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Post by Charles Bronson on Jun 5, 2021 19:35:24 GMT
There was a good purchase Arthur. Well worth the money.
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 5, 2021 20:12:52 GMT
Very interesting AP! I clearly remember looking forward to watching Dr No on tv. A couple of years before that our local used to show double features of Bond films, so you’d get Only Live Twice with Dr No. Can’t remember seeing double features for years.
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Post by Sparky on Jun 5, 2021 20:13:49 GMT
Where do you find these TV Times listings Arthur? Are they on line or do you have them in a collection.
The original site with them on has vanished.
I've got a couple of discs of scans from 1972-78 ( and some from the 80's ) bought from an ebay seller a long while ago. I've had a look on ebay & there's some on sale for £4.99. I don't think the seller is likely to be the person who scanned them originally, I remember when I bought them the seller made a point of saying in the ad that he had scanned the issues himself & warned against others making copies, saying if he noticed others selling them he would report them to ebay.
Money well spent.
For the last 10 years, I've been involved on and off with a project tracking down lost programmes from the ATV and Central library. It all started with fragmented data and an index card system which had been left in the ATV Studios in Birmingham - and various people broke in, nicked the card with their fave programmes on and chucked the rest on the floor. There are huge differences in what the library holds, the data they have and the "as supplied" data.
We have had to revert back to TV Times editions to find certain programmes - and virtually start again.
Birmingham Central Library have a full archive of TV Times - sadly, they have been vandalised as people have gone in and cut out various pages of listings or even drawn all over them. (Why?)
Particular attention is currently being shown to certain ATV & Central Schools programmes - hence why I asked, as there are no records at all - apart from what we've pieced together from various schools booklets and various bits from my archive.
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Post by Nightfly on Jun 5, 2021 21:38:44 GMT
Where do you find these TV Times listings Arthur? Are they on line or do you have them in a collection.
The original site with them on has vanished.
I've got a couple of discs of scans from 1972-78 ( and some from the 80's ) bought from an ebay seller a long while ago. I've had a look on ebay & there's some on sale for £4.99. I don't think the seller is likely to be the person who scanned them originally, I remember when I bought them the seller made a point of saying in the ad that he had scanned the issues himself & warned against others making copies, saying if he noticed others selling them he would report them to ebay.
I got 1955-71 and 1978-1990 ones years ago too - probably from the same seller, Arthur. Like you say, I'm not sure whether the current guy is the same one as he's only been on Ebay since 2016, but I also got some of his Radio Times discs, though they're not as good (lots of gaps, incomplete issues and most with just listings and no articles). Still interesting and better than nothing.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jun 6, 2021 15:39:57 GMT
Thanks for reproducing those Arthur, very interesting articles to read from a Bond fan's point of view in 1975. I wonder what the age limit was for the Televison premier for a film back then? As Dr No was 13 years old by the time it was first shown, although I remember films having to be 5 years old before they could be show, at the time Star Wars premiered on UK TV, in 1982.
ITV bought the rights from United Artists to screen the first 6 Bond films, for an £850,000 deal, a record at the time. The following 5 films premiered in quick succession, in the late 70's. I remember seeing a small part of You Only Live Twice on its premier in Nov 1977, but had to go to bed early! I remember seeing the entire film, still on TV, not that long after, perhaps about a year later when it was shown again.
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Post by Del Boy on Jun 7, 2021 13:10:59 GMT
I really enjoyed reading those, thanks Arthur.
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 7, 2021 18:17:50 GMT
Thanks for reproducing those Arthur, very interesting articles to read from a Bond fan's point of view in 1975. I wonder what the age limit was for the Televison premier for a film back then? As Dr No was 13 years old by the time it was first shown, although I remember films having to be 5 years old before they could be show, at the time Star Wars premiered on UK TV, in 1982.
ITV bought the rights from United Artists to screen the first 6 Bond films, for an £850,000 deal, a record at the time. The following 5 films premiered in quick succession, in the late 70's. I remember seeing a small part of You Only Live Twice on its premier in Nov 1977, but had to go to bed early! I remember seeing the entire film, still on TV, not that long after, perhaps about a year later when it was shown again.
I remember Diamonds being due to shown over Christmas 78 and an ITV strike ruining it for a lot of regions including YTV where I happened to be at the time.
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Post by Del Boy on Sept 30, 2021 11:24:42 GMT
No Time To Die
Is anyone planning to go and see the latest instalment of the Bond franchise and Daniel Craig's last outing ?
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Post by Sam Tyler on Sept 30, 2021 11:37:05 GMT
Not me!
After the last outing with Spectre I think it is time to give it up. Unless I hear that it is back to some form worth watching then I am just expecting more lazy script writing, another overload of CGI, and a Bond that is so woke we won't recognise him.
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Post by Del Boy on Sept 30, 2021 13:19:00 GMT
I thought Spectre was poor and the franchise burnt out so I'm not going to pay to watch this. I feel sure I will be disappointed. It's no coincidence that Daniel Craig's best film was based on the writing of Fleming. All subsequent efforts have been in the shadow of Casino Royale.
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