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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark

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Commemorating actor Patrick Wymark star of The Plane Makers, The Power Game, Blood on Satan's Claw etc Website: www.wymark.org.uk

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · Nov 11

Out now: THE WILDER WAY: The Power Game of The Plane Makers. Episode Guide. Making of. You too can follow in the footsteps of Sir John Wilder wymark.org.uk/wilderway.html

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 4h

Shirley MacLaine with Dick Van Dyke, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum and Gene Kelly in, What a Way to Go! (1964).

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Brian Michael Bendis @brianmbendis.bsky.social · 5h

today in my @portlandstate.bsky.social comics writing class, Portland Crown Jewels @stevelieberart.bsky.social & @oeming.bsky.social stopped by to get into the realities of collaboration. I am so grateful to this generous community. I also got to peak inside @helioscopepdx.bsky.social

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 17h

Lens nerds, assemble! This is an astonishing and (yes) moving saga.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

This is really cool: a guy found one of the original Cinemascope anamorphic adapters used to shoot 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954), and that had been sitting in storage for 70 years, for sale on eBay bought it and shot some beautiful new footage with it www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0f...

What Happened to Walt Disney’s Weird Cinema Lens?

YouTube video by Mathieu Stern

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12h

This heist was so fucking French

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 12h

cannot stop laughing at the louvre heist escape video as they’re slowly lowered down the ladder in a bucket

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 19h

#DianaDors (23 October 1931) with #AlfredLynch in WEST 11 (1963) also featuring #PatrickWymark - a film of bohemian life in Notting Hill - wymark.org.uk/West.html

The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 22h

Patrick Allen obviously happy to show off his "visible packet" (in silhouette) in the opening of the VAN DER VALK episode "A Death By The Sea" (1973).

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David Hyman @davidhyman.bsky.social · 1d

Forty-five years ago today at the Royal Gala Charity Premiere at the Classic Haymarket, his exploits shook an empire and made him a legend… #BreakerMorant #1980s #film #films #BruceBeresford #EdwardWoodward #JackThompson #BryanBrown

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Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Sarrazin, Jane Fonda, 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' (1969). Pushed to the physical and mental breaking point by cruel overlords. What does the grueling life of marathon dancers remind you of?
lalifeanddeath.blogspot.com/2025/10/they...

‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’: A Tinseltown Allegory that Ends Unhappily Ever After

“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They” is a noir tragedy about exploitation of the desperate and beleaguered in Depression-era Los Angeles.

lalifeanddeath.blogspot.com

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 1d

Paperbacks l wished l owned #456. Has anyone read it and, if so, what did you think?

Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 3d

Such a fantastic movie. Need to finally read that novel

Walter Matthau as Charley Varrick on the cover of ‘The Looters’ by John Reese in UK Sphere paperback. Matthau is disguised by gray hair, glasses and Mustache and carrying a large revolver and a bag of stolen cash

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 2d

*John Carpenter fires up his synth*

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David Hyman @davidhyman.bsky.social · 2d

Gently Go Man by Alan Hunter (Pan G612, 1963). #GentlyGoMan #AlanHunter #GeorgeGently #1960s #books #book #Paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #crime #MYSTERY #thriller #thrillerbooks #Thrillers #PanBook #PanBooks

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 2d

The "coughing blood" shot felt like something new - there was something similar in an episode of THE GUARDIANS at the same time (obviously not old enough to see movies like THE WILD BUNCH at the time).

The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 2d

Send for the Legion of Superheroes.

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 2d

5:20pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

From 1965, s6 Ep 1 #Crime #Mystery📺“THE EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATRE” - “Game for Three Losers” directed by Gerry O'Hara & written by Roger Marshall

Based on Edgar Lustgarten’s 1952 novel📖

🌟 Michael Gough, Mark Eden, Toby Robins, Rachel Gurney

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Fanderson @fanderson1981.bsky.social · 2d

Marx Sooper Snooper used in Thunderbird 1 launch bay #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson #thunderbirds

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 2d

It's possible - the teaser for 'Identified' virtually paraphrases the teaser from 'Eleven Days To Zero', the pilot episode of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 3d

…she makes a very valid point here. 😶

A post by user thelesliegaar:

The fact that the Louvre heist didn't take place at dawn, but at the very reasonable hour of 9:30 a.m. shows that even French jewel thieves have a better work-life balance than us.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 3d

Except Mark of Gideon was not shown on BBC 1 until November 1971. Is Chimes of Big Ben from The Prisoner a more likely influence for Toblin? But UFO blew it by having Straker fight A.Stuntman instead of his alien clone.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 3d

#ColinJeavons (BOTD 1929) was at the Old Vic Theatre School with #PatrickWymark - In the 14 June 1951 graduation show, Colin was noted as compelling as Tommaso Corsi in Pirandello's the Doctor's Duty. "A man torn by moral torment, fear and physical suffering." www.wymark.org.uk/oldvicschool...

The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 3d

Just received DEAR FENELLA from @fenellafielding.bsky.social
- twice as big as I'd expected and comes with a unique free gift of one of Fenella's cancelled cheques from 1979.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, by Robin Jacques, for February 22nd 1952’s Radio Times.

For decade after decade, the Radio Times published absolutely fabulous illustrations. It’s a shame that the times have changed & that’s no longer an option.

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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 4d

Around the regions (2)

Another ITV region begins transmission of Thunderbirds series one:

20th October 1965

Split by a news bulletin at 5.50

Trapped in the Sky

Granada
5.25pm Part One
6.05pm Part Two

24th October 1965

The Perils of Penelope

Westward 4.05pm
Border and Tyne Tees 5.05pm

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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 4d

The Century 21 March aka the TV21 March

An uptempo arrangement of the Thunderbirds theme, with subtle nods to Fireball XL5

Barry Gray used elements of this arrangement for some but not all of the Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 3 launch sequences..

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 4d

"Disruptors, innovators and creative thinkers wanted..."

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 4d

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

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