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A black pen (in a crosshatch technique) and black printing ink (applied with a roller) illustration on off white paper of a Signalman and his box. The man stands at the foot of the stairs to his signalbox which is situated at the bottom of a rocky and wooded ravine. The box is illuminated from within, its light casts shadows of the man onto a railway track, the track runs into a dark and damp tunnel. Outside of the mouth of the tunnel stands a ghostly figure waving its arms, one across its face the other in the air. A gloomy and atmospheric scene.

I’m going to make prints of this one soon.

The Signalman.

A thread that's well worth reading...

That's really good but also hilariously incongruous. Just brilliant.

Alfie is so good in this, isn't he? When I first saw this episode, in 1982, I hadn't realised that was his only appearance in the series. I suppose I'd assumed that all the actors playing policemen were at least semi-regulars.

Do we know if these are an improvement (better quality, more complete etc) compared to the BBC's copies of the serial?

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I'm so sorry, Moose.

I don't think I've tried the chocolate / cocoa one but I've had a couple of boxes of the cinnamon-flavoured one and quite liked it.

I wonder which aspect resulted in the caution. Would it have been OK if it have been a lorry or a car? Or if the van was only half-full? Or if they were instead herons or pelicans? Or would it have been alright if he hadn't been local?

I'm really enjoying it. It's making me laugh too.

My god, I hadn't spotted it either. That's really lovely.

Reg Varney?

It's to stop you messing about.

Hi Richard, here's my #5debutalbums9094

1. The KLF - Chill Out (5pts)
2. Keziah Jones - Blufunk is a Fact
3. Bjork - Debut
4. Portishead - Dummy
5. The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

Cheers!

How dreadful. I'm so sorry.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan from the 'Saturday Live' opening titles.

Ronald Reagan from the 'Saturday Live' opening titles.

As featured in the 'Saturday Live' opening titles.

Even if it worked, what would stop Trump from going back to his current position once the World Cup had concluded.

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And it's bloody Watney's. I mean, why would anyone...

Thank you. At least I think I'm thanking you. I haven't worked out who might get kicked off my Top 5.

Personnel aside, the JAMs were quite a different proposition to The KLF, all the tracks with Bill on vocals gives them a very different vibe. But I don't know where you draw these kind of lines. I mean, is Rain Tree Crow a different band to Japan?

Hi Rich, can you help me out? What, for the purposes of the various debut albums votes, is the situation with the KLF? Is 1989's 'The What Time is Love Story?' their debut album, even though they only provide two tracks on it, or is it 1990's 'Chill Out'? Or...? Cheers. #5DebutAlbums9094

In that particular context, I'd say mistaking Terence Brady for Donal Donnelly is probably the winner.

I think you're right that that was the norm but I've just come across this in the Manchester Evening News (24/10/1956) which suggests that most Christmas Day programming will be tele-recorded.

I think a lot of the misinformation is down, unwittingly, to TV Times which listed Our Dora for four weeks - presumably just the result of the lead-time required for its production.

Yes, Rediffusion brought Fan Fever forward by half-an-hour which allowed ATV and Granada to show it too - originally it wasn't in their schedules. A-R filled the new gap in their evening by showing a play from the Celebrity Theatre series (aka Celebrity Playhouse, a U.S. series of half-hour dramas).

Well yes, I guess my reply really was to Eddie, but I didn't want to cut off part of the thread.

Ah but I'd argue that that originated on film as it was made by High Definition Films at Highbury, it wasn't a standard ATV studio production telerecorded in the more conventional way.

Around this time, I'm not sure how much time-shifting there was between the regions (only three of them at this point, don't forget).

That would be quite an interesting thing to research: excluding series originated on film, what were the first programmes to be split-networked by the ITV companies?

If it was, it's too early for VT so I wonder whether it was telerecorded in advance or performed live on the day.