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Some classics this week! It was fitting that he played "She", the theme to Seven Faces of Woman , with music by Charles Aznavour and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, who died this week. However the version he played was sung by Peter Skellern rather than Aznavour himself, who sang on the original recordi...

Angela Lansbury is 95 today.

Brock wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:03 pm

Didn't John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme do a sketch based on this idea? (Radio 4.)

Yep - and it's on right now!

Murder Most Horrid (with Dawn French) was another one where the lyrics of the closing theme changed each week to fit the plot. The penultimate line always had to rhyme with "horrid", and as the series went on, the rhymes got more and more ridiculous, until one week they just gave up and sang "la-la...

The theme played over the closing credits to Blackadder II had different lyrics for each episode.

Yes, good to hear the "Z Cars" theme this week, you are probably right about the backwards thing, I was just 'Der Der' ing it, so the "Z Cars" bit was Der Der Derr, and "Bravo" was Derr Der Der ( babadaa), very technical I Know!...but maybe not! I've looked into both pieces and I genuinely don't th...

Funnily enough, we got the Z Cars theme this week (played forwards!), which may have been intended as a tribute to Frank Windsor, although he didn't say. We also got an entire episode of Hector's House , one that I actually remember watching as a kid (featuring the tuba). This is the third time sinc...

Not quite making the list was 18.5 million for the 1985 World Snooker Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor - BBC2's highest-ever audience, and the highest audience for a programme after midnight. As far as I know, both those records still stand.

Might be a coincidence, but the main three notes of " Juliet Bravo" are the first three notes of "Z Cars" backwards, maybe that's where it comes from. I really don't think so. The Juliet Bravo theme is in C minor and the first three notes of the main tune are E flat-G-F. The Z Cars theme is in F ma...

Thinking about that "Juliet Bravo" interview, it was suggested that the theme was supposed to be the "Z Cars" theme backwards.! I've tried playing the Z Cars theme backwards but I don't hear much resemblance! According to Second-Hand Songs , it's based on the C-minor prelude from Book I of Bach's W...

And a cheeky bit of casting when he turned up as the (unnamed) Chief Superintendent in The Detectives!

A mixed bag this week, with a number of repeats but quite a few interesting new ones. It's a shame that we got a truncated version of All Creatures Great and Small again - the full version would certainly be worth hearing. We also got the rather curious Parker, Well Done! , which was a sort of mini-...

The former Z Cars actor has died aged 92:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54390879

...and Dame Julie Andrews is, unbelievably, 85 today.

Brian Murphy was mentioned elsewhere - he was 88 last week!

There was a whole Two Ronnies sketch based on wrong answers to crossword clues, set in a railway carriage as I recall. "It's red, smells and is often picked in the morning... something O-S-E" (he guesses NOSE instead of ROSE), and so on. Ends with "it's found in the bottom of a bird's cage... someth...

It would be dreadful if today's narrow-mindedness were to spoil the enjoyment of this delightful pre-war dance band classic. Yep...lets just pretend it's that one! Sorry? Was there a different, later theme for 'Love thy Neighbour'? Not that I'm aware of. The song was written by Mack Gordon and Harr...

I mentioned it back in 2016, but L for Lester should definitely have had a second series. It was absolutely hysterical and no one remembers it.

I thought it was "anecdote".

Quite a few repeats from recent weeks this time, but a good programme none the less. My personal pick this week was I Didn't Know You Cared - also Love Thy Neighbour simply because he had the nerve to play it! Incidentally I hadn't realized that Andy Marriott was a contributor to this forum until ab...

There's more about cue dots in this thread.

An absolutely smashing line-up this week - perhaps the best I've heard so far. It started with the full version of Murder, She Wrote , which won an Emmy for its British composer John Addison, a very fine composer of film themes and "serious" orchestral music as well. Shame it was wasted on a second-...

Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the Nine O'Clock News. Previously the Main News on BBC1 had started at 8.50:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/b ... 1970-09-14

Dated, said again, I expect it's going to pop up every week, to be honest. Seems an odd word to use on a station that's entirely given over to musical nostalgia. He regularly plays records from as long ago as the 1930s on his weekday programme and I've never heard him refer to those as "dated"! Lov...

Another great pick this week. My highlight was the full version of Going Straight sung by Ronnie Barker, which I'd never heard before and has some very witty lyrics (whatever your view of the programme - I liked it although Andy Marriott clearly didn't!). Test card music - "Barking" Joe 90, Supercar...

Oh well, usual inaccurate Wikipedia stuff then. I'll edit the entry when I get round to it.

It appeared to have been only a few episodes that were quickly repeated and never heard of again IIRC. Someone at the BBC must have remembered the 1972 series as a success, because all 13 episodes were given a repeat run on BBC1 in 1979/80. Indeed. I remember it as having been rather successful. Wi...

If anyone has access to the TV Times, I'd be quite interested to know what it was up against on ITV.

Series 1: Fridays 8.30pm BBC1, 11 Nov-16 Dec and 30 Dec 1977
Series 2: Fridays 8.30pm BBC1, 23 Feb-30 March 1979

Ian Wegg wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:31 am

I had no recollection of this until I read those articles and the title meant nothing to me at all (I nearly bypassed this post thinking it was about the recent Holly Walsh penned sitcom of the same name).

Subject line edited to avoid confusion.

Graham McCann discusses the Richard Briers/Michael Gambon sitcom The Other One in his latest article, and speculates on why it wasn't considered a success: https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/the-other-one-couldve-done-shouldve-done/ "Some so-called flops, when revisited today, reall...

An enjoyable pick this week: Call My Bluff, Sapphire & Steel, V - The Series, New Scotland Yard, Peter Gunn, The Bretts, Sorrell & Son, Edward the Seventh, Charmed, The Green Hornet, Happy Days, Me & My Girl, The Young Doctors, The Streets of San Francisco, Man in a Suitcase [*], The New Avengers, D...