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I remember catching an episode of TV Offal and thinking, “Why are you pranking Derek Nimmo?”*
*Assuming it was a prank.
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“Lives a good life, a very good life in the country.”
That was Damon’s original draft, you know.
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It’s all about Bicycle Rider, the whole thing is tied up in that track - a feeling of developing American history in each section - and it feels as though they lost their minds trying - and failing - to recapture the vibe of that track. Only Heroes and Villains, a pure vocal LSD trip, comes close.
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Is this a Sam Smith pub?
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“Well why’s she telling you then?”
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May just have been the editing, but the Rickman Diaries suggest that he had the whole thing done inside an afternoon.
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Having recently listened to the audio of The Abominable Snowmen, I make you right on both counts.
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“Please wait, someone is coming to assist you.” And then we wordlessly turn and stare towards the supervisor, so they can come and help us. It’s made the words, “Excuse me…” redundant at least.
Our effusive thanks for confirming our ID to the machine try to make up for the reduced interaction.
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You were absolutely right about the way kids feel about watching other kids on television. My main jealousies were against the kids getting to muck about on We Are the Champions.
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PS - the main reason why I’m so exact with the date - apart from being a nerd - is that I was appearing in a pantomime that week in Perranwell, near Truro, and between the matinee and evening performance, I nipped down to the village phone box to call the ITFC Soccerline to find out the result.
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Town rescued the point at Portman Road with a stoppage time goal….scored by David Johnson.
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Yes, it was Jan 17, 1998. Boro had good cause to be peeved with Ipswich that season. In the 1-1 draw at Portman Road, the previous month, James Scowcroft and Craig Harrison were both sent off. Harrison’s offence seemed to be that he didn’t get out of the way of the punch Scowcroft threw at him.
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Johnson only ever played one match for us at the Riverside, it finished 1-1 and no penalties were awarded. He did get Gianluca Festa sent off in that game for bringing him down when he was through on goal. Johnson also scored Town’s goal in the match, but it was a header, not a penalty.
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It’s a wonderful film. Throw in The Beguiled as well, and Siegel was on real hot streak between 71-73.
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The only way that Charley Varrick works with Eastwood in the lead would be the quirkiness of seeing him paired up with Andrew Robinson as his accomplice, two years after they battled it out in Dirty Harry.
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Huh! Tell that to Gordon Smith.
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TV Cream claimed in one of their features on Saturday Kids TV that no would remember TX, and got correspondence about it for the next 6 weeks - including from me.
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Wild Horsey
Star Stan
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I saw a 1979 thriller called Delirium last year, as it was recommended by Quentin Tarantino’s Video Archives podcast. The film was OK, but the only thing that’s really stayed with me about it is that several scenes and the closing credits, played out to the accompaniment of the theme to Mastermind.
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“Can’t complain, mustn’t grumble/Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble.”
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Agreed. On 10 Years of It’ll Be Alright on the Night there’s a clip of Dennis Nordern slipping on a stair when he is introduced on an episode of Wogan. Terry calls it Nordern’s “first visit here” and at 13 years of age, I genuinely thought he meant it was Nordern’s first ever BBC appearance.
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Definite “early meetings between Jamie Lee Curtis and John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda” vibes. Which uptight Englishman are you needing to seduce?
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“We do what we like and we like what we do-oo-oo-ah
Do-oo-oo-ah
Do-oo-oo-ah
Ahhh.
Ahhh.
Where have all the good guys gone….”
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He gets away with it, not least because his joy when Aston Villa are doing well is genuine.
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McAlmont’s only appearance on a John Peel playlist…
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My best mate worked with someone whose party piece was their ability to sing the title line of this and nail the impression perfectly. I never witnessed it, but my mate said it was flawless.
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Wasn’t it that she had the voice, Shaznay had the tunes and the Appleton sisters had the glamour….so they all hated each other.
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“Marlene said something about that, the other day.”
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If you haven’t read it, it’s also worth checking out Over the Limit, a follow up memoir framed around his diaries for the period 1993-1998.
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Were they not done in studio?
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Restful Saturday morning kids show. Worked surprisingly well in high summer, but would have been a bust had it gone out at any other time of year.
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Indeed, but everyone is slightly missing the point of the original topic which was use of OB facilities on Who, prior to 1986 at internal locations. Robot, Stones, Seeds of Doom etc didn’t use OB inside building locations. They were in studio.
Talons and Invasion of Time used it in actual buildings.
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I know but none of it was shot inside any buildings as has happened with Talons of Weng-Chiang or The Invasion of Time.
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“Rats beat Bats.”
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I got engaged (though it didn’t last) on this day. Fascinating to see what other people were doing at the time.
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Heard Prolapse’s track, Serpico, on a Peel Session many years ago and thought the way they transposed Frank Serpico’s ordeal from the NYPD to the Glasgow Police Force was absolutely superb.
“You’re a bloody disgrace!”
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That’s high praise indeed.