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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Aug 4, 2021 6:34:44 GMT
Currently, tvbrain does not mention anything about burnt-in subtitles for any of the episodes.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Aug 4, 2021 8:47:34 GMT
Currently, tvbrain does not mention anything about burnt-in subtitles for any of the episodes. The subtitle rumour probably dates from the pre social media/DVD days when companies didn't really know what they had or that anybody would be interested in it. Not surprised there were subtitled versions, it was NO.1 programme for 1966 and extremely popular in continental Europe.
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Post by John Green on Aug 4, 2021 9:04:47 GMT
Ray, I'm still getting: MRS THURSDAY Series 3 26.10.1967 When in Malaga The only existing copies have burnt-in subtitles. 16.11.1967 Springtime for Hunter The only existing copies have burnt-in subtitles. www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=mrs.+thursday&type=lostshowThe show can feel very '50s. Black and white, slow, gentle...then a reference comes up which places it in the swingin' sixties. Someone explaining what 'girl thingy Galore' is about, or a kid in 'Only Washing and Babies' who's wearing a Batman cape, and says he's going to get the Joker, only to change tack, and shout "Exterminate! Exterminate!, I'm a martian, and I'm going to exterminate you!! I figured that the 1967 episode No Tea for the Tellyman was a nod to Cat Steven's album Tea for the Tillerman, but that didn't come out until afterwards, so there must be some proverb (?) along those lines. There's a second series musing about how lovely it would be to go on a cruise and see a bit of the world, which was the basis of the third series.
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Post by John Green on Aug 4, 2021 9:09:34 GMT
Good grief, my reference to the Bond character Lottie Cats got changed by someone/something. What a bunch of wussies!
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Post by Peter Stirling on Aug 4, 2021 11:23:19 GMT
For those who don't know.
In those days The Tallyman was a weekly visitor to those who could not get credit or in many elderly cases didn't even have a bank account. He was like a walking credit card who often struck up friendly relationships with his clients and may have been invited in for tea. But he also had a job to do which was to encourage you to buy more stuff and keep you.. on his 'tally' book. He charged modest amounts of interest for this - I say modest compared to today's credit card rates which he would probably thought it was Christmas everyday if he could have got away with the interest rates charged on credit cards today.
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Post by John Green on Aug 4, 2021 15:28:42 GMT
For those who don't know. In those days The Tallyman was a weekly visitor to those who could not get credit or in many elderly cases didn't even have a bank account. He was like a walking credit card who often struck up friendly relationships with his clients and may have been invited in for tea. But he also had a job to do which was to encourage you to buy more stuff and keep you.. on his 'tally' book. He charged modest amounts of interest for this - I say modest compared to today's credit card rates which he would probably thought it was Christmas everyday if he could have got away with the interest rates charged on credit cards today. Live Now, Pay Later was the classic Jack Trevor Story novel, and later film, on the tallyman. Come, mister tallyman, tally me banana. Daylight come and me wanna go home. (Oh that was a clever stop-motion filler they showed on TV of The Banana-boat song being recorded...).
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