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[thisbluespirit]

1. tardis_library seems to be starting off well, so I am pleased! I've nearly finished all my pimping now, you'll be relieved to know (sorry!) - but if anyone who hasn't already and is into Doctor Who or knows a few people who are could still pimp it on their journal or anywhere else that seems appropriate, I'll be very grateful! c+p banner coding here for LJ/Dreamwidth:

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With even more thanks to anyone who is kind enough to reblog this tumblr post for it. (The couple of people who have - thank you, it made a big difference. It's just there's no way for me to do the rounds myself there and I am entirely reliant on other people reblogging, so any help there is marvellous. thank you thank you.)


2. I don't know if it's a new Freeview channel, or just one that my TV Guide has deigned to cover now or what, but there's a channel full of very old films called Talking Pictures, which has just provided me with some more Margaret Lockwood in the shape of Hungry Hill (1947), an adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier book (from the days when Daphne du Maurier was still around to help with the scripting). I'm now nearly through it, and some more Margaret Lockwood being headstrong in big frocks has been very welcome!

Tomorrow, I see that it will be showing The Wicked Lady (and no doubt some other days this week), so, if you are also in the UK and want to see Margaret Lockwood and James Mason galloping about being highwaymen you should watch. It is not quite as fab as The Lady Vanishes obv. but it is excellent OTT melodrama with cross-dressing and villainy and shenanigans and also the lovely Patricia Roc. (Plus it's clearly the inspiration for a lot of the DW ep "The Woman Who Lived" too. Watching them close together is quite the experience.)

Via tumblr, some pics of Margaret Lockwood in Hungry Hill, big frocks v much included.

(And Drama are also starting showing Juliet Bravo from tomorrow (an early 1980s series about a female police officer policing Up North (but not pretty like All Creatures)). I like having my terrible elderly-TV/film watching habits enabled like this. I don't remember the early series(es) so well as the later ones with Anna Carteret, but I think Chris Boucher was script editor for 1 or 2 or the early ones, so naturally, I'm interested, especially in any eps he wrote for it. (I'll check IMBD).)

Comments

[persiflage_1]

Have fun with your old telly, and even older films!

[thisbluespirit]

I will! Certainly Margaret Lockwood galloping about on horses, whether in big frocks or highwaymen outfits is always a plus. :-D

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[persiflage_1]

Certainly sounds it!

Alas that I don't have access to a TV to watch for myself! Not that it matters given the asshole boss has buggered off to America so I'll be at work all day every day until May 9th.

[thisbluespirit]

Some of them seem to have an iPlayer equivalent, too, but I don't know about this partcular channel - it's new to me as well. (I think Drama have something, as part of a group of channels, but I'm not sure, not having used it myself.)

And, oh no, not again! I hope he comes back promptly this time! *hugs* (And also pays you lots of money and gets a personality transplant while there, of course, but let's start with small miracles...)

[pedanther]

I found their web site - http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/ - and it doesn't appear to mention any watch-online options, only pointers on how to get the movies they play on DVD.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, interesting. Thanks!

[persiflage_1]

Ah! Maybe I'll try poking iPlayer then.

That'd be nice.

[earthspirits]

As you know - big fan of this film as it features James Mason AND Michael Rennie + of course, the lovely Margaret Lockwood. Love the era it's set in too! : )

[thisbluespirit]

It is a good one!

[eve_n_furter]

I almost wish I was in the DW fandom now. :-/

[thisbluespirit]

Join us! It's easy, there's 50+ years of TV, audio, books, comics etc., etc.. ;-p

[eve11]

Juliet Bravo is a real thing? I thought it was just a made up show for that one Doctor Who Unbound story.

[thisbluespirit]

Lol, I remembered someone else saying that when I got S4 on DVD (there was an ep with David Collings) and I clicked my tag, and it turns out it was you back then, too, although apparently aralias said the same thing, because she's not quite as old as I am. :-D

It is real! It ran for a few years, with two different leads and I used to watch it with my Mum when I was small. It's all about GOSH THERE IS A WOMAN POLICE INSPECTOR IN CHARGE; a run down northern town reacts in shock. But definitely real. (I don't remember the original lead, but I loved Anna Carteret very much. She was my role model of what professionalism looks like in a woman!)

[jhall1]

Talking Pictures has been around for a couple of months, or at least that's how long my own TV guide has included it. It has a lot of excellent, primarily but not exclusively, British films from the 1940s and 1950s.

[thisbluespirit]

It does seem to be a useful one if you like that kind of thing. :-D

[liadt]

Talking Pictures has been around for a while. I can get it on my TV, but not my DVD recorder:/ Otherwise I'd be recording it all!

[thisbluespirit]

I think they've been channel shifting lately - I retuned the other day and now it seems to be okay with channels it wasn't before. But I know you live somewhere where such things probably will not penetrate. ;-)

I shall try not to record them all, though.

[liadt]

No, record them all!

I'll try another retune if they've been moving channels and cross my fingers. Where I live is impervious to all types of modern technology starting from tin cans and pieces of string, lol.

[dimity_blue]

How handy that they're showing old films you want to see. I hope they're almost as good as The Lady Vanishes.

Talking of which, I watched it this week. It was pretty good and a lot of fun. I wouldn't swear I hadn't seen it before, or maybe I saw a remake.

[thisbluespirit]

I enjoyed Hungry Hill, although it was not as good as The Wicked Lady, let alone The Lady Vanishes, but it gave good Margaret Lockwood and was enjoyable enough.

Talking of which, I watched it this week. It was pretty good and a lot of fun. I wouldn't swear I hadn't seen it before, or maybe I saw a remake.

Oh, cool! I think there have been two remakes, although they seem to have been more serious, so maybe you did catch it one time before.