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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...

Several weeks back I finally got around to watching the DVD release of the nuclear holocaust drama "Threads" . I thought I'd share some of my thoughts on the production. Over the years I've heard and read much about this one-off drama but had never seen it until recently. I don't recall this ever b...

Great news. I hope the public give TP a bit of space to do their thing as they have achieved what nobody else has in finding unseen material and actually getting NHP back on TV. The trouble is as the old saying goes "no good deed goes unpunished" TP will probably be bombarded with requests on why th...

Not seen the The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes one, sounds worse than the pack of London postcards they bought for the Tomorrow People backgrounds LOL but surely that Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as a costume drama that can still be shown anywhere today is a candidate for an effects redo to keep it credible.

It's a shame they cannot spend a bit of money on it and clean up and modernize the dodgy effects as they did with Star Trek . I think it would make it appealing as a loop runner ..like Star Trek Because as you imply some of the early concepts and writings were so imaginative and excellent. One of my...

I know that nowadays no actors can stop a production they are in, making it out on DVD. I did not think that behind the scenes personnel had the power to stop one of their productions reaching DVD. Anyway was 2 episodes of Target not one of the first BBC Video releases? It's probably the way the BB...

Never seen it in colour and as a very good doc it would have been rerun on BBC2 and probably on every year in the colour era if it had been.

A possibility may be that it was shot on colour negative and just issued with B/W prints for BBC economy?

The Time Of Your Life was co-written by Andrew Davies. TV Brain states that six episodes are now known to survive, but which ones they are exactly is currently unknown. Well that is something - Rather than being left on the 'pending' shelves do you think (with the recent play recoveries) the BFI ar...

Well, SOME of the cuts are clean... (That is what you mean, right?) [/quote] Yes, the clean cuts may have been natural camera cuts and the director was praying that he could get the whole scenes in without stopping, but working outside the controlled environment of a studio,they probably came acros...

I hope this don't break the rules as it's Network's own promo, but this gives an indication of why it was a difficult process and most steered clear of using videotape in a complicated action drama with lots of editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_QBaZVMxhQ Presumably why 1980s programmes like...

A Good Health episode was recently shown on TPTV.

I wonder if Billy had come across The Time of Your Life This was an ATV soap opera for schools, so far it is thought only one ep
survived as on film it was distributed as a teaching aid to some institutions.

I think he been lurking in the back of programmes like Tomorrow's World until he got this show, and he took the baton and ran with it,
knew his stuff, entertaining, and as you said it was quite unique, fascinating subjects nobody had previously probably never thought about.

Radio, granddad? R4X has certainly opened up the archive to a newer generation, but those listening to radio, I would think, are a different mindset to those who only consume via their phones and are more likely to be looking at TikTok. It may just be me, but I have felt that there was more discuss...

Could have done a leading part these days.

Probably replacing Perry Mason but CBS Justice ch.39 starts showing mid-July The Fugitive

TPTV showing Southern's kids show gem Runaround on Sat 25th early morning


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I think Target might have been a bit too common for BBC audiences LOL ..use to lardidah chit chat dramas with the writers usually having some axe to grind or reverting to the 19th Century dead authors when they wanted to get the moths out of the BBC costume dept. ..Not that I am against some BBC lar...

Managed to catch the Saturday screening of "No Hiding Place" on TPTV, most enjoyable and a great cast in it as well. Recovered by TPTV from... a private collector!...lets hope they come up with more goodies. Yes they say they are looking for more, but haven't found any yet, its a pity the right arm...

CCX channel 23 showing Bless this House 7pm weekdays

OK but what was it then? It can't be so bad that you can't quote it? There is a reason I didn't quote it, I was doing some other work and was not entirely concentrating on the prog (not recorded) and it was a matter of "did I just hear that? ". I didn't want to put something down and find it was ju...

London Weekend took over the Rediffusion studios in Wembley when they came on the air. I can only guess they utilised the existing Rediffusion equipment for their early programmes. The first series of, 'Please Sir!' from 1968 survives on 405-line VT. ....and I had forgotten about The Gold Robbers B...

I caught a bit of Budgie the other night. I didn't see it all but got the gist the Charlie Endell had lumbered him with some illegal Pakistani immigrants. I thought yes well that would have just been how it was in 1971 with the then illegals pouring in...However there was one line Budgie said near t...

A few ATV titles that are now listed as surviving that used not to be - Suspense (1960). All twelve episodes of an anthology series of thrillers. Mostly British remakes of American plays, but also includes a play by Giles Cooper starring Honor Blackman. Television Playhouse: A Stop On The Way (11 M...

On a similar note, didn't the television version of Double Your Money become a touring 'televised' stage show? Or perhaps it started out that way? Well, it did sort of tour the world with also locally transmitted tv specials in - the USSR (You got to give old Hugh some credit for pulling that off i...

Although not specifically known for his TV appearances LOL it was a nice gesture to note Bob the Cat's passing.
He will be missed by many who have known the precious presence of a 4 legged saviour.

I seem to recall in the early days the traffic was incredibly lively, with many contributors very passionate about something or other which often led to a few threads going up in flames LOL. I am sure admin must have been a bit of a nightmare? Then it seemed literally over night everything seemed to...

Do we know how many exist is a form which can be broadcast at a suitable quality? Not an expert but I think there are about 20 complete ones out of the original 200 + and this one may be a recent discovery? However assuming they are export copies even these may not be complete in the sense of a UK ...

TPTV showing a 'Music for Murder' 1965 from No Hiding Place .. June 25 & June 27 evenings.

Amazingly has got subtitles

Looks like a one-off showing but obviously if there is enough interest they might dust the cobwebs off a few more?

perhaps somebody could confirm or deny exactly what phrases were used https://www.tm-img.com/images/2020/06/13/FT.md.jpg Thanks, well that confirms something I may have edited in the mind, and along with the jokes on the Germans I have to agree with the general mood that it belongs in 1975 and we h...

I can live without the N-word in there. Cleese should be careful he doesn't turn in one of his own characters. I haven't seen it for a while (but saw it at its premiere on BBC2) and don't recall FT ever using the N-word. The Major uses the W-word in 'The Germans' and today it seems to be associated...

My question was triggered by once seeing how little of the camera negative (or whatever it's called) was used; it was a film cell from Buffy that I am unable to google again. So I was wondering when that practice started; because the first impulse would surely be to just film what you want the end ...