From Roger Eric Portman in 'The Prisoner' tv series I see that in the UK, BBC4 (Digital channel) are repeating the entire series as part of their 'Swinging...
Lots of good 60's themed docs...Nigel Kneale, Magic Roundabout...hey , my tastes are eclectic... ... From: nicky smith To: PnP@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
Thanks, Fiona. I think you have identified that mystery story accurately. I knew a distinguished actor played the lead. The character was sweet (as only Ian...
That Sondheim song about never doing anything twice is one of my favorites. I have always wanted to get drunk enough to sing it at a party. Anybody else out...
... the most obvious place to look for a camera obscura would be the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, in Bradford. Whilst you're there,...
... Passion, is, of course a thinly disguised remake of ACT (or ACT is based on the original Italian novel). A smart city slicker soldier arrives in a dull ...
The episodes in question are "Free for All" (Eric as Number 2) and "Dance of the Dead" (Mary as number 2). Looks like BBC4 will have two episodes a week at...
Back Row Sat 5 Jun, 17:30 - 17:54 (GMT) 24 mins and on-line : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/backrow.shtml Between 1939 and 1945, cinema box office...
Another message about Sherlock Holmes and actors: After reading the messages about portrayals of Holmes, I went to the library and borrowed DVD's of episodes...
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Part of that might be that, like Rathbone, he began well but after a while began to affect the oddest hairstyles and exaggerated an already noticeable tendency...
Thank you, Randy. I may have watched some of the later episodes. I also watched a Hercule Poirot story that I really enjoyed. At the moment, I am reading...
From Roger I wonder now many folks can give Portland's PnP movie connection (excluding James Mason) without reading any further........admittedly a minor role...
Jeremy became utterly obsessed with being Holmes during the making of the series, and in the stagework he was involved in and suffered some very serious mental...
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... I think my main problem with the Rathbone Holmes films was their portrayal of Watson, who was portrayed as increasingly idiotic as the series progressed. ...
... That drives me nuts too but the current DVDs are so gorgeous to look at that I just try to ignore Watson. :) by the way here are some other upcoming DVDs...
Dear Paula, ... <Boggle> I think some of these are already out here... Any word of the Colman/Niven/Massey 'Prisoner of Zenda'? That *is* an MGM Classic! love,...
'After reading the messages about portrayals of Holmes, I went to the library and borrowed DVD's of episodes with Jeremy Brett. When I used to watch the...
I haven't seen this since it was on (I think we are a similar vintage). I believe the NFT showed it as part of a tribute to Tom Baker a couple of years ago so...
... Yes, I remember it, too! (Let me guess: are we all in the late 30s-early 40s bracket?) It was certainly much better than the Richard Roxburgh version that...
Hi Chelsea! Hope you did have a wonderful birthday! Many happy returns! How's July looking? If people don't already know Chelsea is a filmmaker based here in...
... It is great, although the portrayal of the Chinese characters is somewhat dubious. Incidentally the late 60s Sherlock Holmes BBC series starring Peter...
I agree with Doc that Tom was better as Holmes in Dr. Who. I saw his Hound and found his performance curiously muted and unexciting. Maybe he was just having...
... Which reminds us that another Pnp fave, Christopher Lee, has played played Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. Other Pnp favourites who have given their Great ...
From Roger As Sherlock Holmes is now clearly on-topic............ My favourite Sherlock Holmes is the great Peter Cushing, in the 1960s BBC tv series, and the...
Dear Nicky, ... Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing... ;-D Orinoco had had an accident with a tin of glow-in-the-dark paint he'd found while cleaning...