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Member	TV Series		Comment / Review
club80audi1 27th Aug 2021		The Saturday Banana 1978 - 1979	I also went there for the pilot show and then the first episode I remember the pilot show are bus broke down and we had use of the tvs canteen I went to Elmrise Junior school
alexlincs 12th Aug 2021		The Simpsons 1989 - Now	I had no idea this was on BBC 1. Must have taken The Neighbours slot.
alexlincs 31st Jul 2021		Cradle To Grave 2015 - 2016	I really enjoyed this. I can't see another series being commissioned though.
Quad5point1 19th Jul 2021		Shopgirls: The True Story Of Life Behind The Counter 2014	Here Come the Girls Episode 1 of 3 Today, it is taken for granted that many shop assistants are women, but 150 years ago, being served by a shopgirl was a strange new phenomenon, and the story of how an army of women swept on to shop floors is a fascinating one. Dr Pamela Cox presents this three-part series following the journey of the shopgirl from an almost invisible figure in stark Victorian stores, to being the beating heart of modern shops. With retail the biggest private sector employer in the UK today, this series charts how shopgirls have been central to Britain's retail revolution and at the cutting edge of social change. Pamela begins in the mid-19th century, when shops up and down the country were owned and staffed by men, and shop work was a closed world for most women. A new, emerging middle class had money to spend, but the idea of shopping as a pleasurable experience was still a world away. As jobs opened in factories, shops no longer had the same ready supply of young male apprentices, and groups actively sought to promote women's employment and shrug off the notion that shop work was somehow 'unladylike'. The Victorians became consummate shoppers and the experience of shopping became more attuned to the demands of female customers who preferred being served by women. By the late 19th century, the doors to shops across the country were flung open and thousands of women poured in looking for work. Pamela lifts the lid on the working conditions and realities of life for shopgirls, many of whom 'lived in' above the shops and new department stores. By the turn of the century, nearly a quarter of a million women were employed in shop work. They had forged new kinds of work for women and even helped transform the experience of shopping itself. The shopgirl was here to stay.
Quad5point1 19th Jul 2021		Shopgirls: The True Story Of Life Behind The Counter 2014	Revolution on the Floor Episode 2 of 3 In the second episode of this series about the history of Britain's shopgirls, Dr Pamela Cox reveals how the lives of shopgirls and the stores they worked in were revolutionised in the early 20th century. Venturing behind the scenes of some of our most iconic department stores and high street chains, Pamela reveals how feisty shopgirls rebelled against their poor working conditions and started to demand more from their jobs. No longer content to just be servants on the shop floor, they were becoming a respected workforce - professional young women at the heart of the nation's blossoming love affair with shopping. Pamela learns about shopgirl Margaret Bondfield who, in the late 1890s, went undercover in shops to reveal the harshness of life behind the counter before rising to become Britain's first woman cabinet minister. Larger-than-life proprietor Harry Gordon Selfridge set out to train his shop assistants to be modern businesswomen, while the First World War gave women the opportunity to step into shopwork like never before, including at Harrods. In the turmoil of post-war, John Lewis shopworkers went on strike, while the founder's son, Spedon Lewis, honed his plans for a revolutionary idea in which staff would become partners in the business. By the 1930s, the boom in chain stores gave rise to a new type of shopgirl with a new shopping concept: to hang back and let the customer 'browse'.
Quad5point1 19th Jul 2021		Shopgirls: The True Story Of Life Behind The Counter 2014	The New Cool Episode 3 of 3 Dr Pamela Cox looks at how shopgirls threw off their staid reputation to become hip in the second half of the 20th century. Pamela begins by discovering heroic stories of shopgirls during the London Blitz, with shopworkers rescuing evacuees and serving customers from bomb-damaged premises. She also explores how the Second World War created flexible working opportunities on the shop floor and gave rise to a new concept, the working mum. The postwar baby boom created a massive demographic shift, producing record numbers of teenagers with a keen eye for music, film and fashion. By the 1960s, teenagers emulated the beautiful shopgirls working in trendy boutiques like Mary Quant's Bazaar in London's Kings Road. Being a shopgirl was more than just a job - they were status symbols who had become the embodiment of the brand. Shopgirls were crucial to the success of stores like Biba, where their jobs were more about modelling the clothes and hanging out rather than giving customers the hard sell. Pamela looks at the 1970s, when the unstoppable growth of chain stores and the introduction of shopping malls signalled the death of many independent shops, and explores the impact that growing up above a shop had on the country's most famous grocer's daughter, Margaret Thatcher. Pamela visits the supermarket where she worked on the checkouts in the 1980s and, glimpsing into the future, she considers how our shops and shopworkers will adapt to an increasingly online world.
albert 11th Jul 2021		Still Game 2002 - 2019	Scottish rude & crude hit comedy. It had an initial run of six seasons, before the stars/writers decided to take a break. They returned after about six years absence for seasons seven-nine.
alexlincs 6th Jul 2021		Dad 1997 - 1999	This was originally a BBC1 series. It seems to have disappeared off the planet since, surprisingly it has an Australian DVD release.
alexlincs 28th Jun 2021		A Very English Scandal 2018	Thanks for the info Quad5point1. I wrongly assumed it would be about Jeremy Thorpe again despite the series coming to a neat conclusion.
Quad5point1 26th Jun 2021		A Very English Scandal 2018	Season 2 is to be called "A Very _British_ Scandal instead of _English_ and stars Claire Foy and Paul Bettany. The second season centers on a 1963 sex scandal involving Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll. During a messy divorce from her second husband, he seized images of Campbell performing a sex act on an unknown man and she became known as “The Dirty Duchess.” Foy and Bettany will play the Duchess and Duke respectively. With that cast list I'm eager to see it. Paul Bettany does some great drama stuff, check out Margin Call
alexlincs 25th Jun 2021		The Bronx Bunny Show 2003 - 2007	Rated 4/10 The first series was an Irish production by the team behind Zig & Zag, Double Z Enterprises for Channel 4 / E4. I think Zig & Zag worked mainly because they timed it right. In the late 80s\early 90s there was a penchant for slightly risqué humour as well as TV that appealed to both children and (stoned) adults see also Maid Marion and Her Merry Men, The Crystal Maze and Rainbow. The puppets Teddy T (a giant panda with a cigarette in his mouth) and Bronx Bunny (a brown bunny) some how manage to be even more grotesque than Zig & Zag. I'm not doubting the talent of Mick O'Mara and Ciaran Morrison, especially when it comes to voice acting and improv. I just don't like the characters. This came out in 2003. The "American" series was 2007 and featured bigger guests. Unfortunately like a lot of TV at the time it suffers from featuring celebrities who were of the moment: Steve-O, Judy Reyes, Jessica Alba, Seymore Butts. And occasionally household names: Hugh Hefener, William Shatner, Bryan Cranston. It's basically interviews with the puppets swearing in every sentence with really crass comedy sketches such as, Teddy T (a giant panda) having sex with a woman to spoof porn films! And Sesame Street-style spoofs spelling out words like Skank Ho. I'm not offended or bothered by it, there's just no cleverness to it beyond the basic premise of spoofing Kid's educational TV. There a lot of crude comedies I find hilarious: Bottom, The Young Ones, Nathan Barley, Curb, F Is For Family, even the odd Hale and Pace sketch; unfortunately this isn't one of them. Series 1 is still available on All4 for the curious. Series 2 is available on Prime USA. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
alexlincs 25th Jun 2021		A Very English Scandal 2018	It's been confirmed for a second series. Why?
MR B PAGE 23rd Jun 2021		The Nineteenth Hole 1989	The intro and outro theme tune is called Straight Down The Middle, and originally performed by Bing Crosby.
MR B PAGE 23rd Jun 2021		Man From Atlantis 1977 - 1978	The TV series will be broadcast again as a re-run for Forces TV on the 26/6/2021.
MR B PAGE 10th Jun 2021		Full House [UK] 1985 - 1986	There are 20 episodes for 3 series, and still currently broadcast on Forces TV. Originally broadcast on Monday nights at 8:00 pm.
alexlincs 9th Jun 2021		The Last Leg 2012 - Now	I could be wrong, but title screen seems to be in the studio rather than a traditional graphic.
Quad5point1 6th Jun 2021		The Power Of Nightmares: The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear 2004	Narrator: In the past, politicians promised to create a better world. They had different ways of achieving this, but their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered their people. Those dreams failed and today people have lost faith in ideologies. Increasingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life, but now they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us: from nightmares. They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see and do not understand. And the greatest danger of all is international terrorism, a powerful and sinister network with sleeper cells in countries across the world, a threat that needs to be fought by a War on Terror. But much of this threat is a fantasy, which has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It's a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media. This is a series of films about how and why that fantasy was created, and who it benefits. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists. Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world, and both had a very similar explanation of what caused that failure. These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today's nightmare vision of a secret organized evil that threatens the world, a fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful. But the fear will not last, and just as the dreams that politicians once promised turned out to be illusions, so, too, will the nightmares; and then our politicians will have to face the fact that they have no visions, either good or bad, to offer us any longer.
Quad5point1 6th Jun 2021		The Trap 2007	Rated 10/10 The Trap is a series of three films by Bafta-winning producer Adam Curtis that explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom. It shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy. Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously always intent on their own advantage. This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings. However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, says Curtis, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 4th Jun 2021		Can't Get You Out Of My Head 2021	Rated 10/10 Adam Curtis has a whole series of documentaries running on BBC iPlayer at the moment and they are well worth the watch. He somehow manages to piece together allsorts of facts that lead to the reasons why we (the human race) are at the point where we are now by using archive footage and facts to make you think that things aren't always what they seem and why we are where we are at this point in time because of history. It's all a bit of a mind trip and awakening to to the realities of life as we know it. Offering in a very methodical way why the world is the way it is and that things aren't always that simple. Try and grab them while they are available or you will miss some of the most cogent and cohesive arguments for the human condition. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 24th May 2021		The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin 1996	Nod to harley, proper full size Title Screen capture added from the DVD
MR B PAGE 24th May 2021		Get Back 1992 - 1993	There are 15 episodes for 2 series created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, and they`re based on characters and song titles of Beatles songs as episode titles. The complete series are still broadcast again on Forces TV.
mikewn 23rd May 2021		Renovation Nation 2008 - 2009	The rest of season 2 episodes that didn't get saved in the description above: Ep 10: Alexandria, VA: Presidential Salvage Ep 11: Corking the Kitchen Ep 12: Chesapeake Bay, MD: Big Bucks for Retiring Ep 13: Detroit, MI: Gift of Green Ep 14: Boulder, CO: It's Called Boulder for a Reason Ep 15: Hawaii: Historic Ranch Restoration Ep 16: Hawaii: Solar Army Base Ep 17: Portland, OR: Locally Grown Ep 18: Portland, OR: Ultimate Bachelor Pad Ep 19: Boulder, CO: Smart Home Ep 20: Falls Church, VA: Building Dirt Cheap Ep 21: St. Paul, MN: Family Affair Ep 22: Arlington, MA: Super Insulator Ep 23: St. Paul, MN: Double Trouble Ep 24: Baltimore, MD: Straw Bale Garage Ep 25: Boulder, CO: Solar Hot Tub Ep 26: St. Paul, MN: A Victorian Restoration
Quad5point1 19th May 2021		Classic British Cars: Made In Coventry 2021	First broadcast 17/05/21 @ 9:00pm on BBC 4
MR B PAGE 17th May 2021		Midnight Caller 1988 - 1991	There are 61 episodes in total and still currently broadcast on Forces TV.
ady_lister 13th May 2021		Documentary Now! 2015 - 2022	Review 'Mockumentary' series in which 'Saturday Night Live's' Fred Armisen and Bill Hader parody well known documentaries in a fictional but supposedly long running series celebrating it's "Fifty-First Season." Helen Mirren introduces each episode to provide a kind of false gravitas. It does help if you are familiar with the subject that is being parodied. For example, the first episode 'Sandy Passage' completely missed with me as I hadn't seen (nor heard of) 'Grey Gardens' which it was taking as inspiration. Once I corrected that, I realised how well crafted the episode was. The standout from the first season is the 'A Town, a Gangster, a Festival' episode in which they seemingly get an entire small town in Iceland to play it straight in staging a festival devoted to Al Capone. You assume that they put out a casting call for some local actors and Al Capone is just the right kind of subject in being slightly bad taste but plausible enough in terms of the mythology built up around him that it comes across as convincing. The whole episode is deliciously well staged. Like 'Spinal Tap' there are music documentary parodies as well. 'Blue Jean Committee' is based on a very obviously 'Eagles' style California band who’s members are facing up to the expected awkwardness of their upcoming Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction having been estranged for over 20 years. Does it always hit? No. But it's well written, well directed, well performed and nuanced enough that even when some of the episodes don't quite make it - it's still always a worthwhile watch. 'Spinal Tap' is obviously the granddaddy of the 'mockumentary' format... If you love that film as much as I do, then you'll definitely enjoy 'Documentary Now!' 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 12th May 2021		Guitar Heroes At The BBC 2008 - 2009	Added all screenshots for the individual songs. Up to and including U2 is Guitar Heroes Pt1, from Jimi Hendrix to AC/DC is Guitar Heroes Pt2
MR B PAGE 27th Apr 2021		Chance In A Million 1984 - 1986	This comedy sitcom will be broadcast again for Forces TV Channel on the 27/4/2021.
zamla_71 26th Apr 2021		Salem's Lot [1979] 1979	Based on Stephen King's Novel.
alexlincs 23rd Apr 2021		Cleopatra D.C. 1989	Title screen now added from US DVD. Titles seem to be at the end rather than the start which just has episode titles.
W.B.lbl 18th Apr 2021		Second City Television 1976 - 1984	Why do I get the impression that "Maudlin's Eleven" was a vast improvement over the numerous Ocean's ____ remakes and sequels with George Clooney, etc.? But there were also multiple layers to their other recurring routines. "SCTV News" was a commentary on the state of local and network TV news in the 1970's, with vast conflicts between the traditionalist side and the razzle-dazzle, showbizzy "Happy Talk" presentation that were boiling to the surface in that decade. (Some actual local and network news incidences were satirized/parodied in such sketches.) The names were plays on those of actual Canadian news anchors and commentators - Floyd Robertson (Joe Flaherty) on CBC and CTV anchor Lloyd Robertson, Earl Camembert (Eugene Levy) on former CBC commentator Earl Cameron. But the actors drew from their own backyards for the anchors' respective personae - Floyd seemed based on Bill Burns who was a legendary Pittsburgh TV anchor as Flaherty was growing up there, Earl was definitely patterned after Buffalo, TV anchor Irv Weinstein (of "pistol packing punks" fame). For Floyd, it was all about the news of the day and the public's need to know; for Earl, it was all about him (as evidenced by his hairstyle, loud suits and bow ties) and catering to what news consultants said the public wanted.

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