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@AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic) art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1h

Oh that's lovely

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1h

In the rewatch I'm getting to enjoy and notice these details. Also from the arrival of Morwenna onwards it's ESSENTIAL that you make a note of any mention of a patient's first or last name. Eg: "hang on Mr Chegg"
Much later: "sorry Scott, thanks for waiting."
They're easily missed

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 2h

I have long awaited this day with joyous anticipation, and @independent.ie is the one to finally deliver, in their article on New Ross Drama Workshop’s staging of my black comedy play “Dead Man’s… BELLS”.

A screenshot from an article on the Irish Independent website. It reads: “Fresh from the recent success of their performances as part of the Wexford Culture Night celebrations in September, New Ross Drama Workshop is back and preparing to thread the boards of St. Michaels Theatre as they bring two nights of comedy to the stage, under the direction of Kate O’Keeffe and Peggy Hussey.
The first one-act play that will be performed by the award-winning team is Méabh de Brún’s Dead Man’s Balls (directed by Kate O’Keeffe), which is a darkly comic plot that follows three sisters as they recount, bicker over, and obscure the story of their family farm, inheritance, and their absent brother. Told in a sharp, witty style with an unreliable narrator quality, the play layers rural Gothic atmosphere with biting humour, as sibling rivalries, secrets, and omissions shape the narrative as much as memory itself.”

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 10h

An episode of Call My Bluff with Tom Baker is on BBC4 tonight at 9pm

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Call My Bluff, 27/05/1977

Robert Robinson hosts a game of word definitions and deceptions. With Tom Baker.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 6h

:-)

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you Mr Lee Harveryscary

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 7h

Please, Mr Sheen was my father. Call me Mr Emilio Estevez

Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 7h

Please, Mr Muscle was my father. Call me Russel.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 13h

youtu.be/HiPBIaOImP0?...

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Huh! We went on a school trip to a wallpaper factory. Put our trips together and you got something! (Still a confusingly high number of sewage works visits)

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Continued very high standard of quick, throwaway jokes in the graphic design in this series

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly finished my Doc Martin rewatch and Joe Penhale has come to visit with some of his "favourite games"

Police officer Joe Penhale in Doc Martin stands in the kitchen doorway to the surgery, happily brandishing some board games he's brought. The top one is "Chimp Carnage - a game for all the family. Play from four years and above and try to calm down all the chimps before the time is up!" "Everyone's gone banana's (sic)"
There's a big pic of a happy cartoon chimp face

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 2d

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.

1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter

1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists

Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 2d

Lovely stuff.

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful work

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

*cat crashes through wall*

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Ah no, it's "The Minches", and as far as I can tell most of the take was used in the finished programme, so he didn't even really go wrong. He just seems to have got the giggles. Ah well!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

Hang on, did "minges" mean the same back then!? What was the line supposed to be?

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 3d

I'm quitting being the French Prime Minister. For an hour.

Steve Coogan announces he is closing the bureau de change. for an hour.

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

Iceland showing us the way. It's surely good for concessions sales too

Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 3d

An interesting thing about going to a movie in Iceland is that theatres add an intermission to every film by abruptly stopping it halfway through so that people can go get a snack or use the restroom. A bit jarring when you aren’t expecting it, I thought the projector broke

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I like Simon Castlebar! Perfect!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 5d

You've got it

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 5d

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, so you've lost me, sorry!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 5d

David Chelmsford

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 5d

Clark Maidstone (Aka "Man"?)

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 5d

This implies the existence of Susan Winchester*

(County town of Hampshire - I had to look that up)

Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 5d

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