Now What Have You Been Watching?

[Rob McCow]

Don't muck with the Pert! (Sorry, that's terribly banal of me.)

[Nyder]

Before I dive into 1982 Crossroads, I'm doing Hancock TV Series 4 for breakfast. Starting with "Ericson The Viking". Whoever cast Pat Coombes as Boudicca deserves a medal. Very funny!


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[Stuart Wallis]

Before I dive into 1982 Crossroads, I'm doing Hancock TV Series 4 for breakfast.

Most people have cornflakes...

[Nyder]

Still enjoying HHH TV Series 4 at the mo (Dec 58 - Mar 59)

There's a VERY muddy audio-only version of "The Horror Serial" on YouTube, in which Hancock's obsession with Quatermass spills over into real life. He's convinced the aliens have landed. "Give them a punch up the bracket" says Sid. "They might not have a bracket to punch up" retorts Tony. In another audio-only episode "The Wrong Man" our lad keeps getting mistakenly identified in a police lineup. Another great episode was "The Set That Failed" - about society's obsession with television.

I'm disappointed though - there's no East Cheam in Cheam, and there's no pub called The Hand & Racket. Although thankfully there's a photo of Hancock in the pub opposite the train station. Stone Me!

[Stuart Wallis]

Stone Me!

Now, now, don't give The Lads ideas...

[Rob McCow]

We're watching an obscure 5-part miniseries from 1979. It's set in a Southern US State and stars a charming, upright man called Bobby Ewing.

It won't catch on.

[Andrew Curnow]

American rubbish!

At the risk of getting nostalgic (when has that ever stopped me?), and allowing for the fact that my memory sometimes cheats, I think Auntie Beeb repeated the first series or two of Dallas on a daily basis during Summer 1980 (presumably in a sort of run-up to a new series). And one of my abiding memories of that Summer holidays was of me, bruv, Mum & Dad staying down at Auntie's, and all of us (including Auntie's tribe, plus Gran and Grandpa) grouped round the telly each evening watching. (And laughing most unfairly at one particularly poignant line from Miss Ellie, but I won't go into that for fear of spoilers!!)

Whereas I've been watching 'The Honourable Woman' on BBC2 and, until tomorrow when the very last one airs, 'How I Met Your Mother' on E4.

[Nyder]

Sunday mornings are Terrahawks mornings chez Nyder! What a nostalgia blast! When you're older you tend to notice the character quirks a lot more. Poor old Hiro stuck up there talking to his plants in English & Japanese with only the sassy 101 zeroid to keep him company! He should hook up with John Tracy on Thunderbird 5. Now that's a love story just waiting to be told!


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[Nyder]

The Bionic Woman versus ....... Fembots!!



But what's more scary is Steve Austin's moustache. I don't think it's bionic though.....

[Stuart Wallis]

Not quite the Android Invasion - thank goodness!

[Nyder]

Well after the relative seriousness of the mega three-episode encounter with the Fembots, it's now Scooby-Doo time as Ms Bionic enters a creepy house trying to solve a riddle. Vincent Price camps it up playing two roles, and Julie Newmar vamps it up as per usual!

[Nyder]

Not quite the Android Invasion - thank goodness!

Can't wait for next season's "Fembots in Las Vegas"!!

[Stuart Wallis]

The Elvis impersonator Fembot has left the building.

[SiHart]

We saw a glimpse of Gary Russell's Dick today.

[Perry Vale]

I don't know how I had no knowledge of it's existence before, but caught the (BBC?) film Confetti last night, and thought it was brilliant. Great cast, and very, very funny!

[Jon Masters]

According to next week's RT, Monday's Only Connect might feel like a slap in the face for some of us....

[Nyder]

Ah I see what you mean :-(


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[Jon Masters]

According to next week's RT, Monday's Only Connect might feel like a slap in the face for some of us....

Blo@dy He## - tonight I got 3 questions right on the first clue, and completed both walls

[Rob McCow]

Common responses in our house while watching 'Only Connect'
FC KNG LL
WT TH FCK
SHT M HW R YU SPPSD T GT THT?!

[SiHart]

Good old John, He's a lovely guy.

[Nyder]

Well they got more than I did! I got the music clue and a lot of the squished up cnsnts


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[Andrew Curnow]

I'd never seen it before, and must confess I couldn't make it to the end last night. It needs some kind of studio audience I think, otherwise it just has a slight feel of seven strangers locked in a room struggling to keep the conversation going.

I quite liked that the Who guy kept picking The Eye of Horus though! (And I assumed the lion was a sphinx, or is that just me?)

[Jon Masters]

I quite liked that the Who guy kept picking The Eye of Horus though! (And I assumed the lion was a sphinx, or is that just me?)

In the Masters household we follow the example of Marcus Scarman and make the Sign of the Eye whenever that heiroglyph is chosen.

And I think a sphinx should have a human head, not a lion's

[Andrew Curnow]

Ah yes, I sphinx you're right. (Brendan, stop honking!)

[Andrew Curnow]

I also like to imagine you commanding all the junior Masters, Jon, by hissing: "Make the sign of the eye - the sign of the eye!" a la Bernard Archard.

It's a tantalising image, but I fear not quite enough to ever make me watch the show again.