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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Nov 28, 2011 14:25:49 GMT
Saturday night telly aint what it used to be... it was bloody marvellous back then! When smokers weren't outcasts of society...  ...and what a terrific act The Playmates were...  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Nov 29, 2011 11:48:14 GMT
I recently rewatched my "Sherlock Holmes" complete box set...when it came to solving problems in the olden days, the best way to find a solution was to smoke like a fucking maniac apparently...Holmes and Watson pacing the room, pipes ablaze, minds working at full tilt! Old style nicotine obviously stimulated the mind. ;D Also watched the complete "Outer Limits" original series as well, once again, smoking, drinking and dressing like a well turned out, smart human being was the height of cool (as were tidy little convertable cars, which seemed to feature in every single earth based episode!).  AH |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Nov 29, 2011 12:14:12 GMT
As for Saturday evenings for me...
Godspeed Ranger 3!
Rag Tag Fleet FTW!
Better - Stronger - Faster
KITT = Awesome
AH
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Nov 29, 2011 13:57:07 GMT
I recently rewatched my "Sherlock Holmes" complete box set...when it came to solving problems in the olden days, the best way to find a solution was to smoke like a fucking maniac apparently...Holmes and Watson pacing the room, pipes ablaze, minds working at full tilt! Old style nicotine obviously stimulated the mind. ;D Also watched the complete "Outer Limits" original series as well, once again, smoking, drinking and dressing like a well turned out, smart human being was the height of cool (as were tidy little convertable cars, which seemed to feature in every single earth based episode!). AH The BBC have recently said 'the bad old days are over where people were seen casually lighting up on TV...' ...but taking the piss out of the disabled is fine. |
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Post by aubrey on Nov 29, 2011 14:08:44 GMT
Smoking does aid thought, and Holmes (at least once, anyway) talks of problems in terms of how many pipes he will have to smoke while solving them.
These days he would be expected to drink mint tea and instead of ordering in each new newspaper edition, he will refresh his Twitter feed every few seconds: but he will not be able to throw the laptop to the floor when there's no new news.
I miss the times when the goodies on tv - the characters who you're supposed to root for - were allowed to smoke.
And the great bit in Children of the Stones when the bloke, after having had a shock, and a woman bringing him water, says something disparaging about water, and tells her to fetch him a glass of whisky instead, and not a small one: and the woman, when he's not watching, takes a glug from the bottle. In a children's programme, this.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 29, 2011 14:11:01 GMT
Mind you, there was a recent(ish) film (1992) made by c4's children's film unit, called Emily's Ghost which has a 13 year old smoking one of his father's cigars while looking at dirty postcards: the only acknowledgement of Edwardian pornography I remember seeing in a film set in that time.
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Nov 29, 2011 15:01:55 GMT
I vaguely recall Children Of The Stones. I remember visiting relatives in Germany in the mid seventies...I was only about 10..and the adults left me alone to go to a party...I was enthralled by German TV, so much sex and nudity, my eyes were popping out of my skull, and I had a glass of brandy and stole one of my Uncle's cigars...never been so violently ill. But how I wanted to put the German and Dutch TV channels into a bag and bring them back home. Alas, when we got back I had to make do with trying to catch a flash of bare breast in the odd late night horror movie...usually Ingrid Pitt or Madeleine Smith.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Nov 29, 2011 15:24:45 GMT
Yeah, Hammer Horror productions were were your best chances of seeing some flesh when I was a lad too. Pretty sure that they introduced me to the concept of "lipstick lezzerism amongst vampire chicks" as well. AH |
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Post by Weyland on Nov 29, 2011 16:44:28 GMT
Yeah, Hammer Horror productions were were your best chances of seeing some flesh when I was a lad too. Pretty sure that they introduced me to the concept of "lipstick lezzerism amongst vampire chicks" as well. AH Hazel Court introduced me to <censored>.  |
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Post by aubrey on Nov 29, 2011 19:27:30 GMT
That's the generation gap, there. Sorry Weyland.
I'm one of those watching Hammer late at night (Fri and Sat night in the 70s) hoping to get a quick flash, and almost incidentally swallowing up that atmosphere of Thames/Transylvania. Also, my mother had me two weeks late, after seeing the Hammer version of Dracula, so I have a great, if sometimes exasperated, fondness for Hammer.
Chris:
It's all there. It's pretty good. Wonderful atmosphere.
That German TV really led to the decline of their nation, didn't it?
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Post by Weyland on Nov 29, 2011 22:21:02 GMT
That's the generation gap, there. Sorry Weyland. I'm one of those watching Hammer late at night (Fri and Sat night in the 70s) hoping to get a quick flash, and almost incidentally swallowing up that atmosphere of Thames/Transylvania. Also, my mother had me two weeks late, after seeing the Hammer version of Dracula, so I have a great, if sometimes exasperated, fondness for Hammer. Sorry? I loved Hammer. Especially when Vincent Price (and Hazel Court, of course) was starring. Remember Dr Terror's House of Horrors? (Not Hammer, but an ex-Hammer director.) My GP in Holland was called Doctor Terra. And they say there is no God. |
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Post by aubrey on Nov 30, 2011 9:48:26 GMT
Was that Amicus? One of those portmanteau films (usually based on Robert Bloch stories)?
Generation gap - I meant that we were at that age when Hammer was on tv, and you were when that mag was around: but I now see that the mag was later than I had supposed. real cock-up there.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 30, 2011 11:54:29 GMT
Was that Amicus? One of those portmanteau films (usually based on Robert Bloch stories)? Generation gap - I meant that we were at that age when Hammer was on tv, and you were when that mag was around: but I now see that the mag was later than I had supposed. real cock-up there. It says Freddie Francis on the web. I'm no expert. I never read the mags, Aub. Don't know what date that one is. I suppose I was seeing the Hammer films roughly as they came out. Used to go to the flicks almost every week, usually in the city. There was a cinema at the end of our street, though they rarely showed horror pics. The other cinema half a mile away did a lot of SF, such as Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, World Without End, and other classics. |
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Post by aubrey on Nov 30, 2011 12:01:37 GMT
I've just checked, and it was an Amicus film, the one with Alan Freeman getting killed by a giant plant and Roy Castle getting in trouble with a voodoo tune (miming the trumpet as well, according to Wiki).
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Nov 30, 2011 12:48:34 GMT
There was a cinema at the end of our street, though they rarely showed horror pics. The other cinema half a mile away did a lot of SF, such as Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, World Without End, and other classics. Mental, I watched "World Without End" only 2 or 3 days ago. Have "Rocketship XM", "Journey to Mars", "Conquest of Space" and "Destination Moon" all lined up for vieweing this week. Watched some great post apocalypse classics several weks ago as well..."The World, the Flesh & the Devil" and "Five"...both excellent movies. AH |
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Post by Weyland on Nov 30, 2011 15:53:05 GMT
There was a cinema at the end of our street, though they rarely showed horror pics. The other cinema half a mile away did a lot of SF, such as Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, World Without End, and other classics. Mental, I watched "World Without End" only 2 or 3 days ago. Have "Rocketship XM", "Journey to Mars", "Conquest of Space" and "Destination Moon" all lined up for vieweing this week. Watched some great post apocalypse classics several weks ago as well..."The World, the Flesh & the Devil" and "Five"...both excellent movies. AH You're a man of taste, Alph. |
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