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Post by Charles Bronson on Jun 28, 2022 20:13:32 GMT
Has anyone watched a crime series on T.P. called 'Dial 99' made in 1958? Its only 30 minutes long and practically every bit of it was filmed on location, mainly in 1950s London, which is the main reason I love watching it. Some of the story lines are pretty silly though. I was laughing my head off half way through tonight's episode. A gang needed to dispose of a dead body, after shooting one of their own members, played by Michael Balfour. Anyway a large removal type van pulls up in broad daylight, in the residential area of Maida Avenue and about five big ugly gang members emerge and get a large square wooden crate out of the back of the van carry it across the road and dump it on the pavement by the canal side and depart unaware that a copper on his beat had witnessed their actions. In Broad daylight though 😂 I thought the Maida Avenue location looked familiar, so I checked up on Google maps and realised I was right. It was the canal location the retro forum visited around 2016 where scenes from 'Georgie Girl' were filmed. I think I'm going to end up buying the DVD set of this series. I just love those old locations, and also seeing actors who became well known later on, playing minor parts in the series. I will sometimes watch stuff that's not that good, if I like the location filming and the era when it was filmed, which for me, is from just after the war until the early 80s. Will check this one out. The locations for this series are really good in my opinion Cartman.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jun 28, 2022 20:32:04 GMT
Nice spot Charles. I've caught bits and pieces of 'Dial 999' on TPTV and while it's not really for me/my thing considering it was a early police TV drama it was acted and produced fairly well and sort of holds up better than some things being made today. I'd much, much sooner see Dial 999 than say Grantchester or (ugh) Father Brown being churned out right now both of these modern period pieces make Dial 999 look like The Sweeney in comparison.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jun 28, 2022 20:46:11 GMT
You're correct there D.E. I find myself watching some old series now and enjoying them, that I wouldn't have watched when they were originally shown. I just can't take to most of the modern series.
Sometimes I feel a bit guilty for misjudging some series and not giving them a chance when they were first screened.
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Post by Peter Picard on Jul 15, 2022 21:14:17 GMT
Has anyone watched a crime series on T.P. called 'Dial 99' made in 1958? Its only 30 minutes long and practically every bit of it was filmed on location, mainly in 1950s London, which is the main reason I love watching it. Some of the story lines are pretty silly though. I was laughing my head off half way through tonight's episode. A gang needed to dispose of a dead body, after shooting one of their own members, played by Michael Balfour. Anyway a large removal type van pulls up in broad daylight, in the residential area of Maida Avenue and about five big ugly gang members emerge and get a large square wooden crate out of the back of the van carry it across the road and dump it on the pavement by the canal side and depart unaware that a copper on his beat had witnessed their actions. In Broad daylight though 😂 I thought the Maida Avenue location looked familiar, so I checked up on Google maps and realised I was right. It was the canal location the retro forum visited around 2016 where scenes from 'Georgie Girl' were filmed. I think I'm going to end up buying the DVD set of this series. I just love those old locations, and also seeing actors who became well known later on, playing minor parts in the series.
I've enjoyed Dial 999. Recognised some locations around Borehamwood and Shenley which we've seen on recent 4.3 meets.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 11, 2022 18:15:32 GMT
For anyone who has a Talking Pictures TV Encore online subscription (it’s free - just sign up), the splendid film adaptation of Room At The Top is available now, until Sunday I think
Room At The Top
Video Description: Available until 14th August. Only available in United Kingdom and Ireland.
1959. Drama. Director: Jack Clayton. Stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret & Heather Sears. Joe Lampton arrives in a Yorkshire town with ambitions and finds solace in the arms of an older woman.
Directed by Jack Clayton Screenplay by Neil Paterson Based on Room at the Top by John Braine Produced by John Woolf, James Woolf Starring Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Hermione Baddeley Cinematography by Freddie Francis Edited by Ralph Kemplen Music by Mario Nascimbene Production Company: Romulus Films
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Post by Charles Bronson on Aug 16, 2022 7:09:01 GMT
I was looking at the tv guide for Talking Pictures on Sunday afternoon, and noticed that The Blue Lamp was just about to start. I thought to myself how many times has that been on before? We ended up watching the full film anyway, though of course I'd seen it before many times. In the event I very much enjoyed and appreciated last Sunday's afternoon screening. The London locations from 1949 were fantastic.
Later on I had a look on YouTube to see if there was anything of interest about the film and found a video by a film historian. Who toured the films locations and talked about The Blue Lamp. The video is only 13 minutes long by the way. It was sad to look at how drastically most of the locations had changed since 1949 though.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 21, 2022 9:24:58 GMT
Magic - 9pm tonightV creepy film which had a disquieting effect on me which lasted a few days back in the day
Anthony Hopkins stars as a Ventriloquist who begins to lose reality with his domineering dummy. Far more than the extended Dead of Night short, the FX of dummy 'Fats' were groundbreaking. Burgess Meredith and Ann Margaret co star.
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Post by Three Litre on Sept 24, 2022 19:02:39 GMT
Magic - 9pm tonightV creepy film which had a disquieting effect on me which lasted a few days back in the day
Anthony Hopkins stars as a Ventriloquist who begins to lose reality with his domineering dummy. Far more than the extended Dead of Night short, the FX of dummy 'Fats' were groundbreaking. Burgess Meredith and Ann Margaret co star. I think I saw that on release, it is creepy.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Sept 24, 2022 21:44:58 GMT
I've always found the idea of Ventriloquists dummies being actually alive quite scary, also statues coming to life. In my case it goes back to when I was a toddler and my parents who were staunch Catholics had a religious statue figure which really scared me.
I seem to remember reading the novel 'Magic' in the 80s but I've not seen the film but I'd like to watch it so I will look out for it.
Charles.
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Oct 1, 2022 15:36:53 GMT
I don't know if it's been mentioned previously on this thread, but I had a look at an episode of Mike Read's Heritage Chart which I PVR'd a couple of days ago.
Deserves a full write up of its own really, as it's a little portal into the otherwise unknown universe where artists you thought weren't really doing anything at all anymore are indeed still getting new product out. But I'll reasonably briefly summarise.
So there's Jennie Matthias, or Jennie Bellestar Matthias to give her a full nowadays name (although I'm sure she used to be Jennie Mckeown back in the day) with a ska-ish ditty called Don't Watch TV. And it's just as well that I didn't heed that advice, because I thought it was a great little track. Nice cameo from Madness's Chrissy Boy as well.
There was the new one from A Flock Of Seagulls, the video of which had a couple wandering around somewhere port-ish and not clear where. Could have been Cleveland, Ohio or Cleveland, North Yorkshire. Meanwhile there are various cut-tos to some bald bloke with sunglasses at the mic in a studio set with earphones on. Obviously Mike Score of hair-do fame, and I suspect the only member nowadays. Should be called Seagull really.
And just to make me feel old, Tom Chaplin of Keane with his solo single, which sounds like Keane. At least he's looking a bit like Belouis Some these days, so there's still some sort of heritage aspect there.
And then there's Toyah, with her version of Slave To The Rhythm. The Grace Jones original was a divine Trevor Horn produced slinky piece of pop. This is Toyah doing it. Using exactly the same style of backing track, but a shoestring flat version as you'd get on a karaoke CD, it really doesn't have any reason to exist. Obligatory Fripp appearance along with another guitarist who I think I recognise but cannot place if I do.
In the chart rundown, Micky Dolenz has a single out called My Heart Is Failing Me, which is a bit of an unfortunate title for the last remaining Monkee, and there's also some other nostalgia-fest names showing: Howard Jones, Owen Paul, Ricky Ross, Eddy Grant, The Proclaimers and, er, Ralph McTell ("Do Streets of London!").
And there's a picture of The Buzzcocks shown for their current chart entry, which is obviously a relatively modern photo with greying hairs and such, but Pete Shelley is still in it. They didn't play the song and I haven't heard it elsewhere, but I'm guessing that Steve Diggle might have kept the band going with a Shelley-like in place, so is this a period-incorrect picture, or is it a dusted down release from the fairly recent archives? These are the questions that need to be asked!
Oh, and similarly, a pic of UB40 is also shown, still with Astro. That's the Ali Campbell UB40, not the non-Ali Campbell UB40 by the way.
Not sure if I'll keep watching them. I'd heard about the programme from elsewhere so thought I'd see what it was all about.
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