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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

And here it is. What on Earth were they thinking!

https://youtu.be/3RiuETHf63M

Cole wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 8:10 pm

Was this it? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4463108.stm

Ah, nice one. It wasn’t the faces one, but the cliffhanger one that’s mentioned at the end of the article. Thank you!

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.

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...

fatcat wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:51 pm

I think Target might have been a bit too common for BBC audiences LOL ..use to lardidah chit chat dramas

Because that’s all the BBC made until Target. And we all thought Loach and Garnett were the trailblazers!

It’s hideously awful!

I’m surprised not to see To Have and To Hold, Country Matters, Blood Money, Telford’s Change and Candid Camera available. They would be my top five.

I have a feeling we are not going to get any more of the half hour era of The Bill or any more Armchair Theatre or Tempo...

I’m very grateful for that. It was a bit of a mess to decipher!

Ah, didn’t realise that, thank you!

Does anyone know what happened to this series? It was billed as being 12 short plays about lockdown (a la ITV’s Isolation Stories). The Radio Times gave it very little coverage, billed six of them and said three more would be available online (which only makes nine...) My set top box had it on serie...

I always thought that cricket routine was curiously unfunny. Even Ballard B couldn’t get much out of it. Has anyone else noticed that there are two versions of a moment in Kipper and the Corpse? The scene where the couple are checking out, in one version they consider trying the hotel by the sewage ...

Unless I’m missing something, they seem to have different documentaries on, and the recent one doesn’t have the episode commentaries. Is this correct? The 2019 one on every site lists a few extras and the says “and much more” which is exasperating!

Hello all,

It’s time I got The Prisoner, as I haven’t watched it in years, but I see that there are now two different blu-Ray releases of it. does anyone have any insights into which is the better purchase? All suggestions welcome.

Is this is the very recent blu-day or the one from a few years ago? I haven’t bought either yet, and wondering which one to go for...

I think the Hammer version is excellent, one of the best of that series.

A baffling one was when an episode of Fawlty Towers (The Hotel Inspectors) was dropped by BBC1 on 2.6.82 as the Papal Visit overran. It was replaced by The Good Life - Tbe Weaver’s Tale... which was the same length! Go figure...

This is interesting. There was a thread some time back entitled “who was that voice?”, when we were all trying to identify the ubiquitous voice from the Seventies, a very forced and over-enthusiastic posh accent that was usually wildly at odds with the on-screen expression. We never managed to iden...

Me too, please!

Looks wonderful!

Yes there was also THE SHOOTING GALLERY wasn’t there? Wonderful strands.

Thanks, everyone. Some of those sound fascinating. But no joy, alas. I notice that We Didn’t Start the Fire wasn’t released until September 1989, so that narrows things down a bit. It was definitely no later than summer 1991 that it was shown, so Next time I’m in front of some old TVTimes I’ll have ...

I was probably in the wrong mood for it, really. Some bits worked - mostly the bits whipped/homaged from the originals - but the framing story with dear old Simon Williams didn't work for me at all. I know I'm being ungrateful - if it wasn't for Gatiss we would get nothing - but it really needed a ...