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Post by scarred on Apr 28, 2017 19:18:10 GMT
Excellent news, who for? On a similar note, have you tried forwarding a pdf of the book to Robin Ince? Might get a bit of promotion on his Book Shambles podcast. It's the kind of thing he's normally all over. Bought the Jim Henson/John Hurt series The Storyteller today and realised it would be perfect for you for the 80s volume. Also, the Diff'rent Strokes episode with the paedophile might deserve a mention. Shook me up when I saw it as a kid and for years nobody believed it existed when I talked about it. I've never rewatched it. I should someday to see if it matches my memories. It'll be on Radio Merseyside next Tuesday morning at 7:25am. It'll be on iPlayer at a more civilised time of your choosing too! Robin Ince has already mentioned the book on his Twitter so we're quite hopeful. A few well known people have bought the book or received copies. Pat Mills, the famous comic book writer, likes the book. I know Gareth Roberts has bought it. The Storyteller is a good idea, possibly a short sharp shock (the list got added to today when I remembered Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan and the parasite crawling into the ear that was cut from my old VHS version). That Diff'rent Strokes episode is definitely already on the list, Ste told me about it and I didn't believe him either!
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Post by rawlinson on Apr 28, 2017 19:55:08 GMT
Excellent news.
There's actually another Diff'rent Strokes episode that might have potential for you but I haven't seen myself, one where the Dana Plato character gets kidnapped by a rapist.
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Post by scarred on Apr 28, 2017 21:48:34 GMT
Excellent news. There's actually another Diff'rent Strokes episode that might have potential for you but I haven't seen myself, one where the Dana Plato character gets kidnapped by a rapist. The Hitch-hikers? It's on the list (as are 4 other episodes).
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Post by scarred on May 2, 2017 13:08:53 GMT
Just listened to our radio interview. Strangest thing, we sound way more Scouse on the radio than we do in reality. Very odd.
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Post by helrunar on May 2, 2017 16:56:06 GMT
Hi Scarred,
Is the interview available online anywhere? Best of luck with the project.
cheers, H.
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Post by scarred on May 2, 2017 17:06:21 GMT
Hi Scarred, Is the interview available online anywhere? Best of luck with the project. cheers, H. Yep. Go on iPlayer radio, choose local stations then choose BBC Radio Merseyside. Choose Tony Snell breakfast show then click on the 24 minute mark in the broadcast, there's a little bit of a traffic report then it's us. Btw, call me Dave! I really appreciate your good wishes, I think we have more reviews coming up in magazines in the next month or so so hopefully that'll give us a little boost.
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Post by helrunar on May 2, 2017 18:38:19 GMT
Thanks, Dave. I live in the US so I do not know if it is available over here. I'm glad it was a success for you.
Whenever I hear the word "Scouse" I think of this 45 the Monkees cut back in around 1967 which bore the title "Randy Scouse Git." I think the toured the UK around when it came out and I remember they weren't prepared for how people in the UK reacted to that title.
H.
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Post by scarred on May 2, 2017 19:05:34 GMT
Thanks, Dave. I live in the US so I do not know if it is available over here. I'm glad it was a success for you. Whenever I hear the word "Scouse" I think of this 45 the Monkees cut back in around 1967 which bore the title "Randy Scouse Git." I think the toured the UK around when it came out and I remember they weren't prepared for how people in the UK reacted to that title. H. I'll sort out a link to the audio file for you.
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Post by scarred on May 2, 2017 20:43:18 GMT
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Post by helrunar on May 3, 2017 1:28:01 GMT
Thanks, Dave! That was great fun. I loved that it opened with the Thames TV signature tune and the now familiar opening music from Tomorrow People (which I only heard for the first time a few years ago via a Trunk Records CD release--then last year, finally saw some of the shows on Youtube), and closed with Barry Gray's fab music for UFO which I really think of as a late 60s artifact.
So you and your collaborator wrote 700 pages between the two of you? Impressive!
Still haven't caught up with some of the shows you mention, most notably The Sweeney.
Wishing you all the best with your next project,
Helrunar (Steve)
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Post by scarred on May 3, 2017 6:15:25 GMT
Thanks, Dave! That was great fun. I loved that it opened with the Thames TV signature tune and the now familiar opening music from Tomorrow People (which I only heard for the first time a few years ago via a Trunk Records CD release--then last year, finally saw some of the shows on Youtube), and closed with Barry Gray's fab music for UFO which I really think of as a late 60s artifact. So you and your collaborator wrote 700 pages between the two of you? Impressive! Still haven't caught up with some of the shows you mention, most notably The Sweeney. Wishing you all the best with your next project, Helrunar (Steve) You're welcome. You're correct, of course, about UFO being made in the late 60s but the episodes didn't air over here until, in some regions, as late as 1974 so it was always a staple of my 70s childhood. We did write over 700 pages! I think the limit on Lulu was 740 pages total and we went right to the limit. Stuff got cut, notably my piece on Amicus films was trimmed right back, a whole section on BBC vs ITV was cut, I know that Tomorrow People was originally a much longer piece and a whole article I wrote on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (which always used to make me cry!) was excised. I would heartily recommend all the shows we mentioned (I'm not sure which stayed in the interview because I don't like the sound of my own voice so I haven't listened to it!), Feathered Serpent is as shocking as Ste suggests, Alternative Three is worth watching for the story which surrounds it which is incredible and I cannot recommend The Sweeney highly enough. Thank you again for your kind wishes. Dave
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Post by pulphack on May 3, 2017 12:09:39 GMT
Just to add that UFO was really a seventies series despite being made in 1969. Without googling I'm sure it didn't air until 1970 - I remember sitting watching the first episode and being really excited as it was by the man who made Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet, and it had REAL PEOPLE!! I still love it now. Regions were really erratic about when they aired it, both in time of year and also time slot, so it was doomed to be a cult from the start. There were also some episodes that were not shown at all, or shifted to late night, because of drug references, and these I don't think I saw until I got the DVD box as I was too young to stay up that late, assuming Thames/LWT showed them at all!
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Post by helrunar on May 3, 2017 12:37:46 GMT
Oh yes--agree absolutely that UFO belongs in that book. I kept that note short so perhaps it wasn't clear that what I was saying is I, Helrunar, when I think of it now at my advanced age of fifty-mumble, think of that series as of the late Sixties. But they filmed it in two batches, I have read, and I think the second set was done in '70. I don't think the series aired here in America until around '72--I would have to look that up, and just as in the UK, it got shown "in syndication" as the practice was over here throughout the 1970s. They of course cobbled some of the shows together into feature-film length bits and those got shown in Saturday afternoon and late night slots in the US and I think may have run theatrically in Europe, too. Hopefully they made some money on it. I have also read that it cost a lot of money even though people today think it looks "cheap." One wonders just how much they had to pay for those purple wigs!
There was one series that I think your collaborator mentioned where I couldn't understand the title. It might have been Feathered Serpent. I have heard of that one but never seen it. Unfortunately region 2 discs don't show up over here in "good will" shops but admittedly I don't get into those all that much.
I am sorry for the excised chapters! Perhaps those could be featured as extras on a website? Just a thought. I know you are both thick in the throes of writing about the Eighties, which for me is the decade time forgot--I was either in grad school or living out in Taiwan teaching English for nearly that entire decade--and in the first couple of years, living in an ashram at one point--all the pop culture stuff really passed me by and it's all kept on going since then...
Best wishes,
Helrunar
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Post by cromagnonman on May 3, 2017 13:04:38 GMT
Just to add that UFO was really a seventies series despite being made in 1969. Without googling I'm sure it didn't air until 1970 - I remember sitting watching the first episode and being really excited as it was by the man who made Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet, and it had REAL PEOPLE!! I still love it now. Regions were really erratic about when they aired it, both in time of year and also time slot, so it was doomed to be a cult from the start. There were also some episodes that were not shown at all, or shifted to late night, because of drug references, and these I don't think I saw until I got the DVD box as I was too young to stay up that late, assuming Thames/LWT showed them at all! I think Jane Merrow stripping down to her undies got one episode banished to a graveyard slot too. Not the sort of thing one was used to seeing on an Anderson show before. Or had wanted to really. Not unless you were a connoisseur of good carpentry, I suppose: "phwoar, just look at the dovetail joints on that!"
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Post by helrunar on May 3, 2017 15:04:15 GMT
Mr. Cromagnon man, you crack me up! I don't recall Jane's episode of UFO but she did some good ones with Peter Wyngarde in Dept. S and the infamous Jason King (which was a camp parody of every ITV action series of the Sixties). I thought she was quite attractive but perhaps my opinion when it comes to feminine wiles is not to be trusted? She has a nice website I visited briefly a few years ago.
Thanks again for a smile--I needed it on this crusty day...
cheers, H.
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