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Hey Simon. We must have been watching at the same time LOL. I maybe wrong but I think Smith was also repeated during a later summer break ..maybe 76. Also IIRC Opportunity Knocks also use to take a summer break and that slot often had The Saint and Riptide* in. Riptide seemed to jump from one thing ...

BTW if you spot Vacant Possession in the TP schedule (they do show it fairly frequently) it is from the AR series Blackmail

A rather amusing bit of fun.

In the IMDB 'unknown season' section it contains a few of the plays that were never transmitted in the first place, obviously not the mid 50s ones but a few of the later ones rather curiously still survive on tape apparently including The Blood Knot which may have strayed too far into S.African poli...

Ivor Dean was brilliant didn't recognise him till much later and I thought Det.Baxter was hesitating over the perhaps gory state of the murder scene, until that shout from somewhere LOL.
Nice lively print and sound even had the break bumpers although perhaps TP mistimed the first one if it was there.

Mark wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:58 am

"Going For A Bundle" was very entertaining and funny, better then the Papers one, reminded me even more of "Get This" and the fun, Fowler and Lynch had on that series.

I thought they were great, a funny double act - especially as James was thought of as a snooty, moody villain.

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Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:59 pm

TPTV are showing another edition of the Southern TV series "Going A Bundle", on the subject of Steam, tomorrow morning (Mar 17th) 9am.

Cheers Just in time to set the video tonight

Coming mid April new No Hiding Place and some Boyd QC

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Lovely Nicola shining like a star at the moment on TPTV in Upstairs Downstairs

The first episode of REEDER was an ABC production, but was held by Thames (at the very least on a Philips viewing tape - which is where Kaleidoscope obtained a copy from). By the time the dvd release came round Kal’s copy seems to be the only one in existence. So probably Fremantle just doesn’t hav...

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Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:28 pm

fatcat wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:15 pm

Be interesting to know if the missing JG Reeder episode The Treasure Hunt was on the Network DVD.

It is on the Network DVD.

Hmm ..maybe TP gets shortchanged sometimes by these big orgs. whose left-hand does not know what its right hand is doing?

I think it will be a matter of the BFI drip feeding them as they only have a limited number of spares for their 2inch VT machines. So there is probably a lengthy evaluation process to ensure the tape goes through in one take without wearing/ damaging the precious heads. Apparently, TPTV could not sh...

Talking Pictures TV start showing the ITC/Rank series "Interpol Calling" (1959) from Monday 15th March at 6pm - then subsequent episodes weekdays at 6pm. Oh good call, looks like they have got access to ITC's dusty forgotten shelves LOL Reginald Perrin showing on BBC4 (fancy that, the BBC showing a...

Mark wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:56 am

TPTV are trailing "The Champions" for March 7th, taking over from "Enemy At the Door".

Hope they used the excellent trailer (not the one in the studio)

It is a big world as there seems to be a few TP viewers who have never seen it or vaguely remember it from a long time ago.

Apparently, TPTV has just found another NINE! episodes.

Sat 6th Feb coming to TPTV The Firechasers ITC IIRC Made by the then redundant Avengers' gang at ITC toying with ideas probably for future series. but after some time in the can did eventually get released as a supporting picture at the cinema. It has everything you like ...and dislike about an ITC ...

I think she was quite regular on UK tv at one time in imported sitcoms etc

The Professionals negatives were found for the Blu-ray release by Network and gave excellent results. I don't know about the New Avengers but the prints used for the DVDs were not the best. The one shown at the Avengers Weekend at the NFT a good few years ago was much better than those, it made the...

I think the BFI have been sitting on an Orlando adventure for about 50 years?
As said before, an absolute tragedy about Sexton Blake considering all the work and sacrifices that went into it to entertain kids,
Lawrence Payne certainly deserved a pension of repeat fees.

TPTV have been in the barns and cupboards again.

It looks like they have recovered a complete Rediffusion kids series The Barnstormers
starring Dennis Waterman.

Showing sometime soon

Most enjoyable and you totally summed up Strange Report with things not perhaps previously thought about. I think I would have preferred a 26 or 30 episode series as I liked the characters but as you imply it needed a thread with the writing and more input from local writers (the Roger Marshalls etc...

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...

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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...