Sunday, June 20, 2010

That Beryl Marston! + Whoops Apocalypse

Let's go back almost 30 years for a 2-for-1 rare comedy disc.

That Beryl Marston...! starred veteran actress Julia McKenzie (Maggie And Her, Blott On The Landscape, Fresh Fields, French Fields, Miss Marple, Cranford), the late Gareth Hunt and Jonathon Morris (who is probably best remembered as Adrian Boswell in Bread). I've had this for awhile but every time I tried to rip it the audio was running about 200 microseconds ahead of the video and it got worse from there. I think I fixed it pretty good by cutting it up into 5 minute segments and adjusting the sync on each one before joining them back together. I had an episode of Last of the Summer Wine I had to edit into about 15 2-minute segments for the same reason. So much fun.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212697/

Whoops Apocalypse was written by David Renwick and David Marshall who both have had so much success as writers there's really no need to go into it. A lot of familiar faces in this: Alexei Sayle, Geoffrey Palmer, John Cleese, Peter Jones, Richard Griffiths, Barry Morse, John Barron, Bruce Montague (Leonard in Butterflies), Richard Davies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoops_Apocalypse

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