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Piers Haggard later became the grandson of H. Rider, him what wrote SHE. Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't he have been his grandson as soon as he was born? Okay wiseguy, let's see if you can find any more inconsistencies in that looong treacle trudge of a post. I almost gave up before I finished writing it. Well now you mention it, shouldn't it be ' what writted She '.
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Saw and liked the movie and the music many years ago, was very happy when the score CD was finally made available.
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Bloody Hell! You've got some memory. But 3 showings in 40 years and probably only on a square screen ain't a lot is it? It's not like The Searchers on every bloody week somewhere. As for the dates well the only one I can recall is November 19 1978 which was the day my son was born, so I was probably a bit busy that day. Ive seen it, not that long ago. Within the last year or two. On tv. Here in uk. So dunno if it was talking pix, or sky or what. But its been on.
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The League of Gentlemen cast, well, Sheersmith, Gatiss, Pemberton and Dyson do a decent commentary for the film, that must have been on a UK DVD release. It's up on YouTube to listen to. It's pretty funny and interesting to hear their personal recollections of the film, just from growing up with it on telly. Their own programs were definitely influenced by it and films like it. They say that it seemed to be on telly every week when they were lads, but they grew up in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, where TV must have been superior (or more likely, they're misremembering). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBHVZ28BLc&t=1915s
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The League of Gentlemen cast, well, Sheersmith, Gatiss, Pemberton and Dyson do a decent commentary for the film, that must have been on a UK DVD release. It's up on YouTube to listen to. It's pretty funny and interesting to hear their personal recollections of the film, just from growing up with it on telly. Their own programs were definitely influenced by it and films like it. They say that it seemed to be on telly every week when they were lads, but they grew up in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, where TV must have been superior (or more likely, they're misremembering). Or they may have had a good aerial. In those days TV was broken down into regions, Grampian, southern, HTV , Anglia etc. In the TV times these were listed in the variations section of the daily listings. Films tended to make there way round the areas.
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It's pretty funny and interesting to hear their personal recollections of the film, just from growing up with it on telly. Their own programs were definitely influenced by it and films like it. They say that it seemed to be on telly every week when they were lads, but they grew up in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, where TV must have been superior (or more likely, they're misremembering). Or they may have had a good aerial. In those days TV was broken down into regions, Grampian, southern, HTV , Anglia etc. In the TV times these were listed in the variations section of the daily listings. Films tended to make there way round the areas. Oh, yes, we got HTV and S4C from Wales. Not half as useful for a non-Welsh speaker.
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We used to get London, and if you turned the indoor aerial roughly north you got anglia and if you pointed it south you got southern. All helped me record some italian westerns shown daytime afternoons that werent on london. I got ennio's McGregors off tv and Hellbenders. We had a chalet at the kent coast and once messing with the aerial got Flintstones in german!! But Whenever a ship went up the thames we got ghosting for a few minutes!! Happy days.
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I spotted Navajo Joe, once, on one of the region's. I thought I'll keep an eye open for that when comes back around. Never did( saw it eventually )
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We had a chalet at the kent coast and once messing with the aerial got Flintstones in german!. Friedrich und Vilma Flintstone?
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Well, probably - he was defo hammering on the door going "Vil-maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr!"
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Well, probably - he was defo hammering on the door going "Vil-maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr!" What was yabba dabba doo in German?
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Quatermass with john mills is on talking pictures tuesday at 9pm. Classic. Love it. Got the Network Blu ray as soon as it appeared.
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I likde that Quatermass bit you lined to there, Paul. It's terrific music. Don't think the rest of the score is as melodic as the finale, but it's very good and that finale makes up for a lot. As I say, the moment where Quatermass spots his granddaughter in the crowd of 'Planet People' after he's elected to stay and sacrifice himself, and they end up pressing the button together is quite emotionally charged. Not something that is really part of any of the other stories, good as they are.
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We used to get London, and if you turned the indoor aerial roughly north you got anglia and if you pointed it south you got southern. All helped me record some italian westerns shown daytime afternoons that werent on london. I got ennio's McGregors off tv and Hellbenders. We had a chalet at the kent coast and once messing with the aerial got Flintstones in german!! But Whenever a ship went up the thames we got ghosting for a few minutes!! Happy days. Damn. I'd have killed for those back in the day. We had Yorkshire TV, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCeX4eJ-ASU (the second ident is what I remember) with optional Anglia and Tyne Tees if you were lucky. I remember seeing the b&w Harryhausens billed in those 'regional variations' sections of the TV Times. It would take me many years to see them, by which time they'd been colourised! No kidding, my first viewing of Earth Vs the Flying Saucers and It Came From Beneath the Sea was on Legend Films colour dvds. Yorkshire NEVER had them. They also refused point blank to screen The Prisoner. We did have quite a few runs of the Hammer tv series Journey to the Unknown (with the coolest theme tune ever by Harry Robertson) and of course the horror movie seasons they titled 'Appointment With Fear' with that cool bit of animation before the start of each one. And the latter just so happens to be when and where I was when I saw Blood on Satan's Claw late one Friday night. I was quite young and grandma had fallen asleep completely unaware I was seeing Linda Hayden and at least one other lass totally starkers, showing off their 'fur' if you know what I mean. I was absolutely terrified, not of the movie, but that Grandma would wake up and play merry hell!
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Funnily enough they did the prisoner reruns at the time on anglia on a friday i think this wouldve been mid70s - anyway, it was always the weekends we were away at the kent place, so that helped. I was probably sent to bed for the original Prisoner run in the 60s.
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Funnily enough they did the prisoner reruns at the time on anglia on a friday i think this wouldve been mid70s - anyway, it was always the weekends we were away at the kent place, so that helped. I was probably sent to bed for the original Prisoner run in the 60s. Can just remember Patrick McGoohan fighting the 'rover' and the scenes of the escaped gang crossing the road at the end of Fall Out from the days of the original broadcast. These were the days when the Yorkshire region got Granada tv Monday to Friday and ABC at the weekend. When Yorkshire took over my most significant memory was the loss of Batman, which Yorkshire wouldn't run until the 70s on Saturday mornings. Didn't really get to see The Prisoner until I met a serious fan in the early eighties who had second generation vhs copies from another region, and eventually of course Channel 4 in 1983/4, which I recorded avidly. Especially the documentary after the last episode Six Into One: The Prisoner File, which I appeared in briefly lol. Now I got 'em on lovely Blu rays..
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THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN was the first show I saw on Broadway, in November of 1965, and is still one of the most thrilling theatrical experiences of my life. Starring Christopher Plummer as Pizarro and an exotic, feline David Carradine as the Inca Atahualpa, the production used stunning costumes and stylized choreography to tell the epic story of the conquest of Peru. Some years later, I saw the film version, which had several built-in flaws. As a movie, it had to be more realistic; so a thrilling, stylized slaughter of Incas in the play became a literal bloodbath in the movie. Also, Plummer played a fey Atahualpa in the movie, and was nowhere near as effective as the otherworldly Carradine onstage. In any case, despite a good job by Robert Shaw as Pizarro, the movie was not a success. Wilkinson had written music for the stage version, and also the film. Though there was never a soundtrack release, there was a curious British lp I found at some point, with music Wilkinson had written for three productions at the Old Vic: AS YOU LIKE IT, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, and THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN! Which almost immediately went out of print. The ROYAL HUNT section is pretty limited musically, using presumably Andean instruments: flutes, drums, and other percussion. But it does have two songs I enjoyed, “Little Finch,” and a corn-planting chant. To my knowledge, it never made it to CD.
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