The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

A very comprehensive tribute to TERRAHAWKS.

THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT, DEAD MAN'S SHOES, THE PARALLAX VIEW, TOUCH OF EVIL

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An Ealing comedy comfort blanket, Shane Meadows does 'if Ken Loach directed Taxi Driver', Alan J. Pakula with 'just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you', and Welles's noir masterpiece...

This is worth a watch, and despite its director, producer, writer and half the cast suggesting otherwise, is not a Carry On.

There’s an unexpected amount of subtext here as well. Filmed in Bracknell, it’s full of comments about low crime rates and spacious housing: NEW TOWNS ARE GOOD, FOLKS!!

Meet the cast of the new edgy BBC3 re-imagining of 'Last of the Summer Wine'.

"2000 Criminals", published in the '68 CS annual, is one of my all-time favourite Captain Scarlet stories. Its heartstoppingly grim and abrupt end has the tell-tale signs of cut material. Motton's script re-orders key events of the story, but turns out the finale was *always* shockingly bleak!

Finally realised I never saw Rediffusion's OBJECT Z in 1965 because it was on opposite BBC1's science magazine TOM TOM, which was shown after ROBINSON CRUSOE and before THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT - a pretty solid line-up. So glad #BFI have now released the OBJECT Z DVD!

A Rediffusion TV set on a Rediffusion TV show

Watching OBJECT Z (1965) on #BFI disc, I'm surprised Rediffusion got away with this blatant product placement.

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Distributed across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia & NZ
in the Autumn 1965

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Track down this annual. They're readily available on eBay. It's a brilliant anthology of comic strips, short stories and in-universe features. That and the '69 annual are pretty much the combined series bible of Captain Scarlet.

#PatrickWymark in TOP OF THE LADDER (11 December 1967) a TV adaptation of Tyrone Guthrie's stage play. Wymark plays a ruthless businessman reviewing his life from his deathbed. #RachelHerbert played his wife, Katie wymark.org.uk/ladder.html

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From 1973, all 3 parts of s2 Case 53 #CourtroomDrama 📺 “CROWN COURT” - “A Stab in the Front: R. v Blandford” directed by Bryan Izzard & written by Michael O’Neill + Jeremy Seabrook

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#RachelHerbert appeared with #PatrickWymark in THE POWER GAME (1965-66) and TOP OF THE LADDER (1967) and would later play Norah Palmer in the stage version of ROBIN REDBREAST (1976) but at 3pm this afternoon you can see her in CROWN COURT @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social -
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Script extract from the "2000 Criminals" story from Captain Scarlet by David Motton. Highlight of the extract is: "As you know, Scarlet, dead men have a habit of returning to life as Mysteron agents."

Since we're all in a Captain Scarlet mood, I'm diving back into David Motton's scripts. Some of the material that gets cut from the annual stories is kind of wild. Love how Colonel White is so accepting of the Mysterons' stranglehold of humanity's deceased.

Reading that the London Pavilion, where THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO had its premiere, has been turned into a £30 a night 'Pod Hotel'. "The Future Is Fantastic".
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Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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Rare Fireball XL5 poster #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson #fireballxl5

This is a PSA for Blueskiers rediscovering Captain Scarlet:

1. Electricity is the one thing that can kill both Mysterons and Captain Scarlet himself.

2. We can't be certain how unkillable Scarlet is, because Gerry Anderson never fully considered the body horror implications of his own creation.

Is Captain Wade in OBJECT Z any relation to Major Colin Wade (#RayArmstrong) in the 1972 series of FREEWHEELERS? I'll leave that to FREEWHEELERS fans.

Loved him in ROBIN OF SHERWOOD.

Watching the #BFI Blu-ray of OBJECT Z, the Special Branch officer Captain Wade is played by #TerenceDonovan - later of MONEY MOVERS (1978) during the period when he had to call himself Terence J. Donovan to stop people confusing him with the Swinging London photographer.

I see your Sid James and raise you Ray Barrett

"Need some fruit? Step right in and pick up a nice juicy pear. Nyak nyak nyak"

To be fair, Lenny Henry would have been around 12 years old at the time. We all stole our jokes at that age.

The front cover to The Mighty World of Marvel #1, which is dated October 7, 1972 and cost 5p. Pictured are The Hulk, The Thing, Spider-Man, The Human Torch, Mister Fantastic, and the Invisible Woman. Text: Free! Green-skinned monster T-shirt transfer The World's Greatest Superheroes! We've got a great mystery surprise for every reader! See page 20! Flame On! 3 big supernatural movie length adventures The Amazing Spider-Man! The Incredible Hulk! The fabulous Fantastic Four!

It was 53 years ago today a momentous event occurred that would change my life, though I didn't realize it at the time — for ton that date Mighty World of Marvel #1 was published, launching a line of weekly UK reprints of Marvel comics, which I was eventually hired to edit on June 24, 1974.

Watching BFI disc of OBJECT Z (1965) from Rediffusion, in the rare position of having next to no idea what it's about. Find myself in the same situation of an adult in 1965 being surprised by how intense this children's programme is.

1968 Joe 90 case - very hard to find in any condition. #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson #joe90

imagining the cleaning lady standing in shock as all seventeen fall one after the other through the door of a cupboard which could surely never have contained them in the first place

A reminder to Mel Stride that it was the late #CleoSylvestre who in 1971 coined the joke, "I'd be delighted if Enoch Powell gave me £2,000 to go back where I came from. I could get a smashing place in Hitchin for that."