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- Fri Dec 25, 2020 2:28 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Just published - 'A THRILLER in Every Corner'
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1407
Re: Just published - 'A THRILLER in Every Corner'
Ah, lovely to hear that. Many thanks for the reply.
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:21 am
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Just published - 'A THRILLER in Every Corner'
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1407
Re: Just published - 'A THRILLER in Every Corner'
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.
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.
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:07 am
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Look-In/Piccolo Books releases
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1545
Re: Look-In/Piccolo Books releases
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.
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.
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:19 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Look-In/Piccolo Books releases
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1545
Re: Look-In/Piccolo Books releases
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...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:44 am
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Look-In/Piccolo Books releases
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1545
Look-In/Piccolo Books releases
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...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 9:45 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shoestring Series 2
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9209
Re: Shoestring Series 2
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.
Really poor (or non-existent) quality-control by Network.
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 7:07 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Ghostwatch Documentary
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4167
Re: Ghostwatch Documentary
To make it look like a live broadcast, of course. As you say, very sloppy.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.".
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 6:52 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shoestring Series 2
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9209
Re: Shoestring Series 2
Thanks for that, Westcountry. Seems to be a thing with Network/Sony. Has anyone received Shoestring, I wonder?
- Sat Oct 28, 2017 3:18 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shoestring Series 2
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9209
Re: Shoestring Series 2
I haven't because mine still hasn't arrived and no response from Network. Appalling customer service for a regular customer.
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 11:21 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shoestring Series 2
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9209
Re: Shoestring Series 2
Ah, cheers, Michael. I'll chase them up Monday.
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 9:21 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shoestring Series 2
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9209
Re: Shoestring Series 2
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.
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:26 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Still With Us
- Replies: 165
- Views: 35363
Re: Still With Us
Similarly Gudrun Ure, still with us at 91 but it seems amazing as she was Supergran when I was a kid.
- Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:01 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Live action series you thought were for kids, but weren't...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2627
Re: Live action series you thought were for kids, but weren'
In the Thames area at least, Little House on the Prairie used to go out in the ITV kiddie slot.
- Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:51 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shows you thought were from different countries
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4279
Re: Shows you thought were from different countries
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 ...
- Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:06 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Crossovers?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 8557
Re: Crossovers?
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...
- Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:23 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shoestring Series 2
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9209
Re: Shoestring Series 2
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...
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:17 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Generation Game (re-)revival
- Replies: 3
- Views: 961
Re: Generation Game (re-)revival
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...
- Fri Jul 21, 2017 6:28 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Our "multicultural past"
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7614
Re: Our "multicultural past"
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?
- Wed Jul 05, 2017 5:53 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: What counts as a Pink Panther film?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 888
Re: What counts as a Pink Panther film?
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.
- Mon May 22, 2017 4:43 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: What was there before Braveheart? Opinions please.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1853
Re: What was there before Braveheart? Opinions please.
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 ...
- Mon May 22, 2017 1:05 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: BBC Store to close
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3416
Re: BBC Store to close
Unlimited streaming for a monthly fee is probably what they're looking at.
- Sat May 20, 2017 11:01 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: What was there before Braveheart? Opinions please.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1853
Re: What was there before Braveheart? Opinions please.
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...
- Sat May 20, 2017 11:35 am
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: What was there before Braveheart? Opinions please.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1853
Re: What was there before Braveheart? Opinions please.
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, ...
- Fri May 05, 2017 11:22 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actor/Writers
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4884
Re: Actor/Writers
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...
- Tue May 02, 2017 10:45 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actor/Writers
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4884
Re: Actor/Writers
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...
- Mon May 01, 2017 5:34 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Network Adventures of Rupert Bear
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1176
Re: Network Adventures of Rupert Bear
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.
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:10 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Network's 'Forgotten TV Drama' range
- Replies: 58
- Views: 11538
Re: Network's 'Forgotten TV Drama' range
Ah, sounds like just my kind of thing. I look forward to more announcements.
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:28 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Network's 'Forgotten TV Drama' range
- Replies: 58
- Views: 11538
Re: Network's 'Forgotten TV Drama' range
Sounds great. Any hints on any future releases, Billy? Will there be any Seventies kids shows?
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 10:08 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Most expensive British TV drama series?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 8221
Re: Most expensive British TV drama series?
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...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:45 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Schedule changes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4330
Re: Schedule changes
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.
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.