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Post by Dale Rumbold on Feb 28, 2005 10:35:10 GMT
Mabye in the back of some forsaken cafe in Casablanca? Behind the old piano? My own geography is bad, but isn't Casablanca in Morocco?
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Feb 26, 2005 10:32:17 GMT
It would be special personally for me if anymore "Space Pirates" were to turn up (I have the 1 episode on Lost in Time DVD). And why? Because this is the ONLY Doctor Who story that I have never seen : I watched it all from the beginning (at age 4!), including Episode-1 twice due to the repeat, but by 1969 Anglia-ITV had started showing "Land of the Giants" at the same time as BBC1 were showing "Doctor Who", so for one story only my dad decided he would forego "Who" so that my mum could watch a few episodes of "Giants", and it was "Space Pirates" that we missed out on. If only we'd known ......
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 16, 2004 11:01:54 GMT
I think the memoroscope is actually impossible, memories not being stored electro-magnetically.
However, one possible (though very difficult) retrieval method may be as follows :
All electro-magnetic (including TV/Radio) transmissions naturally wend their way into outer space and could potentially be picked up and deciphered by 'alien' worlds (if they exist, which personally I think not). Similarly, there are many large dishes spread around the world looking for similar transmissions from other planets. It is also known that certain stellar bodies have the property of reflecting 'light' and thereto TV/Radio waves. So, we just need to point the radio-telescopes toward a known reflective source, tune to the appropriate frequency that was in use at the time (e.g. BBC1 Crystal Palace VHF c. 1967) and pick up the reflected signal. Naturally, to pick up programmes from, say, 40 years ago, we would need to point at a reflective object that is 20 light-years away, and so forth. There you go, as I said, physically possible but prohibitively expensive and unlikely to produce 'quality' images. Maybe I should patent this method before someone else does ....
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jan 2, 2005 12:36:17 GMT
Apparently the new Doctor Who series is being given the awful "pseudo 25 fps" filmic look that so blighted the new Vicar of Dibley episodes (though of course that wasn't the only thing to blight them but that's another story). It seems ironic that recovered Who episodes on film are being VidFired to help restore them, yet the new episodes will be deliberately made less distinct. As 10cc once said "Art for art's sake".
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Apr 4, 2004 10:13:50 GMT
Michael Grade has been confirmed as the new BBC chairman; goodbye Dr Who and hello "Uncle's Night at the London Palladium".
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Mar 10, 2007 11:38:53 GMT
The Double top ten show started in 1973 the years he did were 1956&1968 I remember listening to the first "Double Top 10 Show" in 1973, and it featured 1963 (10 years ago) and 1968 (5 years ago). Within a very few weeks, older years were added, and I believe that the spring of 1956 was the furthest back that the show ever went (I can remember them playing "The Dreamweavers" performing the wonderful "It's Almost Tomorrow" at #1). Savile always said that prior to 1956 the charts were based on sheet-music sales, which was, of course, incorrect : every chart from Nov 1952 onwards being based on sales. For some time, alternate weeks would feature : 17 & 10 years ago (1956 / 1963) ; and 15 / 5 years ago (1958 / 1968) . God, my brain is stuffed with real trivia .... I think I recall all this because that show was THE highlight of the week for me, at age 13, desperately trying to back-fill my pop knowledge.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Apr 5, 2008 10:14:40 GMT
Re Junior Campbell. Never charted apart from Hallelujah Freedom but good stuff all the same. Sweet illusion was also a hit in 1973.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 18, 2007 10:47:32 GMT
Get it together ahhh .... Roy North, the worst pop presenter of all time, perhaps. Every week he leapt up and down singing the theme tune (badly). And every week they had kids answering quiz questions, where often the kids got the right answers but were told they were wrong because the Granada researchers had messed up. I always blamed Muriel Young for that : she was well out of her time-zone by then.
I remember one show where Billy Ocean sang "Red light spells danger" ; this was immediately followed by some kid being asked what colour Ocean had just sung about, to which said child answered "Green". Not sure why that sticks in my mind, other than the sheer ignorance of it I guess.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jun 24, 2006 9:55:52 GMT
In many ways it is indeed sad that THE music show of my childhood/teenage years (I was born in 1959) is to end. However, I have to admit to stopping watching it in the early 90s : a combination of increasingly awful Top 40 'hits' and a degradation in presentation of the show itself. I believe the presentation rot set in during the 80s when the audience were encouraged to whoop and holler over the music : very irritating. I agree that the best ongoing tribute to the show would be for the surviving complete shows (and, indeed, some anthology shows of orphaned clips) to be re-broadcast. It is generally assumed that much of the missing 70s material does still exist at foreign stations, and maybe it is also time for a 'push', Doctor Who style, on getting this stuff recovered.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 28, 2005 11:16:51 GMT
Like Philip & Vanessa singing "2 sleepy people" for instance? And Ronnie Corbett performing "Fanny", which I have an audio recording of, but which is apparently part of a missing episode. Likewise Bruce Forsyth with "Sandra". Must be loads more.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 16, 2005 12:20:32 GMT
DETROIT EMERALDS ghetto child 1975 (special appearence). DETROIT SPINNERS you want it you got it 1971 (Pans people) These band names are the wrong way round : (Detroit) Spinners did "Ghetto Child" on Atlantic, while Detroit Emeralds did "You want it, you got it" on Westbound.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 25, 2005 9:35:29 GMT
What about THE GEORDIE SCENE (ITV 1975). Was that anything to do with them ? No : it was a pop programme focusing on bands from the North-East in general, as I recall. I forget who presented it.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 5, 2005 11:44:13 GMT
Don't know what she's done for the last 30 years, or even if she's still alive, but she is, of course, the daughter of 50s(40s?) radio icon Peter Brough of "Educating Archie" fame, the man who brought ventriloquism to the radio .... a skill I believe even I could manage! I used to have an audio recording of Ayshea singing "Morningtown Ride" from Lift Off, but sadly this is no more.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 14, 2005 15:57:03 GMT
Incidentally, I have a half-memory of Wings making some kind of cameo appearance in David Essex' performance in the same edition (a brief jokey cutaway or two miming backing vocals or something). Is this correct? As I recall they sang/mimed "I don't think so" at the appropriate place of Essex singing "Gonna make you a star" i.e. "oh is he more, so much more than a pretty face" : "I don't think so".
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 30, 2005 21:03:29 GMT
Unfortunately I can only get this to play the audio when downloaded : tried WMP and RealPlayer, both have the same problem in not showing the video stream. Any ideas?
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