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Post by fordcapri on Sept 1, 2017 10:22:02 GMT
I've also got the second Kolchak TV movie, 'The Night Strangler', on DVD, in which he plays a 'Phantom of the Opera' type mad man. Haven't seen it in a while as it's a double sided U.S. DVD which I can't play on any of my machines at present.
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Post by fordcapri on Sept 1, 2017 9:23:38 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Aug 27, 2017 7:50:42 GMT
A what or a what...?
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Post by fordcapri on Aug 20, 2017 14:33:04 GMT
Strangely enough, the Basil Rathbone 'Hound of the Baskervilles' was on TV yesterday and I was thinking, as I was watching Nigel Bruce, 'what a silly old duffer!'. So, it's fair to say that he didn't get my vote. It's funny, before the Granada TV series, we all (generalising a bit there) accepted that Watson was a bit of a fool. David Burke changed all that, for me anyway, which is why I have voted for him and his successor (who, incidentally, I went to see in the stage play 'The Secret of Sherlock Holmes' in 1989/1990). I'll also admit to a bit of tactical voting - I was just going to vote for one and didn't want to see David Burke tied in 3rd place with Martin Freeman (who I have zero respect for). So Burke and Hardwicke it is...
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 27, 2017 10:06:02 GMT
Just bought the 4 disc DVD set of DANGER UXB. I was going to sooner or later and now seems the right time... I just recently started rewatching Danger UXB myself. Quite a contrast between her character in that and in Doctor Who. It does demonstrate her acting ability. She was pretty good in HG Wells' Invisible Man. As a little kid acting she was more natural and didn't suffer from a case of the cutes as too many child actors did/do. Danger UXB Special Edition DVD box set arrived yesterday. Thought the funniest line in 'The Invisible Man' was when she said " I'll just go upstairs and fetch your invisible clothes." !!! (TWO HOURS LATER... "Haven't you found them yet?!!!") No; she didn't find that funny either.
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 27, 2017 10:01:12 GMT
Currently watching Arthur of the Britons again and she was a guest star in the episode "Slaves" which I watched yesterday. She played a sympathetic Saxon who aided Kai. In what MUST have been a blonde wig!
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 25, 2017 11:16:37 GMT
Long story but Sir Cliff Richard is known as Sir Kitty Wig. He may well wear a wig, but I honestly don't think the 'other stuff' is true. Anyway, here he is with the lads in the reference footage (edited) for the puppeteers on Thunderbirds are GO!
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 25, 2017 11:11:24 GMT
I like 'Thunderbirds' - it was nearly always exciting, though does have its ambiguities. How can such a large operation be operated only by the Tracy family, and all of the engineering work carried out by just one guy (i.e. Brains).... ? It would need quite a large and qualified maintenance crew, with 24-hour cover. There may also be aspects like industrial relations problems.... Re - 'The Secret Service': I never saw it either. I understand that Lew Grade didn't like it - he didn't see how Stanley Unwin's 'gobbledygook' fitted in with the show, and thought that the North American audience wouldn't take to it. Evidently he cancelled the show amidst its production run - perhaps he wasn't too keen to hawk it around the ITV regions and preferred to concentrate on upcoming shows like 'U.F.O.' I was 'lucky' enough to be living in Basingstoke in the early 1970s (actually, yeah, it was great!) and we got to see The Secret Service on 'Southern' ITV. I think the other two were ATV and something like Tyne Tees or Border.
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 22, 2017 11:46:57 GMT
Just bought the 4 disc DVD set of DANGER UXB. I was going to sooner or later and now seems the right time...
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 21, 2017 17:56:18 GMT
Yes, very sad.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Debbie in 2014 (it's on video somewhere) and although it wasn't my best effort, it was good to be talking to someone who was there during the true 'Golden Age' of Doctor Who. I've got a copy of her autobiography which she signed to me. I made the mistake of saying that she played 'Sandra' in 'The Invisible Man' TV series, when of course she played 'Sally'. I confused this and her role in 'That'll Be The Day'. She wasn't too impressed. But, hey, 'Sandra', 'Sally' - easy mistake to make! We also chatted about Cliff Richard (in the lift) and she was adamant that all the accusations against him were nonsense. Anyway, I shall probably watch a bit of Tomb of the Cybermen later... sadly one of her few stories that exists in complete form.
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 19, 2017 9:41:34 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 18, 2017 19:09:02 GMT
I ended up watching 'The Rules of Luton' last night. Yes, the episode is as bad as the title suggests. However, despite all the running around, climbing up quarries and fighting monsters (all under the harsh and unrelenting summer of '76 sun!), Martin Landau gets some good moments, in particular one nice little bit where he is telling Maya about the World War ("The war to end all wars") of 1987 that wiped out most of the earth's population... including his wife. He's pretty good in this. Considering that I have been watching Year Two sporadically for about six months, it was a nice piece of synchronicity that this episode was next in order.
R I P Martin.
Which reminds me, 'The Purging of CI5' is the next episode in my equally sporadic watching of The Professionals MK111 DVD boxset...
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 17, 2017 10:55:07 GMT
I shall be watching an episode or two of SPACE: 1999 later tonight. I'm about two thirds of the way through my newly acquired blu-ray set of Year 2. OK, not as good as Year 1, but Martin Landau is still good.
GREAT PICTURE.
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 25, 2017 14:49:18 GMT
Series one. Minor key. Dark. Agree, seems this is the musician's favourite on 'ere! Thanks! But as a drummer I'm not sure the term 'musician' applies. Well, not according to popular opinion anyway!!!! And no, I don't know any 'drummer jokes' !!!
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 24, 2017 14:16:50 GMT
To be honest... I cannot decide. Both brilliant.
S.I.G.
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 24, 2017 14:14:33 GMT
Series one.
Minor key. Dark.
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 24, 2017 14:12:45 GMT
THE SWEENEY. Without a doubt. The perfect mix of music and picture. Never bettered.
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 24, 2017 14:03:38 GMT
The 12" US Radio Version (or whatever) was the best. Ironically I think only David Coverdale himself was actually an official member of Whitesnake at the time. I think the drums are by Denny Carmassi, and maybe Dan Huff is on guitars with Adrian Vandenberg providing the solo. Vandenberg would end up joining the band full-time to replace John Sykes and Carmassi toured as their drummer in the mid '90s (when I saw them in Sheffield).
Best line-up was COV, SYKES, MURRAY, DUNBAR.
VAI was somewhat over the top with his playing and weaved a few too many 'sonic tapestries from hell' over 'Slip of the Tongue' and the live work from 1990.
Wrote all the above before reading any of the thread. I don't think SYKES is on any of the recordings of this song, as I don't think it was originally intended for the '1987' album.
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 24, 2017 13:52:50 GMT
Russell Brand.
I swear, if I ever encountered this hypocritical, smarmy, obnoxious, virtue-signalling, toy-town-revolutionary...
See Avatar picture.
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 24, 2017 13:48:56 GMT
Jill Monroe. Or maybe that's really a vote for Farrah. As a teenager I had a HUGE poster of her on my wall. Found one on ebay a few years ago - brand new and still in its wrapping - bought it and got it framed.
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 24, 2017 13:35:52 GMT
Half of these I've never heard. But, come on, it HAS to be 'The Rockford Files'!!!
"Hello this is Jim Rockford, at the tone leave your name and message and I'll get back to you..."
BEEP
"Thanks for letting me know you're out, Rockford. Now I'll be coming round to break in to that caravan of yours. Have a nice day!"
Da-da-da-daaa...
CLASSIC!!!
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 24, 2017 13:24:57 GMT
Quality v Quantity.
Have you ever seen 'Serious Charge'? Not a Cliff film per se, but it's very good. 'The Young Ones' is good, as is 'Summer Holiday' and the rarely seen 'Finders Keepers'. He also made some highly unusual films in the 1970s such as 'Two a Penny' and 'The Case', a BBC TV film also starring Tim Brooke-Taylor.
Dear old Arfur turns up in 'Take Me High', which is another bizarre film which is almost so bad it's good. And anything with The Shadows in has got to be good.
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