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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 7, 2016 8:41:43 GMT
My abiding memory of Dickie Henderson (apart from being yet another performer my mum couldn't stand because he was "a little man with a big head"), was his ability to fall over backwards, straight-legged, all the way down to the floor without putting his hands out to break his fall : I found that very impressive! I'd have been around 10 when I saw him do that (am now 57).
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 2, 2016 9:02:31 GMT
Following on from those 2, tried the remake of Till Death Us Do Part last night ... for less than 2 minutes before the wife and I both said "No way" and switched it off. Ghastly beyond belief : long expressionless pauses followed by wooden delivery. The worst thing I've seen since I watched 2 minutes of that awful Crow thing.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 29, 2016 9:07:59 GMT
I just about stuck with it for the half hour, which is more than I managed for the dreadful new Porridge that followed! I also liked Barraclough and Hewson, but thought Watkins was poor : a pastiche of a character that was already a pastiche! As for Mr Rumbold ... well I'm still here waiting for the call ... Overall, I hope very much this is a one-off and not turned into a series (or more) like they did with the awful Still Open All Hours, canned laughter and all.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 28, 2016 12:49:06 GMT
I actually do have some snippets of a Benny Hill ITV show, recorded on a poor quality reel-to-reel tape c. 1971. I don't believe there is anything 'missing' there ; they are still quite amusing though, but pretty racist!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 13, 2016 9:56:12 GMT
I found it interesting that the screen shot was of a Colour TV in Framlingham, Suffolk, at Christmas 1967, because around here (I'm in Ipswich) you couldn't get UHF/BBC2/Colour from Sudbury until 1968 : they must, therefore, have had their aerial pointing towards Tacolneston in Norfolk which WAS up and running for UHF/BBC2/Colour during 1967. In my house, although we didn't have a colour set until 1972, we DID have UHF/BBC2 right from the start in 1964, because we rented a TV from British Relay (BRW) which was attached to a cable network that ran round all the houses on our council estate (Chantry, Ipswich) : we therefore had 4 channels (BBC1 ; BBC2 ; ITV Anglia ; ITV London) when 'normal' TVs in Ipswich, using an aerial, only had 2 (BBC1 ; Anglia). Mind you, the picture quality, especially on ITV London, was often dreadful : I'm not sure where they picked London up from in order to feed it through the cables ; nor indeed BBC2 as there were no UHF transmitters in this region for several years ; all channels suffered from regular ghosting and constant co-channel interference - it was possible to watch 2 channels at once sometimes when it was really bad! We did also get 4 radio channels, in decent quality, via the same set : Radio-1 reception on 247m MW was awful on a normal radio set in Ipswich, but crystal clear on the telly!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jul 14, 2016 16:11:52 GMT
I can recall that I hated junior showtime at the time and used to clamp my hands over my ears, and shout over the title music till it ended. I don't know anyone under the age of 70 that enjoyed Junior Showtime : it always seemed to be on when my grandmother was round and she loved it so we had to watch it ... it made me cringe back then in my early teens, and I feel unwell just thinking about it now. Glyn Poole and Bonnie Langford ... shudder!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on May 21, 2016 16:13:08 GMT
I thought they'd got over that nonsense of post-editing history where the acts were concerned? (though not presenters unfortunately) They repeatedly show Jonathan King, and showed GG back in the 1976 re-runs.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on May 14, 2016 14:21:26 GMT
Ah, Akenfield : my school desk was in that! (unfortunately we, the pupils, were not invited to join the desks for the filming)
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Post by Dale Rumbold on May 10, 2016 18:40:24 GMT
The continuity and trailers were some of the best bits I transferred, I reckon! I don't have a USB transfer device either, so I copied everything onto my DVD recorder hard-drive, then onto DVD-RAM discs for transfer to PC. Getting the hi-fi sound from tapes that were recorded on very different machines proved to be an issue, and one that I didn't solve 100%.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on May 10, 2016 11:43:21 GMT
When I was transferring all my home-recorded VHS tapes to digital format on my computer 2 years ago, the most exciting thing was finding odds and ends on the ends of tapes that were not on the index label : things that had been recorded previously on the tape when I recorded over with something I wanted to keep. Mostly these were fragments of programmes and continuity, adverts etc, and even the start of an unwanted programme that followed the one I wanted. However, one thing I did get in its entirety was an episode of Rosie and Jim : it lacked hi-fi sound so must have been recorded on my original Ferguson VCR between 1985 and 1989. My grand-daughter Jessica, now aged 6, loves it, and has watched it a number of times.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Apr 30, 2016 15:51:19 GMT
Just caught up with the BBC4 documentary, and have to say I was very disappointed with it : having watched the recent ones about Tom Jones, Everly Brothers and Lonnie Donegan, all of which were excellent, I'd saved the Billy Fury one till now expecting it to be the best, but it was very much the worst. The incredibly irritating presentation style of quick cut-aways from talking head to talking head, and even faster switching between disembodied voice-overs without ever saying who they were, made this a frustrating programme to watch ; almost as bad was the insistence on filling in the sides, when showing 4:3 footage, with spurious floating things. They could also have done with supplying some filming dates for contributions from people who are sadly no longer with us, like Alvin Stardust. It lasted an hour and a half, but only about half of this was actually about Billy Fury.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Apr 1, 2016 13:43:20 GMT
I got an email from BBC Store this morning (1st April 2016), and it linked to this Youtube video : priceless! And they say the licence-fee is being wasted! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlxGMAUAoss
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Mar 25, 2016 9:43:23 GMT
Placed an order yesterday!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Mar 13, 2016 16:47:33 GMT
I currently copy any recordings I want to keep from my Panasonic DVD Recorder onto a DVD RAM disc ; and from there onto my PC still as an MPEG2 file. I subsequently convert/edit these to MP4 format for retention and viewing on my LG Smart TV, for various reasons too tedious to go in to here, but which relate to the LG's very poor set of controls when viewing these files. The DVD RAM discs are reused endlessly. I used to copy everything to DVD-R but found them unreadable even when first created : my Panasonic is rubbish at doing them, and even some of the files copied to DVD-RAM need to be redone because they have errors. I too would prefer a new technique for, say, copying files directly from a Sky box or similar to a flash drive, as I know my Panasonic won't last for ever.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Mar 9, 2016 14:40:05 GMT
I think the Cup Final replay (Spurs v. Man City) would have been on the Thursday so TOTP got squeezed into a 20 minute slot.
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