The classic comic wellies of Jimmy Cricket were shown a couple of days ago with a TPTV special featuring the man himself. He's still performing for crying out loud!
The classic comic wellies of Jimmy Cricket were shown a couple of days ago with a TPTV special featuring the man himself. He's still performing for crying out loud!
Great piece of nostalgia.
I haven't seen the Jimmy Cricket interview programme, but I did watch the programme When Mike Met Sir Tommy 2-3 weeks ago when it was first shown on TPTV. Have noticed the trend with TPTV showing interviews filmed at the TPTV festivals. The Sir Tommy Steele interview with Mike Read though was filmed at the London Palladium (there was a filmed interview with Martin Clunes at a TPTV festival, about his father Alec's career which was included as an extra on a Renown Pictures DVD release of one of the films his father appeared in (this interview with Martin Clunes has I think been shown on TPTV).
Included as a bonus film on a new Renown Pictures DVD release of mid-sixties British film The Leather Boys, is a documentary filmed by Talking Pictures TV called Rita Tushingham and the Leather Boys Back at the Ace Cafe (read about it on any or some of the following: Renown Pictures website and newsletter, Talking Pictures TV's Facebook page and newsletter).
On a separate note, I am thinking of splitting future posts about some of the programmes and films being shown on TPTV in the coming week in two parts, as the last two posts I did gave me bad eye strain afterwards. Not sure if they're worth doing.
Last edited by OceanBlue; 06-23-2023 at 11:54 PM.
Reason: Corrected order of comments etc. in post.
Some of the films and TV programmes airing on Talking Pictures TV in the next few days (TV listings/schedule subject to change):
Saturday 24th June:
- an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood ("The Imposters"), airing at 9 am - 9.30 am
- an episode of The Buccaneers ("The Slave Ship"), airing at 11.05 am - 11.35 am
- an episode of sci-fi puppet series Fireball XL5 ("Plant Man from Space"), airing at 2.40 pm - 3.10 pm
- an episode of The Four Just Men ("The Princess"), airing at 9 pm - 9.30 pm
- late-forties crime film Raw Deal, airing at 9.30 pm - 11.05 pm
- early-eighties action film Silent Rage, airing at 11.05 pm - 1.10 am
Sunday 25th June:
- early-seventies horror film A Reflection of Fear, airing at 1.10 am - 2.55 am
- early-eighties drama film The Man from Snowy River, airing at 10.05 am - 12.15 pm
- late-fifties western drama film The Oregon Trail, airing at 12.15 pm - 2 pm
- an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood ("A Year and a Day"), airing at 2 pm - 2.30 pm
- "instructional short film" Action for Skids, airing at 3 pm - 3.20 pm
- early-forties drama film Return to Yesterday, airing at 3.20 pm - 4.40 pm
- a new edition of The Footage Detectives, premiering at 5 pm - 6 pm
- an episode (from the fourth series) of The Saint ("The Persistent Parasites"), airing at 6 pm - 7 pm
- an episode of the original Van der Valk TV series (the third series premiere "Enemy"), airing at 9 pm - 10 pm
- mid-fifties drama film Wicked As They Come, premiering on TPTV at 10 pm - 11.55 pm
Monday 26th June:
- early-sixties drama film The Shakedown, airing at 1.45 am - 3.35 am
- a new edition of The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read, premiering at 3.35 am - 4.40 am
- mid-thirties crime drama film Checkmate, airing at 4.40 am - 6 am
- early-sixties film Gentle Trap, airing at 6 am - 7.10 am
- late-forties thriller film The Black Book, airing at 7.10 am - 9 am
- mid-noughties comedy drama TV film/special Christmas Lights, airing at 1 pm - 2.30 pm
- mid-thirties drama film Of Human Bondage, airing at 3 pm - 4.40 pm
- mid-fifties drama film Stock Car, airing at 4.40 pm - 6 pm
- late-fifties crime drama film The Young Don't Cry, premiering on TPTV at 9 pm - 10.45 pm.
Source of the above TV listings information: the TV Schedule section on Talking Pictures TV's website, Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 24th to Friday 30th June, 2023).
Some of the films and TV programmes airing on Talking Pictures TV in the next few days (TV listings/schedule subject to change):
Wednesday 28th June:
- mid-sixties horror film Blood Thirst (airing as part of The Cellar Club, preceded by Caroline Munro's introduction), airing at 3.20 am - 4.55 am
- a repeat airing of Talking Pictures TV with Jimmy Cricket, airing at 5 am - 5.25 am
- an episode (from the first season) of anthology series One Step Beyond ("Epilogue"), airing at 1.20 pm - 2 pm
- late-fifties drama film The Whole Truth, airing at 9.05 pm - 10.45 pm
- mid-eighties drama film A Song for Europe, airing at 10.45 pm - 0.50 am
Thursday 29th June:
- early-nineties horror drama Afraid of the Dark, airing at 3 am - 4.50 am
- mid-thirties crime comedy film The Black Abbot, airing at 4.50 am - 6 am
- late-fifties crime drama film Date with Disaster, airing at 6.30 am - 7.45 am
- late-fifties crime film Bank Raiders, airing at 7.45 am - 9 am
- an episode (from the second and final season) of western drama series Black Saddle ("Murdock"), airing at 9 am - 9.30 am
- early-fifties drama film The Promise, premiering at 11.50 am - 12.50 pm
- a repeat airing of late-sixties documentary film The London Nobody Knows (starring James Mason), airing at 4.50 pm - 5.45 pm
- mid-forties drama film Gilda (the cast including Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and Macready), airing at 5.45 pm - 8 pm
Friday 30th June:
- early-eighties crime drama film The Gentleman Bandit (the cast including Ralph Thomas, airing at 4 am - 6 am
- an episode of early-sixties series Ensign O'Toole ("Operation: Impersonation"), airing at 6 am - 6.30 am
- late-fifties documentary short River Pilot, airing at 5.40 am - 6 am
Friday 30th June into Saturday 1st July:The Cellar Club (all films/programmes preceded by Caroline Munro's introductions)
- mid-seventies horror film Burnt Offerings, airing at 9.05 pm - 11.25 pm
- late-sixties crime drama film The Incident, airing at 11.30 pm - 1.25 am
- mid-forties drama film The Great Flamarion, airing at 1.30 am - 3.05 am
Saturday 1st July:
- early-fifties crime film The 20 Questions Murder Mystery, airing at 3.10 am - 5 am
- late-forties action film Dick Barton Special Agent, airing at 7.25 am - 8.50 am
- an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood ("Ransom"), airing at 9 am - 9.30 am
- an episode of The Buccaneers ("Gunpowder Plot"), airing at 11.05 am - 11.35 am
- an episode of early-sixties sci-fi puppet series Fireball XL5 ("Spy in Space"), airing at 2.30 pm - 3 pm
- mid-fifties fantasy film X: The Unknown, airing at 3 pm - 4.35 pm
- early-seventies documentary short One Man, One Dog, premiering at 4.35 pm - 4.55 pm
- an episode of The Four Just Men ("The Protector"), airing at 9 pm - 9.30 pm
- early-sixties crime drama film Underworld U.S.A., premiering at 9.30 pm - 11.25 pm
- early-seventies action film Vanishing Point (the cast including the late Barry Newman), airing at 11.25 pm - 1.25 am
Sunday 2nd July:
- mid-fifties drama film Wicked As They Come, airing at 1.25 am - 3.20 am *repeat airing*
- an episode (from the first season) of anthology series One Step Beyond ("Premonition"), airing at 5.25 am - 6 am
- late-forties drama film Castle Sinister, airing at 6 am - 7 am
- mid-sixties sci-fi film Frozen Alive, airing at 7 am - 8.35 am
- 1955 The Channel Islands, airing at 10 am - 10.35 am
- early-sixties thriller Hide and Seek, airing at 10.35 am - 12.20 pm
- mid-fifties thriller The Weapon, airing at 12.20 pm - 2 pm
- an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood ("The Goldmaker"), airing at 2 pm - 2.30 pm
- a new edition of The Footage Detectives, premiering at 5 pm - 6 pm
- an episode (from the fourth series) of The Saint ("The Man Who Could Not Die"), airing at 6 pm - 7 pm
- early-forties film mystery Sherlock: The Secret Weapon, premiering at 7.35 pm - 9 pm
- an episode (from the third series) of the original Van der Valk TV series ("Accidental"), airing at 9 pm - 10 pm
- late-seventies thriller film Magic (the cast including Sir Anthony Hopkins), airing at 10 pm - 0.15 am
Monday 3rd July:
- late-eighties horror film The Dark Tower (the cast including Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter and Carol Lynley), airing at 0.15 am - 2.05 am
- a new edition of The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read, premiering at 2.05 am - 3.10 am.
Source of the above TV listings information: the TV Schedule section on Talking Pictures TV's website, Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 24th to Friday 30th June, 2023 and Saturday 1st to Friday 7th July, 2023).
Repeats of The Footage Detectives and other programmes on TPTV
If it's because of the next TPTV Festival coming soon (next month), I'm not surprised by this. After checking the TV Schedule section on TPTV's website recently, I noticed that the synopses for three editions of The Footage Detectives airing in July looked familiar. I'd say they're repeats (airing on Sunday 9th, 16th and 23rd July respectively).
Next Sunday's (2nd July) new edition of The Footage Detectives will include an interview with Jamie Anderson (son of Gerry Anderson) about Fireball XL5.
TPTV have said in their weekly newsletters sent out on Sundays recently that new (to the channel) episodes of Crown Court will be airing on the channel later this year. Recently, they've gone back to the beginning of the show.
Also getting a repeat run on the channel is In Suspicious Circumstances. I'm assuming that once they've repeated the edition from the mid-nineties which has the desertion theme, they'll start showing new (to TPTV) episodes. However, I'm sure I read on TPTV's Facebook page a few weeks ago that there are some episodes which are lost. So if like me, you're a fan of Edward Woodward and ISC, make the most of the new (to TPTV) episodes. Wish the surviving episodes could get a physical media release.
I've also noticed that the channel has been showing Laurel and Hardy shorts, scattered through the TPTV schedules.
Am assuming that new editions of The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read have been airing in the early hours of Monday mornings recently, and that new editions are premiering in the coming weeks on TPTV.
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There are other films, TV series and film shorts which have been getting repeat airings on TPTV. Hopefully others can help and post about these repeat airings.
Last edited by OceanBlue; 06-28-2023 at 01:28 AM.
Reason: Corrected typo in post.
I’m sure The Cellar Club and the films Caroline Munro introduces that are aired on Wednesday’s are repeats of Friday night/Saturday morning broadcasts.
I wish a ‘first shown so-and-so date’ disclaimer could be added.
A new week has been added to the TV Schedule section on TPTV's website this week, going up to just before the end of July, and based on the synopsis, the Sunday 30th July edition of The Footage Detectives is a repeat. This coming Sunday's edition will be the last new edition for at least five weeks.
I'm hoping Renown Pictures will release a second DVD volume of The Footage Detectives during the remainder of this year.
Some of the films and TV programmes airing on Talking Pictures TV in the next couple of days (TV listings/schedule subject to change):
Wednesday 5th July:
- early-nineties crime thriller film Midnight Fear, airing as part of The Cellar Club (preceded by Caroline Munro's introduction) at 2.35 am - 4.20 am
- an episode of western drama series Stagecoach West ("High Lonesome"), airing at 4.25 am - 5.25 am
- late-fifties crime drama film The Crooked Sky, airing at 8.30 am - 10 am
- early-sixties drama film The Hi-jackers (the cast including Anthony Booth and Jacqueline Ellis), airing at 12.40 pm - 2 pm
- early-fifties family short film Watch Out (the cast including Peter Butterworth), airing at 5.35 pm - 6 pm
- late-fifties comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth (the cast including Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers), airing at 9.05 pm - 10.40 pm
- early-sixties crime film Experiment in Terror (the cast including Glenn Ford, Lee Remick and Stefanie Powers), airing at 10.40 pm - 1.10 am
Thursday 6th July:
- mid-eighties comedy film Restless Natives, airing at 1.10 am - 2.55 am
- early-fifties crime drama film Hammer the Toff (the cast including John Bentley and Patricia Dainton) airing at 6.30 am - 8 am
- an episode (from the second and final season) of western drama series Black Saddle ("Apache Trail"), airing at 9 am - 9.30 am
- late-fifties crime drama film The Scamp (the cast including Sir Richard Attenborough, Dorothy Alison and Colin Petersen), airing at 9.30 am - 11.15 am
- early-fifties crime drama film The Broken Horseshoe, airing at 12.55 pm - 2.30 pm
- early-sixties crime drama film Murder on Campus, airing at 3 pm - 4.15 pm
- mid-forties drama film Pink String and Sealing Wax, airing at 4.25 pm - 6.10 pm
- late-forties crime film Brighton Rock (the cast including Sir Richard Attenborough and Hermione Baddeley), airing at 6.10 pm - 8 pm
- early-sixties horror film Hands of the Ripper, airing at 10.05 pm - 11.45 pm.
Source of the above TV listings information: the TV Schedule section on Talking Pictures TV's website, Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 1st to Friday 7th July, 2023).
The Footage Detectives (the last edition of the third series)
This past Sunday afternoon's new edition of The Footage Detectives (the last in the current, third series) had to me a strange feel to it, knowing that it would be the last new edition until (based on what was said just before the end of the edition) sometime in September (Mike, Noel and co having a summer holiday (although the next TPTV Festival takes place this month). The best part for me (the insight into Fireball XL5 (the interview with Gerry Anderson's son Jamie) aside) was the viewer's letter about the back projection and it still running, followed by one of the actors saying to get out of the car (it had me in stitches).
I keep up to speed with what is being shown on TPTV and anything being released by Renown Pictures (the weekly TPTV Sunday email newsletter, the weekly TV listings magazine, TPTV's website (especially the TV Schedule section), and Renown Pictures's occasional newsletter and it's website). It wasn't until recently where I found out for sure that The Footage Detectives was going on a break for at least the next few weeks. Whoever is in charge of TPTV's Facebook page can be a bit sharp in their replies, sometimes stating what I/we already know and follow (the aforementioned newsletters and TV schedule information for example) when they reply to a query (in this case, whether this past Sunday's new edition was the last in the current, third series). I and at least one other person asked about this (I subsequently deleted my question and TPTV's reply). A small complaint as I'm still an avid viewer and follower of TPTV and Renown Pictures.
Last edited by OceanBlue; 07-04-2023 at 10:48 PM.
Reason: Corrected typo in post.
This past Sunday afternoon's new edition of The Footage Detectives (the last in the current, third series) had to me a strange feel to it, knowing that it would be the last new edition until (based on what was said just before the end of the edition) sometime in September (Mike, Noel and co having a summer holiday (although the next TPTV Festival takes place this month). The best part for me (the insight into Fireball XL5 (the interview with Gerry Anderson's son Jamie) aside) was the viewer's letter about the back projection and it still running, followed by one of the actors saying to get out of the car (it had me in stitches).
I keep up to speed with what is being shown on TPTV and anything being released by Renown Pictures (the weekly TPTV Sunday email newsletter, the weekly TV listings magazine, TPTV's website (especially the TV Schedule section), and Renown Pictures's occasional newsletter and it's website). It wasn't until recently where I found out for sure that The Footage Detectives was going on a break for at least the next few weeks. Whoever is in charge of TPTV's Facebook page can be a bit sharp in their replies, sometimes stating what I/we already know and follow (the aforementioned newsletters and TV schedule information for example) when they reply to a query (in this case, whether this past Sunday's new edition was the last in the current, third series). I and at least one other person asked about this (I subsequently deleted my question and TPTV's reply). A small complaint as I'm still an avid viewer and follower of TPTV and Renown Pictures.
The person in question on TPTV Facebook should be ashamed as there is no excuse for being disrespectful and caustic.
I enjoyed the interview with Jamie Anderson on this weeks Footage Detectives, I never knew that about the voice of Robert the robot in Fireball XL5.
I will miss Neil and Mike until September but I think I heard them mention about a ‘best of’ show until they return.
I liked the joke about a ‘prize’ of a weeks holiday in a holiday camp chalet with Jess Conrad!
Some of the films and TV programmes airing on Talking Pictures TV in the next few days (TV listings/schedule subject to change):
Friday 7th July:
- mid-sixties drama film One Way Pendulum, airing at 3 am - 4.40 am
- an episode of early-sixties TV series Ensign O'Toole ("Operation: Hypnosis"), airing at 6 am - 6.30 am
- an episode (from the first season) of The Dick Powell Show ("The Boston Terrier"), airing at 8.20 am - 9.20 am
- late-forties mystery thriller film Moss Rose, airing at 11 am - 12.40 pm
- late-forties crime drama film Noose, airing at 12.40 pm - 2.30 pm
- mid-fifties crime film The Flaw, airing at 4.50 pm - 6 pm
- late-seventies crime thriller Sewers of Gold, airing at 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm
Friday 7th into Saturday 8th July:
The Cellar Club (each programme preceded by Caroline Munro's introduction):
- early-seventies comedy horror film Theatre of Blood, airing at 9.05 pm - 11.10 pm
- early-seventies horror film Scream and Scream Again, airing at 11.15 pm - 1.10 am
- early-seventies horror film The Dunwich Horror, airing at 1.15 am - 3 am
Saturday 8th July:
- mid-sixties drama film The Velvet Trap, airing at 3.05 am - 4.45 am
- late-forties crime drama film Shoot to Kill, airing at 6 am - 7.15 am
- late-seventies sci-fi film Crater Lake Monster, airing at 7.15 am - 9 am
- an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood ("Isabella"), airing at 9 am - 9.30 am
- an episode of The Buccaneers ("The Ladies"), airing at 11.05 am - 11.35 am
- an episode of Fireball XL5 ("The Sun Temple"), airing at 2.20 pm - 2.55 pm
- an episode of The Four Just Men ("The Man in the Royal Suite"), airing at 9 pm - 9.30 pm
- late-eighties crime film The Bedroom Window, airing at 9.30 pm - 11.45 pm
Saturday 8th into Sunday 9th July:
- mid-sixties crime drama film The Third Secret, airing at 11.45 pm - 1.40 am.
Source of the above TV listings information: the TV Schedule section on Talking Pictures TV's website, Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 1st to Friday 7th July, 2023 and Saturday 8th to Friday 14th July, 2023).
Some of the films and TV programmes airing on Talking Pictures TV in the next few days (TV listings/schedule subject to change):
Sunday 9th July:
- mid-fifties romantic comedy film Bus Stop, airing at 10.55 am - 12.45 pm
- an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood ("The Imposters"), airing at 2 pm - 2.30 pm
- an episode of The Larkins ("Come Cleaner"), airing at 2.30 pm - 3 pm
- a repeat of The Footage Detectives, airing at 5 pm - 6 pm
- an episode (from the fourth series) of The Saint ("The Saint Bids Diamonds"), airing at 6 pm - 7 pm
- mid-fifties comedy film Mr. Hulot's Holiday, airing at 7 pm - 8.55 pm
- short instructional film Automatic Fare Collection and You in 1969, airing at 8.55 pm - 9 pm
- an episode (from the third series) of the original Van der Valk TV series ("The Runt"), airing at 9 pm - 10 pm
- late-forties drama film The Long Night, airing at 11.45 pm - 1.50 am
Monday 10th July:
- an edition of The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read, airing at 3.50 am - 4.55 am
- late-fifties drama film Fighting Mad, airing at 4.55 am - 6 am
- early-forties crime drama film Bullet Scars, premiering at 1.15 pm - 2.30 pm
- late-forties drama film Train of Events, airing at 3 pm - 4.45 pm
- early-sixties drama film The Big Day, airing at 4.45 pm - 6 pm.
Source of the above TV listings information: the TV Schedule section on Talking Pictures TV's website, Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 8th to Friday 14th July, 2023).
Last edited by OceanBlue; 07-11-2023 at 08:48 PM.
Reason: Corrected error in post.
Time to Remember - new (to TPTV) editions resuming soon
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Is documentary series Time to Remember taking a break on TPTV, or is it moving to a different day? In it's place next Wednesday evening/night is a mid-thirties documentary about the R.A.F. (in a near-fifty minute timeslot).
This evening's/tonight's edition was narrated by actor John Ireland, and having checked the IMDb section for the series, it was definitely not the last edition.
At the beginning of yesterday's (Sunday) weekly TPTV email newsletter, it mentioned that new (to the channel) editions of Time to Remember will resume on the channel a week on Friday (21st July).
I thought I'd read on TPTV's Facebook page a few months ago (a TPTV reply to a question asked by a Facebook member) that the channel had shown all the editions which exist (suggesting the remaining editions in the documentary series are lost). Well, this shows that that's not the case. Although it could be that TPTV had acquired a certain amount of editions, and (like with other acquired TV series they show/have shown) they wanted to see how the show was received by viewers before deciding whether or not to acquire further editions.
The series resumes a week on Friday 21st July at 6 pm - 6.30 pm with the edition "Came the Dawn" (narrated by Basil Rathbone). The next edition ("The Short Sharp Shower", narrated by Stanley Holloway) will be shown a week later (Friday 28th July) in the same timeslot.
This edition ("A Trip to Europe") is being repeated on TPTV this coming Friday evening (14th July) at 6 pm - 6.30 pm.
Source: Sky TV listings, the TV Schedule section on TPTV's website and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 8th to Friday 14th July, 2023).
In Suspicious Circumstances - new (to TPTV) editions resuming soon
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Only going by the case/story titles listed in the IMDb section for In Suspicious Circumstances which haven't been on any edition shown in TPTV's repeat run of the anthology series, is it likely that there are further editions to come, or are there some editions not available to be repeated by the channel?
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Apologies for using the exclamation mark in the post title. A good reason for it (like with Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 6 starting properly on Sky Arts soon). TPTV from tomorrow evening/night (Saturday 3rd June) will be starting a repeat run of In Suspicious Circumstances. Someone asked on the channel's FB page earlier today about whether they will be showing just the same episodes as on the first run on TPTV. The channel has responded by saying there will be new (to the channel) episodes. Great stuff.
A very welcome update. At the beginning of this past Sunday's weekly TPTV email newsletter was news that new (to TPTV) editions of In Suspicious Circumstances will start on the channel from Saturday 19th August. There was something posted by TPTV on their Facebook page a few weeks ago (in response to a viewer's question), that said some episodes of the show are (apparently) lost. Am assuming that TPTV will be showing the remaining, surviving episodes in this second batch of episodes.
Shall be a few weeks before the new (to TPTV) episodes appear in the TV Schedule section on TPTV's website.
Would love if Renown Pictures could do a DVD boxset of the surviving episodes of In Suspicious Circumstances.
Last edited by OceanBlue; 07-11-2023 at 01:26 AM.
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The Best of the Footage Detectives: Volume 2 (DVD set release)
A new Renown Pictures newsletter is up on their website (the email version should follow soon), which includes a preview of films coming up soon on TPTV. Found out from it also, that a second DVD volume of The Best of the Footage Detectives is available now, containing fourteen selected editions. I'll eventually get round to posting about it in the Renown thread in DVD Movies, but as this thread is where The Footage Detectives is discussed, it was worth also posting about it in here.
I've got two recommendations for films if anyone’s interested..
First off is a 1948 film called Noose - about black market racketeers and a female reporter who is determined to bring them to justice after a women is murdered. Carole Landis in possibly her last film before commiting suicide at the age of 29. You think Walker from Dad's Army played the ultimate spiv, wait until you see Nigel Patrick as Bar Gorman.
Second is the 1953 film Recoil which is about a jewellers daughter who wants revenge on the gang that killed her father in a robbery.
The person in question on TPTV Facebook should be ashamed as there is no excuse for being disrespectful and caustic.
I enjoyed the interview with Jamie Anderson on this weeks Footage Detectives, I never knew that about the voice of Robert the robot in Fireball XL5.
I will miss Neil and Mike until September but I think I heard them mention about a ‘best of’ show until they return.
I liked the joke about a ‘prize’ of a weeks holiday in a holiday camp chalet with Jess Conrad!
Loved those ‘biscuits’ too.
Yes, starting last Sunday afternoon, are a series of selected editions of The Footage Detectives being repeated on the channel. I checked the TV Schedule section on TPTV's website yesterday (later in the week is when a new week is/new weeks are added), and a new week has been put up (ending on Sunday 6th August). The Series 3 finale (where Jamie Anderson was interviewed) will be shown again in the week in late July/early August.
Those are some of the other very funny, recurring jokes among the regular banter between Mike and Noel (the Jess Conrad jokes and the biscuits etc.). I have forgot to look out for on The Saint the travelling, potted plant the last couple of months. Instead, when watching the last few editions of The Footage Detectives: Series 3 my eyes have been fixated on the biscuits on the table in front of them. I did find it amusing with that plate of biscuits on the last edition (or the penultimate edition), as I fell for it, thinking they were real biscuits (they were wooden biscuits).
On a side note, it's either the weekend after next or the last weekend in July, but the next TPTV Festival is coming up soon. I read in I think the latest Renown newsletter that actress Susan George is one of the guests appearing at the TPTV Festival in the autumn (actor William Gaunt is either at the next one, or the one in the autumn).
I've got two recommendations for films if anyone’s interested..
First off is a 1948 film called Noose - about black market racketeers and a female reporter who is determined to bring them to justice after a women is murdered. Carole Landis in possibly her last film before commiting suicide at the age of 29. You think Walker from Dad's Army played the ultimate spiv, wait until you see Nigel Patrick as Bar Gorman.
Second is the 1953 film Recoil which is about a jewellers daughter who wants revenge on the gang that killed her father in a robbery.
Both are pretty good.
I spotted both of those films (Noose and Recoil) in the TPTV listings this past week (thanks for bringing them up). I had been keeping this thread updated with a selection of some of the films and programmes being shown on the channel, but I don't think there is much point as people who check this thread (including the regulars) can find the TPTV listings on the TPTV website as well as in listings magazines etc.
In the next week on the channel they're showing a film called Serena (which I have seen and recommend (it was indirectly recommended on TPTV's Facebook page, one of the reasons being the film was full of details in the plot, so I thought I'd got to see the film myself), whose cast includes Honor Blackman. Out of the Fog (an alternative title of this 1962 film is Fog for a Killer) I also recommend.
Along with Noose and Recoil, another film I've been meaning to watch is Police Dog.
Yes M'Lady, its true! Some news that is just plain err F...A...B...
This might be one of the biggest scoops for the channel yet?
Promo added on their YouTube channel yesterday advertising that Thunderbirds (the original) starts in September "exclusively on TPTV" (so no concurrent runs on ITV3 like happened with The Champions ?)
First thing that struck me was the comparison between their other YouTube trailers which seem to get maybe 150 views in 2/3 days and the odd comment. And for this brief promo...
950 views in 12 hours, and 9 comments!
With the 4 week schedule uploads on the website, we should get an idea of the date for the first episode sometime in early August.
And now the most important question. Which vehicle was your favourite? Thunderbird 2 for me (something to do with the way the cargo bay opened - don't ask me why!)
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