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Post by Peter Stirling on Nov 23, 2011 15:51:18 GMT
Thanks for the pointer to the theme. I have it on a vinyl LP somewhere, possibly the Simon Park Eye Level album which I seem to remember also has the Man About The House theme. IMDb has over 120 episodes with various details: www.imdb.com/title/tt0196249/episodes. However, their entry for the series www.imdb.com/title/tt0196249/ is in a right mess - unless it really did have a second unit director, 13 stuntmen and a bear trainer in which case it must have changed quite a bit after I stopped watching it! ~iw I think it gets confused with the American version, and American fans just keep on adding data to it, even though it marked up as not their one? You know what Americans are like- if it aint American it does not exist  |
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Post by nickconnor1961 on Nov 23, 2011 18:27:29 GMT
Although i didnt see much of the orginal afternoon show , as was at school did see the hour long ones on Saturday night , i even had (might still not sure) had a novel of the series, remember the charators as if they were on yesterday , parker brown (miserable git) bywaters (romero) and the pretty redhead , and the porter caper, played think by arthur english , which gave me idea of being a hospital porter which i did in 80s
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Post by Stephen Doran on Nov 24, 2011 8:49:40 GMT
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Post by Kev Hunter on Feb 19, 2014 19:11:40 GMT
Ah memories - I used to watch General Hospital when I got home from school; 4.20pm it was on in Granada-land. I particularly remember the storyline where Jill Gascoigne was the fiancee of one of the doctors and was tragically killed. Her identical double (unsurprising as it was just Jill again in a different wig) was then brought into the hospital, much to the consternation of said doctor. Went to University and found myself on same course as Parker-Brown's son....... I remember that storyline well! Wasn't the doctor in question Neville Bywaters (played by Tony Adams, more well-known as Adam Chance in Crossroads)? I've always felt that the doppelganger thing in films and TV was a very easy and laughable device. One of the worst instances being in the 'Miami Twice' Christmas special of Only Fools and Horses. |
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Post by Stephen Doran on Sept 20, 2014 13:15:27 GMT
Capper was gay i think or seemed it lol. Although i didnt see much of the orginal afternoon show , as was at school did see the hour long ones on Saturday night , i even had (might still not sure) had a novel of the series, remember the charators as if they were on yesterday , parker brown (miserable git) bywaters (romero) and the pretty redhead , and the porter caper, played think by arthur english , which gave me idea of being a hospital porter which i did in 80s |
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Post by Brian Denton on Sept 21, 2014 12:35:02 GMT
Some nice pictures there. I'd forgotten quite how gorgeous Anouska (note no 'h' then, though she now spells it 'Anoushka') Hempel was. I know she went on to other things than acting, and is in fact quite sniffy about her acting career I think. She has a walk on part in the final minutes of Carry on at Your Convenience, which I saw on one of the cable channels a few weeks ago. Sorry for straying a bit o/t! |
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Post by Stephen Doran on Sept 21, 2014 13:57:34 GMT
She was in Zodiac and Tiffany Jones film think she wanted it banned or something.
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Post by Stephen Doran on Sept 21, 2014 14:10:11 GMT
Anita Carey i used to fancy her dont recall her in GH? Thanks for the confirmation, you can hear "Red Alert" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8TpQadcoo (just get out at the floor you want!) It looks like someone has been updating the wrong IMDb entry, I've submitted delete requests for all the spurious data. ~iw |
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Post by Jeff Haynes on Sept 22, 2014 8:36:48 GMT
No, most of the later hour-long format episodes of General Hospital (with self-contained storylines) exist. It's the earlier 30 min continuing soap format episodes that are generally missing (a dozen or so survive including the first two). A shame as I remember the earlier format most of all. A DVD release would be possible though but it's the usual ATV archiving situation for a '70s show really; the worst of the big five ITV companies in this respect at this time. Hi, just wondering where that information is from? According to the Wikepedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_television_broadcasts "Most 1963–1970 episodes of ABC's General Hospital survive because the series was then owned by Selmur Productions. Few episodes from 1970–1977 were saved". I watched the 1st one on Youtube and found it entertaining. Use to watch it in the late 70's with the Luke, Laura, Mr. Smith, Scorpio saga. |
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Post by Richard Bignell on Sept 22, 2014 9:09:00 GMT
No, most of the later hour-long format episodes of General Hospital (with self-contained storylines) exist. It's the earlier 30 min continuing soap format episodes that are generally missing (a dozen or so survive including the first two). A shame as I remember the earlier format most of all. A DVD release would be possible though but it's the usual ATV archiving situation for a '70s show really; the worst of the big five ITV companies in this respect at this time. Hi, just wondering where that information is from? According to the Wikepedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_television_broadcasts "Most 1963–1970 episodes of ABC's General Hospital survive because the series was then owned by Selmur Productions. Few episodes from 1970–1977 were saved". I watched the 1st one on Youtube and found it entertaining. Use to watch it in the late 70's with the Luke, Laura, Mr. Smith, Scorpio saga. You're at cross-proposes here, Jeff. Laurence is talking about the British ATV series that ran from 1972 through to 1979. It's completely different to the American ABC series of the same title that's been running since 1963. |
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Post by Stephen Doran on Sept 22, 2014 9:24:45 GMT
Acting was probaly better and more sincere in the ATV version
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Post by Jeff Haynes on Sept 22, 2014 17:37:07 GMT
Hi, just wondering where that information is from? According to the Wikepedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_television_broadcasts "Most 1963–1970 episodes of ABC's General Hospital survive because the series was then owned by Selmur Productions. Few episodes from 1970–1977 were saved". I watched the 1st one on Youtube and found it entertaining. Use to watch it in the late 70's with the Luke, Laura, Mr. Smith, Scorpio saga. You're at cross-proposes here, Jeff. Laurence is talking about the British ATV series that ran from 1972 through to 1979. It's completely different to the American ABC series of the same title that's been running since 1963. Wow, thanks for the info. You really can learn new stuff. I never realized that their was a UK serires. Check out the 1st episode of the American one here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6GlbuIOIvw Very cool with a young Roy Thinnes (The Invaders). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2014 12:47:59 GMT
Well, this is a site dedicated primarily to British missing TV, after all! The mentions above of various cast members and screening slots etc. should have made it clear what we were talking about though, if there was ever any doubt.
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Post by Jeff Haynes on Sept 24, 2014 6:31:17 GMT
Well, this is a site dedicated primarily to British missing TV, after all! The mentions above of various cast members and screening slots etc. should have made it clear what we were talking about though, if there was ever any doubt. Sorry Mr Perfect. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 9:35:24 GMT
There's no way of stating the fact without sounding abrupt - but no reason for your taking anything the wrong way as it wasn't intended in an unfriendly manner. The strapline underneath the home page heading tells you all you need to know about the site and, although we do discuss non-UK television here, it's probably assumed we're talking about British programmes, unless otherwise stated.  |
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