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Billy Smart wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:44 pm

John Hoare of Dirty Feed searches for the source of the "I know exactly who reads the papers" routine: What the Papers Say http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/04/what-the-papers-say/

Superb piece.

I first came across it in a textbook when I was doing my Politics A Level in about 1989. There it again attributed it to the TUC boss in 1976. I remember being stunned not only at YPM pinching it but also by how badly it was done, it feels completely out of character and a propos of nothing in parti...

Mr_Wolf wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:30 pm

Sold! (literally and figuratively)

Very much looking forward to this - I'm sure it will be excellent! Thanks for persevering with it Simon.

Thank you, much appreciated!

Hello everyone, Happy to announce that my book looking at the beginnings of Play for Today is now available here: https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/simon-farquhar/play-for-today-the-first-year/paperback/product-n646jg.html?page=1&pageSize=4 The book was actually researched and written quite a few year...

I remember even Tom Baker spotting him on a commentary to an old story and saying “that’s H! He was always with Pat Gorman!”

He couldn’t act for toffee but he certainly looked the part in some of the more streetwise dramas of the day, and his reminiscences were always enjoyable. RIP.

Thanks for this. It is neither in my rent items or my outbox... how odd. And in not full up either. DoubleM, will email you.

In flagging up another lulu 10% discount code now in operation ... INSPIRE10 I'd also like to highlight the following review of 'A THRILLER in Every Corner' which highlights some additional areas not yet mentioned. https://dobermann.wymark.org.uk/2021/01/18/a-thriller-in-every-corner/ Fill in those...

Hello, an urgent query here which I’m hoping someone can help with since all reference libraries are currently closed. Does anyone have an old edition of Spotlight from 1969-1970? If so, can you PM me?

Brilliant, thanks Billy!

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!

“Marvellous!”

Just received my copy. That will see me through lockdown!

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.

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...

Internet suggests they were in Poynton. That seems a bizarrely long distance from TVC...

http://www.poyntonforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=3589

Thanks for the heads up on this. Through a GD is wonderful!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Simon Coward wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:06 am

I 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.

True. How funny if it was The Medium of all things that was!

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...