Yesterday’s Word Count = 823
ROCK FOLLIES (1976)
Oooooh Rula Lenska, be still my twelve year old heart.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 823
ROCK FOLLIES (1976)
Oooooh Rula Lenska, be still my twelve year old heart.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 529
I CLAUDIUS (1976)
This was a mantlepiece. Also Patrick Stewart is in it – was he in everything made in the 1970s and 80s? I couldn’t find the titles so here is the theme tune.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 832
THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD (1975)
I had completely forgotten that Paul Darrow played the sheriff…
And Ford Prefect is Prince John!
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Ordinary people doing ordinary pandemic things :)
Research question. March 2020. What video filters were available on Zoom?
Yesterday’s Word Count = 668
MOONBASE 3 (1973)
Oh god, this is a nostalgia rabbit hole. I just remember bits of this mixed in my mind with episodes of Doctor Who. Fear not Star Cops will be along soon enough.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 672
ARTHUR OF THE BRITONS (1972)
I love the dark ages when men were men and extras were expensive.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 814
DOOMWATCH (1970)
We’re all doooomed I tell you, doomed! Ah the 1970s – apocalypses and dystopias were so much better back then.
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This is brilliant - the avatars of him and his first GF turn up in the scene and he just tells his younger self to go away.
I'm practising my German by watching Kacken an der Havel without the English Subtitles....
Occasionally I go back a bit and turn the subtitles on.
Definitely think Tobi and Vanni should visit the town at some point.
PS. it's on NETFLIX in the UK.
Duplicate for some reason.
Yesterday’s Word Count = 660
WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN (1976)
Continuing my voyage around mostly forgotten British TV series of the last century.
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They didn’t have the title sequence so here’s episode one.
Yesterday’s Word Count = 505
Barely scrapped over the Greene threshold but still...a quota is a quota :)
RANDALL AND HOPKIRK (DECEASED) (1969)
Oh listen to that classic Ted Astley title music – up there with the persuaders and Joe90.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 863
1990 (1977)
A dystopian look at the future of Britain that managed to miss every single political development of the 1980s.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 637
LOVEJOY (1986)
What Ian MacShane was doing before he started swearing all the time.
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Definitely
Yesterday’s Word Count = 672
THE FALL GUY (1982)
When me and the Evil Monster Boy went to see the recent film version he refused to believe this was a TV series until they played the theme song at the end.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 874
BERGERAC (1981)
Also from the fecund mind of Robert “sorry was that your Krynoid” Banks Stewart.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 562
SHOESTRING (1979)
Going west now with Trevor Eve. Bristol is a woefully underused location although Casualty was filmed there when I wrote for it.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 527
HAZELL (1978)
My favourite episode was HAZELL AND THE DEPTFORD VIRGIN which was basically THE MALTESE FALCON in SAAAARF LONDON.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,059
Z-CARS (1963)
Let’s hear it for series creator Troy Kennedy Martin who also wrote The Italian Job, Kelly’s Heroes, Red Heat and Edge of Darkness.
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When you watch a series like this you can totally the seams between the SF literate writers and the executives who think an idea is cool.
Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,057
ALIEN NATION (the TV series) (1989)
Before Farscape there was this theme song…
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And as an additional bonus the Morecombe and Wise parody…
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 611
STARSKY & HUTCH (1975)
This and the Streets of San Fransisco.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 602
THE ROCKFORD FILES (1974)
I’d never heard of an answer phone before this.
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Yesterday's Word Count = 663
HAWAII FIVE OH (1968)
OK Let’s talk about the Americans…
Starting with this…after me…Dum de dum dum DUM DUM…
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Yesterday's Word Count = 984
Oh bugger I've run out of nostalgia - hmnnn. I must delve deeper and more greedily....
Yesterday's Word Count = 1.077
THE OWL SERVICE (1969)
Buy a cottage in Wales and come home to an involuntary role in a retelling of the Mabinogion.
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Come to think of it I wonder why nobody did an adaptation of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the Moon of Gomrath.
Yesterday's Word Count = 1,049
EDGE OF DARKNESS (1985)
"That's the problem with plutonium, Craven; it's limited in its application. It's not user-friendly. But as a vehicle for regaining one's self-respect, oh, it's got a lot going for it!"
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