Retro TV

[felneymike]

Speaking of obvious stuntmen, there was a parody film I videoed half of years ago, called "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka". In one scene, some robbers get into a fight with an granny, during the fight you can clearly see the "granny" is a stuntman, complete with a beard!

I ought to track that film down on DVD, it was hilarious!

[stevezodiac]

Benny Hill did something similar - showing a dolly bird being thrown over a couch (or something like that) only to cut to a beefy bloke in a dress rolling across the couch then another obvious edit back to the girl. He also did a very good sketch on the pitfalls of pan and scan with old style tvs showing widescreen films. The pan always missed the person talking.

[Lew Stringer]

Been enjoying with Carol my wife the Saint black and white...had to buy it twice due to season 1 and 2 box set and no season 3 or 4 But buying it all..I have to turn the sound up really high on some of the episodes...been really enjoying it..

My dad's cousin, Peter Elliott, was a bit part actor in those days. He was in The Saint episode 'The Man Who Liked Lions'.

[Raven]

The fondly remembered The Kids From 47a is out from Network soon:

http://networkonair.com/shop/1791-kids- ... ies-1.html


Should be quite a few UK comics on view in it, too; look at that top photo!

[stevezodiac]

I remember the title but don't think I ever watched it. Afraid I preferred Lost In Space, Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants to the home grown fare. Plus re-runs of the Range Rider.

[NP]

I had a very soft spot for Wagon Train. Even had the annual in 1965. Never see much in the way of westerns nowadays do you?

[philcom55]

One of my earliest memories from the late 1950s is of watching Wagon Train on next door's TV after my family returned from a day out at Alton Towers to find our house had been burgled.

Interestingly, Wagon Train was one of the few strips that survived TV Fun's conversion to a girls' comic in 1959.

- Phil R.

[Raven]

The Kids From 47A had its own thrilling weekly serial strip in Look-In. That's how good it was!

[DavidKW]

Will be looking out for that 47A DVD.

One of my first memories of TV - which I think an DVD of the surviving episodes is well overdue - is a show called "Witches Brew" made by Yorkshire TV (ran for 3 series, then succeeded by "The Laughing Policeman" an episode on Vol1 of "Look Back").

I remember the 1st series hd Adrey Jeans in the role and the opening titles had a group of mice/rats holding hands bobbing up and down singing a song, on the windowsill of the witches shop window. No idea what song was, but it must've been a very old song as my mother knew of it (and she was the same age of all my classmates' grandparents).

[DavidKW]

Was just thinking - did anyone see the "Goodbye Granadaland" on ITV a few weeks ago. What a disappointment it was!

No clips or mentions of 2 of Granada's biggest sitcom hits - Nearest & Dearest & The Cuckoo Waltz.

And only a 1 second clip of Picture Box, one of its big school prog hits (deserves a Best Of DVD release) and took an ignorant view of its many schools output.

Were not enough memory contributions from the likes of Gordon Burns & Ayshea Brough and too much of and clips featuring Peter Kay's mates Paddy "I'm not funny but get work as Kay's my mate" McGuinness and Sally "I can't act and have nothing useful to say" Lindsay.

And too much of Peter Kay in it - who is hated in his native Bolton for being ignorant & having a "do you know who I am" ego.

[stevezodiac]

Does anyone remember SPLINK? An early 70s road safety film featuring - I think - Jon Pertwee. It was probably the most ridiculous acronym of all time. I have no idea what it stood for (haven't googled it). Lets try to guess:

S - must mean STOP.
P - PEER down the street to make sure no cars are coming?
L - er we'll get back to you on this one folks
I - I have no idea what the next letter stands for
N - NEITHER do I
K - KEEP on the pavement and you can't go wrong.

I remember watching the ads but the meaning of the letters went out of my head within minutes.

[stevezodiac]

Well I couldn't resist and went onto youtube - and it is worse than I remember.

[AndyB]

Stop on the pavement by the kerb.
Look and listen both ways before you start to cross.
If there is traffic coming, let it pass.
When there is no traffic coming, you may cross
Keep looking and listening until you reach the other side.

(Yes, I was in the Tufty club 30-odd years ago...)

[stevezodiac]

I thought maybe K stood for "Whatever you do try not to get yourself KILLED"

[DavidKW]

I took a look at my "Charley Says" DVD collection of info films & watched the two Splinks - one with Jon Pertwee & another animated one with Derek Griffiths.

Pertwee later said the Splink thing never caught on as it was too complex for kids to understand. I think they replaced it with the "BE Smart Be Safe" ads with varoius celebs then by the Green Cross Man.

I was wondering if anyone remembers the Road Safety ads, I think just before Splink - it featured scenes where the fronts of cars turned into angry sharp toothed monsters when kids did stuff wrong.

I've not seen any examples of these ones on both DVD or You Tube. They must've scared kids though.