Cult television is a weird and wonderful thing. In the 70s and 80s specialist magazines talked about old shows but seeing them was another matter. The birth of Channel 4 was a real bonus as they did repeat some of these series from the late 1960s and early 1970s, usually quite late at night, butContinue reading “While you sleep there’s a whole world coming alive”
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I See Your Sun is Shining
It is a joke you often here about wedding receptions when white people get married – the DJ always plays Come on Eileen. Before that the trach was Hi Ho Silver Lining by Jeff Beck. It is another uplifting track with a chorus that is easy to sing along to. Beck was the third guitaristContinue reading “I See Your Sun is Shining”
Like the deserts miss the rain
There are two types of missing/ lost TV stories. Early TV was assumed to be a one and done kind of happening, like a stage play, though most of it was recorded as live, rather than actually live. Equity (the acting union) were worried that their members would lose work if too much was repeated. Continue reading “Like the deserts miss the rain”
Five Miles Out 