Post by John S Miller on Sept 4, 2006 19:34:53 GMT
Can anyone identify the following ? On Saturday afternoons 1967 - 68, I recall the BBC ran films for some reason instead of Grandstand, between 4 and 5'0 clock? Unless this was a Sunday.
In the period I recall, the final episode of DOCTOR WHO 'Evil of the Daleks' with the destruction being shown around the same time. If '67 this would limit it down to the July period. I do recall being ill with constipation at the time, and clearly also remembering an association with a Sunday afternoon memory of 'Captain Scarlet'.
The episode in question was 'Attack on cloudbase' (title ?) in which the Mysterons land and appear to destroy the goodies base and kill Destiny Angel. I'd suggest I'm therefore thinking of the 1968 repeat of 'Evil of the Daleks' ep. 7.
In the film I'm thinking of, during wartime Britain (WWII) a character I thought was played by Jim Dale visits someone on a cottage on the outskirts of a wood. The atmosphere continues in a lighthearted vein as the rider, wearing a flat cap and breeches leaves the cottage on a bicycle, cheerfully whistling, riding through the nearby wood. The comedy suddenly turned to drama as an observer warns him with a cry, and the cyclist is suddenly caught by the bullet froma hiding group of soldiers on the look out.
The rider is then cradled either by the person who warned him or a soldier who realises he's on the British side. He gasps a last piece of information to them before a trickle of blood runs from the corner of his mouth and he dies. I recalled this switch from comedy to drama disturbed me.
I've never been able to idntify the film. A friend offered some suggestions whilst researching Radio times during the 80s or 90s.
Suggestions of films shown on weekends around that time by the BBC include: 'seven thieves' (1960), a tense melodrama about a Monte Carlo thief on 8.8.68; 'FBI code' (1964) about an unexploded bomb on 3.8.68; 'Between midnight and dawn' (1947) (Saturday thriller) 6.6.68; and 'the great mans lady' ( ? or 'the love affair') (1942). This last one was on at 3.15 on 4.8.68, more the actual time of day I'm describing.
The only other candidates are the films ITV showed at that time.
These included on 23.6.68 'Splendour' (1935), Sunday 16.6.68 'Tommorrow at 10' (1963), starring John Gregson, who gets trapped in a room with a bomb; 'where theres a will' (1955) a U.K. comedy at 3.25 on Sun 28.7.68, and 'Barnacle Bill' (1941) at 3.30 on 4.8.68.
Opposite 'Evil of the Daleks' repeat on 8.6.68 was 'Encore' (1952) an adaption of 3 Somerset Maugham stories, at 3.25. Other films 'Personal Affair' (U.K. 1957), and on 15.6.68 'Madness of the heart' (1949) featuring Margaret Lockwood.
Around the same time the BBC showed 'the abominable snowman' (Hammer 1957); and 'Winner' (1947 sinister melodrama with John Mills).
Bear in mind the film I seek to identify probably dates from 1945 - 63, maybe B+W and featured a young dark haired male civilian (Jim Dale or similar) in some kind of countryfied war setting.
In the period I recall, the final episode of DOCTOR WHO 'Evil of the Daleks' with the destruction being shown around the same time. If '67 this would limit it down to the July period. I do recall being ill with constipation at the time, and clearly also remembering an association with a Sunday afternoon memory of 'Captain Scarlet'.
The episode in question was 'Attack on cloudbase' (title ?) in which the Mysterons land and appear to destroy the goodies base and kill Destiny Angel. I'd suggest I'm therefore thinking of the 1968 repeat of 'Evil of the Daleks' ep. 7.
In the film I'm thinking of, during wartime Britain (WWII) a character I thought was played by Jim Dale visits someone on a cottage on the outskirts of a wood. The atmosphere continues in a lighthearted vein as the rider, wearing a flat cap and breeches leaves the cottage on a bicycle, cheerfully whistling, riding through the nearby wood. The comedy suddenly turned to drama as an observer warns him with a cry, and the cyclist is suddenly caught by the bullet froma hiding group of soldiers on the look out.
The rider is then cradled either by the person who warned him or a soldier who realises he's on the British side. He gasps a last piece of information to them before a trickle of blood runs from the corner of his mouth and he dies. I recalled this switch from comedy to drama disturbed me.
I've never been able to idntify the film. A friend offered some suggestions whilst researching Radio times during the 80s or 90s.
Suggestions of films shown on weekends around that time by the BBC include: 'seven thieves' (1960), a tense melodrama about a Monte Carlo thief on 8.8.68; 'FBI code' (1964) about an unexploded bomb on 3.8.68; 'Between midnight and dawn' (1947) (Saturday thriller) 6.6.68; and 'the great mans lady' ( ? or 'the love affair') (1942). This last one was on at 3.15 on 4.8.68, more the actual time of day I'm describing.
The only other candidates are the films ITV showed at that time.
These included on 23.6.68 'Splendour' (1935), Sunday 16.6.68 'Tommorrow at 10' (1963), starring John Gregson, who gets trapped in a room with a bomb; 'where theres a will' (1955) a U.K. comedy at 3.25 on Sun 28.7.68, and 'Barnacle Bill' (1941) at 3.30 on 4.8.68.
Opposite 'Evil of the Daleks' repeat on 8.6.68 was 'Encore' (1952) an adaption of 3 Somerset Maugham stories, at 3.25. Other films 'Personal Affair' (U.K. 1957), and on 15.6.68 'Madness of the heart' (1949) featuring Margaret Lockwood.
Around the same time the BBC showed 'the abominable snowman' (Hammer 1957); and 'Winner' (1947 sinister melodrama with John Mills).
Bear in mind the film I seek to identify probably dates from 1945 - 63, maybe B+W and featured a young dark haired male civilian (Jim Dale or similar) in some kind of countryfied war setting.