the lack of a strong counterpoint to Ralph. It leaves the audience an awful lot of work to do. But I totally disagree with him about Tom Good being a potentially dislikable character and a bully. I do feel that’s something of an exaggera...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:27 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Two untraceable tv plays
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1499
Re: Two untraceable tv plays
A play entitled “The Crib”, which is not listed in Kaleidoscope, but was broadcast on 26/12/71 as “A Play for Sunday”. The BFI collections catalogue has no record of it either. It was made by ATV. Is there any way of ascertaining whether it exists and where it would be held if so? EDIT: seems this ...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:30 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Crown Court: The Medium
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1430
Re: Crown Court: The Medium
True. How funny if it was The Medium of all things that was!Simon Coward wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:06 amI suppose any of them could fall foul of the old problem of being too close to a real case that was in the news at the time.
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:45 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Two untraceable tv plays
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1499
Re: Two untraceable tv plays
Thanks for this, very interesting and good to know that ATV archive recovery is in progress.
Kal guise doesn’t Even list a strand called A Play for Sunday, but you’re quite right, The Crib was an early evening number.
Kal guise doesn’t Even list a strand called A Play for Sunday, but you’re quite right, The Crib was an early evening number.
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:39 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Crown Court: The Medium
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1430
Re: Crown Court: The Medium
Interesting. There is just simply no space in the Schedule for them both to have premiered at lunchtime! Can’t see anything in the episode to suggest it was pulled, but perhaps Bolton was, and The Medium replaced it. Incidentally, does anyone know why Traffic Warden’s Daughter was pulled from transm...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:43 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Two untraceable tv plays
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1499
Two untraceable tv plays
Hmmm, unearthed another mystery here while looking for something. A play entitled “The Crib”, which is not listed in Kaleidoscope, but was broadcast on 26/12/71 as “A Play for Sunday”. The BFI collections catalogue has no record of it either. It was made by ATV. Is there any way of ascertaining whet...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:36 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Crown Court: The Medium
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1430
Re: Crown Court: The Medium
Thanks for this, superb reply, as I would expect! It’s all a right mystery, but i had no idea about those early evening re-runs. Oddly, the TVTimes feature for the launch of ITV’s afternoon programming states that Crown Court would “eventually be seen in all areas”. I don’t know where it wasn’t bein...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:23 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Crown Court: The Medium
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1430
Crown Court: The Medium
Does anyone have a tx date for this mysterious story? My Kaleidoscope guide (quite an old edition now; a newer one may have identified it) doesn’t list it at all, and Wikipedia has “???” for its tx date. A website for the series erroneously lists it as 29 Nov to 1 December 1972. It was certainly mad...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:45 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Threads (DVD Release) - A Few Thoughts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3494
Re: Threads (DVD Release) - A Few Thoughts
Each to their opinion and all that, but this is a bit baffling: “many gave up halfway on this tatty and tedious programme, because they themselves were quite optimistic” Did they? How do you know they gave up on it? And optimism about a nuclear attack was the one thing the programme set out to chal...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 8:50 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Threads (DVD Release) - A Few Thoughts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3494
Re: Threads (DVD Release) - A Few Thoughts
Each to their opinion and all that, but this is a bit baffling: “many gave up halfway on this tatty and tedious programme, because they themselves were quite optimistic” Did they? How do you know they gave up on it? And optimism about a nuclear attack was the one thing the programme set out to chall...
- Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:41 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Sydney Lotterby (1926-2020)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 655
Re: Sydney Lotterby (1926-2020)
Seemed like a really nice guy, and what a legacy. I remember some years back on the Comedy Connections for Ever Decreasing Circles, he revealed (and was clearly still hurt about) being sacked from EDC after series 2, because “apparently I wasn’t giving enough direction to our lead actor”. Which sugg...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:40 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: 'The Wednesday Play'/'Play For Today' on DVD
- Replies: 66
- Views: 11043
Re: 'The Wednesday Play'/'Play For Today' on DVD
I get the feeling that Your Man From Six Counties got remembered as an Irish play, rather than Welland one. It's one of the most cinematic PFT stories in intention, with its use of spectacular landscape and climax at a local geographical feature. It's a particularly good choice for a play to restor...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:40 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: 'The Wednesday Play'/'Play For Today' on DVD
- Replies: 66
- Views: 11043
Re: 'The Wednesday Play'/'Play For Today' on DVD
The BFI have announced the plays to be included on Play For Today: Volume One : The Lie (Written by Ingmar Bergman / Dir. Alan Bridges, 1970) Shakespeare or Bust (Written by Peter Terson / Dir. Brian Parker, 1973) Back of Beyond (Written by Julia Jones, Dir. Desmond Davis, 1974) Passage to England ...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:58 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: BBC trail that was pulled
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3260
Re: BBC trail that was pulled
I don't remember the trailer, but that was pretty unpleasant. Also noted that would have cost a few bob to stage only to be used a few times... That's what I was thinking - at the start I thought it must have been a trail for a new series or even a film, rather than just for a channel. How could th...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:44 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: BBC trail that was pulled
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3260
Re: BBC trail that was pulled
The Creative Services department at that time, who made the trails, had huge budgets and a massive amount of creative freedom, ironically unlike the chain of command in programme making itself! I think the fact that there were awards available for the best trails was perhaps more of an end goal than...
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:49 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: BBC trail that was pulled
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3260
- Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:34 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: BBC trail that was pulled
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3260
Re: BBC trail that was pulled
Ah, nice one. It wasn’t the faces one, but the cliffhanger one that’s mentioned at the end of the article. Thank you!Cole wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 8:10 pmWas this it? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4463108.stm
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:12 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Is it all over....?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12238
Re: Is it all over....?
It would be nice if Network would interact a bit more; would be nice to find out what the lay of the land is on this.
- Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:48 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: BBC trail that was pulled
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3260
BBC trail that was pulled
I’ve no idea why this randomly popped into my head. Sometime around 2001, the BBC broadcast a trail (for itself) which caused something of a stir. A lot of people complained about it and it was pulled from further broadcasts. I never saw it but I remember it being talked about; i have a vague memory...