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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 1d

It really is about time someone took the bull by the horns and made Shades of Greene available on Blu-ray. Perhaps dear Russell Minton could take it in hand?? I'm sure Thames would let the BBC have the rights for a token sum.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 1d

It's bizarre that Shades of Greene has never had any life since its original broadcast, never appearing on any home video format.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 1d

It's easy to forget how good ITV drama could be in the 1970s. Shades of Greene is certainly up there with Brideshead, Rumpole and The Sandbaggers as one of the gems of the time, though very different from those.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 1d

For material of the quality of Shades of Greene, by possibly the 20th century's greatest British novelist, I'd have loved a full house, but the reaction of those who came was thrilling. Many didn't know what to expect, and everyone was blown away.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to all who came to the screening of Shades of Greene, the Graham Greene anthology drama series made by Thames in 1975, which I showed at the Electric Palace in Hastings as part of their TV season. (TV was invented - or perhaps discovered is the better word - in Hastings.)

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to hear of the death of Diane Keaton. She's always been my favourite contemporary movie actor. She's sublime in Woody Allen's films and also in The Godfather. I wasn't always nuts about her later films which tended to be gooey Hollywood, but she was always a delight.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 6d

If you are in the vicinity of Hastings that day, worth popping along for!

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www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/sha...

Shades of Greene + intro by Dr Who actor - What's On

Actor Matthew Waterhouse will be joining us live to introduce two different screenings of the acclaimed adaptations for TV of some of author Graham Greene's most enduring short stories.

www.electricpalacecinema.com

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 6d

At 11:00, Two Gentle People, at 19:30, The Destructors, one of Greene's most controversial stories and, he felt, one of the best things he ever wrote, followed by a comedy piece, Alas Poor Maling, the only TV script ever written by Greene himself.

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www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/sha...

Shades of Greene + intro by Dr Who actor - What's On

Actor Matthew Waterhouse will be joining us live to introduce two different screenings of the acclaimed adaptations for TV of some of author Graham Greene's most enduring short stories.

www.electricpalacecinema.com

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · 6d

I'm pleased to say I'll be introducing three stories from the 1970s Thames anthology series Shades of Greene, dramatisations of short stories by the great Graham Greene, this Thursday, 9th Oct at the Electric Palace, Hastings.

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www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/sha...

Shades of Greene + intro by Dr Who actor - What's On

Actor Matthew Waterhouse will be joining us live to introduce two different screenings of the acclaimed adaptations for TV of some of author Graham Greene's most enduring short stories.

www.electricpalacecinema.com

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Robert Dick @robertdick.bsky.social · 25d

A pile of Target paperbacks out in the smaller Downham St Christopher's Hospice. £1 each. (Open Tuesday to Saturday.)

cc @2ndhandwho.bsky.social

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm delighted to say that I have chosen and will be introducing three episodes of a forgotten 1970s TV masterpiece at this year's Hastings TV Festival at the Electric Palace cinema in the old town on Thursday 9th October, one in the morning and two in the evening.

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Robert Dick @robertdick.bsky.social · Sep 12

Going out for sale in the (small) Downham St Christopher's Hospice shop. (Open Tuesday to Saturday.)

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 10

Have you seen this?

Shades of Greene - What's On - Electric Palace Cinema share.google/nhAyQO2mK2Zo...

Shades of Greene + intro by Dr Who actor - What's On

Actor Matthew Waterhouse will be joining us live to introduce two different screenings of the acclaimed adaptations for TV of some of author Graham Greene's most enduring short stories.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 6

Here is the link
www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/sha...

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Shades of Greene + intro by Dr Who actor - What's On

Actor Matthew Waterhouse will be joining us live to introduce two different screenings of the acclaimed adaptations for TV of some of author Graham Greene's most enduring short stories.

www.electricpalacecinema.com

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 6

Greene disliked most dramatisations of his work by other people but really admired SHADES OF GREENE. Inexplicably, it has never had a home video release so it is very rarely seen.

The tonal range is wide, from bitter-sweetness to violence to light comedy. Do come along if you can.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 6

SHADES OF GREENE is a series of 18 dramatisations of Graham Greene short stories by Thames TV, including one by Greene himself, his only TV script. The writers, actors and directors are the cream of 70s TV. Greene himself is, of course, one of the 20th C's great novelists and screenwriters.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm delighted to say that I have chosen and will be introducing three episodes of a forgotten 1970s TV masterpiece at this year's Hastings TV Festival at the Electric Palace cinema in the old town on Thursday 9th October, one in the morning and two in the evening.

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Jeremy Worth @jerworth.bsky.social · Sep 2

So atmospheric. Logopolis has many of my favourite Adric moments, with him questioning the Doctor and reacting to revelation after revelation as that sepulchral atmosphere builds in the first two eps. You took this 8 yo right along with you. As for Castrovalva: "Me! I'm the trap..." Marvellous.

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · Sep 2

He had a very individual, independent approach to Doctor Who. A careful balancing of the things we all love about it with the subjects that interested him. Hence, we get a smorgasbord of quantum physics, mystery play and philosophy for a new spin on established storytelling formula and symbols.

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 1

The timing of this also makes it something of a tribute to Chris Bidmead.

Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 1

Big Finish are celebrating the 45th anniversary of the first showing of The Leisure Hive with a fab Season 18 sale! The quartet of E-Space audios are included, plus my novel Watchers (which leads into Logopolis) and Joe Lidster's story about an adult Adric - A Full Life! Snap 'em all up!

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Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 1

Big Finish are celebrating the 45th anniversary of the first showing of The Leisure Hive with a fab Season 18 sale! The quartet of E-Space audios are included, plus my novel Watchers (which leads into Logopolis) and Joe Lidster's story about an adult Adric - A Full Life! Snap 'em all up!

Doctor Who Offers - Collections - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian G...

www.bigfinish.com

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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Sep 1

LENS FLARE SALE! ✨ Celebrating 45 years of Doctor Who Season 18! ✨ Click https://bgfn.sh/s18sale to get discounts on selected audio adventures. ✨

Hurry! Offers expire no later than 23:59 (UK time) on 05 September 2025.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · Aug 31

There’s so much to say about Chris Bidmead’s Dr Who. Its pleasing coldness, its determination to turn maths into drama, its victory over the chaos and entropy that plagued his predecessor. Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva are all one story, aren’t they? His Master’s Masterplan. RIP

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · Aug 31

R.I.P. Christopher H. Bidmead.

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S. John Ross @sjohnross.bsky.social · Aug 31

Castrovalva was my very first; the one that hooked me and improved my life by doing so. 😥❤️ Wish I could have met him and thanked him.

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