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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2021 23:46:49 GMT
"You used to bring me flowers...but that was on the outside..." In the 80s, the BBC found importing these Aussie shows were cheaper than making new TV (there were still rules stopping repeats more than once, a major reason why wiping tapes was seen as acceptable, so they coudn't do that) - so the unemployed, elderly, kids on holiday time and sick lived on a diet of these Aussie shows. And Neighbours ended up being far bigger here than it was at home (Thanks for Kylie!). Prisoner (it was called Prisoner: Cell Block H to differentiate from the McGoohan show) was shown about 11pm, again a dead slot for new programming but you couldn't exactly show that during the day. You can get the complete series on DVD - 174 Discs. It was, not sure about now, the biggest TV boxset ever made. It was prime time tv here It went for 11(?) seasons and "Supernatural" went for 15. I think the Prisoner boxset is physically bigger I see it all the time at the shops. Yeah, but Prisoner had 692 episodes. Supernatural had 327. So I think there's a rather obvious reason that one box is rather larger than the other!
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Post by ljwilson on Oct 5, 2021 13:20:31 GMT
I have a strange story attached to watching Prisoner of cell block H and smoking strange things at 1am during my late teens. The smoking strange things isn't really relevant to the event, so please bear with me.
When I was about 17, I was sat in my Mum’s front room at around 1am watching ‘Prisoner of Cell Block H’ with my best mate.
Suddenly, a bright white light flooded the room through the drawn curtains, accompanied by a loud droning noise. We both sat there quite stunned, and wondered what the hell it could be. We sat there, not talking or looking at each other, for an unknown length of time – 10 minutes, 1 hour? Who knows. I do remember that neither of us got up to have a look outside to see what it was, which was also a bit strange. When it ended we had no idea what had just happened.
I thought it could be the bin men…but let’s face it, they don’t empty the bins in rural Lancashire at 1am, and my Mum’s house had a large front garden which was surrounded by a thick wall of 30-foot high conifer trees that wouldn’t let any light in from the normally very quiet cul-de-sac road, 30 meters away.
Years later I reminded him of the incident and he just said to me ‘yes I remember it, and we couldn’t move a muscle...'
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Post by theillusiveman on Oct 6, 2021 0:34:28 GMT
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Post by cwm on Oct 6, 2021 7:06:49 GMT
This is clickbait based on a joke made on BF's twitter feed.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 8, 2021 10:59:56 GMT
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Post by themeddlingmonk on Oct 8, 2021 11:07:17 GMT
Anything to stop them remaking the whole of classic who tbh.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 8, 2021 17:48:50 GMT
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Post by fitzoliverj on Oct 10, 2021 15:46:44 GMT
Shocked that no one has mentioned Kylie Minogue yet. Well... she has a home studio and sn't doing any concerts at the moment.
Well, she's just announced she's de-emigrating back to Australia after living in the UK for thirty years, and she's also doing a duet with the next Doctor Who Olly Alexander, so maybe this is her moment? Her last hurrah?
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Post by mark687 on Oct 12, 2021 9:01:42 GMT
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Post by constonks on Oct 12, 2021 13:23:09 GMT
Wonder if it's full cast or continuing the trend of "written & performed by" audiobooks? (like Scratchman, At Childhood's End, I Am the Master, Watchers & Ruby's Curse)
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Post by sherlock on Oct 12, 2021 16:08:20 GMT
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Post by Digi on Oct 13, 2021 15:44:41 GMT
No way of knowing right now whether this is Big Finish- or even Doctor Who-related yet, but it is interesting...
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Post by cwm on Oct 13, 2021 18:53:27 GMT
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Post by dannybl on Oct 13, 2021 19:34:22 GMT
No way of knowing right now whether this is Big Finish- or even Doctor Who-related yet, but it is interesting...
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Post by Digi on Oct 13, 2021 19:57:59 GMT
No way of knowing right now whether this is Big Finish- or even Doctor Who-related yet, but it is interesting... Ooh interesting.
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Post by grinch on Oct 13, 2021 21:02:03 GMT
Maybe it’s a documentary for the 60th?
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Post by muddyviolet on Oct 13, 2021 22:21:21 GMT
No way of knowing right now whether this is Big Finish- or even Doctor Who-related yet, but it is interesting... Might be a 5-ish Doctors type thing? I think I've read somewhere they're planning to do something similar for the 60th.
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Post by cwm on Oct 16, 2021 16:00:23 GMT
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Post by xlozdob on Oct 19, 2021 9:40:53 GMT
Since she says "my Doctor Who episode", can we assume she's writing one? It says in her bio she's a writer as well as an actress. It's a weird way to describe an episode she's got a part in, unless, I guess, she's got a pretty sizable part. Still, who knows...
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Post by mark687 on Oct 24, 2021 21:26:55 GMT
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