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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...

Once upon a time, ITV use to show 2 plays on a Sunday night.... the better known Sunday Night Theatre/Drama 61-67/Armchair Theatre etc in the late evening.. and one early in the evening which often bridged the god slot. The ones in the early evening are less remembered as they were sporadic, general...

A few old sitcom memories there, likewise remember Alexander the Greatest best. I also remember that ITV made lots of sitcoms but a lot of them and were forgettable and not very good ...but who knows they may be like old wine now? Apart from the jewel in the crown Rising Damp Yorkshire TV use to kno...

Sony channel has been showing Randall and Hopkirk..they look very analogue PAL to me, which probably means they are also Carlton transfers..

The Roy Orbison one is on the DVD ( the only one they haven't shown from it) it's in colour, so still no news on the two recovered ones. What I meant was it was new to them(so they might class it as a discovery) as they haven't shown it in the runs, going straight to the 1970s editions, so it seems...

With that first talk on the recovered body it could almost have been an episode of "Quincy ME". Ah well Rediffusion had something for you there called The Hidden Truth same era but apparently no episodes exist. A Pocket full of Bones I thought flowed along very nicely with a reminder of the long wi...

ozsat wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:53 am

Two new (to Talking Pictures) episodes are coming up - but they haven't said which ones yet.

Apparently one will be one of the last Jimmy Tarbuck ones with Roy Orbison and The Seekers

and the other one maybe???? the Judy Garland/ Liza Minneli special.... but maybe wrong

Haven't listened to Podcasts for a few years as the ones I listened to in the past I have found many of them to be rambling and uneven in both sound quality and subject. But Mr Jaz, just broke the 'ITC entertained' ice with your B/W Saint subject and thoroughly enjoyed it. You and your posse have co...

What was it that the audience weren’t robbed of by not seeing the War Game - That sense of hope? I would question the sense (and truthfulness) of putting out a drama about nuclear war that was optimistic. I think Threads had its mind perfectly made up about what it was. It was a drama. As for the p...

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...