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Being whacked rounds the ears as 'you've been tangoed' is my memory.

Resulting in 'I heard that, pardon!'

Not one of the series I plumped for in any of the Network sales (I think Granada+ rebroadcast it, and that was enough to last me), but I am pretty sure, as you say, they were two separate catchphrases within the show. This is a google result from a search of the thread title, and that seems to be of...

An interesting article. The regional ITV set-up was not one thing or another. Yes there was limited 'competition', but it wasn't the all out survival of the fittest competition that the States was based on, and there were safeguards in the form of Public Service commitments enshrined in law. It was ...

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Sat Nov 14, 2020 6:40 pm

Miss Marples.

The daughter of Ernest gets to the bottom of missing and undelivered post in the first series, and then works out why the buses weren't running on time in the second, and last, series.

Obviously one for the teenagers there.

Just stumbled on this and recognised the face from various TV shows.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/john-fraser-p ... 21290.html

Bit of a cock-up on the living front.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainmen ... iLOIXouUFg

The restrictions about workplaces have made production a lot harder this year - more reliance on digital photo libraries, working from home etc. I suspect that if things had panned out differently and there had been full access to the picture library and Don, a bookazine might have appeared.

Bugger. That's a shock.

Speaking to Don Smith on Saturday, there is an article in the Radio Times published this Tuesday. The online article ties up with that. I heard the trandem story earlier this year when I interviewed Don, but hadn't seen the photo of the bike with the buckled wheel before (or. at least, not noticed i...

There was an odd mash-up of R Whites and Mr Benn on YouTube, but it didn't appear to be a complete advert. Perhaps someone had tried to recreate it. It's funny, although I could remember Ronnie C, I pictured Ronnie B as the alternative. Presumably I was conflating their appearance in The Worm That T...

Shaken, but didn't stir.

Harrods. Not an exciting ad, but used year in year out at Christmas to flag up their New Year sale.

I don't watch much TV nowadays have a stock of DVDs still to wade through, but two spring to mind. Jif Lemon juice - 'Don't forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon day'. That was running when I was a kid, and I am sure was being wheeled out in the last decade. The other is a bit of a cheat as it was slight...

Many of you will be long standing members and will have forgotten that on registering you signed up to the terms of use of the board. I have moved the post detailing these to an easily accessible spot and would urge everyone to refresh their memories. Believe it or not, we do operate a light touch m...

I retuned last night to get SkyArts and noticed that TalkingPictures had moved which meant I had to edit the timer recordings. TPTV was 97 on my setup and moved to 99. 97 seemed to be Dave Ja Vu for me.

Funnily enough, I removed the paragraph I wrote suggesting that the only place it might still appear on television was Mrs Browns Boys as I don't watch is and didn't want to speculate on something I didn't watch!

That looks to be a fascinating, but not cheap, book. Is it the term has gone out of use, or the actual cod dry? The book certainly suggests that even seasoned performers frowned on the cheap ways of getting laughs. Whereas it might still be a necessary course for what is left of live variety with a ...

But you demonstrated that you had looked and it was a difficult term, and even provided links to the book. I have to confess I hadn't heard the term cod dry, but there have been many others when I have been researching that were just as frustrating. The mention of scripted corpsing reminded me of Fr...

You can sell rights, and Frost would have been savvier than most, so may well have bought them.

I have no idea, but I would say it probably became so associated with him that it was worthless to anyone else - see also Parkinson and Whicker.

My bad, I misquoted it when skimming through last night but I thought providing the link was better than just cutting and pasting the entire text. I'll do that now for those who don't wish to follow a link: This song was written by George Martin in 1966. It was used as the theme to the TV show The F...

The link I gave says it was used on all the Frost On.. programmes which started in 1966. I thought it was like the Whicker theme - something everyone had heard, and those with a small amount of interest in telly could place almost immediately from those TVTheme LPs that were the closest we ever thou...

It was the Frost on Saturday theme and was most definitely used and a quick google finds a video of the Frankie Howerd edition from 1969 opening with it, so it was used later that 1968. It would appear that it was written by George Martin and played by George Martin and his Orchestra. The Beatles pl...

Off-hand, I don't know. There may be something on the 4extra website. They may consider a repeat run of what is held. I don't know if it was picked up by Transcription Services either. If I get time, I'll do more digging about.

IIRC there were two series and not all were retained in archives, but that particular episode, I think, was. Might be worth contacting R4X.

Shadow on the Sun.

Broadcast in late 1961 and appears to have lizards (and a virus), and part 7 has this in the listing (on Genome): "how long before the world is cold enough for more of the Europans to land?"

Obviously thought of as sufficiently successful to be released on DVD 5 years ago. I remember watching some episodes then and it must have been 'OK, but nothing special' as I have no real recollections of it.

In the London region, at least, half the 1977 series was up against Hawaii Five-O and the remainder General Hospital. Of course, those had already been on for 30 minutes before The Other One Started.

The 1979 series was up against Flambards, again, starting 30 minutes before.

There was a 'The NEW Mr & Mrs Quiz Book' published in 1982 by 'ITV Books & Arrow'. Abebooks list the first one, "The Mr And Mrs Quiz Book" as being published by ITV Books & Arrow in 1978. The Whodunnit book listed on Amazon is dated 1978 and also has ITV Books/Arrow as the publisher on the front cov...

A quick google for the titles does suggest a change at the start of 1977 - before is Piccolo/TVTimes (and it is the masthead font that was current at the time) and after it is Look-in Books. Like Simon, I can't see any Look-In prior to 1977 Piccolo seemed to be an imprint of PAN, which was owned by ...