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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...

"Gilligan's Island" is another one that did it.

Just been published.

It was a great series, there should have been more on TV.

Only Mr Goom knows the truth!

The theme from "The Lost Islands" was a little odd, basically singing the plot of the show.

Hopefully, a box set eventually!

Four episodes within a year, from two sources, there are obviously more A-R shows in private hands.

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! He is perhaps just giving a sly plug to shows on Force...

I've heard about it, but have yet to have a listen, will do though, should be interesting.

Did you know there is a book out on the series from Miwk Publishing, covering the TV and Audio episodes, full of interviews as well.

They have found another one!

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

Simon36 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:06 am

Internet suggests they were in Poynton. That seems a bizarrely long distance from TVC...

http://www.poyntonforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=3589

That does seem unlikely, I've had a quick look on street view, but can't see anything.

They seemed to be some way back from a main road though.

brigham wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 06, 2020 5:59 pm

I always thought it sounded like an ITC theme.

Wasn't sure at first, but yes it does a bit.

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...

Thinking about that "Juliet Bravo" interview, it was suggested that the theme was supposed to be the "Z Cars" theme backwards.!

opaltotem wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 05, 2020 1:17 pm

Just been watching this, and wondered if anyone knew the whereabouts of the cottages?

I wish I knew, been wondering about that for ages, they are lovely.

Hopefully they are still there, and it's not a Tesco or something.

Remember Mr Waring very well, first met him back in the 60's when I started going to see NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN at TV Centre, it was myself, and two other school mates, we ended up going so many times, we did bcome 'friends' with Richard, and 'the Children' Roberta Tovey, whom I have always h...

you can see why getting rid of Katarina was the right move. Imagine if we'd spent 112 episodes having everything explained to Jamie at great length. The character was a lot more 'primitive' though, to be fair, with no concept of The TARDIS or other worlds, and thinking she was in her 'Place of Perf...

A smashing actor, superb as Watt, a character that outlived the parent show, "Z Cars".

His turns in "The Avengers" and "Doctor Who" were great too.

R.I.P.

It was also a shame we didn't get the full version of "Juliet Bravo", which is a great theme. In the Distinct Nostalgia interview with the two leads, one remarks that the theme was supposed to be based on, or is a homage' to the "Z Cars" theme. "Parker Well done" was a nice inclusion as it's great f...

There are many instances of course, of that happening. I'm not sure what the critics said about "The Gnomes Of Dulwich", but I thought it was very different, a satire played out through Garden Gnomes, but that one didn't seem to catch on with audiences. Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott were very popular i...

They are limited edition releases with photo cards and booklet and so on...

They haven't said they will be re-released later, but I should think they will, in normal packaging presumably.

"L For Lester" was a good show, Brian Murphy always great. What about "Grace And Favour", at least there were two series of that one, but I thought the set up was really good, I was surprised it didn't seem to catch on, and we didn't get more. I would also like to have seen more of "Come Back Mrs No...

But if it had been the original one, it wouldn't risk any complaints ( which they might play on other Serenade radio shows) being the TV version...any excuse for a moan!

The talk about "The Other One" in the 'Other' thread, got me thinking about the various Sit-Coms that didn't seem to catch on for some reason. "The Magnificent Evans" would be one nomination from me, I really liked it, and yet only one series was produced. Roy Clarke writing, Ronnie Barker starring,...

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 a...

brigham wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:25 am

Brock wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:38 pm

"... also Love Thy Neighbour simply because he had the nerve to play it!"

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!

There's a very interesting set of pages on "The Tomorrow People" locations, which I thought had gone, but fortunately it has been archived. There is mention of other scripts surviving, such as "The Medusa Strain", so who knows?...maybe there is a full set. https://www.oocities.org/tiylaya/locations/...

It was certainly another good line-up. Great to hear the full version of the excellent "Paul Temple" and "Rumpole Of The Bailey", but a shame we didn't get the all of "Public Eye", ( you could even tell it was taken off the DVD because of the sound of a train passing by!). Some golden oldies with "T...

That's good news, the only run with Derek Nimmo of course. Funnily enough, I have been listening to some of them recently, and trying to compare them with the missing TV versions. As you would expect there are some differences, for instance, in "The Bishop Turns To Crime", there was a female charact...

Excellent news about "Strange Report", and the mystery print item, cant' wait.

I was hoping something could be done with those unused "Persuaders" storylines mentioned in that series podcast.

That's a good point, songs are time-locked and no one seems to mind, but if it's TV themes ( and the programmes themselves), different story.

Watched "Dempsey And Makepeace" , "Home To Roost" and "Two In Clover", on Forces TV earlier...and guess who the announcer is!