Marky B

I agree with all of them.except The Bill - it's got rid of its soap suds and is now back with good police drama.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Greyandwhite

I think that's a good idea Hankoler (even if I live in Aussie and wouldn't actually see it!) and just about every one on this site would think it's a good idea. The trouble is that if it was done there would be an outcry of "More repeats".

I reckon that most viewers don't realise what a money saver Big Bro etc is. No stars, remote cameras, one house to adapt and some advertising. Here, we get the actual BB, a late night version of BB (not sure if this is still going as it got slated ) and a Friday game show based on it. Total cost= $27.85. I've never watched an episode right through but have seen enough on pub TV's to know it's pap.

Someone on this site must know what the comparable costs to a TV channel would be between showing an old film or an episode of BB. Any ideas?

Yeah, that's me. Billy Balthorpe, the man with no name.

bhowells

She used to grate on me when I was a kid. In those days she was married to the singer Ronnie Carroll.

She has lived and worked in the states for many years now and can be seen in latter day episodes of Frasier playing Daphne's Mum.

One of the last things I remember her doing over here was the Musical "Side By Side By Sondheim along with Julia Mcenzie and David Kernan." that was about 1976.

bhowells

The Billy Cotton Band tv show must have looked a little quaint towards the end of its run, it was amazing to think that Scott Walker sang the maudlin Jaques Brel song" on an edition in the late sixties, what did Billy think of this I wonder.

When I was a kid Billy and his radio and tv shows seemed corny and he must have been an easy target for the rock and roll generation to make fun of him. But as I got older and became interstted in dance band and big band music, I have renewed respect for the man.

I have a recording of Billy singing a song from Anthony Newley's "Stot the World I want to get off." on a John Barry compilation and it has become required listgening in my household.

bhowells

My apologies, the Jacques Brel song in question was called "My Death." one of the most depressing songs in the great man's canon.

Harbottle

How much longer can they keep Waking the Dead limping along I wonder, the current run that just finished had a hilarious two parter where those chaps go bonkers in the woods following Red Indian (or should that be native American) rituals. You had to admire the cast managing to keep straight faces though.

Lord Lucan

Agreed, both garbage.

Lord Lucan

Anything that involves so called "Celebrities"

I think the bar has been lowered so much these days that the constant stream of brain numbing fodder on the box is actually seen by some as quality TV. UK TV today is as bad as US TV was in the 1980's It's all soap and celebrity driven garbage, these days British TV is the visual equivalent of the Daily Star.

intervision

The original DOCTOR WHO TV Series (between 'Kinda' 1982 - 'Survival' 1989)

Sorry 'Who' fans...

Derren

Coronation Street perhaps? What is most amazing though is that they have kept the original Eric Spear theme music from 1960, a treasure in itself, can anyone think of anything else that still has the same theme music almost 50 years on? (Sorry guess that means another thread, Sky At Night perhaps :))

bhowells

Yes the Eric Spear Corrie theme is wonderfully plainitive, its funny how it doesnt sound out of place forty eight years down the line. Spear theme was very much in keeping with instrumental music at the time, Acker Bilks ,"Stranger on the shore." was more or less in simaler vein and that was of course used as a telly theme.

The first couple of bars of the Coronation Street theme sound as if they were inspired by the negro spiritual,"Deep River."

I remember seeing Bruce Forsyth playing the theme on the piano in a variety special he did when I was about seven forty one years ago and his arrangement was pretty good.

Wouldnt it be awful if they updated the theme, Corrie fans would be up in arms. Just as well they havent those awful modern credits that trail the next programme are a right royal pain in the a****** an updated version of the theme would just be adding insult to injury.

I seem to recall that the Dixon of Dock Green theme was modernised in its later years.

Love to hear more of Eric Spears work.

winsfordtown

Heartbeat. It's like the sixties never ended

batman

Dr Who .... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Don't miss out on a chance to win a rare film in Bat-Quiz 13 closing date - 31/8/8.

Third Man

without a doubt Eastenders.

Simon

Cuffy

Now that's a name I've not heard of in long time, although most of her popular work was before my time. Did remind me of the short-lived Moon and Son from the early 90's in which she had the lead role.

I was somewhat horrified to see that Last of The Summer Wine is still going strong. And it regularly features on BBC HD too.