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Post by John Green on Aug 9, 2012 19:48:53 GMT
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Post by Brad Phipps on Aug 10, 2012 7:05:36 GMT
I would've thought up to the broadcast of the first episode, although they should really include the daleks too.
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Post by jameshope on Aug 10, 2012 9:36:05 GMT
Great news heard it on the radio yesterday maybe a few new finds of missing episodes could be found
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Post by John Green on Aug 10, 2012 10:46:07 GMT
I'm looking forward to all of it.Sounds as though it's going to focus on William Hartnell and his reinvention as a children's entertainer.
The last-minute re-mounting of the pilot/first episode should be fun.(How many mistakes have I made in that one sentence?).
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Post by Brad Phipps on Aug 12, 2012 7:20:01 GMT
Great news heard it on the radio yesterday maybe a few new finds of missing episodes could be found Sorry... why?
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Post by Brian Fretwell on Aug 13, 2012 15:51:42 GMT
Great news heard it on the radio yesterday maybe a few new finds of missing episodes could be found Sorry... why? I imagine he means that the publicity might inspire some one who may have some to come forward and return them. As usual a long shot!
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Post by John Green on Aug 13, 2012 16:39:38 GMT
This could be a difficult play to write because it almost seems to write itself.How to tick all the right boxes and push the envelope without being hackneyed? I was hoping someone else would try this,but in no particular order,here are some chapter-breaks from the DVD: New blood? Newman. No BEMs! A slip of a girl. Not good enough! Billy as grand-dad. Bad news from Camelot. etc.,etc.
I said I wasn't very good at this...
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Aug 14, 2012 12:46:31 GMT
Hmmm,I'm not sure I like the idea of TV mythologizing itself...I watched the plays based on Hattie Jacques and Morecombe and Wise and found them hollow.The one on Kenneth Williams was quite good as he himself wrote those wonderful,original diaries that acted as a backdrop to his sad private life.TV docu-dramas based on the TV programmes are a bit redundant if you ask me.However,the DR WHO genesis has a few interesting points such as Sydney Newman berating Waris and Verity about the shoddyness of their first attempt at the pilot and William Hartnell's prejudices against a Pakistani director and a young upstart of a producer.If these and other points are dealt with properly then we should have a mildly interesting take on DR WHO's birth.
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Post by John Green on Aug 14, 2012 17:21:50 GMT
The expression "pop will eat itself" comes to mind... Of course,television has always commented to TV,not least in the form of parodies. The show on the aetiology of 'Coronation Street' I watched two or three times.The obvious liberal obsessions were more than offset by other joys-not least 'Elsie Tanner's' audition.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Aug 14, 2012 18:01:59 GMT
...and William Hartnell's prejudices against a Pakistani director Except of course that Hussein wasn't Pakistani and Hartnell didn't exhibit any open prejudice and got on with him extremely well!
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Post by John Green on Aug 14, 2012 18:12:41 GMT
I read about conflict with WH on another site,thought "Oh?" and let it pass.A fact can quickly become established-even if it's wrong.
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Post by Richard Marple on Aug 14, 2012 18:43:27 GMT
I've found most of the BBC4 dcocudramas to be good even if there's a bit of artistic licence in places.
We're due one on Kenny Everett in a few weeks, I wonder if it will use any quotes from The Custard Stops At Hatfield?
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Aug 14, 2012 19:59:44 GMT
Yes,but Waris did comment initially that Billy did eye him with suspicion at their first meeting and did think that partly it was because he was foreign.But hey,this will be exactly the grist to the mill that will make the one-off interesting!
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Post by John Green on Aug 14, 2012 21:23:53 GMT
Seriously,what you're trying to do,to some extent,is to show how magic was made. Whenever there's a TV drama about someone painting "a wonderful.inspiring painting.I've never seen anything like it!" you've got a problem,unless you're doing a bio-pic about an actual artist.Otherwise,it's best not to show the painting,just peoples' reactions. With this drama,actors will try to show the charisma the original cast had,as personalities,but they (the 2012 actors) may well not have charisma themselves. Ditto any attempt to show scenes from the show. Mind you,that 'Elsie Tanner' scene was bloody convincing...
Added: 'The Road to Coronation Street'.Jessie Wallace as Pat Phoenix/Elsie Tanner,David Dawson as Tony Warren/Dennis Tanner.
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Post by felixdembinski on Aug 16, 2012 14:11:13 GMT
I hope the radiophonic workshop gets a mension, given that the title music must have been a key part to the shows original success. It's very hard to imagine the original theme if it had been instrumental, as originally intended.
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