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Post by paul carney on Sept 9, 2016 15:02:28 GMT
Can't place the show but clearly early 1970s. The Trems were fortunate that all four members of the band could carry a tune. Dave Munden does a pretty good job on this vocal. Also in other trivia the three surviving members of the band (Alan Blakely died in 1996) are apparently still married to the women they married in the 1960s. Surely some sort of record for the music industry?
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Post by paul carney on Sept 8, 2016 11:06:04 GMT
Hi Tom I had looked back on previous pages of this topic and some contributors appear to be sceptical about the loss due to fire? But I accept that no-one is entirely sure what happened. I know nothing about this programme and whether it was originally broadcast on tape. Usually in this era tapes were wiped and film telerecordings were made if the programmes were popular .So if film copies were made it seems remarkable that not one has surfaced over the years?
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Post by paul carney on Sept 8, 2016 8:21:40 GMT
Given that so many contributors to this forum have such happy memories of Francie and Josie it does seem like the ultimate in cultural vandalism for ALL of the tapes to have been wiped.....
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Post by paul carney on Sept 7, 2016 17:32:54 GMT
Hi William. No never heard of the programme until you brought it up ,though Rikki Fulton was a familiar face to me from many other programmes. The main Scottish programme I remember from this era was The Tales of Para Handy ,which was very funny.
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Post by paul carney on Sept 7, 2016 14:40:34 GMT
Hi Richard. I had forgotten that Arthur Haynes died suddenly of a heart attack aged only 52 in 1966...he always looked older than that. I have watched material from his shows on You Tube and frankly they don't seem that funny to me,but he was certainly a big star in the day. Harry Worth always played the bumbling well meaning idiot and I remember my dad roaring with laughter at him...I was less impressed having by then discovered the likes of Do Not Adjust Your Set and At Last the 1948 Show (much more grown up!). But dear old Harry will always be remembered for the shop window trick..... youtu.be/f189hOfyYSY
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Post by paul carney on Sept 7, 2016 6:46:09 GMT
Hi William. I guess that is true ,the same goes for Arthur Haynes,Harry Worth and to an extent Dick Emery. The BBC did a very good programme on Dick Emery a few years ago probably because much of his work still exists in the archives and I know that the Arthur Haynes show is now available on DVD . But as you say I think very few people under 60 would have a clue who he was and how popular he was at one time.His show was prime time viewing in the day.Alas very little of Dickie Henderson's TV appearances seem to survive ,or at least be easily accessible.
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Post by paul carney on Sept 7, 2016 5:12:29 GMT
The Dickie Henderson show was very popular as it covered many bases at the same time. On the one hand it was a bog standard Mr and Mrs type TV sitcom but there was always an element of farce to the story lines and Dickie was a master of physical comedy, which is primarily why I remember the show. Sadly he seems to have now fallen into that category of performer who was very popular in his day but is now largely forgotten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQDwVxX4oQY&list=PLX9C24fvuTJT6ncSVUBYu4s-OnN7_g8Pk
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Post by paul carney on Sept 2, 2016 14:04:30 GMT
Re 284 Object Z returns. I know this has been discussed before but Object Z was a seriously good kids sci-fi programme with a plot that was always intriguing and occasionally scary (to 10 year olds). I had also forgotten until watching the recent attempt at updating Are You Being Served that Trevor "Mr Lucas" Bannister was a lead actor in the series.
Re 303 Singing and Searching. Martin Carthy is still turning out some great music and the legendary Dave Swarbrick only passed away a few months ago.
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Post by paul carney on Aug 29, 2016 21:16:21 GMT
I,m a massive Callan fan and regard it as one of the finest British dramas ever made. I,ve bought everything that I know exists and had accepted that there was probably nothing else to find,but if there is more that would be fantastic.
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Post by paul carney on Aug 1, 2016 13:03:31 GMT
A very brief search of You Tube unearths BBC radio commentary of England's third and fourth goals posted 7 years ago.The BBC event from Saturday is now available on the i player and dips into radio commentary at various points of the match in broadcast quality. So returning to the headline of this thread I remain confused as to what has actually been found?
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Post by paul carney on Aug 1, 2016 11:42:02 GMT
The record I am thinking of is 21 years of BBC Sports Report released in 1969. It contains radio clips of many events including Brian Moore's description of England's third goal in the 1966 World Cup Final.
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Post by paul carney on Aug 1, 2016 9:23:58 GMT
Re 264 Groucho I remember being very keen to see this show as I had always enjoyed the Marx brothers films that seemed to play endlessly in those days. However ,I had not factored in that Groucho was now much older ,75 to be exact,and well past his prime as a performer. I think that the show was based on a format he had used for many years in the USA where Groucho would interact amusingly with members of the audience. I think I only watched the first couple of episodes as it was all so poor. My only recollection is of a bemused looking Keith Fordyce trying to keep things together and a running gag where Groucho repeatedly calls him Mr Threedyce. It's amazing what stays in the memory bank.
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Post by paul carney on Jul 31, 2016 20:21:05 GMT
So this is the discovery of a tape of the whole match? Because I have heard Brian Moore's description of England's third goal many times over the years. In the late 60s I owned a BBC LP featuring classic sporting radio commentaries..Matthews Cup Final ,etc and clips of the World Cup Final were the highlight.
Having been a very exited 11 year old boy on 30th July 1966 I could not resist pressing the red button and watching the BBC's minute by minute tribute to the event on Saturday afternoon. They used commentary by Kenneth Wolstenholme and a number of clips from the radio coverage by Alan Clarke and Brian Moore. The radio clips sounded very clear. I know that they can do remarkable things cleaning up old sound recordings these days but could the BBC really have upgraded a 50 year old reel to reel tape of a recording made from a transistor radio to broadcast standard? The sound on those old trannies was not up to much!
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Post by paul carney on Jul 11, 2016 22:03:17 GMT
Double Deckers was very Americanised.It starred a very young Peter Firth aka Sir Harry Pearce in Spooks.
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Post by paul carney on Jul 11, 2016 20:38:36 GMT
Graham Haberfield appears in the footage. He had great screen presence but sadly died of a heart attack aged just 33.
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