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Post by Gene Hunt on Apr 8, 2021 18:53:41 GMT
Blimey Gene. What a find! Thanks for posting. Was this a Play For Today? Only managed to watch about 20minutes of this - going yo crack open a beer later and watch this in full. Looks like a lot of this was made around Wakefield. It was indeed a Play for Today Sparky. I know the Colliery scenes were filmed at Thorpe Hesley in Rotherham. This is where the Colliery was on Wentworth Road - Google Aerial View
The Mine Rescue Team were based in Wakefield, where the real life Mines Resue Team were based. Gene.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 8, 2021 19:09:09 GMT
Blimey Gene. What a find! Thanks for posting. Was this a Play For Today? Only managed to watch about 20minutes of this - going yo crack open a beer later and watch this in full. Looks like a lot of this was made around Wakefield. It was indeed a Play for Today Sparky. I know the Colliery scenes were filmed at Thorpe Hesley in Rotherham. This is where the Colliery was on Wentworth Road - Google Aerial View
The Mine Rescue Team were based in Wakefield, where the real life Mines Resue Team were based. Gene. Slightly embarrassed. Going to watch the full film shortly. Wakefield shots aside....
I live literally less than 1/2 a mile away from Thorpe Hesley and that site.
Obviously there is nothing left, my son and I had a wander down there during the first lockdown.
Will go down and take proper notice and some pics if the weather offers something better than snow, cold winds and rain.
Opposite site is a Folly, Kepples Column, and a woodland where there is an Iron Age settlement - which I need to go and investigate. I think some of Thorpe Hesley pit is now a golf course.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Apr 8, 2021 19:30:10 GMT
No need to feel embarrassed. I could be wrong about how much was filmed in Wakefield! It's been yonks since I watched it too but as I remember it is the scenes when the resue team set off that were filmed in Wakefield.
I'll have to rewatch it myself...
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Post by Cartman on Apr 19, 2021 18:22:48 GMT
Just remembered another one, Tom O Connor. He used to have a programme called Name that Tune, which I think was derived from a segment on another show he used to present. He had a girl singer on with him called Maggie Moone, who did some of the music and I seem to recollect was quite attractive.
Seemed to be on quite a bit from the late 70s and disappeared in about the mid 80s when this time of show faded out
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Post by Sparky on Apr 19, 2021 19:58:06 GMT
Just remembered another one, Tom O Connor. He used to have a programme called Name that Tune, which I think was derived from a segment on another show he used to present. He had a girl singer on with him called Maggie Moone, who did some of the music and I seem to recollect was quite attractive. Seemed to be on quite a bit from the late 70s and disappeared in about the mid 80s when this time of show faded out Then he did Crosswits when ITV shifted the schools programmes to Channel 4 in 1987 - and filled the post TV-AM schedules with cheap & cheerful quizshows. Lenny Bennet and Lucky Ladders was another!
Around the same time, Tom O'Connor had a lunchtime entertainment show too - can't recall if it was on BBC1 or ITV.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 19, 2021 20:01:45 GMT
Tom O'Connor also presented a daytime ITV crossword based quiz called 'Crosswits', two couples played against each other, a member of the public & a celeb on each team, O'Connor used to end every show by saying 'till next time keep your wits about you & never a cross word'.
He also hosted a snooker based quiz show, 'Pick Pockets'-
I watched 'The Price Of Coal' again recently, the man who plays the pit manager was also a comedian, Jackie Shinn, he was a pit foreman in real life according to imdb. Comics often make very good actors.
There is a 'Scene' programme about Bobby Knutt called 'The Life Of A Stand Up Comic' on youtube that's an interesting watch. The actress who plays his wife in 'The Price Of Coal', Rita May, plays the mother in 'Threads', also written by Barry Hines.
Bobby Knutt was into lifting weights & married Olympic athlete & later bodybuilder Donna Hartley, he co-owned a gym but had a massive gut by the time he appeared in 'Benidorm'.
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Post by Nightfly on Apr 19, 2021 20:56:13 GMT
Around the same time, Tom O'Connor had a lunchtime entertainment show too - can't recall if it was on BBC1 or ITV. Might have been "The Tom O'Connor Roadshow" (BBC) ? There was also "I've Got A Secret", a kind of "What's My Line" clone in the 80s. I remember him presenting a mid-week evening variety show on ITV in the summer of 1977. "Name That Tune" was just a little ten minute feature in the show back then. I'm pretty sure the show was called "Tom O'Connor's Blackpool Night Out" or something similar. There was usually a Mike Harding, Bob Williamson, Max Boyce type act each week on the show. It was quite good as variety shows went - far better than the disastrous "Bruce's Big Night In" that would follow the year after.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 19, 2021 22:33:59 GMT
My dad got the 'Name That Tune' electronic game below for Christmas in the 80's. O'Connor is another comic who did a bit of acting, albeit just once in Colin Welland's tv play 'Roll On 4 O'Clock'.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 20, 2021 6:31:25 GMT
Around the same time, Tom O'Connor had a lunchtime entertainment show too - can't recall if it was on BBC1 or ITV. Might have been "The Tom O'Connor Roadshow" (BBC) ? There was also "I've Got A Secret", a kind of "What's My Line" clone in the 80s. I remember him presenting a mid-week evening variety show on ITV in the summer of 1977. "Name That Tune" was just a little ten minute feature in the show back then. I'm pretty sure the show was called "Tom O'Connor's Blackpool Night Out" or something similar. There was usually a Mike Harding, Bob Williamson, Max Boyce type act each week on the show. It was quite good as variety shows went - far better than the disastrous "Bruce's Big Night In" that would follow the year after. Yes it was the "Tom O'Connor Roadshow" - used to be on at lunchtimes; think it was BBC. Used to catch it on the rare occasions I'd come home from school for dinner. Must have been around 1987ish.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 20, 2021 8:01:47 GMT
My dad got the 'Name That Tune' electronic game below for Christmas in the 80's. O'Connor is another comic who did a bit of acting, albeit just once in Colin Welland's tv play 'Roll On 4 O'Clock'.
A handheld "Name that Tune" - most game shows in the 80s had a merchandise line - where you could buy the board game. There was a Blockbusters one - complete with plastic board and hexagonal bits to push in. I think there was a Family Fortunes one, but never actually saw it.
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