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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 23rd Oct 2015		TV Not The Nine O'Clock News (1979 - 1982)	RC: "And she's a kiwi" Huh! What....? I always believed her to be Aussie, even right back to when she played opposite Rod Mullinar in the short-lived detective series *Ryan* which seems to have disappeared without a trace. Stevenson played the part of Ryan's secretary.
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	Now, now RC, are you trying to "buck" the system? ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 19th Oct 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	RC, please try to catch up! We've been decimalised since 14th February, 1966, So I can't be sent to the "Pound" It'd have to be the Dollar!" ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 18th Oct 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	Henry29: *What about Me. I have to watch In 4.3 as If I stretch It out It would look Horrible. As I have a 21:9 TV* Er... you got problems! ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 18th Oct 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	RC: *I'm watching prisoner right now 4:3 format converted to wide screen* Geez! Bea Smith would look like she was gorging herself from the Wentworth kitchen larder! ha-ha....*Roley Poley, ba-ba-ba-bom....!(*part of chorus from song by Stanford Bridge).
Neil Forbes 17th Oct 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	I've seen 4:3 when it's stretched out to 16:9, not a pretty sight... Hey, fatso!(not referring to you, directly, RC, just characters who've been "stretched sideways on screen).
Neil Forbes 17th Oct 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	RC: "Well some old are 4:3 but I have a feature on my television that make it into wide screen" ....At the expense of making Pratt, Cope and Andre look like they've been on an eating binge, "pigging out!"
Neil Forbes 17th Oct 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	This show deserves another outing on Aussie TV, even if it is only in 4:3 aspect ratio. Perhaps ABC here could schedule it on a Friday night, gosh, there's precious little else worth watching at the moment, this show would be a great boost to ABC's Friday line-up.
Neil Forbes 16th Oct 2015		TV Beavis And Butt-Head (1993 - 2011)	I'd only seen a short snippet of this and I regret seeing even that much!
Neil Forbes 14th Oct 2015		TV Whodunnit? (1973 - 1978)	Whodunit? - - - - - *The butler did it!* Geez, anyone would know who that culprit was! HA-HA!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		TV New Tricks (2003 - 2015)	Thanks for that, Pridesdale! As I was typing my post my mind went blank trying to remember Bolam's character name. I already knew about his wife, Susan Jamieson playing Esther Lane opposite Alun Armstrong's Brian Lane.
Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		TV New Tricks (2003 - 2015)	Classic early line: Dennis Waterman(Gerry Standing) to Amanda Redman(Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman) on learning she shot a dog that bailed her up on her arrival at her new job - *"You're her, aren't you? Woof-Woof, Bang-Bang!"* Other than Dennis Waterman and Alun Armstrong(who portrayed Brian Lane brilliantly), there was James Bolam(and my mind's gone blank for his character name.... Bugger!). Dennis Waterman leaves partway through the series soon to start on ABC here in Australia but Denis Lawson and Nicholas Lindhurst seemed to have settled in well, as has Tamsin Outhwaite.
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		TV Mister Ed (1958 - 1966)	Yep! How many times has this show turned up on late-afternoon schedules through the 1970s(and possibly later). Guess you could accuse the TV execs of "horsing around!"
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		TV Carry On Laughing (1975)	Oh here we go again....Maxwell Smart strikes again! *Missed it by tha-a-a-a-a-at much!* ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		TV Carry On Laughing (1975)	From Harley: " Charles Hawtrey was fired from the Carry On Movies series for turning up drunk on more then one occasion" Oh, hell-o!, Charley Hawtrey drunk? Probably explains his absence from Carry On England and a couple of earlier movies!
Neil Forbes 7th Oct 2015		TV Parkinson (1971 - 2007)	Seen his work! Can't hold a candle to Aussie legend, Mike Walsh or (in later years) Andrew Denton. Parkinson always seemed to be in awe of his celebrity guests, starstruck! No such problem with Walsh or Denton.
Neil Forbes 7th Oct 2015		TV Carry On Laughing (1975)	When I saw the title screen of this, I took it to be an expanded version of a "best-of..." look at the movies made thus far, up to 1975(like the feature made in 1976 called "That's Carry-On" which was hosted by Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor), but not including "Carry On England" which wasn't made or released until 1976. Apparently I'm wrong in that guess as it appears this is freshly-made short sketches.
Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		TV Crown Court (1972 - 1984)	RC: "Actually would sound ridiculous have a licence to have a radio and television" In today's terms, it would indeed be ridiculous! But in the early days of radio, then TV up to the early 1970s, that was the norm.
Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		TV Crown Court (1972 - 1984)	Er... The Butler did it! 'Cause he was "Maid" to (ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		TV Crown Court (1972 - 1984)	1974? I could've sworn it was earlier than that! But I, unlike Cptbeefheart, am glad to see the end of licence fees. When you buy the TV set, you should NOT be forced to pay for the "privilege(?)" of watching it. You've already forked out a heap of dollars, deutschmarks, drachmas, pounds or whatever currencies you're using to buy the set, so why should you have to keep forking out just to watch it? The licence fee(for both radio and TV) in Australia, was an enforced subscription to the ABC which, back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was so damned elitist and snobbish that, for most, it wasn't worth the money spent on those fees. When the fees were abolished, we saw a slow-but-steady makeover of the ABC here, the snobbish elitism was giving way to a more egalitarian programming policy that, by the turn of the century(2001 being the first year of the new century/millennium), the ABC became far better to watch than the commercial stations with their tabloid-style current affairs and crappy reality(?) shows.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	Ah, yep!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		TV The Flintstones (1960 - 1966)	Yaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaachoooooo! Gesundheit!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	You said it yourself, RC, Region 1 and 2! US DVDs are Region 1!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		TV The Flintstones (1960 - 1966)	Mel Blanc was a very busy boy, what with voicing Barney Rubble in the first(and possibly second) series of "The Flintstones" combined with his Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes work, something had to go, so Blanc handed over to veteran voice-over man, Daws Butler, who'd worked with Stan Freberg, among others, and had given voice to other Hanna-Barbera characters(Officer Dibble, in "Top Cat" may have been one of his other characters).
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	RC's comment: "Well as I stated my PS3 can play region 1 and 2" And-a 1, and-a 2, and-a.... er, yeah!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		TV Crown Court (1972 - 1984)	@Cptbeefheart, you're in England, I'm in Australia and we both have the same problem with our TV stations showing total crap! The only variance is, Australia did away with TV viewer licences back in 1972.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	I said what I said because I have a DVD rewrite drive on my computer that "burns" as well as plays DVD's(the smoke alarm keeps triggering because of all the "burning" ha-ha). It is capable of playing DVD's from any region because it ignores the region coding. There's also the fact that 23Skidoo is using an Apple Mac computer while mine is Windows 7. His did not have an inbuilt DVD drive, mine does.
Neil Forbes 2nd Oct 2015		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	Quite frankly, region coding is just another means by which the movie companies can gouge those extra dollars/pounds/euros, etc., from hapless consumers like us! There's no legitimate reason for region-coding, none whatsoever!
Neil Forbes 2nd Oct 2015		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	@Cptbeefheart, A DVD drive in a computer totally ignores region codes and will happily play any DVD from any region! I would expect that also to be the case with Blu-ray drives.
Neil Forbes 2nd Oct 2015		TV Red Dwarf (1988 - Now)	Must be getting close to the new series airing on ABC here in Australia.... Oh smeg, I can't wait....!

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