waltydunlop
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Yep. Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Cannonball Run, Police Academy 2, Trading Places, all them lads. Usually taped on a Christmas screening, sometimes with ITV adbreaks so frequent outbreaks of Glens, Hutchisons, Robertsons and Stepek are to be expected.
Every time there's a thing doing the rounds like "name a film you've seen more than 6 times with a gif!" and people always post some clever obscure art house movie when we all know the actual answer is like Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol because that's all you had recorded off the telly on VHS
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Yep. Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Cannonball Run, Police Academy 2, Trading Places, all them lads. Usually taped on a Christmas screening, sometimes with ITV adbreaks so frequent outbreaks of Glens, Hutchisons, Robertsons and Stepek are to be expected.
Happy anniversary to the day I discovered that in "It's Learning About The Lies That Hurts" - a "Public Eye" script by Robert Holmes - there's a couple called Walter and Louisa. Give or take a rogue "o", Bob invented us. Content with that. I think I always suspected he had something to do with it.
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Happy anniversary to the day I discovered that in "It's Learning About The Lies That Hurts" - a "Public Eye" script by Robert Holmes - there's a couple called Walter and Louisa. Give or take a rogue "o", Bob invented us. Content with that. I think I always suspected he had something to do with it.
More superb television archaeology from Michael. I have a feeling that "The Monsters" might start quite eerie and then become somewhat less so as it goes on - I suspect we'll never find out - but if there's anything to know, Michael will have discovered it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
More superb television archaeology from Michael. I have a feeling that "The Monsters" might start quite eerie and then become somewhat less so as it goes on - I suspect we'll never find out - but if there's anything to know, Michael will have discovered it.
Just stumbled across this photo of Tony Iommi making an appearance at "Black Sabbath - The Ballet". Look at those faces. Oh my word.
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just stumbled across this photo of Tony Iommi making an appearance at "Black Sabbath - The Ballet". Look at those faces. Oh my word.
Continuing a theme - more Can brilliance. 90 minutes from Rockpalast, 1970. Beautiful footage courtesy of WDR. This stuff leaves me astonished. A band so supernaturally in tune with each other, it's uncanny. Something else that's uncanny - Jaki Leibezeit, the human metronome. *Incredible* drummer.
Can live | Rockpalast | 1970
YouTube video by WDR Rockpalast
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December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Continuing a theme - more Can brilliance. 90 minutes from Rockpalast, 1970. Beautiful footage courtesy of WDR. This stuff leaves me astonished. A band so supernaturally in tune with each other, it's uncanny. Something else that's uncanny - Jaki Leibezeit, the human metronome. *Incredible* drummer.
Needs a Nigel Lambert "Look Around You" voiceover.
"What IS slurry? We just don't know..."
"What IS slurry? We just don't know..."
I went to a country show in the actual country. There was a sponsored stall with PR types trying to rehabilitate slurry
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Needs a Nigel Lambert "Look Around You" voiceover.
"What IS slurry? We just don't know..."
"What IS slurry? We just don't know..."
Today's Blake's 7 - Gambit. Oh, man. The least Blake's 7 episode there ever was, but one of the greatest. Is it my favourite? I might well be. It's over the top, overacted, over-played, over-excitable and utterly ridiculous - and I love every second of it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today's Blake's 7 - Gambit. Oh, man. The least Blake's 7 episode there ever was, but one of the greatest. Is it my favourite? I might well be. It's over the top, overacted, over-played, over-excitable and utterly ridiculous - and I love every second of it.
If you ever get the chance, settle in one night and listen to one of her many performances of "Sorry Wrong Number". Which one? Doesn't matter. She's brilliant in all of them. She usually was, no matter what she did.
Agnes Moorehead, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1900, in Clinton, Massachusetts
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If you ever get the chance, settle in one night and listen to one of her many performances of "Sorry Wrong Number". Which one? Doesn't matter. She's brilliant in all of them. She usually was, no matter what she did.
Why can I hear Bryan Ferry singing that?
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Why can I hear Bryan Ferry singing that?
Fascinating Louise Brooks compilation coming in January. We're very lucky to get stuff like this. I try never to take it for granted...
Early films featuring Louise Brooks to get Blu-ray release via Flicker Alley and @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social and @silentlondon.bsky.social and ME. Details at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/12/once...
Once lost Louise Brooks films to have Blu-ray release
Louise Brooks, Focus on Louise Brooks, Flicker Alley, San Francisco Film Preserve, The Street of Forgotten Men, The American Venus, Just Another Blond
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December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Fascinating Louise Brooks compilation coming in January. We're very lucky to get stuff like this. I try never to take it for granted...
I'm not saying that I'm considering changing my ringtone for the next month to a soundbite of Camille Coduri squeaking "I'm gonna be killed by a Christmas Treeeeee" - but I'm not denying it either.
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I'm not saying that I'm considering changing my ringtone for the next month to a soundbite of Camille Coduri squeaking "I'm gonna be killed by a Christmas Treeeeee" - but I'm not denying it either.
How brilliant is this? Good on them.
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
How brilliant is this? Good on them.
Interesting survey compiled by The Football Pools in 2008, looking at local rivalries. Apparently the most fiercely charged of the lot is Wolves vs West Bromwich Albion. Quite surprised by that. My lot come in fifth. Archived PDF of the survey available here. web.archive.org/web/20131015...
Wayback Machine
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December 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Interesting survey compiled by The Football Pools in 2008, looking at local rivalries. Apparently the most fiercely charged of the lot is Wolves vs West Bromwich Albion. Quite surprised by that. My lot come in fifth. Archived PDF of the survey available here. web.archive.org/web/20131015...
Today's Big Match Revisited from March 1976 is a keeper. Someone playing for Aresenal who looks like Max Wall. A Crystal Palace player who looks like Bill Bruford. THREE men called Brian (so far), and a pitch-side advert for "Blue For You" by the Quo. My cup is definitely about to overflow.
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Today's Big Match Revisited from March 1976 is a keeper. Someone playing for Aresenal who looks like Max Wall. A Crystal Palace player who looks like Bill Bruford. THREE men called Brian (so far), and a pitch-side advert for "Blue For You" by the Quo. My cup is definitely about to overflow.
Make way for Harold Llloyd's Christmas Tree, ya-da ya-da ya-da ya-da-da-da. You'd need more than a pair of glasses and a smile to take in all of that one.
December 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Make way for Harold Llloyd's Christmas Tree, ya-da ya-da ya-da ya-da-da-da. You'd need more than a pair of glasses and a smile to take in all of that one.
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This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
Blake's 7 - Voice From The Past. God almighty. When Blake's 7 is good, it's superb. When it isn't, it's *this*. All the stylish close-ups, Servalan manifesting onscreen in widescreen etc can't make up for loony cults, silly voices, Vila being an idiot and Travis defeated by a vending machine.
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Blake's 7 - Voice From The Past. God almighty. When Blake's 7 is good, it's superb. When it isn't, it's *this*. All the stylish close-ups, Servalan manifesting onscreen in widescreen etc can't make up for loony cults, silly voices, Vila being an idiot and Travis defeated by a vending machine.
Great conversational bomb-drops of our time - my line manager who on seeing I was listening to The Who - Live at Leeds one day, airily announced, "I was there that night". "Oh my god, was it amazing?" I squeaked. "No, they were dull as ditchwater. Too loud, too. I went and sat next door"
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Great conversational bomb-drops of our time - my line manager who on seeing I was listening to The Who - Live at Leeds one day, airily announced, "I was there that night". "Oh my god, was it amazing?" I squeaked. "No, they were dull as ditchwater. Too loud, too. I went and sat next door"
"There was this girl, y'see, and she lived in a tower. Big, fack-off tower, it was. And she 'ad long hair. Tons of it. Facking long. Had to warn everyone when she walked into a room, 'cos their nans would fall over it and break their facking necks"
Danny Dyer is doing a CBeebies Bedtime story.
“F**king hell, this opportunity is f**ing mad” Dyer said (this is a joke)
“F**king hell, this opportunity is f**ing mad” Dyer said (this is a joke)
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"There was this girl, y'see, and she lived in a tower. Big, fack-off tower, it was. And she 'ad long hair. Tons of it. Facking long. Had to warn everyone when she walked into a room, 'cos their nans would fall over it and break their facking necks"
Exciting news INSIDE, chums! From next week, your two favourites join forces! Twice the EXCITEMENT! Be here for NETFLIX and WB!
(for six months, Netflix has "and WB" on their masthead, after which the latter disappears, never to be seen again)
(for six months, Netflix has "and WB" on their masthead, after which the latter disappears, never to be seen again)
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Exciting news INSIDE, chums! From next week, your two favourites join forces! Twice the EXCITEMENT! Be here for NETFLIX and WB!
(for six months, Netflix has "and WB" on their masthead, after which the latter disappears, never to be seen again)
(for six months, Netflix has "and WB" on their masthead, after which the latter disappears, never to be seen again)
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Get a load of this. 😆
The finest programming consultant Harlech Television ever had. They really don't make the covers to Christmas magazines like they used to, do they?
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The finest programming consultant Harlech Television ever had. They really don't make the covers to Christmas magazines like they used to, do they?
Something really rather wonderful. From "A Celebration of Christmas", broadcast late at night on Christmas Eve, 1984 - Jeremy Brett, David Burke and Rosalie Williams mingle with the Christmas revellers on Baker Street, singing carols and playing with the children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZ6...
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Something really rather wonderful. From "A Celebration of Christmas", broadcast late at night on Christmas Eve, 1984 - Jeremy Brett, David Burke and Rosalie Williams mingle with the Christmas revellers on Baker Street, singing carols and playing with the children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZ6...
A thought - given that the bloody thing's never been changed back or repealed, can we expect the Season 21 set to feature an edit of Frontios featuring The Mavis?*
*Obviously not, that would be silly, but this is what preoccupies me on a cold Friday
*Obviously not, that would be silly, but this is what preoccupies me on a cold Friday
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A thought - given that the bloody thing's never been changed back or repealed, can we expect the Season 21 set to feature an edit of Frontios featuring The Mavis?*
*Obviously not, that would be silly, but this is what preoccupies me on a cold Friday
*Obviously not, that would be silly, but this is what preoccupies me on a cold Friday