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Neil Forbes 26th Jun 2015		TV A Ghost Story For Christmas (1971 - 1978)	As for buying the DVD set, I might check it out at a JB Hi-Fi store next time I'm in Sydney(I won't bother with the Kotara JB Hi-Fi store as that suburban Newcastle branch might not be as well-stocked as the two or three Sydney stores are).
Neil Forbes 26th Jun 2015		TV Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (1972 - 1985)	I have quite a few of the Bill Cosby LPs and when first heard, you'd be on the floor, sides aching with laughter as you listen to antics of playing Buck-Buck with the kids piling on top of each other but scattering when Fat Albert appears(hey, hey hey!) ....he ain't fallin' on us! or scaring people - setting up a monster statue in the hall of an empty apartment block, taking out all the lights and replacing them with one green light above the statue's head, then enticing Fat Albert into the "trap", Cosby forgetting he was behind Fat Albert....! Yeah! Stories that would've made for great cartoons! 5 or 6 minutes long, just the right length!
Neil Forbes 26th Jun 2015		TV A Ghost Story For Christmas (1971 - 1978)	Ooooh, AVI, oh dear, not on my software! I don't have the compression necessary to get the files down to the sub-1-gigabyte file size. MPEG-2? A snap! MP4? Easy-peasy! But AVI? Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!! Yes, I have received AVI files from friends that have the full-length movie(1 hr, 45+ minutes, coming in at 650 to 675 Megabytes AVI), but I sure as hell can't do it myself. I'm using Cyberlink Power Director 8 for such purposes as editing or converting video files. If I attempted it, the AVI file size would blow out to 15 or 20 gigabytes.... Ouch!
Neil Forbes 26th Jun 2015		TV Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (1972 - 1985)	Whether Filmation or Rankin/Bass, the producers completely missed the point of Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids. If the company(companies) had bothered to listen to any of Bill Cosby's albums, and the stories he told, they'd have had plenty of material on which to base their stories, instead of turning the characters into those moralising "goodie-goodies", as I said earlier.
Neil Forbes 26th Jun 2015		TV Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (1972 - 1985)	As I remembered the show it was produced by Rankin/Bass, a name NOT synonymous with quality animated features! The characters, as Cosby told their stories in his sketches(issued on many Warner, and later MCA LPs) had their exploits and antics, such as playing "Buck, Buck" or going home across the "9th Street Bridge" or later, "Fat Albert's Car". These stories weren't brought to the screen in these cartoons, instead the series made them out as moralising "goodie-goodies", completely at odds with the characters as told in Cosby's albums. I wish Warners were given the task of producing the cartoons, then we'd have the characters as Cosby himself described them!
Neil Forbes 26th Jun 2015		TV A Ghost Story For Christmas (1971 - 1978)	I have a DVD Recorder with inbuilt hard-drive that has a USB connection, but I'm not sure if any retailer here offers the service you suggest, Henry. My DVD players may or may not have been set for Region 4. I have a couple of DVDs of the Ghost Hunters series, shown as Region 0, that's something I'd like to see more of, no region encoding. The DVD recorder, by the way, was given to me after a friend had no further use of it. I've gotta temporarily log off for a while as my AVG system has to sort itself out, but, in the words of Arnie Schwartzeneger, I'll be back!
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		Blu-ray The Fog [1980] - Optimum Releasing	"Seen the original 1979 movie that female radio announcers voice sigh!!!!!!!!!" Oh RC, *beeeehhhhaaaaayyyyyve yeeeerrrrseeeeellllffff!*
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		TV A Ghost Story For Christmas (1971 - 1978)	As I said, I'd love to have seen this on Aussie TV. Is it on DVD, by any chance?, Probably cost a "bomb"!, Would have to be ordered from Britain where it's a Region 2 set.
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	Yeah.... back in the days long before market aggregation, when regional TV stations only had a still-very-elitist ABC to rival them. They weren't tied to any of the three Sydney stations, SBS was still radio-only and 2NUR-FM was still a year away.... Aah, those were the days.....! Quick RC, stop me before I start channelling Barbra Streisand.... Mem'ries, like the corners...Oops! too late!
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Disco Teen '66	A5 and B2 were licenced from EMI(U.K.), B1 licenced from Liberty Records Inc., USA. Other than these, all CBS fare.
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Jr. Walker - Sax Appeal	Hmmm, no-one else seems to have picked up on this one since I posted it in January. Where I said Not exactly sure when Jr. Walker(real name: Autry DeWalt) parted company with his "All-Stars" has not yet elicited a response. I'll watch to see if anyone does post something on this album some time or other.
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	I've got to watch my use of You-Tube, it sucks up my data reserve like you wouldn't believe! I was watching so many ghost segments(Richard Felix, eps of Most Haunted & Great British Ghosts among others), and before I knew it, my data reserve had just about run out. Ouch! I do have copied DVDs of this show stored(made from a friend's original) somewhere about, I'll dig 'em out and give 'em another viewing, some time.
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		TV A Ghost Story For Christmas (1971 - 1978)	Hey RC...... BOO!(ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		TV A Ghost Story For Christmas (1971 - 1978)	I'd love to have seen this on Aussie TV but I don't think it's ever been screened here. Robert Hardy I'm familiar with having hosted a series of four shows on Castle Ghosts Of England, Scotland, Ireland(likely including Northern Ireland) and Wales as well as his role of Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter series up to Order Of The Phoenix. Denholm Elliott has been in a few spooky story movies, but I'm not familiar with Peter Vaughan or Peter Bowles. I love a good ghost story, there are, or were so few of them about until fairly recently.
Neil Forbes 24th Jun 2015		TV Prisoner: Cell Block H (1979 - 1986)	Doesn't excuse the powers-that-be in the YOOK for retitling what should be a one-word title "Prisoner", as distinct from "The Prisoner". And Noel Dyson coming in to the series as Jock Stewart, all I can say is...."G-O-G-G-O.... it's a wee ripper!" For Brit fans, Dyson appeared on one of a series of ads for Yellow Pages business phone directories, playing the part of a fellow trying to restore a small Australian sports car, called the "Goggomobile" a two-seater with manual gears that run in a north-south(up & down) direction, as opposed to the usual east-west(cross) direction of normal manual transmissions. Also, it had no doors, getting in or out was by just putting the left leg over the ridge, followed by the right and sliding into the seat(right-hand-drive, of course) The passenger puts his/her right leg over followed by the left and slides into the seat. These cars are a very rare sight on our Aussie roads these days.
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Flashback Hits Of The 60s	This LP would've still been on the shelves, or in the K-Tel rack(if there was one) when Souled Out was issued. Speaking of Souled Out, some months back I bought a replacement copy after my original copy was accidentally broken. Gotta say, the back cover was poorly designed. Contents in red against a woodgrain background makes the print hard to make out(barely legible).
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The No. 1 Hits Of The '60's	H4, Everything Is Beautiful(Ray Stevens) charted here, debuting 29th April, 1970, which means it would've been issued as a single during February or March of that year, so it does NOT belong in this set! This goes to emphasise what I said in January. Research is the key to compiling albums like this.
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Hits Of 1961	I have the 1965 volume of this. It includes Ferry 'Cross The Mersey by Gerry & The Pacemakers which should, by rights have been in the 1964 volume(I have the single as Columbia DB-7437, clearly states "Recording First Published 1964). And yes, it is good that the recordings are original(authentic)! Nothing pisses me off more than re-recordings or sound-alikes passed off as original.
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		DVD Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - Warner Home Video	Packaging on this is different to the Aussie issue. I have all 8 movies - CLASSIC!
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		Blu-ray The Fog [1980] - Optimum Releasing	I was given a VHS of this at first, then got hold of a DVD of it - wide-screen and stereo sound too! Spoo-oo-oo-ooky!
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		TV Please Sir! (1968 - 1972)	One of the best out of LWT's comedy roster, up there with On The Buses, always good for a laugh.
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		TV Top Cat (1961 - 1962)	Thought he might've, No? Okay! Thanks for clearing that up, RC!
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Flashback Hits Of The 60s	I bought this at Salamander Recycling Centre. The surface is somewhat noisy, some of the tracks may "jump", but it's a "collector's item" and has some tracks I may want to put on my computer at some time or other.
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Flashback Hits Of The 60s	Well, I knew I'd put this album on the site at some time or other, took me an age to find it though! Whew!
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		TV Top Cat (1961 - 1962)	Didn't Daws Butler provide one of the voices? Was it Bennie?
Neil Forbes 23rd Jun 2015		TV Top Cat (1961 - 1962)	The show was always "Top Cat" in Australia. We only got to see it in colour from 1975 when our stations started broadcasting full-time in colour from 1st March, that year.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 40 Super Greats	@RC - Hmmmm.... there's a vague similarity but Deutsche K-Tel tended to do their own thing with sleeve artwork.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Ringo Starr - Blast From Your Past	Likely it is, RC but I'll stick with my LP.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 40 Super Greats	@RC, sorry, can't quite see the connection. Which Aussie album?
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Ringo Starr - Blast From Your Past	I thought this compilation was an Australia-only issue until this popped up - Yoiks! I have the Aussie issue of this, as it happens, and I'll have to check it but I think the publishing(issue) date for the Aussie issue might be 1974. as I said, I'll check my copy and get back to you on it.

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