Reply With QuoteBut this is ITVs Christmas offering, even at the time it was regarded as pretty naff. The BBC's Christmas night always won the ratings battle hands down, and still does.
Just in case Christmas nostalgia for the 1970s gets out of hand, and you need to remind yourselves that maybe it wasn't all brilliant, try and sit through all ten segments of this, on Youtube ... One thing in its favour is that it the post is really high digital quality, but other than that and a couple of goodish moments, it is painful. You know you're in trouble when the first thing up is Love thy Neighbour, and it's downhill from there! And has Tarbuck ever been any good?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNTeRlz6cuo
But this is ITVs Christmas offering, even at the time it was regarded as pretty naff. The BBC's Christmas night always won the ratings battle hands down, and still does.
Nothing has changed in the ensuing 30 years.
Oh goodness this is awful.
I do have the Network ITV Christmas set though ... and I will be dipping into it between now and New Year ...
....much like most of the tripe we get on television now then!Originally Posted by didi-5
Last edited by Steve Crook; 03-12-10 at 01:11 PM.
A reminder too of the 1970s when everything was brown and orange -basically a puke colour.
Sometimes on the re-runs of Quincy the brown becomes totally over powering IE brown cars, brown bars,brown offices, brown fields- and of course every one drinks coffee.
They Used to have things like A Christmas Night with the Stars, which was usually recorded in August or there abouts.Now, we get repeats, repeats, repeats of old programmes from Christmas past, which were recorded in and around August, Talk about ground hog day!!
Now you get Jools Holland and his New Year Hootenanny when everyone goes into the studio for a big party and pretends that it's New Year's Eve when it's really the middle of summer outside
Steve
Here's what the Beed was showing on Christmas Day 1972. While BBC2 had a good package for any other day of the year, I wonder how many families put the kids to bed, got out the whisky and settled down to concentrate on The Stone Tape.
Isn't it strange how the memory can play tricks on you. I would have sworn that there was so much to watch on TV back in those days.
Still at least you wouldn't have large doses of miserable b***y soaps to ruin the nights viewing. Was there ever a Christmas night that was full of good programmes and films? or did we just have to talk to each other and pray that someone would invent a Video recorder?
That's quite common, people only remember the programmes they enjoyed and forget that there was a lot of rubbish on TV back then, just like there is now. Most years the Christmas TV schedule had one or two films that were worth watching, one or two good variety (music and/or comedy) shows and a few classics like the Royal Ballet and the carol service from King's. The rest of it was usually either absolute rubbish or just averagely poor.
Steve
I waded my way through most of this , but Tony Jacklin with a pimp 'tache doing "comedy and singing" with Tarby had me running screaming for the exit.
Last edited by Steve Crook; 04-12-10 at 11:14 PM.
that fire that tarby has in his house they seem to be very much of that era as you do see them in a lot of other films but i cant help but think they look positively lethal nowadays
the likelyhood of a hot lump of coal or whathaveyou jumping out and setting fire to something would be quite high .
as for the humour its just jokes about mother in laws and big boobs etc ......great
only joking
The Stone Tape! Classic Nigel Kneale?? I think, now that was definitely worth watching!Here's what the Beed was showing on Christmas Day 1972. While BBC2 had a good package for any other day of the year, I wonder how many families put the kids to bed, got out the whisky and settled down to concentrate on The Stone Tape.
Great cast for The Stone Tape, anybody remember it?
THE STONE TAPE does require a whisky or three even now.Here's what the Beed was showing on Christmas Day 1972. While BBC2 had a good package for any other day of the year, I wonder how many families put the kids to bed, got out the whisky and settled down to concentrate on The Stone Tape.
Don't remember The Stone Tape myself.......but here's the beginning courtesy of you-tube.........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEK17FdSMY
Was that Jane Asher driving the car..........?
Yep Jane Asher features along with Michael Bryant, Iain Cuthbertson & Michael Bates.
It's a cracking piece of Nigel Kneale writing with a deeply unsettling atmosphere.
The deeply unsettling atmosphere could be said about Tarbuck and Jacklin as well but not in such a good way.
By 9pm on Christmas Day, I think most people are already living in a deeply unsettling atmosphere
The Stone Tape is marred by most of the cast shouting their lines for some unaccountable reason especially Forgeham, though it settles down eventually.
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