Vintage Radios on Screen (continued)

[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'.

[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....

[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]

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.

[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".

[Gerald Lovell]

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

[Gerald Lovell]

Alfie Bass can easily put on the radio news if he won't believe what's in the papers when he goes to Read All About It in 1945:

[Gerald Lovell]

The general doesn't want any more lockdown news and directs his set to be unplugged in Medal for the General (1944):

[Gerald Lovell]

Two interesting ones found when examining Your Witness in 1949:

[Gerald Lovell]

Bathtime entertainment for Julie Walters before offering Personal Services in 1986:

[Gerald Lovell]

Hermione Baddeley finds room to snaffle a breakfast when Freda Jackson's not around while listening to the radio:



From No Room at the Inn (1948).

[Gerald Lovell]

Edward Rigby doesn't particularly enjoy the soprano's screeching in Don't Ever Leave Me (1949):



He tunes out the station pretty soon afterwards.

[Gerald Lovell]

Bad news - and it's not a proposal - for Zena Marshall comes via this big speakered set in Marry Me (1949):

[lazarus6]

Whack-O! (s?e?) (1956-1960) [UK]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162833/ (series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whack-...iving_episodes (series)

Quoting from Wikipedia: "British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards...took the part of Professor James Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing headmaster who tyrannised staff and children at Chiselbury public school (described in the opening titles as "for the sons of Gentlefolk")."

The series first ran from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 47 b&w episodes. A further batch of 13 colour episodes then appeared from 1971 to 1972. There was also 3 specials, a film Bottoms Up (1960) and a radio series.

Unfortunately as for the tv series only six b&w episodes have survived.

In this episode fellow staff member Mr. Oliver Pettigrew wins the Pools and the conniving Edwards naturally comes up with ways to spend that money rather then letting him donate it to charity.

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A mains powered portable radio appears in the Chiselbury public school's Common Room from 00:10:01 to 00:11:51 in multiple scenes.

(episode still at 00:10:11)

[lazarus6]

The Sea Wolves (1980) [Switzerland|UK|USA]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081470/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Wolves

Quoting the IMDb: "During World War II, the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe in neutral Goa. As a result, they send civilians: former soldiers who are about sixty years old."

The cast included Gregory Peck, Roger Moore (whose role in very Bondish), David Niven, Trevor Howard and Patrick Macnee.

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A radio is located on the 'The Calcutta Light Horse' club house bar from 00:03:24 - 00:04:12 in multiple scenes:
(film still at 00:03:19)


(film still at 00:03:50)

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Colonel Lewis Pugh (Gregory Peck) appears to have a radio on his bedroom chest of drawers as seen from 00:51:31 to 00:51:40 but unfortunately the image quality could not be improved:
(film still at 00:51:34)


(film still at 00:51:45)