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BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		TV Pipkins (1973 - 1981)	I think I'm regressing. Schnozzle's uploading my entire childhood! I'm experiencing things I've long since buried in the deep recesses of my inner psyche. One of them is Pipkins. I liked it though, thought Hartley Hare was like my mate at school - he always wanted his own way with things, the little sod. I remember too that the Pig character was my first encounter with a Birmingham accent.
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		TV A Handful Of Songs (1973 - 1982)	Oh my God! I used to sit spellbound to this when I were a young 'un, probably because I was entranced by Maria and her mega-clear voice. Hickory Dickory Dock!
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		TV Storybook International (1983 - 1984)	Oh yeah I remember this. Particularly the intro, which we used to take the piss out of at school. I always wondered if it was Fred Wedlock that did the vocals on that? Somebody out there knows the truth! Nice cheap way to produce kids' tv programmes though - buy in some crap from "The Continent", dub it over in some studio and hey presto, instant schedule-filler!
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		Cinema Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes (Rififi) (1955)	The film most known for the almost silent 30-odd minute bank robbery scene. Nice that, when at the time most films bombarded the spectator with mood-music that "told" the audience how to feel emotionally during the scene or action sequence. They still use this technique today, so thank God for this film, which kept it to a minimum - and was all the more effective for it.
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		Cinema It's A Wonderful Life (1946)	Oh yeah Trainman - that's why it's on every bloody Xmas! For the record, this the only film that has ever made me cry. Reason: Jimmy Stewart's totally unselfish charater that will help anyone without regard to himself or his own needs. Reminds me of me Mum. And how she did the same, and I could see everybody else take advantage of this help she gave. But she didn't care. She carried on helping regardless.
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		Cinema The Poseidon Adventure	Nice, Trainman :) I took an earlier girlfriend to see a re-release of Taxi Driver, but she thought I was going to turn into a non-communicative, wound-up, confused casualty of society and dumped me! I think she became a nun...
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		TV Grandstand (1958 - 2007)	The Results: East Fife 4, Forfar 5! Pretty boring program. Always some bloody Horse Racing from rainy Newmarket. Like watching paint dry. World Of Sport was much better, over there on ITV. They showed much more interesting sports. Like... Curling ;-)
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		TV Blake's 7 (1978 - 1981)	About Half way through the series, Blake disappeared. I remember thinking as a kid, it's called Blake's Seven but where the feck is Blake? Or maybe it was later on in the series? Sketchy on this. I too was blinded by unrequited love for Glynis Barber, and I had an evil crop-headed teacher at School who was the dead spit of Servalan. Bloody evil cow she was!
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		TV Nationwide (1969 - 1983)	This is the show my Dad always wanted to watch, but inevitably ended up watching the kids programs that clashed with it, together with me and my brother, and thoroughly enjoyed them with us too. "Right kids, my news program's on!" And we all ended up watching Monkey on BBC 2. "Right kids, my news program's on!" and we all ended up watching The Water Margin on BBC 2. "Right kids, my news program's on!" And we all ended up watching Harold Lloyd re-runs on BBC 2. A great Dad ;-)
BiggieTembo 29th May 2015		Cinema Stripes (1981)	(Scene: Russel Zisky is teaching an English class to foreigners.) Zisky: Now, does anyone know any English? Foreign guy in class (raising hand in the air): Son of btch! Sht!
BiggieTembo 29th May 2015		Cinema Coming To America (1988)	Prince Akeem: Good morning America! New York street voice: Fk you!
BiggieTembo 29th May 2015		TV Sapphire And Steel (1979 - 1982)	10-4 to that, Mono ;-)
BiggieTembo 29th May 2015		TV The Lone Ranger (1949 - 1957)	Clayton Moore had difficulty divorcing himself from his character Same kinda thing happened to David Bowie after doing The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Bjork after Dancer In The Dark. They weren't trained actors so they couldn't step down from the roles after being absorbed by them for months of intense filming. In Bowie's case - he made some great albums out of that. Bjork went a bit crazy though.
BiggieTembo 29th May 2015		VHS Dune - 4 Front	Where are We now, What was that, Who Is that and what Is He Doing, How Did they get there so fast. What Is going ON Hey Henry you just described the political situation in the UK right now
BiggieTembo 29th May 2015		TV The Dukes Of Hazzard (1979 - 1985)	Please note that my Saturday morning mojo flashback did not mention Noel Edmonds, Maggie Philbin, Keith Chegwin or Swap Shop. Just for the record.
BiggieTembo 28th May 2015		TV The Dukes Of Hazzard (1979 - 1985)	Alright. Just gotta get this out of my system: SALLY JAMES! BIG DADDY! GIANT HAYSTACKS! DICKIE DAVIES! DAISY DUKE! That's it. I feel better now. I had the late 70s HTV Saturday morning/afternoon TV mojo flashback workin' there.
BiggieTembo 28th May 2015		TV The Dukes Of Hazzard (1979 - 1985)	Alright. Just gotta get this out of my system: DAISY DUKE! That's it. I feel better now. They used to show this in the UK on HTV after World Of Sport on Saturday afternoons in the late 70s and early 80s. My Dad always wondered where these two poor white trash boys got all the money from for their petrol, and their explosive-tipped arrows :-s
BiggieTembo 28th May 2015		TV The A-Team (1983 - 1987)	Nobody ever got killed despite machine guns firing in all directions... There was an episode where a helicopter crashed slo-mo into a cliff, exploded in a ball of flames and plummeted to the ground in a million pieces. The helicopter's occupants (some stalwarts from Decker's catch-the-A-Team force) were then seen staggering out of the wreckage, scratching their heads and rubbing their elbows :-s I think I saw some crash footage repeated too in other crash-scenes in the series. Either that or they nicked some shots from The Fall Guy (which deffo used stunt footage from other films edited in), crazy fool sucka! I liked it when Murdoch did his Lefty James Mason impression ;-)
BiggieTembo 28th May 2015		DVD Oh Mr Porter - ITV DVD	Best British Comedy Film EVER! Laughed my ass off when I was a kid - still laugh my ass off today. Sample dialogue: Jeremiah Harbottle: Next train's gone! William Porter: That train's over a hundred years old! Jeremiah Harbottle: And she's good for another 100! (Train explodes) Old bloke at edge of field: You're wasting your time!
BiggieTembo 28th May 2015		TV Joe 90 (1968 - 1969)	Know what you mean, Mono - after I saw the French film Betty Blue, alot of things just didn't mean the same anymore. I guess you could call it my moment of clarity. Nevertheless I got into this one big time when they repeated it in the late 70s and 80s. I would sit there watching and wish that I could be brainwashed/reprogrammed like Joe 90 and go to school and do all that useless crap they required, without having to think, and therefore have more brain-time to do things like listen to records/watch films/buy records/eat CurlyWurlys/watch TV/think alternately of Sally James and Debbie Harry/listen to John Peel/eat Tunnocks Tea Cakes etc.
BiggieTembo 28th May 2015		TV Top Of The Pops (1964 - 2006)	Agree, Mono. They could do what they did with TOTP2 which had a Steve Wright voice-over and just show the archive clips. Get rid of that daft running text this time though ("Did you know that Nick Kershaw's favourite sweets were Jelly Babies!" etc.) It would be a typical knee-jerk reaction if they are going to ban the whole thing. Probably warming up the tape-wiping machine as we speak, or the bonfire, sniff...
BiggieTembo 28th May 2015		TV A Touch Of Cloth (2012 - 2014)	Yep, me know - just a ref for all those Viz Profanisaurus fans out there, aye ;-)
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		TV Mork & Mindy (1978 - 1982)	Yeah it weren't that funny, were it? Robin Williams - brilliant comic actor - but in his younger days he was a tad too annoying and manic.
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		TV A Touch Of Cloth (2012 - 2014)	Touching cloth?
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		TV Mork & Mindy (1978 - 1982)	Nanu nanu. Shazbat. Mork calling Orson, Mork calling Orson (What is it, Mork?)
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		Cinema Naked (Mike Leigh's Naked) (1993)	Yep nboldock - don't be afraid to sound pretentious. This film to me is more than art. Coming slap-bang in the middle of the Britpop 5 minutes, here was a film that brought us all back down to earth. All Mike Leigh's films are improvised first with him and the actors in some rehearsal locale, and he forms the scripts from the characters that him and the actors create. That's why the acting is always so good - because he lets the actors be free, with him steering and coaxing the performances forward. For the actor, this is manna from heaven. I saw this at the cinema when it came out, and left the cinema numb but exhilharated. At last a real film! I've thought about this film many times over the years. Why didn't Thewlis get a bloody Oscar? His blistering Johnny is a character just as important in cinema history as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. Did he get inspiration from Mark E Smith? His Johnny is completely on fire, as you say. So desperate and sad and angry and cheated. And yet in possession of such a cutting, ironic, cynical humour. Of course it's up to him, and he pretty much controls his own life and makes the decisions he makes unilaterally - but more than anything it must be getting worse today in the UK after all the austerity cuts. There must be thousands of Johnny's now ;-) Maggie!
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		TV The Flintstones (1960 - 1966)	True, 23, true. Lots of things I just maybe didn't get when I was a kid. The adult humour thing would have gone way over my head. Punk was happening and I couldn't really infiltrate that 50s domestic Wait Till Your Father Gets Home mortgage-comedy context, I guess. Apart from Road Runner. I thought that was so avant-garde and left-field, abstract too. And funny. Surrealistic shenanegans out there in the desert ;-) But The MASH laugh track was straight off a record. They're showing it now with the laugh-track on one of the now-myriad British terrestrial channels (just been to the UK, can't remember which channel) and here in Denmark too I've see it with the canned laughs. It worked much better without. And yes, agree, sitcoms and comedy have been made with a live audience for decades, providing the live-laughs. This works much better I think ;-)
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		TV The Flintstones (1960 - 1966)	I know this series had tons of fans the world over but for me it was like a mind-drill. Canned laughter for one - always a problem for European audiences - why did we need to be told when to laugh, and what parts were funny? - the BBC did the same in the UK with an episode of MASH - they broadcast by mistake an episode with canned laughter (normally it was shown without) - and there was nearly a national outcry... Also the Flintstones had some awfully bad predictable scripts, that I could see-through even as a child, and irritating character voices (Wilma, for one)... Thank God for The Hair Bear Bunch! That was much of the same but at least the characters were cooler! Here it was like a 1950s domestic sitcom with menhirs! It did have some interesting takes on stone-age problem-solving technology though ;-)
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		CD Album The Who - Thirty Years Of Maximum R&B	Great package, but I remember being a bit miffed that in the following years all the LPs were released on CD with even more extra tracks and longer versions (and then they were all re-released again a few years later in deluxe formats, super-deluxe formats, Oh-God-Ooh-You-Are-So-Big formats etc.). AND alot of the tracks weren't even available in tip-top modern mixes before the box set was released - they only became available to remix after the success of the box set (read: the Shel Talmy tracks). One would think that they would sort that out before going for the box-set treatment. Oh well. So in fact, this box set works a bit like a sampler for the re-release of the LPs! Great marketing ploy by Polydor/Universal? The public says Grrrr. :-/
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		CD Album The Who - Rarities 1966-1972 Vol. I & Rarities 1966-1972 Vol II	I read somewhere that this CD, in its initial release run, had a manufacturing mistake in it. I bought it when it came out and on the track Water, the speakers vibrate and crackle. Nasty. You could exchange it if you had a faulty one and get your money back. Trouble is I only heard this about three years after... :-/

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