A throw back to yesteryear - Sam Neil as Oppenheimer -1980 BBC (www.youtube.com)
I remember seeing this miniseries when it was first on, and still remember it as being rather good.
hl, There should have been a room in the Crystal Maze just with a staircase you have to go up and down while carrying an over full mug of coffee - if you didn't spill any you'd get the crystal. No crystal for me going into the basement.
constantorbit, okay, every time I hear the #davidBowie song #LifeOnMars I want to re-watch the #BritishTV series #LifeOnMars . Really like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(British_TV_series)
losttourist, Old Telly stuff: people of a certain age in the UK may remember being glued to their TV sets as youngsters watching a made-for-children sci-fi series called The Tomorrow People.
There's a nice write-up about it in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/07/how-we-made-the-tomorrow-people
danjac, @losttourist wasn't young Rodney from Only Fools and Horses in that one?
jezmrogers, @losttourist there's been a lot going on quietly for the 50th anniversary. As well as the Look-in compilation mentioned in the article, a new novel is in the works.
I remember seeing this miniseries when it was first on, and still remember it as being rather good.
Classic heartwarming Sunday night viewing
Sure everyone's watched this front to back and twice all over already - but still nice to know, because I didn't.
What's people's favourite random scene that has no bearing on the plot whatsoever?...
losttourist, Byker Grove is back in the news because Ant'n'Dec are bringing back a reboot.
By the time the original series finished in 2006 I had long since stopped watching it, so I had no idea that the final episode was so amazingly nuts.
girlabtvillage, @losttourist I haven’t seen it either, so I can’t quite believe it even existed
sarahmatthews, @losttourist That’s a good read, I loved that show in high school in the early 90s and had no idea this is how it ended! Seems a bit weird to bring it back
losttourist, (edited ) UK readers probably remember (or are at least aware of) this country's first famous celebrity chef, Fanny Craddock.
You might also have heard the well known anecdote about how she stormed out of the Parkinson talk show studio after finding out that fellow guest Danny La Rue was a man in drag. It's cited in The Guardian, on Wikipedia, just about everywhere.
Except, as this latest impeccably-researched post in the really excellent Dirty Feed UK TV blog explains, it never happened and never even could have happened.
https://www.dirtyfeed.org/2023/07/fanny-i-want-fanny/
PS if anyone knows if the blog's author, John Hoare, has a presence in the Fedi, I'd love to follow them here.
danofthewibble, @losttourist He is her, sorta - @dirtyfeed - but not “personally” here much.
matsimpsk, @losttourist one of Leytonstone’s greats
Writing Dirty Feed can lead you down some strange avenues, and making some strange comparisons. Right now, I’m reading about Chris Morris and Fanny Cradock. What the hell do that pair have in common....
And why isnt it To Hull and Back ?
losttourist, This week's "This Week In The 90s" from @ThisWeekInThe90s is a deep dive into the phenomenon called Mr Blobby and his evil creator, Noel Edmonds.
Whether you're familiar with them or not it's worth a read, although you might be left scratching your head at the collective madness that overcame the British TV-watching public in the 90s. Here's just a taster paragraph:
If you’re not British and you don’t understand Mr. Blobby… I can’t really help you. I don’t understand him either. He seems to be cross between Mr. Bean and a Dalek. He looks like a diseased penis. British people could not get enough of him.
The whole thing is over here: https://www.thisweekinthe90s.com/p/mr-blobby-noel-edmonds
tannerman, (edited ) 63 years ago today, #TheAvengers debuted on British television. From 1961-9, 161 episodes were produced, both in B/W and color.
John Steed teamed up with various partners, including Dr. Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, Tara King - and for a few nerdy bonus points we'll throw in Dr. King & Venus Smith.
"Mrs. Peel, we're needed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%28TV_series%29
#BritishTV #JohnSteed #DavidKeel #CathyGale #EmmaPeel #TaraKing