Watched last night

[Mr Sloane]

Dr Who - Genesis of the Daleks - - One of my favourite stories which has stood the test of time( no pun intended). Tom Baker is my favourite Doctor and Sarah Jane And Harry two of the best companions. To say there are 6 episodes it zings along. There are lots of allusions to the Nazis :black uniforms.salutes,master race ,the bunker amongst them.
The only thing was I could hear traces of Zippy in the voice of the lead Dalek (Roy Skelton voiced both) !
Recommended

Next The Chase and The Space Museum( which I don't remember very well)l so they should keep me quiet this week.

[CaptainWaggett]

Dr Who - Genesis of the Daleks - - One of my favourite stories which has stood the test of time( no pun intended). Tom Baker is my favourite Doctor and Sarah Jane And Harry two of the best companions. To say there are 6 episodes it zings along. There are lots of allusions to the Nazis :black uniforms.salutes,master race ,the bunker amongst them.
The only thing was I could hear traces of Zippy in the voice of the lead Dalek (Roy Skelton voiced both) !
Recommended

Next The Chase and The Space Museum( which I don't remember very well)l so they should keep me quiet this week.

With the Space Museum it's worth first watching Rob Shearman's documentary about why it's fab though some people remain unconvinced

The Chase is simply the best old Who story every - bonkers brilliance shines out of every episode . Hywel Bennet with a rubber glove on his head, Peter Purves in two different roles, Ian Chesterton jiving, daleks in Manhattan, cinders in Spain. Only a fool doesn't love it

[Mr Leadbetter]

Never Let Me Go - Emotional, thought-provoking and understated. I'm definitely going to have to buy the book.
Boy A - An amazing performance from Andrew Garfield.

[Freddy]

Orchestra Seats a pleasant little French film on BBCi player at the moment.

Lighthearted French drama in which a woman, Jessica, arrives in Paris from a small town and gets a job as a waitress on Avenue de Montaigne, the artistic, musical and theatrical centre of the city.

She meets an array of fascinating customers, including a popular actress, a Hollywood director, an art collector and a celebrated pianist. As we learn more about their personal problems and situations, we see how Jessica's charming, genuine and naïve personality has a transforming effect on them.

[Amethyst_Isle]

Saw.

Very good Horror/ Psychology film,my only downside was the 'leg' sawing scene which made me winced but still recommended if you look away when that bit happens in the film.

[dpgmel]

Saw.

Very good Horror/ Psychology film,my only downside was the 'leg' sawing scene which made me winced but still recommended if you look away when that bit happens in the film.

Couldn't agree more with your comments the first film in the series is very original sadly the rest od the " Saw " films are not a patch on the first

[Amethyst_Isle]

Couldn't agree more with your comments the first film in the series is very original sadly the rest od the " Saw " films are not a patch on the first

It reminded me of a 90min version of Tales of the Unexpected and the like,not seen any of the other sequels yet although I do have them here.

[batman]

Goliath and the Dragon - Mark Forest and Broderick Crawford star in this below average peplum. The sequences with the dragon are OK but the rest is pretty ropey. Disappointing.

[Gerald Lovell]

"Saboteur" 1942 starring Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane & Otto Kruger. Hitchcock is such a master and this pic has all the ingredients that one needs....
If Hitch himself was in this film....I didn't spot him, but maybe he looked a bit different in '42 to how he appeared later in the 50's/60's...
Sgt S

He is! And here he is (wearing a hat):

[Sgt Sunshine]

Thanks Gerald.....I'd never have recognised him from that angle.....
Great end to that film which takes place atop the Statue of Liberty....
Cheers
Sgt S

[Gerald Lovell]

Well, over the past few months, watched and listened to every episode of DOCTOR WHO with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. In many ways, his is the most important era of the programme as it demonstrated that the leading actor could change appearance and personality ("renewal" as it was termed then) and still continue. Although it's strange at first to see someone else at the controls of the TARDIS, Troughton soon dilutes his clownish initial portrayal and settles into a template for future Doctors using (pseudo) science as opposed to the mumbled cod magic employed by William Hartnell, although that was probably due to Hartnell's difficulty with lines.

Rapidly, the series becomes much faster paced with historical stories out and more monsters in: the Daleks, Yeti and Ice Warriors twice, the Cybermen no less than four times and there's lots and lots and lots of foam. Significant developments for the series are introduced with the first appearance of UNIT and Lethbridge-Stewart and the Time Lords.

Troughton is well supported by superb fellow character actors including Marius Goring, Peter Barkworth, Jack Watling, Emrys Jones, Walter Fitzgerald, Esmond Knight and Philip Madoc and by his companions Anneke Wills, Michael Craze, Deborah Watling, Wendy Padbury and most memorably, Frazer Hines as Jamie.

Although the era runs out of steam and monsters in its last series, there's still much to enjoy from the performances, such as my favourite comic moment when the Doctor hassles Zoe and bungles his attempts to operating a Kroton learning machine.

Troughton is certainly one of the best Doctors and, to coin a phrase, "oh my giddy aunt", no, he's "my Doctor".
Next Episode: "Spearhead from Space" . . . on film, and in colour!

[woody123]

Two episodes from the BBC Supernatural series,Night Of The Marionettes and Dorabella.Dorabella is by far the best episode and has elements of a classic Hammer about it.Also watched Land Of The Lost with Will Ferrell and Anna Friel based on a 60's tv show which I don't remember at all.It's a comedy sci-fi about time/dimension travel.I've got a lot of time for Ferrells clowning so I enjoyed it.

[dpgmel]

Well not surprisingly most of my TV watching recently has been taken up with the Olympic Games However I have found time to watch the first three episodes of Lady Killers, this second series concetrates on male killers of women and the highlight so far has been an unrecognisable John Fraser as Dr Crippen

As with the firat series I would thoroughlly recommend this.

[Gerald Lovell]

You're Only Young Twice! (1952), a Group 3 Production partially filmed at Glasgow University. We have some twee and very middle class, earnest students including Ronald (sic) Corbett, Roddy McMillan, Robert Urquhart and a rather irritating Charles Hawtrey up against the university establishment including Duncan Macrae, Patrick Barr and Eric (Dr. Snoddie) Woodburn. Based on a play by James Bridie, one of the scriptwriters is Reginald Beckwith who appears at the beginning of the film. Molly Weir gives voice to the character of Nelly Kelly, played in vision by Jacqueline Mackenzie. I'm afraid the unfocused script has really very few laughs and it's the incongruity of Hawtrey playing the President of the Temperance Society and Nelly remarking to him "You are in a queer way, aren't you" that brings the titters.

[Tigon Man]

The Rise and Rise Of Michael Rimmer (1970)

A wickedly funny political satire, that predicts the emerging power of the pollsters and PR men over the political oldguard of Tory toffs and homely Labour MPs twenty five years before Blair, Campbell and Cameron.
Peter Cook, never a great actor is here at his best as an efficiency expert who takes over Arthur Lowes ailing advertising agency stuffed with lightweights including John Cleese's ballroom dancing Pumer, racing obsessed Dudley Foster and shapely secretary Valerie Leon, before moving on to becoming an advisor to Ronald Frasers Conservative leader. Later he becomes an MP, Prime Minister and President! Taking time out along the way to marry the late and lovely Vanessa Howard.
There are also some neat comic terms from the likes of George A Coopers Harold Wilson style PM, Harold Pinter's smooth TV political pundit and a cameo from Ronnie Corbett as a rival pollster conned into believing that 44% of Nuneatons residents are practising Buddists..
Amongst the uncredited performers I noted John Quentin, Jeremy Child, Tim Barrett and Ishaq Bux.

[torinfan]

Yogi Bear with Boo-Boo, and Hokey Wolf with Ding-A-Ling.

[OTBHUGEFANNUMBER11]

i watched these both yesterday The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Starring Frankie Howerd, REG VARNEY, Dora Brian, George Cole and Stratford Johns.

ITV 3 6:25pm
Sky 119 - Virgin 117 - Freeview 10


And carry on camping what a classic at 20:20pm classics both where

Did anyone else watch these ?

[Tigon Man]

The Legacy (1978)

Another viewing for this Richard Marquand directed tale of home counties satanists and it doesn't really improve with age.
Katherine Ross and Sam Elliott are the charm free American couple lured from Los Angeles to the home counties on the pretext of employment, where they encounter decrepit satanist John Standing and join a list of possbile legatees to the family fortune.
There are several well staged death scenes by choking, immolation, drowning and a decent cast that includes Ian Hogg, Charles Gray, Lee Montague, Roger Daltrey and Hildegarde Neil, but it's all a bit flat.

[torinfan]

The First Men In the Moon, with Edward Judd and directed by one of my favorites (and one of Torin's friends), Nathan Juran.

It's a shame Torn wasn't available for this, doing the voice of the evil Selenites. He would have been perfect for the role.

[Gerald Lovell]

The First Men In the Moon, with Edward Judd and directed by one of my favorites (and one of Torin's friends), Nathan Juran.

It's a shame Torn wasn't available for this, doing the voice of the evil Selenites. He would have been perfect for the role.

I always think those voices sound like Daleks.