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- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:57 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actors appearances in commercials
- Replies: 161
- Views: 21229
Re: Actors appearances in commercials
Mark Arden is the dad - he appeared in several other Young ones episodes, notably Cash, Nasty and Sick, then later London's Burning.
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:18 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: M&W Recovery
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3626
Re: M&W Recovery
I'm holding out for a missing episode or two of Callan turning up - Morris hinted a while back that he'd found one of the extant episodes soe they *may* be out there.
It's fantastic news. More Eric Morecambe (not to mention Ernie Wise also) can only be a good thing.
It's fantastic news. More Eric Morecambe (not to mention Ernie Wise also) can only be a good thing.
- Sun Sep 23, 2018 2:54 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Audio of missing TV, or TV with audio missing
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9247
Re: Missing TV Audio
Have any of the missing "Callan" episodes surfaced on audio?
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 10:56 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actors appearances in commercials
- Replies: 161
- Views: 21229
Re: Actors appearances in commercials
Paul Darrow also did American Express and a rather interesting one for Wimpy, where he appears more in character as Avon.
Said ads can be seen on the Tube of You.
Said ads can be seen on the Tube of You.
- Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:48 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actors appearances in commercials
- Replies: 161
- Views: 21229
Re: Actors appearances in commercials
Mention of Rodney Bewes reminds me of the later Tudor Crisps adverts from the 1990s, voiced by t'other Likely Lad James Bolam.
Paul Darrow was advertising mobility scooters about ten years back, eerily prescient of his need for them now.
Paul Darrow was advertising mobility scooters about ten years back, eerily prescient of his need for them now.
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:56 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actors appearances in commercials
- Replies: 161
- Views: 21229
Re: Actors appearances in commercials
Mention of Angus getting his ads pulled after the coke scandal broke reminded me of Vic Reeves - who had been on the Churchill Insurance ads - being dropped after he was done for drink driving. Bob Mortimer of course remained the voice of the dog.
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:13 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actors appearances in commercials
- Replies: 161
- Views: 21229
Re: Actors appearances in commercials
"Look at the quality of workmanship on that arrowhead!" Vic and Bob were advertising Cadbury's Boost in the early 90s. "Cadbury's Boost - slightly rippled with a flat underside." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNDvJyJDXro And don't forget Harry Enfield doing the Dime Bar ads either. His "Dime Bar?"...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:18 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: "Library Music"
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5934
Re: "Library Music"
There's an episode of "Special Branch" (I don't recall the title, but it's one of the later ones with George Sewell and this particular episodes stars Geoffrey Bayldon) that uses some of Don Harper's music from the Doctor Who story "The Invasion" . Now I was quite puzzled at the time and it's quite...
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:43 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: "Library Music"
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5934
Re: "Library Music"
There's an episode of "Special Branch" (I don't recall the title, but it's one of the later ones with George Sewell and this particular episodes stars Geoffrey Bayldon) that uses some of Don Harper's music from the Doctor Who story "The Invasion" . Now I was quite puzzled at the time and it's quite ...
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 6:09 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Unseen Recurring Characters
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7420
Re: Unseen Recurring Characters
Did we ever see the owner of the laundrette, Mr Opadopolis, in Eastenders?
- Mon May 14, 2018 6:29 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Unseen Recurring Characters
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7420
Re: Unseen Recurring Characters
Arthur's wife - 'er indoors - was oft mentioned in Minder but IIRC never seen.
Merris, Nyles' wife was always talked about in Frasier.
Sheriff Medska (sorry, I don't know the correct spelling!) in Murder She Wrote had a wife - Adele - who we never saw but who was always around the action.
Merris, Nyles' wife was always talked about in Frasier.
Sheriff Medska (sorry, I don't know the correct spelling!) in Murder She Wrote had a wife - Adele - who we never saw but who was always around the action.
- Wed May 09, 2018 11:20 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actors from a programme appearing in another
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5115
Re: Actors from a programme appearing in another
Mention of Rudolph Walker - he was in Doctor Who: The War Games with Leslie Schofield, who also popped up in Eastenders as a regular. Not sure if they shared any screen time though.
- Mon May 07, 2018 4:30 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: It's the cops wot dunnit! Crime drama spoilers
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6066
Re: It's the cops wot dunnit!
Episode 7 of the first series of Life on Mars had Ray covering up the fact that he'd accidentally killed a suspect during questioning. I'll also throw in Gene taking backhanders in an episode earlier in the series. I thing it's series 2 of Ashes to Ashes - I didn't watch it at the time due to being ...
- Mon May 07, 2018 4:18 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Actors from a programme appearing in another
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5115
Re: Actors from a programme appearing in another
Mark Eden and Derren Nesbitt in Doctor Who: Marco Polo and The Prisoner: It's Your Funeral.
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:03 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Fictional TV on TV - the shows that weren't
- Replies: 60
- Views: 8955
Re: Fictional TV on TV - the shows that weren't
How about... "Acorn Antiques" on various Victoria Wood series. Amongst others on Monty Python's Flying Circus, my favourite would have to be "Blackmail", although "The Bishop" runs it a close second. The "Time Tunnel" spoof serial "Drunk in Time" on The All New Alexei Sayle Show 2, featuring Peter C...
- Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:11 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273089
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
Due to incompetence at BBC Miami, the scripts for the first five episodes of Series 8 have been leaked. It's possible that the first five episodes themselves are loose in the wild. Scripts and episodes were held on a server and a door had been left open, by accident or design. They were there for su...
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:39 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: BFI: Turn of the Screw
- Replies: 4
- Views: 951
BFI: Turn of the Screw
The BFI are screening this Benjamin Britten opera tonight.
Now, this was apparently an Associated Rediffusion production and long thought lost. Where has it come from?
Now, this was apparently an Associated Rediffusion production and long thought lost. Where has it come from?
- Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:56 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Raise the Titanic
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1599
Re: Raise the Titanic
It was earlier than 1986 as we just got a VHS in time for the Xmas time Tyne Tees screening.
I think it's premier was in late 1983, possibly late October/early November as I saw the daytime trailers as it was half term. Sure there was a screening in 1985 around the time that the ship was found too.
I think it's premier was in late 1983, possibly late October/early November as I saw the daytime trailers as it was half term. Sure there was a screening in 1985 around the time that the ship was found too.
- Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:28 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: PR: Burnside - The Complete Series [Network]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1719
Re: PR: Burnside - The Complete Series [Network]
Cool! Only saw the first episode and missed the rest. Burnside was one of my favourite characters from The Bill (even if he was really a cardboard cut out Jack Regan lite copper) so this will be high on my list.
- Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:06 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104834
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
I honestly wasn't having a go at anyone here - I know you're all gentlemen of taste and intelligence hence you wouldn't be here - but more Who fandom at large.
No offense intended and if an apology is needed, then it is offered unreservedly.
No offense intended and if an apology is needed, then it is offered unreservedly.
- Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:26 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104834
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
Sorry to jump down your throat, but I'm sick of seeing various fans on forums wailing and bemoaning that the Sierra Leone with their hands in the air, decrying the loss of "their" episodes as a tragedy, when the reality is that their concerns are so utterly insignificant compared to the real tragedy...
- Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:16 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104834
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
Yes, Sierra Leone was an absolute tragedy - people getting their hands chopped off, their houses burned to the ground, raped, brutalized, murdered, their children turned into soldiers who would readily kill their parents. Yes, a tragedy. The loss of a few film prints of a 60s kids show pales into co...
- Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:56 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104834
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
Interesting comments on this week's hoo-hah: http://skerratt-media.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/doctor-who-90-episodes-recovered-or.html Over on Planet Mondas, Fonejacker's Ugandan scam artist George Agdgdgwngo got in on the act, trying to sell fandom some episodes, claiming they were from hit 1980's TV H...
- Sat Jun 22, 2013 12:08 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Top of the Pops 22/06/1978
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2036
Re: Top of the Pops 22/06/1978
I watched a fair few of the 70s ones when UK Gold screened them and IMO he never fitted in then either, let alone the 80s. I've never watched a complete 60s episode - partly because there are so few and not repeated but more because I dislike 60s music - so I've never really seen him in his natural ...
- Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:31 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Top of the Pops 22/06/1978
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2036
Re: Top of the Pops 22/06/1978
I remember watching one of the 80s episodes on UK Gold some years back with Jimbo Sav and he looked so utterly out of place, especially wearing what appeared to be a curtain in amongst a load of people in hip 80s gear.
- Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:26 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104834
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
Going from the various reports and postings on other forums, these alleged prints have been shipped here to a third party. The BBC don't have them yet so their denials are perfectly legit. There's some surprising detective work going on elsewhere with people digging up some interesting yet seemingly...
- Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:29 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104834
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
If what's been bandied about in terms of names for various series, I think this find IF - and I know it's a MASSIVE if!!! - is indeed true, then an awful lot of people are going to have huge grins on their faces, and not just the Who fans. Morecambe and Wise, Out of the Unknown (although rights issu...
- Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104834
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
Something is definitely going on though. Two threads devoted to the issue a Missing-episodes.com have been deleted with threats that any further threads will not be tolerated. If this was all rumour and nonsense, just lock them. Like others, I'll believe it when I see it and I'm hoping that there's ...
- Sat Jun 15, 2013 10:05 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Poirot
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2626
Re: Poirot
Slightly OT but when you've recently watched Jeeves & Wooster AND Poirot, you get stuck with a feeling they're bound to bump into each other, Bertie saying "What ho, 'ercule? I say, that was a nasty turn of events, that murdered body turning up at the Drones Club yesterday.", or something like that...
- Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:33 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Poirot
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2626
Re: Poirot
It's like Marple, they have all been good, but Joan Hickson is the best, by a mile. Matter of opinion. I can't abide the Joan Hickson ones as she comes across as an interfering busybody, and quite smug with it. Whereas the Geraldine McEwan ones have more of a zest for life. She seems more fun. That...