Thursday, October 13, 2016

C.O.U.C.H. Trips 'R' Us

It's another day of delectable delights for your viewing pleasure. An eclectic array of televisual treats. Yesterday is today once more. Nothing like these shows of yore. Obscure-o-Vision and some relative classics.

 Budgie, that far-a-way neer-do-not-so well, that fun-loving cockney criminal as per Adam Faith teen-idol that was deeper than your average pop-star bear.

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Robert Lindsay southend Marxist extraordinaire at your service in Citizen Smith. This revolutionary comedy series boasted a four-series run a la Beeb - 1977-1980.


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The one Ronnie, the barking mad one, ingenious with his nuances and could make you howl from a whisper of his wit - Open All Hours 


Raffles ye olde cracksmith , starring Anthony Valentine




Man In A Suitcase, the supernal sir Spooner was at it again with this short lived 1967 series, the successor of Danger Man that starred our good chum Patrick McGoohan. Untouchables touchable Richard Bradford stars as the resigned US Intelligence agent




Stacy Keach is Mike Hammer, Darren McGavin who, not that I don't rate Dazza, but it's a natural fact that Mr Keach is probably like my favorite person ever, besides my fellar :) This episode is from the first of the four seasons of The New Mike Hammer, there was a redux in the late 90s and Keach was still hammering it home then too.

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Now you don't see him - now you don't it's The Invisible Man - McCallum style, from 1975




And now a Cerfin'; Safari, Dorothy the Kilgallen joy and who oh just who will that mystery guest be - Is it bigger than the aurora borealis? What's My Line?





The Patty Duke Show - The French Teacher, remembering lady Duke, who was already a seasoned fifty year old in her teen years as displayed in this series. Which graced the waved between 1963 and 1966 Patty was pre-pre-pre-precocious, oh aye.



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Frederick was the one Wiseman, the demigod of direct cinema, who turned the documentary world on its ear with his provocative fly-on-the-wall up close and personal Leacockian films that showcase the everyman in their respective hours and days of their lives.
Essene,  perhaps his most sensitive work centering on a Benedictine monastery, is being aired in TPR now



Boris Karloff's Thriller - An anthology series that aired on two separate networks between 1960 and 1962. This entry - The Watcher, starring Martin Gabel.

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