The Mausoleum Club Forum

Ian K McL wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:10 am

Strangely Network DVD highlighted Jokers' Wild only the other day for some unknown reason.

Perhaps more are to come after all?

Einstein's Relativity may well be a description of events observed from a false position, in the same way as the apparent retrograde motion of planets when viewed from Earth.

Very much a 'niche within a niche'. Even if you consider 'old TV' to be mainstream, rather than a niche in its own right, 'sixties/'seventies stand-up comedians are a niche market. A game show based on them has GOT to be of limited appeal. I was hoping for the complete set; there again, I'm still wa...

I would imagine that the reason why we haven't seen a third volume of Jokers Wild would be because sales of the first two were insufficient to make continuing the range commercially viable in a dwindling market. Rather than Network cravenly kowtowing to the edicts of "those people" who "don't HAVE ...

Why must we humour these people who 'have a problem'.
It's their problem. They don't HAVE to buy it.

My first thought was 'if only they would put that much effort into the actual dramas...'
Then I remembered that they did.

Two missing 1974 ATV plays have turned up (on the original 2" tape!) and are now available to view at the BFI Mediatheque. They are They Disappear When You Lie Down (11 June 1974 w. Tony Perrin d. Graham Evans - sisterly rivalries at a table tennis tournament) and The Person Responsible (17 Septemb...

WOW!
The BBC really WERE on form then!

"...t's an old trick, string viewers along by suggesting a well know character might not be what we thought they were, only to discover it was a mistake, stokes up interest, when ratings are flagging...."
Are you sure the current writers are capable of this much 'joined-up' thinking?

a TV fan refusing to "accept" that the 1990s were thirty years ago, doesn't say anything good about that person.. There's arrogance for you. I can't imagine that anyone 'doesn't accept' that 1990 was thirty years ago. Whether or not that affects a person's TV appreciation would surely be that perso...

Time Lords are the gender of the actor who plays them.
It'll soon be 'offensive' for an actor to play a character of a different gender.

Doctor Who was first played by the actor William Hartnell.
There's a thin line between reality and fiction, and some television enthusiasts are a long way over it!

I remember the hideous head one; it produced the same uneasiness I got from Doctor Who's 'The Faceless Ones'.
The BBC was on form then. They made you sit up.

Who's in charge?

Mark wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:14 am

One of the extras on the upcoming "Power Of The Daleks" new special edition DVD, is the surviving episode of "Robin Hood" with Patrick Troughton from 1953.

All eight minutes of it?

It's always good thing for Aliens (I'm talking about non-Earth types here) to speak 'straight' English.
A broad-Yorkshire speaking being from another planet does nothing for your ability to suspend disbelief.

Spender was great, if quirky.
Too quirky for Southern England, perhaps?

It can't have been all bad; Mary W. complained about it.

Cancelled because Alasdair 'Pooh Bear' Milne didn't like it, seemingly.

Perhaps it's 'hideously white'?

Is there more than one 'It's a Square World' left?
I've only seen it offered as a bootleg, and even then it's the same episode every time.

The first 'That's not Doctor Who' moment came for me when that little Irish bloke with the long hat and tin whistle turned up.
I'm sure I'd seen him at Chipperfield's the week before!

But it's not supposed to be a complete personality change. ... All in keeping with that great idea way back in 1966 that enabled us to get from The Tenth Planet to The Power of the Daleks. An idea that's kept the series fresh and facilitated its impressive longevity... The 'regeneration' idea, you ...

Someone on another Forum I'm on made another excellent point about the stupidity of recasting women as the Master, Doctor etc. Is it "transphobic"? No, in fact the way it's been done could be said to be bigoted. Essentially, someone knows their own gender identity. Most of us are born in the 'corre...

I'm pleased to say that I am NEVER 'in two minds about re-writing history'.

It's no different from cheating at Patience- you are only fooling yourself.

It's quite remarkable that someone could NOT be interested in racism.

It couldn't happen today. It has to be promoted at every possible opportunity.

paul.austin wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 23, 2020 12:23 am

Sadly Prunella is not able to enjoy her old age. Every comedy writer who uses dementia as a cheap punchline should be forced to talk to dementia patient's carers.

Do us all a favour, will you.
Save it for Facebook

I hadn't heard of anybody being a 'homo' since schooldays, then a few years back, I kept mishearing a radio ad., telling me 'You don't have to be a homo to have had PPI ...'.

It still occurs in the phrase 'Hollywood Homo', at least on the 'net.

Is Hancock's Half Hour 'hideously white'?

Loved this series.

Must get a 'podcaster', or whatever it is you play these things on.

From what I remember, George Mitchell, or more likely the BBC, had some control over the title. Non-franchise versions had names like 'The Kentucky Minstrel Show', which is the one I remember from the Winter Gardens, Morecambe. I can't find any evidence for Band Waggon appearing on Television prior ...

If Joe Orton was still alive he’d be Sir John Orton and would have been officially pardoned for defacing the library books. ...and been declared 'Immune from Investigation', like Cliff... Did Kenneth Halliwell do us a public service? (Cliff should be rotting in a cell, i agree) Judge, Jury and Chie...