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Post by Ian Wegg on Sept 2, 2021 19:34:00 GMT
"Spectrum" was the poster's misremembered name of the organisation that had contacted them. The early reply in that thread about being let down by broken promises four times is what convinced me their story was genuine. Work it out for yourselves.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Dec 14, 2019 15:45:35 GMT
Every now and then you'd get a letter in TVTimes saying This Is Your Life should feature "ordinary" people more often, but in reality the ratings always dropped when they did. I don't think we ever switched channels but it was always a disappointment whenever the subject was an unknown.
You get similar things said about Who Do You Think You Are? today, which kind of misses the point of the show.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Dec 7, 2019 15:32:14 GMT
Mark. Not quite a new quirk that one, I went through exactly the same pain last year. It was sort of fixed over the phone, although I ended up with different seat numbers for the 2 sessions.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Nov 5, 2019 11:51:15 GMT
I guess most people are aware by now but just for the record, the new Freewheelers book is being launched at the Kaleidoscope event in Birmingham on 7th December.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jun 26, 2019 13:14:31 GMT
Thanks Vaughan. The VirginMedia EPG has finally caught up with the channel change so I've set it to record. I notice btw there have been Apollo 11 items all week.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jun 25, 2019 17:32:48 GMT
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jul 7, 2018 11:07:29 GMT
It works if you run the first two words together; Pussycat Willum. If you don't, the Great Computer will wash your mouth out with soap, and substitute something disgustingly coy. Indeed! And it also seems that the "preceding dots" method has stopped working sometime during the eight years since this thread was last active, rendering the previous few posts unintelligible. I'm guessing nothing new of Fred and Ollie has turned up?
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Post by Ian Wegg on Nov 30, 2017 9:34:08 GMT
Wikipedia is, like any other encyclopaedia, a collection of previously published information arranged by subject. Any fact is only as reliable as its original source, and in this case there is no citation. There is a reference to www.phill.co.uk/comedy/askey/ which quotes the same information. You could try the contact form on that page.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Aug 2, 2017 16:03:43 GMT
Yes not bad going. 14 months after the discovery I have watched this now on the new DVD set.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Apr 28, 2017 16:35:24 GMT
Image here.. (copy the "BB code")
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jan 10, 2017 11:28:26 GMT
I sounds hopeful, inasmuch as the wiki review is in the present tense... That's standard Wikipedia usage. The logic being that if it was a TV serial then it must still be, irrespective of its archive status. See (for example) present tense
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Post by Ian Wegg on Oct 18, 2016 16:59:36 GMT
Surely this: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/96c5125d2ab945ceb964c977dadf1198Sunday-Night Theatre presents: Do It Yourself
BBC Television, 26 May 1957 20.00
A new comedy by Elaine Morgan. [Starring] Peter Hammond, Noelle Middleton, Jill Bennett, Andrew Cruickshank Contributors
Writer: Elaine Morgan Producer: Alan Bromly Designer: Roy Oxley
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Boys at Stonehenge: Keith Crane Boys at Stonehenge: Colin McLeanDifficult to make out but the "Daily Courier" seen in the second set of telesnaps appears to be dated for the day of transmission.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Sept 24, 2016 6:52:54 GMT
I should have said Angleton Advertiser. But you knew that. Predictive text. Pah. Yes Pah. I actually didn't John.I thought it was a great name! Seriously,I thought that the lamps were named after something... I didn't either! That explains why Google didn't turn up anything at all for Anglepoise Advertiser. BBC Genome turns up this for 18th Sept 1969: " The 50th anniversary edition of the Angleton Advertiser is eagerly anticipated" which half confirms my recollection. Possibly editions of Radio Times around then will contain promotions for the (subsequently aborted) tie-in publication. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Sept 22, 2016 5:02:35 GMT
I don't recall any merchandise or novelisation. You've sparked another memory for me. In the programme the local newspaper was celebrating an anniversary with a booklet about the history of the town. The BBC were also going to publish the booklet for general sale, I remember I was quite looking forward to buying one. Unfortunately the publication was caught up in an industrial dispute with the printers and eventually it was announced that it was "delayed indefinitely". A shame as it would have been an unusual piece of merchandise. The booklet was seen on screen a number of times and I'm guessing the content was produced. Possibly there is a copy somewhere in the BBC Written Archives, I'd love to see it. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Sept 17, 2016 18:43:04 GMT
My main memory is of the character played by Campbell Singer running for election to the local council. He wasn't popular amongst some of the residents and they agreed amongst themselves to vote for a different candidate, but in a plot line often recycled in sitcoms including The Vicar of Dibley, one of them indicated her dislike by putting a cross against his name and predictably he won by a single vote.
I also remember Gladys Henson as Grandma had puffy ringed eyes which reminded me of the Aquiphibians, Troy Tempest's nemesis in Stingray!
I see that in IMDB Gladys is credited with 6 episodes and Campbell Singer with just 4. They were surely in more than that, presumably that is all that they have been confirmed in.
~iw
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