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Post by Charles Bronson on Oct 19, 2016 22:00:19 GMT
Was just browsing through some of the play for today stuff on YouTube. There's one I want to watch called Dying Day which looks like it might be okay. Anyway we ended up watching an episode of the grand daddy of all police shows Dixon Of Dock Green from the mid Seventies. Jack Warner looked like he was into his eighties by then. The episode was called The Looters and was a lot more entertaining than I thought it would be. Wer'e watching another one now with Lee Montague playing a leading role. As a mate of mine used to say, it's amazing that this show and The Sweeney, were at one point on telly in the same period.
Charles
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 19, 2016 22:24:29 GMT
Charles, 'Dying Day' is one of the 'Armchair Thriller' serials originally shown on Thames tv rather than a PFT, not to be confused with Armchair Cinema. I think most people remember Armchair Thriller for the opening titles.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Oct 19, 2016 22:48:10 GMT
I've not watched any of the Armchair Thrillers yet Arthur. I was going to give Dying Day a go tonight but, with it bring a serial, we watched something else. I will definately start watching Dying Day in a day or two. It looks good.
Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 20, 2016 19:17:35 GMT
Joe's Ark ( first shown 14th Feb 1974 )
Dennis Waterman's only PFT is this Dennis Potter story mostly set in a dingy pet shop in a rainy Welsh village. Freddie Jones plays pet shop owner Joe Jones whose daughter Lucy, played by Angharad Rees, lies weak, miserable & bedridden above the shop dying of cancer. Jones, a regular chapel goer, finds his faith tested as he fails to come to terms with his daughter's imminent death. Waterman plays Bobby, Jones' estranged son, who, working away from home as an entertainer in working men's clubs with his stripper partner in tow, does not know about his sister's illness. The play alternates between scenes of Lucy dying in bed, Bobby dying on stage & their dad minding his dreary pet shop. The copy I've seen of this play has Angharad Rees introducing it, she mentions her own experience of the death of a loved one when her son died in a car accident in his twenties. The sad irony is that Fredie Jones is still with us & still acting in 'Emmerdale' aged 89 whilst Angharad Rees died from cancer 4 years ago aged 68. Can't say that I'm a big fan of Dennis Potter's pessimistic output & I'm not sure I would've been that interested in seeing this play had Dennis not been in it, though his performance isn't great as he struggles with the Welsh accent.
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Post by Steve Austin on Oct 20, 2016 19:52:04 GMT
Joe's Ark ( first shown 14th Feb 1974 )
Dennis Waterman's only PFT is this Dennis Potter story mostly set in a dingy pet shop in a rainy Welsh village. Freddie Jones plays pet shop owner Joe Jones whose daughter Lucy, played by Angharad Rees, lies weak, miserable & bedridden above the shop dying of cancer. Jones, a regular chapel goer, finds his faith tested as he fails to come to terms with his daughter's imminent death. Waterman plays Bobby, Jones' estranged son, who, working away from home as an entertainer in working men's clubs with his stripper partner in tow, does not know about his sister's illness. The play alternates between scenes of Lucy dying in bed, Bobby dying on stage & their dad minding his dreary pet shop. The copy I've seen of this play has Angharad Rees introducing it, she mentions her own experience of the death of a loved one when her son died in a car accident in his twenties. The sad irony is that Fredie Jones is still with us & still acting in 'Emmerdale' aged 89 whilst Angharad Rees died from cancer 4 years ago aged 68. Can't say that I'm a big fan of Dennis Potter's pessimistic output & I'm not sure I would've been that interested in seeing this play had Dennis not been in it, though his performance isn't great as he struggles with the Welsh accent. That's all very well Arthur but what about the stripper!!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 20, 2016 20:46:14 GMT
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Post by Charles Bronson on Oct 20, 2016 21:19:30 GMT
Dennis Waterman's swearing in that play reminds me of a Novel I read years ago called "The Naked And The Dead." It was about American G.I.'s, and the author had his characters say "Fugg." quite a lot, instead the word we are all familiar with. It's great that these plays are available to watch on YouTube. I just hope the BBC doesn't have them taken off.
Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 22, 2016 17:42:31 GMT
The Right Prospectus ( 22nd Oct 1970 )
George Cole stars in this story written by 'Look Back In Anger''s John Osborne ( also plays Cyril Kinnear in 'Get Carter' ) about a married couple who enrol at a boys boarding school...not as staff, but as pupils.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Dec 22, 2016 21:42:37 GMT
I've just played this one for a few minutes, and it seems interesting. I will give it proper viewing either later on tonight or tomorrow on the Smart telly YouTube app. Cheers Arthur.
Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 24, 2016 17:01:43 GMT
Dog Ends ( 17th Jul 1984 )
This very black comedy written by Richard Harris, writer of 'Trust Red' & 'Down To You Brother', begins at Christmas. For a reason that will become obvious as you watch, it's unlikely that this play will be shown on tv ever again, depriving the nation of another towering performance from the World's greatest actor
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