Saturday, December 10, 2011

Crownies - Disc 3

Crownies - Disc 3. This Australian legal drama has concluded and will not be returning although a spinoff is under consideration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crownies

Emmerdale Farm 441 - 555








8 more discs of vintage Emmerdale Farm. Over 100 episodes from April 1978 to February 1980.

Emmerdale 2011 - Discs 9 - 12




Emmerdale 2011 - Discs 9, 10, 11 and 12. 

Friday, December 9, 2011

Pete Versus Life

Pete Versus Life, the Channel 4 sitcom, returned for a second series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_versus_Life

Emmerdale Farm

Emmerdale, the popular ITV evening drama serial, is less than a year away from it's 40th anniversary. For about the first 17 years it was known as Emmerdale Farm and on this disc are the first 25 (of over 6,000) episodes.

EastEnders 2011 - Disc 11

EastEnders 2011 - Disc 11

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Baker Boys

Baker Boys, the blue-collar drama from BBC Wales, has returned for 3 more hour-long episodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Boys_%282011_TV_Series%29

Coronation Street 2011 - Disc 11

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Till Death Us Do Part update



Till Death Us Do Part has been updated with episodes once missing. I believe that with the exception of the 2 minutes of surviving footage from the 1965 Comedy Playhouse pilot, they are all found on Disc 2.
Some episode guides will show that more of the older 60's shows still exist, but they are only snippets and not complete episodes....with the exception of The Phone which exists as a very crude vintage home recording.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Death_Us_Do_Part_%28British_TV_series%29

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Family Guy

I've had a couple people ask me about this in the past month or two. USA program but very popular in the UK from what I hear. Updated on the US TV blog.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Garrow's Law - Series 3

The 3rd series of Garrow's Law, a period legal drama, has concluded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrow%27s_Law

Strange Report


Strange Report was an action-adventure-espionage show in 1969 starring Anthony Quayle, Anneke Wills (well-known to early Dr Who followers) and Kaz Garas.
A second series was to be produced in Hollywood but was cancelled when Quayle and Wills opted out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_report

Saturday, December 3, 2011

The Gentle Touch - Discs 6 + 7


The Gentle Touch - Discs 6 and 7 - finishing off the popular 80's cop show starring Jill Gascoine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentle_Touch

Friday, December 2, 2011

Trollied

After an absence of nearly a decade, Sky recently decided to jump back into sitcom production and came up with Trollied. Featuring a pretty solid group of veteran actors, the network has reportedly committed to producing 27 more episodes in the coming couple years. Of course, these things can change (The IT Crowd for example). The setting of Trollied is a supermarket and it's employees. (For those of you in North America, in the UK what you call a "shopping basket" or "shopping cart", they call a "trolley".....and the rear wheels are not fixed so they don't go in a straight line when you push them.) The creator of the show felt a sitcom about a supermarket might work and it hadn't been done before. Guess he wasn't around when Tripper's Day and Slinger's Day were on the box and then there was 2010's Shelfstackers.
Some very recognizable people in this, starting with Jane Horrocks (no need to list her creds...would be too long anyways), Mark Addy (The Thin Blue Line, Sunnyside Farm, the USA show Still Standing, Bonkers, Robin Hood), Jason Watkins (Duck Patrol, All About George, Funland, Five Days, Life And Times Of Vivienne Vyle, Little Dorrit, Murderland, Being Human, Psychoville), Rita May (Fat Friends, Early Doors, Coronation Street), Carl Rice (Massive), Lorraine Cheshire (Early Doors, Tittybangbang) and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollied

The Gold Robbers

The Gold Robbers was a 1969 crime serial.
From an internet site:

This dynamic and tightly scripted drama centres on the search for the perpetrators of a multi-million-pound gold bullion robbery; Peter Vaughan stars as the C.I.D. officer doggedly tracking down all those who hold clues to the identity of the mastermind behind the raid. Vaughan’s strong performance is supported by some of the key dramatic actors of the late ‘60s, including Joss Ackland, Alfred Lynch, George Cole, Bernard Hepton, George Innes, Roy Dotrice and Peter Bowles. Arthur Butler, the former Scotland Yard officer who had worked on the investigation into the Great Train Robbery, acted as technical adviser on the series, and it earned acclaimed producer and screenwriter John Hawkesworth (Upstairs, Downstairs) a BAFTA nomination for Best Drama Series; among a celebrated team of writers were former Z Cars contributors Alan Prior and Eric Coltart.