Falling Skies - Disc 5

Falling Skies

Partners In Crime

The London Weekend Television production of Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime remains quite popular 32 years later and now we have new TV adaptations of two of the stories to {hopefully} enjoy. Starring David Walliams, Jessica Raine and James Fleet. 
Partners In Crime

Hell On Wheels - Disc 5

Hell On Wheels

Note to all Otago cowboys down under: I have that other show you are looking for on one disc.

Bachelors Walk

Bachelors Walk was a popular Irish comedy-drama back in the early years of the current century. It ran for 20 episodes and then was brought back a few years later for a Christmas special (actually a St. Stephen's Day special in Ireland which is the same as Boxing Day in the UK and here in the US is called The Day After Christmas....or something like that...also known as December 26th.....this year it will be called Saturday) to give it some closure and a proper send-off.
Starring Don Wycherley, who outside of Ireland is probably best known for being Father Cyril McDuff in four episodes of Father Ted and as Father Aidan O'Connell in 24 episodes of Ballykissangel. Since then he seems to have appeared in mostly Irish-language programs although he did appear in two recent episodes of Moone Boy.
Also starring Simon Delaney (Pulling Moves, Father And Son, The Fall, Moone Boy and appeared in the latest series of Trollied as the nutty owner of the Valco Supermarket chain).
Also starring Keith McErlean and Marcella Plunkett. 
Series 1 was released on DVD in wide screen format even though Ireland didn't go wide screen until about 10 years ago. The other episodes are from terrestrial broadcast recordings on video tape and at times the signal goes wonky for a bit. I spent a lot of time trying to improve the digital transfers, which were not done very well at all. It is what it is and as far as this show goes, it's all there is. Know what I mean?
The soundtrack of the show included a lot of music and that may be preventing DVD releases as the licensing of music for TV broadcasts is similar to a radio station playing a song, but issuing it on DVD gets very legally complicated and expensive. A problem John Sullivan shows like Only Fools And Horses and Just Good Friends ran into. 
What the Hell Happened To Bachelors Walk?

The Saboteurs + Witnesses

Two new mini-series.

From Norway we have Kampen on Tungtvannet which translates to The Heavy Water War which wasn't sexy enough for the TV people so they call it The Saboteurs. Some of this has English dialogue, but the majority of it is Norwegian and German.
Saboteurs

From France we have Les Témoins which has Witnesses as its English title. A "police procedural drama noir". 
Witnesses
I'll give these French actors some credit. At least they know enough to actually aim their weapon before firing it. 

River City 2015 - Disc 3

The latest from the Scotland drama.

EastEnders 2015 - Disc 5

Yonderland

Yonderland

An Independent Man

This blog recently noted the passing of George Cole, whose film and television career spanned some 70 years. Fee in Fife on the Firth of Forth (try saying that 5 times as quick as you can) has kindly provided a rare comedy-drama series from 20 years ago starring George. (The 5th episode has a video tape glitch about halfway through that lasts a minute or so.) There is one review at the bottom of the IMDB page. An Independent Man

Between + Killjoys

from Canada

Between

Killjoys

That's Love

That's Love is a sitcom from back in the big hair days. Written by Terrence Frisby, who also wrote Lucky Feller starring David Jason. Starring Diana Hardcastle and Jimmy Mulville (who these days is better known as a producer of shows like You Me & Them, Ballot Monkeys, Episodes, Outnumbered, Spy) with Neil Pearson (Drop the Dead Donkey, Chelmsford 123, Between The Lines, See You Friday, The Booze Cruise, All the Small Things, Monroe, Waterloo Road).

That's Love

Machair - Series 3

Series 3 of the 1990's Scottish Outer Hebrides drama serial Machair. Original broadcast dates don't seem to have survived, but this most likely aired sometime in 1993. Most of the dialogue is in Scottish-Gaelic with hard-coded English subtitles. 
Machair

Fair City 2015 - Disc 4

Past two months of the Irish evening drama serial.

Vincent

Vincent is a private investigator drama series starring Ray Winstone (Fox, Get Back, Great Expectations, numerous films and mini-series), Suranne Jones (Coronation Street, Strictly Confidential, Harley Street, Five Days, Single Father, Secrets of Crickley Hall, The Crimson Field, A Touch of Cloth, Scott & Bailey, and the upcoming Doctor Foster), Joe Absolom (EastEnders, Trevor's World of Sport, Personal Affairs, Doc Martin), Ian Puleston-Davies (Funland, Tess Of the D'Urbervilles, Coronation Street) with Angel Coulby ('Orrible, Merlin, Talk To Me, Dancing On The Edge, The Tunnel, The Visit), Phil Glenister, Eva Pope........

Vincent

Jordskott

Jordskott is a recent 10-hour "mystery with a mythological edge" serial from Sweden. 
Jordskott review

Coronation Street 2015 - Disc 5

Stephen Lewis 1926 - 2015

Stephen Lewis has died. His best known roles were as Cyril Blake in On the Buses and Don't Drink the Water (1969 - 1975), Clem "Smiler" Hemmingway in 135 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine (1988 - 2007) and Harry Lambert in Oh, Doctor Beeching! (1995 - 1997). He also appeared in films and made appearances in other popular TV shows such as One Foot in the Grave, 2point4 Children and Father Dear Father.

Stephen Lewis dies aged 88

more old films....I guess that makes me old too

Gert and Daisy's Weekend

My Wife's Lodger

Meet Mr Lucifer

Not So Dusty

Sailor Beware

Follow A Star

Tommy The Toreador

The Battle Of The Sexes

And The Same To You

Dentist In The Chair

Please Turn Over

A Weekend With Lulu

Double Bunk

Dentist On The Job

Raising The Wind

The Plank

Only Two Can Play

Twice Round The Daffodils

Nurse On Wheels

The Punch And Judy Man

Alfie

San Ferry Ann

Joey Boy

The Sandwich Man

 After The Fox

Bedazzled

Loot

The Best Pair Of Legs In The Business

Adventures Of A Taxi Driver

Adventures Of A Private Eye

Adventures Of A Plumber's Mate

shouldn't there be an ! at the end of panic?

According to their IMDB pages, the last of the original Dad's Army television cast still living, Ian Lavender and Frank Williams, will both have minor roles in the upcoming film.

David Nobbs 1935 - 2015

Prolific comedy writer David Nobbs has died. David worked on The Frost Report and That Was The Week That Was back in the 60's and also for the various shows of Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson and Dick Emery as well as The Two Ronnies. Probably his best known credit was creating the Reggie Perrin series of shows (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Legacy of Reginald Perrin, spinoff Fairly Secret Army and the re-make Reggie Perrin). He also gave us the excellent A Bit Of A Do , the movie Stalag Luft, Love on a Branch Line, The Life and Times of Henry Pratt, Rich Tea and Sympathy, and Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy...something I've been sitting on for a long time. I'll put it up here one of these days.

 David Nobbs dead 80

Black Work + Life In Squares + The Outcast

Black Work

Life In Squares

The Outcast

Emmerdale 2015 - Disc 6

George Cole 1925-2015

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Not Safe For Work + Undercover

Two new comedy-drama series.

Not Safe For Work
Starring Zawe Ashton (Fresh Meat, Case Histories), Anastasia Hille (The Missing, Prey, The Fear, The Cazalets), Tom Weston-Jones (Copper, World Without End), Sacha Dhawan (In The Club, Last Tango In Halifax, US comedy Outsourced, The Last Train), Sophie Rundle (Peaky Binders, The Bletchley Circle), Jo Hartley (The Mimic, This Is England, The Jury).

Undercover
Starring Daniel Rigby (Big School, From There To Here), Sarah Alexander (Smack The Pony, Green Wing, Coupling, Jonathan Creek, Teachers, The Worst Week Of My Life, All The Small Things, The Jury, Me & Mrs Jones), Ivan Kaye (Vikings, The Green Green Grass), Yasmine Akram (Stella), Ryan Sampson (After You've Gone, Up The Women, Plebs), Brett Goldstein (Derek).

Humans - Disc 1

New science fiction series that will be returning for another series in the future. Featuring Rebecca Front, Ruth Bradley, Katherine Parkinson, Danny Webb, Tom Goodman-Hill, Emily Berrington, Jill Halfpenny, William Hurt, Colin Morgan (Merlin in Merlin), Will Tudor (Game of Thrones).........

Humans

Casualty - Series 29 Disc 3