Wednesday, August 7, 2019

update 7 August

Still very little happening on television. 
I'll start off with current stuff.

Ackley Hill Road Bridge returned for a 3rd series.
Bad actors need work too and Hollyoaks can only hire so many.

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I couldn't find any good reviews for this to share here.
The wiki page doesn't say much either.

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Celebrating stupidity, Mum has reached the end of the road.

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New drama. The Virtues received pretty good reviews.
If you plan on watching it don't read the episode info
on the wiki page - SPOILER ALERT

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Year of the Rabbit is a comedy.
I had nothing else to go with it so filled out the disc
with some other stuff I had lying around.


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Now, back to the 20th century

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1978 BBC drama serial
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a couple of rare BBC comedies from 1984

starring Paul Barber (Only Fools and Horses, etc.)
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Two sitcoms starring Cilla Black in various roles with an array of guest stars.

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Two obscure BBC sitcoms both written by Roy Clarke
(Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours, etc.)

with Tony Britton, Susan Hampshire, Caroline Quentin

with Roy Kinnear, Sandra Dickenson, Hugh Lloyd

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Further Adventures of Lucky Jim
another Clement / La Frenais sitcom

A Touch of Spice
with Julia Watson (Windsor Davies' daughter in the early eps of Never the Twain) and Natalie Ogle
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Help!Liverpool sitcom with Stephen McGann (Call the Midwife) and Sheila Fay.

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Hilaryshared this before in 2013 but it was missing the penultimate episode
and some eps had 1 to 5 minutes edited out 
starring Marti Caine, Phil Madoc, Jack Smethurst, Carolyn Moody

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I Woke Up One MorningCarla Lane dark comedy with Michael Angelis, Robert Gillespie, Frederick Jaeger, Peter Caffrey, Jean Boht
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Lame Duckssitcom with John Duttine, Lorraine Chase, Brian Murphy

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The Liver BirdsLast updated here in 2011, now missing only one episode and also has a much improved 1996 series
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Missing From Home
State of Emergency

Two rare drama serials.
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Mr. Big
sitcom co-written by and starring Peter Jones with Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender and Carol Hawkins
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Ronnie Corbett sitcom

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1975 drama.....back when drama was just drama and not.......

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Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Half of the 26 episodes produced for this anthology series. Whether the other half become available remains to be seen. What's great about these anthology series is all the familiar faces that appear. Edward Albert, Harry Andrews, Colin Baker, Jack Cassidy, Peter Cushing, Rupert Davies, Michael Elphick, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Haigh, Megs Jenkins, Michael Kitchen, Christopher Lee, Patrick Magee, Milo O'Shea, Donald Pleasence, Jane Seymour, Eli Wallach, Simon Ward, Susannah York........
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Partners
The Sun Trap

Two rare sitcoms from the early 80's
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Quiller

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Sharon and Elsie
This sitcom was first shared here back in 2010. Now is better quality and included the unaired pilot.

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Very popular police drama is now complete minus one episode.

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Late 80's drama serial.

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Late 70's police drama 
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1981 mini-sries thriller

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I have the complete Oh Happy Band! here, from Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft who also gave us 'Allo 'Allo!, Are You Being Served?, Grace & Favour.  I always forget one!
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if anyone puts files on a cloud or other type storage and then
streams them to a tablet to view, let me know as with quite a few
of these shows you'd be much better off with MP4 files than AVI
in terms of quality.