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Post by Patrick Coles on May 10, 2022 22:17:40 GMT
Well Said Steve
Patrick
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Post by Patrick Coles on Apr 1, 2022 21:56:30 GMT
I always enjoyed anything Ian Hendry was in - from Police Surgeon, The Avengers, The Informer and The Lotus Eaters to his many guest star roles in shows such as Danger Man, The Saint, Thriller, The Persuaders !, The Protectors, Return of The Saint, The Sweeney, The New Avengers, etc...plus the many films he made
- his name in the credits guaranteed something worth watching...
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Post by Patrick Coles on Mar 22, 2022 23:33:51 GMT
I much prefer Cream's version of 'I'm So Glad'
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Post by Patrick Coles on Feb 6, 2022 23:06:33 GMT
Probably based on Prof Keith Simpson or Sir Bernard Spilsbury and in common with Canadian series 'Wojeck' (which in turn then inspired 'Quincy, M.E.' later) about medical expert pathologists the BBC series 'The Expert' starred the excellent Marius Goring (fresh from Dr Who; 'Evil of The Daleks' !) as Dr John Hardy with Ann Morrish as his lady Doctor wife and Victor Wilding as the Police Inspector (Fleming I think) whom Hardy liased with
I recall it being on BBC Two (I think) on Mondays at 9pm - I'm sure there was an episode called 'A Way To Die' where a student activist protesting against animals being used etc tried to get into a pig pen and ended up having his fingers sliced off by an extractor fan and fell to his death...then the pigs began to eat him...!
After Dr. Hardy had determined the gruesome course of events with it being an accidental death not a murder as first suspected it ended with the appalled Police Inspr saying to him... 'what a way to die..!'
Hardy's wife got involved in a hostage situation and ended up being shot...the season ended on a cliffhanger where she appeared to be recovering in hospital, but Ann Morrish left the show at that point and the next series opened with a widowed John Hardy trying to adjust to his very close personal loss..
A DVD or Blu Ray release of the surviving episodes would be great but it's probably been largely forgotten now like BBC's excellent other series 'Vendetta', 'Ryan International' and 'Brett' etc re any surviving episodes BBC haven't junke...er lost !
but I bet every episode of Mrs Brown's Boys is safe...
shame we never got Warship series three and four on DVD
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Post by Patrick Coles on Dec 28, 2020 10:55:55 GMT
'The Expert' was an excellent BBC series - probably inspired 'Quincy M.E.' in the USA - and was possibly based upon the career of Prof Keith Simpson our real life 'expert'
Marius Goring starred as Dr John Hardy (if I recall correctly) with Ann Morrish as his lady doctor wife (in the first series) plus Victor Wilding as the police inspector
it followed the 'expert' pathologist piecing together causes of death in suspicious circumstances as the police built a case - sometimes nailing sometimes clearing a prime suspect
- I recall one episode 'A Way To Die' I think where what seemed at first to be a murder turned out to be a horrible accident where an intruder (an animal rights protestor I think) had his fingers sliced off by a ventilation fan and fell to his death...and was then partially eaten by the pigs he was trying to free from captivity - the Expert worked out the horrible chain of events by pathological science (if I remember the tale correctly - it was decades ago !)
another episode had Dr. Hardy presented with a badly decomposed skeleton...and the photo of a pretty girl - Hardy had life size images of the skull and photo of the girl's face...and superimposed them together (as Keith Simpson famously did years ago)...and got a perfect match - Marius Goring got the scene perfect going from professional clinical detachment...to stopping for a moment to show pity as he reflected upon the human loss...then going straight back to being a professional pathologist - all without uttering a single word !
made with then typical 'BBC Class' (how times change....) 'The Expert' I think began in black and white but there was a colour version later series too which I think was screened on mondays at around 9 pm
Hopefully at least some of the series survives in the BBC archives and together with Marius Goring's own collection episodes might one day get a deserved DVD release ?
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Post by Patrick Coles on Jan 22, 2020 13:12:07 GMT
THANKS for all that great info Ray !
from memories...
in episode three 'The Widow Man' Angelo James is introduced (a second lead was hastily created when Stelio Candelli was unwell for a time - hence a few episodes in a row only featured Neil McCallum as James) and the episode concluded with James vowing to continue his own 'Vendetta' against the Mafia for the murder of his wife I think
at the very end of this episode Danny Scipio makes a brief cameo when he is seen leaning against his car as Angelo James walks to his house - Scipio calls James across - the credits rolled and John Barry's theme played as we saw Scipio talking with James, they shake hands then get into Scipio's car and drive off...this tag scene was presumably tacked on (obviously after Candelli's recovery) to the completed episode which was then put as third episode in - hence Stelio Candelli has last credit for this story
One episode had Danny Scipio shot and seriously wounded but able to hold a Mafia figure at gunpoint in a rail car for most of the story until James and the Police get to them....this tale probably was done so that Candelli's (ill health) forced absence from about five following episodes that starred Neil McCallum alone was explained in the show as Scipio then being in hospital recovering from the gunshot wound - a joint featured Scipio / James episode that followed showed Scipio still feeling the effects of his recent wound
one episode had Angelo James having to lead a Mafia figure at gunpoint across a hostile island of locals...
Another had a top young boxer who the Mafia are trying to 'own'via getting to his manager - it ends with the boxer being very badly beaten so he will never fight again - tho' his manager friend is so angered he says he will testify against the Mafia figure behind the beating...
Kieron Moore came in for five third series latter episodes from 'The Hit and Run Man' where Angelo James is badly hurt and I think has to retire thereafter from any active role in the 'Vendetta' however his American friend Mike Hammond (Kieron Moore) then vows to take up where James left off helping Danny Scipio
I really wish BBC would put out the seven surviving complete episodes plus that fan's recorded soundtrack of 'The Suicide Man' on a DVD set
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Post by Patrick Coles on Jan 21, 2020 17:19:39 GMT
I believe BBC held six complete episodes before this find while the soundtrack to the missing 1967 series two episode 5; 'The Suicide Man' (an 'Angelo James' featured episode) of 19-07-67 survives thanks to a fan recording it off air Anyone know what the six episodes BBC held are and if there is any hope of a 'surviving' Vendetta DVD set presumably comprising the seven full episodes and this full episode soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN-Jm-FtBFw&t=693s
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Post by Patrick Coles on Jan 20, 2019 18:10:07 GMT
it was made in colour - I remember Albert comes in dressed in a blue 'James Bond' type ski suit at the end ! - but was part of the season BBC 'lost' bar two colour episodes - along with 'Robbery With Violence', 'The Colour Problem' and 'Pot Black'
I think it was Alan Simpson who found he had home movie versions when clearing out his garage when moving house and the BFI 'restored' the lost episodes converting them from home movie to a watchable but 'blurry' and 'jerky' black and white versions that were put out on VHS video, and over time have been improved upon and shown on TV - these end with an acknowledgement to the BFI and Steptoe Appreciation Society for obtaining and restoring this archive programme for transmission etc
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Post by Patrick Coles on Nov 25, 2018 20:02:55 GMT
you should all know by now that you are not 'allowed' to voice any criticism of 'new who' without getting the obligatory 'rap on the knuckles' so you better watch what you think...! (to quote The Twilight Zone)
personally I'd rather watch classic Who than boring old BBC style Shakespeare any day
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Post by Patrick Coles on Sept 8, 2018 12:10:04 GMT
Tony Jackson joined Mike Pender's Searchers onstage at Birmingham Town Hall on 2 May 1992 herewith 'Sweets For My Sweet' and 'Needles and Pins' (which they used to sing in duet together live back in the early sixties); www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHvDa6DpSbsnot very good sound quality but enough to hear and see that Tony could still sing well then Tony only sings as I believe by then he could no longer play bass guitar due to arthritis in his hands great to see Tony and Mike onstage together again
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Post by Patrick Coles on Aug 29, 2018 18:11:51 GMT
Although they often get VERY badly and quite unfairly derided by some unkind Beatles fans / music writers for having the utter nerve to win the Decca contract - hardly their fault ! (they already had a Radio spot under their belts and simply were more confident and versatile overall at the time....plus Dagenham based were far more local in those pre-motorway days of the UK)
Brian Poole and The Tremeloes and of course later The Trems alone from 1966 with Len 'Chip' Hawkes had an impressive run from 1962 to 1970 and made some fine albums thereafter such as 'Shiner' lasting right up into the 80's - Dave Munden only retired the other year and his last line up now goes out as 'The Sound of The Tremeloes' I believe
The early 'Blue Peter' appearance has them doing 'Uncle Willy' live (unlike several other acts who mimed to the record) with the late Alan Blakley playing organ while if I remember correctly a colour version of 'Do You Love Me' survives from the first of those 'Swinging UK' films
somewhere on youtube is their NME Poll winners concert appearance - and they just as screamed at as Beatles, Stones, Kinks etc....
A good DVD 'Tremeloes Greatest Hits' from Europe is around featuring the classic Trems line up plus a few clips with Bob Benham the left handed blonde guitarist / vocalist who subbed for both Rick Westwood and later Alan Blakley
a Scottish Grampian TV 'Entertainers' colour show (I think it was) devoted to The Tremeloes with Bob Benham also exists and the classic sixties line up reunited later to do 'Silence' and 'Call Me Number One' on 'Unforgettable' introduced by the late great and much missed Alan 'Fluff' Freeman - Not Arf !
An unkind album title in America I think was; 'Never Mind The Tremeloes...here are The Beatles !'
tho' after what seems a lifetime of Beatles left, right and centre...
I now find myself reversing that title re my later interest ! lol
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Post by Patrick Coles on Jul 2, 2018 19:43:13 GMT
A key factor is much if not all of today's TV is aimed purely at a 'Modern audience' whatever that is supposed to mean !
thus you get pop musak playing over alot of things - especially in football programmes, and sports in general plus often as stated above music supposedly to create atmosphere added on presumably as the show producers assume we need to be led by the nose and made to think and feel as they want us to...
I suspect 'modern' TV execs assume nobody has an attention span of more than a few seconds these days hence the infernal use of music all the time
more and more Television seems obsessed with an imaginary 'modern' audience, and must be alienating alot of older viewers capable of drawing their own conclusions who probably make up most of the viewing audience
I notice channels such as 'Talking pictures' when screening sixties TV shows are forever virtually apologising beforehand re the outdated views on racism or attitudes etc....when the show following is mostly concerned with showing how WRONG any such bigotry was...!
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Post by Patrick Coles on May 30, 2018 17:10:31 GMT
yeah and remember how English those two English teachers were in 'An Unearthly Child'
plus how utterly Welsh those Welsh miners were in 'The Green Death'
and how Scottish those Scots were in 'Terror of The Zygons' too
while those Daleks were so totally stereotypical as Skaro radiation drenched mutations !!!!
it's only a television programme...if it's that frightening or upsetting there is an off switch as Jon Pertwee once said
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Post by Patrick Coles on Apr 29, 2018 17:13:57 GMT
Sad indeed
but re suicides remember;
'so my mind was full of wonder when the evening headline read Richard Corey went home last night...and put a bullet through his head...' (Simon & Garfunkel)
you get the privileged 'have it all' rich influential mega successful types who (apparently) never suffer any 'abuse'....who end it all as well
you can never second guess the complete picture re these actions
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Post by Patrick Coles on Apr 28, 2018 18:44:27 GMT
I take great offence to that last remark....!!!!!!
(even tho' you are perfectly correct)
really it's all about control - make people scared to say anything that does not conform with the desired 'current thinking' etc
I recall a line in a episode of 'The Twilight Zone'
'you better watch what you THINK'
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