He went on to play Penny's dad in Just Good Friends and the man in the Terrys Chocolate Orange Raiders of the Lost Ark spoof advert. John Ringham, what an actor.dng wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 9:39 pm also i watched the aztecs one, which i thought i'd seen before but i hadn't (i must have read the book when i was little, i assume, although i don't even seem to have the book so maybe i didn't)
this was bloody brilliant, mostly because the baddy is incredible, just some guy having great fun being some absurdly theatrical shakespearean villain ultra iago-ing all over the screen for a month.
person quoted says the story is bollocksdng wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 1:15 pm This article is pretty infuriating
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... hem-to-bbc
although it does also have a sort of "we'll only show you our perpetual motion machine when we've been granted a patent based on nothing whatsoever" vibe about it as well
I recall that when Peter Cook heard they were going to wipe most of Not Only But Also, he offered to buy the tapes off the BBC. They refused. He then also offered to cover the cost of brand new tapes that could replace the ones they were going to wipe. They still refused. Monty Python also came within a hair's breadth of getting wiped, until the BBC made loads of sales of it to America. Before that, the Pythons actually made the backup plan of dubbing the shows they'd made so far onto early domestic video formats of the time (U-Matic, etc).endar wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:33 pm the bbc should have archived them in the first place shouldn't they
even people who were in the shows who wanted copies for themselves, the bbc refused them. They actively went out of their way to destroy stuff. So sometimes the cast/crew would sneak stuff out. The bbc should be thankful they did
fucking short sighted idiots
I read the same or something very similar to this. it's truly mind-boggling why they'd go to such lengths to destroy and wipe. It's almost as if they were afraid of something. Naughty unspeakable things going on behind the scenes getting caught on camera, for instance. Wouldn't want that getting outCandyDarling wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:16 pmI recall that when Peter Cook heard they were going to wipe most of Not Only But Also, he offered to buy the tapes off the BBC. They refused. He then also offered to cover the cost of brand new tapes that could replace the ones they were going to wipe. They still refused. Monty Python also came within a hair's breadth of getting wiped, until the BBC made loads of sales of it to America. Before that, the Pythons actually made the backup plan of dubbing the shows they'd made so far onto early domestic video formats of the time (U-Matic, etc).endar wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:33 pm the bbc should have archived them in the first place shouldn't they
even people who were in the shows who wanted copies for themselves, the bbc refused them. They actively went out of their way to destroy stuff. So sometimes the cast/crew would sneak stuff out. The bbc should be thankful they did
fucking short sighted idiots
