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Post by marispiper on Dec 15, 2016 16:45:10 GMT
Start off with a moan - just to get into the spirit of things...
I like Mock the Week but how can a compilation of old clips be churned out as a Christmas Special? 😕
From the previews I've spotted, looks like there will be plenty of programmes to fall asleep to ...zzzzzzz.....
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Post by aubrey on Dec 15, 2016 17:41:17 GMT
I have a load of films backed up.
I do hope to see Bony M. doing that mary's Boy Child song on something on Xmas morning; the humming section and the bloke's dance (a slow shuffle while he turns 360º) make it for me. (And I don't know here whether I really mean it or not.)
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Post by marispiper on Dec 24, 2016 17:26:38 GMT
I watched The Old Grey Whistle Test 70s last night. Very good. I wondered if Aubrey was watching as Iggy closed the show?
Johnny Winter was one brilliant guitarist for sure!
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Post by aubrey on Dec 24, 2016 18:36:53 GMT
I didn't see it last night, but I think I've seen it before - I've certainly seen that Steppenwolf clip (we used to play that song: I had never heard it but I played the same thing as that drummer did) and I remember seeing Johnny Winter as well. I don't remember the Iggy though - what was it? (And, he didn't get it out, did he?).
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Post by marispiper on Dec 24, 2016 19:19:11 GMT
No! He didn't!
It was 'I wanna be your dog'...he looked so youthful!.
Greg Allman and Cher were on... I think she would've been to your taste with the outfit she nearly had on... fabulous figure...
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Post by aubrey on Dec 24, 2016 19:57:03 GMT
Ha! I don't think she would, really, and I can't stick anything Allman.
I've just watched a bit of it (what I suppose was it anyway), and no, I really don't like that kind of thing.
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Post by marispiper on Dec 27, 2016 9:33:32 GMT
I really liked the Agatha Christie drama last night 'Witness for the Prosecution' ....don't tell me who did it! Second part tonight...
Much better than last year's Christmas whodunit offering 'And then there were None' (barring Aiden Turner's torso, needless to say)
Toby Jones is very good in this one, playing another shuffling, coughing, enigmatic character. Several scenes he was in made me feel like crying...
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Post by aubrey on Dec 27, 2016 11:17:22 GMT
I've seen the Billy Wilder film with Charles Laughton loads of times, and I always forget how the thing was worked, so I couldn't tell you even if I wanted.
I enjoyed Cardew (The Cad) Robinson on The Good Old Days last night. Morecambe and Wise as well, both looking very young. Leonard Sachs in those days (or in the episode anyway) used to lift his hammer (or whatever the proper term for it is), but he did not hit anything with it.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 27, 2016 12:10:04 GMT
I have recorded pt 1 and will watch the complete thing tomorrow.
PS My boys bought us a 'smart' tv for Xmas.
It includes Netflicks . My youngest already has an a/c with them and added my telly to his a/c. This means we can now watch films, we couldn't otherwise afford.
Mrs A is purring contentedly.
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Post by clioseward on Dec 27, 2016 20:04:32 GMT
Watched Rowan Atkinson in ' Maigret' tonight.A damned good film, well acted authentic sets and a good story.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 27, 2016 21:13:23 GMT
Watched Rowan Atkinson in ' Maigret' tonight.A damned good film, well acted authentic sets and a good story. He might be good, but he's no Jean Gabin.  |
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Post by Vagabond on Dec 27, 2016 22:05:20 GMT
I enjoyed Cardew (The Cad) Robinson on The Good Old Days last night. Morecambe and Wise as well, both looking very young. Leonard Sachs in those days (or in the episode anyway) used to lift his hammer (or whatever the proper term for it is), but he did not hit anything with it. I too watched this programme, there were some very weird acts on, I thought, especially the man who kept falling off a table and ended up stuck upside down in a long tube with his posterior sticking out of the top and his head and shoulders out the bottom of the tube, very odd indeed! I liked the female singer, and Cardew Robinson was quite funny, came on wearing a very long scarf down past his knees, saying. "Do you like the scarf? I`ve got a longer one than this but it looks silly." I`m new btw  |
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Post by sinistral on Dec 28, 2016 0:40:04 GMT
Hello Vagabond.
I also watched The Good old Days.
That particular edition was first broadcast in 1959.....yes really!
I was interested in the cross-talk comedians, Smoothey and Layton.
So I Googled and discovered that Don Smoothey died aged 96 in 2015. It may interest those who, like me, are keen on old films and TV to know that he was the brother of Len Lowe, an actor who popped up in a vast range of things. From Sergeant Cork to Basil Brush.......Dick Emery to Colditz.
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Post by sinistral on Dec 28, 2016 0:49:44 GMT
Len Lowe  |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 28, 2016 9:56:36 GMT
I love that kind of thing, the way actors etc connect with each other.
I watched a Sword and Sandals epic a couple of days ago, The Colossus of Rhodes (directed by Sergio Leone, his first) and one of the stars in it also starred in Jess Franco's The Diabolical Dr Z - I did not recognise her: she'd changed her hair colour, but I wouldn't have recognised her anyway.
There are lots of better ones than that though.
I did not realise until I looked it up that Cardew Robinson got that character from a series written by the bloke who wrote the Billy Bunter stories: the St Jim's stories, by "Martin Clifford".
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