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Post by DerekH on Feb 7, 2005 17:55:36 GMT
Anyone know anything at all about this ATV drama from the late sixties. It seemed very popular throughout 1967, but has sank without trace.
Who featured in what seems to have been the precursor of Eastenders.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Feb 8, 2005 1:48:59 GMT
I remember this show. John Bennett was one of the regulars in it. Set around a street market, yes. Some similarity to Eastenders. The first series seems to exist in it's entirety (according to Kal) although subsequent series - which truncated the title to Honey Lane - seem not to.
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Post by stephen doran on Feb 8, 2005 9:32:28 GMT
this was shown here and there in london in the afternoons in 1968. ;D
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Post by Laurence Piper on Feb 8, 2005 15:02:51 GMT
Yes. That's the slot I saw it in. I think it was twice weekly at that point, about 4.20pm (which was quite unusual for soaps / serials at that time) and just before children's TV.
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Post by stephen doran on Feb 8, 2005 18:08:07 GMT
yeah right i think it was on while crossroads was off the air.  |
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Post by DerekH on Feb 10, 2005 14:00:48 GMT
I've looked up the TV Times listing for the first one shown on 03/04/1967. Makes great reading.
"That ain't no kidergarten. Thats a jungle. The swamps of Borneo with their lurking crocodiles and headhunters have got nothing on that lot!" When stallholder Jimmy Bentall falls on rough times, it's a job to pick the song-birds from the vultures.
Now tell me you don't want to see that episode!
Oh and it was on a 8 p.m. in Granadaland anyway.
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Post by Stephen Doran on Nov 11, 2011 9:29:47 GMT
BFI only mentions The Matchmakers episode after i did a search on Market In Honey Lane .
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Post by Stephen Doran on Nov 11, 2011 15:47:18 GMT
Yes Laurence that is Episode 1 TXD on 3/4/67 entitled Nothings for Nothing .Only one i recall was around Autumn 1968 Danny the backward stall holder was being picked on there was a reference to Billy Bushes/Jacko Bennetts.
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