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Member	TV Series		Comment / Review
Quad5point1 10th Apr 2021		Timeshift 2002 - Now	New title screen added
23skidoo 9th Apr 2021		Burke's Law [1963] 1963 - 1965	Added a title screen for the renamed series.
alexlincs 7th Apr 2021		またまたセイバーマリオネットJ 1997 - 1998	Correct title screen now added from episode 1 of the DVD.
mikewn ● 24th Mar 2021		Totally Doctor Who 2006 - 2007	Just Added the Infinite Quest DVD here... https://www.45worlds.com/dvd/disc/883929034901
alexlincs 24th Mar 2021		Room 101 1994 - Now	I agree with Shakyfan. It seems more like a chat show than a game show now. I like Frank Skinner as a comedian and he's had some great guests on, but it is dull.
mikewn ● 20th Mar 2021		Biography 1961 - Now	IMDB has two entries one for the earlier rendition of this series given above during 1961-1964, and another here for the series episodes that aired from 1987 to present here, perhaps we can add those to the comments above... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092322/
MR B PAGE 16th Mar 2021		Fiddley Foodle Bird 1992	There are 13 episodes in 1 series and originally screened for BBC One.
alexlincs 10th Mar 2021		Four In A Bed 2010 - Now	Originally called Three in a Bed. [YouTube Video]
alexlincs 10th Mar 2021		Naked Attraction 2016 - Now	Actual title screen contains nudity so I've used a different image with the hash tag.
alexlincs 10th Mar 2021		The Adam And Joe Show 1996 - 2001	Rated 8/10 Brilliant series, but seemed to divide people. I saw it first time around and I think it passed a lot of people by or they didn't get it. Ironically, I think its format and sketches have been like a prototype for many series that started as a web series such as Limmy's Show and Consolevania. For those that haven't seen it has Adam and Joe playing characters and doing silly hidden camera stunts like eating the 10% free portion of a box of cereals, Vinyl Justice where they looked at people's record collections such as Frank Black and said if they were crap or good while dressed as policemen, Adam's Dad reviewing pop music, silly observations of things to try spoofing the format of Why Don't You?, the most famous bit spoofs films and TV using toys such as: Toy-tanic, Furends (Friends), Stuff This Life etc. IMHO it wouldn't get commissioned today due to Channel 4 focusing on what is middle-class safe reality TV or pseudo-game shows such as The Circle, Four in a Bed or really patronising shows featuring an excuse to show excessive full frontal nudity. Back in the late 90s they out-shined BBC in terms of comedy content (Brass Eye, Father Ted, buying big American comedies like Frasier and treating them with respect by showing them at a time when people are awake - Seinfeld at 2am come on BBC 2!). It would probably have been a successful Youtube channel instead if it was invented a decade later. The Adam Buxton podcast is well worth checking out for more of the same with high school chums Joe Cornish and Louis Theroux as recurring interviewees, as is their now defunct BBC 6 Music and comedy show. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
OldMod67 5th Mar 2021		Sledge Hammer! 1986 - 1988	I used to love this, taping them regularly on vhs here in England. I'm not sure if I caught them all though.
MR B PAGE 25th Feb 2021		After Henry 1988 - 1992	Originally a radio series for BBC Radio 4 and the complete series will be broadcast on Forces TV on the 1/3/2021.
Quad5point1 24th Feb 2021		Blitz Spirit With Lucy Worsley 2021	Rated 10/10 Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz. Using the same style as Lucy's film about the Suffragettes, the film shows their remarkable resilience, as well as the terrible suffering they endured, shining a light on the role of the front-line workers and volunteers at the heart of it all. The six lives at the heart of the film are 17-year-old Jewish shopgirl Nina Masel, from Essex, who reported for Mass Observation; Frances Faviell, a Chelsea artist and socialite who received just a week’s training to become an auxiliary nurse and would end up treating a dying victim in a bomb crater; Ita Ekpenyon, a Nigerian teacher who moved to the UK to study law but who took on the role of an air-raid precaution warden to rally the people of his central London patch; Barbara Nixon, an out-of-work actress who worked long hours as an ARP warden, expressing her outrage at judgemental attitudes towards East Enders who had lost everything; Frank Hurd, a full-time fireman whose day job was to keep the raging fires of the bombing raids under control; and Robert Barltrop, too young to enlist, who worked as a porter in a Sainsbury's warehouse and volunteered as a firewatcher. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 22nd Feb 2021		Bloodlands 2021 - Now	Rated 4/10 A car is pulled from Strangford Lough, the owner kidnapped. DCI Tom Brannick recognises the calling card of a legendary assassin known as Goliath. The legend goes he was a serving police officer who vanished without trace 20 years ago and among his original victims was Tom’s wife. Against opposition from old friend DCS Jackie Twomey, Brannick and his partner, DS Niamh McGovern, break open the Goliath case in the hope that it will help them solve the kidnapping. As they dig deeper, they find gaps in the original Goliath investigation. Someone tried to suppress the truth. When a vital clue leads them out to an island on Strangford Lough, a discovery is made that changes everything. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 18th Feb 2021		Totally Under Control: Trump And Covid-19 2020	Review Filmed during lockdown, this investigative documentary made by Academy Award-winning film-maker Alex Gibney, with co-directors Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, includes revealing testimonies from public health officials and senior White House staff, exposing a system-wide collapse. With the US election just around the corner, the film scrutinises the US response compared with South Korea, and how they handled the virus. On 20 January 2020, both countries discovered their first cases of Covid-19. Since then, however, the novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of over 220,000* Americans, while only claiming 447* lives in South Korea (*at the time of publication). 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Magic Marmalade 17th Feb 2021		Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed 2021	Probably a lot simpler than you'd imagine Quad... (In terms of construction principle, even though there's still work involved) ... My own theory is simply this: Dig a ditch... Drag and drop stones in it, then pull them upright... Then back fill / bury them with only the tops of these uprights showing level with the surrounding ground... Then drag lintel / capstones onto them until they are in position... ... Then finally, excavate the surrounding earth to new ground level. Other than dragging the stones, any group of people with a bucket and spade, and enough time, can remove the earth. (Certainly easier than hosting 30 ton stones 30 feet in the air with hypothetical, fantastical lifting kit) Al you need is cows, cows, cows :) Now look at Avebury... Measure depth of ditch, and compare with height of great sarsens at Stonehenge.
Quad5point1 16th Feb 2021		Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed 2021	I took it to be an educational thing just for the kids involved but I do agree that showing it time and again on archeological programmes does get a bit tedious. What I would love explained, or even better demonstrated, is how they managed to get the massive capping blocks on top of the uprights. I've seen explanations for how they built the Pyramids but not Stonehenge.
Magic Marmalade 16th Feb 2021		Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed 2021	Great new research, but honestly, if I see another "reconstruction" of people attempting to move large heavy stones with ropes, I think I'll scream! The Aurochs was an animal related to modern cows, but much larger... and seeing it is estimated that in general, a four legged beasty can pull about one and a half times it's own body weight, I'd like to think that the people who were smart enough at least to build these monuments in the first place were smart enough not to try and lug them with multitudes of men themselves, but use these huge animals instead. 500 men, or a few Aurochs' (?)
Quad5point1 16th Feb 2021		Drama Out Of A Crisis: A Celebration Of Play For Today 2020	Review Play for Today was a series of single dramas broadcast by the BBC between 1970 and 1984. These were years of crisis, a time when the consensus politics of Britain’s postwar world had begun to unravel. Industrial relations, education and the health service faced fundamental challenges, the country was struggling with the end of empire, and the personal had become increasingly political. Play for Today reflected and responded to all of this and more in 300 dramas, shown in primetime on BBC One to audiences numbered in millions. Many of the best actors, writers and directors of the time contributed to the series, with some of the best-remembered broadcasts being Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills and the strange fantasy, Penda’s Fen, written by Alan Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke. The series was contemporary, often controversial and occasionally censored. But it was also immensely varied, showcasing social realism with comedy, costume drama with fantasy, and personal visions with state-of-the-nation overviews. It was mischievous, critical and challenging, and unafraid to tackle taboos. Marking the 50th anniversary of the first Play for Today in October 1970, this film is a celebration of the series, told by a number of its producers, directors and writers. It explores the origins of the series, its achievements and its controversies. Presenting a rich range of often surprising extracts from the archive, the film features interviews with, among others, producers Kenith Trodd, Margaret Matheson and Richard Eyre, film-makers Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, and writer and director David Hare. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
YankeeDisc SUBS 16th Feb 2021		Catweazle 1970 - 1971	Currently being shown on UK freeview 81 Talking Pictures at 1030-1100 hrs weekdays Monday through Thursday. I remember a friend back in 1971 or so referring to a telephone (land line) as a "Telling Bone", which of course came from this series, as uttered by Catweazle.
Quad5point1 15th Feb 2021		Berlin 1945: Diary Of A Metropolis 2020	Rated 10/10 [Episode 1] - At the beginning of 1945, Berlin remains under the spell of the Nazi promise of salvation, an illusion at odds with the city’s daily reality. Every day there are bombing attacks, fires to be extinguished and corpses to be buried. Life goes on as the front lines of the war close in each day. Death comes for men, women, the old, the young, the National Socialists and the forced labourers. In April, the Red Army stands ready outside the city. In a time of uncertainty on the front lines, nobody has a clear view of what will happen. Civilians hiding, SS soldiers shooting deserters, and Red Army soldiers hoping to survive the final days of the war. As the war comes closer and closer to the metropolis, it returns everything to its roots, showing no mercy. [Episode 2] - The Battle for Berlin has begun. Step by step, the soon-to-be victorious powers advance. On 30 April, the Red Flag flies over the Reichstag and Adolf Hitler takes his own life. Another seven days pass before the Wehrmacht disassembles. National Socialism is finally beaten, along with Germany and Berlin. But for many, the fall of Nazism spells liberation rather than defeat. [Episode 3] - The British, French and Americans are waiting to enter Berlin. In the meantime, the Soviets appoint mayors, organise the food supply and go on the hunt for war criminals. The Jewish community, among whom there are few survivors, regroup. The fate of the city is determined at the Potsdam Conference. Life returns to the ruins, theatres reopen and orchestras play in the open air. By the end of 1945, the bond that held the Allies together is torn apart - and the Cold War begins. Journey back in time to Berlin's most fateful year - 1945 - through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it - ordinary German people and the Allies who entered the city. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
cupparober 14th Feb 2021		Milleluci 1974	Milleluci Sulla Radio
cupparober 14th Feb 2021		Milleluci 1974	Raffaella Carrà - Milleluci
Quad5point1 13th Feb 2021		DeLorean: Back From The Future 2021	Available on BBC iPlayer for 5 months from 13/02/21
Quad5point1 13th Feb 2021		DeLorean: Back From The Future 2021	Rated 10/10 John Z DeLorean’s extraordinary and doomed attempt to build the sports car of the future in 1980s Northern Ireland is the stuff of legend. A buccaneering American entrepreneur, DeLorean had film star looks, a famous fashion model as a wife and an enormous ego that drove him to rival the giants of the US car industry. Millions of pounds of British tax-payers money later, an unprecedented social experiment where Catholics and Protestants worked side by side in relative harmony in West Belfast ends in a trail of corporate waste, greed, fraud and, incredibly, an FBI cocaine-trafficking sting. Using rare and unseen footage filmed by Oscar winning directors DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, and through colourful news archive documenting his life and career, this is the first in-depth psychological profile of DeLorean, a man who rose from the ghettos of Detroit to build his American dream in war-torn Belfast. A dream that quickly went up in smoke... 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Magic Marmalade 7th Feb 2021		Detectorists 2014 - Now	I don't think they could ever make too many of these! ... It's like the Archers, for our generation. (I sometimes see detectorists when I'm out looking at a rock or two in a field for my megalithic purposes... Always a nod and a "how'd ye do")
Quad5point1 7th Feb 2021		Bletchley Park- Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius 2015	Review Gordon Welchman was one of the original elite codebreakers crucial to the allies defeating the Nazis in World War II. He is the forgotten genius of Bletchley Park. Filmed extensively at Bletchley Park, the centre for codebreaking operations during World War II, this documentary features the abandoned buildings where thousands of people worked tirelessly trying to crack the codes; Hut 6, where Welchman pioneered his groundbreaking work; and the machines that Welchman helped design. Post-war, Welchman moved to the United States to be at the nerve centre of the computer revolution. He was employed by the Mitre Corporation, a US defence contractor, and engaged in top secret work. Recently released top secret documents reveal that the case of Gordon Welchman reached the desk of the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, which then led to questions being asked in the House of Commons after Welchman's death. Welchman's legacy continues to this day as Professor John Naughton and former CIA analyst Cynthia Storer reveal how Welchman's pioneering work in the field of traffic analysis led directly to the modern secret surveillance state, and particularly the use of metadata - as revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. 8 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 7th Feb 2021		Mandy 2020	Diane Morgan makes some of the funniest things on television at the moment. Cunk on Britain was just brilliant and Mandy is just as funny. Highly recommended
Quad5point1 12th Jan 2021		Detectorists 2014 - Now	Just found THIS and it looks like we might be on for another series :-))
Quad5point1 25th Dec 2020		Gerry Rafferty: Right Down The Line 2011	Review Gerry Rafferty, who died in January 2011, was one of Scotland's best loved singer/songwriters, famous around the world for hits such as Baker Street and Stuck in the Middle With You. This ArtWorks Scotland film, narrated by David Tennant, tells the story of Rafferty's life through his often autobiographical songs and includes contributions from Gerry's daughter Martha and brother Jim, friends and colleagues including Billy Connolly, John Byrne and Joe Egan, admirers such as Tom Robinson and La Roux, and words and music from Rafferty himself. This documentary was first broadcast at 9pm, 29 Aug 2011. Well worth catching if you are in any way a fan of the man and his music. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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