Xanderl

@xanderl

Failed the audition for Blockbusters and still bitter about it. Mostly ranting about films, old TV, Top of the Pops and The Archers. Nearly halfway through the Crossroads box set!

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Xanderl@xanderl· 21d

Watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended

Vintage Chad Valley give-a-show projector

Xanderl@xanderl· 22d

A Clockwork Orange (1971) director Stanley Kubrick

Xanderl@xanderl· 22d

Ok I’m going in, wish me luck. Wasn’t expecting it to start with a weird homoerotic dream sequence! #Neighbours

Xanderl@xanderl· 25d

If you scroll down there's the "all time" list by country - this is the one for "England" (which presumably means UK in this instance). Good showing for #TheArchers as you'd expect!

List of longest serving soap actors by date

Xanderl@xanderl· 26d

30 / 33 1 Barlow #popmaster

Xanderl@xanderl· 27d

27 on round 2 #popmaster

Julian Clary about to do the Norman Lamont joke

Xanderl@xanderl· 28d

33 / 36 / 2 Glorias #popmaster

The Sgt Major and Gloria in It Ain't Half Hot Mum

Xanderl@xanderl· 29d

Those science fiction writers and their crazy ideas! From “Brainrack” (1974) by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis of #DoctorWho and Doomwatch fame

"Yes, that's it. We're getting so incredibly lazy as a species we give more and more of our functions over to the tinware-we no longer worry about the fact that we're taking more and more materials out of the earth-things we can never put back-just to make computers which are so bloody smart we don't even know how they go wrong. Nobody needs the damn things except maybe hospitals-they're just an electronic phallus—a technological status symbol."

Xanderl@xanderl· Jul 4

Here's the Ken Loach directed fight scene from Z-Cars, "Profit by their example"

Xanderl@xanderl· Jul 4

Impressive directorial credit in this week's #ZCars on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social - Ken Loach in his second TV credit! No real signs of his future talent although there's a very interestingly staged fight in one of the film sequences. And Colin Welland from "Kes" is there of course! #ArchiveTV

Z-Cars credit screen - "Directed by Kenneth Loach"

Xanderl@xanderl· Jul 1

36 / 21 / 3 Dustys #popmaster

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 30

Well this charity shop LP doesn’t look at all creepy

Lp cover

ART LINKLETTER
narrates the story of
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM

Photo of middle aged Art in the middle, holding forth to drawings of children

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 20

Time to kick off 10 days in darkened rooms in Bologna #IlCinemaRitrovato #FilmSky

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 17

Name a TV show you’re positive no-one remembers but you

Back cover of a tie-in book for 1971 Schools series "It's Fun to Read" featuring Penelope, Bill and Bill's magic box.

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 17

36 / 33 / 2 Bon Jovis #popmaster Oi Ken, "Blaze of Glory" was Jon Bon Jovi solo.

Audrey and Alma in Corrie looking like Bon Jovi

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 16

Let’s face it her career peaked with Rentaghost

Lynda La Plante in Rentaghost with Mr and Mrs Meaker

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 15

That feeling when you get cast as a painter and decorator in #crossroads and decide you might as well go full-on Bond villain #archivetv

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 12

Frankie! #totp

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 12

A bit about Neil Innes' cod-reggae Silver Jubilee record #totp sparksinelectricaljelly.blogspot.com/2011/10/neil...

Any hint of Zappa’s subversive provocations is rather blown by Innes’ 1977 Top of the Pops appearance singing his Silver Jubilee ditty, without any hint of irony, to a cod-reggae beat. He denied that this was a riposte to the Sex Pistols, and said that it was written at the suggestion of his agent. He brushed the idea aside at first, but then found lines and rhymes coming into his head. It’s a harmless enough song, a catchy singalong which makes Paul McCartney’s Her Majesty at the end of the Abbey Road LP sound like a radical Republican call to arms.

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 12

OK now I have to see this #totp

In 2015, he and the rest of the Wurzels made a music video to encourage safety of farm workers following a spate of fatal accidents.

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 10

Today's BBC statement on #DoctorWho sounds incredibly familiar! (quote from here ... doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv5...)

Towards the end of this year, when Season 26 was still being screened on British television, Philip Segal first approached the BBC about obtaining the rights to Doctor Who. Segal's initial enquiry was ignored. At a press conference in October, the BBC's Head of Series, Peter Cregeen, said 'Doctor Who has lasted 26 years and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't continue. The BBC is committed to more Doctor Who in the future.' A month later, the series' future was in grave doubt. Cregeen said to the Radio Times in November, 'There are no plans to axe Doctor Who,' but added 'There may be a little longer between this series and the next than usual.' Cregeen also issued a press statement saying that 'The best possible way to take the series through the nineties will ... involve having it made outside of the BBC.' The announcement that the BBC were looking into the prospect of Doctor Who being made by an independent production company resulted in approaches from a number of prospective independent producers.

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 10

He's saying all the right words, just not necessarily in the right order #popmaster

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 8

Not sure about this salute

Mike Reid on Runaround doing a Sieg Heil salute possibly

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 5

Woman on the right goes through the whole gamut of emotions during this Paul Burnett link #totp

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 5

Sparks were amazing #totp

Andy Crane and Mr Bronson from Grange Hill in the Broom Cupboard

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 5

These two 1999 episodes were only 25 minutes as they were followed by "Children's Promise: the Man in the Golden Suit", another element of that forgotten millennium charity campaign! #totp

Children's Promise: the Man in the Golden
Suit
BBC
one

Fri 3rd Dec 1999, 19:55 on BBC One London

Another besuited celebrity invites viewers to give their final hour's income of 1999 to charity. (S)

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 5

Top factoids about this from Wikipedia #totp

His 1999 single, "Communication", also known as "The Communication
Song", is notable for being mainly constructed from the interference
caused on improperly shielded audio equipment when a GSM mobile
telephone rings nearby. The Ringtone sample that can be heard is from
the Motorola MicroTAC International Series of GSM Mobile Telephones.
Vision.

Xanderl@xanderl· Jun 3

#crossroads episode 3465 … a brilliant exit storyline for Chris Hunter! Comes totally out of nowhere and according to IMDB this is his final appearance! #archiveTV

Xanderl@xanderl· May 31

This is my favourite ... from the episode "Passenger" when he has to visit a motel near Birmingham

Xanderl@xanderl· May 30

Not sure about these updated Enid Blyton books