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Post by Steve Austin on Jan 1, 2024 17:33:05 GMT
Talking Pictures TV brings the 1972-1976 series "The Brothers" back tonight at 8pm. Looking forward to this, some familiar faces including Mike Pratt, in his last TV roll before he died, far too young.
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Post by Cartman on Jan 1, 2024 19:35:13 GMT
Remember watching that when it was originally on in 72-6, mum and dad liked it, it was on Sunday night, I think Mark McManus was in it, playing an Aussie
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Post by Mickyosan on Jan 1, 2024 20:07:26 GMT
Talking Pictures TV brings the 1972-1976 series "The Brothers" back tonight at 8pm. Looking forward to this, some familiar faces including Mike Pratt, in his last TV roll before he died, far too young. I’ll give that a watch as it’s on now. It’s said before that TPTV consistently unearths and shows various output, both films and series, that I was previously unaware of and is never seen elsewhere. Given how fragmented television viewing is now, with masses of channels, various catch-up and on demand options and numerous subscription providers, as well as YouTube, I hope TPTV is commercially viable as it’s provided some really interesting stuff since it appeared.
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Post by Vienna on Jan 3, 2024 15:06:42 GMT
Remember watching that when it was originally on in 72-6, mum and dad liked it, it was on Sunday night, I think Mark McManus was in it, playing an Aussie Apparently, although Mark McManus was born in the Glasgow area, his family moved to London when he was just three years old. He then moved to Australia and worked in the theatre over there, so he would know the Aussie accent well.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 6, 2024 22:34:56 GMT
Remember watching that when it was originally on in 72-6, mum and dad liked it, it was on Sunday night, I think Mark McManus was in it, playing an Aussie Apparently, although Mark McManus was born in the Glasgow area, his family moved to London when he was just three years old. He then moved to Australia and worked in the theatre over there, so he would know the Aussie accent well. Mark also had a role in the Target (not Taggart ) Series 2 episode 'Promises' as Wilson a corrupt cop with a dodgy London/Southern accent too.
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Post by Peter Picard on Jan 11, 2024 17:53:46 GMT
Apparently Talking Pictures have been left Peter Byrne's private archive. Peter played Andy Crawford in Dixon of Dock Green for twenty years and in the archive are around thirty episodes of the show. The episodes are to be screened on TPTV as soon as they are ready.
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Post by Cartman on Jan 11, 2024 18:13:49 GMT
I watched bits of Dixon of Dock Green but by the 70s it had become a bit ludicrous. Jack Warner, who played George Dixon was already 60 in 1955 when the programme started, so he would have been too old to have been in the police then
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Post by Villain on Jan 11, 2024 20:07:24 GMT
I watched bits of Dixon of Dock Green but by the 70s it had become a bit ludicrous. Jack Warner, who played George Dixon was already 60 in 1955 when the programme started, so he would have been too old to have been in the police then Bit of related trivia - Jack Warner's limp was acquired when he fell into the turntable pit in Willesden Loco Shed while filming 'Train Of Thought' in 1949, the year after he first appeared as Dixon in 'The Blue Lamp'. Dixon was decidedly old fashioned by the time the series finished in '76 but I find it's still an enjoyable watch. By then of course, 'Special Branch', 'Regan' and 'The Sweeney' had arrived with more grit and realism, making the contrast much greater. Villain
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Post by Cartman on Jan 11, 2024 21:47:17 GMT
But more trivia, one of the locos in the 1949 film still survives in preservation, ex LMS Jinty 47327
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Post by Peter Picard on Jan 12, 2024 11:47:37 GMT
Apparently Talking Pictures have been left Peter Byrne's private archive. Peter played Andy Crawford in Dixon of Dock Green for twenty years and in the archive are around thirty episodes of the show. The episodes are to be screened on TPTV as soon as they are ready.
The surviving episodes start tomorrow, Saturday 13th, at 19.20 with a 1956 episode called Postman's Knock. It continues every Saturday.
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