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Quad5point1 15th Jan 2023		TV Detectorists (2014 - Now)	Just found THIS and ordered it. Thought I would let all the Detectorists fans know about it :-)
Quad5point1 29th Nov 2022		TV Armchair Theatre (1958 - 1974)	Added 1970's Title Screen
Quad5point1 7th Aug 2022		TV Blankety Blank (1979 - 2002)	Alternate Title Screen added
Quad5point1 24th Jul 2022		TV Big Oil Vs The World (2022)	If anybody in the UK hasn't seen this yet, it's on BBC iPlayer at the moment and well worth the 3 hours to watch. It's a real eye opener.
Quad5point1 23rd Jul 2022		TV Sight And Sound In Concert (1977 - 1983)	Nod to deltic, added tidier screenshot for the 1970's era programmes along with screenshots from the 1978 broadcast with Chris De Burgh and Gilbert O'Sullivan
Quad5point1 9th May 2022		TV Treasure Hunt (1982 - 1989)	And they thought the clues on 3-2-1 were obscure! but worth the watch just to see Anneka in her jump suit ;-)
Quad5point1 31st Mar 2022		TV Enemy At The Door (1978 - 1980)	Nod to original poster, Title Screen + IMDB Link added
Quad5point1 20th Mar 2022		TV Gogglebox (2013 - Now)	Added current Title Screen
Quad5point1 3rd Jan 2022		TV The Beatles: Get Back (2021)	@ Robert Goodchild. Your wish might be PARTIALLY GRANTED
Quad5point1 3rd Dec 2021		TV The Fall (2013 - 2016)	Country of origin listed on IMDB as United Kingdom (actually Northern Ireland and not Ireland), not International. Correction submitted
Quad5point1 30th Nov 2021		TV Fatal Attractions (2010 - Now)	Country of origin on IMDB is United Kingdom. Correction submitted
Quad5point1 14th Nov 2021		TV No Hiding Place (1959 - 1967)	Added Title Screen variant
Quad5point1 19th Jul 2021		TV 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		TV 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		TV 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.
Quad5point1 26th Jun 2021		TV 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
Quad5point1 6th Jun 2021		TV 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 24th May 2021		TV The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (1996)	Nod to harley, proper full size Title Screen capture added from the DVD
Quad5point1 19th May 2021		TV Classic British Cars: Made In Coventry (2021)	First broadcast 17/05/21 @ 9:00pm on BBC 4
Quad5point1 12th May 2021		TV 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
Quad5point1 10th Apr 2021		TV Timeshift (2002 - Now)	New title screen added
Quad5point1 16th Feb 2021		TV 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.
Quad5point1 13th Feb 2021		TV DeLorean: Back From The Future (2021)	Available on BBC iPlayer for 5 months from 13/02/21
Quad5point1 7th Feb 2021		TV 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		TV Detectorists (2014 - Now)	Just found THIS and it looks like we might be on for another series :-))
Quad5point1 22nd Dec 2020		TV Two Doors Down (2016 - Now)	All 4 Series + Extras on BBC iPlayer, Now.
Quad5point1 4th Dec 2020		TV All Creatures Great & Small [2020] (2020 - Now)	1 1 "You've Got to Dream" - 1 September 2020 Newly qualified veterinarian James Herriot travels from his home in Glasgow to the Yorkshire village of Darrowby for a job interview at Siegfried Farnon's practice. Siegfried takes James to his first job treating an abscess in a gelding's hoof. James meets Helen Alderson while treating an injured calf and she urges him to stand up to Siegfried, who will respect him. The locals get James drunk on homebrew and he mixes up a pair of cats while trying to feed them, resulting in Siegfried almost castrating the wrong one. James manages to prove himself after saving the lives of a cow and her calf, leading Siegfried to offer him a permanent job as his assistant. 1 2 "Another Farnon?" - 8 September 2020 James collects Siegfried's younger brother Tristan from the station and they accidentally crash Siegfried's car. Tristan announces that he has graduated from Edinburgh veterinary college and joins the practice. James takes him on his rounds, where he has trouble dealing with a cow suffering with milk fever. He fares better with Mrs Pumphrey and her Pekingese dog Tricki Woo, which leads her to invite him to a party, where he meets Helen's partner Hugh Hulton. Mrs Hall later works out that Tristan has not been honest about his graduation. 1 3 "Andante" - 15 September 2020 Siegfried's application for horse racecourse vet is jeopardised after Hugh, the owner of the surefire race winner and the pride of the village Andante, disputes James' rationale for putting it down. Tristan revels in his new job collecting debts from clients, until he ends up frittering it all away in the pub – and uses his insider knowledge to his advantage in betting on the second favourite to win it back. Mrs. Hall tries to help Helen encourage her younger sister to realise that there is more to life than farming. 1 4 "A Tricki Case" - 22 September 2020 Alongside developing his flourishing relationship with Helen, James is enlisted in helping Mrs. Pumphrey's dog Tricki Woo back to a healthy weight; Tristan, however, takes up the responsibility, determined to earn his keep so Siegfried will fund his forthcoming return to studies – not helped by the dog's sneaky indulging in the expensive foodstuffs given to tide him over while away from home. Mrs. Hall is troubled by the continuous lack of correspondence from her son, while the Farnons pass the buck onto each other in examining a rather ferocious canine. 1 5 "All's Fair" - 29 September 2020 On the day of the Darrowby Fair, James agrees to stand as attending vet, judging the livestock and pet competitions, unaware that it is a taxing and unrewarding assignment. Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall all place wagers on when James will resign in exasperation. James experiences pressure from nearly every competitor, and from Helen, anxious for a favourable assessment of her prize bull, in hopes of securing a profitable sale. Siegfried meets an attractive and unattached friend of Mrs. Hall, Dorothy, and despite their mutual attraction, Siegfried still mourns for his recently deceased wife . 1 6 "A Cure for All Ills" - 6 October 2020 James feels guilt over a cow a farmer purchased based on his recommendation, which is now morbidly ill with an abscess, and which he feels powerless to cure. Tristan becomes a zealous advocate for a risky procedure, which Siegfried, as head of the practice, strictly forbids. Tristan manages an overwhelmed surgery as best he can, whilst Siegfried is taken with flu. At James' surprise birthday party, Maggie, the barmaid breaks off her tenuous relationship with Tristan, citing his lack of seriousness. Encouraged by Helen, James flees his birthday party to perform surgery on the morbidly ill cow, assisted by Tristan, which Siegfried reluctantly agrees to after initially attempting to stop it. Later, at the Drover's Arms, Siegfried promotes James to Senior Vet.
Quad5point1 6th Nov 2020		TV Shadows Of Fear (1970 - 1973)	Nod to Paul Vinyl, proper Title Screen from the DVD Box Set added
Quad5point1 28th Aug 2020		TV Nazi Sa Ghaeltacht (2020)	Mostly in the Irish language with English subtitles and a smattering of English conversations as well as German
Quad5point1 24th Aug 2020		TV Rise Of The Nazis (2019)	First broadcast 2/09/2019

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