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Post by Alan Scott on Sept 18, 2016 20:36:18 GMT
Given that Intolerance is being shown at the MBW event, I am assuming that it is that episode which has been found as opposed to Football. Or have I got that wrong?
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Post by Alan Scott on Apr 4, 2016 20:29:40 GMT
Thank you!
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Post by Alan Scott on Apr 3, 2016 14:00:20 GMT
Perhaps I should have fully explained:
The class sketch at the start of the BBC tribute has Corbett with a moustache and Cleese has a newspaper under his arm.
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Post by Alan Scott on Apr 2, 2016 11:34:13 GMT
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Post by Alan Scott on Nov 18, 2015 21:49:11 GMT
Slightly across topics but does the Warren Mitchell/Alf Garnett clip that inspired the Monkees "Randy Scouse Git" survive? I've seen many Monkee documentaries but I don't think I've anything that relates to "Til Death Do Us Part". Mark Ward's excellent book A Family At War tries to establish which episode Dolenz actually saw. He even managed to track down when he was in the UK before the song was recorded and listed the episodes he could have seen. The phrase is not used in any of these shows but is used in Sex Before Marriage and A Woman's Place Is In The Home. Ward raises the possibility that he could also have seen a clip of these shows during his visit, possibly on Late Night Line Up. Only a short clip remains of Sex Before Marriage but audios of both episodes can be found on You Tube. I grew up watching In Sickness and In Health and having watched most of the surviving Till Death Us Do Part episodes I would agree that it is tame in comparison. However there are still some fine comedic moments(especially in the episodes featuring the marvellous Patricia Hayes and Irene Handl) and also some pathos which wasn't evident in the original show e.g. Else's funeral and the episode where Alf is trying to make his own Sunday lunch.
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Post by Alan Scott on Feb 15, 2015 21:38:16 GMT
I can only concur with previous comments.
Apart from the late Mike Smith, there are no interviews with the other band members who are barely mentioned throughout.
We were told on more than one occasion that the DC5 were, along with The Beatles and The Stones, the biggest of the British Invasion band in America. Herman's Hermits had more top 10 hits than the DC5 in the USA.
The best bits were the Ready Steady Go clips.
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Post by Alan Scott on Nov 26, 2014 21:13:45 GMT
I remembering listening to a Country Music show on my local radio station a couple of years back. The presenter announced he had a request for a particular song by Johnny Cash. I can't remember exactly which one but it wasn't Hurt or any of the Rick Rubin produced material. He then said "We don't have that one but here's one we hope you'll like." I immediately thought "It'll be Ring of Fire." Sure enough, that's what he played.
Maybe 15-20 years ago I would have accepted that but "We don't have that one" is a pretty lame excuse for a radio station in this day and age.
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Post by Alan Scott on Nov 24, 2014 20:47:14 GMT
It's not just attitudes that have changed in the last 40 years, the meaning of words have. The clip of the song sung by Jack Jones which had the lyrics "We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one, I hope he is straight, we don't want a bent one." was written by Randy Newman, the American singer songwriter in the mid to late 60's. The implication was made by the programme and the assumption made by the younger interviewees was that the song was homophobic. Straight meaning heterosexual has only come into use relatively recently and bent meaning gay is British slang. In addition, anyone with any knowledge of Newman's work would know that he has exposed and pokes fun at prejudice in his songs. His song Half A Man is about homophobia.
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Post by Alan Scott on Oct 17, 2014 20:29:21 GMT
Whenever I hear anyone talking about decorating the house, I immediately think of the dialogue in Steptoe & Sons "Divided We Stand" e.g. "Dark green in chocolate, them's the colours!"
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Post by Alan Scott on Oct 6, 2014 20:55:17 GMT
The two I remember most were:
The Graham Stark "French Fellas In Sheffield" one.
The other was about motorcycle safety-Look Back. It had a classical soundtrack.
Are these on the DVDs?
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Post by Alan Scott on Dec 29, 2013 12:32:05 GMT
Thanks Syd. The fan site mentions there is an audio recording of the show.
It's a great pity this doesn't exist as he performs Bless The Weather and Glistening Glyndebourne on the show.
However, given that John is very much a non-mainstream artist, he is very well served in the archives with his 6 other OGWT performances all existing.
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Post by Alan Scott on Dec 28, 2013 15:06:20 GMT
Can anyone confirm the archive status of this particular show which featured John Martyn's first TV appearance? Lost Shows doesn't list it as missing but a fan site seems to imply that it is.
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Post by Alan Scott on Jul 6, 2013 15:51:45 GMT
As a collector of 70's televised football, I can confirm 99.5% of the footage I've come across from MOTD in the 70's is in colour. The one glaring exception that springs to mind was of an Ipswich v West Ham league match from April 1975.
I have a "Match of the Day" Derby County video which has telerecorded footage of David Coleman introducing a match v Leicester from 1973. This was Derby's first home match after Brian Clough resigned. However, the actual footage of the match is in colour.
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Post by Alan Scott on Apr 19, 2012 20:48:31 GMT
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Post by Alan Scott on Apr 5, 2012 21:58:06 GMT
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The other interesting thing is that audiences for major dramas now are almost exactly the same as 50 years ago! For example Armchair Theatre: A Night Out was watched by 6.4 million. Of course there was a period of gigantic audiences in the 1980's. 20 million and so on.
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Prior to August 1977, audiences for TV shows were measured by the number of homes who tuned in and not an assessment of the number of individuals who watched.
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