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Post by Cartman on Oct 7, 2021 17:31:58 GMT
Talking about Hannah Gordon, she was in another naff fest at about the same time as the one Arthur mentioned, it was called Joint Account and she was supposed to be a bank manager.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 7, 2021 17:43:13 GMT
I'm on a roll here, Hannah Gordon has just made another one spring to mind, it wasn't a sitcom, it was a drama serial, from early 79, called Telfords Change. Peter Barkworth was in it with her, and he played a city banker who wants to drop out of the rat race a bit and he takes a much lower level job at a bank in somewhere like Dover.
Hannah, as his wife doesn't go and stays in London.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 8:40:08 GMT
In this day of 'on demand' and '+1' channels it is all too easy to forget that if you missed watching a television show that was it... You missed it for good (unless you had a couple of grand spare to buy a television tape recorder)!! As a kid, I was in the small audience of a show in 1973 which was broadcast on Xmas day and only saw it once when it was broadcast on a B&W set. It would be 40+ years before I was able to see it again and that was courtesy of the ITV archive after buying a copy once they found it for me. Back then, the only VCRs around would be the one they dragged out for us to watch the schools programmes on. At our school, the VCR would often break down and the school AV technician, who was a bearded boffin complete with white coat called Jim, would rush in to sort it out whilst the class would chant "Jim'll Fix It". I doubt he would like to be reminded of that if he's still around... Haha you're spot on with that one Nightfly. My first memory was that the black n white TV was kinda on these two metal poles, either side of the tele and VCR machine, like on a frame work, and the tele was quite high up. The whole thing was then on casters so ya could wheel along. The VCR machine look huge an very heavy and with two big spuel wheels which contained the film, I then think the whole thing had like a case lid which would clip on. Yes in science that's all we watched, B & W open University programs, with a guy on, charactorized like the dude in the same scenario from Life on Mars. This format remained for a bit longer, until I remember noting, one day, wow! suddenly the VCR machine then changed to something still, equally as big, except it now took actual video tapes instead of the previous round spuels, and now had big silver buttons which stuck out like pegs, which were the controls! argh.. that was Progression! Back then! But got a buz every time that big machine got wheeled into the class, because it meant less writing, and more watching tele, Lol no wonder kids today never seem happy.. GC
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Post by Nightfly on Oct 8, 2021 12:14:06 GMT
This one looks identical to the ones they would wheel out at school. The thumbwheel controls on the left would be in constant use as the tracking always needed adjusting as the picture would move up and down during the programme. Note the wooden teak effect that seemed to be on every piece of audio or video equipment back then. I remember the entire class would shout "10-9-8.." as the ITV Schools clock counted down. However, if it was a BBC programme, we would get that weird animated diamond that would move around the screen which I think was specially created to hypnotise kids into silence and obedience. It.....still.....works....for....me....now....
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Post by Cartman on Oct 14, 2021 7:26:56 GMT
Bottle Boys, early/mid 80s, ITV, Robin Askwith was in it, about a milkman. It seemed to be a sort of slightly toned down version of the Confessions films, with him as a similar kind of character. It was written by Vince Powell, who also did Love thy Neighbour and Mind your language.
With that unpromising source you would expect it to be rubbish, and it was. Didn't last long.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Oct 14, 2021 10:07:18 GMT
This is a great post, thanks to all the contributions.
It's interesting I hazily remember some of these programmes mentioned here but a fair few I'd certainly not care for or really go out my way to see again. That said the same can be said about a lot of the stuff I like too, who knows some of them might get an airing on Talking Pictures TV someday.
I wonder if some of these have suffered from the 'wiping' thing over the years too?
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Post by Sam Tyler on Oct 14, 2021 21:14:46 GMT
More series that have just sprung to mind although they only just about scrape into the 70s were three ecclesiastical series starring Derek Nimmo: Oh Brother!, All Gas and Gaiters, and Oh Father!
I vaguely recall my parents watching these but can't remember whether they were really funny or not. I certainly haven't ever seen them repeated so I guess they'd either been wiped or they just weren't worthy of repeating.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 14, 2021 21:27:39 GMT
I vaguely remember those too. Can't remember them being particularly good.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 14, 2021 21:34:54 GMT
Arthur Lowe starred as an Irish priest in another godcom 'Bless Me Father'. Although Lowe is one of my favourite actors I'm not a fan of religious based comedy so I've only watched the one episode. I know 'Father Ted' has its fans but I think priests & vicars are a soft target with the humour being a bit obvious, for similar reasons I've never liked political comedies like 'Yes Minister' or 'The New Statesman'.
Having said that I like Dick Emery's vicar character.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 17, 2021 22:46:26 GMT
The other day unless I dreamt it I'm sure I saw an upcoming trailer for 'All In Good Faith' on one of the channels, possibly Forces TV, this was another religious themed sitcom from the 80's with Richard Briers as a vicar.
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