Vintage Radios on Screen (continued)

[Gerald Lovell]

Hilda Fenemore's set in a set from The Young and the Guilty (1957):

[Gerald Lovell]

A Sunday afternoon visit to Chief Inspector Japp's residence by AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT finds an interesting set on the sideboard:



From "One, Two Buckle My Shoe".

[Andy2]

Here's a neat transistor radio in the Avengers episode 'Never, never say Die'. It's clearly a '3 band seven transistor', but the badge on the front is not clear. At the bottom it says '3 band', but above that it says something like 'Matsir', but no amount of sharpening will bring it out - anyone with a Blu-ray version out there? There's a tiny Standard Micronic Ruby in the same ep.

[wadsy]

Here's a neat transistor radio in the Avengers episode 'Never, never say Die'. It's clearly a '3 band seven transistor', but the badge on the front is not clear. At the bottom it says '3 band', but above that it says something like 'Matsir', but no amount of sharpening will bring it out - anyone with a Blu-ray version out there? There's a tiny Standard Micronic Ruby in the same ep.

I got my magnifying glass out & I reckon the brand is "Belair"! The one below has a similar logo.

[Andy2]

I got my magnifying glass out & I reckon the brand is "Belair"! The one below has a similar logo.

Oh well done, Wadsy! No matter how I blew the image up or sharpened it I couldn't get it. Now I can look it up ont' t'internet....

[Andy2]

Stuck on The Avengers at the moment, sorry. Here's the latest in miniature answering machines from the episode 'You have just been Murdered'.

[ps68060]

We used to have a large radiogram, one of those free-standing bits of furniture with a radio and a record player in it.

They appear in a few films.

[Gerald Lovell]

With apologies to cornershop, this one needed to be added as it's quite unusual:



A wireless set in the fireplace when Old Mother Riley Joins Up in 1939.

[cornershop15]

No need to apologise, Gerald! Please continue posting any vintage radios you spot. I remain optimistic they will be identified eventually but am astounded at how elusive most of them are, despite my awareness of specialist sites like The Radio Attic (hundreds there) and trying various searches by brand name.

I can't imagine finding that one either. It looks more like a Surrealist painting than a fireplace.

[Gerald Lovell]

The radio that infuriates adrift Windbag the Sailor in 1936, but ultimately saves the lives of Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt when they later encounter cannibals:

[Gerald Lovell]

This one is used as a safe by Michael Crawford and his gang in Soapbox Derby (1957):

[Gerald Lovell]

John Allison seems to be startled by the news or "THE ARCHERS" on his radio in Eyewitness (1970):

[Gerald Lovell]

Joan Sims in her dotty maid phase gets the chills listening to this wireless in Will Any Gentleman . . . ? (1953):

[Gerald Lovell]

Looks like a decrepit model on the shelf behind fairly decrepit John Moore in his very decrepit café for druggies in SOFTLY SOFTLY TASK FORCE "Moving On":



P.C. Snow interrogates the tragic Marion Greenwold (Shelley Harris).

[Gerald Lovell]

Frankie Howerd goes to switch off Malcolm Arnold's pop version of his main title music for The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) as he arrives to find Jeremy Clyde and his daughter Maureen Crombie having a bit of fun:



One of my favourite lines from the film soon follows:

Jeremy: Just because I'm a trend setter!
Frankie: You look more like a bleedin' irish setter to me.