programmes to watch

I've heard of them, but never watched them.

 

@Doghouse Riley there's good music in these dramas, The Indian Dr. and WPC 56

 

"It's not your mind it's your body they're into. My business manager said. You need an intellect like you need a hole in the, hole in the, hole in the head"



I loved Not the Nine O'clock News.

G.

 

It's interesting how misquotes become part of folklore.

G.

 

Somebody mentioned Christopher Eccleston. My and wife and I are going to see him in theatre soon.


Macbeth (1) - Vivacity Peterborough



G.

 

I remember these repeated WPC56 programmes from 2013. "When it was considered only fit for daytime TV."

It annoys me a bit when they get things wrong. I can't remember which episode as didn't watch much of it then and I'm not watching much of it now.

Here's some trivia that would really only appeal to jukebox enthusiasts.


There was a scene in a café at the end of one episode where there was a Ditchburn "Music Maker" jukebox from the mid-sixties. So about ten years too soon.

These were unusual as you "dialed" the selection you wanted on its GPO style telephone dial in the bottom right hand corner below the title cards.
I guess they weren't able, or couldn't be bothered, to hire a fifties Bal-Ami which would more likely have been in a café at that time. A Ditchburn of that era would now be very rare.

The producers only had to look at a few contemporary British films made in the mid-fifties featuring teenage plots, to have found the "right one."

A Bal-Ami Junior. These were made by Balfour Engineering under licence from AMI in America.
There was an embargo on importing complete jukeboxes from the USA at that time.

 

It all depends on the budget, if they can get hold of the right juke box. They could have made a mistake, usually they're good but if it's a daytime series they won't have the money. People might not notice, I didn't because i don't know much about them. Also that was made in the midlands where I live.

 

They often get it wrong with jukeboxes. There was a fifties BBC drama a few weeks back where they had a Wurlitzer "bubbler" in a cafe, on which a girl made a selection.

What it should have been was a 1015, made in 1947 which played 78s.
Some of these used to be on U.K. American air bases and some were sold off after they were closed down.
In my teens in the late fifties, I remember seeing one in the bar of the hotel on Eel Pie Island on the Thames near Twickenham.

What was in the cafe was a "One More Time," a Wurlitzer 1015 replica, from the mid-eighties, which plays 45s.

 

Perhaps they couldn't get hold of them.
Which drama was it?

 

Sorry I can't remember. But there are firms who will hire out jukeboxes. Many don't travel well, but the little 1950s "fish tank" Bal-Ami Juniors are quite sturdy.

When you consider what some of the presenters of some pretty naff programmes get paid.......

 

I don't want to get into what presenters are getting paid.

 

Nor do I, it'd be a pointless discussion. People often have polarised views.

 

The Repair Shop had me entertained. Not so much the items, I thought the space ship was a waste of time because all it was, was just a gyroscopic top. The pub sign took a considerable effort, but was only being displayed on a back wall of a differently named pub. Did they paint both sides? The Majolica vase repair was very skillfully carried out.

Jay in his designer leather apron with the paint brush in the top pocket, continues to amuse me.
His contribution this week of just a couple of seconds in each example, was, near the beginning of the programme, to cut two inches off a bit of 2" X 1" with a tenon saw, freehand. No idea what he was going to do with that.
Later we saw him measuring one side of a picture frame, but we've seen him do that before.

But as they say, "measure twice and cut once."

 

Yes and there's a jag in the background.