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Originally Posted by OceanBlue

I'll start off with what I didn't like about yesterday afternoon's new edition of The Footage Detectives, the segment about vintage car rallies (didn't do much for me). Before that, the episode started off strongly again (viewers' responses to a film reel shown several weeks ago). Enjoyed the rest of the episode after the vintage car rallies segment (I can see TPTV getting a lot of responses to that long travel film reel (one of the locations looked like they were in Amsterdam with the boat seen. I'm probably wrong). I enjoyed the bit about Emma Gay and the music single. As a whole this was a memorable edition.

As for yesterday evening's first series episode of The Saint, I didn't enjoy it as much as the majority of the previous episodes, but it still passed the time well. I wasn't totally convinced by Anthony Dawson's accent, but he was still one of the best things about "The Arrow of God". Did Honor Blackman film this episode of The Saint before she started on The Avengers?

On a side note, to do with The Footage Detectives, it amuses me the continuity error, when Mike or Noel tells Bob the projectionist to start the film reel. The shot of Mike and Noel from the back, they're wearing different clothes.

The shot from the back is an archive shot from an earlier filming that gets used every week. So unless they wear the same clothes every week, it's never going to match haha.

Reference the Cellar Club, Caroline Munro often makes the segments entertaining as she worked with many veterans when she was younger and has a lot of interesting stories/experiences.

I've noted that TPTV now have a Westerns segment Wednesday afternoons (repeated Sunday mornings) bookended by "Saddle Up" segments which are of the same general format but presented by someone called James Stephens (who I don't know at all and will have to google to see if I can find out more) who tried and failed at a Western accent in the first batch this week and seemed to mostly be reading autocue.

I appreciate that it takes time to settle down when presenting though, so hopefully he will improve.

I can see that Westerns should be popular with the channel demographic. However, as they were all filmed in the US, it must be difficult to find a good presenter. No one who acted in Westerns is going to fly over to the UK every week to film ten minutes presenting these segments and then fly back again...

Regarding the long travel reel, yes I saw the white topped boat that looked like it might be Amsterdam.

One place I think I did know is that shot of the yellow palace with the gardens out front and the fountains, looked like the Hapsbergs palace in Vienna, which I visited in 2017. In one of the rooms of that palace a young boy of 12 called Amadeus Mozart played music for the young Princess and told her he would marry her someday.

*folds arms*
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