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Mark Arden is the dad - he appeared in several other Young ones episodes, notably Cash, Nasty and Sick, then later London's Burning.

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.

Have any of the missing "Callan" episodes surfaced on audio?

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.

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.

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.

"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?"...

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...

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 ...

Did we ever see the owner of the laundrette, Mr Opadopolis, in Eastenders?

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.

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.

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 ...

Mark Eden and Derren Nesbitt in Doctor Who: Marco Polo and The Prisoner: It's Your Funeral.

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...

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...

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?

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...