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Post by Peter Summers on Mar 28, 2004 15:00:27 GMT
Has anyone an info on this early ITV crime series. I think it starred Simon Loxdale?
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Post by helpful hartley on Mar 28, 2004 18:32:05 GMT
Peter dont you mean
Bargain at Meckham Market
new world ITP production 1957
The adventures of coster monger John Bargain, who has a market stall, but is secretly a police investigator (in the pilot 'room for one more up top' Bargain was played by Anthony Newley, who turned down the role to work in America)
made at Elstree Studios and Peckham London
the old wives tale
old woman tells Bargain her husband has been murdered but he cannot find the body.
2.the yokes too hard for bacon
Bargain has to help fellow stall holder who's eggs have been found boiled by mysterious process .
3. red - amber - green- amber- red
Bargain witnesses what he thinks is a murder in his van at the traffic lights.
4 it not the rat that smells
unscrupilous landlord in Bargain's manor sends in rats to get rid of his tenents. Bargain gets unexpected help from a cat called Sandy
5. you dont need a light at the gasworks
A powerful hallucigenic drug is being sold in Bargain's market. Bargain smells a connection with the local gasworks
6.sister mercy, brother killer?
Local nun is actually a man being sheltered by his nun sister from the police for a crime he did not commit.
7.hopscotch & butterscotch
The numbers on some chalk in the pavement gives Bargain a clue to the robbery at the local sweet factory
8. dial R for rolf
ex Nazi Rolf Lustergarten becomes a samaritan in order to find out the wearabouts of hidden nazi treasure from a local manic depressive called Karl Rungt . Bargain knows there is something wrong with Karl when he buys less fruit than usual
9.lights out life out
a spate of murders of young women in the area,leads Bargain to the local cinema and some subliminal film frames
10.daytrip to murder
An ex employee with a grudge, sends his ex co-workers an invitation for day out. Bargain becomes suspicious when he loads the charabanc with fruit and notices brake fluid.
11 dance with daisy
small time villains Burt and Arthur are using a stolen cattle prod to mug victims. They get more than they bargain for when Bargain leaves Daisy the cow in their hideaway.
12 Ethels won the pools
Ethel tells everyone in the market she has won the pools.. the day the local bank is robbed.
13 stalls in, canvas down.
Bargain has to stop the market being closed down and has help from an unlikely souce,
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Post by williammcgregor on Jul 20, 2020 14:39:09 GMT
Can anyone shed any light on this Series please?
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Post by John Green on Jul 20, 2020 15:20:12 GMT
I had a feeling that there'd been a thread on here about this, but a seach doesn't throw anything up. Something to do with the pilot?
Added: Oops. Just spotted that it's This Very Thread, as Arthur Askey might say!
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Post by ifryer on Jul 20, 2020 19:05:36 GMT
Hmmm. My spider sense is tingling. Those episode synopses read like a wind-up. Not a sausage about the series on Times Digital Archive, not on Anthony Newley's imdb and I can't find a trace of 'Simon Loxdale.
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Post by John Green on Jul 20, 2020 21:25:34 GMT
I dunno...hartley found a lot of info pretty quickly!
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Post by Pete Morris on Jul 21, 2020 1:36:13 GMT
Hmmm. My spider sense is tingling. Those episode synopses read like a wind-up. Not a sausage about the series on Times Digital Archive, not on Anthony Newley's imdb and I can't find a trace of 'Simon Loxdale. Sounds like a great show, though. |
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Post by williammcgregor on Jul 21, 2020 9:18:45 GMT
Bargain at Meckham Market
new world ITP production 1957
The adventures of coster monger John Bargain, who has a market stall, but is secretly a police investigator (in the pilot 'room for one more up top' Bargain was played by Anthony Newley, who turned down the role to work in America)
made at Elstree Studios and Peckham London
The following ties in with Anthony Newley turning down the role to work in America
CRANKS had 220+ performances in London, but closed after 40 performances in the US.
Anthony Newley along with 2 other cast members, Annie Ross and Gilbert Vernon appeared on
The Ed Sullivan Show December 2 1956, to perform the 3 following numbers from the show
on YouTube is
Anthony Newley in CRANKS 1956
9.58 minutes
So perhaps the pilot Anthony Newley appeared in was filmed or made before November 1956, as the Ed Sullivan Show
appearance is dated 2 December 1956
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Post by John Green on Jul 21, 2020 10:32:37 GMT
Hmmm. My spider sense is tingling. Those episode synopses read like a wind-up. Not a sausage about the series on Times Digital Archive, not on Anthony Newley's imdb and I can't find a trace of 'Simon Loxdale. Sounds like a great show, though. If the show's not real, perhaps Big Finish or someone could make it come true? 'Bargain of Mecry: The Show That Never Was'. |
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Post by Pete Morris on Jul 21, 2020 16:32:41 GMT
I suspect, BTW, that Mecry is a typo for Mercy, and Meckham is a typo for Peckham.
Not that I can find any info about these alleged shows even with the corrections.
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Post by John Green on Jul 21, 2020 16:38:16 GMT
I suspect, BTW, that Mecry is a typo for Mercy, and Meckham is a typo for Peckham.
Not that I can find any info about these alleged shows even with the corrections.
Apologies if I'm wrong, but as far as the first two posts on this thread go 'Guest', might be a typo for 'prat'! |
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Post by williammcgregor on Jul 21, 2020 20:17:50 GMT
Anthony Newley appeared in 223 performances of Cranks around various London Theatres throughout 1956, finally ending up
at the Lyric, Hammersmith, where it stayed until Mid September 1956. Two months later it opened, cast intact on Broadway at
the Bijou Theatre, from 26 November 1956 and played through to 29 December 1956.
If we say the cast left for Broadway perhaps a week before 26 November 1956, it takes us back to Mid November.
So if Anthony Newley did appear in the Pilot for this Series, then perhaps he did it between Mid September and Mid November
1956.
It mentions in the second post on this thread, that filming was at Elstree Studios.
The Danziger Brothers, Edward J and Harry Lee had the New Elstree Studios since 1955 and by December 1961, they had made
351 TV Shorts and at least 55 British cinema second features.
Was this pilot and subsequent series, perhaps a Danziger production, which for some reason, became an Abortive Series, it
there is currently no evidence to substantiate it being shown on British Television?
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jul 21, 2020 22:13:21 GMT
Was this pilot and subsequent series, perhaps a Danziger production, which for some reason, became an Abortive Series, it there is currently no evidence to substantiate it being shown on British Television? There is certainly a lot of Danziger productions that haven't seen the light for years, other TV companies in those days included Rank, Elstree Pictures, Douglas Fairbanks, Official Films(bought by ITC) etc. |
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