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Post by Charles Bronson on Feb 4, 2016 16:06:33 GMT
I was listening to the radio production (Made in the seventies) of Dad's Army, on BBC Radio 4 extra the other morning, before I went out. It was the one where they are in control of a train and can't stop it. I must say I found it highly enjoyable, even though it was only radio.
As Arthur says in his excellent posts about the show it could be very moving at times. I remember watching a clip, years ago of them on The Royal Variety Performance, and it was a real lump in the throat job. Not that they where being sentimental or anything. They were a very fine cast indeed.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Feb 4, 2016 17:56:40 GMT
Thanks Charles. I have the radio shows but the sound is quite distorted, the BBC4 versions sound a lot clearer. Larry Martyn, probably best known as Mash in 'Are You Being Served', stands in for James Beck. The scripts are more or less the same as the tv shows but there are things left out & a few changes here & there. They had the good idea of having newsreader John Snagge introducing each programme, not that I remember but his voice was synonomous with WW2 as he reported on it for the BBC.
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Post by Windy Miller on Feb 20, 2016 21:30:24 GMT
Has anybody gone to the cinema to see this film and is it any good ?
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Post by Del Boy on Feb 21, 2016 0:40:51 GMT
I've not bothered with it Windy. It seems to have sunk without trace.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Feb 21, 2016 17:28:22 GMT
They certainly spent a lot on advertising. Besides all the telly ads, there were posters on the sides of buses for weeks up here.
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Post by Ministrone on Feb 21, 2016 18:21:05 GMT
Junior Ministrone and I went to see this yesterday and were a little disappointed. I thought Toby Jones was good as Captain Mainwaring and I enjoyed Micheal Gambon's Godfrey but I was left with the feeling that the cast were doing (well observed) impersonations of the originals. The story was wafer thin though and felt like an half hour episode stretched to 1 hour 40 mins. What a shame.
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Post by Del Boy on Feb 21, 2016 20:40:17 GMT
Junior Ministrone and I went to see this yesterday and were a little disappointed. I thought Toby Jones was good as Captain Mainwaring and I enjoyed Micheal Gambon's Godfrey but I was left with the feeling that the cast were doing (well observed) impersonations of the originals. The story was wafer thin though and felt like an half hour episode stretched to 1 hour 40 mins. What a shame. Its what i thought it would be like. I will still get round to watching it though.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Feb 22, 2016 22:37:01 GMT
Aside from Catherine Zeta-Jones I can't see it having much going for it. I might watch it when it appears on the goggle box but I wouldn't blow my hard-earned shekels on it at the flicks.
Sam.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Feb 22, 2016 22:48:00 GMT
Aside from Catherine Zeta-Jones I can't see it having much going for it. I might watch it when it appears on the goggle box but I wouldn't blow my hard-earned shekels on it at the flicks. Sam. I'll go along with that Sam. I'm going to wait for it to,come on the box too. As we all know a visit to the flicks is an expensive experience these days.
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Post by arejayenn on Sept 23, 2019 17:23:42 GMT
The film was not great although my son who was 11 at the time thought it was "OK".
I wondered if anyone has seen the newly made 'lost episodes" funded by the Gold channel? I felt they were done very well on the whole despite having the obvious comparisons with the original cast.
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