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Ah, lovely to hear that. Many thanks for the reply.

Looks like a great book.

Did you find Norman Eshley in good health? I’ve always liked him as an actor and I’d heard he’d suffered head injuries in a car crash that kept him off the telly for a while.

Thanks Ian and Stearn. I’ve made a few updates, but need to create an addendum with all the adult Arrow/TV Times books.

I got the Mr & Mrs info from an ad in TV Times (August 1979) saying it was an Arrow/TV Times Book. It shows a bit of the cover but it’s cropped so you can’t see the logo.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I’ve updated this list accordingly. Interesting about the switch from TV Times to Look-In. These imprints seem to be a Seventies thing. I can find no trace of them after 1979. For the record, at least two books aimed at adults had the TV Times logo: Whodunnit and Mr...

Having no life, I’m compiling a list of all the paperbacks put out by Piccolo that tied in with ITV kids shows and bore the Look-In (*or TV Times*) logo. Here’s what I have so far. Have I missed any? EDIT: UPDATED 7/9/20 1971 Freewheelers: Sign of the Beaver - Alan Fennell 1972 Freewheelers: The Spy...

Mine has finally arrived. I've watched three so far and the soundtrack on the third episodes (the one with the army man running a boy's school) is out of synch.

Really poor (or non-existent) quality-control by Network.

Nick Cooper 625 wrote:Seems full of silly errors, sloppy punctuation, and some very strange ways of putting things, e.g.:

"They also used videotape, instead of the typical 16mm film, to make it look more homemade.".

To make it look like a live broadcast, of course. As you say, very sloppy.

Thanks for that, Westcountry. Seems to be a thing with Network/Sony. Has anyone received Shoestring, I wonder?

I haven't because mine still hasn't arrived and no response from Network. Appalling customer service for a regular customer.

Ah, cheers, Michael. I'll chase them up Monday.

Anyone received this from Network yet? i ordered mine Monday evening and it was apparently posted Tuesday but no sign of it yet. And Terrahawks 3, ordered afterwards in the sale, has just arrived.

Similarly Gudrun Ure, still with us at 91 but it seems amazing as she was Supergran when I was a kid.

In the Thames area at least, Little House on the Prairie used to go out in the ITV kiddie slot.

Very obscure this: there was a Sinbad animation on in the Seventies with Paul Jones from Manfred Mann narrating over the original foreign soundtrack. As a young kid I made the natural assumption that the programme came from an Arabic country. It wasn't until quite recently that I discovered that it ...

I'm cheating by using a film spin-off, but in Holiday On the Buses, Queenie Watts and Arthur Mullard appeared as their Romany Jones/Yus My Dear characters Lily and Wally Briggs. Both series were written by the Ronalds Wolfe and Chesney. They also wrote The Rag Trade, which featured a myopic characte...

Yes, Bristol looks fabulous onscreen. I'm reminded of Some People and Follow Me, both of which made great use of the city. I think Network have already announced their October titles, so I suspect we'll have to wait a little longer for Shoestring, but hopefully this shows that it's co img sooner rat...

Yes, by the end of the Davidson run he was constantly upstaging the contestants (in the original theatrical sense; i.e. mucking about behind them during games, taking the attention away from them). He was great in Big Break and should've been in the Generation Game but simply wasn't. He lost sight o...

Can we agree that Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI wasn't black, despite being portrayed as such in the BBC's The Hollow Crown?

It's not an exact science, but if I bought a Pink Panther box set, I'd expect it to include A Shot in the Dark. It's Sellers as Clouseau, so that makes it a Pink Panther film in my book.

I guess it depends on how you define a historical epic. The Eighties had big historical dramas like Gandhi, Amadeus, The Colour Purple, Out of Africa etc... All did well, but I guess they weren't as plentiful as before. My guess is it was economics specific to that time. High concept films aimed at ...

Unlimited streaming for a monthly fee is probably what they're looking at.

Highlander wasn't a Hollywood film. It was paid for by Thorn EMI who were taken over by Cannon Films. A lot of EMI films in the Eighties were quirky and odd. I guess they liked the script and once Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert were onboard, it seemed like a project that could make money in Eu...

Presuming you mean period adventure films or shows set in the Highlands, rather than just anti-English propaganda, there's admittedly not much post-1960s. Network have released both the film of Kidnapped starring Michael Caine and the TV series with David McCallum. There's also The Bruce from 1996, ...

Dirk Bogarde became a much less prolific actor from the late-1970s onwards, but he devoted his energies to writing and published six novels and an astonishing eight memoirs, as well as writing articles for papers and magazines. He adapted his second novel, Voices in the Garden, as a Screen Two episo...

Terence Frisby wrote the play and film There's a Girl in My Soup and the Jimmy Mulville sitcom That's Love. He was also an actor and appeared in That's Love as well. Richard Carpenter, who wrote Catweazle, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Robin of Sherwood etc began as an actor often in live TV of the Fif...

I wouldn't mind seeing a few episodes for old time's sake, but 52? As with the Mr Men, Fingerbobs, and Jamie and the Magic Torch, I doubt I'd get past seven or eight.

Ah, sounds like just my kind of thing. I look forward to more announcements.

Sounds great. Any hints on any future releases, Billy? Will there be any Seventies kids shows?

I remember reading a book about Goldcrest around twenty-five years ago. It said the actors' fees were more expensive than usual as they were paid in one go rather than the usual initial sum and subsequent repeat fees. The idea was that it was intended to be shown all over the world, so working out t...

But who gets to set the rules of taste and decency?

The Good Old Days was a pre-watershed show for the most part. It was ok then, so it should be ok now. And if people don't like it, there's always the off switch.