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The Post Office wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:52 pm

Would that be the same Mike Hodges who directed "Get Carter"?

According to IMDB ..yes

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388198/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0



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I thought it started as just another episode of World in Action and at the time a series had not even been thought about..although they planned to revisit it once again in the year 2000 when the kids were adults. I am sure it was not as simple as it looked on screen and they probably did camera test...

When I checked a week or so ago - Skippy was in fact the very poor 1990s remake and not the original 1968 version. The others look good though. Tuesday night 6th Jan 7pm begins ITC hour with Sapphire and Steel and half hour Danger Man Mornings continue with Skippy Oh no! Didn't know it was a remake...

London Live Ch8 This small odd,regional channel seems to have an uncanny knack of delivering gems that some other stations
would claim to be out of reach for them.


Tuesday night 6th Jan 7pm begins ITC hour with Sapphire and Steel and half hour Danger Man

Mornings continue with Skippy

Enjoyed many of the American actors turning up in UK productions and Skye had it all..but usually, American tributes to these actors never mention their work in the UK as if perhaps it was some sort of embarrassment?

For those interested in ITV history, David Elstein for openDemocracy is fascinating on the long-term fall-out of Thames Television’s Death on the Rock report in 1988: Thatcher’s poisonous television legacy is still being felt - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/thatchers-poisonous-te...

Mark wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:33 am

TPTV will probably be showing the B/W episodes of "UpDown", not shown in previous repeats on ITV4.

Yes they are not afraid of a bit of monochrome LOL

London Live Ch.8 Seem to have got hold of the Harry Towers Archive..Harry Alan Towers (for those not familiar) was a businessman that just happened to see the emerging television scene in the 50s as a new business opportunity, he knocked out lots of stuff, serials like The Gay Cavalier(now lost) etc...

He had more to give and we have been cut short.

Loved his impressions Stella Street comes to mind but obviously a lot more

Was it ever confirmed that Robbie Williams was the boy in the Mistletoe ad? Christmas was a time where companies (that didn't normally advertise throughout the year) ran their old ads again and again. it was like welcoming back an old friend LOL. From memory the rather spooky Sandeman Port, Rolf Har...

Is Forces TV on Ch.97? I did manage to catch a Two in Clover the Sid James/Victor Spinetti comedy on Forces TV...but Forces TV has gone again from my menu. Quite a lot of channel number shuffling going on at the moment, CBS Justice ( The Fugitive/Perry Mason etc ) is changing number next week and Ho...

I seem to recall seeing him in a covert photo dressed in a black leather bike outfit at some sort of ..er party. Which was quite a shock as his image was of a pipe and slippers home-loving family man type of thing, who often included his wife Nesta in his TV appearances. If he had worn studded black...

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:47 pm

So it is!

Well, it was used later than 1968 of course. I meant it couldn't be younger.

If you look up Hey Jude on that well known video site it should be the tune the Beatles take the P with as David Frost approaches

In case it's of interest... here's a piece by Toby Miller (author of the BFI book on "The Avengers") to mark the loss of Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg and to emphasize the influence of their characters in global culture: https://cstonline.net/vale-avengers-stars-by-toby-miller/ All the best Andrew ...

If you like technical snippets of TV in the golden age. Then Jaqueline Turner has a very enjoyable biography here for free of her career at Granada TV. Jacki is the wife of the legendary World in Action cameraman George Jesse Turner. Lots of geeky technical stuff ..yum yum https://www.granadaland.or...

Mark wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:00 am

They have found another one!

Good ol' TPTV, the box set is getting bigger"

Great! thanks to TP they are on the screen again, makes you wonder what the heck the BFI intends to do with the ones it has, which have been sitting on the shelves for 50+ years.

Sometimes you could pick up broken and fragmented pages from the day you recorded your VHS tape.

Don't know if this was improved by using SVHS or the equiv 'super' Betamax system?

Was reminded of actress Ann Lynn on 'The Comedian's Graveyard' Private Eye episode showing on TPTV. Apparently her life had been much like the Tessa Wyatt character and not like the glam lifestyle I assumed she had. Just a jobbing actor, taking various jobs in Civvy St when the acting jobs were thin...

You would not have seen these on your TV at home if the technician had set the TV to certain parameters on the test card. As with the Teletext data lines, which were hopefully hidden off the top of the screen. Some old ( they didn't know it was coming LOL) TV sets would actually show the teletext a...

You would not have seen these on your TV at home if the technician had set the TV to certain parameters on the test card. The one on the left side ( a standby to the machine ops to run prerecorded sequencies after a live studio sequence) was mainly used on programmes with no budget for an edit or be...

ozsat wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:04 pm

It already has - some good stuff on there.

Wow didn't notice, looks like Pick is moving to ch.34 once I retune

Sky Arts apparently launching on Freeview 11 .

Expect archive 'art' such as from The South Bank Show- Aquarius -etc
But also music/talk shows and a few dramas thrown in as well.

Perhaps too obscure for a distributor to risk? don't know
I could not imagine it being broadcast in the USA, didn't they (in those days) frown upon an action series made on VTR ?
Did they show the Canadian Starlost show?

Next episode - The Baron, being recorded tomorrow It's great! very involving especially if The Baron has been a long part of your life's wallpaper ..so to speak. Perhaps a little harsh on David Marlowe, as if the Baron was visiting his shop in London he had to have someone one running it of 'retail...

I recall the Avengers one about the guy dressed as an old dear stabbing people with knitting needles. ..In the opening scene Emma had been to a party and had a sort of skin-tight outfit on. Now I was watching it on my grandma's TV set which now realise had a fading tube as it made everything look ex...

An interesting history from contributors, and perhaps no reason why it is not included in the BBC perennial basket of repeats. Unless of course perhaps somebody is blocking it? I don't recall the later final repeats at all But in the end It must have been because of Hannah Gordon why I remembered it...

Talking of short-run sitcoms does anyone remember and have opinions of My Wife Next Door It appeared to have been only a few episodes that were quickly repeated and never heard of again IIRC. It starred John Alderton and Hannah Gordon as a separated couple who find themselves living in the two ends ...

Presumably the only prints in existence for those episodes, so should we expect too much ?

Probably some old boy ran them on his old projector and kept them in his loft for 50 odd years, he could have chucked them in the bin at any time and we would have never seen them.

I will nominate the wartime series Pathfinders. Although I have mixed feelings about the series itself, it could certainly do with an upgrade. I suppose we should always be grateful when an obscure TV show such as this is released at all, but really, the 16mm film transfers in the currently availab...

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. Fellow poster Billy Smart usually knows what the BFI is up to and he brought to t...