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Post by Dirty Epic on Oct 17, 2019 12:29:26 GMT
Has TPTV ever shown any BBC output at all? If so it's not impossible they could show some rare stuff from the Beeb like say Target, Softly Softly, Spender, Play for Today etc. Suppose like DVD releases the stuff with objections is probably no go but would be nice if they could get some of these on air again.
With them showing a fair bit of Thames stuff recently be nice if they could give the likes of Armchair Theatre, Out and Fox a repeat too, don’t think these have been shown since they aired on UK Gold over 20 years a ago.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 17, 2019 12:37:10 GMT
I'm the same as Steve on Morse, I never got it at all, I thought it was a bit slow and plodding. Softly Softly I could take or leave a bit, Barlow was good, but that was about it. Hazell I never watched, might give it a try
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 17, 2019 12:54:06 GMT
I enjoy Morse. It’s well acted and very well made, I can enjoy more cerebral programmes when in the mood.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 17, 2019 16:47:44 GMT
I don't think TPTV has shown any BBC stuff. In the last year I've noticed they're showing a lot of stuff released by Network & films released on the independent Powerhouse label, it's become a much better channel.
I watched 2 episodes from series 2 of Hazell last night, as I watched them I realised that I'd already seen them a few years ago. Also remembered one of the objections I had to the show, which is the fact that Hazell usually ends up in bed with the women he encounters. I usually find this a sticking point in shows/films, the character will meet a woman & 5 mins later he'll be giving her one.
A number of Sweeney/Minder writers wrote episodes- Trevor Preston, Murray Smith, Tony Hoare & Richard Harris. Brian Glover wrote & stars in an episode.
One of the episodes I watched last night 'Hazell Gets The Bird' was written by Auf Wiedersehen Pet writer Stan Hey. One of the characters is talking about a Saudi Arabian contact he has & if he cheats him it'll be 'my plums on a skewer', Hey used this again in the AWP episode 'Home Thoughts From Abroad', Dennis tells Wayne that 'we'll have your plums on a skewer' if he touches Bomber's daughter. Also the owner of the massage parlour in 'Last Rites' is in the episode.
When I first watched Hazell it reminded me most of 'Rumpole Of The Bailey', somehow it looks very similar & like Rumpole there is a comic Humphrey Bogart style voice over commentary from the lead character throughout the episodes.
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Post by Vienna on Oct 17, 2019 17:56:22 GMT
When I first watched Hazell it reminded me most of 'Rumpole Of The Bailey', somehow it looks very similar & like Rumpole there is a comic Humphrey Bogart style voice over commentary from the lead character throughout the episodes.
There are some similarities with Rumpole, certainly regarding the voice over commentary. Filmed around the same time by Thames too, in 1977 and 1978.
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Post by Sparky on Oct 17, 2019 19:41:12 GMT
Has TPTV ever shown any BBC output at all? If so it's not impossible they could show some rare stuff from the Beeb like say Target, Softly Softly, Spender, Play for Today etc. Suppose like DVD releases the stuff with objections is probably no go but would be nice if they could get some of these on air again.
With them showing a fair bit of Thames stuff recently be nice if they could give the likes of Armchair Theatre, Out and Fox a repeat too, don’t think these have been shown since they aired on UK Gold over 20 years a ago. Play for Today was repeated (only random episodes) on BBC4. I haven't seen any BBC material on TPTV.
UK Gold was once jointly owned by the BBC and Thames.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Oct 17, 2019 20:14:20 GMT
Just seen a cracking interview on Talking Pictures recorded at an Elstree Event for the 1962 film 'The Boys'. The surviving cast spoke really well on the making of the film, and the way they were treated as young actors by other people on the production.
Charles.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 18, 2019 21:46:40 GMT
Two of my favourite films are on TPTV in the next few days, A Taste of Honey with Dora Bryan and Rita Tushingham tomorrow night and on Wednesday A Kind of Loving with Alan bates and Thora Hird. They're worth it for the fantastic black and white filming and the locations and are a great snapshot of the north of England in the early 60s,the world I grew up in as a kid.
A kind of loving is particularly interesting to me as part of it was filmed in Radcliffe where I lived and I would have been there, as a 2 year old, at the time! One scene shows coronation park, Radcliffe New Road, the railway viaduct and the Wilton mill where gran worked.
Both are set to record.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 21, 2019 18:57:29 GMT
Re warnings & censorship, I'm watching a film now on tptv, 'The Next Of Kin', a briefly seen photo of a woman's breasts in a book was blurred out. The film is from 1942!
Funnily enough there was a scene in the film in a theatre dressing room where a sign on the wall read 'The words damn and hell are objectionable & must not be used in this theatre'
Talking of censorship, 'The Next Of Kin', intended as a military training film, was one of a few that Winston Churchill attempted to ban.
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Post by Sparky on Oct 22, 2019 18:13:06 GMT
Re warnings & censorship, I'm watching a film now on tptv, 'The Next Of Kin', a briefly seen photo of a woman's breasts in a book was blurred out. The film is from 1942!
Funnily enough there was a scene in the film in a theatre dressing room where a sign on the wall read 'The words damn and hell are objectionable & must not be used in this theatre'
Talking of censorship, 'The Next Of Kin', intended as a military training film, was one of a few that Winston Churchill attempted to ban.
In Victorian times it was considered risky for women to even show an ankle!
The use of 'Damn' and 'Hell' could've got the BBC taken off air back then!
Theatres were (and to some extent are still) full of Superstition and that kind of thing.
It was considered bad luck if (in the building) you said: "Macbeth" (you had to refer to this as the Scottish Play) "Hell", "Damn" were not allowed to be said - (But it was OK to say F*ck and all that). This was in 1991!
What was really amusing, was that the Local Council had brought in two Clergymen to "bless" the building (this is another tale on it's own). While these two men of the cloth wandered around the corridoors - every other word they said was either "Damn" or "Hell"...
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