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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 26th May 2022		TV Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain (2021)	Spice Girls pah!, the real history of the 1990s feminist movement is here > Riot Grrrl
albert 11th Jul 2021		TV 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.
albert 30th Aug 2020		TV Ripping Yarns (1977 - 1979)	Golden Gordon despairs after Barnestoneworth United lose yet again [YouTube Video]
albert 14th Apr 2019		TV Beavis And Butt-Head (1993 - 2011)	Customers Suck: [YouTube Video] some selections: [YouTube Video]
albert 8th Apr 2019		TV Colour Me Pop (1968 - 1969)	The CD compilation Magnetic Waves Of Sound by The Move includes their Colour Me Pop performances.
albert 6th Feb 2019		TV Die Gentlemen Bitten Zur Kasse (1966 - Now)	I found an English dubbed version of the feature film as a bonus on Network's recent Robbery DVD. The film is quite well made and is roughly split in two, first from the gang's perspective planning and carrying out the robbery, then once the deed is done we switch to the police operation tracking down the criminals. Apparently the mini series enjoyed many reruns and is available on DVD, however because of some BBC-style foolishness the German TV company destroyed the negatives during a clearout. The German DVDs are apparently still OK with what materials they have to work from, however the English dub of the cinema release is not in great condition with distortion and damage like a bad video tape copy, and that is what we get on the UK DVD. Still it is worth watching and makes a nice bonus.
albert 4th Feb 2019		TV The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe (1964)	Filmed in the Canary Islands, making the islands instantly popular with tourists searching for paradise, and resulting in horrendous free enterprise like Veronica's Strip.
albert 31st Dec 2018		TV Top Of The Pops (1964 - 2006)	The Beatles one and only proper appearance on TOTPs was transmitted 16th June 1966 according to Record Collector 250, page 135. They also report that a copy of the whole show exists outside of the BBC archive but found its way into collectors circles, rapidly changing hands so its whereabouts is not known. The Beatles did Rain & Paperback Writer.
albert 15th Oct 2018		TV Department S (1969 - 1970)	Can hardly remember the series but the whole family used to watch it. Anybody want to tell me what the S stands for?
albert 14th Oct 2018		TV Dennis The Menace [1959] (1959 - 1963)	The UK Dennis first appeared in The Beano and was drawn by David Law, the character got progressively more delinquent and destructive during his 1960's peak. David Law also drew Beril The Peril for The Topper, and Corporal Clott for The Dandy, all of his strips are inventive and often quite hilarious. These days the UK Dennis is very tame, and unfunny.
albert 11th Sep 2018		TV Steptoe And Son (1962 - 1974)	[YouTube Video]
albert 10th Apr 2018		TV Where The Action Is! (1965 - Now)	A pretty amazing selection of bands performed, erm, mimed, on this TV show by the ABC network, apparently the show was taped so lets hope for some compilation DVDs. 13th Floor Elevators: [YouTube Video] Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: [YouTube Video] Standells: [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Mar 2018		TV Max Headroom (1987 - 1988)	I'm with Harley on this. I recall the TV film came before the first series, the film sets up the first series, ie the wisecracking detective/investigator gets his personality stolen/digitised by a computer geek, the computer containing the talking head then falls into the hands of a tiny independent TV broadcaster and is used to review music videos (and in the process tops the ratings and becomes a much sought after item). The computer/monitor box got bashed/damaged which is why the talking head forgets his name and adopts "Max Headroom" and often jitters when talking. The 'first' series just had Max introducing videos and making wisecracks, its not on 45worlds yet. According to that website the first series began 1985 and was one of the early CH4 broadcasts, it was budget TV with a good idea. Beavis & Butthead was essentially the same idea.
albert 3rd Mar 2018		TV Do They Mean Us? (1984 - Now)	Those who remember will guess the clip pretty quickly, this looks like the original source: [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Nov 2017		TV Why Don't You? (1973 - 1995)	One of my flatmates was the uncle of a girl who had been on a couple of episodes, this seemed to give her an elevated opinion of herself, the reality was that she was probably the most nauseating arrogant selfish demanding person that I have ever had to live with.
albert 14th Sep 2017		TV Eurotrash (1993 - 2007)	Post-pub time slot, and enhanced by the beers, definitely funniest when Jean-Paul Gaultier was co-presenter, the later years got a fair bit repetitive. The big laughs for me were when the voice actors did the supposed translations. Jean-Paul & Antoine [YouTube Video] And a selection of clips (usual silliness) [YouTube Video]
albert 14th Sep 2017		TV Deal Or No Deal [UK] (2005 - 2016)	I do not recommend it, the only reason I did have to watch it was because my mum always wanted to watch it, ...well whatever kept her happy. Basically its one of the most drawn-out 'game shows' that pretty much gloats on the emotional damage dished out onto the one person that has to choose boxes, and the odds are heavily stacked against them. I can't remember if goes on for 1 hour or 30 mins, but they are just picking boxes, viewers can't even get involved shouting out answers to general knowledge questions. [YouTube Video] fail ;D
albert 13th Sep 2017		TV Deal Or No Deal [UK] (2005 - 2016)	If I found myself on this show choosing boxes I would simple choose in sequence 1 through to 15 and avoid the stress of it all.
albert 13th Sep 2017		TV Roots (1977)	Alex Haley on Wikipedia. It is rather unfortunate that the Kunte Kinte in Africa text has been discredited, "Roots is a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship", and Haley was successfully sued by Harold Courlander who's own novel The African was plagiarised for ideas, fiction becoming 'fact' in the process. A better film, in my opinion, on the horrors of slavery is Goodbye Uncle Tom, which is far more direct and graphic and was researched using genuine documents and reports from the time. The film was released in 1971 and does not sit well with people who would rather you didn't see that the slaves were bought/bartered from slave markets in Africa run by African tribe leaders.
albert 15th Aug 2017		TV Catchphrase (1986 - Now)	infamous clip [YouTube Video]
albert 14th Aug 2017		TV Star Trek (1966 - 1969)	Watching this as a kid in the 1960s was mind-blowing, hand-held communicators, doors that automatically slide open, stuff that we take for granted these days. When they re-launched the series they said things would be even better but as soon as the captain talked to the computer and a dalek-like voice responded I knew progress had not been made.
albert 14th Aug 2017		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	I loved this show when I was a small kid in the 1960s. They did reruns around 1994 and I tuned in for the first episode and could not believe how utterly crap it was - a cardboard set with fake snow blowing all around and actors jumping in and out like a pantomime, sample here: [YouTube Video] Regarding playing DVDs on your PC - the region codes are checked if you use Microsoft's Media Player and some other software, Mac too. But, there are some download DVD-player applications which do not check region codes, however some of these 'freebies' come with payloads, so if you install that software you may find you suddenly have ad-pushers, internet toolbars, site-tracking, etc loaded onto your computer too.
albert 29th May 2017		TV Help!... It's The Hair Bear Bunch! (1971 - 1972)	One of my favourite HB cartoons along with Dastardly & Muttley and Hong Kong Phooey. Don't know about Jon Pertwee being the voice of Bubi Bear, but he certainly was the voice of The Noodle Doodle Man.
albert 29th May 2017		TV The Monkees (1966 - 1968)	Probably repeats that got shown Saturday mornings (1970s). I am quite certain that when Night Network began 1987/88 they sliced up episodes to show throughout the night, same with Batman and Rocky & Bullwinkle, budget TV, I suppose.
albert 29th Nov 2016		TV Shang-a-Lang (1975)	The BFI have just announced they are to digitise many TV programmes stored on video in order to save them from being lost forever. Alas, they have included Shang-A-Lang on their list to be saved.
albert 21st Nov 2016		TV Oh Boy! (1958 - 1959)	Cliff Presley [YouTube Video]
albert 21st Nov 2016		TV Rockschool (1985 - 1987)	Dire TV series for aspiring 80's session musos sample here [YouTube Video]
albert 21st Oct 2016		TV La Cabina (1972)	I don't know anything about the production of this short, what it was commissioned for etc. Maybe Spanish TV had a series like this one where the individual items stand by themselves.
albert 18th Oct 2016		TV Ready Steady Go! (1963 - 1966)	Clip (sure to be deleted from YT) [YouTube Video] some behind the scenes footage (no sound) [YouTube Video]
albert 14th Sep 2016		TV La Cabina (1972)	At the moment there isn't really a category for it. I selected TV as the main category since it was made for Spanish TV, but there was only one sub-category available 'TV Series' and I had to select that to get the submission accepted.

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