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Post by stevej on May 28, 2020 13:10:57 GMT
David Jason mentions this show in his autobiography and I must confess I'd never heard of it before. Apparently it was a kids' comedy/detective series made by Thames and shown in the summer of 1970. It starred DJ, Denise Coffey- and a large English Sheepdog. I get the impression it was created almost as a goodwill gesture towards David and Denise who it seems were left unexpectedly high and dry after Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle decided not to continue with Do Not Adjust Your Set. I believe they wanted to move it to an adult slot to give them more freedom, but Thames disagreed, so they walked away.
An online trawl suggests Two D's featured some interesting guest actors from Gerald Flood and Angela Douglas to Norman Vaughan. Sounds fun, however David Jason claims it was a nightmarish studio production due to the dog never doing what it was supposed to. In fact he expresses the hope that the tapes were wiped. Given the state of Thames children's tv archive around this time that would seem a reasonably safe bet- Anita In Jumbleland, Ace of Wands etc- yet TV Brain says that the series exists complete. I don't think I've ever seen a single clip from it. Does anyone remember the show? An episode would have made a good bonus extra to the DNAYS dvd set.
Steve
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Post by Jeff Leach on Aug 6, 2021 12:29:47 GMT
Under investigation at the moment as Freemantle have stated
That they dont have it in their archive after a query
For footage to be used ( Kaleidoscope's Facebook page)
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Post by John Green on Aug 6, 2021 15:36:36 GMT
It's times like this that I wish there was a 'Drat' button.
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