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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 7h

Look, it may be the end of the world but we're still British
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I watched the new disc release of Object Z (1965), a story of a world gripped with fear at the appearance of a new extraterrestrial threat. It was broadcast in 6 instalments of 25 minutes, each wit…

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 6h

If you keep clicking through the NHS online guidance it eventually says that the definition of weakened immune system is too wide to summarise so, "Speak to your local pharmacy, GP surgery or specialist "

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 22h

Thunderbird 3 - the best of all Thunderbirds! - with Gerry & Sylvia Anderson, c.1966, from the Observer magazine.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 10h

Glasgow's Central Hotel still has a photo on the wall of the time Roy Rogers and Trigger stayed there.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 11h

Join #RoyRogers #DaleEvans & #Trigger in a newly discovered episode of:

🤠 THE ROY ROGERS SHOW (1952) 7:55am 'Blind Justice' #TPTVsubtitles

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 11h

Now watching: 'The House That Would Not Die', dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, 1970. A TV movie starring Barbara Stanwyck and Kitty Winn, who is one of those Karen Allens of which they had a surplus in the 1970s. When things get ghosty, a music box plays – of course. 🎥🎞️

The title card from the movie with typical yellow TV movie text in an old English gothic font.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

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

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 1d

A very comprehensive tribute to TERRAHAWKS.

Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 1d

Terrahawks - stay on this channel, this is Terrahawks Day!

My Terrahawks series guidebook, Flaming Thunderbolts, is going for an absolute STEAL, along with a bunch of other cool stuff. Treat yourself, yea?

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Terrahawks merchandise and gifts - Stay on this channel!

Ten-ten! Terrhawks merchandise from Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr's 1983 series is available - find some 80s goodness right here!

gerryanderson.com

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 1d

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #FilmSky
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...

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

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 1d

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!!

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 1d

Our brew ☕ and biccies 🍪 matinee today stars #SidJames #DickEmery #JoanSims #LancePercival #SylviaSyms #JimDale among an all-star cast!

💰 THE BIG JOB (1965) 1:20pm Classic British comedy #TPTVsubtitles

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Andrew-Mark Thompson @andydrewz.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

"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!

Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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."

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 1d

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

A Rediffusion TV set on a Rediffusion TV show

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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 2d

On sale this week

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

The TV21 International Extra 🧵

Part 1 of 2

Today:

⭐ Stingray 🐝
⭐ Agent 21
⭐ The Truth About Space
⭐ Fireball XL5 ☄️

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 2d

#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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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 2d

3pm to 4:30pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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

🌟 William Mervyn, John Flanagan, Dorothy Vernon, Anne Rutter

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 2d

#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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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 2d

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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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 2d

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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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

🚨CAPTAIN SCARLET ON ITV RETRO KLAXON 🚨

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcfY...

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Fanderson @fanderson1981.bsky.social · 3d

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

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